between them shall be decided by the Secretary of War upon a hearing of the allegations and proofs of the parties. SEC. 6. That this Act shall be void if the actual construction of the bridge herein authorized be not commenced within one year and completed within two years. SEC. 7. That the right to alter, amend, or repeal this Act is hereby Amendment. expressly reserved. Approved, February 11, 1902. CHAP. 17.-An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for prior years, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated namely: DEPARTMENT OF STATE. February 14, 1902. [Public, No. 9.] appropriations. State Department. For contingent expenses, namely: For care and subsistence of horses, Contingent expenses. to be used only for official purposes, and repairs of wagons, carriage, and harness, rent of stable, telegraphic and electric apparatus and repairs to the same, and miscellaneous items not included in the foregoing, for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, five hundred dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two hundred and twelve dollars and six cents. FOREIGN INTERCOURSE. For new system of heating the legation building at Tokyo, Japan, owned by the United States Government, and for a fireproof vault, for the preservation of the records and archives of the legation, five thousand seven hundred dollars. Foreign intercourse. Το pay the Government of the Republic of Chile the sole award made against the United States under the convention concluded on to. May twenty-fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, to revive the convention of August seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, to adjust the claims of citizens of either country against the other, three thousand dollars. Tokyo, Japan. Legation building. Post, p. 810. Chile. Payment of award Vol. 30, p. 1596. claims. ico. Repayment to Mex For repaying to the Government of Mexico money erroneously La Abra and Weil claimed by and paid to the United States on account of the awards, adjudged to have been fraudulently made, in the La Abra and Weil clainis, four hundred and twelve thousand five hundred and seventytwo dollars and seventy cents. To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the diplomatic and consular service, and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, forty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Salaries, chargé d'affaires ad interim," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, six hundred and fifty-six dollars and eighty-five cents. Vol. 27, p. 409. Unforeseen emer gencies. Chargés ad interim. d'affaires To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Salaries, interpreters to legations," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, four dollars and forty cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Contingent expenses, foreign missions," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, seventeen thousand five hundred and ninety-eight dollars and thirty-three cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Contingent expenses, United States consulates," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, six thousand one hundred and fifty-seven dollars and forty-six cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Contingent expenses, United States consulates," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, eight thousand two hundred and seventy-six dollars and fifty-six cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for "Publication of diplomatic, consular, and commercial reports," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, six thousand six hundred and seventy-one dollars and five cents. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. OFFICE OF THE SECRETARY: Division of Loans and Currency: For the following for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, namely: Three expert money counters, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each, and three paper counters, at the rate of six hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; in all, two thousand and ten dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. OFFICE OF THE TREASURER: For the following for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, namely: One chief of division, at the rate of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum; one assistant chief of division, at the rate of two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars per annum; six clerks of class one; six clerks, at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum each; twelve clerks, at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum each; one messenger; twenty expert counters, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; six pressmen, at the rate of one thousand four hundred dollars per annum each; ten separators, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars per annum each; ten feeders, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars per annum each; seven laborers, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars per annum each; and two charwomen, at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars per annum each; in all, thirty-five thousand three hundred and forty-five dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. DISTINCTIVE PAPER FOR UNITED STATES SECURITIES: For distinctive paper, including transportation and mill expenses, with authority to employ an assistant register in addition to the other employees at the Government mill now authorized, one hundred and seventy-nine thousand and twenty-five dollars. CONTINGENT EXPENSES: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams, and so forth," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, four hundred and eleven dollars and forty-four cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Gas, and so forth," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, seven dollars and seventy-four cents. RENT OF BUILDING FOR STORAGE, TREASURY DEPARTMENT: For rental of building at the rate of two hundred and fifty dollars per month, for five months ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. RECOINAGE OF GOLD COINS: To pay amounts found due by the cocoinage of gold accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Recoinage of gold coins" for the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one thousand eight hundred and six dollars and ninety-nine cents. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, two hundred and fiftyseven dollars and forty-eight cents. PLANS FOR PUBLIC BUILDINGS: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Plans for public buildings" for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and thirty dollars and ninety-four cents. ENFORCEMENT OF THE CHINESE-EXCLUSION ACT: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Enforcement of the Chinese-exclusion Act" for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars and thirty-seven cents. ENFORCEMENT OF THE ALIEN CONTRACT-LABOR LAWS: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Enforcement of the alien contract-labor laws" for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, fifteen dollars and forty-three cents. PAYMENT TO THE TACOMA MILL COMPANY: To compensate the Tacoma Mill Company, Tacoma, Washington, for losses sustained in consequence of a collision between the revenue steamer Bear and a raft of logs in tow of the steamer Wasp, off Point Robinson Light on the night of December eighteenth, nineteen hundred, seven hundred and ninety-six dollars and seventy-five cents. Plans for public buildings. Chinese exclusion. Vol. 27, p. 25, Alien contract labor laws. Tacoma Mill