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1034 FIFTY—SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 831. 1901. . oil, and introduction and maintenance of electric lights; straw for bedding, mattresses, mattress covers, pillows, sheets; wire bunk bottoms for enlisted men at various posts; furniture for Government quarters and repair of same, and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at homeland abroad, but im ossible to anticipate o1· classify, twenty-eight thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For improvements and repairs to buildings, sewerage, plumbing, prison ce ls, lights, and other necessary expenses, marine barracks, navy-yard, New York, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars. Miscellaneous. MISCELLANEOUS. ‘ R°‘mb“’S€m°“°“· To reimburse Paymaster Henry E. E. Jewett, United States Navy, the amount paid by him, on order of Captain C. M. Chester, senior officer in Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, to the master of the schooner Talofa, in settlement of claim for dama es done to his vessel by the United States Steamship Newark, and giecked against Paymaster Jewett’s account by the accounting officers of the Treasury, thirty-five dollars. To reimburse Commander John C. Wilson, United States Navy, the l amount paid for repairs to a private launch damaged by the steam launch of the United States Steamship Indiana, and checked against his accounts by the accounting officers of the Treasury, twenty-five dollars. To reimburse the George B. Douglass Trading Company, New York, the amount of overpayment to the Government by said company for scrap iron and steel plate purchased at a sale of condemned material at the navy-yard, New York, in Ma , nineteen hundred, one hundred and twenty-four dollars and sixty-three cents. To reimburse the New York, New Haven and Hartford Railroad Company the amount of damage done to its wharf at New London, Connecticut, by the United States tug Osceola, fifteen dollars. The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow in the settlement of the accounts of Pay Director H. T. -Wright, United States Navy, payments to per diem civil establishment employees at the navy-yard, Brooklyn, New York, during the war with Spain, in the Hscal years eighteen hundred and ninety- eight and eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, made by direction of the commandant’s order of March twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, under telegraphic instructions of the same date from the Navy De artment, and amounting to two thousand two hundred and fifteen dollars and sixty-two cents. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. I,,’§§’§§{Y‘“"“° °f ""’ For postage stamps for the - Department of the Interior and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, five hundred dollars. , hc(;$’“‘°’“‘" Lam Of Of the whole number of United States maps procured under the m;)IjSS'=*ib¤*~i°¤ of appropriation made for the fiscal yeareghteen hundred and ninety- · ` nine, or connected and separate United tates and other maps prepared in the General Land Office, there shall be delivered, in addition to the number now required by law, five thousand four hundred copies to the Senate and ten thousand eight hundred and thirty copies to the House of Representatives for distribution; and the appropriation of fourteen thousand eight hundred and forty dollars for connected and separate United States and other maps made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one is hereb made available for expenditure during ,,,§§’§“§§°§ §,‘§§,§f,§’é the fiscal year nineteen hundred, and two. The Public Printer is hereby ¤¤*h¤*iZ€<l)- authorized to print, on the requisition of the Secretary of the Interior, five thousand copies of the connected and separate United States and other maps prepared in the General Land Office, for sale by the Interior Department under the laws and regulations now in force.