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 846 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 187. 1895. and the same is hereby, reappropriated and made available for the purpose of enabling the Secretary of the Treasury (the authority to do which is hereby given him) to pay therefrom any outstanding unpaid Indian war bonds issued under the acts of the legislature of California approved February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and fifty-one, and May third, eighteen hundred and nfty-two, respectively, or any outstanding unpaid coupons pertaining to any bonds issued under said two acts representing interest thereon between January first, eighteen hundred and fifty-four, and September first, eighteen hundred and fifty-six ; and Pament of 1<>¤* if said Secretary shall be satisiied that any of said bonds or said b°"ds‘°t°° coupons have been lost or destroyed and never paid by or presented to the United States for payment he is hereby authorized to pay the owners thereof or their heirs, administrators, or legal representatives, out of said unexpended balance, upon their application made to him Indemnity bond- therefor, and thereafter delivering to said Secretary a bond sufficient, in his opinion, to indemnify the United States against all possible loss therein; and after such payment shall have been made by said Secretary he shall report his action in the premises to the governor of the State of California. necomags of snver RECOINAGE OF SILVER COINS: To reimburse the cash account of °°““· the Treasurer of the United States for loss on the recoinage of uncurrent fractional silver coins at the United States Mint at Philadelphia in April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, two thousand nine hundred and forty-eight dollars and thirty-six cents. To reimburse the cash account of the Treasurer of the United States for loss on the recoinage of uncurrent fractional silver coins at the United States Mint at New Orleans during the first quarter of eighteen hundred and ninety-four, two dollars and sixteen cents. ‘ _ 0hi¤¤¤¤ ¤¤¤I¤¤i¤¤- ENFORCEMENT OF THE CHINESE EXCLUSION ACT: To prevent unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and for expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation, and for enforcing the provisions of the Act v¤1.21,p.s2. approved May hfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, entitled “Au Act to prohibit the coming of Chinese persons into the United States/’ PM. i>-121<>- and the provisions of the treaty recently entered into between the United States and China, fifty thousand dollars. Fumirure and rr- FURNITURE AND REPAIRS OF FURNITURE: For furniture andrepairs P""' of same and carpets for all public buildings, marine hospitals included, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets, chandeliers, and gas fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, twenty thousand dollars. And all furniture now owned by the United States in other buildings shall be used, as far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plans for furniture or not. L£;;;¤;t*;;;0gl¤ tmP¤¤¤ Sonruwmsr Pass, LOUISIANA, LIGHT STATION: For reimburse- - rayibén ¤l· asses ment of the keeper and assistant keepers of the Southwest Pass, Lou- "F “'°·, isiana, Light Station, for personal losses sustained at the time of the partial destruction of said station by fire, of such articles as in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury were kept at the station from considerations of health, decency, and the nature of the service, seven hundred and sixty-four dollars and fifty cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. mff¤g;1g;¤¤g¤é= <=¤¤¤- SU1>PREssING CCUNTERFEITING AND CTHEE CRIMES! For expenses _ 'incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction, dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United