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FTETY-SIXTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. cn. sai. 1901. 1045 thareof to be iixed by the Attorney-General, for the fiscal years as fol ows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and one, six thousand dollars. For the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, one thousand one hundred and eighty-tive dollars. DEEENDTNG SUITS IN CLAIMS AGAINST THE UNITED STATES! For c,Q;§;¤di¤€ Suits i¤ defraying the necessary expenses, including salaries of necessary ` employees in Washington, District of Columbia, incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, lto be egplepfled under the direction of the Attorney General, t ree thousand dollars. For defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States, and in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including the payment of such expenses as in the discretion of the Attorney-General shall be necessary for making proper defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, five hundred and ten dollars and fifty cents. DEFENSE IN INDIAN 1>ErRE1>AT1oN CLAIMS! To pay amounts found ch§g§;{*“ d*’P""mi°“ due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation "Defense in Indian depredation claims" for the iiscal year nlineteen hundred, one hundred and forty-seven dollars and ninety- t ree cents. PROSECUTION or cn1MEs: To pay amounts found due by the account- cr$é>SS€¢¤*i¤¤ Of ing officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation “Prose- ` cution of crimes" for the iiscal year nineteen hundred, four hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents. D PAYMENT Fon LEGAL SERVICES IN CIRCUIT COURTS or APPEALS: For p€g§;°¤“ °°““S W the payment, upon accounts approved by the Attorney-General, of Papinenp for less! claims for compensation on account of legal services rendered and $§§§}$§i_ m‘ auth"` expenses incurred in cases before the United States circuit courts of appeals, prior to June sixth, nineteen hundred, the amount of said compensation to be determined by the Attorney- General, six thousand five hundred andtwenty-five dollars. _ For payment to Henry L. Burnett, United States attorney for the southern district of New York, for legal services rendered under direction of the Attorney-General, in the supreme court of the State of New York, in the case of John G. Hassard against United States of. Mexico, and the States of Tamaulipas and San Luis Potosi, five hundred dollars, and in the case of James C. Jewett against United States pi; Mgxico, two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, seven hundred and ty o lars. To reimburse John F. Horr, United States marshal for the southern Reimbursemntsdistrict of Florida, the amount erroneously paid into the Treasury of the United States, instead of being deposited to the credit of the prize fund in the case of the United States against the Buena Ventura, and slubsequently paid from his personal 1'€S0l11'C€S, thirty dollars and `fty cents. To reimburse Canada H. Thompson, United States marshal for the district of Oklahoma, for ayments made by him and disallowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury in his accounts under thearogriation “Salaries, fees, and expenses of marshalS," to John M. Hale, eputy United States marshal, for traveling expenses incurred by said deputy in July, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, in perfecting plans whereby writs to arrest, issued in connection with the burning of the Seminole Indians, Lincoln McGiesey and Palmer Sampson, could be executed, twenty-one dollars and eighty-five cents; a id to Office