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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 33 STAT. · February 3, 1905 · Chapter 297

Chapter 297. Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 297.— An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and for other purposes. February 3, 1905. [[H. R. 15895](/us/bill/58/hr/15895).] [[Public, No. 40](/us/pl/58/40).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, Legislative, executive, and judicial expenses appropriations. 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, nineteen hundred and six, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
LEGISLATIVE. Legislative. senate. Senate. For compensation of Senators, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Pay of Senators. For mileage of Senators, forty-five thousand dollars. Mileage. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others in Compensation of officers, etc. the service of the Senate, namely: Office of the Vice-President: For Secretary to the Vice-President, Vice-President’s office. two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; telegraph operator, one thousand five hundred dollars; telegraph page, six hundred dollars; in all, five thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
Chaplain: For Chaplain of the Senate, one thousand dollars. Chaplain. Office of Secretary: For Secretary of the Senate, including compensation Secretary of the Senate, clerks, etc. as disbursing officer of the contingent fund of the Senate, five thousand dollars, and for compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators, three hundred and ninety-six dollars: hire of horse and wagon for the Secretary’s office, seven hundred dollars; chief clerk, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; financial clerk, three thousand dollars, and seven hundred and fifty dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; minute and journal clerk, three thousand dollars; principal clerk, and enrolling clerk, at two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars each; reading clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant financial clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; librarian, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars, and two hundred and eighty dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; assistant librarian, one thousand eight hundred dollars; messenger, acting as assistant librarian, one thousand six hundred dollars; six clerks at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; five clerks, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; keeper of stationery, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars: assistant keeper of stationery, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant in stationery room, one thousand dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; assistant messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; six laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, seventy-one thousand five hundred and ninety-six dollars.
Document room: For superintendent of the document room (Amzi Document room. Superintendent, etc. Smith), three thousand dollars; first assistant in document room, two thousand dollars; two assistants in document room, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; clerk to superintendent of document room, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; skilled laborer, one thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Clerks and messengers to committees:
For clerk of printing Clerks and messengers to committees. records, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars: clerk to the 632 Committee on Appropriations, three thousand dollars, and one thousand dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; assistant clerk, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, to be appointed by the committee, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk and stenographer to the Committee on Finance, two thousand five hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Claims, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Commerce, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Pensions, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant clerks, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; messenger one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on the Judiciary, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Military Affairs, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Post-Offices and Post-Roads, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on the District of Columbia, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand tour hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Foreign Relations, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Engrossed Bills, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Joint Committee on the Library, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerks to the committees on Naval Affairs, Census, Public Lands, Indian Affairs, to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, Public Buildings and Grounds, Agriculture and Forestry, Education and Labor, Territories, Interstate Commerce, Public Health and National Quarantine, Private Land Claims, Patents, Coast Defenses Privileges and Elections, Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress, Rules, Civil Service and Retrenchment, Enrolled Bills Geological Survey, Railroads, Pacific Railroads, Pacific Islands and Porto Rico, Philippines, Relations with Cuba, Interoceanic Canals Transportation and Sale of Meat Products, Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, Improvement of the Mississippi River and its Tributaries Organization, Conduct, and Expenditures of the Executive Departments, and clerk to conference minority of the Senate, at two thousand Clerks to committees, at $2,100 a year. two hundred and twenty dollars each; clerks to committees on Woman Suniage, and Mines and Mining, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
Senate Manual. For additional amount for the clerk to the Committee on Rules for revising and preparing for publication biennially, under the direction of the committee, the Senate Manual, one thousand dollars. Clerks to committees, at $1,800 a year. For twenty-two clerks to committees, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, thirty-nine thousand six hundred dollars. Sergeant-at-Arms and assistants. Office of Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper: For Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper, four thousand five hundred dollars; horse and vagon for his use, four hundred and twenty dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; for clerk to Sergeant-at-Arms, two thousand dollars; assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; acting assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred Messengers. and ninety-two dollars; three messengers, acting as assistant doorkeepers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; forty-seven mes-633sengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; two assistant messengers on the floor of the Senate, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; messenger to official reporters’ room, to be selected by the official reporters, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; messenger in charge of storeroom, one thousand six hundred dollars; upholsterer and locksmith, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; three carpenters to assist him, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; janitor, one thousand two hundred dollars; skilled laborer, one thousand dollars; four skilled laborers, at nine Laborers. hundred dollars each; laborer in charge of private passage, eight hundred and forty dollars; two female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring room, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two telephone Telephone operators. operators, at nine hundred dollars each; telephone page, seven hundred and twenty dollars; press gallery page, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; twenty-four laborers, at nine hundred dollars each; twenty-eight laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; sixteen pages for Pages. the Senate Chamber, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per day each during the session, eight thousand three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty-eight thousand five hundred and forty-four dollars.
Post-office: For Postmaster, two thousand two hundred and fifty Postmaster, etc. dollars; assistant postmaster and mail carrier, two thousand and eighty-eight dollars; seven mail carriers and one wagon master, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four riding pages, at nine hundred and twelve dollars and fifty cents each; in all, seventeen thousand five hundred and eighty-eight dollars. Folding room: For superintendent of folding room, two thousand Folding room. Superintendent, etc. one hundred and sixty dollars; assistant in folding room, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk in folding room, one thousand two hundred dollars; foreman in folding room, one thousand four hundred dollars; nine folders, at one thousand dollars each; fourteen folders, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; and page, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds: Chief engineer, etc. For chief engineer, two thousand one hundred and sixty dollars; four assistant engineers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; eight conductors of elevators, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; machinist and electrician, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant machinist and electrician, one thousand dollars; three firemen, at one thousand and ninety-five dollars each; five laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; laborer in charge of Senate toilet rooms in old library space, six hundred and sixty dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand four hundred and sixty-five dollars.
For thirty-five annual clerks to Senators who are not chairmen of Clerks to Senators. committees, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, fifty-two thousand five hundred dollars. For contingent expenses, namely: For stationery and newspapers Contingent expenses. Stationery and newspapers. for Senators and the President of the Senate, including four thousand dollars for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, fifteen thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars.
For postage stamps for the office of the Secretary of the Senate, one Postage stamps. hundred dollars; for the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms, seventy-five dollars; in all, one hundred and seventy-five dollars. For expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and mail wagons Horses and wagons. for carrying the mails, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For materials for folding, one thousand dollars. Folding. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding one dollar per thousand, two thousand dollars. 634 Fuel, etc.
For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising, for the heating apparatus, exclusive of labor, twenty-five thousand dollars. Furniture. For purchase of furniture, six thousand dollars. For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, two thousand dollars. For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, two thousand dollars. Packing boxes. For packing boxes, nine hundred and seventy dollars. Miscellaneous items. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, one hundred thousand dollars.
Maltby Building. For miscellaneous items on account of the Maltby Building, eighteen thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Investigations. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per printed page, twenty thousand dollars. Reporting debates.
For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, twenty-five thousand dollars, payable in equal monthly installments. Repairs, Maltby Building. For repairs of Maltby Building, two thousand dollars. Storage warehouse. For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents for the Senate, three thousand six hundred dollars. Capitol police. capitol police. Pay. For captain, one thousand six hundred dollars, and three lieutenants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; thirty privates, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; thirty privates, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; and nine watchmen, at nine hundred dollars each, one-half of said privates and watchmen to be selected by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the Senate and one-half by the Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives; in all, seventy-five thousand one hundred dollars, one half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives.
Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses, three hundred dollars, one half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. congressional directory. Congressional Directory. For expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, one thousand six hundred dollars. House of Representatives. house of representatives.
Pay of Members and Delegates. For compensation of members of the House of Representatives and Delegates from Territories, one million nine hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars. Mileage. For mileage, one hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the House of Representatives, namely: Speaker’s office. Office of the Speaker: For secretary to the Speaker, three thousand dollars; clerk to the Speaker’s table, three thousand six hundred dollars, and for preparing Digest of the Rules, one thousand dollars per annum; clerk to the Speaker, one thousand six hundred dollars; messenger to the Speaker, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, ten thousand four hundred dollars.
Chaplain. Chaplain: For Chaplain of the House, one thousand dollars. 635 Office of the Clerk: For Clerk of the House of Representatives, Clerk of the House, etc. including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, five thousand dollars; hire of horses and wagons and cartage for use of the Clerk’s office, nine hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; chief clerk, journal clerk, and two reading clerks, at three thousand six hundred dollars each; tally clerk, three thousand dollars; printing and bill clerk, disbursing clerk, and enrolling clerk, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; distributing clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; file clerk, docket clerk, assistant disbursing clerk, assistant enrolling clerk, resolution and petition clerk, newspaper clerk, index clerk, assistant journal clerk, and assistant to chief clerk, at two thousand dollars each; librarian, stationery clerk, and superintendent clerk’s document room, at one thousand night hundred dollars each; one bookkeeper, two assistant librarians, and seven clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; document and bill clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; document clerk, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; locksmith, who shall be skilled in his trade, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant in Clerk’s office, and one assistant in disbursing office, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; assistant index clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; telegraph operator, assistant file clerk, and stenographer to the Clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; assistant telegraph operator authorized and named in resolution adopted January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and two, one thousand two hundred dollars; -one assistant in library, one assistant in document room, one assistant in stationery room, and one messenger in file room, at nine hundred dollars each; one page, seven hundred and twenty dollars; attendant in charge of bathroom, one thousand dollars; three laborers in the bathroom (including William Richardson), at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three laborers, and one page in enrolling room, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; messenger in Chief Clerk’s office, nine hundred dollars; in all, ninety-seven thousand and fifty dollars.
Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds: Chief engineer, etc. For chief engineer, one thousand seven hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; six conductors of elevators, at one thousand one hundred dollars each, who shall be under the supervision and direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds; laborer, eight hundred and twenty dollars; six firemen, at nine hundred dollars each: electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; laborer, one thousand dollars; four laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three cabinetmakers, who shall be skilled in their trade, one at one thousand two hundred dollars and two at nine hundred dollars each; and for the following for service in old library portion of the Capitol:
Two attendants atone thousand five hundred dollars each: foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; watchman, nine hundred dollars; in all, thirty-one thousand three hundred dollars. Clerks and messengers to committees: For clerk to the Committee Clerks and messengers to committees. on Ways and Means, three thousand dollars; assistant clerk and stenographer, two thousand dollars; messenger, one thousand five hundred dollars; janitor, one thousand dollars; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, three thousand dollars, and one thousand dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; assistant clerk and stenographer, two thousand dollars; messenger and assistant clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor, one thousand dollars; clerks to Committees on Accounts, Agriculture, Banking and Currency, Claims, District of Columbia, Elections Numbers One, Two, and Three, Foreign Affairs, Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Indian Affairs, Industrial Arts and Expositions, Insular Affairs, Invalid Pensions, Judiciary, Labor, Library, Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Military 636 Affairs, Naval Affairs, Pensions, Post-Office and Post-Roads, Printing, Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Lands, Rivers and Harbors, Revision of the Laws, Territories, War Claims, and clerk to continue Digest of Claims under resolution of March seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, at two thousand dollars each; assistant clerk to the Committee on the Judiciary, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant clerk to the Committee on Post-Office and Post-Roads, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant clerk to the committee on Rivers and Harbors, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant clerk to the Committee on War Claims, one thousand two hundred Janitors. dollars; for janitors for rooms of the Committees on Accounts, Agriculture, Banking and Currency, Claims, District of Columbia, Elections Numbers One, Two, and Three, Foreign Affairs, Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Indian Affairs, Insular Affairs, Invalid Pensions, Judiciary, Library, Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Military Affairs, Naval Affairs, Post-Office and Post-Roads, Pensions, Printing, Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Lands, Rivers and Harbors, and War Claims, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, and said janitors shall be appointed by the chairmen, respectively, of said committees, and shall perform under the direction of the Doorkeeper all of the duties heretofore required of messengers detailed to said committees by the Doorkeeper; in all, ninety-nine thousand three hundred dollars.
Assistant clerks. For an assistant clerk to each of the Committees on Military Affairs, Naval Affairs, and Invalid Pensions at six dollars per day each during the session, three thousand seven hundred and sixty-two dollars. Clerks to committees, session. For eleven clerks to committees, at six dollars each per day during the session, thirteen thousand seven hundred and eighty-four dollars. Sergeant-at-Arms, deputy, etc. Office of Sergeant-at-Arms: For Sergeant-at-Arms of the House of Representatives, four thousand five hundred dollars; deputy to the Sergeant-at-Arms, two thousand dollars; cashier, three thousand dollars; paying teller, two thousand five hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant bookkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; two clerks in charge of pairs, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; page, seven hundred and twenty dollars; and skilled laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars; in all, twenty thousand five hundred and sixty dollars.
