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 58 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 118,120,121. 1900. mg°gg,’g§f*°”° P’*‘”‘ To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the Leaves of absence. law granting thiigf days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing O ce, on account of fiscal years as follows: e Forthe fiscal year nineteen hundred, fifteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. _ To enable the Public Printer to pay employees of the Government Printing Ofhce for leave of absence to which the were entitled du1·- ing the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, eighteen bundred and ninety- nine, and which could not be granted to tiem in consequence of the appropriation for leaves of absence becoming exhausted, eighteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. ,,_,’}§1‘{f{§;°§,n¥j;Y,’;}€¤*S Hereafter there shall be advanced to the Public Printer from time to time, as the public service may require it, and under such rules as the Secretary o __ the Treasury may prescribe, a sum of money not exceeding at any time the penalty of his official bond, to enable him to pay for work and material. Approved, March 30, 1900. March 31,1900. CHAP. 120.-An Act _Concerning the boarding of vessels. Be it enacted by the Senate 0/nd Home 0 f Riiécresentatives 0 f the United b€§ggg1;;;ggt§0;€Sggé§ States of America in Congress assembled, That the Secretary of the masons. ’ Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to prescribe from time to time and enforce regulations governing the boarding of vessels arriving at the seaports of the United States, before suchpvessels have been properly inspected and placed in security, and for that purpose to emgiloy any of the officers of that Department. ,. P°““Y· E0. 2. That each person violatin such regulations shall be subject to a penalty. of not more than one liundred dollars or imprisonment not to exceed six months, or both, in the discretion of the court. mggjmw age Supvle- Sec. 3. That this Act shall be construed as supplementary to sec- Vol.2g:p.199.tion nine of chapter three hundred and seventy-four of the Statutes of R·S·*S°°·‘*6°6·P·8°3· eighteen hundred and eighty-two, and section forty-six hundred and six of the Revised Statutes. Effect- Sec. 4. That this Act shall take effect thirty days after its passage. Approved, March 31, 1900. March 31.1900- CHAP; 121.-An Act To amend an Act providing for the construction of a light- `1_"‘—"` ship to be located near Cape Elizabeth, Maine. _ Be it enacted by the Senatea/ml Hoztse cfRenresentatives of the United ucggc Eli¤¤b¤¢h·M<=-· States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act approved Febship. . . . . ‘ %¤1.s0,p.s1s. ruary fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled An Act (providing for the construction of a light-s ip to be located near ape Elizabeth, Maine," is hereby amended so t at the limit of the cost for the said light-ship and fog signal shall be increased from seventy thousand dollars toninety thousand dollars, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to proceed with the construction of the said light-ship and fog signal, as directed by the original Act as modified by this Act. ‘ Approved, March 31, 1900.