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APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1891,

AND

DEFICIENCIES FOR PRIOR YEARS.

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APPROPRIATIONS FOR 1891,

AND

DEFICIENCIES FOR PRIOR YEARS.

JOINT RESOLUTION to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That all appropriations for the necessary operations of the Government, and of the District of Columbia, under existing laws, which shall remain unprovided for on the thirtieth day of June, eighteen hundred and ninety, be, and they are hereby, continued and made available for a period of thirty days from and after that date, unless the regular appropriations provided therefor in bills now pending in Congress shall have been previously made for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one; and a sufficient amount is hereby appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to carry on the same: Provided, That no greater amount shall be expended for such operations than will be in the same proportion to the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, as thirty days' time bears to the whole of said fiscal year: Provided further, That the total expenditures for the whole of the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-one, under the several appropriations hereby continued, shall not exceed in the aggregate the amounts finally appropriated therefor in the several bills now pending, except in cases where a change is made in the annual, monthly, or per diem compensation, or in the numbers of officers, clerks, or other persons authorized to be employed by the several appropriations hereby continued, in which cases the amounts authorized to be expended shall equal thirty three hundred and sixty-fifths of the appropriations for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, and three hundred and thirty-five three hundred and sixty-fifths of the appropriations contained in the several bills now pending when the same shall have been finally passed, unless the salary or compensation of any office shall be increased or diminished without changing the grade or the duties thereof, in which case such salary or compensation shall relate to the entire fiscal year and run from the beginning thereof.

Approved, June 30, 1890.

JOINT RESOLUTION to continue the provisions of a Joint Resolution approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, entitled a "Joint Resolution to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government."

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of a joint resolution entitled a "Joint Resolution to provide temporarily for the expenditures of the Government," approved June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, be, and the same are hereby, extended and continued in full force and effect to and including the fourteenth day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety. Approved, July 30, 1890.

JOINT RESOLUTION to continue the provisions of existing laws providing temporarily for the expenditures of the Government.

Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the provisions of Joint Resolutions approved June thirtieth and July thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety,

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providing temporarily for the expenditures of the Government, be, and the
same are hereby, extended and continued in full force and effect to and in-
cluding the twenty ninth day of August, eighteen hundred and ninety..
Approved, August 14, 1890.

AN ACT making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the
Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one,
and for other purposes.

Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:

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SEC. 2. That the pay of assistant messengers, firemen, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen provided for in this act, unless otherwise specially stated, shall be as follows: For assistant messengers, firemen, and watchmen, at the rate of seven hundred and twenty dollars per annum each; for laborers, at the rate of six hundred and sixty dollars per annum each, and for charwomen, at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars per annum each: Provided, That hereafter it shall be the duty of the heads of the several Executive Departments of the Government to report to Congress each year in the annual estimates the number of employés in each bureau and office and the salaries of each who are below a fair standard of efficiency.

SEC. 3. That all acts or parts of acts inconsistent or in conflict with the provisions of this act are hereby repealed.

Approved, July 11, 1890.

SEC. 4. That hereafter all disbursing officers of the United States shall render their accounts quarterly; and the Secretary of the Senate shall render his accounts as heretofore; but the Secretary of the Treasury may direct any or all such accounts to be rendered more frequently when in his judgment the public interests may require.-Sundry Civil Act August 30, 1890.

* * * And no officer, clerk, or employé of any Executive Department who is also a notary public or other officer authorized to administer oaths, shall charge or receive any fee or compensation for administering oaths of office to employés of such Department required to be taken on appointment or promotion therein. And the Chief Clerks of the several Executive Departments and of the various bureaus and offices thereof in Washington, District of Columbia, are hereby authorized and directed, on application and without compensation therefor to administer oaths of office to employés required to be taken on their appointment or promotion.— Public Act August 29, 1890.

LEGISLATIVE.

UNITED STATES SENATE.

Salaries and Mileage of Senators, 1891.-For compensation of eighty-four Senators, four hun-
dred and twenty thousand dollars; for mileage of Senators, forty thousand
dollars.-Legislative Act July 11, 1890......
Salaries and Mileage of Senators, 1890.-For salaries and mileage of Senators, seventeen
thousand dollars.-Deficiency Act April 4, 1890. For compensation and
mileage of Senators, fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety, ten thousand
dollars.-Deficiency Act June 17, 1890......................

Salaries, Officers and Employés, Senate, 1891.-For compensation of the officers, clerks, mes-
sengers, and others in the service of the Senate, three hundred and fifty-two
thousand five hundred and twenty-six dollars and ten cents [amount ap-

$460,000 00

27,000 00

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