Wisconsin.

Appropriation

examinations, surveys, etc.

Provisos.

Restriction.

Nootsack River.

Grays Harbor and its bar entrance, with a view to the improvement of its channels.

Alouez Bay.

WISCONSIN.

SEC. 13. For preliminary examinations, surveys, except for preliminary where otherwise herein especially provided for, contingencies, expenses connected with inspection of bridges, the service of notice required in such cases, the examination of bridge sites and reports thereon, and for incidental repairs for which there is no special appropriation for rivers and harbors, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no preliminary examinations, survey, project, or estimate for new works other than those designated in this Act shall be made: And provided further, Additional re- That after the regular or formal report on any examinaports forbidden. tion, survey, project, or work under way or proposed is submitted, no supplemental or additional report or estimate, for the same fiscal year, shall be made unless ordered No project au- by a resolution of Congress. The Government shall not thorized untilap be deemed to have entered upon any project for the improvement of any waterway or harbor mentioned in this Act until funds for the commencement of the proposed work shall have been actually appropriated by law. Received by the President, August 7, 1894.

propriated for.

[NOTE BY THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.-The foregoing act having been presented to the President of the United States for his approval, and not having been returned by him to the house of Congress in which it originated within the time prescribed by the Constitution of the United States, has become a law without his approval.]

August 18,

1894.

expenses appro

CHAP. 301.-An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of Sundry civil the United States of America in Congress assembled, That priations. 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 ninetyfive, namely:

War Department.

UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.

Buildings and grounds, D. C.

Improvement and care.

BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS IN AND AROUND WASHINGTON.

For the improvement and care of public grounds as follows:

For improvement of grounds north and south of Execu tive Mansion, five thousand dollars.

For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars.

For ordinary care of Lafayette Square, one thousand dollars.

For ordinary care of Franklin Square, one thousand dollars.

For ordinary care of Lincoln Square, one thousand dollars.

For care and improvement of Monument grounds, two thousand dollars.

For continuing improvement of reservation numbered seventeen and site of old canal northwest of same, three thousand dollars: Provided, That no part thereof shall be expended upon other than property belonging to the United

States.

For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, and constructing stone coping around reservations, one thousand five hundred dollars. For manure, and hauling the same, four thousand dollars.

For painting watchmen's lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts, one thousand dollars.

For purchase and repair of seats, one thousand dollars. For purchase and repair of tools, two thousand dollars. For trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, trees and stock for nursery to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine, two thousand dollars.

For removing snow and ice, one thousand two hundred dollars.

For flowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, one thousand dollars.

For care, construction, and repair of fountains, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For abating nuisances, five hundred dollars.

For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, ten thousand dollars.

For improvement, maintenance, and care of Smithsonian Grounds, two thousand five hundred dollars.

For improvement, care, and maintenance of Judiciary

Square, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Old canal, etc.

Proviso.

crete pavements.

That under appropriations herein contained no contract Limit for conshall be made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than two dollars and twenty-five cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness.

For replacing the old flagging pavement of the sidewalks in the grounds north of the Executive Mansion by a granolithic pavement, two thousand five hundred dollars.

Executive

Mansion.

For repairs and fuel at the Executive Mansion, as follows: For care, repair, and refurnishing the Executive Man- Repairs, fuel, sion, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be expended by con- etc. tract or otherwise, as the President may determine.

Portrait of exPresident Benjamin Harrison.

Lighting Exec. utive Mansion

grounds.

Provisos.

Maximum per lamp.

For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, three thousand dollars.

For care and necessary repair of greenhouses, four thousand dollars.

For renewing the superstructure of one greenhouse connected with the Executive Mansion, one thousand five hundred dollars.

For repairs to conservatory, Executive Mansion, two thousand dollars.

For portrait and frame for same of Honorable Benjamin Harrison, ex-President of the United States, two thousand five hundred dollars.

LIGHTING THE EXECUTIVE MANSION AND PUBLIC and public GROUNDS: For gas, pay of lamp-lighters, gas fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lampposts; purchase of matches, and for repairs of all kinds; fuel and lights for office, office stables, watchmen's lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, fourteen thousand dollars: Provided, That for each six foot burner not connected with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds no more than twenty dollars and fifty cents shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping in repair the lamps, under any expenditure provided for in this Act; and said lamps shall burn not less than three thousand hours per annum; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropri ated as may be necessary for that purpose: Provided, That before any expenditures are made from the appropriations herein provided for, the contracting gas company shall equip each lamp with a self-regulating burner and tip, so combined and adjusted as to secure under all ordinary variations of pressure and density a consumption of six cubic feet of gas per hour.

Burners.

Electric lights.

Repair of water pipes, etc.

Proviso.

Investigation

etc.

For electric lights for three hundred and sixty-five nights from seven posts, at thirty cents per light per night, seven hundred and sixty-six dollars and fifty cents.

