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Rent.

Postage.

National Zoological Park.

For rent of workshops and temporary storage quarters for the
National Museum, four thousand five hundred and eighty dollars.
For postage stamps and foreign postal cards for the National Museum,
five hundred dollars.

NATIONAL ZOOLOGICAL PARK: For continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures and providing seats in the park; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, the printing and publishing of operations, not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies, and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, ninety-five thousand Half from District dollars; one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.

revenues.

Interstate Com

merce Commission.

Salaries.

Vol. 24, p. 386.

Expenses.
Vol. 24, p. 379.

Arbitration of railroad differences.

priated.

Vol. 32, p. 1101.

INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.

For salaries of Commissioners, as provided by the "Act to regulate commerce," thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars;

For salary of secretary, as provided by the "Act to regulate commerce," three thousand five hundred dollars;

For all other necessary expenditures, to enable the Commission to give effect to the provisions of the "Act to regulate commerce," and all Acts and amendments supplementary thereto, two hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars; of which sum not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars may be expended in the employment of counsel, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for the purchase of necessary books, reports, and periodicals, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for printing other than that done at the Government Printing Office. In all, two hundred and ninety thousand dollars.

The unexpended balance of the sum of ten thousand dollars approBalance reappropriated for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine by the Vol. 30, pp. 428, 1090. Act concerning carriers engaged in interstate commerce and their employees," approved June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, which was reappropriated by the Act of March third, nineteen hundred and three, is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenses that may be incurred under said Act during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five.

pliances.
Vol. 27, p. 531.

Railway safety ap- To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed regarding compliance with the "Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads," approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, including the employment of inspectors to execute and enforce the requirements of the said Act, sixty-five thousand dollars.

Miscellaneous.

Paper and stamps.

Punishing violations of internal - revenue laws.

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS, TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

PAPER AND STAMPS: For paper for internal-revenue stamps, including freight, seventy thousand dollars.

PUNISHMENT FOR VIOLATIONS OF INTERNAL-REVENUE LAWS: For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, one hundred thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for

Proviso.
Purchase of books,

which appropriation is made in this Act: Provided, That necessary books of reference and periodicals for the chemical laboratory and law etc. library, at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars, may be purchased out of the appropriation made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, for salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries of storekeepers, and for miscellaneous

expenses.

Contingent expenses.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES, INDEPENDENT TREASURY: For contingent independent Treas expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and ury. R. S., sec. 3653, p. fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collec- 719. tion, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, and for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, two hundred and forty thousand dollars.

Transporting silver

Proviso.
Deposits.

Report of cost.

TRANSPORTATION OF SILVER COIN: For transportation of silver coin, con including fractional silver coin, by registered mail or otherwise, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, silver coin, when requested to do so: Provided, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress the cost arising under this appropriation. TRANSPORTATION OF MINOR COIN: For transportation of minor coin, eighteen thousand dollars; and in expending this sum the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to transport from the Treasury or subtreasuries, free of charge, minor coin when requested to do so: Provided, That an equal amount in coin or currency shall have been deposited in the Treasury or such subtreasuries by the applicant or applicants. And the Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Con- Report of cost. gress the cost arising under this appropriation.

RECOINAGE OF GOLD COINS: For recoinage of light-weight gold coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes of the United States, six thousand dollars. DENVER, COLORADO, MINT: For new machinery, appliances, and furniture, and to complete the equipment necessary to inaugurate coinage operations, ninety thousand fifty-five dollars.

DISTINCTIVE PAPER FOR UNITED STATES SECURITIES: For paper, including transportation, salaries of register, assistant register, three counters, five watchmen, one laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury as superintendent, two hundred and forty-three thousand dollars.

Transporting minor

Proviso.
Deposits.

Recoining gold

coins.

R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696.

Denver, Colo.

Mint, machinery.

United States securities.

Distinctive paper.

SPECIAL WITNESS OF DESTRUCTION OF UNITED STATES SECURITIES: Witness, destruction. For pay of the representative of the public on the committee to witness the destruction by maceration of Government securities, at five dollars per day while actually employed, one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars.

