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 796 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 177. 1895. the Interior Department for an restatement thereof in accordance with the conclusions of law reached by him ; which account, when made by the Auditor for the lutcrior Department, shall be transmitted to the Comptroller of the Trea.sury for consideration, both upon the law and the ihcts, and by him, when completed, transmitted to the Attorney- General for report t0C0ngress at its next regular session, as above u£·:t¤·|1¤•*¤¤°¤*°¤‘*¤· provided: Provided further, That in making such review and restate ' ment there shall be D0 computation for interest. Clerksdmiiedfrom For the following clerks now detailed from the Pension Office, and P"‘"°° °m°°‘ to be retained without any additional appointment, namely, one clerk of class one, and thur clerks at one thousand dollars each; in all, five thousand two hundred dollars. P¤¤¤i<>¤ 0¤i¤¤· PENSION OFFICE: For the Commissioner of Pensions, five thousand dollars; iirst deputy commissioner, three thousand six hundred dollars; 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, at 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 chiels of division, at two thousand dollars each; law clerk, mvp thousand dollars; -fifty-eight principal examiners, at two thousand dollars each; twenty assistant chiefs of division, at one thousand eight huixdrual dollars each; three steuographers, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; 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; one superintendent of building, one thousand ibut hundred dollars; two engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one hundred and seventy-five copyists; thirty-three messengers; twelve assistant messengers; twenty messenger boys, at four hundred dollars each; one painter, skilled in his trade, nine hundred dollars; 0ne.cz1binetmaker, skilled in his trade, nine hundred dollars; one captain of the watch, eight hundred and forty dollars; three sergcmits of the watch, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; twenty watchmen; three Bremen; twenty-five laborers; live female laborers, at four hundred dollars each; and fifteen clmrwomeng in all, two million and frwiym    eighty-six thousand seven hundred and ten dollars: Provided, That in ,,,;§i.,‘,"§_ §t.,_,°t,,1,., ,.,1 reducing the force of the Pension Office to comply with the provisions ¤¤¤=·i· of this Act preference for retention in service shall be given to ex-sob diers and exsailors of the United States, who served dming the war of the rebellion, and to the widows and orphans of such deceased soldiers or sailors. But this provision shall not be deemed to apply to cases where, after full and tkir investigation, the test of capacity and fitness in the discharge of the duties of said positions shall show mental or physical disqualilicatiou. Pur diem. ctc-. in- For per diem, when absent from home and traveling 011 duty outside '°°"""°"°‘ the District of Columbia, for special examiners or other persons employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertaining to said Bureau, in lieu of expenses ibr subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day. and for actual and necessary expenses for transportation and assistance and any other necessary expenses, including telegrams, five hundred thousand dolmm".  lars: Provided, That two special examiners, or clerks, detailed and ,p2‘ifgf°“x§€n§§§T““* acting as chief and 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 sulficient to make their annual compensation two thousand dollars and one Expenses- thousand eight hundred dollars, respectively; and whenever it may be necessary for either of them to travel on otheial business outside the