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 Bureau of Immigration: For the following additional clerks for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and four, namely: One clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one, and two clerks at the rate of one thousand dollars per annum each; in all, two thousand two hundred dollars, to be paid from the appropriation "Expenses of regulating immigration."

To reimburse William Williams, commissioner of immigration at the port of New York, for amount paid by him to William B. Anderson for legal services furnished to the Government by the latter as counsel in the case of Isabella Gonzales against William Williams, the services of regularly employed counsel for the Government not having been procurable, to be paid from the permanent appropriation for "Expenses of regulating immigration," two hundred and fifty dollars.

The authority to incur expenditures under the appropriation for "expenses of regulating immigration" shall be construed by the accounting officers of the Treasury without reference to any specific appropriation heretofore made for repairs or alterations to any immigrant station.

For salary and expenses, including additional compensation in lieu of subsistence, of Frank S. Howell, clerk in the immigration service at large, while actually and necessarily employed in the Bureau of Immigration in Washington on temporary detail from July first, nineteen hundred and three, to November twenty-second, nineteen hundred and three, both dates inclusive, in connection with the preparation of the annual report of the Commissioner-General of Immigration for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, chargeable to the permanent appropriation "Expenses of regulating immigration," eight hundred and seventy dollars and sixty-seven cents.

For salary, expenses, and additional compensation in lieu of subsistence of Bertram N. Stump, immigrant inspector, while actually and necessarily detailed for special duty at the United States Civil Service Commission in Washington from July first, nineteen hundred and three, to August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and three, both dates inclusive, to assist in the preparation of marking examination papers of persons examined for the purpose of creating a civil-service register from which to select immigrant and Chinese inspectors, chargeable to the permanent appropriation "Expenses of regulating immigration," three hundred and fifty-five dollars and twelve cents.

For salary and expenses of William V. Howard, statistician in the immigration service at large, while actually and necessarily detailed for duty in the Bureau of Immigration in Washington from July first, nineteen hundred and three, to September twenty-second, nineteen hundred and three, both dates inclusive, in connection with the preparation of the annual report of the Commissioner-General of Immigration for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and three, chargeable to the permanent appropriation "Expenses of regulating immigration," five hundred and eighteen dollars and eighty-two cents.

To refund to R. W. Young, master of British steamship Linda, the sum of eighty dollars erroneously collected from him at Tampa, Florida, and covered into the Treasury for an alleged infraction of

sections twelve, thirteen, and fourteen of the immigration act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, eighty dollars.

For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including the traveling expenses of the person inspecting the repairs, eight thousand five hundred dollars.