REPAIR OF WATER PIPES: For repairing and extending water pipes, purchase of apparatus for cleaning them, purchase of hose, and cleaning the springs and repairing and renewing the pipes of the same that supply the Capitol, the Executive Mansion, and the building for the State, War, and Navy Departments, two thousand five hundred dollars: Provided, That the Secretary of War and the of water rights, Attorney-General are hereby authorized to investigate and ascertain what action has been taken by them or their predecessors in office, or by any Secretary of the Interior, Vol. 22, p. 168. under the Act of July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, entitled "An Act to increase the water supply of the city of Washington," and under any previous Acts; and also the existing claims, if any, of the State of Mary land, the Chesapeake and Ohio Canal Company, the Great Falls Manufacturing Company, and any other owner of land and water rights, or either, at the Great Falls; and also, further, the cost of acquiring the title or titles to such lands and water rights, or either, as may be necessary to

vest in the Government complete ownership of the water rights and necessary lands, and to make a full report of all the facts to Congress; and the sum of four thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for such investigation, examination, and report.

ments, and Print

TELEGRAPH TO CONNECT THE CAPITOL WITH THE Telegraph, DEPARTMENTS AND GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE: Capitol, DepartFor care and repair of existing lines, one thousand two ing Office, hundred and fifty dollars.

Monument.

tenance.

WASHINGTON MONUMENT: For the care and mainte-Washington nance of the Washington Monument, namely: For one Care and main. custodian, at one hundred dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at sixty dollars per month; one fireman, at fifty dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at forty-five dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car, at seventyfive dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month; one attendant on top floor, at sixty dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each; in all eight thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.

For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, Expenses. paints, brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floor, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the monument and machinery, and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the monument, machinery, elevator, and electric-light plant in good order, three thousand

dollars.

For one new engine, complete, in position, to replace the New engine. old engine which runs the dynamo for the electric lights, six hundred and fifty dollars.

ENGINEER DEPARTMENT.

Engineer Department.

bor improve

For continuing improvement of harbor at Philadelphia,, River and harPennsylvania: Continuing improvement, removal of Smiths ments. Island and Windmill Island, Pennsylvania, and Petty Philadelphia, Island, New Jersey, and adjacent shoals, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Pa.

For improving harbor at Galveston, Texas: Continuing Galveston, improvement, six hundred thousand dollars, one hundred Tex. thousand dollars of which may be expended for dredging, under the direction of the Secretary of War, by contract or otherwise, as may be most economical and advantageous to the United States.

For improving Hay Lake Channel, Saint Marys River, Hay Lake Michigan: Continuing improvement, one hundred and Marys River, fifty thousand dollars.

Mich.

N. Y.

For improving Hudson River, New York: Continuing Hudson River, improvement one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. For improving Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio River to the landing on the west bank below the the Ohio to Min

Mississippi River, mouth of

neapolis, Minu.

St. Marys Riv

Mich.

Point Judith,

R. I.

Washington avenue bridge, Minneapolis, Minnesota: Continuing improvement from the mouth of the Ohio River to the mouth of the Missouri River, seven hundred and fiftyeight thousand three hundred and thirty-three dollars and thirty-three cents; continuing improvement from the mouth of Missouri River to Minneapolis, eight hundred and sixty-six thousand six hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-seven cents; in all, one million six hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.

For improving Saint Marys River at the Falls, Michigan: er at the Falls Continuing improvement, three hundred thousand dollars. For harbor of refuge at Point Judith, Rhode Island: Continuing improvement, one hundred thousand dollars. For improving harbor at Charleston, South Carolina, including Sullivan Island and Mount Pleasant Shore: Continuing improvement, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.

Charleston,

S. C.

Savannah, Ga.

Mobile, Ala.

Mississippi
Commis-

River sion.

For improving harbor at Savannah, Georgia: Continuing improvement, nine hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars.

For improving harbor at Mobile, Alabama: Continuing improvement, three hundred and ninety thousand dollars. Under Mississippi River Commission: For improving Mississippi River from Head of the Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries, clerical, office, travelMississippiing, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, two million six hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars.

River.

Missouri River Commission.

er.

Under Missouri River Commission: For improving MisMissouri Riv. Souri River from its mouth to the south line of Sioux City, Iowa, including salaries, clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Missouri River Commission, surveys, permanent bench marks and gauges, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, fifty thousand dollars of which may be used for removal of snags and other like obstructions in the Missouri River above Sioux City, Iowa, from the south line thereof, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War.

MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS.

SURVEY OF NORTHERN AND NORTHWESTERN LAKES: For printing and issuing charts for use of navigators and electrotyping plates for chart printing, two thousand dol

lars.

For surveys, additions to, and correcting engraved plates, to be available until expended, twenty-five thousand dollars.

TRANSPORTATION OF REPORTS AND MAPS TO FOREIGN COUNTRIES: For the transportation of reports and maps to foreign countries through the Smithsonian Institution, one hundred dollars.

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HARBOR OF NEW YORK: For prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City.