106 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 192. 1900. °°“‘i¤ge¤ieXPe¤Se¤- Fon CONTINGENT EXPENSES or THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT, INCLUDING ALL BUILDINGS UNDER CONTROL or THE TREASURY IN WASHINGTON, DISTRICT or COLUMBIA, namely: Stationery. For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several Bureaus, twenty-six thousand., dollars. E. postage. For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union gohntries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, one thousand o ars. d Sor purchasing material for binding important records, four hundred o ars. A _ NeW¤PePeie»eie· For newspapers, law books, city directories, and other books of geiprence relating to the business of the Department, one thousand o ars. A - · i¤ve¤*·igeii¤¤¤- For investigation of accounts and records, including the necessary traveling expenses, and for other traveling expenses, when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, in connection with special work, including thetemporary employment of stenographers, typewriters, accountants, or other expert services outside the District of Columbia when not pro-Ferly chargeable to any other appropriation under the control of the reasury Department, five hundred dollars. Freight ew- For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, five thousand dollars. ‘ · " F~e¤i· For rent of buildings, Seven thousand and ninety dollars. Hereee and W¤€°¤e· For urchase of horses and wagons, for office and mail service, to be used only for official purposes, care and subsistence of horses, including shoeing,and of wagons, harness, and repairs of the same, three thousand dollars. . . lee For purchase of ice, including ice for the office of the Auditor for Q the Post-Oflice Department,. two thousand five hundred dollars. Fiie hei<ief¤·eie· `For purchase ofhle holders and Hle cases, two thousand dollars. F“°‘»°°°· For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal, shovels, pokers, and ton S, nine thousand five hundreddollars. D i·igh'¤i¤¤· lgar purchase ofgas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, gas and electric light fixtures, electric-light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing,‘gas burners, gas torches, . globes, lanterns, and wicks, fourteen thousand dollars. Mi¤°°“°¤°°“S- For washin and hemming towels, for the purchase of awnings and fixtures, window shades and lixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, beltin. , bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, c§amois skins,. cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters, flower garden, street-and engine hose, lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand Stamps, and repairs of same, stamp ink, spittoons, Soap, matches, match safes, Sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, re airs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, advertising ddr proposals and for sales at public auction in Washington, District of Columbia, of condemned pro erty belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of ‘ auctioneer iizes, and purchase of other absolute y necessary articles, eight thousand dollars. · . . » cbifnigsmggiiug me _%or purchase of registering accountants, numbering machines, and ' pr machines of a similar character, and repairs thereto, two thousand o ars. eervee _ For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats, rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, three thousand dollars. F¤¤¤i¤¤e· For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair caning, chair covers, gf, desks, bookcases, clocks; cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber screens. tables, type-
