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the sum of $500 is recommended as new

| the sum of $6,64O is recommended as new
| item.
For enlargement of Governors Island, N.
! Y, 100000 reduction of 100000.
For maintenance of sewer and street sys-
| tenn of Fort Monroe, Va. $S.490.5O, an in
| crease of $39S.
| tional Park, $133.O0O. a reduction of s117.-
600.
For national military parks, s1s3,oOO, a
| reduction of $4,000.
For survey of northern and northwestern
lakes, 100000. a reduction of $4,000.
For artificial limbs, $425,000, an increase
of $30j, 600. 49,
For protecting the harbor of New York
| from injurious deposits, $S5,26O, an increase
| of $12, 600.
| For other miscellaneous objects under the
War Department, including the California
debris commission, and for support of pa
tients at Providence and Garfield Hospitals,
| the amounts do not differ from the appro-
priations for the current fiscal year.
For the National Home for Disabled Vol
unteer Soldiers. 1892, 459, an increase of
$116,77O.
For continuing aid to state and territorial
homes for the support of disabled volunteer
soldiers. $1O75,0O0, an increase of Sl23 Ooo.
For payments of amounts certified to be
due on account of pay of bounty TO VOL
unteer soldiers, including volunteers In the
war with Spain, 100000, reduction OF
100000.
For court house. Washington, D. c.,
5000 reduction of $25, $40.
For continuing construction of the penf-
tertiary at Fort Leavenworth, kans, $24O,-
600, the same the amount appropriated
for the current fiscal year.
For continuing construction of the peni-
Tertiary at Atlanta, Ga, the sum of $4,000
is recommended new item
For miscellaneous objects under the De-
partment of Justice, $31O5OO, reduction
of $12, 500.
For expenses of United States courts,
S6,275, 1872, an increase of $114, $50.
For Department of Agriculture building
the sum of 100000 is recommended as
new item.
For marking boundary line between Alas
ka and Canada the sum of $65, 600 is recon-
mended new item.
For demarcation and mapping of the
boundary line between the United States
For the legation building at Picking,
China. for which $4,000 was appropriated
In the last sundry civil act, there is recon-
mended $40 coo for completion of the build
ing and $4,000 for furnishing the same.
For objects under legislative, $4,000, "a
reduction of $500.
For public printing and binding, $6,33O,.
G42 80, the same as the sum appropriated
for the current year.
Horses and Vehicles.
Legislation has been enacted at this ses-
sion prohibiting the use of any part of any
general appropriation for purchase, main
tenance and driving of horses and vehicles
IOT the OIllCldl use VI any OillCel VI Tic
government unless the same is authorized
by law is specifically appropriated for
by Congress
Under the operation of this law the neces-
sity for horses and vehicles for the official
use of government officials was presented
to the committee in connection with appro-
priatiOnS made in the accompanying bill.
The committee gave to the representations
made to them the most careful conSidera-
ton, and as the result of their conclusions
hay commanded Snpcific nrOViSiOn,
in general appropriations, for horses and
vehicles for in the public service, as
follows: For the bureau of engraving and
printing the Geological Park, the fish COM
mission the office of the superintendent of
the Capitol, the Government Hospital for
the Insane, the office of public buildings
and grounds in Washington. the executive
office, and the government printing office.
Limitations.
The following limitations touching GER
tain branches of the public service FOR
which appropriations are recommended and
not heretofore imposed are submitted in |
the bill, namely:
The said office building when complete, |
and the employment of all services that |
may be appropriated for by Congress, nee |
essary for it's protection, care and opera |
ton, shall, subject to the approval and di- |
rection of the committee on rules of the |
House of Representatives, be under the |
control and supervision of the superintend- |
ent of the Capitol building and grounds. |
who shall submit annually to Congress es |
Inmates in detail for all such services and |
for other expenses in connection with SAL |
building and necessary for its use and Oc- |
cupancy: and said committee on rules shall |
from time to time prescribe rules and reg |
ulations to govern said superintendent IN |
making all such employments together |
with rules and regulations governing the |
use and occupancy of all rooms and spaces |
III said building.
Taken From District Control
The Secretary of the Interior is author
lied. under such regulations as may be |
prescribed by him. to receive and care for |
pay patients at the Freedmen's Hospital
and is further authorized, in his discretion,
to enter into contract with the Commits
sioners of the District of Columbia for the
care and treatment of persons from the |
District of Columbia admitted to said hos
pital; and any money that may be received |
from either of these sources on and after
July /, 1905, shall be paid to the Secretary
of the Interior, to be applied to the uses
and purposes of the hospital.
Hereafter estimates for expenses and |
of the Freedmen's Hospital
and Asylum shall be submitted by the Sec
rotary of the Interior.
That the sum of $4,000, appropriated by
the sundry civil appropriation act approved
March 3, 1903, and sums hereafter appro-
priated under authority conveyed in said
act for the construction of a new Freed
mems Hospital building and accessories,
shall be paid wholly from the treasury of
the United States, and any part of said
sum or sums already expended from the
revenues of the District of Columbia shall
be reimbursed and credited to said reve-
nues
District to Pay One Half.
Also the following:
That from and after July 1, 1905 all of
the expenses of the Supreme Court of the
District of Columbia and of the Court of
Appeals District of Columbia, the office
Of the United States marshal for said
District and the office of the district at
-orney for said District including the
salaries of the Judges of the Supreme |