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 FIFTYYSEVENTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. CHS. 594, 595. 1902. 171 For stationery, court library, repairs, fuel, electric light, electric C°“*i“g€“*°xP€“S€¤ elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, three thousand four hundred dollars. h` or reporting the decisions of the court and superintending the Rewmuzdecisicns. printing of the thirty-seventh volume of the reports of the Court of Claims, to be paid on the order of the court, one thousand dollars; said sum to be paid to the reporters, notwithstanding section seventeen $6§-,§°·*{§“,»P·31*- hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, or section three of the ° 'p` ' Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter three hundred and twenty-eight. For one steel iireproof safe for the safe-keeping of valuable papers, Firepwof we. four hundred dollars. Sec. 2. That the pay of assistant messen ers, firemen, watchmen, Rates or pay, wmlaborers, and charwomen provided for in tiis Act, unless otherwise Z{2,,,"§€c°?°°g°"’ H"` specially stated, shall be as follows: For assistant messengers, firemen, and watchmen, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars er annum each; for laborers, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dolllirs per annum each, and for charwomen, at the rate of two hundred and orty dollars per annum each. Sec. 3. That the additional clerks on the temporary rolls and other tglizlggg ¤}¤*k¤ employees rendered necessary because of increased work incident to neu service. ° cm` the war with Spain, and under the Act of June thirteenth, eighteen V°'·3°- r>·448- hundred and ninety-eight, providing for war expenditures and for other purposes, heretofore a pointed and who are now employed in the several departments of the (government, are hereby transferred to the classified service as of their present grade or rate of compensation, respectively, and shall be continued in the several departments where now employed, without further examination, subject, however, to transfer, promotion, or removal the same as other clerks and employees in the classified service. And the several appropriations herein made for such clerks and employees under the several departments and offices shall be available for ayment of the salaries of all clerks and employees transferred to the classified service under this provision. And the appropriations made for such temporary clerks and employees for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two shall also be available for pay- ment of the salaries of all such clerks and employees herein transferred for the balpplce of the current fiscai year. d f h N Sec. 4. at the appropriations erein ma e or the officers, clerks, °¥’°’E¤°’!’“*°P°’j and persons employedpinpthe public service shall not be available for gicidhiisonsmpnci the compensation of any persons permanently incapacitated for performing such service. Sec. 5. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this Act R°P°°‘· are repealed. Approved, April 28, 1902. CHAP. 595.-An Act To establish an additional land office in the State of Mon· AP¤‘fl“‘§ 190% WK3- [Public, No. 84.] Be it enacted by zi/ze Senate and H0u.se of Representatiz•e.s oflhe Ubaited States of Amadeus in Oozzgress assembled, That all that portion of the g*1};;};°,l;*hQ¤·M0n, State of Montana bounded and described as follows: Beginning at mmm emziiisim. " the northeast corner of the State and running thence west on the B°““°“’l°“‘ national boundary line between the United States and British possessions to the point intersected by the eastern boundary line of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation; thence south along the line of said reservation to where it is intersected by the eastern line of the Lewis and Clarke Forest Reservation; thence south on said line to the southwest corner of township twenty-two north, range eight west; thence east along the line between townships twenty-one and twenty-two north