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Defending suits in claims against United States.

French spoliation claims.

Indian service.

Punishing violations

etc.

UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

BUILDING, DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE: For repairs to heating apparatus, keeping the same in good order, three hundred dollars. COURT-HOUSE, WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA: For annual repairs, per estimate of the Architect of the Capitol, one thousand dollars.

UTAH PENITENTIARY: For completing additional wing to prison, one hundred and twenty cells, with hospital, female prison, and chapel attached; for stockade entrance, to consist of offices, warden's residence, guard-quarters, dining-rooms, and armory; and for wall with sentry-boxes to inclose about two acres of land, forty-five thousand dollars.

MISCELLANEOUS.

DEFENDING SUITS IN CLAIMS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES: For defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, fifteen thousand dollars.

DEFENSE IN FRENCH SPOLIATION CLAIMS: To enable the Attorney-General to make proper defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended in his discretion, five thousand six hundred dollars.

PUNISHING VIOLATIONS OF THE INTERCOURSE ACTS AND FRAUDS: of intercourse acts, For detecting and punishing violations of the intercourse acts of Congress, and frauds committed in the Indian service, the same to be expended by the Attorney-General in allowing such fees and compensation to witnesses, jurors, marshals and deputies, and agents, and in collecting evidence, and in defraying such other expenses as may be necessary for this purpose, five thousand dollars.

Support of convicts, District of Columbia.

Prosecuting crimes

against United States.

Investigations, etc.

Territorial courts, Utah.

Prosecuting and collecting claims.

SUPPORT OF CONVICTS: For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General eighteen thousand dollars; one half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half out of the Treasury of the United States.

PROSECUTION OF CRIMES: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, preliminary to indictment; for the investigation of official acts, records, and accounts of officers of the Courts, including the investigation of the accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks of the United States courts, and United States commissioners, under the direction of the Attorney-General, and for this purpose all the records and dockets of these officers, without exception, shall be examined by his agents at any time, thirty thousand dollars.

EXPENSES OF TERRITORIAL COURTS IN UTAH TERRITORY: For defraying the contingent expenses of the courts, including fees of the United States district attorney and his assistants, and fees and per diems of the United States commissioners and clerks of the court, and the fees, per diems, and traveling expenses of the United States marshal for the Territory of Utah, with the expenses of summoning jurors, subpoenaing witnesses, of arresting, guarding and transporting prisoners, of hiring and feeding guards, and of supplying and caring for the penitentiary, to be paid under the direction and approval of the Attorney-General, upon accounts duly verified and certified, forty thousand dollars.

PROSECUTION AND COLLECTION OF CLAIMS: For the prosecution and collection of claims due the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, five hundred dollars.

Alaska.

TRAVELING EXPENSES, TERRITORY OF ALASKA: For the actual and Travelling expenses, necessary expenses of the judge, marshal, and attorney when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, one thousand dollars. RENT AND INCIDENTAL EXPENSES, OFFICE OF MARSHAL, TERRITORY OF ALASKA: For rent of offices for the marshal, district attorney, and commissioners; furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars.

Rent, etc., Alaska.

Opinions of AttorEditing, etc., vols. 17, 18, and 19.

neys-General.

OPINIONS OF THE ATTORNEYS-GENERAL: To enable the AttorneyGeneral to employ a competent person to edit and prepare for publication and superintend the printing of the nineteenth volume of the Opinions of the Attorneys-General, five hundred dollars; and the Attorney-General is hereby authorized to expend that sum, and also the one thousand dollars appropriated by the act of March third, Vol. 23, p. 511. eighteen hundred and eighty-five, chapter three hundred and sixty, to enable him to employ a competent person to edit and prepare for publication and superintend the printing of the seventeenth and Extra compensation. eighteenth volumes of the Opinions of the Attorneys-General in such manner, notwithstanding section seventeen hundred and sixtyfive of the Revised Statutes, or section three of the act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter three hundred and twenty-eight, as will in his judgment best accomplish the work of editing and preparing for publication and superintending the printing of the three volumes of opinions above mentioned.

JUDICIAL.

UNITED STATES COURTS.

