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which remain unpaid, six thousand three hundred and three dollars and seventy-five cents, or so much thereof, as may be necessary, and found upon examination by the Secretary of War to be just and proper charges. To enable the Secretary of War to repair the sub-marine cable, Block Island Bay, five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary in the judgment of the Secretary of War.

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For material for the gun-carriages for the Chicago, ten thousand dollars.

For powder for the Boston, twelve thousand dollars.

For labor in the Washington Navy Yard for continuing work on the armament of the new steel cruisers, sixty thousand dollars.

For freight and material for armament of the new steel cruisers, forty-eight thousand nine hundred and thirteen dollars.

For payment of foreign and domestic bills, for which vouchers have been issued and approved by the Bureau of Ordnance, for the armament of the new steel cruisers, thirty-seven thousand two hundred and ninety-four dollars and eighty-four cents, or so much thereof as may be found necessary.

To enable the Navy Department to pay existing obligations, under contracts made by the Bureau of Ordnance, for armament of the new steel cruisers, eighty-three thousand six hundred and fifty-five dollars and sixteen cents.

DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.

For fees of jurors, United States courts, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, fifty thousand dollars.

For fees of witnesses, United States courts, being for the service of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, one hundred and thirtyfive thousand dollars.

POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.

That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized to transfer from the appropriation for gas for the Post Office Department, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, to the appropriation for gas for buildings for the Money Order and Sixth Auditor's Offices, fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, a sum not exceeding two hundred and fifty dollars.

That the Postmaster-General be, and he is hereby, authorized to pay, out of the appropriation for rent, light, and fuel for the Post-Office Department for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, rent for the building on Capitol Hill used as a branch of the Washington city post-office, at a rate not to exceed thirty dollars per month, for the current fiscal year, or for such part thereof as the said building may be occupied for the purpose aforesaid.

INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.

For repairs to water-tank on the main building of the Freedman's Hospital and Asylum, Washington, District of Columbia, two hundred and sixty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.

SENATE.

For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, being a deficiency for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and eighty-six, five thousand dollars.

WATER SUPPLY DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.

The sum of five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to enable the Secretary of War to preserve from flooding or other injury during the suspension of operations thereon the tunnel now being constructed under authority of an act to increase the water supply of Washington City and for other purposes, approved July fifteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, the said sum to be subject to all the provisions and restrictions of said act and of the act approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, making appropriations for the expenses of the Government of the District of Columbia, as to its apportionment and settlement between the United States and the District of Columbia and the refunding thereof.

Approved, March 26, 1886.

[PUBLIC-No. 15.]

CHAP. 30.-An act to enable the Public Printer to continue in effect the provisions of the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution authorizing the Public Printer to remove certain material from the Government Printing Office" approved February sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That to enable the Public Printer to continue in effect the provisions of the joint resolution entitled "Joint resolution authorizing the Public Printer to remove certain material from the Government Printing Office," approved February sixth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, the sum of fourteen thousand five hundred dollars be, and the same is hereby appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.

Approved, March 29, 1886.

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