target ranges; telephone apparatus and maintenance of same, five thousand dollars. That the sum of fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary of the unexpended balance of four hundred thousand dollars appropriated by the act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, for armament of fortifications be, and the same is hereby, reappropriated, and made available for the completion and payment of the guns authorized by said act, and now being manufactured by the South Boston Iron Works, under contract dated September twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and the extension of said contracts is hereby authorized accordingly. Extension of military reservation at Fort Robinson, Nebraska: For payment to John T. Sechler for private property taken by the Government in extension of the military reservation at Fort Robinson, Nebraska, under the President's order of June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, being the amount awarded by a board of officers January fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, as per their report approved by the War Department, two thousand five hundred dollars. ENGINEER DEPARTMENT. EXAMINATIONS AND SURVEYS AT SOUTH PASS, MISSISSIPPI RIVER: Annual expenses of ascertaining the depth of water and width of channel secured and maintained from time to time at South Pass of the Mississippi River, to enable the Secretary of War to report to Congress during the maintenance of the work, as required by Congress, eight thousand eight hundred dollars. SIGNAL SERVICE. OBSERVATION AND REPORT OF STORMS: To be expended by the Secretary of War: For expenses of meteorological observation and report by telegraph, signal, or otherwise, announcing the probable approach and force of storms, for the benefit of commerce and agriculture of the United States, as follows: For expenses of storm, cautionary, off-shore, cold-wave, and other signals, on the sea, lake, and gulf coasts of the United States, and in the interior, announcing the probable approach and force of storms, including the pay of observers, services of operators, lanterns and flags, one thousand six hundred dollars. For furnishing, delivering, and laying seven nautical miles of submarine cable to connect Martha's Vineyard, Massachusetts, with the mainland, and for building necessary land connections on Nantucket and connecting islands to the mainland, nine thousand nine hundred and forty-four dollars. For completing the construction and maintenance of a military telegraph line from San Francisco, California, to a point at or near Point Reyes, California, via Point San Jose, California, two thousand four hundred and seventy-four dollars and seventy-five cents. For river and flood observations, and expenses in connection therewith, one thousand dollars. For rent, hire of civilian employees, furniture, light, stationery, ice, stoves and fixtures, repairs, rent of telephones, text-books, lumber, and other expenses of offices maintained as stations of observa tion outside of Washington, District of Columbia five thousand dollars. MEDICAL DEPARTMENT: For medical attendance and medicines for officers and enlisted men of the Signal Corps, one thousand two hundred dollars. For medical attendance and medicines for officers and enlisted men of the Signal Corps, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one thousand two hundred and seventyfive dollars. ARMY TRANSPORTATION: For payment to estate of T. J. League, deceased, on account of Army transportation, eighteen hundred and eighty-two and prior years, ten thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, said sum having been certified to Congress as due by the accounting officers of the Treasury in House Executive Document Number Nineteen, Fiftieth Congress, first session. For reimbursement to the estate of Walter (or Watt.) Grayson for stolen money under sections twenty-one hundred and fifty-four and twenty-one hundred and fifty-five, Revised Statutes, as certified to Congress in House Executive Document Number Nineteen, Fiftieth Congress, first session, thirty-two thousand dollars. NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. AT THE WESTERN BRANCH, LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS: For fitting up barrack for the accommodation of additional inmates, one thousand dollars; for maintenance during the remainder of the current fiscal year, four thousand five hundred dollars; in all, five thousand five hundred dollars. HEAD-STONES FOR GRAVES OF SOLDIERS. For continuing the work of furnishing head-stones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in national post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy-yards and stations of the United States and other burial places, under the acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, twenty thousand dollars. NAVY DEPARTMENT. INCREASE OF THE NAVY. CONSTRUCTION: To reimburse appropriation "Construction and Repairs" for eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, amounts expended from said appropriation for work done on the steel cruisers Chicago, Boston, and Atlanta, forty-three thousand six hundred and ninetyone dollars and twenty-five cents; To complete the Chicago, thirty thousand dollars; To complete the Boston, ten thousand dollars; in all, eighty-three thousand six hundred and ninety-one dollars and twenty-five cents. ORDNANCE: To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the armament of the steel cruisers Chicago, Boston, and Atlanta, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. NAVIGATION: For completing the navigation outfit of the Chicago, including compass binnacle and electric-lighting supplies, two thousand five hundred dollars. MARINE CORPS. OFFICERS' QUARTERS, MARE ISLAND, CALIFORNIA: For the erection of officers' quarters at the marine barracks, Mare Island, California, five thousand dollars. INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. BUREAU OF LABOR: To enable the Commissioner of Labor to complete the collection of statistics of, and relating to, marriage and divorce in the several States and Territories and in the District of Columbia, seven thousand five hundred dollars; and from this amount an expenditure not to exceed three hundred and sixty dollars is hereby authorized for the rent of additional rooms for said Bureau during the current fiscal year. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION: To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to properly carry out the objects of the "Act to regulate commerce," approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, during the remainder of the current fiscal year, the original appropriation being insufficient, twenty-five thousand dollars. CURRENT EXPENSES, COLUMBIA INSTITUTION FOR THE DEAF AND DUMB: For current expenses for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, in addition to the amount already appropriated, two thousand five hundred dollars. SUPPORT FREEDMAN'S HOSPITAL AND ASYLUM: For subsistence, one thousand eight hundred dollars; for repairs to steam-boilers, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand seven hundred dollars. REPORTS OF THE TENTH CENSUS: To complete the publication of the reports of the Tenth Census, seventy-seven thousand four hundred and ninety-five dollars and fifty-two cents. OFFICES OF SURVEYORS-GENERAL. OFFICE OF SURVEYOR-GENERAL OF ARIZONA: For salaries of clerks in his office, seven hundred and fifty dollars. OFFICE OF SURVEYOR-GENERAL OF CALIFORNIA: For salaries of clerks in his office, one thousand five hundred dollars. OFFICE OF SURVEYOR-GENERAL OF COLORADO: For salaries of clerks in his office, seven hundred and fifty dollars. OFFICE OF SURVEYOR-GENERAL OF DAKOTA: For salaries of clerks in his office, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. OFFICE OF SURVEYOR-GENERAL OF LOUISIANA: For salaries of clerks in his office, seven hundred and fifty dollars. OFFICE OF SURVEYOR-GENERAL OF MONTANA: For salaries of clerks in his office for fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars. OFFICE OF SURVEYOR-GENERAL OF NEVADA: For salaries of clerks in his office, seven hundred and fifty dollars. OFFICE OF SURVEYOR-GENERAL OF NEW MEXICO: For salaries of clerks in his office, one thousand five hundred dollars. OFFICE OF SURVEYOR-GENERAL OF UTAH : For salaries of clerks in his office, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars. OFFICE OF SURVEYOR-GENERAL OF WASHINGTON: For salaries of clerks in his office, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. OFFICE OF THE SURVEYOR-GENERAL OF WYOMING: For salaries of clerks in his office, seven hundred and fifty dollars. OFFICE OF SURVEYOR-GENERAL OF OREGON: For salaries of clerks in his office, six hundred dollars. EXPENSES OF COLLECTING THE REVENUE FROM THE PUBLIC LANDS. SALARIES AND COMMISSIONS OF REGISTERS AND RECEIVERS : For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, thirty-eight thousand four hundred and nine dollars and thirty-eight cents. CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF LAND OFFICES: For clerk-hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the several land offices, thirty-five thousand dollars. EXPENSES OF HEARINGS IN LAND ENTRIES: For expenses of hearings held by order of the General Land Office, to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, ten thousand dollars. SURVEYING THE PUBLIC LANDS: For the examination of surveys in the field to test the accuracy of the work and to prevent payment for fraudulent and imperfect surveys returned by deputy surveyors, ten thousand dollars. For the amount necessary for re-surveying certain lands involved in a suit against the Sierra Lumber Company in California, to be done under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, at a per diem compensation to be fixed by him, one thousand six hundred dollars. For a survey of certain lands from which it is claimed the Montana Improvement Company have cut timber, now involved in suit, to be surveyed under the direction of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, at a per diem compensation to be fixed by him, two thousand five hundred dollars. TRANSCRIPTS OF RECORDS AND PLATS: For furnishing transcripts and plats and paying therefor, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. INDIAN AFFAIRS. TELEGRAPHING AND PURCHASE OF INDIAN SUPPLIES: To pay the expenses of purchasing goods and supplies for the Indian service, including rent of warehouse, and pay of necessary employees, advertising at rates not exceeding regular commercial rates, inspection, and all other expenses connected therewith, including telegraphing, five thousand dollars. TRANSPORTATION OF INDIAN SUPPLIES: To pay necessary expenses of transportation of goods, provisions, and other articles for the various tribes of Indians, including pay and expenses of transportation agents, forty thousand dollars. This amount, for necessary expenses of transportation of such goods, provisions, and other articles for the various tribes of Indians, including pay and expenses of transportation agents, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, ten thousand dollars. To pay Hiram C. Slavens for transportation of Indian supplies during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as per settlement certificate number two thousand one hundred and ninetythree of the accounting officers of the Treasury, six hundred and seventy-six dollars and thirty-three cents. TRAVELLING EXPENSES OF INDIAN SCHOOL SUPERINTENDENT: For necessary travelling expenses of one Indian school superintendent, including incidental expenses of inspection and investigation, five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary: Provided, That he shall be allowed three dollars per day for travelling expenses when actually on duty in the field exclusive of cost of transportation. PENSIONS. For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, thirty-five thousand dollars. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. LETTER-BALANCES, SCALES, AND TEST-WEIGHTS: For letter-balances, scales, and test-weights, seven thousand dollars. For compensation to clerks in post-offices, one hundred thousand dollars. For rent, fuel, and light, twenty-five thousand dollars. For balance due Bulkley, Raignel and Company, for one thousand five hundred reams of wrapping-paper furnished per order of Postmaster-General, being a deficiency for fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, two thousand one hundred and sixty-five dollars and seventy-seven cents. FOREIGN MAIL TRANSPORTATION: To pay amounts found due for foreign mail transportation, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, fifty-one thousand four hundred and seventy-one dollars and fourteen cents. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Support of convicts: For the support, maintenance, and transportation to and from the penitentiary, of convicts from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, fifteen thousand dollars. CONTINGENT EXPENSES, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: For law and miscellaneous books for Department library, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, one dollar. For stationery for the Department of Justice, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, eleven dollars and twenty-five cents. For miscellaneous expenses, Department of Justice, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, fortysix dollars and eighty cents. |