Doorkeeper, assistant, etc. Office of Doorkeeper: For Doorkeeper, three thousand five hundred dollars; hire of horses, feed, repair of wagon and harness, one thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; assistant doorkeeper, and Department messenger, at two thousand dollars each; one special employee, John T. Chancey, one thousand five hundred dollars; one special employee, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk to poorkeeper, and janitor, at one thousand two hundred dollars Messengers. each; thirteen messsengers, including the messenger to the reporter’s gallery, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; thirteen messengers, at one thousand dollars each; messenger to the Speaker’s table, one thousand dollars; fourteen messengers on the soldier’s roll, at one Laborers. thousand two hundred dollars each; twelve laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers in the water-closet, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; ten laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one laborer, at six hundred dollars; ten laborers, known as cloakroom men, at fifty dollars per month each; female attendant in ladies’ retiring room, seven hundred and twenty dollars;
Superintendent of folding room, etc. superintendent of folding room, two thousand dollars; five clerks in folding room, one at one thousand eight hundred dollars, and four at one thousand two hundred dollars each; foreman, one thousand five hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; page, five hundred dollars; laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; 637 nine folders, at nine hundred dollars each; five folders, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; eighteen folders, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two night watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two drivers, at six hundred dollars each; two Pages. chief pages, at nine hundred dollars each; forty-three pages, during the session, including two riding pages and two telephone pages, and ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each, twenty-two thousand four hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents; horse and buggy for Department messenger, two hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent of Superintendent of document room, etc. document room, two thousand dollars; assistant superintendent of document room, one thousand eight hundred dollars; nine assistants in document room, one at one thousand six hundred dollars, two at one thousand four hundred dollars each, one at one thousand two hundred dollars, and five at one thousand dollars each, and one janitor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one hundred and sixty-four thousand nine hundred and fifty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
For employment of Joel Grayson in document room, one thousand Joel Grayson. eight hundred dollars. For the following minority employees authorized and named in the Minority employees, etc. resolution adopted by the House of Representatives November ninth, nineteen hundred and three, namely: One special employee, one thousand five hundred dollars; two special messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; and one special chief page, nine hundred dollars, and five hundred dollars additional for services as pair clerk; in all, five thousand three hundred dollars.
For the assistant Department messenger authorized and named in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives December seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For the special messenger authorized and named in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives January fifteenth, nineteen hundred, one thousand two hundred dollars. To continue the employment of the clerk to the conference minority of the House of Representatives, two thousand dollars; and for messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, three thousand two hundred dollars.
To continue employment and for compensation of the assistant foreman of the folding room, authorized and named in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives February sixth, nineteen hundred, at three dollars and eighty-five cents per day, one thousand four hundred and five dollars and twenty-five cents. To continue the employment of the person named in the resolution of the House adopted June fifth, nineteen hundred, as a laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
To continue the employment of the special messenger authorized and named in the resolution of the House adopted February seventh, nineteen hundred, one thousand two hundred dollars. To continue the employment of the laborer authorized and named in the resolution of the House adopted December nineteenth, nineteen hundred and one, at fifty dollars per month, six hundred dollars. Successors to any of the employees provided for in the eight preceding Appointment. paragraphs may be named by the House of Representatives at any time.
Office of Postmaster: For Postmaster, two thousand five hundred Postmaster, assistants, etc. dollars; assistant postmaster, two thousand dollars; twelve messengers, including messenger to superintend transportation of mails, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; eight messengers, at one hundred dollars per month each, during the session, five thousand five 638 hundred and twenty dollars; and one laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand one hundred and forty dollars.
Horses and wagons. For hire of horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, two thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Reporting debates. Official reporters: For six official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the House, at five thousand dollars each; assistant official reporter, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, thirty-one thousand two hundred dollars. Janitor. For janitor for rooms of official reporters to debates and official stenographers to committees, seven hundred and twenty dollars.
Stenographers to committees. Stenographers to committees: For four stenographers to committees, at five thousand dollars each; assistant stenographer to committees, one thousand six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand six hundred dollars. “During the session” to mean 209 days. That wherever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the two hundred and nine days from December fourth, nineteen hundred and five, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, both inclusive.
Clerk hire, Members and Delegates. For clerk hire, Members and Delegates: To pay Members and Delegates the amounts which they certify they have paid or agree to pay for clerk hire, necessarily employed by them in the discharge of Vol. 27, p. 757. their official and representative duties, as provided in the joint resolution approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, House Vol. 30, p. 687. resolutions adopted May eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and two, and the deficiency appropriation Act approved July seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, four hundred and sixty-six thousand eight hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and Representatives and Delegates elect to Congress whose credentials in due form of law have been duly filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in accordance with [R.
S., sec. 31, p. 6](/us/rs/s31/p6). the provisions of section thirty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall be entitled to payment under this appropriation. Contingent expenses. Folding materials. For contingent expenses, namely: For wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste, twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding, for the use of members of the House, and for use in the Clerks office and the House folding room (not including envelopes writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk of the Vol. 28, p. 624.
House, under the provisions of the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the public printing and binding), seven thousand dollars. Fuel and oil. For fuel and oil for the heating apparatus, fifteen thousand dollars. Furniture. For furniture and materials for repairs of the same, twenty thousand dollars. Packing boxes. For packing boxes, three thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Miscellaneous items. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of salaries and labor, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Special and select committees. For expenses of special and select committees, twenty thousand dollars. Stationery. For stationery for members of the House of Representatives, including five thousand dollars for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, fifty-three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Postage stamps. For postage stamps for the Postmaster, one hundred dollars; for the Clerk, three hundred dollars; for the Sergeant-at-Arms, two hundred dollars: and for the Doorkeeper, fifty dollars; in all, six hundred and fifty dollars. 639 office of the public printer.
Public printing. For Public Printer, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, Public Printer, clerks, etc. two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; clerk in charge of the Congressional Record at the Capitol, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; in all, fifteen thousand six hundred and fifty dollars. library of congress. Library of Congress. General administration: For Librarian of Congress, six thousand Librarian, etc. dollars; chief assistant librarian, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars;
Librarian’s secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk (assistant to chief clerk), one thousand dollars; two stenographers and typewriters, at one thousand dollars each; messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; in all, eighteen thousand one hundred and forty dollars. Mail and supply: For assistant in charge, one thousand five hundred Mail and supply division. dollars; assistant, nine hundred dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, two thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
Packing and stamping: For two attendants, at seven hundred and Packing and stamping. twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Order (purchasing): For chief of division, two thousand five hundred Order division. dollars; assistant, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; three assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; two assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two assistants, at six hundred dollars each; assistant, five hundred and twenty dollars; and two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, eleven thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.
Catalogue and shelf: For chief of division, three thousand dollars; Catalogue and shelf division. five assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; seven assistants, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; six assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; twelve assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; six assistants, at one thousand dollars each; fourteen assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; four assistants, at eight hundred dollars each; thirteen assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three assistants, at six hundred dollars each; ten assistants, at five hundred and forty dollars each; four assistants, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; six messengers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, eighty-seven thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
Binding: For assistant in charge, one thousand two hundred dollars; Bindery. assistant, nine hundred dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, two thousand four hundred and sixty dollars. Bibliography: For chief of division, three thousand dollars; assistant, Bibliography division. one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; and one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, seven thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.
Reading rooms (including evening service) and special collections: Reading-room officials. For superintendent of reading room, three thousand dollars; two assistants, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; four assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one assistant (reading room for the blind), one thousand two hundred dollars; five assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; ten assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one attendant, Senate reading room, nine hundred dollars; one attendant, Representatives’ reading room, nine hundred dollars; one attendant, Representatives’ reading room, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two attendants, cloak rooms, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one attendant, Toner Library, nine hundred dollars; one 640 attendant, Washingtonian Library, nine hundred dollars; four messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; two watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; evening service: five assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; fifteen assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, forty-seven thousand six hundred and forty dollars.
Periodical division. Periodical (including evening service): For chief of division, two thousand dollars; chief assistant, one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistants, at nine hundred dollars each: three assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; for arrears of sorting and collating and to enable periodical reading room to be open in the evenings, two assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, nine thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
Document division. Documents: For chief of division, three thousand dollars; assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, six thousand one hundred and eighty dollars. Manuscript division. Manuscript: For chief of division, three thousand dollars; assistant, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, nine hundred dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, five thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
Map and chart division. Maps and charts: For chief of division, three thousand dollars; assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, seven thousand and eighty dollars. Music division. Music: For chief of division, two thousand dollars; assistant, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand dollars; two assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, six thousand two hundred dollars.
Prints division. Prints: For chief of division, two thousand dollars; assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, five thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. Smithsonian deposit. Smithsonian deposit: For custodian, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, three thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.
Congressional reference library. Congressional Reference Library: For custodian, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, five thousand and forty dollars. Law library. Law Library: For custodian, two thousand five hundred dollars; two assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; messenger, nine hundred dollars; assistant for evening service, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand seven hundred dollars.
Copyright office. Copyright office, under the direction of the Librarian of Congress: Register of copyrights, three thousand dollars: chief clerk and chief of bookkeeping division, two thousand dollars; chief of application division, two thousand dollars; two clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; four clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; eight clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; ten clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; thirteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two clerks, at eight hundred dollars each; ten clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one clerk, six hundred dollars; two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each.
Arrears, spe-641cial service: Three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; porter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, seventy-four thousand seven hundred dollars. Distribution of card indexes: For service in connection with Card indexes. the distribution of card indexes and other publications of the Library, seven thousand eight hundred dollars. Temporary services: For special, temporary, and miscellaneous Temporary, etc. service. service, at the discretion of the Librarian, to continue available until expended, two thousand dollars.
Sunday opening: To enable the Library of Congress to be kept Sunday opening. open for reference use from two until ten o’clock post meridian on Sundays and legal holidays, within the discretion of the Librarian, including the extra services of employees and the services of additional employees under the Librarian, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Increase of Library of Congress: For purchase of books for the Increase of library Library, and for freight, commissions, and traveling expenses incidental to the acquisition of books by purchase, gift, or exchange, ninety thousand dollars;
For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, Law books, etc. under the direction of the Chief Justice, three thousand dollars; For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress and purchased by the marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, one thousand five hundred dollars; For purchase of miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, five Periodicals. thousand dollars; In all, ninety-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the Library, Contingent expenses stationery, supplies, and all stock and materials directly purchased, miscellaneous traveling expenses, postage, transportation, and all incidental expenses connected with the administration of the Library and the Copyright Office, which sum shall be so apportioned as to prevent a deficiency therein, seven thousand three hundred dollars. Custody, care, and maintenance of Library building and Care of building and grounds.
Superintendent, etc. grounds: For superintendent of the Library building and grounds, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; one messenger; one assistant messenger; two telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each; captain of watch, one thousand four hundred dollars; lieutenant of watch, one thousand dollars; eighteen watchmen; carpenter, nine hundred dollars; painter, nine hundred dollars; foreman of laborers, nine hundred dollars; fourteen laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two attendants in ladies’ room, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; two check boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; mistress of charwomen, four hundred and twenty-five dollars; assistant mistress of charwomen, three hundred dollars; forty-five charwomen; chief engineer, one thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; electrician, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant electrician, one thousand dollars; machinist, one thousand dollars; machinist, nine hundred dollars; two wiremen, at nine hundred dollars each; plumber, nine hundred dollars; three elevator conductors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; nine firemen; six skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, seventy-seven thousand five hundred and five dollars.
For extra services of employees and additional employees under the Sunday opening. superintendent of library building and grounds to provide for the opening of the Library building from two until ten o’clock post merid-642ian on Sundays and legal holidays, two thousand eight hundred dollars. General expenses. For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous supplies, electric and steam apparatus, reference books, stationery, and all incidental expenses in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of said building and grounds, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
Furniture. For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical work pertaining thereto, forty thousand dollars. Botanic Garden. BOTANIC GARDEN. Superintendent, etc. For superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars. For assistants and laborers, under the direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, twelve thousand five hundred and ninety-three dollars and seventy-five cents. Repairs and improvements. For procuring manure, soil, tools, fuel, purchasing trees, shrubs, plants, and seeds; and for services, materials, and miscellaneous supplies, and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Gardens, under direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, five thousand dollars.
Executive. EXECUTIVE. Compensation of the President. For compensation of the President of the United States, fifty thousand dollars. Compensation of the Vice-President. For compensation of the Vice-President of the United States, from and including March fourth, nineteen hundred and five, ten thousand six hundred and twenty-two dollars and twenty-two cents. Executive Office. Secretary, assistants, etc. For compensation to the following in the office of the President of the United States:
Secretary, five thousand dollars; two assistant secretaries, at three thousand dollars each; executive clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; executive clerk and disbursing officer, two thousand dollars; six clerks, at two thousand dollars each; two clerks of class four; one clerk of class four, who shall be a telegrapher; four clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; steward, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief doorkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; eight doorkeepers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; five messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; watchman, nine hundred dollars; one fireman; laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, sixty-six thousand one hundred and forty dollars: *Proviso*.