R.S., sec. 1765, p. 314.
Vol. 18, p. 109.

Judicial.

United States courts

EXPENSES OF THE UNITED STATES COURTS: For defraying the Expenses. expenses of the Supreme Court; of the circuit and district courts of the United States; of the supreme court of the District of Columbia; of the district court of Alaska; of suits and preparation for suits in which the Unted States is interested; of the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States; of the safe-keeping of prisoners; and in the enforcement of the laws of the United States and of the enforcement of the provisions of title twenty-six of the Revised R. S., Title XXVL Statutes, or any acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto; specifically the expenses stated under the following appropriations, namely:

For payment of the fees and expenses of United States marshals and deputies, six hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That not exceeding four hundred thousand dollars of this appropriation may be advanced to marshals, to be accounted for in the usual way, the residue to remain in the Treasury, to be used, if at all, only in the payment of the accounts of marshals in the manner provided in section eight hundred and fifty-six, Revised Stat

utes.

For payment of United States district attorneys, the same being for payment of the regular fees provided by law for official services, two hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars.

Marshals.
Proviso.
Accounts.

R. S., sec. 856, p. 161.

District attorneys.

tion.

For payment of district attorneys, the same being for payment of Special compensasuch special compensation as may be fixed by the Attorney-General for services not covered by salary or fees, five thousand dollars.

For payment of regular assistants to United States district attor- Regular assistants.

neys, who are appointed by the Attorney-General at a fixed annual

compensation, one hundred and five thousand dollars.

For payment of assistants to United States district attorneys who Special assistants.

are employed by the Attorney-General to aid district attorneys in

special cases, twenty, thousand dollars.

For fees of clerks, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Clerks.

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Commissioners, etc.

For fees of United States commissioners, and justices of the peace acting as United States commissioners, one hundred thousand dollars. And no part of any money appropriated by this act shall be used to pay any fees to United States commissioners, marshals, or clerks for any warrant issued or arrest made, or other fees in prosecutions under the internal-revenue laws, unless the prosecution has Sworn complaints to been commenced upon a sworn complaint setting forth the facts constituting the offense and alleging them to be within the personal knowledge of the affiant, or upon sworn complaint by a collector or deputy collector of internal revenue or revenue agent, setting forth the facts upon information and belief and approved either before or after such arrest by a circuit or district judge or the attorney of the United States in the district where the offense is alleged to have been committed or the indictment is found.

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Inaugural ceremo

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Expenses.

Statements of ap

pared by Appropriations Committees.

For fees of jurors, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For fees of witnesses, nine hundred thousand dollars.

For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid and transportation to place of conviction, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment and continuing insane after expiration of ntence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. '

For rent of United States court-rooms, sixty-five thousand dollars. For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York; of expenses of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts; of meals for jurors in United States cases when ordered by court; of compensation for jury commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, one hundred and thirty-five thousand six hundred dollars.

For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney-General, including the employme it of janitors and watchmen in rooms or buildings rented for the use of courts, and of interpreters, experts, and stenographers; of furnishing and collecting evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, one hundred and forty thousand dollars.

UNDER LEGISLATIVE.

EXPENSES OF INAUGURAL CEREMONIES: To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the necessary expenses of the inaugural ceremonies of the President and Vice President of the United States, March fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, incurred by order of the Senate, including pay for forty extra Capitol police for three days, at three dollars per day each, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available.

STATEMENT OF APPROPRIATIONS: For preparation, under the direcpropriations to be pre- tion of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the second session of the Fiftieth Congress, as required by the act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand two hundred dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work.

Ante, p. 587.

Botanic Garden.

BOTANIC GARDEN: For painting and reglazing various hot-houses, general repairs to buildings, and heating apparatus, for laying and repairs to concrete walks, painting and repairs to fence around gardens, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, four thousand dollars.

PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.

For the public printing, for the public binding and for paper for Public printing and the public printing, including the cost of printing the debates and binding, paper, etc. proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for litho graphing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, and the Departments, including salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks and employees, for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), and for all the necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, two million and thirteen thousand dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely:

Amount.

