FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. SEss. II. CE. 571. 1898. 657 and other offices or parts of offices or bureaus of the Interior Department, ten thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and thirty-five thou- · sand dollars. ` And all furniture now owned by the United States shall be used, so F¤¤¤i¤¤r¤ MW far as practicable, in furnishing said buildings, whether or not it cor- °w”°d t° b° “°°d‘°t°' responds in material or design with the present regulation plans for furniture. And as soon as said post-oliice building in the city of Washington is New b¤il¤i¤s- completed and ready for occupancy said building shall be occupied as follows: All of the first floor, including the mezzanine floors, and so ;j;jiS¤¤*°¤* °*` much of the basement as may be necessary and convenient, in the P ` opinion of the Postmaster-General, by the city.post·office, and any space in said basement not necessary therefor shall be used for the purposes of the PostOfiice Department; the second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, and seventh floors shall be occupied by the Post-Oiiice Department and , _the Auditor for the Post—Oflice Department. All assignments of space to be mutually agreed upon by the Secretary of the Treasury and the Postmaster-General. The entire force of the Post-Office Department and the Auditor for the Post-Office Department shall be, on completion of said building, removed thereto. All the space in said building, from the second to the seventh floor, both inclusive, except the space assigned to the executive officers of the Post-Office Department and of the Auditor for the Post-Oiiice Department, shall be assigned as aforesaid on the basis of an average of not exceeding one hundred square feet of floor space to each clerk, which space is also to accommodate current nles. All space on either or all of said floors 11ot needed after the assignments herein provided for upon the basis fixed therefor shall hereafter be utilized, under assignments made by the Postmaster- General, to cover the increase of clerical force in the Post-Office Department and the office of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department. The ninth floor of said building shall be used, under the direction of the Postmaster-General, for the storing of files for the Post-Oiiice Department and the Auditor for the Post»O1iice Department. All the office floor space on the eighth floor of said building shall be assigned by the Secretary of the Treasury to the clerical force of offices or bureaus of the Government now occupying rented quarters in the city of Washington, on the same basis as to square feet of space indicated above as applied to the Post-Office Department and Audit0r’s office; and said §",,L’j,;'1’;Qf,;?‘;§’;’:] building, immediately upon its occupation as herein indicated, shall be mi. — under the custody and control of the Postmaster-General. _ , _ That the appropriation of ten thousand dollars, made in the sundry M§§{‘,Q{,‘,§°_§}F"{},§Qjf{j\f{jf civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety- .-me. p. za. eight, for expense of the removal of the Post-Oliice Department, including the Money-Order Office, office of the Auditor for the Post-Otlice Department, and Topographens Office, to the new post-office building, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine. . For expense of removal of the Indian Office, General Land Office, 0,,R°}:Q,fgf]Q‘*{;'j°;·;*t§ and such other offices or parts of offices or bureaus of the interior mmm tm tuiiiing. Department as the Secretary of the Interior shall direct to the old Post·Oflice Department building as soon as the same is vacated by the Post-Oiiice Department, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. _ _ _ DISTTNCTIVE PAPER Fon UNITED STATES SECURITIES: To supply Uxlgtjtfimglgjgs g;{;j{; a deficiency in the appropriation for distinctive paper for United States nm. securities, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, sixteen thousand seven hundred and forty dollars. _ _ QUABANTINE SERVICE: For repairs to vessels, temporary wharfat Q“‘“‘”m°° “"*°°· Port Townsend quarantine, water supply at Angel Island, California, and unusual expenses at quarantine stations, seventeen thousand live hundred dollars. . To pay amounts found due by the accon ntin g officers of the Treasury ‘ on account of the appropriation *‘ Quarantine service," for the fiscal voL xxx;l2
