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 7 30 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. Il. Ons. 646, 647. 1898. July 8, 1898. CHAP. 646.-An Act Making appropriations to pay session employees of the www House of Representatives, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United ¥{¤¤¤¤ of R¤1>r¤¤¤¤=- States of America ln Congress assembled, That there is hereby appro- °*i}f,7;.,m of mm., priated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwse appropriated, ¤¤¤¤i<>¤ ¤¤¤l>i°¥°°¤· as follows: A sufficient sum, not exceeding five thousand dollars, to pay the following session employees of the House of Representatives irom and including the first day of July, eighteen hundred and ninety- eight, until the close of the present session of Congress, at the rates of Vol.29,pp.541.543- compensation specified in the Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and for other purposes, approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, namely: Assistant in der One assistant index clerk in the office of the Clerk; thirty-three pages, §},‘§§Y,;,",{’§,,"Z,‘f’,$,i§i'k” t° two messengers, three folders, and ten laborers, under the Doorkeeper; seven messengers under the Postmaster; and eighteen clerks to committees during the session. purr <;-¥~v·¤·=¤ To pay Henry G. Brewster for expenses in contested election case of °’"`°° °' Ryan against Brewster, one thousand nine hundred and sixty-nine dollars and seventy cents. ' ccnecmig sum-nn COLLECTING INTERNAL REVENUE. IBVBDIJB. Gollecwrsmc- For salaries and expenses of collectors and deputy collectors and surveyors, and clerks, including transportation of public funds, and vn. 24, p. ms. also iucludin g expenses of enforcing the Act of August second, eighteen v01.a4,p.z1a hundred and eighty-six, taxing oleomargarine, and the Act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, imposing upon the Govern- ` V••1.¤•.1»¤·'·=~ ment the expense of the inspection of tobacco exported; also the Act of June sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, imposing a tax on nlled cheese, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, thirty thousand dollars. WM D°P”*'¤°’**~ WAR DEPARTMENT. wfg;:_$}§,§·,QgP“° To enable the Secretary of War, in his discretion, to cause to be transported to their homes the remains of officers and soldiers who die at military camps or who are killed in action or who die in the field at plzices outside of the limits of the United States, two hundred thousand do lars. Approved, July 8, 1898. JM! 9-1899- CHAP. 647.-An Act To reimburse the governors of States and Territories for ""‘_"""" °‘‘i ‘expenses incurred by them in aiding the United States to raise and organize, and _ gigppxly and equip the Volunteer Army of the United States in the existing war with Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United g*;':j:*fj_j_;m¤F-to States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the SUIDEHilll'i'X[lHllB9!flll- Treasury bc, and he is hereby, directed, out of any money in the Treasj;jj;'““ ‘“ “‘*"'*’*"“¢‘- ury not otherwise appropriated, to pay to the governor of any State or Territory, or to his duly authorized agents, the reasonable costs, charges, 1'•»•¢. i>-1=¤5·5- and expenses that have been incurred byhim in aiding the United States to raise the Volunteer Army in the existing war with Spain, by subsisting, clothing, supplying, equipping, paying, and transporting men of his _ State or Territory who were atterwards accepted into the Volunteer mQ;hat,0n_ Army of the United States: Prorided, That the transportation paid for shall be only the transportation of such men from the place of their enrollment for service in the Volunteer Army of the United States to the place of their acceptance into the same by the United States mustering officer, and that the names of the men transported shall appear