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 290 FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 373. 1896. ance found due shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury to Mrs. Mirtie M. Norris, widow of the said A. Wilson Norris, out of any funds in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. g;,,K,°L}—‘2§§EjTi°"‘ To refund to H. Kessler Smith a fee paid by him to the Patent Office September fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, in the n atter of an application for registration of a label, which application was subsequently withdrawn six dollars. r.sgim¤§sc.pu•1 Lrourmo THE Carrroi. AND Gnomms: For lighting the Capitol "“° "'°"‘ ‘ and grounds about the same, including the Botanic Garden, and the Senate and House stables; for gas and electric lighting; pay of superintendent of meters, lamplighters, gas litters, and for materials for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, on account of iiscal year _ eighteen hundred and ninety-five, seven thousand four hundred and fourteen dollars and eighty-eight cents. 1¤L¤_;3•¤i§1:*··¤;¤·f The Architect of the Capitol is hereby directed to examine into the 3::..,. °° H g methods for the filtration of water used in the Capitol building, and to report to Congress on the first day of the next session the result of his investigations, what propositions have been made to furnish such filtration, and the probable cost thereof. Pubns Lama. PUBLIC-LAND SERVICE. £¤¤•>¤·{l¤g·¤¤ f r Drzsnnr LANDS SELECTED mr STATES: That the sum of one thouisctzutgsznuf °°` sand dollars, appropriated by the sundry civil Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to examine the desert lands selected by the States under . v¤i.2s,p4n the provisions of section ibur of said Act, be, and is hereby, reappropriated and made available for the examination of said lands during the iiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-six and eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. cnumm. Fon SURVEY OF LANDS IN CALIFORNIA: To pay amounts found to S“"°*'“· be due under contracts for the survey of public lands in California prior to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, twenty thousand guwav- d dollars: Provided, That in the case of contracts for the survey of pub- ,d_ °"°° "°°°lic lands in the State of California executed prior to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, in which the returns of the survey have been suspended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office until the appropriation for the survey of public lands from which the contracts for such surveys were made payable has lapsed and been covered into the Treasury, and in which cases such suspension is afterwards removed and the surveys executed under such contracts accepted by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, or in the case of such contracts when made payable from the fund of deposits by individuals for the survey of public lands in which the deposits made for the particular survey are insufficient. umass. UFFICE or SUR.VEYl{—GENEBAL OF MONTANA: For contingent °“""°l'°"‘$°"°"’· expenses of the office of surveyorgeneral of Montana, including the sum of three hundred and ninety dollars and fifteen cents toreiniburse the Interior Department for stationery furnished during the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-five; one hundred and forty dollars to reimburse the surveyor-general for plat cases made and furnished during the same fiscal year, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for which he had conditional authority, but for which funds were not available at the close of the fiscal year, and three hundred dollars for binding two huiidred volumes of field notes; in all, one thousand two hundred dollars. 8353 ¤f we U¤i¢¤¤ Maps or THE UNITED STATES! To pay the account of the Evening Advertising. Star Newspaper Company, of Washington, District of Columbia, thr publishing, in August and September, eighteen hundred and ninety- two, proposals for bids for photolithographing and printing maps of the United States, and of land States and Territories, prepared in the General Land Office, twelve dollars and thirty-eight cents.