For interest and sinking fund on water-stock bonds, forty-four thou sand six hundred and ten dollars.

For interest on account of increasing the water supply, as provided in the Act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, two thousand nine hundred and five dollars and seventy-three cents and such additional amount as may be necessary to pay said interest in full for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven.

Interest and sinking fund.

Increasing water supply. Interest.

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Sinking fund.

Proviso.

Surplus revenues to

For sinking fund on account of increase of water supply, under Act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, eight thousand and eighty-seven dollars and sixty-nine cents; and such additional amount as may be necessary to pay said sinking fund in full for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven: Provided, That not exceeding three hundred thousand dollars of the surplus general revenues of the District pay principal. of Columbia remaining on the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall be transferred to the water fund, to be applied in payment in full of the balance of the principal of the debt incurred for the forty-eight-inch and Fourteenth street water mains, and in part of the principal of the debt incurred for increasing the water supply as provided in the Act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two.

Interest 48-inch and Fourteenth street

mains.

vice system.

For fifth year's interest on one-half the cost of the forty-eight-inch and Fourteenth street mains, seven thousand four hundred and fiftyseven dollars. For continuing the extension of the high-service system of water Extending high-serdistribution, to include all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, so much as may be available in the water fund, during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, after providing for the expenditures hereinbefore authorized, is hereby appropriated. SEC. 2. That said Commissioners shall not make requisitions upon the appropriations from the Treasury of the United States for a larger amount during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven than they make on the appropriations arising from the revenues, including drawback certificates, of said District. Approved, June 11, 1896.

Limit of requisitions on the Treasury.

CHAP. 420.-An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninetyseven, and for other purposes.

June 11, 1896.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, Sundry civil exand the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter penses appropriations. expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, namely:

UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

Treasury Depart

ment.

Public buildings.

Alaska.
Government wharf.

Proviso.

Charges.

Government wharf in Alaska: For reconstructing or repairing and putting in safe and proper condition the wharf at Sitka, Alaska, five thousand dollars to be immediately available: Provided, That hereafter the Secretary of the Treasury be authorized to charge and fix the rates of dockage and wharfage to be paid by any private vessel or person allowed to use said wharf, the said receipts to be deposited with the Treasurer of the United States as a miscellaneous receipt derived from Government property; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct, Regulations. by regulation or otherwise, by whom said wharfage and dockage receipts shall be collected.

For post-office at Allegheny, Pennsylvania: For continuation of Allegheny, Pa. building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.

Boise City, Idaho.

Limit of cost increased.

Buffalo, N. Y

Addition.

Camden, N. J.

Cheyenne, Wyo. Limit of cost increased.

Deadwood, S. Dak.
Assay office.

Detroit, Mich.

Fort Monroe, Va.
Post-office.

Limit.

Helena, Mont.

For public building at Boise City, Idaho: For continuation of building, fifty thousand dollars; and the limit of cost of said building and site is increased from one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to two hundred thousand dollars.

For post office at Buffalo, New York: For continuation of building under present limit, eighty thousand dollars.

For a brick addition, one story in height, extending northerly sixteen feet from the northerly side and ten feet from the easterly end of the United States post-office building in the city of Buffalo, and seventythree feet in depth on the northerly side, and forty-three feet on the easterly end of said building, a sum not exceeding four thousand three hundred dollars.

For public building at Camden, New Jersey: For construction of building, twenty-five thousand dollars; and the limit of cost of said building is increased one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. For public building at Cheyenne, Wyoming: For continuation of building, fifty thousand dollars; and the limit of cost of said building and site is increased from one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Assay office at Deadwood, South Dakota: For establishing an assay office at Deadwood, in the State of South Dakota, fifteen thousand dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Detroit, Michigan: For completion of building under present limit, one hundred and twenty-five thousand three hundred and sixty-four dollars and twenty-nine cents.

For post-office at Fortress Monroe, Virginia: That the sum of fifteen thousand dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the erection of a post-office building at Fortress Monroe, Virginia, upon the Government reservation. The said building shall be erected upon plans, specifications, and contracts to be approved, in the manner provided by law, by the Secretary of War, and to cover quarters for the postmaster and office accommodations for customs officer and United States commissioner. Nor shall any plan for the erection of said building be approved by the Secretary of War involving an expenditure exceeding the said sum of fifteen thousand dollars.

For public building at Helena, Montana: For continuation of buildLimit of cost in ing, fifty thousand dollars; and the limit of cost of said building and site is increased from one hundred and fifty thousand dollars to three hundred thousand dollars.

creased.

Kansas City, Mo.

Limit of cost creased.

Little Rock, Ark.

For post-office and court-house at Kansas City, Missouri: For continuation of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars.

For post-office and court-house at Kansas City, Missouri: For continin uation of building, fifty thousand dollars; and the limit of cost of said building and site is increased from one million two hundred thousand dollars to one million three hundred and sixteen thousand dollars.

Sioux Falls, S. Dak.

Los Angeles, Cal.

Martinsburg, W.Va.

