1156 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CII. 853. 1901. Island, Cape Charles and supplemental station, Cape Fear, Savannah, South Atlantic, and Brunswick, Key West, Mul et Ke , Gulf, San Diego, San Francisco, Columbia River, Port Townsend; quarantine system of the Hawaiian Islands, and the quarantine system of Porto Rico, three hundred and ten thousand dollars. PREVENTION or EPIDEMICS. deiigggeniion of epi- The President of the United States is hereby authorized, in case of " threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, yellow fever, smallpox, bnbonic plague, or Chinese plague, or black death, to use the unexpended balance of the sums appropriated and reappropriated by the sundry civil a propriation Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, ’”"t“’ I" m" and Eve hundred thousand dollars in addition thereto, 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 which may be then in force. mgittorior Depart- UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Public buildings. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Repairs. REPAIRS or BUILDINGS, INTERIoR DEPARTMENT: For repairs of Interior Department and Pension buildings, and of the General Postgiiice building occupied by the Interior Department, ten thousand o ars. Electric-1is1i¤i>1·¤¤¤ ELECTRIC-LIGHT, PLANT FOR THE DEPARTMENT or THE INTERIOR . BUILDINGS: For the establishment of an electric-lighting lant for buildings occupied by offices of Department of the Interior, tge Patent Office building, the old Post-Oifice building, now occupied by the General Land and Indian bureaus, and the Pension Office building, and for improvement in the heating of the Patent OfHce buildings, including necessary conduits, the laying and construction of which are hereby authorized, seventy-four thousand dollars. b‘;1%{(§;’~gg€*°·· ‘?°¤S*°¤ That the appropriation of five thousand dollars made by the sundry Reappropriations. civil appropriation Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, to build an area and sewer from the west entrance of the Pension building and extending along the south side thereof to the eastern entrance, is hereby reappropriated for said objects and Inade available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two. That the appropriation of seven thousand dollars made by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June sixth, nineteen hundred, for coal bin for storage of coal, to be built in connection with areaway of the Pension Office buildin , is hereby continued and made available for the fiscal year nineteen Iiundred and two for the same purpose. ganifgi- em FoR THE CABIToI.: For work at Capitol, and for general repairs epa rS’thereof, including wages of mechanics and laborers, and—not exceeding fifty dollars for the urchase of technical and necessary books, thirty- seven thousand five Eundred and thirty dollars. For reconstructing and fire rooiing the roof of the central portion of the Capitol building, including the restoration in lireproof construction of the ceilings of the Supreme Court room and Statuary Hall; for material and labor and necessary expenses incident thereto, one hundred and fifty-three thousand Eve hundred dollars, to be immediately available.
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portion of building. Congress at Its next session plans, specifications, and estimates of cost for reconstructing and extending in a fireproof manner the central
