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east along said standard parallel to the place of beginning, be, and the same is hereby, constituted a new land district, to be called the Land office at Lew- Judith land district, in the State of Montana, and the land office for said district shall be located at the town of Lewiston.

istown.
Post, p. 677.
Registers and re-

pointed.

SEC. 3. That the President, by and with the advice and consent ceivers to be ap- of the Senate, is hereby authorized to appoint registers and receivers for such land districts, who shall discharge like and similar duties and receive the same amount of compensation as other officers discharging like duties in the other land offices of said State. Approved, April 1, 1890.

April 3, 1890.

Eleventh Census. Experts and special agents.

CHAP. 61.-An act to amend an act entitled "An act to provide for taking the eleventh and subsequent censuses," approved March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.

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Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section eightof an act entitled "An act to provide for taking the Eleventh Vol. 25, p. 766, sec. 18, and subsequent censuses," approved March first, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, be amended by adding to the last line of said section eighteen, after the words " and actual necessary traveling exPer diem allowance. penses," the words "and a per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence of three dollars per day."

amended.

Approved, April 3, 1890.

April 3, 1890.

Tampa, Fla.

CHAP. 62.-An act to extend to Tampa, Florida, the privilege of immediate transportation of unappraised merchandise.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions Immediate trans of the first section of the act entitled "An act to amend the statutes portation privileges extended to. in relation to immediate transportation of dutiable goods, and for Vol. 21, p. 173. other purposes," approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and eighty, be, and the same are hereby, extended to the port of Tampa, Florida. Approved, April 3, 1890.

April 4, 1890.

appropriations for

1890.

CHAP. 63 —An act to provide for certain of the most urgent deficiencies es in the appropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Urgent deficiencies United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums, or so much thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, and prior years, namely:

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DEPARTMENT OF STATE.

INTERNATIONAL MARINE CONFERENCE: For an additional amount to pay the necessary expenses of the international marine conference authorized by the act approved July ninth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, to be disbursed as provided by said act, thirty-five thousand dollars.

TREASURY DEPARTMENT

COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY.

Treasury Depart ment.

Coast and Geodetic Survey.

Office expenses.

OFFICE EXPENSES: For copper-plates, chart-paper, printers' ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; for Engraving, printextra engraving and drawing, and for photolithographing charts and other supand printing from stone or copper for immediate use, six thousand

dollars.

plies.

For stationery for the office and field parties, transportation of Stationery, fuel, etc.. instruments and supplies, when not charged to party expenses, office wagon and horses, fuel, gas, telegrams, ice, and washing, one thousand dollars.

Miscellaneous ex

For miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, office furniture, repairs and extra labor, and for traveling expenses of assist- penses, etc. ants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, one thousand dollars.

traveling, etc.

PARTY EXPENSES: For traveling expenses of officers and men of Party expenses in. the Navy on duty, and for any special surveys that may be required by the Light-House Board, or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, one thousand dollars. REPAIRS OF VESSELS: For necessary repairs to the Coast and Repairs to “Gedney, " Geodetic Survey steamer Gedney, three thousand dollars.

REVENUE CUTTER SERVICE.

Revenue-cutter serv..

ice.

For additional amount for maintenance of a refuge-station at or Refuge-station, near Point Barrow, Alaska, on the Arctic Ocean, eight thousand dol- Point Barrow, Alaska. lars, to be available during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one.

FISH COMMISSION.

Fish Commission.

food-fishes.

PROPAGATION OF FOOD-FISHES: For the introduction by the Propagation of United States Fish Commission into, and the increase in the waters of the United States of food-fishes and other useful products of the waters, including lobsters, oysters, and other shell fish, and for such general and miscellaneous expenditures as the Commissioner may find necessary to the prosecution of his work, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, twenty thousand dollars. For general and miscellaneous expenses incurred during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, in connection with the propagation and distribution of food-fishes and maintenance of vessels, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.

General and miscel.. laneous expenses.

Maintenance of ves

MAINTENANCE OF VESSELS: For the maintenance of the vessels and steam-launches of the United States Fish Commission, and for sels, etc. boats, apparatus, and machinery required for use with the same, including salaries or compensation of all necessary civilian employees, ten thousand dollars.