Newark, N.J.
Additional land.

For court-house and post-office at Little Rock, Arkansas: For additional amount to construct an addition to the United States court-house and post-office and enlarging judge's chamber and the offices of the marshal and clerk of the circuit and district courts, and for an elevator, forty-three thousand dollars.

For constructing a bathroom and lavatory in the basement of the post-office building at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, three hundred dollars. For court-house and post-office at Los Angeles, California: For additions to and alterations in the court-house and post-office building, twelve thousand dollars.

For court-house and post-office at Martinsburg, West Virginia: For completion of approaches, five thousand dollars.

For custom-house and post-office at Newark, New Jersey: For completion of building and for purchase or condemnation of additional land, under present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the amount remaining unexpended under previous appropriations for

the completion of said building shall be available either for that purpose or for the purchase or condemnation of additional land.

New York.
Appraiser's ware-

For the appraiser's warehouse at New York City, New York: For continuation of building under present limit, five hundred thousand house. dollars.

For court-house, custom-house, and post-office at Omaha, Nebraska: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars.

For custom-house and post-office at Saint Albans, Vermont: For rebuilding and repairing same, made necessary by recent fire, seventy thousand dollars.

For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Saint Paul, Minnesota: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

Omaha, Nebr.

Saint Albans, Vt.

Saint Paul, Minn.

For court-house at Savannah, Georgia: For continuation of building, Savannah, Ga. twenty-five thousand dollars; and the limit of cost of said building is increased one hundred thousand dollars.

For court house and post-office at Salt Lake City, Utah: For purchase Salt Lake, Utah. of site and commencement of construction of building, seventy-five thousand dollars.

Sioux City, Iowa.

Washington, D. C.
Post-office.

Limit of cost increased.

For court-house, post-office, and custom-house at Sioux City, Iowa: For completion of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. For post-office at Washington, District of Columbia: For continuation of building under present limit, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars; and the limit of cost of said building is increased four hundred and ten thousand dollars. For Treasury building at Washington, District of Columbia: For Treasury buildings. repairs to Treasury, Butler, and Winder buildings, eight thousand dollars.

Repairs.

Hall of Records, Plans to be submitted.

That the Secretary of the Treasury be directed to submit to Congress Washington, DC. a plan giving the size and general characteristics of a public building to be used for a Hall of Records in the city of Washington, suitable for the storage of papers, documents, and other records which have accumulated in the various Departments and are needed only for occasional use, and also for the storage and distribution of books and other publications issued by order of Congress; and said Secretary is directed before making his report to consult with the heads of the other Departments and the proper officers of the Senate and House of Representatives; and he is also directed to consider and report upon the suitableness for a site for such a building on the public reservation at the intersection of Ohio and Louisiana avenues with Tenth and Twelfth streets, and of any other public grounds located within the city of Washington within reasonable distance of the Departments to be accommodated by such a Hall of Records.

For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs and preservation of custom-houses, court-houses, post-offices, marine hospitals, quarantine stations, and other public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; of which amount the sum of thirty thousand dollars to be used for the marine hospitals and quarantine stations: Provided, That of the sum hereby appropriated, not exceeding ten thousand dollars may be used, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, in the employment of superintendents and others at a rate of compensation not exceeding for any one person six dollars per day.

Site.

Repairs and preser

vation.

Proviso.

Superintendents,etc.

New York City.
Alterations to post-

For making certain proposed alterations in the post-office building in New York City, and for improving, arranging, and furnishing certain office. rooms therein in accordance with plans prepared by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, to be done under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, the sum of sixty thousand dollars, such sum to be immediately available.

MARINE HOSPITALS.

For marine hospital at Boston, Massachusetts: For additional for elevator, one thousand five hundred dollars; board fence, three hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.

For marine hospital at Chicago, Illinois: For artesian and surface wells, one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; macadamizing, sidewalk, and curbing, two thousand three hundred dollars; boundary walls, stone or brick, five thousand dollars; in all, eight thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.

For marine hospital at Cincinnati, Ohio: For areaway, east ward, one thousand dollars.

For marine hospital at Detroit, Michigan: For isolation ward, one thousand three hundred dollars.

For marine hospital at Louisville, Kentucky: For isolation ward, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For marine hospital at New Orleans, Louisiana: For laundry machinery, two thousand dollars; veranda, executive building, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

For marine hospital at Port Townsend, Washington: For heating, five thousand dollars; new fence around block, seven hundred and fifty dollars; cistern, three hundred dollars; planting trees, one hundred dollars; in all, six thousand one hundred and fifty dollars.

For marine hospital at San Francisco, California: For additional to old laundry building for attendants' quarters, three hundred dollars.

For marine hospital at Saint Louis, Missouri: For isolation ward, one thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; disinfecting annex, five hundred and ten dollars; in all, one thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.

For marine hospital at Wilmington, North Carolina: For isolation ward, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For marine hospital at Vineyard Haven, Massachusetts: For fence, roadway, grading, and improvement of grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars.

QUARANTINE STATIONS.