Sealing and separating.

SEALING AND SEPARATING UNITED STATES SECURITIES: For materials required to seal and separate United States notes and certificates, such as composition rollers, ink, printers' varnish, sperm oil, white printing paper, manila paper, thin muslin, benzine, gutta-percha belting, and other necessary articles and expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. EXPENSES OF NATIONAL CURRENCY: For distinctive paper, including National express, mill, and other neeessary expenses, forty thousand dollars. CANCELING UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND CUTTING DISTINCTIVE PAPER: For extra knives for cutting machines and sharpening same; and leather belting, new dies and punches, repairs to machinery, oil, cotton waste, and other expenses connected with the cancellation of redeemed United States securities, two hundred dollars.

expenses.

currency

Canceling, etc.

Custody of dies, roils, and plates.

Public buildings.
Assistant custodians

and janitors.

Inspector of supplies.

Inspector of furniture, etc.

Furniture and repairs.

Fuel, lights, and

water.

CUSTODY OF DIES, ROLLS, AND PLATES: For pay of custodian of dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the printing of Government securities, namely: One custodian, three thousand dollars; two subcustodians, one at two thousand dollars, and one at one thousand eight hundred dollars; three distributers of stock, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; in all, eleven thousand dollars. PAY OF ASSISTANT CUSTODIANS AND JANITORS: For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, including all personal services in connection with the care of all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, one million two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein.

GENERAL INSPECTOR OF SUPPLIES FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS: For one general inspector, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, three thousand dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars.

INSPECTOR OF FURNITURE AND OTHER FURNISHINGS FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to employ a suitable person to inspect all public buildings and examine into their requirements for furniture and other furnishings, including fuel, lights, personal services, and other current expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars; and for actual necessary expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars.

FURNITURE AND REPAIRS OF FURNITURE: For furniture and repairs of same, carpets, and gas and electric-light fixtures, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets, gas and electric-light fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, three hundred and sixty-seven thousand one hundred dollars. And all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not.

FUEL, LIGHTS, AND WATER FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS: For the purchase of fuel, steam, light, water, water meters, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for light and power purposes, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodians' forces in the care of the buildings, furniture and heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and electric-light plants, exclusive of personal service, and for expenses of installing electric-light plants, electric-light wiring, and repairs thereto, in such buildings completed and occupied as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, one million and forty thousand dollars. And the appropriation herein made for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors, when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury in writing: Provided, That no sum shall be paid as rental for such gas governors greater than thirty-five per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury Pneumatic tube pro- shall direct. No portion of the amount herein appropriated shall be used for operating a system of pneumatic tubes for the transmission of postal matter.

Proviso.

Gas governors.

hibition.

Suppressing terfeiting, etc.

coun

SUPPRESSING COUNTERFEITING AND OTHER CRIMES: For expenses incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody

R. S., sec. 4718, p. 919.

Provisos.
Witnesses.

of the United States marshal having jurisdiction, dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, including two thousand dollars to make the necessary investigation of claims for reimbursement of expenses incident to the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners under section fortyseven hundred and eighteen of the Revised Statutes, and for no other purpose whatever, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for "Fees of witnesses, United States courts:" Pro- Reimbursement. vided further, That the investigation of claims for the reimbursement of expenses of the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners shall be at the instance and under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, and no part of any accrued pension shall hereafter be used to reimburse any State, county, or municipal corporation for expenses incurred by such State, county, or municipal corporation under State law for expenses of the last sickness or burial of a deceased pensioner. COMPENSATION IN LIEU OF MOIETIES: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, twenty thousand dollars.

EXPENSES OF LOCAL APPRAISERS' MEETINGS: For defraying the necessary expenses of local appraisers at annual meetings for the purpose of securing uniformity in the appraisement of dutiable goods at different ports of entry, one thousand two hundred dollars.

Compensation in lieu of moieties.

Local appraisers' meetings.

Burlington, N. J., custom district.

