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Clerks' fees.

Commissioners' fees.

Jurors' fees.

Witnesses' fees.

Support of prisoners.

Bailiffs, etc.

Provisos.
Attendance.

Vacation.

For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three thousand two hundred dollars.

FEES OF CLERKS: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Fees of clerks, United States courts," for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninetyfour, one hundred and ninety-one dollars and thirty-five cents.

FEES OF COMMISSIONERS: For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting as United States commissioners for the fiscal years, as follows:

For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, six thousand eight hundred and nine dollars and seventy-five cents.

For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, one thousand eight hundred and seven dollars and sixty-two cents.

The accounting officers of the Treasury are directed to allow and pay to M. M. Beavers his salary as a United States commissioner for the Indian Territory from April twelfth to April twenty-fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, inclusive.

FEES OF JURORS: For fees of jurors, United States courts, for the fiscal years as follows:

For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, twenty-five dol lars and twenty cents.

For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, seventeen dollars and thirty cents.

For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, six hundred and ninety-eight dollars and eighty cents.

FEES OF WITNESSES: For fees of witnesses, United States courts, the fiscal years, as follows:

for

For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one hundred thousand dollars.

For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, ninety-one thousand four hundred and thirty-one dollars and seventy-four cents. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, ten dollars and ninety cents.

SUPPORT OF PRISONERS: For support of prisoners, United States courts, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seventyseven thousand and fifty-six dollars and sixty-four cents.

For support of prisoners, United States courts, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, fifty thousand dollars.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for support of prisoners, United States courts, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seven thousand seven hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventy-three cents.

To pay accounts for support of prisoners, United States courts, as reported by the Attorney-General, on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, six thousand seven hundred and fifty-four dollars and fifty-eight cents.

To pay amounts reported by the Attorney-General for expenses of support of prisoners, United States courts, incurred in southern district of New York, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one thousand four hundred and sixty-one dollars and seventy-five cents.

BAILIFFS AND CRIERS: For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York: Provided, That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts: And provided further, That no such person shall be employed during vacation; of expenses of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts, and judges of the circuit courts of appeals; of meals and lodgings for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, for the fiscal years as follows:

For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, ten thousand dollars.

For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, fifteen thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars and seventy-three cents.

For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, thirty dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, two hundred and eighty dollars.

For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, thirty-five dollars.

MISCELLANEOUS EXPENSES: For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-two, fifty dollars.

For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Miscellaneous.

O. P. Fitzsimmons.
Payment of depu-

That the Auditor for the State and other Departments be authorized to certify for payment the several amounts found due to the deputies of ties. O. P. Fitzsimmons, of Georgia, late United States marshal for the district of Georgia, per certificate of said Auditor, numbered seventy-seven hundred and eighty-one, which have not heretofore been paid; warrants to be issued in the name of and delivered to the persons now holding said claims: Provided, That the sum total of the warrants heretofore issued and to be issued shall not exceed the sum of four thousand three hundred and seventy dollars and thirty-eight cents, heretofore appropriated.

Proviso.
Limit.

ers' hands.
Protecting.

PROTECTING PROPERTY IN HANDS OF RECEIVERS: To pay amounts Property in receiv due on account of the appropriation for protecting property in the hands of receivers of United States courts for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-four and eighteen hundred and ninety-five, twentyfive thousand one hundred and seventy-six dollars and eighty-two cents.

To pay amounts due on account of the appropriation for protecting property in the hands of receivers of United States courts for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, four thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars.

DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.

WEATHER BUREAU.

To pay the account of J. S. Watson, of Titusville, Florida, for the total loss by wreckage of one sailboat while in the service of the Weather Bureau, repairing the United States telegraph line between Titusville and Jupiter, Florida, on October twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, including expenses incurred in connection therewith, one hundred and thirty-six dollars and fifty cents.

Department of Agriculture.

Weather Bureau.

J. S. Watson.
Payment to.

LEGISLATIVE.

Legislative.

PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.

Printing and binding.

building.

For expenditures for machinery, electric motors, cabinets, tables, Machinery, etc., new shelving, partitions, working furniture, and other expenses required in the occupation of the floors of the new building on the west of the Government Printing Office, to be expended by the Public Printer, sixty thousand dollars.

To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law Leaves to employees. granting thirty days' annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office for the current fiscal year, ten thousand dollars. For printing and binding for the Department of State, five thousand dollars.

