FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 68. 1898. 293 For purchase of ice including ice for the office of the Auditor for the I¤¤· Post-Otiice Department, two thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of iile holders and file cases, two thousand dollars. Fm ’*°m°”°· For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate F“°*·°’°°· baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal, shovels, pokers, and tongs, nine thousand nve hundred dollars. For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, ¤:M¤· gas brackets, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, fourteen thousand dollars. For washing and hemming towels, for the purchase of awnings and M*°°°u”*°°“•- fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpeutine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters, flower garden, street, and engine hose, lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps, and repairs of same, stamp ink, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, advertising for proposal , and for sales at public auction in Washington, District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, eight thousand dollars. For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats, °*“'P°"°· rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, three thousand dollars. For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair caning, chair covers, Furnituredesks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, veutilators, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, seven thousand dollars. oornncrme rnrnnuxn nnvmwn. m§g,{{$gf*”g *"**’¤***‘ . For salaries and expenses of collectors and deputy collectors and C°“°°“’"·°°°· surveyors, and clerks, including transportation of public funds, and also including expenses of enforcing the Act of August second, eighteen V¤¤-24·x·—2¤¤>· hundred and eighty-six, taxing oleomargarine, and the Act of August V¤r 24.1*- 218- fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, imposing upon the Government ` the expense of the inspection of tobacco exported; also the Act of June V¤l· 2** 1* 25** sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, imposing a tax on filled cheese, _ one million seven hundred and ten thousand dollars: Provided, That §[_°';§§;€m 0,. m the nmnber of deputy collectors and clerks employed in the collection pioyses or mma of internal revenue shall not be increased, nor shall the salaries of said officers and employees be increased beyond the salaries paid during the last fiscal year. For salaries and expenses of agents, fees and expenses of gaugers, AS°¤**·8*“¤°¤-ewsalaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeeper-gaugers, and miscellaneous expenses, one million nine hundred thousand dollars. innnvnnnnnr rnnssnnr. m§'§"°P°“‘*°“* "°” Orman or xssrsrnrr rnmnsunnn. AT Banrmonnz For assistant nggigjugf ¤¤¤“*¤¤° treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, two thousand nuitimm. five hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; three vault watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, twenty-three thousand eight hundred dollars. Orricn or Assiscranr crnnnsnnnn AT Bosronz For assistant treas- B°’*°"· urer, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; paying teller, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant paying teller, two thousand two hundred dollars; vault clerk. two thousand dollars; receiving teller, two thousand dollars; tlrst book·
