FIFTYFOURTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. CHS. 3, 4. 1896, 1897. 48] That the oath or oaths required to be taken by marshals and deputy 0****** °*` ¤¤¤*¤*¤¤l¤· marshals before entering upon the duties of their respective offices may be administered by any officer of the United States or of any State authorized by law to administer oaths. That United States marshals may receive credit in the settlement of mfP:gl_‘*_{;*;_°‘ d°P¤· their accounts for amounts paid by them to their deputies for services iz. s., m¤.*rs2,1vss, heretofore rendered, notwithstanding any of said deputies may not ‘"’7·*’l"’"·m· m· have taken oaths of office in compliance with sections seven hundred and eighty-two and seventeen hundred and fifty-six or seventeen hundred and fifty-seven, Revised Statutes of the United States, prior to the rendition of said services. For fees of United States attorneys in the District of Columbia, f{,¤*,¤r¤$_y¤· Di¤¤i¤= twenty-two thousand six hundred dollars. ° °°"” `°' To establish a site for the erection of a penitentiary on the military ,Gg’;§f;_•3,'* S*°'°· P°'**· reservation at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, and for other purposes, under sus. ` the Act of June tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, twenty-five **”“·P·““°· thousand dollars. ` Legislative. For payment of the messengers of the respective States for convey- m}:,¤¤‘§:t¤g°¤ °' *1*** ing to the seat of Government the votes of the electors of said States ' for President and Vice-President of the United States, at the rate of twenty-five cents for every mile of the estimated distance by the most usual road traveled from the place of meeting of the electors to the seat of Government of the United States, computed for the one distance only, six hundred dollars. SENATE. Sanu- For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding one Foldingdollar per thousand, five thousand five hundred and twenty-three dollars and seven cents. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. unmmtormpwmut l VBS. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select commit- _Q£§_‘j‘;Ef‘°°“’· °'°·· tees, twenty thousand dollars. For fuel and oil for the heatiu g apparatus, three thousand dollars. F“°* ‘“" °“· To pay the account of the Keystone File Company, ilve hundred and P§;f;':;*;_}f_Q}jf”· thirty-eight dollars and fifty cents. PUBLIC PRINTING. 1>¤tn¤pi-aunt;. That the unexpended balances of the appropriations made for print- ;=*vP;>¤¤9**°¤¤c*:{ ing and binding for the Supreme Court of the United States for the d..l$r§1.° mutt ° fiscal years eighteen hundred and ninety- six and eighteen hundred and ninety-seven shall be expended under the direction of that court, and the printing for that court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order. Approved, December 22, 1896. ¢gAp_ 4_.Au Ad; To gmggd title sixty, chapter three, of the Revised Statutes, January 6, 1897. relating to copyrights.` Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That section forty-nine hun- Copyrights. dred and sixty-six of the Revised Statutes be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to read as followlsg I f _ t_ Da H d “SEc.4966, An rson pu IC y per orming or represen mg any _ ¤;··· ·= yr;) mndramatic or musizjaimcomposition for which a copyright has been W`} ° '“*’°“" ““‘ srsr L-vox. 29.-31
