Contingent ex

penses.

Postage.

Care of court-house,

five hundred dollars each; one assistant attorney, at two thousand dollars; law clerk and examiner of titles, two thousand seven hundred dollars; chief clerk and ex-officio superintendent of the building, two thousand five hundred dollars; stenographic clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three stenographic clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two law clerks, at two thousand dollars each; four clerks of class four; attorney in charge of pardons, two thousand four hundred dollars; additional for disbursing clerk, two hundred dollars; three clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; one telegraph operator and stenographer, at one thousand two hundred dollars; seven copyists; one messenger; five assistant messengers; four laborers; three watchmen; one engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; two conductors of the elevator, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; eight charwomen; superintendent of building, two hundred and fifty dollars; and three firemen; in all, one hundred and twentyseven thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.

For contingent expenses of the Department, namely:

For furniture and repairs, one thousand dollars.

For law and miscellaneous books for library of the Department, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For purchase of session laws and statutes of the States and Territories for library of Department, one thousand dollars.

For stationery, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, labor, repairs of building and care of grounds, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney General, seven thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.

For official transportation, including purchase, keep, and shoeing of animals, and purchase and repairs of wagons and harness, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For postage stamps for foreign correspondence, fifty dollars.

For the following force necessary for the care and protection of District of Columbia. the courthouse in the District of Columbia, under the direction of the United States marshal of the District of Columbia: One engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three watchmen; three firemen; four laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; and six assistant messengers; in all, eleven thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.

Solicitor of the Treasury.

Law books.

Stationery.

Warden of jail, District of Columbia.

OFFICE OF THE SOLICITOR OF THE TREASURY: For compensation of the Solicitor of the Treasury, four thousand five hundred dollars; assistant solicitor, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, twenty-six thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.

For law and miscellaneous books for office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, five hundred dollars.

For stationery for office of Solicitor of the Treasury, two hundred and fifty dollars.

For warden of the jail of the District of Columbia, one thousand eight hundred dollars.

Department of La

bor.

Pay of Commissioner, clerks, etc.

DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.

For compensation of the Commissioner of Labor, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; disbursing clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four statistical experts, at two thousand dollars each; four clerks of class four, who may be statistical experts; five clerks of class three; six clerks of class two; twelve clerks of class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each;

two copyists; one messenger; one assistant messenger; three watchmen; two laborers; two charwomen; six special agents, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; ten special agents, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; four special agents, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and one thousand and twenty dollars.

Per diem, etc., spe

For per diem, in lieu of subsistence of special agents while traveling on duty outside of the District of Columbia at a rate not to cial agents, etc. exceed three dollars per day, and for their transportation, and for employment of experts and temporary assistance, and for traveling expenses of officers and employees, forty-seven thousand five hundred dollars.

For stationery, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For books, periodicals, and newspapers for the library, one thousand dollars.

Stationery.

Books.

For postage-stamps to prepay postage on matter addressed to Pos- Postage. tal-Union countries, two hundred and fifty dollars.

For rent of rooms, including steam heat and elevator service, five Rent. thousand dollars.

penses.

For contingent expenses, namely: For furniture, carpets, ice, lum- Contingent exber, hardware, dry-goods, advertising, telegraphing, telephone service, expressage, repairs of cases and furniture, fuel and lights, soap, brushes, brooms, mats, oils, and other absolutely necessary expenses, four thousand dollars.

UNITED STATES COURTS: For the Chief-Justice of the Supreme Pay of Justices, SuCourt of the United States, ten thousand five hundred dollars; and preme Court. for eight associate justices, at ten thousand dollars each; in all, ninety thousand five hundred dollars.

To pay the salaries of the United States judges retired under section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, is hereby appropriated

For ten circuit judges, to reside in circuit, at six thousand dollars each, sixty thousand dollars.

For marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States, three thousand dollars.

Retired judges.

R. S., sec. 714, p. 135.

Circuit judges.

Marshal, Supreme Court.

Clerks to justices.

District judges.

For stenographic clerk for the Chief-Justice and for each associate justice of the Supreme Court, at a sum not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars each, fourteen thousand four hundred dollars For salaries of the sixty-four district judges of the United States, three hundred and twenty thousand dollars. And hereafter the salaries appropriated for the United States judges in the districts Monthly payments of North Dakota, South Dakota, Washington, Montana, Idaho, and Wyoming may be paid monthly.

For salary of the judge of the United States court in the Indian Territory, three thousand five hundred dollars.

For salaries of the chief justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia and the five associate judges, at the rate of five thousand dollars per annum each; thirty thousand dollars.

For compensation of the district attorneys of the United States, twenty thousand seven hundred dollars.

in certain States, etc.

Judge of court in

Indian Territory.

Supreme court, Dis

trict of Columbia.

