864 FIFTY-FIFTH CONGRESS. Sess. III. Ch. 187. 1899. P<>¤¤z¤.¤¤¤- For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, one thousand dollars. For purchasing material for binding important records, four hundred dollars. N¤*¤v•v<+¤· M- For newspapers, law books, city directories, and other books of ret! » erence relating to the business of the Department, one thousand dollars. ‘ rmnagauma. 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. Freishtww- For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, three thousand five hundred dollars. , nm. For rent of buildings, six thousand nine hundred and seventy . dollars. - B¤r¤¤¤¤¤¤W¤:¤¤v•- For purchase of horses and wagons, 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. he For purchase of ice, including ice for the oiilce of the Auditor for the Post-Oftice Department, two thousand five hundred dollars. File mam. For purchase of iile holders and tile cases, two thousand dollars. ruum. X For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate · . baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, nine thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, gas brackets, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, fourteen thousand dollars. mscsiimm. For washing and hemming towels, for the purchase of awnings and iixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, bcnzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skin s, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters, flower garden, street, and engine hose, lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plate , hand stamps and repairs of ame, 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 proposals, and for sales at public auction in Washington, District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer tees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, eight thousand dollars. Numbering me For purchase of registering accountants, numbering machines, and “"*“°”· °*"· other machines of a similar character, two thousand dollars. cxgasfcggmmwing No money appropriated by this Act shall be used for expense of ` repairing recording clocks used for recording time of clerks or other employees in any of the Executive Departments at Washhigton, nor shall there hereafter be used in any of the Executive Departments at Washington any such recording clocks. Cnrp¤¢¤· For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats, rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, three thousand dollars. Furniture For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair caning, chair covers, desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, ventilators, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, seven thousand dollars.
