306 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. II. Ch. 68. 1898. of chief clerk, three thousand dollars; tinancial clerk, two thousand dollars; chief of division, two thousand dollars; principal bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five clerks of class tour; twelve clerks of class three; draftsman, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand four hundred dollars; ten clerks of class two; twenty-three clerks of class one; thirteen clerks, at one thousand, dollars each; twelve copyists; one messenger; two assistant messengers; one laborer; female messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; and two charwomen; in all, one hundred and fifteen thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
- ’°”‘°° 0**** PENSION OFMOn: For the Commissioner of Pensions, five thousand
dollars; First Deputy Commissioner, three thousand six hundred dollars ; Second Deputy Commissioner, three thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant chief clerk, two thousand dollars; medical referee, three thousand dollars; assistant medical referee, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two qualified surgeons who shall be experts in their profession, at two thousand dollars each; thirty-eight medical examiners who shall be surgeons of education, skill, and experience in their profession, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; ten chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; law clerk, two thousand dollars; fifty-eight principal examiners, at two thousand dollars each; twenty assistant chiefs of division, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; three sten ographers, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; seventy clerks of class tour; eighty-five clerks of class three; three hundred and thirty clerks of class two; four hundred clerks of class one; two hundred and fifty clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one hundred and sixty copy- ists; superintendent of building, one thousand four hundred dollars; two engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three tire~ men; thirty-three messengers; twelve assistant messengers; twenty messenger boys, at four hundred dollars each; thirty-nvc laborers; ten female laborers, at tour hundred dollars each; fifteen charwomen; one painter, skilled in his trade, nine hundred dollars; one cabinetmaker, skilled in his trade, nine hundred dollars; captain of the watch, eight hundred and forty dollars; three sergeants of the watch, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; twenty watchmen; in all, one million nine hundred and seventy-one thousand two hundred and ten dollars: emma. Proziidcd, That in making reduction of force, from the number before ,,,,{§°{$ff§,f§,§’,{{°';$,{j provided for, the Head of the Bureau and Department shall in preferdieis ¤¤<1 ~¤i1¤r·¤- W- ence retain those persons who have been honorably discharged from the military or naval forces of the United States and the widows and daughters of deceased soldiers and sailors, unless there be other just cause for not retaining the same than said reduction. _Pqr diem. ew. i¤·~ For per diem, when absent from home and traveling on duty outside `°“"“'°"’"°‘ the District of Columbia, for special examiners or other persons employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertaining to said Bureau, in lieu of expenses for subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual and necessary expenses lor transportation and assistance and any other neces- ,.,.,,,.,,,,_ sary expenses, including telegrams. four hundred thousand dollars: Pro- ¤{·_i¤1*'¤¤d?·~¤i~*=¤¤* vided, That two special examiners, or clerks, detailed and acting as "’°““ °”""`°°"' chief and assistant chief of the division ·ot' special examiners, may be allowed, from this appropriation, in addition to their salaries and in lien of per diem and all expenses for subsistence. a sum sufficient to make their annual compensation two thousand dollars and one thousand eight hundred dollars, respectively, and whenever it may be necessary for either of them to travel on official business outside the District of Columbia by special direction of the Commissioner, he shall receive the same allowance in lieu of subsistence and for transportation as is herein provided for special examiners and detailed clerks engaged in iield service; and the Secretary of the Interior shall so apportion the sum herein appropriated as to prevent a deficiency therein.
