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. 206 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 586. 1900. and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army, by telegraph or otherwise, ninety- e thou and dollars. A M§Q“*g;Fb,;°l$§;¤g;‘ S lhlldi the léurpose of connecting headquarters, Department of Alaska, Aims.at Saint ichael, by military telegraph and cable lines with other _ ; military stations in Alaska, four hundred and fifty thousand five hun- ___g;{)‘*{{¥;°,§uS,u€sS dred and fifty dollars: Provided, That commercial business may be ` done over these militarv lines under such conditions as may be deemed, by the Secretary of War, equitable and in the public interests, all receipts from such commercial business shall be accounted for and paid into the Treasury of the United States, and that the sum hereby —fqrej,?i eabiee. ete-. appropriated shall be immediately available: Hovidedfvvzher, That °x°“no telegraph or cable lines owne or operated or controlled by persons not citizens of the United States, or by any foreign corporation or government, shall be established in or permitted to enter A aska. Pay- PAY or loEF1oEns or THE L1NE. Lim- For pay of officers of the line, live million seven hundred thousand l dollars. i L°¤€°"“Y· ·For pay of officers for length of service, to be paid with their CHI'- rent monthly pay, one million one hundred and twenty-nine thousand three hundred dollars. PAY or ENLISTED MEN. E“““°d mm For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, fifteen _ million one hundred and forty-five thousand eight hundred and forty- · six dollars. Lenseviw- Foil; additional pay for length of service, eight hundred and seventy- five thousand dollars. ueglpgggig of PaY· That all allotments of pay of enlisted men of the United States evgi. so, p. isi. `Army, under section sixteen of Act of Congress approved March ° second, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, that have been or shall be paid to the designated allottees after the expiration of one month sub- 0&£1>;§I<§¢¢ed¤¤¤¤i¤g sequent to the month in which said allotments accrued shall pass to ` the credit of the disbursing officer who has made or shall make such _0P&%§e¤&) use due payment: Provided, That said disbursing officer shall before making diligence. em. payment of said allotments, use, or shall have used, due diligence in obtaining and making use of all information that may have been received in the War Department relative to the grantors of the allot- pobecause of the failure of an officer responsible for such report to report, in the manner prescribed by the Secretary of War, the death of a grantor or any fact which renders the allotment not payable, then the amount of such erroneous payment shall be collected by the Paymaster- General from the officer who fails to make such report, if such collection is practicable. ENGINEER EATTAL1oN. Engineer bmelien- One hundred and fifty thousand and twenty-four dollars. Longevity- gdditiional for length of service, thirty thousand and four dollars an eig ty cents. 0m>NANoE DEPARTMENT. - m§I§$P““°" D°p"*` d gne hundred and seventy-one thousand one hundred and twenty - dollars. - L°“g""“Y· Additional pay for length of service, thirty-four thousand two hundred and twenty-four dollars.
 * W!{¤Sg{)$€¤m¤e* is ¤‘e· ments : Andprovidedfurther, That if an erroneous payment is made