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 412 FIFTY-EIGHTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 1630. 1901.

For purchase of rugs, carpets, linoleum, desks, chairs, and tables; book, map, letter, specimen, file, and catalogue cases; screens, sinks, and ventilating fans for laboratory; awnings, window shades, washstands, wardrobe cabinets, water coolers, lumber for shelving, installation of intercommunication of telephone service, and all other absolutely necessary articles; to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, ten thousand five hundred dollars.

For payment of amount due Earle Goldsmith, of Wayne, Michigan, as satisfaction of a judgment in amount obtained against Robert L. Muldrow, topographer, United States Geological Survey, for damages done to horse and wagon hired by him for use in the discharge of his official duties, fifty dollars.

For payment of costs of court trials in said case, including fees, transportation, subsistence, and so forth, one hundred and seven dollars and seventy-seven cents.

For additional amount for analyzing and testing at the Louisiana Purchase Exposition the coals and lignites of the United States in order to determine their fuel values and the most economic method for their utilization for different purposes, under the supervision of the Director of the United States Geological Survey, forty thousand dollars, to be available until expended: Provided,

That all testing machinery and all coal and lignites to be tested shall be contributed without charge to the Government: Provided further,

That of the foregoing amount ten thousand dollars shall be available and may be used by the Secretary of Agriculture for all necessary expenses incident to testing, in connection with the Louisiana Purchase Exposition Company, the manner in which timber can best be treated chemically to prevent decay and to fireproof the same, to the end that it may be more economically and safely used for bridge and other structural timbers, lumber, poles, fence posts, ties, mine props, and so forth: Provided further, That all testing cylinders and all timbers to be tested shall be contributed without charge to the Government, except that necessary housing for the protection of machinery and of those conducting the work may in the discretion of the Secretary of Agriculture be paid from the said ten thousand dollars.

To defray the expenses of the members of the joint committee of Joint the Senate and House authorized to attend and represent the Congress of the United States on the occasion of the formal opening ceremonies of the Louisiana Purchase Exposition, to be held in Saint Louis, Missouri, April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and four, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of which sum two thousand five hundred dollars shall be accredited to the Senate, to be expended under the direction and by the order of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate, and three thousand five hundred dollars accredited to the account of and expended under the direction and by the order of the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives.

The unexpended balance of the appropriation of five thousand dollars made March third, nineteen hundred and one, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to investigate and report to Congress whether it is practicable to provide a system of taxation of personal property, occupations, franchises, and so forth, in the Indian Territory sufficient to maintain a system of free schools to all the children of the Indian Territory is hereby reappropriated and made available for said purpose until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five.

To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for "Contingencies Indian Department," including all objects mentioned under this title of