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FIFTY-FOURTH CONGRESS. Srtss. I. Ch. 373. 1896. 275 And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby directed, before paying mgl:$¤¤ *•· M rmover to the parties entitled to the same the amount allowed under the ` provisions of this Act, to require them, in consideration of the amount allowed, to release, discharge, and free the United States from all claim, demand, or damage by reason of any injuries received or losses sustained in the Ford’s Theater disaster, which occurred on the ninth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety-three: And the claims of Thomas D. Anderson, Ethelbert Baier, Edward C. Carroll, George R. Garnett, Thomas Morley, Charles R. Miller, George YV. Smoot, Smith Thompson, Nathan F. White, H. P. Willey, James A. \Vhite, Nina A. Kime, Mrs. Georgie R. Baldwin, and Julia Miller, be, and the same are hereby, referred back to the Joint Commission authorized in the Sun- V°l·”»P-39* dry Civil appropriation act approved August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, to investigate and report upon the Ford’s Theater disaster, with instructions to reexamine and report thereon. _ For compensation to E. V. Brookshire as a member of the Ford §“Y·af';j°'j;};$’-of Theater Commission, for twenty-one days subsequent to the expiration commission. of his term in the House of Representatives, at ten dollars per day, two hundred and ten dollars. For compensation to J . P. Piggott as a member of the Ford Theater {f,;;- ;*¤,§1°dff;m 0,. Commission, for nine days subsequent to the expiration of his term in commission. the House of Representatives, at ten dollars per day, ninety dollars. REVENUE-cowrmn SERVICE. _R..-.,,,,.,.(;,,t..,,5,,.-. ICG. For amount to supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “Expenses F¤v¤¤¤¤¤- of Revenue·Cutter Service, eighteen hundred and ninety- six," on account of extraordinary expenditures for that Service, arising from contingencies not foreseen when the annual estimate for eighteen hundred and ninety-six was submitted, i11 connection with the patrol of F¤r·¤¤=1r¤t¤=1- the North Pacific Ocean and Bering Sea, fifteen thousand dollars. ENGRAVMG AND PRINTING. 1,¥¤2M"i¤S ¤¤·* lllliilhg Bufeilll. For rental of the office now occupied by the agent of the Post-Office S¢¤¤¤1>¤g<¤¤¤- Department to supervise the distribution of stamps of the Bureau of R""` Engraving and Printing from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety- gva, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, six hundred o ars. That the compositors and pressiuen employed in the awards division m_{;;‘j,‘;°dQQ,;Qfj¥,;*°>`°°“· of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing shall be allowed leave of absence with pay not exceeding thirty days in any one year, or a pro rata portion thereof for a less time than one year, under such regulations and such time or times as the Chief of the Bureau, with the ` approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may prescribe and designate, and in conformity with the Act approved July sixth, eighteen v.,L2;,p_S;_ hundred und ninety-two, granting leaves of absence with pay to the employs-cs of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing; and for this pill`- pose the sum of three thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Publicbuildmgs. For old custom-house at Louisville, Kentucky: For outstanding I·"“‘“‘"m“- KF liabilities. expenses incident to sale of old custom-house, nine hundred and sixty-one dollars and sixty-six cents. _ _ For post-office at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: _For amount necessary §'$Q}f{}§Lg#’*é}:_;;d_ to acquire, by purchase or condemnation, and for the removal ot the buildings thereon, the lots or pieces of ground in the city of Philadelphia. Pennsylvania. adjoining or adjacent to the Philadelphia post-oflice building, additional to the sums appropriated therefor in the sundry V•>1.2S.rp. 373.912. civil appropriation acts for the fiscal years eighteen hundred and