Separating offices. Rent, light, and fuel. Limit third-class offices. Miscellaneous. Proviso. Advertising. Free delivery. Letter carriers. Marine delivery. Car fare, etc. Boxes, etc. Mechanics. Incidentals. Prorisos. Interchange of ob jects. available and may be used in payment of clerk hire in third and fourth class separating post offices. For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third class post-offices, one million six hundred thousand dollars: Provided, That there shall not be allowed for the use of any third-class post-office for rent a sum in excess of four hundred dollars, nor more than sixty dollars for fuel and lights, in any one year. For necessary miscellaneous ard incidental items directly connected with first and second class post-offices, including furniture, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That the Postmaster General, in his discretion, under such regulations as he shall prescribe, may authorize any of the postmasters of said offices to expend the fund he may allow them for such purposes without the written consent of the Postmaster-General. For advertising at first and second class post-offices, fifteen thousand dollars. FREE DELIVERY SERVICE. For pay of letter carriers, twelve million two hundred and forty thousand three hundred dollars; For marine free delivery service, three thousand five hundred dollars; For horse hire allowance, three hundred and forty-four thousand dollars; For car fare and bicycle allowance, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars; For street letter boxes, posts, and pedestals, fifteen thousand four hundred dollars; For package boxes, ten thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; Twelve mechanics in the six largest cities, exclusively employed in repairing boxes and locks, and erecting boxes, planting posts and pedestals, at nine hundred dollars per annum, ten thousand eight hundred dollars; Incidental expenses, including repairs, painting, freight, straps, time cards, maps, directories, furniture, and so forth, twenty-four thousand dollars; In all, twelve million eight hundred and eighteen thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: Provided, That ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for free delivery service may be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no one item of appropriation Rural free delivery. shall thereby be increased more than ten per centum: Provided further, That ten thousand dollars of this amount may be used to defray the expense of experiments in rural free delivery under the direction of the Postmaster-General, and that the amount heretofore appropriated for this purpose and still unexpended be available for said experiments. For stationery in post offices, fifty thousand dollars. For wrapping twine, eighty thousand dollars. Stationery. Twine. Paper. Scales. Canceling, etc.. stamps. Packing boxes, etc. Printing. Canceling machines. Second Assistant Postmaster-General. Inland mail transportation. Star routes. For wrapping paper, fifty thousand dollars. For letter balances, scales, and test weights, and repairs to same, ten thousand dollars. For postmarking and rating stamps, and repairs to same, and ink and pads for stamping and canceling purposes, thirty thousand dollars. For packing boxes, sawdust, paste, and hardware, one thousand five hundred dollars. For printing facing slips and cutting same, card slide labels, blanks and books of an urgent nature for the postal service, fifteen thousand dollars. For rental of canceling machines, sixty thousand dollars. OFFICE OF THE SECOND ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL. For inland mail transportation, namely: Inland transportation by star routes, including temporary service to newly established offices, five million three hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars. For inland transportation by steamboat routes, four hundred thousand dollars. Steamboat routes. Messenger service. For mail-messenger service, one million one hundred and thirty thou sand dollars. And the Postmaster-General may, in his discretion, use not exceeding the sum of thirty-five thousand dollars of this amount in the transportation of mail by pneumatic tube or other similar devices. etc. Regulation, screen or other wagon service, six hundred and seventy thousand dollars. For mail bags and mail-bag catchers, cord fasteners, label cases. and for labor and material necessary for repairing equipment, three hun dred and forty-five thousand dollars. For mail locks and keys, chains, tools, and machinery, and for labor and material necessary for repairing same, forty-five thousand dollars. For the purpose of enabling the Postmaster-General to rent a build ing for a mail-bag repair shop and lock-repair shop, and for fuel, gas, watchinen and charwoman, oil, and repair of machinery for same, eight thousand five hundred dollars. For inland transportation by railroad routes, of which a sum not exceeding thirty thousand dollars may be employed to pay freight on postal cards, stamped envelopes, and stamped paper, and other supplies from the manufactories to the post-offices and depots of distribution, twenty-eight million dollars. For railway post-office car service, three million four hundred thousand dollars. Pneumatic tubes, Wagon, etc., service. Bags, catchers, etc. Locks, keys, etc. Repair shop. Railroad routes. Post-office cars. For railway post-office clerks, seven million seven hundred and thirty- Railway mail clerks. nine thousand dollars, of which sum not to exceed fifteen thousand dollars may be used to pay necessary traveling expenses of chief clerks and railway postal clerks traveling on duty under order of the PostmasterGeneral. Electric and cable For transportation of mail by electric and cable cars on routes not exceeding twenty miles in length, one hundred and fifty thousand car service. dollars. For necessary and special facilities on trunk lines from Boston, Massachusetts, by way of New York and Washington, to Atlanta and New Orleans, one hundred and ninety-six thousand six hundred and four teen dollars and twenty-two cents: Provided, That no part of the appropriation made by this paragraph shall be expended unless the Postmaster-General shall deem such expenditure necessary in order to promote the interest of the postal service. All railway companies carrying mail may furnish free transportation on the line of their respective roads to railway mail clerks. For miscellaneous items, one thousand dollars. Special facilities. Proviso. Free transportation to clerks. Miscellaneous. Foreign mails. Proviso. For transportation of foreign mails, one million seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars: Provided, That hereafter the PostmasterGeneral shall be authorized to expend such sums as may be necessary, not exceeding fifty-five thousand dollars, to cover one-half of the cost of transportation, compensation, and expense of clerks to be employed in assorting and pouching mails in transit on steamships between the United States and other postal administrations in the International Postal Union; and not exceeding ten thousand dollars for transferring Transfer at New the foreign mail between the steamship piers in New York City and Jersey City and the post-office and railroad stations. For additional compensation to the Oceanic Steamship Company for transporting the mails by its steamers sailing from San Francisco to New Zealand and New South Wales by way of Honolulu, all mails made up in the United States destined for the Hawaiian Islands, the Australian Colonies, New Caledonia, and the islands in the Pacific Ocean, eighty thousand dollars: Provided, That said additional sum with the sum now paid shall not exceed two dollars per mile, as authorized by Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled "An Act to provide for ocean mail service between the United States and foreign ports, and to promote commerce." For balance due foreign countries, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars. York. Oceanic Steamship Company. Pacific mails. Proviso. Vol. 26, p. 832. Balance due foreign countries. Third Assistant Postmaster General. Stamps. Distribution. Stamped envelopes, etc. Distribution. Postal cards. Distribution. Official, etc., envel opes. Ship, etc., letters. Miscellaneous. Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General. Mail depredations. Rewards, etc. Detailed estimates, money-order system. Appropriation to meet deficiencies. June 9, 1896. Alaska. OFFICE OF THE THIRD ASSISTANT POSTMASTER GENERAL. For manufacture of adhesive postage and special-delivery stamps, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For rent of office for use of the agent of the Post-Office Department to supervise the distribution of stamps of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, six hundred dollars. For pay of agents and assistants to distribute stamps, and expenses of agency, twelve thousand dollars. For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, eight hundred and thirty thousand dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, and expenses of agency, seventeen thousand eight hundred dollars. For manufacture of postal cards, one hundred and eighty-six thousand dollars. For pay of agent and assistants to distribute postal cards, and expenses of agency, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. For registered package, tag, official, and dead-letter envelopes, one hundred and five thousand dollars. For ship, steamboat, and way letters, one thousand dollars. For engraving, printing, and binding drafts and warrants, one thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items, five hundred dollars. OFFICE OF THE FOURTH ASSISTANT POSTMASTER-GENERAL. For mail depredations and post-office inspectors, three hundred thousand dollars. For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, twenty-five thousand dollars. The Postmaster-General shall for the fiscal year eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, and annually thereafter, submit in the annual estimates to Congress estimates in detail for all expenses of the moneyorder branch of the postal service. That if the revenues of the Post-Office Department shall be insufficient to meet the appropriations made by this Act, a sum equal to such deficiency of the revenues of said Department is hereby appropriated, to be paid out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply said deficiencies in the revenues for the Post Office Department for the year ending June thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven. Approved, June 9, 1896. CHAP. 387.