SEC. 8. That every postmaster shall reside within the delivery of the office to which he is appointed or within the town or city where the same is situated, and section thirty-eight hundred and thirty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States is hereby repealed. Approved, April 28, 1904. Total, Post-Office Act.. $172, 545, 998. 75 RIVER AND HARBOR APPROPRIATION ACT. [PUBLIC NO. 193.] By the Act Providing for the restoration or maintenance of channels, or of river and harbor improvements, and for other purposes, approved April 28, 1904. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That, in view of the fact that no general river and harbor bill is to be enacted during the present session, and in view of the necessity of temporary provision for the preservation of existing work, the sum of three million dollars be, and the same is hereby, appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to be immediately available and to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and the supervision of the Chief of Engineers, for the following purposes and under the limitations herein set forth, to wit: For the restoration or maintenance of channels, or of river and harbor improvements, established or made by the Government, where the usual depth of such channels or customary use of such improvement has become, or may be, impaired and there is no sufficient fund available for such restoration or maintenance, with a view to preserve in their normal condition of efficiency existing channels and improvements: Provided, That allotments from the amount herein named shall be made by the Secretary of War, and no such allotment shall be made unless the necessity for such restoration or maintenance shall have arisen since the passage of the river and harbor Act of June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, and the same shall be recommended by the local engineer having such channel or improvement in charge and the Chief of Engineers, respectively: Provided further, That no single channel or improvement shall be allotted a sum greater than fifty thousand dollars, nor any portion of the said appropriation, unless the same is necessary in the interest of navigation or to protect and preserve any existing Government work in the interest of navigation SEC. 2. That in all cases in which appropriations or authorizations have heretofore been made for the completion of river and harbor works the Secretary of War may, in his discretion, on the recommendation of the Chief of Engineers, apply such amounts as have been appropriated or authorized for the prosecution of such work. SEC. 3. That in order to repair the damage caused by the flood of nineteen hundred and three, and to restore and continue the improvement in the levee system of the Mississippi River interrupted by that flood, the Secretary of War may, as recommended by the Mississippi River Commission, enter into contract or contracts for levee work upon the Mississippi River between Cairo and the Head of the Passes during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, to the extent of one million dollars, to be paid for out of the appropriation for that stretch of the river, authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and two, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, when the appropriation for the last-named fiscal year shall become available. SEC. 4. That no appropriations heretofore or hereafter made for improving harbors and deepening channels shall be used for the construction of Government dredges for use on the Great Lakes or on the $3,000,000.00 Atlantic coast north of Cape Henry unless there shall be a specific appropriation for that purpose: Provided, however, That this provision shall not apply to any dredge the construction of which has heretofore been authorized by the Secretary of War. Approved, April 28, 1904. Total, River and Harbor Act.. S. Doc. 315, 58—1—2——16 $3,000,000.00 SUNDRY CIVIL APPROPRIATION ACT. [PUBLIC NO. 194.] By the Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, and for other purposes, approved April 28, 1904. 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, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five, namely: UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. PUBLIC BUILDINGS. Allentown, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Anderson, Indiana, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars $25,000.00 15,000.00 Anniston, Alabama, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars.. 15,000.00 Athens, Georgia, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. 40,000.00 Atlantic, Iowa, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, twelve thousand five hundred dollars .. 12,500.00 25, 000, 00 Atlantic City, New Jersey, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Baltimore, Maryland, custom-house: For continuation of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to acquire, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, the properties known as the Peabody and Gunton properties, immediately adjacent to the site of the said custom-house building, abutting on Water street, Exchange place, and Post-Office avenue, in the city of Baltimore, Maryland, at a cost not to exceed the sum of ninety thousand dollars; and the said Secretary is hereby authorized to use for that purpose the sum of twenty-four thousand nine hundred and eighty-eight dollars and eighty-one cents remaining available from the purchase of the Merchants' National Bank property, together with the further sum of sixty-five thousand and eleven dollars and nineteen cents, which sum is hereby appropriated for that purpose... And the sum of one hundred and seventy-one thousand six hundred dollars is hereby appropriated, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to make good the damage to the Baltimore, Maryland, customhouse by the great fire in Baltimore on February seventh and eighth, nineteen hundred and four, and not covered by insurance, and the contractors, Henry Smith and Sons, are released to the extent of said sum or so much thereof as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine may be necessary to replace any work or materials in said customhouse destroyed or injured by said fire: Provided, That said release shall operate as a bar to any claim of said Henry Smith and Sons for any damages incurred by them in constructing said building in excess of said sum of one hundred and seventy-one thousand six hundred dollars 165, 011. 19 171,600.00 . For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials at Baltimore, Maryland, one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars Bangor, Maine, custom-house and post-office: To reimburse the appropriation for construction the amount necessarily used in repairing the foundation, six thousand dollars.. Baraboo, Wisconsin, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars Batesville, Arkansas, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars... Battle Creek, Michigan, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars Centerville, Iowa, post-office: For completion of building under present limit, sixteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars Champaign, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Charlottesville, Virginia, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars.. Chicago, Illinois, temporary building for post-office: For rental of temporary quarters for the accommodation of certain Government officials for the year ending March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and five, twenty-six thousand seven hundred and fifty-eight dollars and seventy-nine cents.. Chicago, Illinois, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, five hundred thousand dollars Chillicothe, Ohio, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.... Cleveland, Ohio, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials, and all expenses incident thereto, fifty-two thousand dollars Colorado Springs, Colorado, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, eleven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Deadwood, South Dakota, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars_ Dekalb, Illinois, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars..... Detroit, Michigan, post-office and court-house: For repairs and improvements to enlarge the accommodations of the post-office room in the post-office and court-house building at Detroit, Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars. Durham, North Carolina, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Elkhart, Indiana, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, thirteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Evanston, Wyoming, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars $1,850.00 6, 000, 00 23,500.00 20, 000. 00 20,000.00 16, 250.00 20,000. 00 20.000.00 26, 758. 79 500, 000. 00 25,000.00 52,000.00 11, 250.00 25,000.00 18, 750.00 15,000.00 20,000.00 13,750.00 25,000.00 Fargo, North Dakota, post-office and court-house: For commencement of work under present limit, thirty thousand dollars.. Findlay, Ohio, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars 30,000.00 10,000.00 Flint, Michigan, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars. 10,000.00 Florence, South Carolina, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, ten thousand dollars 10,000.00 Fond du Lac, Wisconsin, post-office: For continuation of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars 15,000.00 Fresno, California, post-office and court-house: For continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. 25,000.00 |