District attorneys.

Marshals.

Proviso.

Fees, etc., of officials in Washington, Mon

For compensation of the district marshals of the United States, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. Provided, That the marshal, district attorney, and clerks of the circuit and district courts of the districts of Washington, Montana, and North Dakota shall for the services they may perform, during the fiscal year herein pro- tana, and North Davided for, receive the fees and compensation allowed by law to like kota. officers performing similar duties in the districts of Oregon and Idaho.

Court of Claims, judges, etc.

Contingent expenses.

Reporting decisions.

COURT OF CLAIMS: For salaries of five judges of the Court of Claims, at four thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, three thousand dollars; one assistant clerk, two thousand dollars; bailiff, one thousand five hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; and one messenger; in all, thirtythree thousand four hundred and forty dollars.

For stationery, books, fuel, and other miscellaneous expenses, three thousand dollars.

For reporting the decisions of the court, and superintending the printing of the twenty-sixth volume of the reports of the Court of Claims, to be paid on the order of the court, one thousand dollars; R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314. said sum to be paid to the reporter, notwithstanding section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, or section three of the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter three hundred and twenty-eight.

Vol. 18, p. 109.

Rate of pay, assistant messengers, firemen etc.

Exchange of gold

bars for U.S.gold coin.

ed.

SEC. 2. That the pay of assistant messengers, firemen, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen provided for in this act, unless otherwise specially stated, shall be as follows: For assistant messengers, firemen, and watchmen, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; for laborers, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars per annum each, and for charwomen, at the rate two hundred and forty dollars per annum each.

SEC. 3. That an act to authorize the receipt of United States gold Vol. 18, p. 97, amend coin in exchange for gold bars, approved May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, be amended to read as follows:

Approval of the Secretary of the Treasury necessary.

Proviso.

Repeal.

"That the superintendents of the coinage mints and of the United States assay office at New York may, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, but not otherwise, receive United States gold coin from any holder thereof in sums of not less than five thousand dollars, and pay and deliver in exchange therefor gold bars in value equaling such coin so received: Provided, That the Secretary of the Treasury may impose for such exchange a charge which in his judgment shall equal the cost of manufacturing the bars."

SEC. 4. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved, March 3, 1891

March 3, 1891:

penses appropriations.

CHAP. 542.-An act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninetytwo, and for other purposes.

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

Treasury Depart

ment.

Public buildings.

Allegheny, Pa.

Ashland, Wis.

Atchison, Kans.

Aurora, Ill.

UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

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

For post office at Ashland, Wisconsin: For completion of building under present limit, seventy thousand dollars.

For post office at Atchison, Kansas: For completion of building under present limit seventy thousand dollars.

For post office at Aurora, Illinois: For completion of building under present limit, forty five thousand dollars.

For post office at Alexandria, Louisiana: For completion of build- Alexandria, La. ing under present limit, forty thousand dollars.

For post office at Akron, Ohio: For purchase of site and construction of building, seventy-five thousand dollars.

Akron, Ohio.

For post office at Baton Rouge, Louisiana: For completion of Baton Rouge, La. building under present limit, seventy thousand dollars.

For post office at Beaver Falls, Pennsylvania: For completion of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars.

For courthouse and post office at Birmingham, Alabama: For the addition of a third story to the building, thirty-five thousand dollars. For post office at Burlington, Iowa: For completion of building ninety-five thousand dollars.

For courthouse, customhouse, and post office at Brownsville, Texas: For completion of the building in excess of limit, five thousand dollars.

Beaver Falls, Pa.

Birmingham, Ala.

Burlington, Iowa.

Brownsville, Tex.

Excess of limit.

For post office at Bloomington, Illinois: For purchase of site and Bloomington, Ill. construction of building, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For post office at Beatrice, Nebraska: For purchase of site and construction of building, sixty thousand dollars.

For marine hospital at Boston, Massachusetts: For pest house, stable, and carriage house, four thousand two hundred dollars.

For post office at Buffalo, New York: For purchase of site and commencing the erection of a public building for post office and other Government uses in Buffalo, New York, in addition to the sum of two hundred and fifty thousand dollars heretofore appropriated, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For post office at Camden, Arkansas: For purchase of site and construction of building, twenty-five thousand dollars.

Beatrice, Nebr.

Boston, Mass.

Buffalo, N. Y.

Additional.

Camden, Ark.

For post office at Canton, Ohio: For completion of building under Canton, Ohio. present limit, seventy thousand dollars.

For courthouse and post office at Carson City, Nevada: For completion of building and approaches, including grading grounds and all other expenses, in excess of limit, ten thousand dollars.

For post office at Cedar Rapids, Iowa: For completion of building under present limit, seventy thousand dollars.

