FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ch. 9. 1897.139 clerk hire from July first to December sixth, inclusive, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, five hundred and nineteen dollars and thirty-three • cents. For allowances to the following contestants and coutestees, audited A“¤W%¤¤¤¤ M exand recommended by the Committee on Elections, for expenses incurred xrtiigu $.§°”t°md by them in contested election cases, namely: To J. M. Kendall, two thousand dollars; To James C. C. Black, two thousand dollars; . To Thomas E. Watson, two thousand dollars; To J . William Stokes, three hundred and forty dollars; To Taylor Beattie, two thousand dollars; To Andrew Price, two thousand dollars; To Charles J. Boatner, one thousand eight hundred and fifty-six dollars; To Alexis Benoit, two thousand dollars; in all, fourteen thousand one hundred and ninety-six dollars. ‘ . _ For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives, one S”'*”°¤°*'¥- hundred and twenty-five dollars. For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, forty-five thousand dollars. To pay William Tyler Page for clerical services rendered in the g”lQ:£i¤P¤:¤· Clerk’s office during the Fifty-fourth Congress, five hundred dollars. ym ` To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates of tc<L¤¤i¤1 r¤1>¤r¢¤r•. the House of Representatives and the official stenographers to commit- ° iisimimmmm. tees for moneys actually paid by·them from March eleventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety- seven, for clerical hire and extra clerical services, seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and to John J. Cameron two hundred and forty g*;f£f{}°'°¤· dollars; in all, five thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. ` To pay Charles H. Evans, for services to the Committee on Ways f,k¤¤;;;f§°Fr=~¤¤- and Means, five hundred and fifty dollars. y ' To pay George W. Cochran,for rent of room for use of subcommittee gwrze W- ¤·>¤1¤r¤¤· of Committee on Ways and Means, one hundred and forty dollars. “y"‘°”° ”°' To reimburse the Clerk of the House for expenses incurred and to be C,§j{¤j;}!g,*;gT;g;’ 0*;} incurred for services of a clerk and stenographer, at the rate of one peumrsausgtnptsr, hundred dollars per month, from December second, eighteen hundred °‘°· and ninety-tive, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one thousand eight hundred and eighty- eight dollars and four cents. To pay John H. Barnsley the difference between the pay of a folder g¤¤¤ H·t*:¤¤*¤¤l·>¥· and that of a messenger, at the rate of three dollars and sixty cents °’m°° °` per day, from July iirst, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, inclusive, five hundred and ninety·iour dollars and ninety-five cents. To pay Charles Carter and Harry Parker for caring for subcommittee H0*Ml$¤ E¤¤·¤ ¤¤•i rooms of the Committees on Appropriations and Wayis and Means, lgdyrmeaiit at seventy-five dollars each, one hundred and fifty dollars. To pay Harris A. Walters the difference between the pay of a folder §;*”*:¤*}&0W“*°”· and that of a messenger, at the rate of three dollars and sixty cents per ym ` day, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety- seven, inclusive, five hundred and ninety- four dollars and ninety-five cents. To pay Robert A. Stickney for services rendered in the office of the §:”°';u·;·,§**°k¤*¥- Clerk of the House of Representatives from January ninth, eighteen in ` hundred and ninety-six, to March fourth, eighteen hundred and ninety- seven, inclusive, one thousand three hundred and eighty-three dollars and thirty-four cents. To pay Guy Underwood the diiierence between the pay of a laborer $,§‘§",,K',{‘€{2'°°"‘ and that of a messenger in the hall library, at the rate of three dollars and sixty cents per day, from July first, eighteen hundred and ninety- six, to June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, inclusive, tive hundred and ninety-tour dollars. To pay C. W. Coombs, assistant Department messenger, at the rate §`;;,x,;,:'{"}f°"" of eighteen hundred dollars per annum, for services rendered and to be
