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 962 FIFTY-THIRD CONGRESS. Sess. III. CHS. 189, 190. 1895. Colonel John M. Wilson, of the Engineer Corps, submitted to General Thomas L. Casey, Chief of Engineers, December seventeenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and approved by him, one hundred and twenty-one thousand one hundred and twenty»one dollars and ninety cents, to be immediately available and until the completion of said work. Appropriation rol- The appropriation of seventy-five thousand dollars made by the ·_ {‘,§u‘§{f"°°· °‘°‘· °°" sundry civil appropriation Act, approved August eighteenth, eighteen , _4,.a,,,4m, hundred and ninety-four, for the repair of the Government Printing t Oilice, to provide fire e capes, and to put the building in a safe and { secure condition, shall be available until the completion of the work. ' h0%¤g:,¤{{_*::g,*;f·§$¤x At any time when there is no joint committee of the two Houses of · segve when no joint Congress the powers and duties under the law devolving upon the °°"““*“°° °"“"'· Joint Committee on Printing shall be exercised and performed by the Committee then in existence of either House. · Intcrnntionslmvuc- That whenever the President of the United States shall determine my °°“'°'°“°°‘ that the United States should be represented at any international con- · ference called with a view to secure, internationally, a fixity of relative value between gold and silver, as money, by means of a common ratio ‘ between those metals, with free mintage at such ratio, the United moo comm / States shall be represented at such conference by nine delegates, to soioouon. { be selected as follows: The President of the United States shall select \ three of said delegates; the Senate shall select three Members of the Senate as delegates; and the Speaker of the present House of Repre- · sentatives shall select three Members of the House of Representatives voomoieo. . of the Fifty-fourth Congress as delegates. If at any time there shall be any vacancy such vacancy shall be hlled by the President of the , Compensation. United States. And for the compensation of said delegates, together with all reasonable expenses connected therewith, to be approved by Appropriation for the Secretary of State, including the proportion to be paid by the °‘P°‘“‘°”· United States of the joint expenses of such conference, the sum of one · hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated. _ _ _ Msprrpltcr ¤•1¤ri¤¤ to Sec. 3. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of oflieers and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the iiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six; and all laws or parts of laws in conilict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, March 2, 1895. March 2, 18|6. CHAP. 190.-An Act To provide for the reimbursement of officers and seamen for wi property lost or destroyed in the naval service of the United States. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United gixmentoflmus States of America in Congress assembled, That the proper accounting by ,mp,.,.,,,k, M officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, authorized and directed to examine into, ascertain, and determine the value of the private_ property belonging to officers, petty officers, seamen, and others in the naval service of the United States which has been or may hereafter be lost and destroyed in the naval service by shipwreck or other marine disaster, under the following circumstances : ‘ Conditions. . First. When such loss or destruction was without fault or negligence on the part of the claimant. Second. Where the private property so lost or destroyed was shipped on board an uuseaworthy vessel by order of any officer authorized to give such order or direct such shipment. 1 Payment or prior And the amount of such loss or losses which have accrued prior to °"°“‘ the passage of this Act so ascertained and determined upon settlement by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury shall be paid out of room on future any money m the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. and all losses l°"°* that shall hereafter accrue shall be certified by the Secretary of the