FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. I. Ou. 2. 1897. 29 of claims for reimbursement of expenses incident to the last sickness and burial of deceased pensioners under section forty-seven hundred R· Sr “°°· *718* P·”“’· and eighteen of the Revised Statutes, and for no other purpose whatever, seventy-five thousand dollars: Provided, That no part of this Prg>vi#¤· amount be used in defrayin g the expenses of any person subpoenaed by Wm"""` the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “ fees of witnesses, United States courts.” COM1>ENsAT10N IN LIEU OF M01ET1Es:- For compensation in lieu of f€¤¤¤p¤z¤¤¤ti¤¤i¤1i¤¤ moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, ten thousand ° m°"m°S' ollars. EXPENSES OF LOCAL APPRAISERS’ MEETINGS: FOP d0fI'3»ylI1g {$118 `L0_cal appraisers' necessary expenses of local appraisers at annual meetings for the pur- ’“°°*’”g“· pose of securing uniformity in the appraisement of dutiable goods at diiferent ports of entry, eight hundred dollars. ALASKAN sniu. msnnmns: For salaries and traveling expenses of, A-¤¤¤k¤¤ ¤¤=1¤¤¤¤·>r- agents at seal nsheries in Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three wZg»¤¤¤·¤u¤¤e¤,¤ic. thousand six hundred and nfty dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; necessary traveling expenses of agents actually incurred in going to and returning from Alaska, not to exceed five hundred dollars each per annum; in all, twelve thousand nine hundred and nfty dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury. to furnish food, fuel, and rm to natives. clothing to the native inhabitants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, nineteen thousand (ive hundred dollars. For the protection of the salmon nsheries of Alaska, under the direc- Salmon ¤.i.m.s. tion of the Secretary of the Treasury, seven thousand dollars, to be immediately available: Provided, That in lieu of the three inspectors promo. _ whose employment is authorized by the Act of June ninth, eighteen u§,“§f‘}§‘Q‘,§f,*,‘Q,'{f,,g§‘ hundred and ninety-six, there shall be appointed by the President, by ¤r¤· 1 317 and with the advice and consent of the Senate, one agent, at a salary v° `2°'p' ' of two thousand five hundred dollars per annum, and one assistant agent, at a salary of two thousand dollars per annum. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay necessary expenses Fur-sealing 1..; of enforcing the conditions of section four of the Act approved April “°$’f,§_·§8f°,,_“_ sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety~four, giving effect to the award rendered by the Tribunal of Arbitration, at Paris, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, one thousand nve hundred dollars. To continue the investigation of the fur·seal nsheries of the North rumetinstma. Pacino Ocean and Bering Sea, authorized by public resolution of June rmmagmpu crew. eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and for the purpose of taking V°l·2°·P·*7°· such further steps as the President in his judgment may deem desirable to better protect seal lite and the seal interests of the United States, with a view to the nnal settlement of the question, twenty-nve thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be available during the nscal years eighteen hundred and ninety-seven and eighteen hundred and ninety-eight. The provisions as to detail of Government Dim! of £·:*;;‘¤· officers and employees, payment of their expenses, detail of vessels, mm mp °y ’ ` and employment and expenses of stenographers contained in said resolution of June eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, are hereby extended and made applicable to the nscal year eighteen hundred and ninetyeight: Provided, however, That experts who may be detailed I{’r·>¤*¤- , . . . · ay of experts from from the Government service on this work shall, during such detail, be Govemmm W-vm. paid their regular salary out of this appropriation and in addition thereto their actual expenses and five dollars per day each as extra compensation during the period of their absence from Washington while employed upon this work. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to pay to Doctor ur. Legnlliprg sie; Leonhard Stejneger the sum of nine hundred and forty dollars. and to LEE"' °"` " F. A. Lucas the sum of six hundred and thirty dollars, for extra services P•r¤¤¢¤*» *°·