For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings Allotment of approand debates, eight hundred and two thousand dollars. And printing priation. and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer, of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made (all reserve work shall be bound in sheep); and the heads of the Executive Departments, before transmitting their annual reports to Congress, the printing of which is chargeable to this appropriatior, shall cause the same to be carefully examined, and shall exclude therefrom all matter, including engravings, maps, drawings, and illustrations, except such as they shall certify in their letters transmitting such reports to be necessary and to relate entirely to the transaction of public business.

For the State Department, fifteen thousand dollars;

For the Treasury Department, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars, including not exceeding twenty thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars for the Coast and Geodetic Survey;

For the War Department, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars (of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the catalogue of the library of the Surgeon-General's Office) and not exceeding ten thousand dollars for carrying into effect the appropriations for the Signal Service;

For the Navy Department, sixty thousand dollars, including not exceeding twelve thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office;

For the Interior Department, including the Civil Service Commission, three hundred and forty thousand dollars, including not exceeding ten thousand dollars for rebinding tract-books for the General Land Office;

For the National Museum: For printing labels and blanks for the use of the National Museum and for the "Bulletins" and annual volumes of the "Proceedings" of the Museum, ten thousand dollars; For the United States Geological Survey as follows:

For engraving the illustrations necessary for the report of the Director, eight thousand dollars;

For engraving the illustrations necessary for the monographs and bulletins, thirty-five thousand dollars;

For printing and binding the monographs and bulletins, twentyfive thousand dollars;

For the Department of Justice, seven thousand dollars;

For the Post-Office Department, two hundred thousand dollars;
For the Agricultural Department, thirty thousand dollars;
For the Department of Labor, eight thousand dollars;

For the Supreme Court of the United States, five thousand dollars:

Division of appropriation.

Leaves of absence.

Centennial anniver

of the first President.

a national holiday.

first Congress.

For the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand dollars.

For the Court of Claims, fourteen thousand dollars;
For the Library of Congress, fifteen thousand dollars;
For the Executive Office, three thousand dollars;

And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended in the two first quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the two last quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended.

To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting thirty days' annual leave to the employes of the Government Printing Office, one hundred and ninety thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

To pay pro-rata leaves of absence to employees who resign or are discharged (decision of the First Comptroller), fifteen thousand dol

lars.

SEC. 4. That in order that the centennial anniversary of the inaugusary of inauguration ration of the first President of the United States, George WashingApril 30, 1889, to be ton, may be duly commenorated, Tuesday, the thirtieth day of April, anno Domini eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, is hereby declared And in furto be a national holiday throughout the United States. ther commemoration of this historic event, the two Houses of Congress shall assemble in the Hall of the House of Representatives on the second Wednesday of December, anno Domini eighteen hundred Ceremonies in Fifty- and eighty-nine, when suitable ceremonies shall be had under the direction of a joint committee composed of five Senators and five Representatives, members of the Fifty-first Congress, who shall be appointed by the presiding officers of the respective Houses. And said joint committee shall have power to sit during the recess of Congress; and it shall be its duty to make arrangements for the celebration in the Hall of the House of Representatives on the second Wednesday of December next, and may invite to be present thereat such officers of the United States and of the respective States of the Union, and (through the Secretary of State) representatives of foreign governments. The committee shall invite the Chief-Justice of the United States to deliver a suitable address on the occasion. And for the purpose of defraying the expenses of said joint committee and of carrying out the arrangements which it may make, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

Joint committee.

Address.
Expenses.

March 2, 1889.

appropriations.

Approved, March 2, 1889.

CHAP. 412.—An act making appropriations for the current and contingent expenses of the Indian Department, and for fulfilling treaty stipulations with various Indian tribes, for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House, of Representatives of the Indian Department United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and they are hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the purpose of paying the current and contingent expenses of the Indian. Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, namely: Pay of agents at For pay of fifty seven agents of Indian affairs at the followingnamed agencies, at the rates respectively indicated, namely:

specified agencies.

At the Warm Springs Agency, at one thousand dollars;

At the Klamath Agency, at one thousand one hundred dollars;

At the Grand Ronde Agency, at one thousand dollars;

At the Siletz Agency, at one thousand two hundred dollars:

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