-An Act To amend an Act entitled "An Act to provide for the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska." Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United Salmon fisheries, States of America in Congress assembled, That the Act approved March Vol. 25, p. 1009, second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and entitled "An Act to provide for the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska," is hereby amended and reenacted as follows: amended. Obstructions in streams preventing hibited. "That the erection of dams, barricades, fish wheels, fences, or any such ascent of salmon pro fixed or stationary obstructions in any part of the rivers or streams of Alaska, or to fish for or catch salmon or salmon trout in any manner or by any means with the purpose or result of preventing or impeding the ascent of salmon to their spawning ground, is declared to be unlawful, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized and directed to remove such obstructions and to establish and enforce such regulations and surveillance as may be necessary to insure that this prohibition and all other provisions of law relating to the salmon fisheries of Alaska are strictly complied with. Fishing prohibited above tide waters, ex cept with rod or spear. Nets, etc., in tide waters. Total prohibition Saturdays. No fishing at night "SEC. 2. That it shall be unlawful to fish, catch, or kill any salmon of any variety, except with rod or spear, above the tide waters of any of the creeks or rivers of less than five hundred feet width in the Territory of Alaska, except only for purposes of propagation, or to lay or set any drift net, set net, trap, pound net, or seine for any purpose across the tide waters of any river or stream for a distance of more than onethird of the width of such river, stream, or channel, or lay or set any seine or net within one hundred yards of any other net or seine which is being laid or set in said stream or channel, or to take, kill, or fish for salmon in any manner or by any means in any of the waters of the Territory of Alaska, either in the streams or tide waters, except Cook Inlet, Prince William Sound, Bering Sea, and the waters tributary thereto, from midnight on Friday of each week until six o'clock antemeridian of the Sunday following; or to fish for or catch or kill in any except by rod or spear. manner or by any appliances, except by rod or spear, any salmon in any stream of less than one hundred yards in width in the said Territory of Alaska between the hours of six o'clock in the evening and six o'clock in the morning of the following day of each and every day of the week. "SEC. 3. That the Secretary of the Treasury may, at his discretion, set aside any streams as spawning grounds, in which no fishing will be permitted; and when, in his judgment, the results of fishing operations on any stream indicate that the number of salmon taken is larger than the capacity of the stream to produce, he is authorized to establish weekly close seasons, to limit the duration of the fishing season, or to prohibit fishing entirely for one year or more, so as to permit salmon to increase: Provided, however, That such power shall be exercised only after all persons interested shall have been given a hearing, of which hearing due notice must be given by publication: And provided further, That it shall have been ascertained that the persons engaged in catching salmon do not maintain fish hatcheries of sufficient magnitude to keep such streams fully stocked. "SEC. 4. That to enforce the provisions of law herein, and such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may establish in pursuance thereof, he is authorized and directed to appoint one inspector of fisheries, at a salary of one thousand eight hundred dollars per annum, and two assistant inspectors, at a salary of one thousand six hundred dollars each per annum, and he will annually submit to Congress estimates to cover the salaries and actual traveling expenses of the officers hereby authorized and for such other expenditures as may be necessary to carry out the provisions of the law herein. "SEC. 5. That any person violating the provisions of this Act or the regulations established in pursuance thereof shall, upon conviction thereof, be punished by a fine not exceeding one thousand dollars or imprisonment at hard labor for a term of ninety days, or both such fine and imprisonment, at the discretion of the court; and, further, in case of the violation of any of the provisions of section one of this Act and conviction thereof a further fine of two hundred and fifty dollars per diem will be imposed for each day that the obstruction or obstructions therein are maintained." Approved, June 9, 1896. CHAP. 394.-An Act Changing the time for holding circuit court of the United States at Hartford, in the district of Connecticut. