Page:United States Statutes at Large Volume 30.djvu/98

FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 2. 1897. 59 President and Vice-President of the United States, as transmitted by the executive of each State to the Secretary of State, one thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. PUBLICATION on INTERNATIONAL CATALOGUE OF ExroETs AND 1 I=?*=¤¤;,¤i<>¤·¤;t cw; IMPORTS: For completion of the compilation and publication, under £$$·tZ, °xp° ° an the direction of the Secretary of State, of a uniform nomenclature of articles of merchandise; exported and imported, in the English, Spanish, and Portuguese languages, as provided by the International American Conference, five thousand dollars. NIGAEAGUA CANAL Commission: To continue the surveys and §jg*j;$§;jfjg¤;L¤_ examinations authorized by the Act approved March second, eighteen anus sumysm. hundred and ninety-jive, entitled “An Act making appropriations for v°]·”“*P·"‘* the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for other purposes," into the proper route, the feasibility and cost of construction of the Nicaragua Canal, with the view of making complete plans for the entire work of construction of such canal as therein provided, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and to carry out this purpose the President of the United States is authorized to appoint, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, a commission to consist of one engineer from the Corps of Engineers of the United States Army, one officer of the Navy, who may be taken from the active or retired lists, and one engineer from civil life, said commission to have all the powers and duties conferred upon the commission provided for in said Act. INTEmuT10Nu. CoN1¤*EEENcE OF TEE RED Csossz For necessary Imm¤tio¤¤1 Gouexpenses of delegates to represent the United States at the Interna- °* “‘° “°° tional Conference of the Red Cross to be held at Vienna, Austria, » between the twentieth and thirtieth days of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one thousand five hundred dollars, and for contribution on the part of the United States toward the expenses of said conference, five hundred dollars; in all, two thousand dollars, to be gxpended under the direction and in the discretion of the Secretary of tate. UNDER THE POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. m,§;°;§°°*¤°° D°¥••"* The Postmaster-General is hereby authorized and directed to pay to J W- Bk Cjlgv QM W. B. Cooley, late chief clerk of the Post-Oiiice Department, and ..,'L'{,`€°¤.,_ ’ ° ’ P y` James R. Ash, chief of the division of correspondence therein, out of the appropriation of forty thousand three hundred and sixty-five dollars, made by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety- v°i.z¤,p.ea¤. one, for anew edition of the Postal Laws and Regulations, the sum of two thousand dollars, in such shares as he may deem proper, for preparing compiling, codifying, and editing the said edition of Postal Laws and Regulations, and for making a new index thereto, the work having been done outside of office hours and at night, by direction of the Postmaster-General, and for thi purpose said sum of two thousand dollars is hereby reappropriated. UNDER LEGISLATIVE. ‘·°€*°‘*“"°· STATEMENT or Ar·1>1z01>E1AT1oNs: For prepax-ation,under the direc- r§*-*;,3*]:: °‘ *1* tion of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of P P ` Representatives, of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the second session of the Fifty-fourth Congress, as required by the Act approved October nineteenth, eighteen VOL 25· 1>·5¤'*· hundred and eighty-eight, one thousand two hundred dollars, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work. _ To enable the Secretary of the Senate and the Clerk of the House of ,,,‘}",‘], ,‘,‘L‘,‘{,’}f,‘,E:,,,"§,i‘{,‘} Representatives to pay to the officers and employees of the Senate and »•· and panic or Rep House borne on the annual and session rolls on the first day of February, "°°°°°° '"'