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 ninth and eleventh, nineteen hundred and three, at two dollars per diem, and for allowance for horse and buggy used in connection with such services, at two dollars per diem, eight dollars.


 * For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for contingent expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the water department, one hundred and fifty-seven dollars and sixty-six cents.

The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized to refund to Oscar W. White the sum of twelve dollars and to H. R. Howenstein the sum of one dollar and five cents, paid by them for the use of water for building purposes.

Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

WAR DEPARTMENT.

That whenever the office of the Adjutant-General and the Record and Pension Office shall be consolidated by operation of law, any appropriation available at the time of such consolidation, or that may thereafter become available, for the support of either of those offices shall be equally available for the support of the bureau formed by the consolidation, and all employees provided by law for either of said offices, except such employees as were transferred by the Secretary of War to the Military Information Division of the General Staff prior to April first, nineteen hundred and four, shall be regarded as employees of the consolidated bureau and shall be exclusively engaged upon the work of that bureau as required in the case of the employees of the Record and Pension Office by the Acts making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and four and nineteen hundred and five.


 * Payment to Confederate soldiers: For payment of claims filed with the Quartermaster-General under Act

of February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and two, for horses, saddles, and bridles taken from Confederate soldiers in violation of terms of surrender, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars. The time

for filing these claims under the provisions of the above-entitled Act and amendment thereto and for the payment thereof, is extended for two years from the date of the passage of this Act.


 * To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to carry out the provisions of the "Act for the relief of David Tweed," approved March twenty-third, nineteen hundred and four, three thousand five hundred dollars.


 * That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they hereby are, authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of James Eveleth, United States agent, deceased, the sum of one thousand four hundred and one dollars and seventy-two cents standing against him on the books of the Treasury.


 * That the accounting officers of the Treasury be, and they are hereby, directed to credit in the accounts of Major J. B. Aleshire, quartermaster, United States Army, the sum of forty-seven dollars standing against him on the books of the Treasury.

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 * To enable the Secretary of War to pay the amounts due certain newspapers for publishing advertisements