Detail of employees. *Provided*, That employees of the Executive Departments and other establishments of the executive branch of the Government may be detailed from time to time to the office of the President of the United States, for such temporary assistance as may be necessary. Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationery therefor, as well as record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, care of office carriages, horses, and harness, and miscellaneous items, to be expended in the discretion of the President, eighteen thousand dollars.
Civil Service Commission. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. Commissioners, examiners, etc. For three Commisioners, at three thousand five hundred dollars each; chief examiner, three thousand dollars; secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant chief examiner, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; eight clerks of class four; thirteen clerks of class three; sixteen clerks of class two; thirty-two 643 clerks of class one; twenty clerks, at one thousand dollars each; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; eight clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger; engineer, eight hundred and forty dollars; two firemen; two watchmen; one elevator conductor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three laborers; and three messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, one hundred and sixty-five thousand and sixty dollars.
Field force: For three examiners, at two thousand two hundred Field force. Examiners, clerks etc. dollars each; four examiners, at two thousand dollars each; two examiners, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand seven hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each; seven clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; two clerks, at eight hundred dollars each; two clerks, at six hundred dollars each; one messenger boy, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, forty-one thousand dollars.
Rural carrier examining board: For the following clerical force Rural carrier examining board. Examiners, clerks, etc. now employed in the Civil Service Commission and detailed thereto from the Post-Office Department and the postal service, namely: One chief of board of examiners of rural carriers, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one rural agent for rural carrier examining board, two thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each, and two assistant messengers at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, in all, twenty-five thousand six hundred and ninety dollars; and all Transferred to rolls of Civil Service Commission. such employees are hereby transferred to the rolls of the Civil Service Commission, and their respective salaries shall be paid from the appropriations from which they are now paid for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five: *Provided*, That no detail of clerks or other *Proviso*.
Detail of clerks during 1906 forbidden. employees from the Executive Departments or other Government establishments in Washington, District of Columbia, to the Civil Service Commission, for the performance of duty in the District of Columbia, shall be made for or during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six. For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners acting Expenses. under the direction of the Commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington ten thousand dollars.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Department of State. For compensation of the Secretary of State, eight thousand dollars; Pay of Secretary, Assistants, clerks, etc. Assistant Secretary, four thousand five hundred dollars; Second and Third Assistant Secretaries, at four thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, three thousand dollars; assistant solicitor of the Department of State, to be appointed by the Secretary of State, three thousand dollars; law clerk, and assistant, to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of State, to edit the laws of Congress and perform such other duties as may be required of them, at two thousand five hundred dollars and one thousand five hundred dollars, respectively; eight chiefs of bureaus, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; two translators, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; additional to Chief of Bureau of Accounts as disbursing clerk, two hundred dollars; private secretary to the Secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; twelve clerks of class four; nine clerks of class three; fourteen clerks of class two; twenty-eight clerks of class one, one of whom is to be a telegraph operator; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; thirteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; chief messenger, one thousand 644 dollars; two messengers; sixteen assistant messengers; packer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four laborers, at six hundred dollars each; and for temporary typewriters and stenographers to be selected by the Secretary, two thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and eighty thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.
Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses Department of State: For the following sums which shall be so apportioned as to prevent deficiencies therein, namely: Stationery, etc. For stationery, furniture, fixtures, and repairs, and for the purchase of passport paper, six thousand five hundred dollars. Books, etc. For books and maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, for the library, two thousand dollars. Lithographer, etc. For services of lithographer and necessary materials for the lithographic press, one thousand two hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous expenses, including the purchase, care, and subsistence of horses, to be used only for official purposes, repair of wagons, carriage, and harness, rent of stable, telegraphic and electric apparatus and repairs to the same, and other items not included in the foregoing; in all, six thousand two hundred dollars. Diplomatic reception room. Refurnishing. For the purchase of new window curtains, carpets, rugs, and so forth, for the diplomatic reception room and the diplomatic anteroom, and for polishing and reupholstering the furniture in said rooms, to be immediately available, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Treasury Department. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Pay of Secretary, Assistants, clerks, etc. Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secretary of the Treasury, eight thousand dollars; three Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, at four thousand five hundred dollars each; clerk to the Secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three private secretaries, one to each Assistant Secretary, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each;
Government actuary, under control of the Treasury, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; four messengers; three assistant messengers; and one laborer; in all, forty-six thousand four hundred and thirty dollars. Chief clerk, clerks, etc. Office of chief clerk and superintendent: For chief clerk, including three hundred dollars as superintendent of Treasury building, three thousand dollars; assistant superintendent of Treasury building, two thousand five hundred dollars; inspector of electric-light plants, gas, and fixtures for all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant inspector of electric-light plants and draftsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five clerks of class four; additional to one clerk of class four, as bookkeeper, one hundred dollars; four clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; four clerks of class one (one as librarian); one clerk, one thousand dollars; one messenger; two assistant messengers; storekeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; telegraph operator, one thousand two hundred dollars; telephone operator and Engineers, etc. assistant telegraph operator, one thousand two hundred dollars; chief engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; six elevator conductors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three firemen; five firemen, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; coal passer, five hundred dollars; locksmith and electrician, Watchmen. one thousand four hundred dollars; captain of the watch, one thousand four hundred dollars; two lieutenants of the watch, at nine hundred dollars each; fifty-eight watchmen; six special watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; foreman of laborers, one thousand dollars; skilled laborer, male, eight hundred and forty dollars; 645 wireman, nine hundred dollars; two skilled laborers, male, at seven Laborers. hundred and twenty dollars each; twenty-six laborers; ten laborers, at five hundred dollars each; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; two laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; eighty-seven charwomen; foreman of cabinet shop, one thousand five hundred dollars;
Cabinet shop. draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; ten cabinetmakers, at one thousand dollars each; cabinetmaker, seven hundred and twenty dollars; carpenter, one thousand dollars; carpenter’s helper, six hundred and sixty dollars. For the Winder Building: Engineer, one thousand Winder Building. dollars; three firemen; conductor of elevator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four watchmen; three laborers, one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the conductor of the elevator; laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; and six charwomen.
For Cox Building. the Cox Building, seventeen hundred and nine New York avenue: Three watchmen-firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and one laborer; in all, one hundred and eighty-four thousand four hundred and seventy dollars. Division of bookkeeping and warrants: For chief of division, three Bookkeeping and warrants division. thousand five hundred dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand seven hundred dollars; estimate and digest clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; two principal bookkeepers, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; eleven bookkeepers, at two thousand dollars each; twelve clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; one messenger; two assistant messengers; and one laborer; in all, seventy-three thousand six hundred and forty dollars.
Division of customs: For chief of division, two thousand seven hundred Customs division. and fifty dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; five law clerks, at two thousand dollars each; three clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; and two assistant messengers; in all, thirty-seven thousand two hundred and ninety dollars. Division of appointments:
For chief of division, two thousand seven Appointment division. hundred and fifty dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; executive clerk, two thousand dollars; law and bond clerk, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; five clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; two assistant messengers; and one laborer; in all, thirty-eight thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars.
Division of public moneys: For chief of division, two thousand five Public moneys division. hundred dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; five clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one messenger; and one assistant messenger; in all, twenty-five thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. Division of loans and currency: For chief of division, three thousand Loans and currency division. dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand one hundred dollars; five clerks of class four; additional to two clerks of class four as receiving clerk of bonds, and bookkeeper, one hundred dollars each; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; eighteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; twelve expert counters, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one messenger; two assistant messengers; nine laborers; superintendent of paper room, one thousand two hundred dollars; paper cutter, at three dollars per day; paper counter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; thirty-six paper counters and laborers, 646 at six hundred and twenty dollars each; and one laborer, five hundred and fifty dollars; in all, eighty-three thousand and eighty-nine dollars.
Revenue-Cutter division. Division of Revenue-Cutter Service: For assistant chief of division, two thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; four clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; and two laborers; in all, twenty-two thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. Miscellaneous division. Miscellaneous division: For chief of division, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; clerk, one thousand dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; and one assistant messenger; in all, thirteen thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
Stationery, etc., division. Division of printing and stationery: For chief of division, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers; two assistant messengers: one laborer; foreman of bindery, at six dollars per day; four binders, at four dollars per day each; and two sewers and folders, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each; in all, thirty-eight thousand nine hundred and thirty-one dollars.
Mail and files division. Division of mail and files: For chief of division, two thousand five hundred dollars; registered mail and bond clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five clerks of class two; additional to one clerk of class two, in charge of documents, two hundred dollars; two clerks of class one; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one mail messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistant messengers; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; and two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, twenty-eight thousand and sixty dollars.
Special agents division. Division of special agents: For assistant chief of division, two thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; and one messenger; in all, thirteen thousand five hundred and forty dollars. Disbursing clerks. Offices of disbursing clerks: For two disbursing clerks, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, fourteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
Supervising Architect’s office. Office of the Supervising Architect: In the construction branch of the Treasury: For Supervising Architect, four thousand five hundred dollars; and one assistant messenger: in all, five thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Draftsmen, etc. And the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, computers, accountants, assistants to the photographer, copyists, and such other services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order, may be employed in the office of the Supervising Architect exclusively to carry into effect the various appropriations for public buildings, to be paid for from and equitably charged *Proviso*.
Limit. against such appropriations: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, shall not exceed two hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars; and that the Secretary of the Treasury shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed and the amount paid to each. Comptroller’s office. Office of Comptroller of the Treasury: For Comptroller of the Treasury, five thousand five hundred dollars;
Assistant Comptroller of the Treasury, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, 647 two thousand five hundred dollars; chief law clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; eight law clerks revising accounts and briefing opinions, one at two thousand one hundred dollars and seven at two thousand dollars each; six expert accountants, at two thousand dollars each: private secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; eight clerks of class four; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; two typewriter-copyists, at one thousand dollars each; two messengers: one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, sixty-eight thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
Office of Auditor for Treasury Department: For Auditor, Office of Auditor for Treasury Department. four thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; four chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; seventeen clerks of class four; thirteen clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two; twenty-seven clerks of class one; seven clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three assistant messengers; four laborers; in all, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars.
For clerical force for the liquidation of manifests of vessels and cars Clerks on manifests. arriving in the United States from foreign countries with merchandise intended for consumption, namely: For one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; and three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-five thousand five hundred dollars. Office of Auditor for War Department:
For Auditor, Office of Auditor for War Department. four thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; six chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; twenty-four clerks of class four; additional to one clerk as disbursing clerk, two hundred dollars; fifty-four clerks of class three; seventy clerks of class two; eighty-four clerks of class one; twenty clerks, at one thousand dollars each; thirteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, nine hundred dollars; three clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger: three assistant messengers; and eleven laborers; in all, three hundred and ninety-four thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.
Hereafter the accounts for the Isthmian Canal Commission shall be Isthmian Canal Commission’s accounts. audited by the Auditor for the War Department. For the purpose of restoring and repairing the worn-out and defaced Restoring rolls, etc. rolls and vouchers in the office of the Auditor for the War Department, twenty-one thousand dollars. Office of Auditor for Navy Department: For Auditor, four Office of Auditor for Navy Department. thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; ten clerks of class four; eighteen clerks of class three; fifteen clerks of class two; nineteen clerks of class one; sixteen clerks at one thousand dollars each; twelve clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one clerk, eight hundred dollars; one messenger, one assistant messenger; and two laborers; in all, one hundred and thirty-five thousand five hundred and eighty dollars.
Office of Auditor for Interior Department: For Auditor, Office of Auditor for Interior Department. four thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; nine clerks of class four; sixteen clerks of class three; twenty-eight clerks of class two; twenty-eight clerks of class one; sixteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; fourteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant messenger; four skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; six laborers; and one female laborer, six hundred dollars; in all. one hundred and sixty five thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.
Office of Auditor for State and Other Departments: For Office of Auditor for State, etc., Departments. Auditor, four thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five 648 hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; sixteen clerks of class four; fifteen clerks of class three; thirteen clerks of class two; twelve clerks of class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; one assistant messenger; and three laborers; in all, one hundred and thirteen thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
Office of Auditor for Post-Office Department. Office of Auditor for Post-Office Department: For Auditor, four thousand dollars; two Deputy Auditors, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; seven chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; additional to one clerk of class four, who shall be designated assistant chief of assorting and checking division, two hundred dollars; thirty-seven clerks of class four; additional to one clerk as disbursing clerk, four hundred and fifty dollars; sixty-nine clerks of class three; ninety-one clerks of class two; one hundred and nineteen clerks of class one; one hundred and four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; skilled laborer, one thousand dollars; eighty-one clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; seventy skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; sixty-five skilled laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; eight messengers; fifteen assistant messengers; six watchmen; twenty-five male laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; three female laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; and twenty-one charwomen; in all, seven hundred and ninety-one thousand two hundred and ten dollars.
