934 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 189. 1895. ` of a cent per pound on the sugars actually manufactured and produced in the United States testing not less than eighty degrees by the polariscope, from beets, sorghum, or sugar cane grown or produced within the United States during that part of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninetyhve, comprised in the period commencing August tweniqy-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and < ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, both days inclusive; and for this purpose the sum of five million dollars, or so Prom.iw._ much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated: Provided, R°“"‘“'°“‘ That no bounty shall be paid to any person engaged in refining sugars which have been imported into the United States, or produced in the United States, upon which the bounty herein provided has already been ‘ paid or applied for.
- ";>gf~ w l>¤ PW The bounty herein authorized to be paid shall be paid upon the pres-
M “ entation of such proof of manufacture and production as shall be required in each case by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and under such rules and regulations as shall be prescribed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. P¤¥¤¤¤¤¤- And for the payment of such bounty the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to draw warrants on the Treasurer of the United States fbr sums as shall be necessary, which sums shall be certified to him by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, by whom the bounty shall be mma. disbursed, and no bounty shall be allowed or paid to any person as aforesaid upon any quantity of sugar less than five hundred pounds. c,:';:¤·i¤¤¤<>¤ of For examination of claims and ascertaining the amount due and the ' prevention of fraudulent claims for said bounty, the Commissioner of Internal Revenue is hereby authorized to employ two internal—revenue agents, in addition to those already provided for, and upon the same terms as to compensation. mfuiéxlzzligggt for That any person not entitled to the bounty herein provided for, who °' shall with intent to defraud apply for or receive the same, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction thereof, shall pay a fine not exceeding five thousand dollars, or be imprisoned for a period not exceeding five years, or both, in the discretion of the court. ¥i¤Hi1¤M»B1q¤¤- That the Secretary of the Treasury be, a11d he is hereby, authorized “,§,,,{Q`T"""°° "’ "°` and directed to allow and pay to Emile M. Blum, late United States commissioiiengeneral to the International Exposition at Barcelona, Spain, the sum of three thousand three hundred and eighty dollars and ninety-six cents, in the adjustment of his accounts, being the amount of money by him disbursed in furthering American interests at said exposition not heretofore allowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury. Quamntiuc service QUARANTINE SERVICE. “***"**‘¤¤¤<=°— For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, including pay of officers and employees of quarantine stations at Delaware Breakwater, Reedy Island, Cape Charles and supplemental station, South Atlantic Station (Sapelo Sound), Southport, Brunswick, Key West, Gulf, San Diego, San Francisco, and Port Townsend, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. · d ¥’¤·>v¤¤¤¤¤ ¤f wi- rnnvnnrron or nrinmucs. BIDICS. The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in ease of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, or Chinese plague or black death, to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and reappropriated by the sundry civil appropriav0i.z·1,p.¤s0. tion Acts approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, MM. ii-39% and August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in aid of State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same; and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws
