292 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 68. 1898. F¤>i¤¤*- For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, twenty-tive thousand dollars. Ccntinzenwxpenses- For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expended under the direction of the Director, namely: For assay laboratory, chemicals, fuel, materials, and other necessaries, one thousand dollars. For examination of mints, expense in visiting mints and assay offices for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations, two thousand five hundred dollars. For books, pamphlets, periodicals, specimens of coins and ores, balances, weights, and incidentals, four hundred dollars. S°“*°“°°· For the collection of statistics relative to the annual production of the precious metals in the United States, three thousand five hundred dollars. S0Mari¤¤ -H•>¤pi~¤1 Orrrcn or Surmnvrsins SURoEoN-GENERAL MARiNE—Hosr11·AL "'°°' SERVIGE: For Supervising Surgeon-General, four thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; live clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two clerks, at·one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk and translator, one thousand two hundred dollars; hospital steward (employed as chemist), one thousand two hundred dollars; six copyists; one messenger, six hundred dollars; two laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; and one laborer, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, twentydive thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars, the same to be paid from the permanent appropriations for the Marine-Hospital Service. m§;¤S·g¤lg;g;-1¤¤v¤¢· Ormcm Suriamvisms Insrncron-GENERAL S1·EAmmoAr-INsrnc- ` Tl0N SERVICE: For Supervising Inspector—General, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks of class three; one clerk of class one; one messenger; in all, ten thousand five hundred and forty dollars, the same to be paid from the permanent appropriations for the Steamboat-Inspection Service. I·¤¤¤iz¤¢i¤¤ Bu- BUREAU OF IMMJGRATIGN: For Commissioner—General of Immigra- ""' tion, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; contidential clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; statistician and stenographer, with power to act as immigrant inspector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one messenger; and one assistant messenger; in all, ten thousand five hundred and sixty dollars, which, together with other expenses of regulating immigration, shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses regulating immigration. 0<>¤¤i¤s¤¤¤¤¤x>¤¤¤¤¤- FOR CONTINGENT EXPENSES OF THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT, INOLUDING ALL BUILDINGS UNDER CONTROL OF THE TREASURY IN WASHINGTON, Drsrmcr or Cornmnm, namely: S*¤¤·>¤¤w· For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several Bureaus, twenty-six thousand dollars. P"“'“¤“· For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, one thousand dollars. N"‘**P*'P‘*'”· °°°· For newspapers, law books, city directories, and other books of reference relating to the business oi the Department, one thousand dollars. I¤"°'**4¤“°"*· For investigation of accounts and records, including the necessary traveling expenses, and for other traveling expenses, when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, in connection with special work, including the temporary employment of stenographers, typewriters, accountants, or other expert services outside the District of Columbia when not properly chargeable to any other appropriation under the control of the Treasury Department, five hundred dollars. Frmlm etc- For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, three thousand nve hundred dollars. Rpm. For rent of buildings, three thousand nine hundred and seventy · dollars. umm miwagtm. For purchase of horses and wagon, for office and mail service, to be used only for official purposes, care and subsistence of horses, including shoeing, and of wagons, harness, and repairs of the same, three thousand dollars.