Treasurer’s Office. Office of the Treasurer: For Treasurer of the United States, six thousand dollars; Assistant Treasurer, three thousand six hundred dollars; Deputy Assistant Treasurer, three thousand two hundred dollars; cashier, three thousand six hundred dollars; assistant cashier, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; seven chiefs of division, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; assistant chief of division, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; vault clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; principal bookkeeper, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant bookkeeper, two thousand one hundred dollars; two tellers, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; two assistant tellers, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; clerk for the Treasurer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; twenty-five clerks of class four; eighteen clerks of class three; fifteen clerks of class two; coin clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; thirty-one clerks of class one; seventeen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; sixty-six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; fourteen expert counters, at eight hundred dollars each; fifty-seven expert counters, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; nine expert counters, at seven hundred dollars each; mail messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; seven messengers; six assistant messengers; thirty-one laborers; nine charwomen; foreman pressman, one thousand five hundred dollars; eleven pressmen, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; twenty-four separators, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; seventeen feeders, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; compositor and pressman, one thousand four hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred dollars; in all, four hundred and eight thousand three hundred and ten dollars.
Redemption of currency. For the force employed in redeeming the national currency (to be reimbursed by the national banks), namely: For superintendent, three thousand five hundred dollars; teller, two thousand five hundred dollars; bookkeeper, two thousand four hundred dollars; assistant teller, two thousand dollars; assistant bookkeeper, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; six clerks of class two; twenty-five clerks of class one; fifteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; fifteen expert counters, at nine hundred dollars each; fifteen 649 expert counters, at eight hundred dollars each; eleven expert counters, at seven hundred dollars each; one messenger; four assistant messengers; and two charwomen; in all, one hundred and thirteen thousand two hundred dollars.
For repairs to cancelling and cutting machines in the office of the Repairs to cancelling, etc., machines. Treasurer of the United States, two hundred dollars. Office of the Register of the Treasury: For Register, four Register’s office. thousand dollars; Assistant Register, two thousand five hundred dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; four clerks of class four; six clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; eight clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; twenty-two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; two assistant messengers; nine counters, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and five laborers; in all, seventy-nine thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency: For Comptroller Office of Comptroller of the Currency. of the Currency, five thousand dollars; Deputy Comptroller, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; eight clerks of class four; additional to bond clerk, two hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; thirteen clerks of class three; fifteen clerks of class two; eleven clerks of class one; fourteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; engineer, one thousand dollars; thirteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger, four assistant messengers; one fireman; three laborers; in all, one hundred and twenty-one thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.
For expenses of the national currency (to be reimbursed by the National currency expenses. national banks), namely: For superintendent, two thousand two hundred dollars; bookkeeper, two thousand dollars; teller, two thousand dollars; assistant bookkeeper, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; five clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; and one assistant messenger; in all, sixteen thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. For expenses of special examinations of national banks and bank Special examinations. plates, of keeping macerator in Treasury building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerator, and for procuring information relative to banks other than national, five thousand dollars.
Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue: For Commissioner Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue. of Internal Revenue, six thousand dollars; deputy commissioner, four thousand dollars; deputy commissioner, three thousand six hundred dollars; chemist, two thousand five hundred dollars; two heads of divisions, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; six heads of divisions, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; superintendent of stamp vault, two thousand dollars; stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; twenty-seven clerks of class four; twenty-five clerks of class three; thirty-six clerks of class two; thirty-seven clerks of class one; thirty clerks, at one thousand dollars each; forty-seven clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one clerk, eight hundred dollars; two messengers; nineteen assistant messengers; and twenty-one laborers; in all, three hundred and twenty-four thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
For one stamp agent, one thousand six hundred dollars; one stamp Stamp agents. agent, nine hundred dollars; and one counter, nine hundred dollars; in all, three thousand four hundred dollars, the same to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers. Office of Life-Saving Service: For General Superintendent of Life-Saving Service. the Fife-Saving Service, four thousand dollars, and five hundred dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; assistant 650 general superintendent, two thousand five hundred dollars; principal clerk, two thousand dollars; title and contract clerk, two thousand dollars; topographer and hydrographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; civil engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; three clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; five clerks of class one; two clerks, atone thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; two assistant messengers; and one laborer; in all, forty six thousand one hundred dollars.
Bureau of Engraving and Printing. Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For Director of Bureau, four thousand five hundred dollars; assistant director, three thousand dollars; accountant, two thousand five hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; two assistant messengers; in all, eighteen thousand two hundred and forty dollars. Secret Service division. Secret Service Division:
For one chief, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; and one attendant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, sixteen thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. Office of Director of the Mint. Office of the Director of the Mint: For Director, four thousand five hundred dollars; examiner, and computer, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; assayer, two thousand two hundred dollars; adjuster of accounts, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; translator, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one copyist; one messenger; assistant in laboratory, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, thirty-one thousand and twenty dollars.
Freight. For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, forty thousand dollars. Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expended under the direction of the Director, namely: For assay laboratory, chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books and metallurgy process, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For books, pamphlets, periodical, specimens of coins and ores, and incidentals, four hundred dollars. Statistics of precious metals. For the collection of statistics relative to the annual production and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, five thousand dollars. Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. Office of Surgeon-General of Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service: For Surgeon-General, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars, and five hundred dollars additional as disbursing agent for the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service; three clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; private secretary to the Surgeon-General, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk to the disbursing agent, one thousand four hundred dollars; five clerks of class two, one of whom shall be translator; five clerks of class one; clerk and translator, one thousand two hundred dollars; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; three assistant messengers; and two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, forty-one thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars, the same to be paid from the permanent appropriations for the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, and said Service shall remain under the 651 jurisdiction of the Treasury Department until otherwise hereafter specifically provided by law.
Contingent Expenses Treasury Department: For the following Contingent expenses. sums, which shall be so apportioned as to prevent deficiencies therein, namely: For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several Bureaus, Stationery. thirty thousand dollars. For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union Postage. countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, one thousand five hundred dollars. For purchasing material for binding important records, six hundred Binding. dollars.
For newspapers, law books, city directories, and other books of Newspapers, etc. reference relating to the business of the Department, one thousand two hundred dollars. For investigation of accounts and records, including the necessary Investigations. 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.
For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, seven Freight. thousand dollars. For rent of buildings, twelve thousand two hundred dollars. Rent. For rent, including heat, light, and janitor and elevator service, office of Fife-Saving Service, three thousand six hundred dollars. For rent of additional quarters for accommodation of clerical force of Auditor for the Post-Office Department, fifteen thousand dollars. For removal of furniture and files from Post-Office building to Removal of furniture, etc. quarters rented for accommodation of clerical force of Auditor for the Post-Office Department, and erection of shelving therein, two thousand dollars.
For purchase of horses and wagons, for office and mail service, to Horses and wagons. be used only for official purposes, care and subsistence of horses, including shoeing, and of wagons, harness, and repairs of the same, three thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of ice, including ice for the office of the Auditor for Ice. the Post-Office Department, two thousand four hundred dollars. For purchase of file holders and file cases, four thousand dollars. Files. For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate Fuel, etc. baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, Lights. gas and electric-light fixtures, electric-light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, seventeen thousand dollars. For washing and hemming towels, for the purchase of awnings and Miscellaneous. fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower-garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps and repairs of same, 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 652 of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, ten thousand dollars.
Numbering, etc., machines. For purchase of registering accountants, numbering machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, two thousand five hundred and ninety dollars. Carpets, etc. 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, four 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, ventilators, typewriters, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, ten thousand dollars. Miscellaneous items. Office of Auditor for Post-Office Department. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Office of Auditor for the Post-Office Department, namely:
For miscellaneous items, of which not exceeding three hundred and seventy-five dollars may be used for rental of telephones, and not exceeding two hundred dollars may be used for the purchase of law books, books of reference, and city directories, three thousand five hundred dollars; For carpets and repairs, one thousand dollars; For furniture and repairs, four thousand dollars; For purchase, repair, and exchange of adding machines, five thousand four hundred dollars; In all, thirteen thousand nine hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Auditor for the Post-Office Department under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury.
Collecting internal revenue. collecting internal revenue. Collectors, etc. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, and deputy collectors, and surveyors, and clerks, and transportation of public funds, and other expenses, two million dollars. Agents, gaugers, etc. For salaries and expenses of forty revenue agents provided for by law, and fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries and expenses of storekeepers, and storekeeper-gaugers, and miscellaneous expenses incident to the collection of internal revenue, two million two hundred thousand *Proviso*.
Per diem. dollars: *Provided*, That internal-revenue agents assigned to the duty of examining the accounts of collectors of internal revenue shall receive for per diem in lieu of subsistence, when absent from their legal residences on duty, a sum, to be fixed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed four dollars. Independent Treasury. independent treasury. Assistant treasurers’ offices. Baltimore. Office of assistant treasurer at Baltimore:
For assistant treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, two thousand five hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; four clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; bookkeeper and three clerks, atone thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, thirty-one thousand dollars.
Boston. Office of assistant treasurer at Boston: For assistant treasurer, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, and paying teller, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; assistant paying teller, two thousand two hundred dollars; vault clerk, and receiving teller, at two thousand dollars each; assistant receiving teller, one thousand six hundred dollars; first bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; 653 second bookkeeper, one thousand four hundred dollars; specie clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant specie clerk, and money clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; redemption clerk, and one clerk, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand one hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk, eight hundred dollars; messenger and chief watchman, one thousand and sixty dollars; stenographer and typewriter, one thousand dollars; three watchmen and janitors, at eight hundred and fifty dollars each; in all, forty-two thousand seven hundred and ten dollars.
Office of assistant treasurer at Chicago: For assistant treasurer, Chicago. five thousand dollars; cashier, two thousand five hundred dollars; vault clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; paying teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assorting teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars; silver and redemption teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars; receiving teller, one thousand seven hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; two bookkeepers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; assistant paying teller, one thousand five hundred dollars; four coin, coupon, and currency clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; twenty-six clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one detective and hall man, one thousand one hundred dollars; messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; janitor, six hundred dollars; and three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, sixty-five thousand three hundred dollars.
Office of assistant treasurer at Cincinnati: For assistant Cincinnati. treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, two thousand dollars; assistant cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; receiving teller, one thousand five hundred dollars; interest clerk, and five clerks at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; clerk and stenographer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; clerk and watchman, eight hundred and forty dollars; night watchman, six hundred dollars; day watchman, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand five hundred and sixty dollars.
Office of assistant treasurer at New Orleans: For assistant New Orleans. treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk and cashier, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; receiving teller, and paying teller, at two thousand dollars each; vault clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two bookkeepers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; coin clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; six clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; porter and messenger, five hundred dollars; day watchman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; night watchman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; typewriter and stenographer, one thousand dollars; in all, twenty-eight thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars.
Office of assistant treasurer at New York: For assistant New York. treasurer, eight thousand dollars; deputy assistant treasurer and cashier, four thousand two hundred dollars; assistant cashier and chief clerk, three thousand six hundred dollars; assistant cashier and vault clerk, three thousand two hundred dollars; two chiefs of division, at three thousand one hundred dollars each; chief paying teller, three thousand dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand seven hundred dollars each; chief of division, two thousand six hundred dollars; chief of division, and chief bookkeeper, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; chief of division, and assistant chief of division, at two thousand three hundred dollars each; two assistant chiefs of division, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; two assistant tellers, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistant tellers, and one bookkeeper, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; six 654 assistant tellers, one assistant chief of division, and three bookkeepers, at two thousand dollars each; ten assistant tellers, and two bookkeepers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each: two assistant tellers, at one thousand seven hundred dollars each; four assistant tellers, one bookkeeper, and two clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; six assistant tellers, and two clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; nine assistant tellers, one bookkeeper, and four clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; one assistant teller, and two clerks, at one thousand three hundred dollars each; eight assistant tellers, and three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; six assistant tellers, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; six assistant tellers, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; five assistant tellers, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers, at eight hundred dollars each; two hall men, at one thousand dollars each; two porters, at nine hundred dollars each; superintendent of building, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief detective, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant detective, one thousand two hundred dollars; two engineers, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; assistant engineer, eight hundred and twenty dollars; eight watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, two hundred and seven thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.
