[PUBLIC-No. 4.]

An act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and for prior years, 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, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eightyseven, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:

DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

That any unexpended balance of the sum of fifteen thousand dollars appropriated by the act entitled "An act in aid of the national monument at Plymouth, Massachusetts," approved May first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, may be expended in aid of the construction of any of the statues constituting said monument.

FOREIGN INTERCOURSE.

SALARIES OF MINISTERS: To enable the accounting officers to settle the account of V. O. King, chargé d'affaires ad interim to Bogota, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eightysix, three hundred and nine dollars and six cents.

SALARIES CONSULAR OFFICERS NOT CITIZENS: To enable the accounting officers to settle the accounts of consular officers not citizens, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, four thousand seven hundred and fifty-six dollars and

one cent.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay a reasonable additional compensation to the employees of the Treasury Department who were actually employed during the months of July, August, September, and October, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, in addition to the usual business hours, on account of the work of exchanging bonds of the United States bearing three and a half per centum interest for bonds bearing interest at the rate of three per centum per annum, authorized by section eleven of "An act to enable national banking associations to extend their corporate existence, and for other purposes," approved July twelfth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to be paid by the said Secretary to those actually engaged as aforesaid, in such sums as shall seem to him to be just and equitable, as follows:

For employees in the division of loans and currency of the office of the Secretary of the Treasury, one thousand three hundred and eighty-four dollars and forty-eight cents;

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For employees in the division of records, files, and mail in said office, five hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty-six cents;

For employees in the office of the Register of the Treasury, one thousand four hundred and ninety-eight dollars and ten cents;

For employees in the office of the Treasurer of the United States, six hundred and ninety-nine dollars and eighty cents; in all, four thousand one hundred and forty-six dollars and ninety-five cents.

INDEPENDENT TREASURY.

To reimburse Bureau of Engraving and Printing for work done by that Bureau on account of appropriation for checks and drafts, independent Treasury, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eightysix: Engraving and printing checks and drafts for sub-treasuries, four hundred and thirty-one dollars and forty cents.

ENGRAVING AND PRINTING.

SILVER CERTIFICATES AND LEGAL-TENDER NOTES: For printing and finishing additional silver certificates and legal-tender notes of the denominations of one and two dollars, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to be expended as follows: Under the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, for compensation of employees, six thousand dollars; for plate-printing, twenty-eight thousand dollars; for materials and miscellaneous expenses, twelve thousand dollars; under the office of the Treasurer of the United States, for materials needed in sealing and separating United States securities, five hundred dollars; for salaries for additional pressmen, feeders, and separators, three thousand three hundred dollars; in all, forty-nine thousand eight hundred dollars, and the number of printers' assistants at one dollar and fifty cents a day may, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, be increased to thirty-eight, and the number of printers' assistants at one dollar and twenty-five cents a day reduced to one hundred and seventy-six.

LIFE-SAVING STATIONS.

To reimburse Frank P. Sammis, a surfman in the Oak Island LifeSaving Station, third district, the amount paid by him to a substitute while disabled by disease contracted in the line of duty, from October twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to November sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, both inclusive, but to which said Sammis was entitled under section seven of the act of May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

COURT-HOUSE AT JEFFERSON CITY, MISSOURI: For completion of the building, eleven thousand dollars.

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.

REPAYMENT TO IMPORTERS EXCESS OF DEPOSITS: For payment to importers of interests and costs in claim on judgments and discontinued suits in custom cases on excess of deposits for unascertained