For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, sixty-five thousand dollars.

Department of State.

Treasury Depart

ment.

For printing and binding for the Interior Department, fifty thousand Interior Department. dollars.

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For printing and binding for the War Department, as follows: For printing and binding for the Department of Justice, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For printing and binding six hundred copies of the Manual of Subsistence Stores for the Army of the United States, in course of preparation, four hundred dollars.

That the officer in charge of the construction of the building on the site of the Government Printing Office stables, erected under the terms of the Act approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, is hereby authorized to pay the rent of a building occupied for office and storage purposes from June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to April thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, at thirty dollars per month, from the appropriation of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the erection of the building.

To make the daily wages of Samuel Robinson and William Madden, messengers on night duty, from December second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, inclusive, three dollars and sixty cents per day each, four hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.

To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Contingent expenses, Library of Congress," for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and sixty-nine dollars and eighty-five cents.

BOTANIC GARDEN.

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for "Improving Botanic Garden" for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, to pay an account of William M. Galt and Company for forage for horses, one hundred and seventeen dollars and twenty-one cents.

SENATE.

For compensation of Senators, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, three thousand three hundred and forty-two dollars. To pay Henry A. Du Pont, in full compensation for all his time and expenses, including printing and counsel fees, in prosecuting his claim to a seat in the Senate of the United States as a Senator from the State of Delaware, two thousand five hundred dollars.

To pay James L. Wolcott, for himself and associates, counsel in opposition to the claim of Henry A. Du Pont, the same to embrace all their disbursements and expenses in the prosecution of their case in such opposition, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For material for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, two

hundred dollars.

To pay for doors for the Senate Chamber, the cloak rooms, and the Senate corridor, two thousand and thirty-five dollars.

For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-four, twenty-one dollars and twenty-five cents. For miscellaneous items, five thousand dollars.

To pay R. B. Nixon, for year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, five hundred dollars.

To provide for four additional folders, at eight hundred and forty dollars each, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.

That the Secretary of the Senate be, and he hereby is, authorized to pay Addison T. Smith as clerk to the Honorable George L. Shoup, Senator from Idaho, from March seventh to March thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, from the appropriation for salaries of officers, clerks, and employees of the Senate, for the fiscal year eighteen hun dred and ninety-five.

To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates of Official reporters. the Senate for expenses incurred during the first session of the Fiftyfourth Congress, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, three thousand four hundred and ninety dollars.

Extra services.

Extra services.

To pay Edward T. Mathews, late clerk of the Committee on Naval Edward T. Mathews. Affairs, for extra services as acting clerk of the Joint Committee on the Personnel of the Navy during the Fifty-third Congress, compiling and indexing the testimony, and so forth, five hundred dollars.

To pay Francis M. Cox for work and expenses incurred in preparing for the printer and supervising the publication of the "Proceedings in Congress upon the acceptance of the statues of John Stark and Daniel Webster," under the direction of the Committee on Printing, as provided by resolution of the Senate adopted December twenty second, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three hundred dollars.

To reimburse the clerk of the Senate Committee on Pensions for moneys actually paid out by him during the first, second, and third sessions of the Fifty third Congress and first session of the Fifty-fourth Congress, for stenographer and clerical hire, twenty-two months, seven hundred and seventy dollars.

To pay to Benjamin Durfee, for extra services rendered to the Committee on Finance of the Senate during the consideration of the tariff bill of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, two thousand five hundred dollars.

To pay Watson Boyle for services as clerk to the conference of the minority from March fourth to March fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, seventy two dollars.

Francis M. Cox.
Services.

Pension Committee.
Expenses of clerk.

Benjamin Durfee.
Extra services.

Watson Boyle.
Services.

William A. Fields.
Extraordinary serv

One month's pay to

Vol. 28, p. 418.