Philadelphia. Office of assistant treasurer at Philadelphia: For assistant treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier and chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; paying teller, two thousand three hundred dollars; coin and paying teller, two thousand dollars; bond and authorities clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; vault clerk, one thousand nine hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assorting teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars; redemption teller, one thousand six hundred dollars; receiving teller, one thousand seven hundred dollars; two clerks at one thousand five hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars; six clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; superintendent messenger and chief watchman, one thousand one hundred dollars; six counters at nine hundred dollars each; seven watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, forty-eight thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.
Saint Louis. Office of assistant treasurer at Saint Louis: For assistant treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier and chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; first teller, two thousand dollars; second teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars; third teller, one thousand six hundred dollars; assorting teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant assorting teller, one thousand five hundred dollars; coin teller, one thousand two hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand five hundred dollars; nine clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three day watchmen and coin counters, at nine hundred dollars each; night watchman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two janitors, at six hundred dollars each; in all, thirty-six thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
San Francisco. Office of assistant treasurer at San Francisco: For assistant treasurer, four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, three thousand dollars; bookkeeper, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; assistant cashier, two thousand four hundred dollars; first teller, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant bookkeeper, two thousand dollars; coin teller, and one clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; messen-655ger, eight hundred and forty dollars; and four watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, twenty-eight thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
For salaries of special agents, and for actual expenses of examiners Special agents, examination of depositories, etc. detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several subtreasuries and depositories, including national banks acting as depositories under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and [R. S., sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3649/p718). forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, also including examinations of cash accounts at mints, three thousand dollars.
For paper for interest, transfer, redemption, pension, and other Paper for checks. checks and drafts for the use of the Treasurer of the United States, assistant treasurers, pension agents, disbursing officers, and others, nine thousand dollars. MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICES. Mints and assay offices. Mint at Carson, Nevada: For assayer in charge, who shall also Carson. perform the duties of melter, two thousand dollars; assistant assayer, and one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand dollars.
For wages of workmen and watchmen and not exceeding one thousand Wages. six hundred and eighty dollars for other clerks and employees, three thousand six hundred dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, two thousand dollars. Contingent expenses. Mint at Denver, Colorado: For superintendent, four thousand Denver. five hundred dollars; assayer, melter and refiner, and coiner, at three thousand dollars each; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; weigh clerk, two thousand dollars; cashier, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, and assistant coiner, at two thousand dollars each; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; abstract clerk, warrant clerk, assistant weigh clerk, and calculating clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; calculating clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; and two clerks at one thousand two hundred dollars each; in all, thirty-eight thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
For wages of workmen, and adjusters, and not exceeding thirty-two Wages. thousand five hundred dollars for other clerks and employees, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including melter and refiner’s Contingent expenses. wastage and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the manufacture of ingots, for coinage and wastage and loss on sale of coiner’s sweeps, forty thousand dollars. Mint at New Orleans, Louisiana: For superintendent, three New Orleans. thousand five hundred dollars; assayer, melter and refiner, and coiner, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, and assistant coiner, at one thousand nine hundred dollars each; chief clerk, and cashier’, at two thousand dollars each; bookkeeper, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant cashier, one thousand two hundred dollars; private secretary to superintendent, nine hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; one messenger, nine hundred dollars; one elevator conductor, eight hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand three hundred dollars.
For wages of workmen and adjusters, and not exceeding ten thousand Wages. nine hundred and twenty dollars for other clerks and employees, forty-two thousand eight hundred dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including machinery, and Contingent expenses. repairs, wastage of operative officers and loss on sale of sweeps, nineteen thousand dollars. Mint at Philadelphia: For superintendent, four thousand five Philadelphia. hundred dollars; assayer, melter and refiner, coiner, and engraver, at 656 three thousand dollars each; assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, and assistant coiner, at two thousand dollars each; cashier, and bookkeeper, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; abstract clerk, and weigh clerk, at two thousand dollars each; cashier’s clerk, one thousand seven hundred dollars; warrant clerk, and register of deposits, at one thousand seven hundred dollars each; assistant weigh clerk, and assayer’s computation clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; in all, forty-two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Wages. For wages of workmen, and adjusters, and not exceeding seventy-eight thousand six hundred and forty dollars for other clerks and employees, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Contingent expenses. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, expenses annual assay commission, melters’ and refiners’ wastage, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the manufacture of ingots for coinage, and wastage and loss on sale of coiners’ sweeps, and purchase not exceeding five hundred dollars in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint, eighty-five thousand dollars.
San Francisco. Mint at San Francisco, California: For superintendent, four thousand five hundred dollars; assayer, melter and refiner, and coiner, at three thousand dollars each; chief clerk, and cashier, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; bookkeeper, two thousand dollars; abstract clerk, warrant clerk, assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, assistant coiner, weigh clerk, and register of deposits, at two thousand dollars each; cashier’s clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assayer’s computation clerk, assistant weigh clerk, and superintendent’s calculating clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; in all, forty-one thousand one hundred dollars.
Wages. For wages of workmen and adjusters, and not exceeding thirty-seven thousand five hundred dollars for other clerks and employees, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. Contingent expenses. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery, melter and refiners’ wastage, and loss on sale of sweeps, arising from the manufacture of ingots for coinage, and wastage of, and loss on sale of, coiners’ sweeps, fifty thousand dollars. Boise. Assay office at Boise, Idaho:
For assayer, who shall also perform the duties of melter, two thousand dollars; chief clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, three thousand four hundred dollars. Wages. For wages of workmen, and not exceeding one thousand eight hundred and forty dollars for other clerks and employees, eight thousand three hundred dollars. Contingent expenses. For incidental and contingent expenses, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Charlotte. Assay office at Charlotte, North Carolina:
For assayer and melter, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant assayer, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Wages. For wages of workmen and other clerks and employees, one thousand and eighty dollars. Contingent expenses. For incidental and contingent expenses, nine hundred and twenty dollars. Deadwood. Assay office at Deadwood, South Dakota: For assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, two thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, three thousand two hundred dollars.
Wages. For wages of workmen and other clerks and employees, four thousand dollars. Contingent expenses. For incidental and contingent expenses, including rent of building, two thousand two hundred dollars. Helena. Assay office at Helena, Montana: For assayer in charge, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief clerk, one thousand 657 eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, five thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For wages of workmen, and not exceeding six thousand and thirty Wages. dollars for other clerks and employees, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, four thousand dollars. Contingent expenses Assay office at New York: For superintendent, four thousand New York. five hundred dollars; assayer, and melter and refiner, at three thousand dollars each; chief clerk, assistant melter and refiner, and weigh clerk, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; bookkeeper, two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars; cashier, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; warrant clerk, two thousand dollars; assistant cashier, bar clerk, abstract clerk, and assayer’s computation clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; assistant weigh clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; register of deposits, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assayer’s first assistant, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assayer’s second assistant, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; assayer’s third assistant, two thousand dollars; in all, forty-one thousand and fifty dollars.
For wages of workmen, messengers, and not exceeding twelve thousand Wages. five hundred dollars for other clerks and employees, thirty thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, ten thousand dollars. Contingent expenses. Assay office at Saint Louis, Missouri: For assayer in charge, Saint Louis. two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; in all, three thousand dollars. For wages of workmen (including janitor), one thousand dollars. Wages. For incidental and contingent expenses, seven hundred and fifty Contingent expenses. dollars.
Assay office at Seattle, Washington: For assayer in charge, Seattle. who shall also perform the duties of melter, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, ten thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. For wages for workmen, and not exceeding eleven thousand one Wages. hundred and forty dollars for other clerks and employees, twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, including rent of building, Contingent expenses. eight thousand dollars. The Secretary of the Treasury shall report to Congress each year Report. in the annual estimates the number of persons employed, other than workmen and adjusters, and the compensation paid to each, at each mint and assay office, out of appropriations made for wages of workmen, adjusters, and other employees. government in the territories. Territories and district of Alaska.
District of Alaska: For governor, five thousand dollars; three Alaska. judges, at five thousand dollars each; three attorneys, at three thousand dollars each; three marshals, at four thousand dollars each; three clerks, at three thousand five hundred dollars each; in all, fifty-one thousand five hundred dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, clerk hire, stationery, lights, and fuel, to be expended under the direction of the governor, two thousand dollars. Territory of Arizona:
For governor, three thousand dollars; Arizona. chief justice, and three associate judges, at three thousand dollars each; secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; interpreter and translator in the executive office, five hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand three hundred dollars. 658 For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by the governor, one thousand dollars. For legislative expenses, namely: For rent, messenger, postage, stationery, fuel, lights, printing, and incidental expenses for secretary’s office, two thousand dollars.
New Mexico. Territory of New Mexico: For governor, three thousand dollars; chief justice, and five associate judges, at three thousand dollars each; secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; and interpreter and translator in the executive office, five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand three hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of Territory, to be expended by the governor, one thousand dollars. For legislative expenses, namely: For rent, light, fuel, telephone, ice, water, stationery, record files, record casings, printing, postage, clerks, stenographer and typewriter, messenger and porter, and incidentals in secretary’s office, three thousand dollars.
Oklahoma. Territory of Oklahoma: For governor, three thousand dollars; chief justice and six associate judges, at four thousand dollars each; and secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, thirty-two thousand eight hundred dollars. For contingent expenses of the Territory, to be expended by the governor for rents, private secretary, stenographer and typewriter, and typewriter supplies, janitor, messenger, fuel, lights, stationery and printing, postage, telegrams, furniture for office, express, and other incidentals, one thousand dollars.
For legislative expenses, namely: For rent of office, furniture, fuel, lights, stationery, clerk hire, printing, postage, ice, record casings and files, messenger, porter, indexing records, stenographer, typewriters, janitor, and other incidental expenses of the secretary’s office, three thousand dollars. Hawaii. Territory of Hawaii: For governor, five thousand dollars; secretary, three thousand dollars; chief justice, five thousand five hundred dollars; and two associate justices, at five thousand dollars each; in all, twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars.
For judges of circuit courts, at three thousand dollars each, so much as may be necessary, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six. For contingent expenses of the Territory of Hawaii, to be expended by the governor for stationery, postage, and incidentals, five hundred dollars, and for private secretary to the governor, two thousand dollars; for traveling expenses of the governor while absent from the capital on official business, five hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars.
Porto Rico. Vol. 31, p. 86. Territory of Porto Rico: For salary of the resident commissioner from Porto Rico to the United States authorized by the Act temporarily to provide revenues and a civil government for Porto Rico, approved April twelfth, nineteen hundred, five thousand dollars; for traveling expenses, one hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents; in all, five thousand one hundred and thirty-four dollars and fifty cents. War Department. WAR DEPARTMENT. Pay of Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.
Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secretary of War, eight thousand dollars; Assistant Secretary, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, including five hundred dollars as assistant in military park and insular affairs, three thousand dollars; clerk to the Secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; clerk to the Assistant Secretary, two thousand one hundred dollars; clerk to the chief clerk, two thousand one hundred dollars; disbursing clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; appointment clerk, two thou-659sand dollars; four chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; superintendent of buildings, outside of State, War, and Navy Department building, in addition to compensation as chief of division, five hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief telegrapher, one thousand eight hundred dollars (transfer from temporary roll); four clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; fourteen clerks of class two (increase of four by transfer from temporary roll); fifteen clerks of class one (increase of four by transfer from temporary roll); five clerks, at one thousand dollars each (increase of one by transfer from temporary roll); one clerk, nine hundred dollars (by transfer from temporary roll); two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each (by transfer from temporary roll); one foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars (by transfer from temporary roll); carpenter, one thousand dollars; chief messenger, one thousand dollars; two carpenters, at nine hundred dollars each; six messengers (increase of two by transfer from temporary roll); eight assistant messengers (increase of one by transfer from temporary roll); one assistant messenger, six hundred and sixty dollars (by transfer from temporary roll); one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars (by transfer from temporary roll); engineer, nine hundred dollars (by transfer from temporary roll); assistant engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars (by transfer from temporary roll); one fireman (by transfer from temporary roll); four watchmen (by transfer from temporary roll); five watchmen, at six hundred and sixty dollars each (by transfer from temporary roll); eight laborers; two laborers, at four hundred and seventy dollars each (by transfer from temporary roll); hostler, six hundred dollars; two hostlers, and one watchman, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one telephone operator, four hundred and eighty dollars (by transfer from temporary roll); two elevator conductors, one at six hundred dollars and one at four hundred and seventy dollars (by transfer from temporary roll); four charwomen (by transfer from temporary roll); in all, one hundred and thirty-four thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.
It shall not be lawful to detail clerks or other civilian employees General Staff. Civilian details to or from, forbidden. authorized for the Office of the General Staff for duty, temporary or otherwise, in any office or bureau of the War Department at Washington, District of Columbia, or to detail clerks or other employees from the War Department for service in the Office of the General Staff. Military Secretary’s Office: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; Office of Military Secretary.
