FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 279. 1889. 721 iiye hundred dollars; one chief clerk, not to exceed one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, not to exceed one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, not to exceed one thousand two hundred dollars each ; one messenger, 11ot to exceed eight hundred and forty dollars; in all, ten thousand one hundred and forty dollars, the same to be_paid from the permanent appropriations for the Steamboat Inspection Service. FOR CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT, IN- couzmgenrexpeuses. CLUDING ALL BUILDINGS UNDER CONTROL OF THE TREASURY IN WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF CoLUMB1A. namely: For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several Bureaus, stationery. twenty-eight thousand dollars. For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union Postage. countries, one thousand five hundred dollars. For postage, two hundred dollars. For newspapers, law-books, city directories, and other books of Nowspapem. books, reference ; purchase of material for binding important records (and °t°‘ , of the amount appropriated not more than four hundred dollars may be used in the purc ase of technical ublications, foreign and domestic), two thousand five hundred dollars. For investigation of accounts and records, including the necessary mvesugazaom. traveling exipenses, and for other traveling expenses, one thousand five hundre dollars. For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephoné service, three Freight, em. thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of buildings, four thousand eight hundred dollars. Rout- For (purchase of horses and wagons, for office and mail service, to Home and wagons. be use only for official pur ses, care and subsistence of horses, inpiluding shoeing, harness andliepairs of the same, four thousand dolrs. For purchase of ice, three thousand five hundred dollars. M- For purchase of tile-holders and file-cases, five thousand dollars. rugs. For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate- rua. baskets and fixtures, stoves and fixtures, blowers, coal-hods, pokers, coal—shovelS, and tongs, ten thousand dollars. For purchase of gas, electric light, gas-brackets, candles, candle- Lights. Sticks, drop-lights and tubing, gas-burners, gas-torches, globes, lanterns, and wicdzs, fourteen thousand dollars. For purchase of carpets, carpet border, and lining, linoleum, rugs, Carpets, m, mats, matting. and repairs, and for cleaning, la ring and relaying of the same, by contract, six thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of boxes, book-rests, chairs, chair-caning, chair-cov- Furniture. ers, desks, book-cases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, chushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, ventilators, wardrobe cabinets, wash-stands, water-coolers and stands, ten thousand dollars. _ For washing and hemming towels, for the plurchase of awnings mqwumwus, and fixtures, window-shades, and fixtures, alco ol, benzine, turpentine. varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois-skins, cotton-waste, door and window fasteners, dusters, flour, garden, street, and engine hose, laceleather, lye, nails, oil, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil-plates. hand-stamps,an<l repairs of same, stamp-ink, spittoons, soap, matches, match-safes. sponge, tacks, traps, thermometers, tools, towels, towelracks, tumblers, wire and zinc, and for blacksmithingt repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, advertising for proosals, and for sales at public auction in Washington, District of golumbia. of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, ten thousand dollars. STAT L——voL Xxv—--46
