194 FORTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 331, 332. 1884. hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; for laborers, six hundred and sixty dollars per annum each. Sec. 3. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed. Approved, July 7, 1884. CHAP. 2.-An act makin approprintions for sun civil ex enses of the Gov-
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V8, 311 0'I.‘ BI p\l!'p0S8S _ _ Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the Unitedf Appropriations. States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and Sundry civil ¤¤— the same are hereby, appropriated for the objects hereinafter expressed.; ¥’°“°°“· gn the hse;} year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and eighty- ve, name : sists Depart- UNDER THE STATE DEPARTMENT. ID811 . Expenses of in- For expenses of the international conference for fixing a common. cemationnlconfer- zero of longitude and standard of time reckoning, including cost of °¤°° f°*' **1 D1?. printing and translations, to be expended under the direction of the fg‘:""}’QuQ°;° jd Secretary of State, Eve thousand dollars; and the President is hereby standard of time, authorized to appoint two delegates to represent the United States at. ctc.; appointment said international conference, in nddition to the number authorized by gf W'; °*;dm°':_1 the act approved August third, e;ghteen hundred and eighty-two, aud;
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22 Stn., 217. That the President of the United States be, and is hereby, authorizeda §¤@¤¤ti|i¤ com- to appoint a scientific commission which may, in the name of the United
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of al O Cui aim, Philndelphm in the autumn of eighteen hundred and eighty-four. sto.; appointment That said commission may invite seientiile men, native and foreign, ¤f;p¤w<=¤¤.<1¤ti¤¤· to participate in the conference, and may, in general, determine the~ scope and character of its work. Appropriation. That the sum of seven thousand five hundred dollars be appropriated to meet the expenses of the commission in conducting the conference and investigations, and to meet the expenses of preparing reports of the- Promo. same: Provided, That the wh0le,am0unt of the expense incurred by said commission shall not exceed the said sum of seven thousand ilvo hundred dollars; and the members of said commission shall not receive “"l °°'”‘L§“‘“£§‘°’}s£‘L’ """°.§?¤m. mm umd, Payment pr ex- o ena e e retury e to psy incurred. mmf $¤¤¤¤•• for the Siamese embassy, two thousand ive hundred dollars. Dies, em., seal To enable the Secretary of State to obtain dies of the obverse and re- °f lm U- S- verse of the seal of the United States, and the appliances necessary for mnhlinlgglmpressions from and for the preservation of the same, one thoussn dollars. fayment to That the sum of ive hundred and ilfby-nine dollars and eleven cents. Eg;} °*k€f¥¤¤:€ of the unerpended balance of the appropriation for contingent expenses mk P foreign missions, eighteen hundred and eighty-twzalbe, and the same ishereby, reappropriated and made available to psy e widow of General Judson Kilpatrick late United States minister to Chili, the amount found due him on the settlement of his accounts for contingent expenses. of the lergstion of the United States in Chili in eighteen hundred and - o. Imam com- we enable the President to continue negotiations with foreign Govnisim- ernments respecting the establishment of e common ratio betvmnn gold. and silver, ten thousand dollars. ` Rspmsnzsuva To psy the expenses of representatives of the United States to thegdgggmncc if gorggerengee og the Red bewhelgst Geneva on the o p m or nex,sa represent ves pom` ted the~ u°°‘ President, two thousand dollars. ap by