Clerks, etc. *Ante*, p. 401. ten chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; forty-eight clerks of class four; sixty-four clerks of class three; ninety-four clerks of class two; two hundred and thirty-two clerks of class one; eighty-eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant engineer, nine hundred dollars; two firemen; skilled mechanic, one thousand dollars; ten messengers; fifty-eight assistant messengers; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; eight watchmen; superintendent of building, two hundred and fifty dollars; and eighteen laborers; in all, seven hundred and eighty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars; and all employees provided for by this paragraph for the Military Secretary’s Office of the War Department shall be exclusively engaged on the work of this office for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six.
Office of the Inspector-General: For one clerk of class four; Inspector-General’s Office. two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; one messenger; one assistant messenger; and one messenger, six hundred dollars (transferred from temporary roll); in all, twelve thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. Office of the Judge-Advocate-General: For chief clerk, two Judge-Advocate General’s Office. thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; 660 one clerk of class two; five clerks of class one (increase of two by transfer from temporary roll); two clerks, at one thousand dollars each (increase of one by transfer); two copyists (increase of one by transfer from temporary roll); two messengers (increase of one by transfer from temporary roll); and one assistant messenger; in all, twenty thousand six hundred dollars.
Signal Office. Signal Office: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four (increase of one by transfer from temporary roll); two clerks of class two (transferred from temporary roll); four clerks of class one (increase of three by transfer from temporary roll); six clerks, at one thousand dollars each (transferred from temporary roll); three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each (transferred from temporary roll); two clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each (transferred from temporary roll); one messenger, one assistant messenger (transferred from temporary roll); and one laborer; in all, twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars.
Quartermaster-General’s Office. Office of the Quartermaster-General: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; eleven clerks of class four; ten clerks of class three increase of one by transfer from temporary roll); twenty-three clerks of class two; fifty-eight clerks of class one (increase of nineteen by transfer from temporary roll); twenty-eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each (increase of fourteen by transfer from the temporary roll and six from skilled typewriters); fifteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each (transferred from temporary roll); ten clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each (by transfer from temporary roll); one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars (transferred from temporary roll); experienced builder and mechanic, two thousand five hundred dollars; two inspectors of supplies for the Army, at two thousand five hundred dollars each, to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War; draftsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant draftsman, one thousand six hundred dollars; two assistant draftsmen, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two assistant draftsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each (transfer from temporary roll); one assistant draftsman, one thousand dollars (transfer from temporary roll); civil engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant civil engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; electrical engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one marine engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars (transfer from temporary roll); four messengers; eleven assistant messengers (increase of two by transfer from temporary roll); female messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; two assistant messengers, at six hundred dollars each (by transfer from the temporary roll); two laborers; in all, two hundred and twenty-eight thousand nine hundred dollars.
Commissary-General’s Office. Office of the Commissary-General: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four (increase of one transferred from temporary roll); four clerks of class three; six clerks of class two (increase of one transferred from temporary roll); twenty clerks of class one (increase of nine by transfer from temporary force); sixteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each (increase of seven by transfer from temporary roll); ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each (increase of ten by transfer from temporary roll); three assistant messengers (increase of one by transfer from temporary roll); two laborers; in all, seventy-four thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.
Surgeon-General’s Office. Office of the Surgeon-General: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; fourteen clerks of class four; eleven clerks of class three; twenty-six clerks of class two (increase of one by transfer from temporary roll); thirty-two clerks of class one (increase of four by transfer from temporary roll); ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each (increase of seven by transfer from temporary roll); six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each (transfer from temporary roll); anatomist, one thousand six hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; 661 assistant engineer, for night duty, nine hundred dollars; two firemen; skilled mechanic, one thousand dollars; twelve assistant messengers; three watchmen; superintendent of building (Army Medical Museum and Library), two hundred and fifty dollars; six laborers (increase of one by transfer from temporary roll); chemist, two thousand and eighty-eight dollars; principal assistant librarian, two thousand and eighty-eight dollars; pathologist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; microscopist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant librarian, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and sixty-five thousand nine hundred and twenty-six dollars.
Office of the Paymaster-General: For chief clerk, two thousand Paymaster-General’s Office. dollars; five clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two (increase of three by transfer from temporary roll); ten clerks of class one (increase of eight by transfer from temporary roll); five clerks, at one thousand dollars each (transferred from temporary roll); nine clerks, at nine hundred dollars each (transferred from temporary roll); one assistant messenger; four laborers; one laborer, six hundred dollars (transferred from temporary roll); in all, sixty-two thousand and sixty dollars.
Office of the Chief of Ordnance: For chief clerk, two thousand Ordnance Office. dollars; five clerks of class four (increase of three by transfer from temporary roll); six clerks of class three (increase of four by transfer from temporary roll); eleven clerks of class two (increase of nine by transfer from temporary roll); twenty-six clerks of class one (increase of six by transfer from temporary roll); eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each (increase of five by transfer from temporary roll); four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each (transferred from temporary roll); two messengers; one assistant messenger; one messenger, seven hundred and eighty dollars (transferred from temporary roll); one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars (transferred from temporary roll); one laborer; in all, eighty-three thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services, not clerical, Skilled draftsmen, etc. as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed in the office of the Chief of Ordnance to carry into effect the various appropriations for the armament of fortifications, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the amount specifically appropriated for draftsmen in the Army Ordnance Bureau: *Provided*, That the entire *Proviso*. Limit, etc. expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, shall not exceed forty thousand dollars, and that the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed and the amount paid to each.
Office of the Chief of Engineers: For chief clerk, two thousand Engineer’s office. dollars; five clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one assistant messenger, and two laborers; in all, thirty thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. And the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other Civil engineers, etc. services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed in the office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and surveys to be paid from such appropriations: *Provided*, That the expenditures on *Proviso*.
Limit, etc. this account for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, shall not exceed eighty thousand dollars; and that the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed and the amount paid to each. Office of the Bureau of Insular Affairs: For law officer, four Bureau of Insular Affairs. thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; seven clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; eight clerks of class 662 two; fourteen clerks of class one; twelve clerks, at one thousand dollars each; fourteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers; two assistant messengers; five laborers; two charwomen; in all, eighty-three thousand four hundred dollars.
Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses of the War Department: For the following sums which shall be so apportioned as to prevent deficiencies therein, namely: For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, newspapers, maps; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to the buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department building) occupied by the Military Secretary’s Office, the Surgeon-General’s Office, Paymaster-General’s and Ordnance offices, Signal Office and building for signal stores and supplies, the depot quartermaster’s office, and the other offices of the War Department and its bureaus located in the Lemon Building; expenses of horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges, temporary labor not to exceed one thousand dollars, and other absolutely necessary expenses, fifty thousand dollars.
Stationery. For stationery for the War Department and its bureaus and offices, twenty-five thousand dollars. Rent. For rent of buildings for use of the War Department, as follows: For medical dispensary, Surgeon-General’s Office, one thousand dollars; for Ordnance and Signal offices, two thousand five hundred dollars; for depot quartermaster’s office, two thousand five hundred dollars; for War Department, seven thousand two hundred dollars; for the Military Secretary’s Office, two thousand three hundred dollars; and for Bureau of Insular Affairs, three thousand three hundred dollars; in all, eighteen thousand eight hundred dollars.
Postage stamps. For postage stamps for the War Department and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, five hundred dollars. Public buildings and grounds. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. Clerks, messengers, etc. Office of public buildings and grounds: For one assistant engineer, two thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk of class four, one clerk of class three, one messenger; landscape gardener, two thousand dollars; surveyor and draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, ten thousand one hundred and forty dollars.
For chief clerk, at two thousand dollars, clerk and stenographer, at one thousand four hundred dollars, overseers, draftsmen, copyists, foremen, gardeners, mechanics, and laborers employed in the public grounds, thirty-five thousand dollars. Watchmen. For one sergeant of park watchmen, nine hundred and fifty dollars. For day watchmen as follows: One in Franklin Park; one in Lafayette Park; two in Smithsonian Grounds; one in Judiciary Park; one in Lincoln Park and adjacent reservations; one at Iowa Circle; one at Thomas Circle and neighboring reservations; one at Washington Circle and neighboring reservations; one at Dupont Circle and neighboring reservations; one at McPherson and Farragut parks; one at Stanton Park and neighboring reservations; two at Henry and Seaton parks; one at Mount Vernon Park and adjacent reservations; one for the greenhouses and nursery; two at grounds south of Executive Mansion; one at Garfield Park; one at Monument Park; one at Monument Park Annex (Potomac Park); twenty-one in all, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, fifteen thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
For night watchmen as follows: Two in Smithsonian Grounds; one in Judiciary Park; two in Henry and Seaton parks: one in grounds 663 south of Executive Mansion; one in Monument Park; one at Monument Park Annex (Potomac Park); two in Garfield Park; ten in all, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, seven thousand two hundred dollars. For watchman for the care of the monument and dock at Wakefield, Wakefield, Va. Virginia, the birthplace of Washington, three hundred dollars. For contingent and incidental expenses, including purchase of professional Contingent expenses. and scientific books and periodicals, books of reference, blank books, photographs, and maps, seven hundred dollars.
Of the foregoing amounts appropriated under Public Buildings and Amount from District revenues. Grounds, the sum of twenty-nine thousand one hundred and thirty-five dollars shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. state, war, and navy department building. State, War, and Navy Department building. Office of the superintendent: For one clerk of class one; stenographer Clerk, engineers, watchmen, etc. and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; chief engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; nine assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; captain of the watch, one thousand two hundred dollars; two lieutenants of the watch, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; fifty-eight watchmen; carpenter, one thousand dollars; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; plumber, two machinists, boiler maker, and painter, at nine hundred dollars each; four skilled laborers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; twenty-nine firemen; ten conductors of elevators, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; nineteen laborers; four mistresses of charwomen, at three hundred dollars each; seventy-seven charwomen; one gardener, seven hundred and twenty dollars; and two telephone operators, at six hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and twenty-nine thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.
For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items and city directories, Fuel, lights, etc. forty-three thousand dollars. For a pair of new elevators, eighteen thousand dollars. Elevators. For a pair of heating boilers for south wing, one thousand four hundred Boilers. dollars. For increasing height of stair rails, one thousand one hundred dollars. Stair rails. NAVY DEPARTMENT. Navy Department. Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secretary of Pay of Secretary Assistant, clerks, etc. the Navy, eight thousand dollars;
Assistant Secretary of the Navy, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, three thousand dollars; clerk to Secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; disbursing clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; four clerks of class four; stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand one hundred dollars; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; telegraph operator, one thousand one hundred dollars; two copyists; carpenter, nine hundred dollars; four messengers; four assistant messengers; four laborers; three messenger boys, at six hundred dollars each; one messenger boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger boy, four hundred dollars; in all, sixty-one thousand nine hundred dollars.
For the following, for service in fireproof building authorized to be Extra force, care of rented building. rented for use of the Navy Department, namely: Assistant engineer, one thousand dollars; four firemen; two elevator conductors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; ten charwomen; four laborers; five watchmen; and one plumber, nine hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars. 664 Library. Library of the Navy Department: For one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one assistant messenger; one laborer; in all, three thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.
Naval Records of the Rebellion. Office of Naval Records of the Rebellion: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one agent, to be selected by the Secretary of the Navy from the officers of the late Confederate navy, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two copyists; two copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; necessary traveling expenses for collection of records, one hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand three hundred and forty dollars.
Continuing publication. For continuing the publication of an edition of eleven thousand copies of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, in accordance with the plan approved by Vol. 28, p. 190. the Secretary of the Navy under the Act of Congress approved July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for the purpose of making such maps and illustrations as relate to the work, twenty-one thousand dollars. Judge-Advocate-General’s Office.
Judge-Advocate-General, United States Navy: For a solicitor, to be an assistant to the Judge-Advocate of the Navy, and to perform the duties of that officer in case of his death, resignation, absence, or sickness, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars; one clerk of class one; three clerks at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; one assistant messenger; one messenger boy, six hundred dollars; in all, nineteen thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
Bureau of Navigation. Bureau of Navigation: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; five clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; eleven clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two copyists; twenty-two copyists, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; three copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three assistant messengers; one messenger boy, six hundred dollars; and four laborers; in all, sixty-four thousand three hundred and forty dollars.
Naval Intelligence. Office of Naval Intelligence: For one clerk of class four; one clerk of class two; one translator, one thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars; one assistant draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one messenger boy, six hundred dollars; and one laborer; in all, eleven thousand three hundred and sixty dollars. Bureau of Equipment. Bureau of Equipment: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; draftsman, who shall be an expert in marine construction, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; electrical expert and draftsman, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars; two clerks of class one; draftsman for work in connection with depots for coal, one thousand two hundred dollars; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two copyists; one assistant messenger; one messenger boy, six hundred dollars; one blueprinter, six hundred dollars; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; and one laborer; in all, twenty-six thousand and forty dollars.