For quarantine station, Reedy Island, Delaware River: For artesian well, pipe, and sewer connections, one thousand two hundred dollars. For quarantine station, Brunswick, Georgia: For additional ballast tracks and trestle, two hundred dollars; new fender piles and dolphins, one hundred dollars; small hospital buildings, five hundred dollars; in all, eight hundred dollars.

For quarantine station, Gulf: For house on barge Zamora to protect machinery, two hundred and fifty dollars; telephone line, one hundred dollars; in all, three hundred and fifty dollars.

For quarantine station, South Atlantic: For ballast wharf, fifteen thousand dollars; dredging cut, seven hundred and fifty dollars; in all, fifteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.

For quarantine station, San Diego, California: For cistern and force pump, three hundred and fifty dollars.

For quarantine station, San Francisco, California: For bath house and steam boiler to supply water for same, five thousand dollars.

For quarantine station, Port Townsend, Washington: For completion of station, three thousand five hundred dollars.

HEATING APPARATUS FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS: For heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, one hundred thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding ten thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics employed from time to time for casual repairs only.

VAULTS, SAFES, AND LOCKS FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS: For vaults, safes, and locks, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services except for work done by contract, thirty-five thousand dollars; but of this amount not exceeding three thousand dollars may be expended for personal services of mechanics employed from time to time for casual repairs only.

Vaults, safes, and locks.

PLANS FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS: For books, photographic materials, Plans, etc. and in duplicating plans required for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, three thousand five hundred dollars.

LIGHT-HOUSES, BEACONS, AND FOG SIGNALS.

Spring Point Ledge Light and Fog Signal Station, Maine: For finishing the establishment of a light and fog-signal station on Spring Point Ledge, Portland Harbor, Maine, twenty-five thousand dollars. Lynn Harbor, Massachusetts: For establishing four lighted beacons in Lynn Harbor, Massachusetts, two thousand dollars.

Plum Beach Light and Fog Signal Station, Rhode Island: For finishing the establishment of a light and fog-sigual station at or near Plum Beach, Narragansett Bay, Rhode Island, forty thousand dollars.

Fort Wadsworth Light and Fog-Signal Station, New York: For moving the light now at Fort Tompkins to Fort Wadsworth, both in the Narrows, New York Harbor, New York, and establishing a fog signal at Fort Wadsworth, one thousand five hundred dollars.

Staten Island Light House Depot, New York: For continuing the construction of the sea wall, rebuilding wharves and dredging the basin, at the general light-house depot at Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Mahon River Light Station, Delaware: For establishing Mahon River Light Station, Delaware, on a new site, eight thousand five hundred dollars.

Lighthouses, beacons, and fog signals. Portland, Me.

Spring Point Ledge.

Lynn, Mass.

Plum Beach, R. I.

Fort Wadsworth, N. Y.

Staten Island depot, N. Y.

Mahon River, Del.

Smiths Point, Md.

jetty.

Smiths Point Light-House, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland: For finishing the reestablishment of the light-house at Smiths Point, Chesapeake Bay, Maryland, carried away by the ice, forty-one thousand dollars. Galveston Jetty Light Station, Texas: For establishing a light and Galveston, Tex., fog signal at or near the outer end of one of the jetties, Galveston Harbor, Texas, and changing the characteristic of Bolivar Point light at the entrance to Galveston Harbor, Texas, thirty-five thousand dollars. Sandusky Bay Light stations, Ohio: For establishing two range-light Sandusky Bay, Ohio. stations in Sandusky Bay, Ohio, thirty thousand dollars.

Saint Joseph Pierhead Fog Signal, Michigan: For establishing a steam fog signal on or near the north pier of Saint Joseph Harbor, Lake Michigan, Michigan, five thousand dollars.

Saint Joseph, Mich.

Carlton Island Light Station, New York: For establishing a light- Carlton Island, N. Y. station at or near Carlton Island, Saint Lawrence River, New York, six thousand dollars.

Galloo Island Fog Signal, New York: Establishing a steam fog signal at Galloo Island Light Station, Lake Ontario, New York, five thousand seven hundred dollars.

Galloo Island, N. Y.

Maurice River Lights, New Jersey: For establishing range lights Maurice River, N. J. and keeper's quarters at or near the entrance of Maurice River, Dela

ware Bay, New Jersey, four thousand five hundred dollars.

Portage Lake and River lights, Michigan: For establishing lights, Portage Lake and on Portage Lake, Portage Lake Ship Canal, and Portage River, Lake

Superior, Michigan, ten thousand five hundred dollars.

Big Sable Fog Signal, Michigan: For establishing a steam fog signal Big Sable, Mich. at Big Sable Light Station, Michigan, five thousand five hundred dollars.

Menominee Light and Fog-Signal Station, Michigan: For establishing a fog signal at Menominee Light Station, Green Bay, Lake Michigan, Michigan, five thousand dollars.

Devils Island Light Station, Wisconsin: That the unexpended balance, or so much thereof as may be necessary, not exceeding four

Menominee, Mich.

Devils Island, Wis.