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 SU4 _ FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. SEss. I. C11. 785. 1900. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, seventy-two _ dollars and fifty cents. . c,£g§g¤d‘¤g mls in DEFENDING SUITS IN CLAIMS AGAINST THE- UNITED STATEs:. For ' defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the examinatnon of w1tnesses and procuring of ev1dencein_the matter of claims agamst the United States, and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including the payment of such expenses as in the discretion of the Attorney- General shall be necessary for making proper defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, for the fiscal years as follows: For the Hscal yepr eighéiieen hundred and ninety-nine, eight hundred and fort —nine dollars an six cents. d For thyediiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, thirty-two ollars an twenty cents. S,§g;“Sl°Y ”· U¤“°d Comraomsn or sp1T: To enable the Attorney-General to make setcompromise emu:. tlement of a suit of T. F. Townsley a ainst the United States pending in the circuit court for the district of Ulfashington for damages claime for alleged breach of contract for carrying reindeer between certain Siberian and Alaskan ports, one thousand seven hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty-eight cents, or so much thereof as may be necessary. c,g*£§¤ d€P*€dm°¤ DEFENSE IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS; For salaries and expenses ` %nHdefense of the Indian depredation claims for the fiscal years as o ows: .d {Tor the fiscal year nineteen hundred, three thousand five hundred o lars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine,_ eight hundred _ _ and eight dollars and twenty-six cents. . p,‘,§§§?‘“‘°°‘“*S °‘“l" PAYMENT ron LEGAL SERVICES IN c1RcU1T comers or APPEALs: For P%Ym°Pt fvr legal the payment, upon accounts approved b_ the Attorney-General, of SEIVICBS ID. · . iy . claims for compensation on account of egal services rendered and ` expenses incurred, in cases before the United States circuit courts of appeals, the amount of said compensation to be determined by the Attorne -General., one hundred and fifty dollars and seventy-one_ €§ff{?§‘Sm,,, ,,,,0,. cents: Igvoeided, That so much of section six of the Act approved gggijguggiu dl¤l¤i<=* May twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as provides that v01. 29, p. ive. the salaries paid to nited States district attorneys shall cover and, include compensation for services rendered by them in the circuit courts of appegls iglherebyl mad; applic$b§ to §he1Pnited States district attorney or the sout ern istrict o ew or. @’g‘eQ£ {},{1°“· To pay Frank D. Allen, late United States district attorney for the district of Massachusetts, for services rendered the United States in ghelUnited States circuit court of appeals, one thousand nine hundred o ars. Dg$gg{O§g0g,lgg§;¤· Comer or APPEALS, DISTRICT or CoLUMmA:_ For additional amount Reporter.as salar of the reporter of said court, five hundred dollars, one—half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia. cggfl md La Am WEIL AND LA ABBA CASES! To enable the Attorney-General to give 4ddiri<>¤¤1c<>mpe¤— any additional compensation he may deem proper to counsel for servmmn m °°°°s°1‘ ices in the cause of the United States against La Abra Silve·r Mining Company, finally determined by the Supreme Court of the Unite States at the present term of said court, and for all compensation of counsel and fees and expenses in the prosecution to fina conclusion of the suit of the United States against Alice Weil and others, in which an, appeal has been allowed by the Court of Claims to the Supreme Court of the United States from the judgment of that court in favor of the United States, ten thousand dollars, the said suits having been brought in obedience to two Acts of Congress approved, respectively, on December twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety- V°‘·2’· P·‘*°°· two, and entitled, respectively, "An Act to amend and enlarge the Act approved June eighteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, I