To pay William A. Fields for extraordinary services in transferring and rearranging the papers and relettering the boxes of the files of the ices. Senate from the Sixteenth Congress to the Forty-ninth Congress, inclusive, rendered necessary by certain changes and improvements made by the Secretary of the Senate for the better preservation and greater convenience for reference of the files, four hundred dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the following persons, discharged employees. who were excluded by decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury from the benefits of the provision in the sundry civil Act, approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, anthorizing payment to the officers and employees of the Senate who were borne on the rolls of the Senate August first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and who were not borne on said rolls November third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, of a sum equal to one month's pay at the rate of compensation paid them at the time of their discharge, namely: To William A. Merritt, one hundred dollars; James McBride, ninety dollars; Godfrey Beck, ninety dollars; Matthew Healey, eighty-three dollars and thirtythree cents; Thomas P. Mitchell, ninety dollars; Hammett S. Delaplane, sixty dollars; W. H. Bright, sixty dollars; G. W. Thomas, folder, sixty dollars; and G. W. Thomas, fifty dollars, to be paid out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation made by said Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.

To pay Charles H. Evans for services in preparing statistics on imports and exports, as contained in Senate Report Numbered Two hundred and fifty-nine, Fifty-third Congress, second session, one thousand five hundred dollars.

To pay Mrs. Nannie Watkins, widow of Lieutenant M. F. Watkins, deceased, who died while a lieutenant of the Capitol police, six hundred dollars, being one-half of a year's salary.

To pay Mrs. Mary C. Stone, widow of Charles Stone, who died while

Charles H. Evans.
Services.

M. F. Watkins.
Payment to widow.

Charles Stone.

a member of the Capitol police, five hundred and fifty dollars, being Payment to widow. one-half of a year's salary.

To pay Mrs. Hattie Newsom, widow of James A. Newsom, who died while a member of the Capitol police, four hundred and fifty dollars, being one-half of a year's salary.

James A. Newsom.
Payment to widow.

House of Representatives.

Members and Dele

gates.

Assistant stenogra pher to committees.

Postage stamps.

Stationery.

Miscellaneous items,

etc.

Clerk hire, Members

and Delegates.

HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES.

For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives and Delegates from Territories, on account of the fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-five and eighteen hundred and ninety-six, forty thousand dollars.

For assistant stenographer to committees, during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to be appointed by the Speaker, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For postage stamps for the Clerk, three hundred dollars; for the postmaster, fifty dollars, and for the doorkeeper, twenty-five dollars; in all, three hundred and seventy-five dollars.

For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives, on account of fiscal years as follows:

For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars;

For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, two hundred and forty-three dollars and eleven cents.

For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.

To enable the Clerk, pursuant to the resolution of the House of Payment during re. Representatives adopted May eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six,

cess.

Ante, p. 145.

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ances available.

to pay to each Member and Delegate who is not chairman of a committee entitled to an annual clerk, for clerk hire from the date of the adjournment of the present session of Congress to and including December sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, an amount not exceeding one hundred dollars per month, to be certified by him on the first day of each calendar month in the manner provided in the joint resolution approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one hundred and seventy-six thousand one hundred and thirty-four Unexpended bal dollars and twenty-three cents, together with any unexpended balance, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the appropriation made in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six to pay Members and Delegates the amount which they certify they have paid or agreed to pay for clerk hire necessarily employed by them in the discharge of their official and representative duties, which unexpended balance is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure under the said resolution of the House of Representatives adopted May eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six.

Vol. 28, p. 770.

Furniture and pairs.

bell.

re

Andrew J. Camp

Pay to widow.

William Cogswell.
Pay to widow.

W. H. Crain.
Pay to widow.

Philip S. Post.
Pay to widow.

F. Reeman.
Pay to widow.

Myron B. Wright.
Pay to widow.

Fred T. Dubois.

For furniture and repairs of the same, two thousand dollars.

To pay the widow of Andrew J. Campbell, a Member-elect to the Fifty-fourth Congress from the State of New York, but who died before the time of its organization, five thousand dollars.

To pay the widow of William Cogswell, late a Representative in Congress from the State of Massachusetts, five thousand dollars.

To pay the widow of W. H. Crain, late a Representative in Congress from the State of Texas, five thousand dollars.

To pay the widow of Philip S. Post, a Member-elect to the Fifty-fourth Congress, but who died before the time of its organization, five thousand dollars.

To pay the widow of F. Reeman, a Representative in Congress from the State of Illinois, five thousand dollars.

To pay the widow of Myron B. Wright, a Member-elect to the Fiftyfourth Congress from the State of Pennsylvania, but who died before the time of its organization, five thousand dollars.

To pay Fred T. Dubois the salary due him as Delegate in Congress Salary as Delegate. from the Territory of Idaho from July third, eighteen hundred and ninety, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, inclusive, three thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-four cents.

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