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 12 FIFTY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 14. 1900. “‘¤ii><=¤¤¤=¤¢¤i- WAR DEPARTMENT. m;\`gig;_ig¤¤i i€¤¤P¤· For continuing the employment during the three months beginning ‘April first, nineteen hundred, of such additional temporary force of clerks, messengers. laborers, and other assistants as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of the needs of the service may €,g$f“$grS€;;§§,;§j demand, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Persons in the mem, em. classified service of the Government shall not be eligible to appointment under this appropriation, or to be transferred from any position - in the classified service to positions paid hereunder. F¤S°¤g€S*¤mPS· For postage stamps for the War Department and its bureaus, as re uired under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters _ adidressed to Postal Union countries, five hundred dollars. M§S;{;g{;x{ai§1%§¤¤¤ For payment of the expenses connected with the investigation of the Expenses mveaiga- claims of the members of the Fourth Arkansas Mounted Infantry, ‘i°“ 0* claims °’· including pay of clerk, stenographer, cost of printing, advertising and stationery, traveling and hotel expenses, expenses of witnesses and all other incidental expenses actually and necessarily incurred under the Vol. 30. p- 894- provisions of the Act of Congress approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, for the relief of the Fourth Arkansas Mounted Infantry, two thousand dollars. Miscellaneous. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS, NVAR DEPARTMENT. C£n€L§£S,0gV¤°°'w¤>‘S DEEP WATERwAYs COMMISSION! For completing surveys, examina- ` tions, and investigations (including estimate of cost) of deep waterways, and the routes thereof, between the Great Lakes and the Atlantic tide waters, as recommended by the report of the Deep Waterways Commission, transmitted by the President to Congress January eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven; such surveys, examinations, an§ investigations to be made by the board of three engineers designated and appointed by the President for this purpose July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, in compliance with V°l- 3°· P- 50- the provisions of the Act of June fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety- §gQ,§;fg,,Sa,,0n 0, seven, twenty thousand dollars: Pzmsicled, That the member of the member from Ensi- Dee Vlraterways Commission appointed from the Corps of Engineers me C°”pS` shall)be entitled to receive compensation from the date of his appointment, in addition to his regular army pay and allowances, equal to the difference between such annual army pay and allowances and the compensation of the other two members of the commission, said additional compensation to be paid from funds appropriated for the Deep Waterways Commission. _ _ Pzxyksbuis Miiiiaiv IoKsBURG NATIoNAL MILITARY PARK: For such engineering and ' · topoggaphical workin connection with the Vicksburg National Military ark as may be proper and necessary, and for the payment of Vo1.30,p.841. salaries and clerical expenses and such other incidental expenses as are provided for in the Act of February twenty-first, eighteen hundred `gmjjgée 0, mms and ninety-nine, to remain available until expended: Prorviried, That part sims. the sum of five thousand dollars, or so 11111Cll of said amount as inay be necessary, may be expended, with the a proval of the Secretary of War, in addition to the amount authorized) by section one of the Act alpproved February twenty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, in is e purchase of lands to be used as a part of the site of said park, twenty thousand dollars. D§j,§§gg*{§0§ig§,i$eig; NATIONAL Home FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. S0igi1€i1Ii>.w¤.\’¤- SOUTHERN BRANCH, AT HAMPTON, VIRGINIA: For trans ortation, namely: For transportation of members of the Home, fiscal year