Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 31.djvu/1066

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1014 FIFTY—SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. IL Ch. 831. 1901. `“ ¥°‘·“gh¤·°*°- FUEL, LIGHTS, AND WATER ron PUBLIC BUILDINGS: For the purchase of fuel, steam, light, water, water meters, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for light and power purposes, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodians’ forces in the care of the buildings,.furniture, and heating, hoisting, and Ventilating aipparatus, and electric-light plants, exclusive of personal service, an for expenses of installing electric-light plants, electric-light wiring, and repairs thereto, in such buildings completed and occupied as may be designated by the-Secretary of the Treasury, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, sixty-four thousand Gu sov¤r¤or¤- dollars. And the appropriation herein made for gas shall include the _ rental and use of gas %>vernors, when ordered by the Secretary of the _,€`uQ,'§‘§‘;’,,ym€,,,§_ Treasury in writing: wmidecl, That no sum shall be paid as rental for such gas governors greater than thirty-tive per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct. No portion of the amount herein appropriated shall be used for operating a system of pneumatic tubes for the transmission of postal matter. Puoumerio tubes- For supplying necessary po wer and repairs to power plants, for operating pneumatic tubes for the transmission of mail matter, court-house and post-office buildings, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, New York City, and Brooklyn, New York, and the post—oflice and subtreasury building, Boston, Massachusetts, twenty-one thousand seven hundred dollars. §é§&§;gg§gbl€· PAYMENT TO E. R. STAoxAELE: That the Secretary of the Treasury ` be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to ay to E. R. Stackable, collector of customs, Honolulu, Hawaiian Islandis, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, the amount of loss sustained by him in accepting certain light-weight United States gold coins in payment of duties on imports before he was furnished with the necessary facilities for testing the weight of such coins, fifty-six dollars and thirty-six cents. Remus. REFUND or FINE, soIIooNER ESTHER BUHNE: To refund to R. Salve- B§§,§·,?°°" Esther son, master of the schooner Esther Buhne, the amount of a fine imposed by the collector of customs at Honolulu, Hawaii, for violation of section forty-three hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes, and section ninety-eight, Act of April thirty, inineteen hundred, since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, the original sum havin been covered into the Treasury prior to the said remission, one hundred dollars. Schooner J. M. REFUND OF FINE, SCHOONER J. M. WEATHERWAX: T0 refund to L. w°”‘th°“”X‘ Sorenson, master of the American schooner J. M. Weatherwax, the amount of a fine imposed by the collector of customs at Honolulu, Hawaii, for violation of Section forty-three hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes, and section ninety-eight, Act of April thirtieth, nineteen hundred, since remitted by the Secretary of the Treasury, the original sum having been covered into the Treasury prior to the said remission, ‘ one hundred dollars. _ g;§2'1;hE·,§{:¤;gints CREDIT IN ACCOUNT or l\rIAJOR T. E. TRUE! That the proper os. accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed _ to credit and allow to Major T. E. True, quartermaster, United States Army, depot quartermaster, Washington, District of Columbia, the voucher for one thousand three hundred dollars, for ayment made by him to Sheldon Jackson, under the approval of the &’ar Department of March eighteenth, eighteen hundred) and ninety-nine, said payment being in the nature of extra compensation to Sheldon Jackson for services rendered by him in connection with the relief of people in the mining regions of Alaska, and to charge the same to the credit of the appropriation made for that (purpose by the Act approved December eighteenth, eighteen hundre and ninety-seven. . $&‘;’j;g‘;{“mS‘V*"k· PAYMENT To J. WILBURN SWINK: That the Secretary of the Treasury ` be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to pay to J. Wilburn