FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. C11, 252. 1896. 169 Second Deputy Commissioner, three thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant chief clerk, two thousand dollars; medical referee, three thousand dollars; assistant medical referee, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two qualified surgeons who shall be experts in their profession, nt two thousand dollars each; thirty-eight medical examiners who shall be surgeons of education, skill, and experience in their profession, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; ten chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; law clerk, two thousand dollars; fifty-eight principal examiners, at two thousand dollars each; twenty assistant chiefs of division, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; three stenographers, at one thousand six hundred dollarseach; seventy clerks of class four; eighty-five clerks of class three; three hundred and fifty clerks of class two; four hundred and thirty-eight clerks of class one; two hundred and eighty-seven clerks, at one thousand dollars each; . superintendent of building, one thousand four hundred dollars; two engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one hundred and seventydive copyists; thirty-three messengers; twelve assistant messengers; twenty messenger boys, at four hundred dollars each; one painter, skilled in his trade, nine hundred dollars; one cabinetmaker, skilled in his trade, nine hundred dollars; captain of the watch, eight hundred and forty dollars; three sergeauts of the watch, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; twenty watchmen ; three firemen; twenty-five laborers; five female laborers, at four hundred dollars each; and fifteen charwomen; in all, two million and eighty-six thousand seven hundred and ten dollars. For per diem, when absent from home and traveling on duty outside vsfggailgg °°°·· i¤· theDistrict of Columbia, for special examiners or other personsemployed ' in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertaining to said Bureau, in lieu of expenses for subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual and necessary expenses for transportation and assistance and any other necessary expenses, includingtelegrams, five hundred thousand dollars: Provided, (l;;;:}";", mmm, That two special examiners, or clerks, detailed and acting as chief and spwuiummm. assistant chief of the division of special examiners, may be allowed, from this appropriation, in addition to their salaries and in lieu of per diem and all expenses for subsistence, a sum sulhcient to make their annual compensation two thousand dollars and one thousand eight hundred dollars, respectively, and whenever it may be necessary for either of them to travel on official business outside the District of Columbia by special direction of the Commissioner, he shall receive the same allowance in lieu of subsistence and for transportation as is herein provided for special examiners and detailed clerks engaged in tield service; and the Secretary of the lnterior shall so apportion the sum herein appropriated as to prevent a deficiency therein. For an additional force of one hundred and fifty special examiners for ‘_x·:£·}m?s¤•l ¤P°°*°l one year, at a salary of one thousand three hundred dollars each, one ' hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars; and no person so appointed shall be employed in the State from which he is appointed; and any of those now employed in the Pension Office or as special examiners may be reappointed if they be found to be qualified. For the purchase of statutes and other necessary law books for the Mk-- Pension Office, two hundred and fifty dollars. l’A·r1~;z~u* 01m10a: For the Commissioner of Patents, five thousand ¥’¤*¤¤*0¤•=•· dollars; Assistant Commissioner, who shall perform such duties pertaining to the office of Commissioner as may be assigned to him by the Commissioner, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two law clerks, at two thousand dollars each; three examiners in chief, at three thousand dollars each; examiner of interferences, two thousand five hundred dollars; thirty-two principal examiners, at two thousand nve hundred dollars each; thirty- four first assistant examiners, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; thirty-eight second assistant examiners, at one thousand six
