FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 373. 1896. 271 on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, assay office at Helena," for the iiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five, one dollar and nftyeight cents. STATIONERY: To pay amount due White, Corbin and Company, Sggggiggiptsxcauses. Rockville, Connecticut, for envelopes furnished the Treasury Depart- " ment during the iiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one hundred and ninety-three dollars and ninety-nine cents. To pay amounts found due by the accounting otncers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Stationery," for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninetynve, two thousand one hundred and sixty-six dollars and seventy-one cents. _ _ hIARINE·HOSPITAL SERVICE: For maintenance and ordinary ex- S§§‘§§g_“°‘H°“*"°“‘ penses of .the Marine-Hospital Service for the iiscal year eighteen hun- V·>1·23.1>·57. dred and ninety-six, in addition to the tonnage tax appropriated by Act of June twenty-sixth,eighteen hundred and eighty-four, made necessary by deductions from gross tonnage of vessels of the United States, twentynve thousand dollars. . BUILDING FOR GOVERNMENT EXHIBIT, EXPOSITION AT ATLANTA, *,}j§*;’§j}BG;**bf GW GEORGIA: The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and ernment Exposition directed to transfer to the city of Atlanta, in the State of Georgia, all B‘{¥{,‘}fg§ :,*},,2,, of the right, title, claim, and interest of the United States in and to the building erected for the Government exhibit at the Cotton States and International Exposition recently held in said city. LANDS AND OTHER PROPERTY or THE UNITED STATES: To cna- L¤¤·i¤.·>¤¤· ble the Secretary of the Treasury to pay off and discharge certain tax liens on real property on Cox street, in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, formerly owned by W. J . Fletcher and now belonging to the United States, two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be required. REPORT UPON EXPLOSIVES: To enable the Secretary of the Treas- §¤1><>¤·¤¤¤·¤xp1¤¤iv¤¤. ury to investigate and report upon the importation, use, transporta· v?,{?§‘§°p’}§§}°bl°‘ tion, and manufacture of high and low explosives, with the view of securing by legislation greater security to life and property, authority is hereby granted to use the balance of the appropriation of four thousand dollars made for this object by the sundry civil Act approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, remaining unexpended June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, amounting to two thousand four hundred and seventy dollars. PROTECTION OF SALMON FISHERIES OF ALASKA: For payment of £l{¤k¤·£l salary and expenses of the agent appointed under this appropriation am`"` °`°"°°' while traveling under the orders of the Treasury Department, being a deticiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-tive, two hundred and eleven dollars and eighty-seven cents. PAYMENT T0 THE N orrrn AMERICAN COMMERCIAL Comrxmrz C,§,f,;Q;c$Tu*;fj:P To pay the North American Commercial Company for materials fur- imymooroo. I °` nished thr the erection of watch houses for sheltering the native watchmen on the Pribiloflslands; for stationery furnished to the Government agents on these islands, and for materials for repairing well-house and Government boat, all of which were furnished in an exigency at the request of the Government agent in charge, two hundred and twenty-eight dollars and two cents. PAYMENT TO Louis C. RAEGENER: For payment of judgments ren- §;g$f;_,‘f,fjg°8°°°’· dered against the collector of customs at the port of New York in the` circuit court of the United States for the southern district of New York, and affirmed by the United States circuit court of appeals, second circuit, in a suit brought for damages caused by the detention of the steamer South Portland, charged with carrying munitions of war to the Venezuelan insurgents, one thousand six hundred and ninety-six dollars and ten cents, together with interest thereon at the rate of four per centum per annum from April sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, the date of said judgments, until the time when an appropriation is made therefor, which amount necessary for this purpose is hereby appropriated.
