Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1889-01-07

Providence Hospital and for the Garfield Hos
pital, are made payable one-half from the reve-
nues of the District of Columbia and one-half
out OF the treasury of the United States.
THE REBELLION RECORDS.
Following the appropriation for the publica-
cation Of the Official Records of the War of
the Rebellion, the following provision, con-
tanned in the sundry civil act for the current
year, is repeated. but modified by the insertion
OF the words appearing between quotation
marks
That hereafter, before publication of any
| volume of said records the manuscript copy
| shall be submitted to the Secretary of War, and
| revised by him. ''or by committee to be
| selected by him for that purpose, from such
| clerks in the Office of the Adjutant-General as
| have an expert knowledge of the war records"
and shall not be published until he shall certify
| that it only contains the contemporaneous
official records of the war of the rebellion, as
provided for by the ''act making appropria-
tions for the legislative, executive, and judicial
expenses OF the government for the fiscal year
ending June 80 1887, and for other pur-
poses" approved July 81. 1886. 'And from
and after the passage of this act the records
| which have been. or which may hereafter be,
selected for publication, shall be accessible to
the public, under such regulations as the Sec
retary OF War may prescribe. but in no case
| the original records from the department
! building"
REGULATIONS IN REGARD TO ERECTION OF PUB
| Lie BUILDINGS.
In connection with the appropriations for
public buildings new provisions are made that
hereafter no plan shall be prepared or approved
by the Secretary of the Treasury for any pub
lie building authorized by Congress to be
erected. until after the site therefor shall
have been purchased and paid for; and he shall
not authorize or approve of any plan for any
such building which shall involve greater ex-
penditure in the completion of such building,
including heating apparatus elevators and ap-
proaches thereto, than the amount that shall
remain of the sum specified in the law author
ing the erection of such building the limit
of the cost of the site and building, after the
site shall have been paid for. That here
after the United States shall not be responsible
for or chargeable with any expense attending
the paving or reepaving OF any streets
building constructed by the United States
outside of the District of Columbia.
That hereafter commissions shall not be paid
Tor disbursements on account of construction
OF public buildings except for moneys actually
handled and paid out by disbursing agents;
and payments for buildings constructed under
contract. and for sites therefor, shall be made
by the Treasury department at Washington,
District OF Columbia, by drafts or checks pay
able to the contractors for the buildings and
grantors of sites their legal representatives.
with the procurement of titles to sites for pub
| lie buildings shall be rendered by United
States district attorneys. and without extra
compensation therefor; PrOcided, further. That
hereafter, in the procurement of sites for pub
lie buildings. it shall be the duty of the Attor-
ney-General to require the grantors in each
case to furnish, free of all expense to the gov
ernment, all requisite abstracts official certi-
fications, and evidences of title that the At
torney-General may deem necessary.
MISCELLANEOUS ITEMS.
As stated in Saturdays STAR, the royalty for
the use of steam presses in the bureau of en-
craving and printing is reduced from 81 to
cent.
In connection with the appropriation for
salary of the superintendent of the coast and
geodetic survey, it Is provided that said super
intendent shall be appointed by the President
by and with the consent of the Senate.
Following the appropriations of the coast and
GsQdetic. survey the following provision is in
serted: Nor shall there hereafter be made
any allowance for subsistence to officers of the
navy attached to the coast and geodetic sur
vey."
In the appropriation for surveying the public
lands, $40, 900 of the whole sum given is pro-
vided for the survey of lands opened to settle
ment in the territory of Montana under the act
approved May /, 1883. The commissioner of
the general land office, with the approval of the
Secretary of the Interior, is also authorized in
cases of exceptional difficulties in the survey of
the public lands. and where the work cannot be
contracted for at the usual rates prescribed in
connection with the appropriation. to make
compensation for surveys and resurveys at
rates not exceeding Sl8 per linear mile for
standard and meander lines, SIS for township,
and S12 for section lines.
MILITARY POSTS.
Following the appropriation for military
posts, the following is inserted: THAT so much
of the sundry civil appropriation act for the
fiscal year 1886, approved March 3, 1885, as
appropriates 100000 to enable the Secretary
of War to acquire good and valid title for the
United States to the Fort Brown military reser-
vation, Texas, and to pay and extinguish all
claims for the use and occupancy of said reser-
walton by the United States, be, and the same
is hereby, suspended, except as to $4,000 of
said sum, until otherwise ordered by Con-
gress."
VTHE SIGNAL SERVICE.
In connection with the appropriations for
the signal service the following provisions are
inserted, namely: "And the Secretary Of War,
as he may think proper, may cause to be issued
such meteorological instruments mot exceed
ing one set valued at SIS to any one county,
to voluntary unpaid observers, in order to Sc
cure meteorological data from such observers.
under regulations to be prescribed by the Sec
retary of War"
THAT all medical accounts of the signal SER
vice shall go for examination and audit to the
same auditor and controller by whom the other
| accounts of the signal service are examined
and audited"
THAT the appropriations herein made for
the pay proper of enlisted men for commute
tion of ratfons, for Communication of fuel, and
for commutation of quarters, shall be paid
monthly to each enlisted man entitled thereto,
by one check. upon one properly-certified
voucher. and for that purpose the several ap-
preparations shall constitute one fund"
OTHER PROVISIONS.
Provision is made that the accounting officers
of the Treasury shall audit. adjust, and settle
the accounts of marshals and their deputies
within sixty days next after the same are pre-
sented for allowance.
The appropriation for the bureau of engrav-
ing and printing is reduced $4,000.
In the coast survey office one clerk, at 81, 500,
is reduced to 81 200, and one $500 clerk and
an $50 attendant are dispensed with.
A reduction OF 81 800 is made in rent for fish
commission Office, and an increase of S3, $40
for distribution OF young fish.
An increase of $50, 900 is given the interstate
commerce commission.
An increase of Sl6,lS5 is given the insane
hospital.
A COMMISSION TO VISIT ALASKA.
committee of seven members Of the next
House, to be appointed by the present Speaker,
is provided for to visit Alaska, to inquire into
the expenditure of appropriations for that ter
ritory, the condition of the laws. the resources
of the territory, and the boundary question.