PUBLIC ACTS OF THE FIFTY-FIFTH CON CHESS 0I' THE UNITED STATES Passed at the second session, which was begun and held at the city of Washington,'in the District of Columbia, on Monday the sixth day of December, 1897, and was adjourned without day on the eighth day of July, 1898. ‘ WLLLIAM McKmLEY, President; Gumnr A. H012AM-, Vice-President and President of the Senate; WILLIAM P. FBYE, President of the Senate, pro tempore ; THOMAS B. REED, Speaker, and SERENO E. PAYNE, Speaker pro tenmore, of the House of Repre entatives. . CHAP. 1.-An Act Making appropfiations to provide for certain deficiencies in D¤¤6mb6r1G, 1897. the aippropriations for the service of the Government for the fiscal year ending June _"’;`—*‘·— thirt eth, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums, or so ggiciencies appromuch thereof as may be necessary, be, and the same are hereby, appro- P °““‘ printed, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, namely: NAVAL ACADEMY. N¤v¤¤ A<=¤d¤¤¤y- For the erection of a temporary wooden building for the purposes of instruction at the Naval Academy at Annapolis, Maryland. five thousand dollars. HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES. _,§f,gg§·=·>*’ R¤r~··<>¤*» To pay the following session employees of the House of Representa— S¤•¤i<>¤ ¤¤¤v1¤r•»•»¤- tives during the present session of Congress, at the rates of compensation and for the period specified in the Act making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety- eight, and for other purposes, approved March third, eighteen hundred ver 2s,p.sn,m. and ninety-seven, namely: One assistant index clerk in the office of the Clerk; thirty-three pages, two messengers, three folders, and ten laborers, under the Doorkeeper; seven messengers under the Postmaster; thirty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For mileage of Members of the House of Representatives and Dele· bc§_iL$;·z¤ of M··¤¤· gates from Territories for the second session of the Fifty-fifth Congress,' one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. SENATE. S¤¤¤¢·>· For mileage of Senators for the second session of the Fifty-liith Con- M“°°¤° °*`S°°'*°"~ gress. forty-ive thousand dollars. Approved, December 16, 1897. vox. xxx--15 225
