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 Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper for United States securities, including transportation, traveling and laundry, and other necessary expenses, salaries for not more than ten months of not exceeding one register, two assistant registers, five counters, five watchmen, and one skilled laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury, $352,320.

Special witness of destruction of United States securities: For pay of the representative the public on the committee to witness the destruction by maceration of Government securities, at $5 per day while actually employed, $1,565.

Expenses of national currency: For distinctive paper, including transportation, traveling, mill, laundry, and other necessary expenses, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury, salaries for not more than two months of not exceeding one register, two assistant registers, five counters, five watchmen, and one skilled laborer; in all, $59,000.

Canceling United States securities and cutting distinctive paper: For extra Knives for cutting machines and sharpening same; leather belting, new dies and punches, repairs to machinery, oil, cotton waste, and other expenses connected with the cancellation of redeemed United States securities, $200.

Custody of dies, rolls, and plates: For pay of custodian of dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the printing of Government securities, namely: Two custodians, one at $2,000 and one at $1,800; three distributors of stock, one at $1,600, one at $1,400, and one at $1,200; in all, $8,000.

For operating force for public buildings: For the pay of such personal services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department (except as hereinafter provided), together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, and of sites for public buildings, including assistant custodians, janitors, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen; engineers, firemen, elevator conductors, coal passers, electricians, dynamo tenders, lampists, and wiremen; and for the mechanical labor force in connection with said buildings, including carpenters, plumbers, steam fitters, machinists, and painters, but in no case shall the rates of compensation for such mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place inigs for which where such services are employed, $2,500,000: Provided, That the foregoing appropriation shall be available for use in connection with all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the customhouse at Washington, District of Columbia, but not including any other public building within the District of Columbia, and exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices  And provided further, That hereafter, unless otherwise specifically provided by law, whenever the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to secure temporary quarters for the use of the Government officials pending the alteration, improvement, or repairs to, or the remodeling, reconstruction, or enlargement of, any public building belonging to the United States under the control of the Treasury Department, including the customhouse, Washington, District of Columbia, but exclusive of any other buildings in the District of Columbia, the appropriation for "Operating force for public buildings" shall be available, if necessary, in connection with certain portions of the premises as may be rented for, or occupied by, such officials, in the same manner, for the same purpose, and to the same extent as if the title to such premises were vested in the United States.