Selma, Alabama, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Spokane, Washington: Post-office, court-house, and custom-house: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. Selma, Ala. Spokane, Wash. Springfield, Illinois, rent of buildings: For rental of temporary Springfield, IlI. quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials, and all expenses incident thereto, seven thousand dollars. Sterling, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building under Sterling, Ill. present limit, ten thousand dollars. Stillwater, Minnesota, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Stillwater, Minn. Superior, Wisconsin, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: Superior, Wis. For continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Tacoma, Washington, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: For continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Tacoma, Wash. Torrington, Connecticut, post-office: For continuation of building Torrington, Conn. under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Traverse City, Michigan, post-office and custom-house: For continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Vincennes, Indiana, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Waco, Texas, rent of building: For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials and for expenses incident thereto, seven thousand dollars. Washington, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Waterbury, Connecticut, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, fifty-six thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Waterloo, Iowa, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Wausau, Wisconsin, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. West Chester, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Traverse City, Mich. Vincennes, Ind. Waco, Tex. Washington, Pa. Waterbury, Conn. Waterloo, Iowa. Wausau, Wis. West Chester, Pa. Wheeling, West Virginia, post-office, court-house, and custom-house: Wheeling, W. Va. For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Yankton, South Dakota, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Zanesville, Ohio, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That the limitation of two years fixed in the proviso to section five of the "Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings, to authorize the purchase of sites for public buildings, to authorize the erection and completion of public buildings, and for other purposes," approved June sixth, nineteen hundred and two, in which to acquire a suitable site in any city mentioned in said Act, is hereby extended for one year, to June sixth, nineteen hundred and five. For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia: For repairs to Treasury, Butler, and Winder buildings, twenty-one thousand one hundred dollars. Fire-alarm system, Treasury Department: For maintenance of the automatic fire-alarm system now in the Treasury and Winder buildings, two thousand six hundred and twenty-five dollars. Yankton, S. Dak. Zanesville, Ohio. Proviso. sites extended. Vol. 32, p. 321. Washington, D. C. Fire-alarm system. Printing Bureau. Bureau of Engraving and Printing building, Washington, District Engraving and of Columbia: For continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Repairs and preser vation.. etc. Proviso. For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs and preservation of custom-houses, court-houses, and post-offices, and quarantine stations, buildings and wharf at Sitka, Alaska, and the other public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, four hundred Superintendents, and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That of the sum hereby appropriated not exceeding forty thousand dollars may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the employment, outside of the District of Columbia, of superintendents and others, including mechanical labor force, at a rate of compensation not exceeding for any one person six dollars per day. Heating, etc., apparatus. Heating apparatus for public buildings: For heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including quarantine stations and exclusive of marine hospitals, under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics and others employed outside of the District of Columbia, in making repairs or inspecting work done on heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus: Provided, Minneapolis, Minn. That it is hereby made the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury to cause to be expended the whole, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the appropriation of twenty-five thousand dollars for heating, hoisting and ventilating apparatus contained in the Act of Congress making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies, and so forth, approved February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four, for the installation of adequate elevators in the public building at Minneapolis, Minnesota. Proviso. Elevators. Ante, p. 23. Vaults, safes, and locks. Plans, etc. Electrical protection. Marine hospitals. Cairo, Ill. San Francisco, Cal. Quarantine stations. Reedy Island. Cape Fear. Savannah, Ga. San Juan, P. R. Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, forty thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding three thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics and others employed outside of the District of Columbia, in making repairs and inspecting work done. Plans for public buildings: For books of reference, technical periodicals and journals, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates and photographic materials of like nature for use of the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department, four thousand dollars. Electrical protection to vaults, public buildings: For maintenance of the electrical protective devices installed under authority of the sundry civil Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, twenty thousand dollars. MARINE HOSPITALS. Cairo, Illinois, marine hospital: For addition to attendants' quarters, five thousand dollars. San Francisco, California, marine hospital: For isolation ward and mortuary, eight thousand dollars. QUARANTINE STATIONS. Reedy Island, Delaware River, quarantine station: For reclamation of ground, and lighting plant, eight thousand dollars. Cape Fear quarantine station: For infectious hospital, five thousand three hundred dollars. Savannah, Georgia, quarantine station: For new wharf and laundry building, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. San Juan, Porto Rico, quarantine station: For lazaretto, executive building, laundry, and attendants' quarters, on Miraflores Island, San Juan Harbor, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars. LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations as follows: For one superintendent for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Fishers Island, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Long Island, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand seven hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, two thousand dollars: For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Washington, Oregon, and