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 546 FIFTIETH CONGRESS. Sess. 1. GH. 1069. 1888. watchmen in rooms or buildings rented for the use of courts, and of interpreters, experts, and stenographers; of furnishing and collecting evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, and moving of records, one hundred and forty thousand dollars regismuve UNDER LEGISLATIVE. Botanic Garden. BOTANIC GARDEN. For extension and repairs to heating apparatus; for new sash to rotunda of conservatory, paint and reg aze conservator; and various hot—houses, and general repairs to buildings and wal S, including ranolithic pavement on First street, leading to Botanic Garden to Capitol, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, four thousand dollars. Senate. SENATE. ‘ masxmg, Sm., Sen- To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay the persons who per- ,,"f,Ex°°““"° J°“" formed the work of arranging and preparing the copy for, and indexing the Executive Journals of, the Senate, from Fe ruary twenty- eighth, eighteen hundred and twenty-nine, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-nine, under Senate resolution of June twenty- eighth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, ten thousand dollars, which sum may be expended as additional pay or compensation to any officer or emplovee of the United States. F<>l¤i¤S-¤>¤¤¤· To enable the Sergeant—at-Arms of the Senate to provide suitable » rooms for the use of the folders of the Senate, one hundred and fifty dollars, and he is authorized to lease such rooms for the space of four months. »il{3°ff$SQ’( R°°r°` nous}; or RnrnnsuNrAr1vns. Contested election For allowance to the following contestants and contestees in full °xp°"°°s‘ of ex enses incurred by them in contested election cases: J.  Morgan, seven hundred and one dollars; G. H. Thobe, two thousand dollars; J. B. White, two thousand dollars; Robert Lowry, two thousand dollars; W. O. Arnold, seve11 hundred- and fifty dollars; F. M. Simmons, seven hundred and seventy-two dollars; Win. Vandever, two thousand dollars; N. E. _VVl‘tl1lIlg't»O11, two thousand dollars; A. C. Davidson, two thousand dollars; J. V. McDuHie, two thousand dollars; J. D. Lynch, two thousand dollars; P. S. Post, two thousand dollars; Robt. Smalls, two thousand dollars; J. G. Carlisle, one thousand two hundred and seven dollars and nineteen cents; XVm. Elliott, two thousand dollars; in all. twenty-five thousand four hundred 3.11tl. thirty dollars and nineteen cents. mggggggggjlfrom °°¤· Hereafter no payment shall be made from the contingent fund of ` the Senate unless sanctioned by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, or from the contingent fund of the House of Representatives unless sanctioned by the Committee on Accounts of the House of Representatives. And hereafter pay- ments made upon vouchers a Jproved by the aforesaid respective committees shall be deemed, held. and taken, and are hereby declared to be conclusive upon all the departments 3»I1(l officers of the Govern- ment: Prorzlled, That no payment shall be made from said contin- ' gent funds as additional salary or compensation to any officer or employe of the Senate or House of Representatives.