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 SIXTY-FIRST CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 297. 1910. 493 For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union P°m¤°- countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, one thousand five hundred dollars. For newspapers, newspaper clippings, law books, city ·directories, N°”¤P¤P°*¤·°*°- and other boo s of reference relating to the business of the department. one thousand dollars. For investigation of accounts and records, and to secure better 0b{;};;1°*;ggg:*g,§m,j12 methods of a ministration, with a view to greater economy in the jstrative masons. expenditure of public money, including necessa traveling expenses, in connection with special work, or obtaining oflgetter administrative methods in any branch of the service within or under the Treasury Derilartment, including the temporary employment of agents, stenograp ers, accountants, or other expert services either within or without the District of Columbia, sevent -five thousand dollars. For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, seven Freizht. ew. thousand dollars. For rent of buildings, fifty-nine thousand two hundred and eighty- B¤¤¢- six dollars. For purchase and exchange of horses and wagons, for oiilice and mail H°”°“ "‘d ‘"*°“'· service, to be used only for official purposes, care and subsistence of horses, including shoeing, and of wagons, harness, and repairs of the same, three thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of iile holders and file cases, four thousand dollars. m°’· For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and gpease, grates, grate FM? baskets and fixtures, blowers, co hods, coal s ovels, pokers, and torigs, eleven thousand dollars. _ or purchase of glas, electric current for lighting and sewer puiiposes, ¥·*8W¤8'· gas and electric—lig t fixtures, electric-light wiring an materia, canles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, seventeen thousand dollars. For washing and hemming towels, for the purchase of awnings and “‘°°°““°°“* fixtures, win ow shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentinc, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, rushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower—garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps, and repairs of same, stamp ink, spittoons soap, matches, match safes, sponies, tacks traps, thermometers, toilet paper, tools, towels, towel rac s, tumblers, wire zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpeniragtools, advertising for prolposals, and for sales at public auction in ashington, District of Co umbia, of condemned pro rty belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fldgs, and plurchase of other absolutely necessary articles, eleven thousand five undred dollars. IMO _ For purchase of labor·saving machines, six thousand dollars. camas,"°v`°g m°` For shelving and transferring records and files from and to the Treas- °,{”**"°‘°"'*¤g fi l °’· ury building and its annexes in Washington, Eve hundred dollars. For purc ase and exchange of registering accountants, numbering Nuxpbeaag, em., machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time m°°m"°S° stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, three thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of carpets, caplpet border and lining, linoleum, mats, G•ri>¢¤,e¤¤- l’\lgS, matting, and repairs, an for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, four thousand dollars. For plurchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair caning, chair covers, F¤¤’¤i¤¤’¢— desks, ookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, ventilators, typewriters, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, was stands, water coo ers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, ten thousand dollars.