California, two thousand dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand three hundred dollars. Life-Saving Service. Superintendents. For salaries of two hundred and eighty-three keepers of life-saving Keepers. and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, two hundred and fortyfive thousand one hundred dollars. Crews. Vol. 31, p. 1443; Vol. 32, p. 445. For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and lifeboat stations, including the old Chicago station and at the building to Exposition station. be erected on the grounds of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, at Saint Louis, Missouri, under authority of section fifteen of the Act of Congress approved March third, nineteen hundred and one, as amended by the Act of June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, for an exhibit of the United States Life-Saving Service, at the uniform rate of sixty-five dollars per month each during the period of actual employment, and three dollars per day for each occasion of service at other times; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboat stations for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of same, including use of additional land where necessary; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters and purchase of fuel in kind for officers of the Revenue- quarters. Cutter Service detailed for duty in the Life-Saving Service; for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the Act approved Vol. 22, p. 57. May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draft animals and Commutation of New stations. Proviso. phone lines. their maintenance; for telephone lines and care of same; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, rent, repairs to apparatus, labor, medals, stationery, newspapers for statistical purposes, advertising, and all other necessary expenses not included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, one million five hundred and forty-one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on the sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, to be Private use of tele- available until expended, thirty thousand dollars: Provided, That private messages may, with the consent and authority of the Secretary of the Treasury, be transmitted over any and all telephone lines controlled by the Treasury Department, whenever it does not interfere with Government business, at such rates and on such terms and conditions as may from time to time be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, the proceeds thereof to be accounted for and paid into the Treasury of the United States. Revenue-Cutter Service. Salaries And expenses. Seal fisheries. Anchorage. Vol. 31, p. 682. REVENUE-CUTTER SERVICE. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay and allowances of captains, lieutenants, captain of engineers, chief engineers, assistant engineers, and constructor, Revenue-Cutter Service, cadets, and surgeons and pilots employed, and rations for the same; for pay of petty officers, buglers, seamen, oilers, firemen, coal heavers, stewards, cooks, and boys, and for rations for the same; for fuel for vessels, and repairs and outfits for the same; ship chandlery and engineers' stores for the same; actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, for officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters; for protection of the seal fisheries in Bering Sea and the other waters of Alaska, and the interest of the Government on the seal islands and the sea-otter hunting grounds, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska; for enforcing the provisions of the Acts relating to the anchorage of vessels in the ports of New York and Chicago, approved May sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, February sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine; and an Act relating to the anchorage and movement of vessels in Saint Marys River, approved March sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six; and an Act relating to the anchorage of vessels in the Kennebec River at or near Bath, Maine, approved June sixth, nineteen hundred; for temporary leases and improven. nt of property 1. for revenue-cutter purposes; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, one million four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Engraving and printing. Salaries. Proviso. Vol. 31, p. 45. ENGRAVING AND PRINTING. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries of all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers and plate printers' assistants, one million one hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act "To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes," approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred. For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers' assistants, when employed, one million two hundred thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act "To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes," approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred. Wages. Proviso. Large notes. Vol. 31, p. 45. For engravers' and printers' materials and other materials, except Materials. distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, five hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. For rent of office now occupied by agent of the Post-Office Depart- Rent. ment to supervise the distribution of stamps of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, at a rental of fifty dollars per month, six hundred dollars. UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. INTERNATIONAL EXCHANGES: For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, twenty-seven thousand dollars, and for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six estimates shall be submitted hereunder embracing all sums expended for this service out of other appropriations made by Congress. AMERICAN ETHNOLOGY: For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, forty thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be used for rent of building. ASTROPHYSICAL OBSERVATORY: For maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, printing and publishing results of researches, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, repairs and alterations of buildings and miscellaneous expenses, fifteen thousand dollars. Furniture. NATIONAL MUSEUM: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances National Museum. required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections of the National Museum, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service for the National Museum, eighteen thousand dollars. For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars, of which sum five thousand five hundred dollars may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications of the National Museum, and all other necessary incidental expenses. For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference in the National Museum, two thousand dollars. Heating, etc. Preserving, etc., col. lections. Books, etc. For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, National Museum, Repairs. including all necessary labor and material, fifteen thousand dollars. |