Company. Payment to. Merchants' Coal Company. PAYMENT TO THE MERCHANTS' COAL COMPANY: To compensate the PAYMENT TO OWNERS OF NORWEGIAN STEAMSHIP KVARVEN: To compensate the owners of the Norwegian steamship Kvarven for damages caused to said steamship by the revenue steamer Bear at Saint Michael, Alaska, October seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, seven hundred and ninety-three dollars. "Kvarven." Payment to owners. Alaska Exploration Company. PAYMENT TO THE ALASKA EXPLORATION COMPANY: To pay the Reimbursement. DAMAGES TO SCHOONER REBECCA J. MOULTON: To reimburse Cap- W. C. Hodgkins. tain W. C. Hodgkins, assistant, United States Coast and Geodetic Survey, the amount paid by him for cost of repairs to yawl belonging to the schooner Rebecca J. Moulton, damaged by the Coast Survey steamer Blake while entering the dry dock at East Boston, Massachusetts, September eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, six dollars. COLLECTING THE REVENUE FROM CUSTOMS. To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose, on account of the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one hundred thousand dollars. Collecting customs revenue. Internal revenue. Agents, etc. Stamp agent. Rebate of tobacco tax. Vol. 31, p. 940. Paper for stamps. Refunding taxes. stamps. COLLECTING INTERNAL REVENUE. For salaries and expenses of agents, fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeeper-gaugers, and miscellaneous expenses, on account of the fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, one hundred thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, one hundred and ten thousand dollars. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred, fifteen thousand dollars. For one stamp agent, at the rate of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum, and one counter at the rate of nine hundred dollars per annum; in all, one thousand and fifty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the same to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers. For the payment of drawback or rebate on original and unbroken factory packages of smoking and manufactured tobacco, snuff, and cigars, as provided in section four of the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and one, amending the war-revenue act of June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and to reduce taxation thereunder, three million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 66 To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation Paper for internal-revenue stamps" for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, four thousand eight hundred and seventy-two dollars and sixty-three cents. Το pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Refunding taxes illegally collected," fifteen thousand eight hundred and eighty-one dollars and thirty-five cents. Redemption of To pay amounts certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Redemption of stamps,' nine thousand four hundred and eighty-five dollars and ninety-four cents. ENGRAVING AND PRINTING. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries of all necessary clerks and employees, other than plate printers and plate printers' assistants, one hundred and fifteen thousand one hundred and eighty-three dollars and seventy six cents, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act "To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or. coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes," approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred. For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers' assistants, when employed, two hundred and eighty-eight thousand six hundred and seven dollars and seventy-six cents, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: Provided, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act "To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes," approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred. For engravers' and printers' materials and other materials, except distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, two hundred and eight thousand one hundred and thirty-two dollars and fourteen cents. For rent of building now occupied by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for storage and other purposes, at the rate of sixty dollars per month, seven hundred and twenty dollars." COAST AND GEODETIC SURVEY. Materials. Rent. Coast and Geodetic Survey. For unusual and extraordinary repairs to steamer Patterson, twenty- "Patterson," repairs. five thousand dollars. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. For custom-house and post-office at Bristol, Tennessee: For completion of building under present limit, five thousand dollars. For post-office at Carrollton, Kentucky: For completion of building under present limit, five thousand dollars. For custom-house and post-office at Dubuque, Iowa: For completion of improvement and enlargement of the building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. For mint of the United States at San Francisco, California: For completion of new boiler plant, pumps, and necessary repairs to machinery and appliances, eight thousand dollars. For post-office, court-house, and custom-house at Saint Paul, Minnesota: For completion of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. Public buildings. Bristol, Tenn. Carrollton, Ky. Dubuque, Iowa. San Francisco, Cal., mint. Saint Paul, Minn. Cleveland, Ohio. Rent, temporary Rent of buildings, Cleveland, Ohio: For rental of quarters at Cleveland, Ohio: For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation quarters, etc. of Government officials, and for moving furniture, fixtures, safes, and other Government property, and other contingent expenses incidental to such removal, six thousand dollars. For repairs and increased accommodation in the post-office and custom-house building in the customs district of Frenchman's Bay, Maine, and extension of the heating apparatus in the same, seven thousand dollars. For post-office at Columbus, Georgia: For completion of building under present limit, three thousand follars; and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to pay from this appropriation to Messrs. Richardson and Burgess, contractors for the construction of the addition to said building, the sum of two thousand five hundred and thirty dollars and sixty-two cents, for continuing the terra cotta cornice and frieze of said addition, to correspond with the cornice and frieze of main portions of said building, the balance of said appropriation to be used for the completion of said building. LIFE-SAVING SERVICE. Frenchman's Bay, Me. Columbus, Ga. ardson and Burgess, Payment to Rich Life-Saving Service. to Purchase of site. Long Branch sta Vol. 26, p. 958; Vol. Authority is hereby granted the Secretary of the Treasury to pay, from the amounts appropriated by the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and March third, eighteen hundred and ninety- 27, p. 649. three (Statutes at Large, volumes twenty-six and twenty-seven, pages nine hundred and fifty-eight and six hundred and forty-nine, respectively), for the purchase of a site for the Long Branch Life-Saving Station, and remaining unexpended, so much as may be required to purchase a suitable site, without regard to the restrictions of the proviso contained in said Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninetythree. LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT. Light-House Estab lishment. R. I. For completing the establishment of a light and fog-signal station at Hog Island Shoal, Hog Island Shoal, Rhode Island, three thousand two hundred dollars. |