CUSTOMS SERVICE IN NEW JERSEY: The collector of the district of Burlington, in the State of New Jersey, may reside at any point within the district, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury. LANDS AND OTHER PROPERTY OF THE UNITED STATES: For custody, Lands, etc. care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneer's fees, four hundred dollars.

QUARANTINE SERVICE.

For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, including pay of officers and employees of quarantine stations at Portland, Maine, Delaware Breakwater, Reedy Island, Cape Charles and supplemental station, Cape Fear, Savannah, South Atlantic, and Brunswick, Cumberland Sound, Saint Johns River, Biscayne Bay, Key West, Boco Grande, Tampa Bay, Cedar Key, Saint Georges Sound (East and West Pass), Pensacola, Gulf, San Diego, San Francisco, Columbia River, Port Townsend and supplemental stations, quarantine system of the Hawaiian Islands, and the quarantine system of Porto Rico, three hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars.

Quarantine service.

Maintenance.

An expenditure of not to exceed five hundred dollars may be incurred Printing. during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five for printing on account of the quarantine service at times when the exigencies of that service require immediate action, chargeable to the appropriation "Preventing the introduction and spread of epidemic diseases.

Books and journals for use of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Books, etc. Bureau may be purchased during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars, and paid for from the appropriation for the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service.

VOL XXXIII, PT 1-30

Prevention of epidemics.

Vol. 82, p. 1112.

PREVENTION OF EPIDEMICS.

The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, or Chinese plague, or black death, to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and reappropriated by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, and one hundred thousand dollars in addition thereto, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same; and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force.

Department of Com- UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.

merce and Labor.

Immigration sta

tions.

Ellis Island, N. Y.

Dredging.

Cutter.

San Francisco, Cal. Report on plans for station, Angel Island.

Light-houses, beacons, and fog signals.

Portland, Me.

Boon Island, Me..

Boston, Mass.
The Graves.

New London, Conn.

Ambrose Channel, N. Y.

Post, p. 1171.

Throgs Neck, N. Y.

Rockland Lake,

N. Y.

IMMIGRATION STATIONS.

Ellis Island, New York, immigrant station: For widening present ferry house, nine thousand dollars;

For dredging in and about the Ellis Island channel and slip, ten thousand dollars;

For the purchase and construction of a tugboat to be used as a boarding cutter by the immigration officials at New York, seventyfive thousand dollars; in all, ninety-four thousand dollars, which sum shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration.

San Francisco, California, immigrant station: The Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby directed to investigate into conditions of the immigration service at the port of San Francisco, California, and to report in detail a plan for an immigration detention station on Angel Island, in the harbor of San Francisco; said report shall cover in detail all buildings or improvements of every kind necessary for the completion of said station and the aggregate cost of the same.

LIGHT-HOUSES, BEACONS, AND FOG SIGNALS.

Ram Island Ledge, Portland Harbor, Maine: For completing construction of a light-house and fog signal on Ram Island Ledge at the entrance to Portland Harbor, thirty-three thousand dollars.

Boon Island light station, Maine: For construction of a keeper's dwelling, four thousand dollars.

The Graves light station, Broad Sound Channel, Boston Harbor, Massachusetts: For completion of a first-order light and fog signal at The Graves, on a granite tower, to mark the entrance to the new Broad Sound Channel in Boston Harbor, one hundred and thirteen thousand dollars.

Black Ledge light and fog-signal station, Connecticut: For establishing a light and fog-signal station at or near Black Ledge, entrance to New London Harbor, Connecticut, sixty thousand dollars.

Ambrose Channel light station, New York: Detailed estimates shall be submitted to Congress at its next session for a complete system of lighting Ambrose Channel, including the number and character of lights required, and the cost of each.

Throgs Neck light station, New York: For moving the light station now in front of the batteries of Fort Schuyler to another site at Fort Schuyler, Throgs Neck, ten thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars. Rockland Lake light station, New York: For rebuilding the ice breaker to protect Rockland Lake light-house in Hudson River, New York, six thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

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