Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 31.djvu/349

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FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 785. 1900. 297 NAvY-YARDS-AND STATIONS. m1jgvy—y¤rd¤¤¤dsm- The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to pay to P. F. Dundon, {,’;1F·D¤¤;<¥¤¤- of San Francisco, California, out of the balance of the ap roipriation yum °' for “Dry Dock, Puget Sound, Washington, two steel tangs, Act of V°1‘2°*p·B68· June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, the sum of three hundred and thirty-eight dollars and twenty-three cents for extra material furnished and work done by him upon said two steel tanks under his contract for the construction of the same. three hundred and thirty- eight dollars and twenty-three cents. ' MISCELLANEOUS, NAVY. Miscellaneous. To compensate the ‘city of Charleston, South Carolina, for damages to quaran ine wharf, caused by French steamer Manoubia under the command of a prize crew, three hundred and twenty-five dollars. _To compensate the owners of the brig Mariy Gibbs for damages sustained while unloading coal, one hundred an thirty-eight dollars. To compensate the owners of the tu ‘ William A-. Beach for damages sustained by collision with the United States Steamship Wompatuck and tow, nfty dollars. , _ To compensate the owners of the lighter Dora for damages sustained by collision with the United States steamship Wompatnck, two hundred dollars. To compensate the Norfork and Washington (District of Columbia) · Steamboat Com` any for damages to its wharf at Alexandria, Vir inia, by the United Sltates Steamship Tecumseh, forty-nine dollars amgnfty cents. To compensate owners of Chinese sampan sunk in collision with the United States steamshilp Monocacy, eighty dollars. To pay to the Cleve and Steamship Company damages done to the merchant steamer M. A. Hanna by the United States steamer Michigan, on October lifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, by means of a collision with said steamer, six hundred and twenty-seven dollars and fifty-seven cents. . » To reimburse Theodore J. Arms, assistant paymaster in the United States Navy, for the loss which occurred by reason of the robbery of _ his safe at the United States naval station San Juan, Porto Rico, March tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, he having made the same ood to the United States, and the said oss having occurred through no gault or negligence on his part, two thousand four hundred and seventy-nine dollars and three cents. · DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. m£`§i?d°” D elm"' REPAIRS or nnmornos, INTERIOR DEPARTMENT: For repairs of mgfggys of b ·*il¤· Interior Department and Pension buildin s, and of the old Post-Office` Department, building occupied by the Tnterior Department, three thousand dollars. For removal of offices of the Interior Department to the old Post- Otlice Department buildin , five hundred do lars. _ CONTINGENT EXPENSES, TNTERIOR DEPARTMENT: For postage stamps C¤¤¤¤s¤¤¤e¤r>e¤Se¤· for the Department of the Interior and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to pre ay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, six hundred and twenty-nine dollars. REIMBURSEMENT or Gnonen W. Evans: To reimburse George W. §§§’§§“,;Qg§,§”g§; Evans, disbursing clerk, De artment of the Interior, the amount disallowed in the settlement of ihis account Repairs of Buildings, Department of the Interior, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, quarter ended March thirtv-iirst. eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, on account of