For post office and courthouse at Charleston, South Carolina: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars.

Carson City, Nev.

Excess of limit.

Cedar Rapids, Iowa.

Charleston, S. C.

Chester, Pa.

For post office at Chester, Pennsylvania: For completion of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For customhouse and subtreasury at Chicago, Illinois: For repairs and preservation, fifty thousand dollars.

Chicago, Ill.

For marine hospital at Chicago, Illinois: For improvement of grounds and completion of breakwater, twenty thousand dollars. For post office at Columbus, Georgia: For purchase of site and construction of building, one hundred thousand dollars.

Chicago, Ill.
Columbus, Ga.

Chicago, Ill.
World's Columbian

For World's Columbian Exposition at Chicago, Illinois: For completion of building under present limit, three hundred thousand Exposition. dollars.

For post office at Davenport, Iowa: For purchase of site and construction of building, one hundred thousand dollars.

For post office at Danville, Illinois: For purchase of site and construction of building, one hundred thousand dollars.

For courthouse and post office at Denver, Colorado: For completion of building present limit, one hundred and seven thousand dollars. For courthouse, customhouse, and post office at Duluth Minnesota: For completion of building under present limit, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.

Davenport, Iowa.

Danville, Ill.

Denver, Colo.

Duluth, Minn.

Ellis Island, N. Y.

For Ellis Island, New York: For completing the building and other improvements on Ellis Island, and for procuring the necessary transportation facilities to and from said island, the sum of one hun- Transportation fa dred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary in

cilities.

able.

Reimbursement.

addition to the head-money heretofore or hereafter applied to that Immediately avail purpose, be, and the same is hereby, appropriated and made immediately available, and the said sum shall be reimbursed, in installments of twenty five-thousand dollars per annum, from the headmoney, license privileges, and rentals received at the port of New York.

Emporia, Kans.

Fort Worth, Tex.

Fremont, Nebr.

Fargo, N. Dak.

Fort Dodge, Iowa.

Galesburgh, Ill.

Haverhill Mass.

Houlton, Me.

Jefferson, Tex.
Excess of limit.

Jacksonville, Fla.

Kansas City, Mo.

Key West, Fla.

La Fayette, Ind.

Lincoln, Nebr.

Louisville, Ky.

Lynn, Mass.

Lewiston, Me.

Lima, Ohio.

Madison, Ind.

Mankato, Minn.

Memphis, Tenn

For post office at Emporia, Kansas: For purchase of site for building, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For post office at Fort Worth, Texas: For completion of building under present limit, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.

For post office at Fremont, Nebraska: For completion of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars.

For post office and courthouse at Fargo, North Dakota: For purchase of site and construction of building, one hundred thousand dollars.

For post office and courthouse at Fort Dodge, Iowa: For purchase of site and construction of building, seventy five thousand dollars. For post office at Galesburgh, Illinois: For completion of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars.

For post office at Haverhill, Massachusetts: For purchase of site and construction of building, seventy-five thousand dollars.

For customhouse and post office at Houlton, Maine: For completion of building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars.

For courthouse and post office at Jefferson, Texas: For adjusting outstanding contract liabilities, in excess of limit, three thousand dollars.

For post office and customhouse at Jacksonville, Florida: For completion of building under present limit, one hundred and twenty five thousand dollars.

For post office and courthouse at Kansas City, Missouri: For purchase of site and commencement of building, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

For marine hospital at Key West, Florida: For isolation ward and wharf, three thousand dollars.

For post office at La Fayette, Indiana: For completion of building under present limit, fifty-five thousand dollars.

For post office at Lincoln, Nebraska: For improving the grounds, one thousand dollars.

For marine hospital at Louisville, Kentucky: For dead-house, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For post office at Lynn, Massachusetts: For completion of building under present limit, ninety thousand dollars.

For post office at Lewiston, Maine: For purchase of site and construction of building, seventy five thousand dollars.

For post office at Lima, Ohio: For purchase of site and construction of building, sixty thousand dollars.

For post office at Madison, Indiana: For purchase of site and construction of building, fifty thousand dollars.

For post office at Mankato, Minnesota: For purchase of site and construction of building, one hundred thousand dollars.

For customhouse at Memphis, Tennessee: For completion of improvement of grounds, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as Immediately avail- may be necessary, to be immediately available.

able.

Meridian, Miss.

Mobile, Ala.

Macon, Ga.

Martinsburgh, W.Va.

For post office at Meridian, Mississippi: For purchase of site and construction of building, fifty thousand dollars.

For marine hospital at Mobile, Alabama: For laundry machinery, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For courthouse and post office at Macon, Georgia: For construction of sewer, eight thousand dollars.

For courthouse and post office at Martinsburgh, West Virginia: For completion of building under present limit, forty five thousand dollars.