PUBLIC BUILDINGS.

Public Buildings.

Columbia.
Repairs.

TREASURY BUILDING, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: Treasury, District of For plumbing, painting, plastering, carpentering, and general repairs to the Treasury and Winder Buildings, three thousand dollars. To complete the work of replacing the disintegrated slate roof of the Treasury Building with a copper roof, six thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.

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FOR UNITED STATES JAIL AT FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS: For necessary repairs to the old court-house in order that the same may be fitted up for jail purposes, five thousand dollars.

FOR COURT-HOUSE AND POST-OFFICE AT FORT SMITH, ARKANSAS: To finish the three fire-proof vaults, and place fire-proof doors for same, furnishing ash-pit doors, iron grating in opening of inspector's lookout in the post-office, and for the improvement of the approaches, one thousand dollars.

FOR COURT-HOUSE AND POST-OFFICE AT LEAVENWORTH, KANSAS: For completion of building and payment of outstanding liabilities, seven thousand nine hundred and forty-six dollars and sixty-two

cents.

FOR COURT-HOUSE AND POST-OFFICE AT MANCHESTER, NEW HAMPSHIRE: For finishing the second-story of the building in white oak instead of the white pine ca.led for by the contract under which the building is being finished, five thousand dollars.

FOR COURT-HOUSE AND POST-OFFICE AT OSHKOSH, WISCONSIN: For furnishing and placing four vault doors, eight hundred dollars. FOR POST-OFFICE AT OTTUMWA, IOWA: For approaches, two thousand five hundred dollars.

FOR COURT-HOUSE AND POST-OFFICE AT SAN ANTONIO, TEXAS: For completion of building including heating apparatus, ten thou sand dollars.

FOR POST-OFFICE AND COURT-HOUSE AT SAN FRANCISCO, CALIFORNIA: For purchase of site under present limit, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

INTERNAL REVENUE.

For salaries and expenses of agents and surveyors, fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries of store-keepers, and miscellaneous expenses, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, one hundred and ten thousand dollars.

LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT.

For salaries, fuel, rations, rent of quarters where necessary, and similar incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand one hundred light-house and fog-signal keepers, being a deficiency for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, fourteen thousand seven hundred and ninety-nine dollars and eighty-eight

cents

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS, TREASURY.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES, TREASURY DEPARTMENT: For rent of additional room required by the Bureau of Statistics for months of April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and ninety, at sixty dollars per month, one hundred and eighty dollars.

SIXTH AUDITOR: For rental of a suitable building to meet the requirements of the office of the Sixth Auditor of the Treasury for the remainder of the current fiscal year, five hundred dollars.

COLLECTING REVENUE FROM CUSTOMS: To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, one hundred and eightyfive thousand dollars.

DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

POLICE COURT: For books, stationery, fuel, ice, gas, and other necessary items, six hundred dollars.

For witness fees, one thousand dollars.

DEFICIENCY IN SALE OF BONDS RETAINED FROM CONTRACTORS : To supply the deficiency in the amount realized from the sale of bonds in which the ten per centum retained from contractors was invested, three thousand five hundred dollars.

MILITIA OF DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: For rent, fuel, light, and care of armories and store-rooms, five thousand four hundred and seventeen dollars.

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Current expenses.

ment.

For lockers, gun-racks, and furniture for armories, printing, pa-
rades, and other current expenses, eight hundred dollars.
For cost of annual encampment, for clearing grounds, lumber, Annual
transportation, camp-supplies, subsistence, horses, band, and drum
corps, six thousand two hundred and thirty-one dollars and eighty-
one cents; in all, twelve thousand four hundred and forty-eight dol-
lars and eighty-one cents.

PUBLIC SCHOOLS: To pay the salaries of janitors of new school buildings, including one thousand and thirty-three dollars and twenty cents on account of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, two thousand one hundred and ninety-eight dollars and twenty cents. PAYMENT OF JUDGMENTS: For the payment of judgments against the District of Columbia, as follows:

To Clinton H. Emerson, five thousand dollars together with sixtysix dollars and five cents costs;

To Lawrence E. Gannon, five thousand dollars together with fortyfive dollars and forty cents costs;

To George W. Armor, one thousand dollars together with thirtynine dollars and seventy cents costs;

To Abner T. H. Gooding, one hundred dollars together with thirty dollars costs;

To the United States ex relatione James Pilling, twenty-one dollars costs;

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Public schools.
Janitors.

