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dred thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter members of the Fourth Arkansas Mounted Infantry and their heirs shall be paid from the appropriation for "Arrears of pay, bounty, and so forth (certified claims)," the pay and allowances due them in accordance with the findings and report made by the referee, appointed under the provisions of the act approved February twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, entitled "An act for the relief of the Fourth Arkansas Mounted Infantry."

For payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances on account of service of officers and men of the Army during the war with Spain and in the Philippine Islands that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, two hundred thousand dollars.

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PUBLIC PRINTING AND BINDING.

For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing, including the costs of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Executive Office, and the Departments, including salaries or compensation of all necessary clerks and employees, for labor (by the day, piece, or contract), for rents, not exceeding fifty dollars for technical books of reference, and for all necessary materials which may be needed in the prosecution of the work, five million two hundred and fifty-seven thousand dollars; and from the said sum hereby appropriated printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely:

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For the War Department, two hundred and twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars, of which sum twelve thousand dollars shall be for the index catalogue of the library of the Surgeon General's Office.

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And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby

appropriated shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in additon thereto, in either of said last quarters, the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended: Provided, That so much as may be necessary for printing and binding the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, shall not be included in said allotment.

The Public Printer is authorized hereafter to procure and supply, on the requisition of the head of any Executive Department or other Government establishment, complete manifold blanks, books, and forms, required in duplicating processes; also complete patented devices with which to file money-order statements, or other uniform official papers, and to charge such supplies to the allotment for printing and binding of the Department or Government establishment requiring the same.

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SEC. 2. That all sums appropriated by this act for salaries of officers and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, and all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this act be, and the same are hereby, repealed.

Approved, June 28, 1902.

BY COMMAND OF LIEUTENANT GENERAL MILES:

H. C. CORBIN,

Adjutant General,

Major General, U. S. Army.

No. 75.

ADJUTANT GENERAL'S OFFICE.

Washington, July 12, 1902.

The following act of Congress is published for the information and government of all concerned:

An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and two, and for prior years, and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in the appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and two, and for prior years, and for other objects hereinafter stated, namely:

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WAR DEPARTMENT.

CONTINGENT EXPENSES: To pay amounts found due by the accounting officers of the Treasury on account of the appropriation, "Contingent expenses, War Department," for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, twenty dollars and thirty-eight cents.

STATEMENT OF RECEIPTS AND EXPENDITURES IN CURA AND THE PHILIPPINE ISLANDS: To enable the Secretary of War to employ temporary force and to pay all necessary expenses, including rent of rooms not to exceed one thousand five hundred dollars, in compiling for the information of Congress a detailed statement of the receipts and expenditures by the military government of Cuba since May first, nineteen hundred, in continuation and completion of the statement heretofore furnished of such receipts and expenditures covering the period from the beginning of American occupation to and including April thirtieth, nineteen hundred; and to enable the Secretary of War to pay all necessary expenses in compiling for the information of Congress a similar statement relating to the Philippine Islands of all receipts and expenditures from the date of American occupation, thirty thousand dollars, or

so much thereof as may be necessary, to be available until expended.

DEPOSIT OF CERTAIN MILITARY STORES FUNDS: All funds received as the value of military stores transferred by the several staff departments of the Army to the insular government of the Philippines shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States and remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three for the procurement of like military stores to replace those so transferred.

For payment of accounts for transportation of destitute citizens from Alaska to San Francisco and Seattle, eight thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.

RIVERS AND HARBORS: For the improvement of the Ohio River between Cairo and Mound City, twenty five thousand dollars, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and three, and to be expended only if in the opinion of the Secretary of War an emergency exists and such expenditure is required in the interest of navigation.

MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.

PAY DEPARTMENT: For pay of officers of the staff and line, six hundred thousand dollars; for pay of enlisted men, nine hundred thousand dollars; in all, one million five hundred thousand dollars, to be paid out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for "Pay, and so forth, of the Army" for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, which is hereby reappropriated for said purposes.

For mileage to officers traveling without troops, when authorized by law, one hundred thousand dollars to be paid out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for "Mileage to officers traveling without troops" for the fiscal year nineteen hundred, which is hereby reappropriated for said purpose.

SUBSISTENCE OF THE ARMY: Authority is hereby granted to the accounting officers of the Treasury to audit and allow certain accounts for services and subsistence of civilian cooks, butchers, and bakers employed on steamships chartered by the Government for the military expedition to Manila in eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, as set forth in Appendix D of House Document Numbered Five hundred and eighty-eight of the present session, two thousand six hundred and fortyseven dollars and sixty-seven cents.

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