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 126 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 9. 1897. 1****,, °' $*••¤ BUREAU OF STEAM ENGINEERING. To pay outstanding bills and obligations for purchase of supplies and materials, and to reimburse navy-supply fund, being for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, six thousand five hundred dollars. To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation for “Steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering! fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety- six, two hundred and ninety-eight dollar and twenty-one cents. h{‘:g`j:P°¤* °* **'° DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. The accounting officers of the Treasury Department are hereby gg- E*•¤¤,_ authorized and directed to allow and credit on the accounts of George tr, `°°°°° W. Evans, disbursing clerk, Department of the Interior, the sum of two thousand one hundred and forty-tive dollars, being the amount · disbursed by him under the authority and direction of the Secretary of the Interior from the apportionment of forty thousand dollars for examination of public surveys in the appropriation for surveying the public lands, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, in payment of per diem to three special agents of the General Land Office, the disallowance having been made by the accounting officers of the Treasury for the reason that said special agents were performing duty in the General Land Office, making examinations of iield work, and could not be allowed a per diem compensation unless actually performing duty in the field. To pay amounts set forth on page seventeen of House Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty of the Fifty-fourth Congress, second session, on account of contingent expenses, iisoal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, three hundred and ten dollars and eighteen cents. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, being the amount actually expended in replacing portions of the roofs of the Pension and Patent Office buildings, blown od by the cyclone of Sep— tember twenty-ninth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, seven thousand two hundred and seventy-six dollars. “f_°¤**¤¤•¤* °¤P°¤· For• contingent expenses, Department of the Interior: To pay accounts of the Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company for telephone service furnished, namely: For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-six, eighty-nine dollars and twelve cents. For fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-tive, one thousand and sixty-seven dollars and ninety-seven cents. 11;:¤¤i::'_<>*:,¤·,_m_ PnNs1oN OFFICE: Salaries, Pension Office, eighteen hundred and mums. ninety-two, payment to Louis Garesche for eighteen days’ services as clerk, at one thousand dollars per annum, May second to nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two, inclusive, being the amount disallowed that date but subsequently allowed by the Secretary of the Interior, June twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four (balance of appropriation went to surplus fund before voucher was presented for payment), forty-nine dollars and forty-five cents. §;¤;;»¤'{;¤::>¤g¤é _ GENERAL LAND Orman: Repayment to George W. Evans, disburs can-ge w.nm»¤. Ing clerk, Department of the Interior, being the amount erroneously paid by him in excess of appropriation for eighteen hundred and ninety- six for traveling expenses of inspectors, General Land Office, thirty _ doHars and seventy cents. g§j;;°_'°°°'**¤ For rearranging, indexing, and preserving the records of the recorder’s office of the General Land Office, fiscal year eighteen hun- (_ t I d I dred and ninety-eight, one thousand dollars. $l§,§,§§g§;°,f’g;é Orurror. AND GROUNDS1 For the payment of the balance due the Ligncggimm Washington Gashght Company for gas service for the months of Feb- " mary, March, April, May, and June, eighteen hundred and ninety-six,