Payment of judg

ments, etc.

Clinton H. Emerson.

Lawrence E. Gan

non.

George W. Armor.

Abner T. H. Good

ing.

James Pilling.

Hannah Henderson.

To Hannah Henderson, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars together with sixty-five dollars and ninety-five cents costs; To Lewis Johnson and Company, four hundred and seventy-five Lewis Johnson & dollars and seventy-six cents together with thirty-five dollars and forty-five cents costs;

To Samuel B. Wilson, seven dollars and sixty-three cents; To Walter Hawks, five hundred dollars together with thirty-three dollars and forty-five cents costs;

In the case of the District of Columbia versus McBlair, one thousand eight hundred and twenty-one dollars and fifty cents; in all, fifteen thousand four hundred and ninety-one dollars and eightynine cents, together with a further sum to pay the interest on said judgments as provided by law from the date the same became due until the date of payment.

Co.

Samuel B. Wilson

Walter Hawks.

In District of Colum

bia vs. McBlair.

Interest on prior

For amount required to pay the interest as provided by law, on
certain judgments heretofore appropriated for, from the day of ex- judgments.
piration of right of appeal to the date on which the judgments were
paid, three hundred and uinety-eight dollars and sixty-eight cents.

For printing and publishing list of overdue taxes on real estate Tax lists, etc.
with notice of sale in pamphlet form, and for printing and publish-
ing other notices and advertisements required in and about the sale
of such real estate for such overdue taxes, to be re-imbursed by the
charge of twenty cents for each lot so advertised, five thousand dol-
lars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

District revenues and

That one half of the foregoing amounts, to meet deficiencies in the To be paid from appropriations on account of the District of Columbia, shall be paid Treasury.

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from the revenue of the District of Columbia, and one-half from any money in the Treasury of the United States not otherwise appropriated.

TERRITORIAL GOVERNMENTS.

INDUSTRIAL HOME IN UTAH TERRITORY: To aid the Industrial Christian Home Association, Utah Territory, in carrying on the work of said association, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, two thousand dollars.

WAR DEPARTMENT.

WAR MAPS: For completing, printing, and binding one thousand five hundred maps of the battle-field of Chickamauga, two thousand five hundred dollars.

OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY: To pay the salary of an Assistant Secretary of War, provided by the act of March fifth, eighteen hundred and ninety, for the months of April, May, and June, current fiscal year, at the rate of four thousand five hundred dollars per annum, one thousand one hundred and twenty-five dollars.

RECORD AND PENSION DIVISION: For two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each from March first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, four hundred and eighty dollars;

For one skilled mechanic, at one thousand dollars, from March first to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-four cents; in all eight hundred and thirteen dollars and thirty-four cents.

STATIONERY: For stationery for the War Department and its bureaus (except Signal Office), five thousand dollars.

ARTIFICIAL LIMBS: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, sixty thousand dollars.

MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.

QUARTERMASTER'S DEPARTMENT.

That the Secretary of War r. y, in his discretion, authorize from the appropriation for regular supplies of the Army for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety expenditures for the necessary equipments of the bake-house to carry on post bakeries; also the necessary furniture, text-books, paper, and equipments of the postschools; the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and messhalls, garden utensils, agricultural implements, and seeds for post gardens, each and all for use of the enlisted men of the Army

ENGINEER DEPARTMENT.

CONSTRUCTING PIER IN DELAWARE BAY, NEAR LEWES, DelaWARE: For repairs, ten thousand dollars.

SIGNAL SERVICE.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES: For improving the water closets, enlarging the heating facilities, increasing the drainage, painting the roofs, and making such other absolutely pressing repairs required to preserve the main and annex buildings of the Signal Service, situated on the corner of Twenty-fourth and M streets northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, nine thousand five hundred dollars. OBSERVATION AND REPORT OF STORMS: For maintenance and reMilitary telegraph pair of military telegraph lines, as follows: For completing and maintaining the connection between the United States military tele

Storm reports.

lines.

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