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 FIFTY-SECOND CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 196. 1892. 199 Fon CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE TREASFRY DEPARTMENT, comin gent ex. INCLUDING ALL BUILDINGS UNDER CONTROL on THE Tnr;AsrRx· Penm- IN WASHINGTON, DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA, namely; For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several Bureaus. stationery. twenty six 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 ref- m§*"'¤P=·r·°¤*» l-‘°<>k¤· erence relating to the business of the Department; purchase of mate- ' rial for binding important records and of the amount appropriated not more than four hundred dollars may be used in the purchase of technical publications, foreign and domestic, two thousand dollars. For investigation of accounts and records, including the necessary I¤*¤¤¢ig¤ti<>¤¤.<>t·¤· traveling expenses, and for other traveling expenses, five hundred dollars. For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, one thou- rmugimem. sand eight hundred dollars. For rent of buildings three thousand nine hundred and seventy dol- Rem. lars. That hereafter it shall be the duty of the Secretary of the Treasury _ smsmim of buildto cause to be prepared and submitted to Congress each year, in the “‘g*‘ """°‘*· annual Book of Estimates of Appropriations, a statement of the buildin gs rented within the District of Columbia for the use of the Government, the purposes for which rented, and the animal rental of each. For purchase of horses and wagons, for office and mail service, to be umm ami mgm. used only for official purposes, care and subsistence of horses, including shoeing, and of wagons, harness, and repairs of same, three thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of ice, two thousand uve hundred dollars. Ice. For purchase of file holders and tile cases, three thousand dollars. I"*l*=¤- For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate F··¢l· vwbaskets and iixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, 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 wicks fourteen thousand dollars. For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleuni, mats, <~Mpm,em. rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, laying and relaying of the same by contract, five thousand dollars. For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair caneing, chair covers, Furniture. desks, book cases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather tor covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, ventilators, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, ten thousand dollars. For washing and henunin g towels, for the purchase of awnings and Ivrisceinuwus. fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chainois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters, flower garden, street, and engine hose, lace leather, lye, nails, oil, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps, and repairs of same, stamp ink, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponge, tacks, traps, thermometers, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, advertising Ihr proposa.ls,_and for sale at public auction in \Vashington, District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer gg?. and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles ten thousand o ars.