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, That a term of the United States circuit court in the district of Connecticut shall be held at Hartford, in said district, on the second Tuesday of October, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and thereafter in each year on the second Tuesday of October, and that after the third Tuesday of September, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, the term of said circuit court now by law provided to be held annually on the third Tuesday in September shall be discontinued. Approved, June 10, 1896. Spawning grounds. Close seasons. Provisos. Notice. Hatcheries. Inspectors author. ized. Punishment for vio lations. June 10, 1896. Connecticut judicial district. Terms. Hartford. June 10, 1896. Eckington and Belt motors. Post, p. 698. Trial. in six months. CHAP. 395.-An Act To extend the routes of the Eckington and Soldiers' Home Railway Company and of the Belt Railway Company, of the District of Columbia, and for other purposes. Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United District of Columbia. States of America in Congress assembled, That within three months from Railway companies to the passage of this Act the Eckington and Soldiers' Home Railway Comuse compressed-air pany and the Belt Railway Company, both of the District of Columbia. respectively, shall begin to equip those portions of their respective lines which are situated within the boundaries of the city of Washington with compressed-air motors. If after a trial of three months the said compressed-air motors shall, in the judgment of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, prove to be in all respects a proper and satisfactory motive power for the speedy and convenient propulsion of street cars, then the said Commissioners are hereby authorized and directed to issue to the said railway companies, respectively, permits to equip their lines within the District of Columbia with such compressed-air Horsepower to cease motors; and within six months from the passage of this Act the said railway companies shall cease to use horsepower on any and all of their Underground elec. respective lines. In the event that the said compressed-air motors shall tric, if compressed air not be approved as herein provided for, then within eighteen months from the passage of this Act the said companies, respectively, shall construct and put into full operation on all their lines in the city of Washington the underground electric system. No extension of any of the lines in this Act provided for shall be operated by horsepower: And provided further, That within thirty days from the passage of this Act cars shall be regularly run over the existing tracks, beginning at the intersection of G street and New Jersey avenue, thence across New Jersey avenue to and along G street to North Capitol street, thence north on North Capitol street to T street, according to a schedule satisfactory to the Commissioners of the District of Columbia. Neglect or failure to comply with the provisions of this section shall subject the corporation so neglecting or failing to a penalty of fifty dollars for each and every day during which such failure or neglect continues, said penalty to be recovered by the Commissioners of the District of Columbia in any court of competent jurisdiction. not successful. Proviso. North Capitol street branch. Penalty. North and south line. SEC. 2. That the Eckington and Soldiers' Home Railway Company branch of Eckington of the District of Columbia be, and the same hereby is, authorized to lay down and operate a street railway in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, through and along the following-named streets and avenues, to wit: Location. Provisos. Beginning at the junction of Eighth and D streets northeast; thence by double track south along Eighth street to C street south; thence by single track as follows: west on C street south to Seventh street east; thence south on Seventh street east to M street south; thence east on M street south to Georgia avenue; thence northeast on Georgia avenue to Ninth street east; thence north on Ninth street east to C street south; thence west on C street south to Eighth street east. Eckington line. SEC. 3. That said Eckington and Soldiers' Home Railway Company May issue stock or is authorized to increase its capital stock or to issue bonds for such bonds for construction. amount as may be necessary to pay the actual cost of constructing and equipping the extensions herein before authorized: Provided, That the question as to the amount to be provided for in connection with such extension and the method of providing for the same, whether by issu ance of stock or bonds, shall be decided by a majority in value of the stockholders at a meeting to be called for the purpose after reasonable notice; and authority is hereby conferred upon said company, in case of issuance of bonds, to make due conveyance of its corporate franchises and property for the purpose of securing the same: Provided, Prior deed of trust. however, That any such conveyance by way of mortgage shall be subject to the prior lien already created by deed of trust dated June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and recorded in liber fifteen hundred and eighty, folio three hundred and twenty seven and following, of the land records of the District of Columbia, which conveys all the real |