Hydrographic Office. Hydrographic Office: For hydrographic engineer, three thousand dollars; one assistant, two thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant, two thousand dollars; one nautical expert, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two nautical experts, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; three nautical experts, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four nautical experts, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one custodian of archives, one thousand two 665 hundred dollars; three copyists; one copyist, eight hundred and forty dollars; two copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one compiler, one thousand four hundred dollars; one computer, one thousand four hundred dollars; one computer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three draftsmen, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; four draftsmen, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two draftsmen, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two draftsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; five draftsmen, at one thousand dollars each; one draftsman, nine hundred dollars; one draftsman, under instruction, seven hundred dollars; three apprentice draftsmen, at five hundred dollars each; one chief engraver, two thousand dollars; two engravers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; three engravers, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one engraver, one thousand four hundred dollars; two engravers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four engravers, at one thousand dollars each; two engravers, at nine hundred dollars each; one engraver, eight hundred dollars; one engraver, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one apprentice engraver, seven hundred dollars; one apprentice engraver, five hundred dollars; one chief plate printer, one thousand four hundred dollars; one plate printer, one thousand two hundred dollars; one plate printer, one thousand dollars; two plate printers, at eight hundred dollars each; one plate printer, seven hundred dollars; one apprentice plate printer, five hundred dollars; one apprentice plate printer, four hundred dollars; one chief lithographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two lithographers, at one thousand dollars each; one apprentice lithographer, five hundred dollars; one electrotyper, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant messenger; four laborers; two helpers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two helpers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; one helper, six hundred dollars; one helper, five hundred dollars; one helper, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, one hundred thousand four hundred dollars.
For purchase of copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing Materials. boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates; cleaning copperplates; tools, instruments, power, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; the preparation of the Pilot Chart and supplements, Pilot Chart. and the printing and mailing of the same; and purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, seven thousand dollars.
For purchase of one power-worked plate press and fixtures, three Power plate press. thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Contingent expenses. Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Port Townsend, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, and Galveston, including furniture, fuel, lights, rent and care of offices, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and express charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for the Pilot Chart, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, thirty thousand five hundred dollars.
For a monthly Pilot Chart of the North Pacific Ocean, showing Monthly Pilot Chart, Pacific Ocean. graphically the matters of value and interest to the maritime community of the Pacific coast, and particularly the directions and forces of the winds to be expected during the month succeeding the date of issue; the set 666 and strength of the currents; the feeding grounds of whales and seals; the regions of storm, fog, and ice; the positions of derelicts and floating obstructions to navigation; and the best routes to be followed by steam and by sail; including the expenses of communicating and circulating information; lithographing and engraving; the purchase of materials for, and printing and mailing the chart, two thousand dollars.
Personal services. No expenditure shall be incurred or authorized for personal services or otherwise under the Hydrographic Office at Washington, District of Columbia, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six except as herein authorized by appropriations under the Navy Department or under appropriations that may be made for printing and binding. Naval Observatory. Naval Observatory: For pay of three assistant astronomers, one at two thousand dollars, and two at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one assistant in department of nautical instruments, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class two; instrument maker, one thousand five hundred dollars; electrician, one thousand five hundred dollars; photographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; five computers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant on equatorial, one thousand dollars; assistant in spectroscopic work, one thousand dollars; stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; foreman and captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; carpenter, and engineer, atone thousand dollars each; three firemen: six watchmen; elevator conductor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; and nine laborers; in all, forty-one thousand and forty dollars.
Computations. For miscellaneous computations, five thousand dollars. Books, etc. For professional and scientific books, periodicals, engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Apparatus. For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, two thousand dollars. Repairs, etc. For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences, furniture, gas, chemicals, and stationery, freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage, and expressage, plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Miscellaneous. For fuel, oil, grease, tools, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power plant, and water-supply system; purchase and maintenance of teams; material for boxing nautical instruments for transportation; paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, seven thousand five hundred dollars. Solar eclipse. Expenses of observations. Observation, Solar Eclipse: For observations of the total eclipse of the sun on August thirtieth, nineteen hundred and five:
For preparation and outfit of instruments and their transportation, the purchase of additional apparatus and materials, including photographic material, the erection of suitable buildings at each station, and generally the expenses of preparation and observation, including the living expenses of parties at the several stations, five thousand dollars, to be immediately available. Nautical Almanac. Nautical Almanac Office: For the following assistants in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, namely:
Three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two, at one thousand dollars each; one copyist and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; one assistant messenger; and one messenger boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, fifteen thousand two hundred and forty dollars. Computers. For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, seven thousand dollars. 667 Bureau of Steam Engineering:
For chief clerk, two thousand Bureau of Steam Engineering. dollars; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; one clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand one hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dol lars each; one clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; one assistant messenger; two laborers; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; one messenger boy, six hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer and typewriter, one thousand dollars; stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
Bureau of Construction and Repair: For chief clerk, two thousand Bureau of Construction and Repair. dollars; three clerks of class three; assistant draftsman, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk of class two; three clerks, at one thousand three hundred dollars each; two clerks of class one; nine clerks, atone thousand one hundred dollars each; fifteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; five copyists; one assistant messenger; one laborer; nine messenger boys, at six hundred dollars each; one messenger boy, four hundred dollars; in all, fifty-two thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.
The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as the Technical services. Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed in the Bureaus of Ordnance, Equipment, Construction and Repair, and Steam Engineering to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy,” to be paid from such appropriations: *Provided*, That the *Proviso*. Limit, etc. expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six shall not exceed one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; a statement of the persons employed hereunder and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates.
Bureau of Ordnance: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; ordnance Bureau of Ordnance. engineer, mechanical draftsman, and computer, three thousand dollars; draftsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant draftsman, one thousand four hundred dollars; two clerks of class two: one clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars; two clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand one hundred dollars; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three copyists; two copyists, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one assistant messenger; two messenger boys, at six hundred dollars each; and one laborer; in all, twenty-seven thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For chief clerk, two thousand Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. dollars; three clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; two stenographers, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; one clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars; sixteen clerks of class one; eight clerks, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; twenty-two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks at nine hundred dollars each; eight copyists; two copyists, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one assistant messenger; three messenger boys, at four hundred dollars each; one laborer; one messenger boy, six hundred dollars; and two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, eighty-nine thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For chief clerk, two thousand Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; two clerks, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; three clerks at one thousand dollars each; two copyists, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one assistant messenger; one laborer; driver for Naval Dispensary, six hundred dollars, and one laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars (for Naval Dispensary); in all, seventeen thousand three hundred and forty dollars.
Bureau of Yards and Docks: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars: Bureau of Yards and Docks. draftsman and clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one 668 clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand one hundred dollars; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one assistant messenger; three messenger boys, at six hundred dollars each; and one laborer; in all, eighteen thousand six hundred and eighty dollars. Technical services.
The services of skilled draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed in the Bureau of Yards and Docks to carry into effect the various appropriations for “public works” to be paid from such appropriations: *Proviso*. Limit, etc. *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six shall not exceed thirty thousand dollars; a statement of the persons employed hereunder and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates.
Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses, Navy Department: For the following sums which shall be so apportioned as to prevent deficiencies therein, namely: Books, etc. For professional and technical books and periodicals for Department library, one thousand dollars. Stationery, etc. For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, drawing materials, horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes, freight, expressage, postage, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, fourteen thousand dollars.
Mills Building. Rent. For the rental of Mills Building, authorized by Act of Congress approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars. Fuel and light. For coal, gas, and electric lighting of Mills Building and electric current to run presses therein, five thousand dollars. Repairs, etc. For repairs and materials required in maintenance of Mills Building, including oil, grease, tools, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power plant and water-supply system, five hundred dollars.
Interior Department. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Pay of Secretary, Assistants, clerks, etc. Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secretary of the Interior, eight thousand dollars; First Assistant Secretary, four thousand five hundred dollars, and for additional compensation while the office is held by the present incumbent, one thousand five hundred dollars; Assistant Secretary, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars, and five hundred dollars additional as superintendent of the Patent Office building and other Board of Pension Appeals. buildings of the Department of the Interior; additional to one member of Board of Pension Appeals, acting as chief of the board, five hundred dollars; nine members of a Board of Pension Appeals, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, at two thousand dollars each; twenty additional members of the Board of Pension Appeals, to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of the Interior from persons not now or heretofore employed in the Pension Office and without Vol. 22, p. 403. compliance with the conditions prescribed by the Act entitled “An Act to regulate and improve the civil service,” approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, at two thousand dollars each; three additional members of said Board of Pension Appeals, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior and to be selected from the force of the Land inspector.
Pension Office, at two thousand dollars each; special land inspector, connected with the administration of the public-land service, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior and to be subject to his Special inspectors. direction, two thousand five hundred dollars; five special inspectors, 669 Department of the Interior, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior and to be subject to his direction, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; clerk in charge of documents, two thousand one hundred dollars; custodian, who shall give bond in such sum as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, two thousand one hundred dollars; seven Clerks, etc. clerks, chiefs of division, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each, one of whom shall be disbursing clerk; four clerks, at two thousand dollars each; private secretary to the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand five hundred dollars; fourteen clerks of class four; fourteen clerks of class three; eighteen clerks of class two; twenty-eight clerks of class one, two of whom shall be stenographers or typewriters; returns office clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; female clerk, to be designated by the President, to sign land patents, one thousand two hundred dollars; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; ten copyists; two copyists or typewriters, at nine hundred dollars each; telephone operator, nine hundred dollars; three Messengers, etc. messengers; six assistant messengers; fifteen laborers; two skilled mechanics, one at nine hundred dollars and one at seven hundred and twenty dollars; two carpenters, at nine hundred dollars each; plumber, nine hundred dollars; electrician, one thousand dollars; one laborer, six hundred dollars; six laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one packer, six hundred and sixty dollars; two conductors of elevator, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four charwomen; captain of the watch, one thousand two hundred dollars; forty watchmen; additional to two watchmen acting as lieutenants of watchmen, at one hundred and twenty dollars each; engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand dollars; seven firemen; one clerk, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, to Clerk to sign approval of tribal deeds. sign, under the direction of the Secretary, in his name and for him, his approval of all tribal deeds to allottees and deeds for town lots made and executed according to law for any of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, three hundred and twenty-five thousand one hundred and thirty dollars.
For employees, for the proper protection, heating, care, and preservation Employees old Post-Office Department building. of the old Post-Office Department building, occupied by the Department of the Interior, namely: One engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant engineer, one thousand dollars; four firemen; three watchmen, acting as lieutenants, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; twenty watchmen; conductor of elevator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; fourteen laborers; ten laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; three skilled mechanics (painter, carpenter, and plumber), at nine hundred dollars each; in all, thirty-nine thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
Office of Assistant Attorney-General: For assistant attorney, Assistant Attorney-General’s Office. three thousand dollars; assistant attorney, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; three assistant attorneys, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; four assistant attorneys, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; ten assistant attorneys, at two thousand dollars each; four clerks of class three, one of whom shall act as stenographer and one of whom shall be a stenographer and typewriter; one clerk of class one; in all, forty-nine thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars.
For per diem in lieu of subsistence of one special land inspector Per diem, etc., land inspector. connected with the administration of the public-land service, while traveling on duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation (including temporary employment of stenographers, typewriters, and other assistance outside of the District of Columbia, and for incidental expenditures necessary to the efficient conduct of 670 examinations), two thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior.
Special inspectors. For per diem in lieu of subsistence of five special inspectors, Department of the Interior, while traveling on duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation (including temporary employment of stenographers, typewriters, and other assistance outside of the District of Columbia, and for incidental expenditures necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations), to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, ten thousand dollars.
Official Register. For preparation of the Official Register of the United States for nineteen hundred and five, including editing, proof reading, and indexing, five thousand dollars. General Land Office. General Land Office: For the Commissioner of the General Land Office, five thousand dollars; Assistant Commissioner, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who shall be authorized to sign such letters, papers, and documents and to perform such other duties as may be directed by the Commissioner, and shall act as Commissioner in the absence of that officer or in case of a vacancy in the office of Commissioner, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two law clerks, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; three inspectors of surveyors-general and district land offices, at two thousand dollars each; recorder, two thousand dollars; eleven chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; two law examiners, at two thousand dollars each; ten principal examiners of land claims and contests, at two thousand dollars each; two examiners of mineral claims and contests, two thousand dollars each; thirty-eight clerks of class four; sixty-four clerks of class three; sixty-seven clerks of class two; sixty-nine clerks of class one; fifty-eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; sixty-four copyists; two messengers; ten assistant messengers; six skilled laborers, who may act as assistant messengers when required, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; seventeen laborers; one packer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one depositary acting for the Commissioner as receiver of public moneys and also as confidential secretary, two thousand dollars; librarian for the law library of the General Land Office, to be selected by the Secretary of the Interior wholly with reference to his special fitness for such work, one thousand dollars; in all, five hundred and sixty-three thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars.
Per diem, etc., investigations. For per diem in lieu of subsistence of inspectors and of clerks, detailed to investigate fraudulent land entries, trespasses on the public lands, and cases of official misconduct, while traveling on duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, and for employment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations, and when authorized by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, seven thousand dollars.
Law books. For law books for the law library of the General Land Office, two hundred dollars. Maps. For connected and separate United States and other maps prepared in the General Land Office, nineteen thousand one hundred and sixty *Proviso*. Distribution. dollars: *Provided*, That of the United States maps procured hereunder seven thousand two hundred copies shall be delivered to the Senate and fourteen thousand four hundred copies shall be delivered to the House of Representatives, and the residue shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Interior for distribution.
And all maps delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives hereunder shall be mounted with rollers ready for use. 671 For separate State and Territorial maps, prepared in the General State and Territorial maps. Land Office, one thousand dollars. Mine inspectors: For salaries of two mine inspectors, authorized Mine inspectors. Vol. 26, p. 1104. by the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, for the protection of the lives of miners in the Territories, at two thousand dollars per annum each, four thousand dollars.
For per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary Expenses. of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each, while absent from their homes on duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said inspectors, including necessary sleeping-car fares, three thousand three hundred and fifty dollars. Indian Office: For the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, five thousand Indian Office. dollars; Assistant Commissioner, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, three thousand dollars; financial clerk, two thousand dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; principal bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; six clerks of class four; twenty clerks of class three; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand four hundred dollars; nineteen clerks of class two; draftsman, one thousand six hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; architect, one thousand five hundred dollars; thirty-one clerks of class one; twenty clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars, one stenographer, one thousand dollars, and one clerk at one thousand dollars to superintendent of Indian schools; sixteen copyists; one messenger; four assistant messengers; three laborers; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; and four charwomen; in all, one hundred and seventy-four thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
Pension Office: For the Commissioner of Pensions, five thousand Pension Office. dollars; First Deputy Commissioner, three thousand six hundred dollars; Second Deputy Commissioner, three thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant chief clerk, two thousand dollars; medical referee, three thousand dollars; assistant medical referee, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two qualified surgeons who shall be experts in their profession, at two thousand dollars each; thirty-eight medical examiners who shall be surgeons of education, skill, and experience in their profession, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; ten chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; law clerk, two thousand two hundred arid fifty dollars; chief of board of review, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; fifty-seven principal examiners, at two thousand dollars each; twenty assistant chiefs of division, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; three stenographers, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; seventy clerks of class four; eighty-five clerks of class three; three hundred and twenty-nine clerks of class two; three hundred and ninety-nine clerks of class one; two hundred and twenty-five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one hundred and forty-five copyists; superintendent of building, one thousand four hundred dollars; two engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three firemen; thirty-three messengers; twelve assistant messengers; twenty messenger boys, at four hundred dollars each; forty-five laborers; ten female laborers, at four hundred dollars each; fifteen charwomen; one painter, skilled in his trade, nine hundred dollars; one cabinetmaker, skilled in his trade, nine hundred dollars; captain of the watch, eight hundred and forty dollars; three sergeants of the watch, at seven hundred and fifty dollars each; twenty watchmen; in all, one million nine hundred and thirty-seven thousand two hundred and ten dollars; and all clerks and Details to other offices. employees herein provided for the Pension Office who may be detailed 672 and needed in other offices or bureaus of the Department of the Interior shall be estimated for in the Book of Estimates for nineteen hundred and seven in the office or bureau where actually employed.
Per diem, etc., investigations. For per diem, when absent from home and traveling on duty outside the District of Columbia, for special examiners, or other persons employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertaining to said Bureau, in lieu of expenses for subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, and for actual and necessary expenses for transportation and assistance, and any other necessary expenses, including telegrams, three hundred and fifty thousand *Proviso*.
Chief and assistant special examiners. dollars: *Provided*, That two special examiners or clerks detailed and acting as chief and assistant chief of the division of special examiners may be allowed, from this appropriation, in addition to their salaries and in lieu of per diem and all expenses for subsistence, a sum sufficient to make their annual compensation two thousand dollars and one thousand eight hundred dollars, respectively, and whenever it may be necessary for either of them to travel on official business outside the District of Columbia by special direction of the Commissioner he shall receive the same allowance in lieu of subsistence and for transportation as is herein provided for special examiners and detailed clerks engaged in field service; and the Secretary of the Interior shall so apportion the sum herein appropriated as to prevent a deficiency therein.
Additional special examiners. For an additional force of one hundred and twenty-five special examiners for one year, at a salary of one thousand three hundred dollars each, one hundred and sixty-two thousand five hundred dollars, and no person so appointed shall be employed in the State from which he is appointed; and any of those now employed in the Pension Office or as special examiners may be reappointed if they be found to be qualified. Patent Office. Patent Office: For the Commissioner of Patents, five thousand dollars;
Assistant Commissioner, who shall perform such duties pertaining to the office of Commissioner as may be assigned to him by the Commissioner, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; two law clerks, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; three examiners in chief, at three thousand dollars each; examiner of interferences, two thousand five hundred dollars; thirty-nine principal examiners, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; forty-two first assistant examiners, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; fifty second assistant examiners, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; sixty-one third assistant examiners, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; seventy fourth assistant examiners, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; financial clerk, who shall give bonds in such amount as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; librarian, two thousand dollars; five chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; three assistant chiefs of division, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; seven clerks of class four, one of whom shall act as application clerk; machinist, one thousand six hundred dollars; seven clerks of class three, one of whom shall be translator of languages; fourteen clerks of class two; sixty-seven clerks of class one; skilled laborer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three skilled draftsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; four draftsmen, at one thousand dollars each; twenty-seven permanent clerks, at one thousand dollars each; messenger and property clerk, one thousand dollars; five model attendants, at one thousand dollars each; ten model attendants, at eight hundred dollars each; one hundred and six copyists, seven of whom may be copyists of drawings; thirty-one copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three messengers; twenty-six assistant messengers; fifty-one laborers, at six hundred dollars each; fifty laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; thirty-nine messenger boys, 673 at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, eight hundred and fifty-one thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars.
For purchase of professional and scientific books and expense of Books, etc. transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments, two thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of law books, five hundred dollars. For photolithographing or otherwise producing plates and illustrations Official Gazette. for the Official Gazette, eighty thousand dollars; for work to be done at the Government Printing Office, in producing the Official Gazette, including the letter-press, the weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indexes therefor, exclusive of expired patents, one hundred thousand dollars; in all, one hundred and eighty thousand dollars.
For producing copies of drawings of the weekly issues of patents; Copies of drawings etc. for producing copies of designs, trade-marks, and pending applications; and for the reproduction of exhausted copies of drawings and specifications; said work referred to in this and the preceding paragraph to Vol. 28, p. 620. be done as provided by the “Act providing for the public printing and binding and for the distribution of public documents:” *Provided*, That *Proviso*. Work at Government Printing Office. the entire work may be done at the Government Printing Office if, in the judgment of the Joint Committee on Printing, or if there shall be no joint Committee, in the judgment of the Committee on Printing of either House, it shall be deemed to be for the best interests of the Government, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars.
For investigating the question of the public use or sale of inventions Investigating use of inventions, etc. for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and for expenses attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents, two hundred and fifty dollars. For the share of the United States in the expense of conducting the International Bureau, Berne. International Bureau at Berne, Switzerland, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Bureau of Education:
For Commissioner of Education, three Bureau of Education. thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; statistician, one thousand eight hundred dollars; specialist in charge of land-grant college statistics, one thousand eight hundred dollars; translator, one thousand eight hundred dollars; collector and compiler of statistics, two thousand four hundred dollars; specialist in foreign educational systems, one thousand eight hundred dollars; specialist in educational system, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four copyists; two copyists, at eight hundred dollars each; copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; skilled laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars; one assistant messenger; two laborers; three laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; laborer, four hundred dollars; in all, fifty-three thousand one hundred and forty dollars.
For books for library, current educational periodicals, other current Books. publications, and completing valuable sets of periodicals, two hundred and fifty dollars. For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of information, Special reports. two thousand five hundred dollars. For the purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents, Distributing documents, etc. and for the collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus and appliances, text-books, and educational reference books, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and for procuring anthropological instruments of precision, and for repairing the same, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Office of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Superintendent of Capitol, etc. Grounds: For Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, 674 four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; chief electrical engineer, two thousand four hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand dollars; assistant draftsman, eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; stenographer and typewriter, one thousand two hundred dollars; compensation to disbursing clerk, one thousand dollars; one messenger; person in charge of the heating of the Supreme Court and central portion of the Capitol, eight hundred and sixty-four dollars; laborer in charge of water-closets in central portion of the Capitol, six hundred and sixty dollars; seven laborers for cleaning Rotunda, corridors, Dome, and old library portion of Capitol, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; two laborers in charge of public closets of the House of Representatives and in the terrace, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, twenty-two thousand seven hundred and twenty-four dollars.
Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior: For the following sums, which shall be so apportioned as to prevent deficiencies therein, namely: For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of the Interior and the bureaus, offices, and buildings of the Interior Department, including not to exceed five thousand dollars for the Civil Service Commission: For furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, expressage, wagons and harness, food and shoeing of horses, diagrams, awnings, constructing model and other cases and furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, including fuel and lights, ninety-five thousand dollars.
Stationery. For stationery for the Department of the Interior and its several bureaus and offices, including not to exceed five thousand dollars for the Civil Service Commission, sixty thousand dollars. Books. For professional and scientific books, law books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the Department, one thousand dollars, of which sum two hundred and fifty dollars may be used for the Civil Service Commission.
Rent. For rent of buildings for the Department of the Interior, namely: For the Bureau of Education, four thousand dollars; Geological Survey, twenty-nine thousand two hundred dollars; additional rooms for the engraving and printing divisions of the Geological Survey, one thousand two hundred dollars; storage of documents, one thousand dollars; Civil Service Commission, four thousand five hundred dollars; Patent Office model exhibit, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifty-nine thousand four hundred dollars.
Postage stamps. For postage stamps for the Department of the Interior and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, three thousand six hundred dollars. Surveyors-general, etc. surveyors-general and their clerks. Alaska. For surveyor-general and ex officio secretary of the district of Alaska, four thousand dollars; clerks in his office, four thousand dollars; in all, eight thousand dollars. For rent of office for surveyor-general, pay of messenger, stationery, printing, binding, drafting instruments, books of reference for office use, furniture, fuel, lights, laundry, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Arizona. For surveyor-general of the Territory of Arizona, two thousand dollars; and for the clerks in his office, five thousand dollars; in all, seven thousand dollars. For rent of office for the surveyor-general, stationery, binding records, drafting supplies, books of reference for office use, typewriter and repairs, repairs of furniture, freight and drayage, filing case for plats, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. 675 For surveyor-general of California, two thousand dollars; and for California. the clerks in his office, twelve thousand dollars; in all, fourteen thousand dollars.
For pay of messenger, stationery, binding records, repairing maps, repairs to locks, clocks, furniture, batteries, and typewriter, towels, telephone, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of the State of Colorado, two thousand dollars; Colorado. and for the clerks of his office, eleven thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, stationery, printing and binding, furniture and repairs, muslin for mounting plats, drafting instruments, record books, indexing volumes of letters, ice, post-office box rent and register stamps, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, three thousand six hundred dollars.
For surveyor-general of Florida, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Florida. and for the clerks in his office, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, three thousand dollars. For pay of messenger, stationery, printing and binding, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of Idaho, two thousand dollars; and for the Idaho. clerks in his office, nine thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand dollars. For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, stationery, binding, printing, fuel, light, drafting instruments, post-office box rent, furniture, typewriters, ice, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For surveyor-general of Louisiana, one thousand eight hundred Louisiana. dollars; and for the clerks in his office, seven thousand dollars; in all, eight thousand eight hundred dollars. For messenger, stationery, binding records, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, seven hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of Minnesota, one thousand eight hundred Minnesota. dollars; and for the clerks in his office, two thousand five hundred dollars; in all, four thousand three hundred dollars.
For pay of messenger, stationery, printing, binding, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of Montana, two thousand dollars; and for the Montana. clerks in his office, eleven thousand dollars; in all, thirteen thousand dollars. For pay of messenger, lights, post-office box rent, ice, stationery, printing, binding, furniture, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For surveyor-general of Nevada, one thousand eight hundred dollars; Nevada. and for the clerks in his office, three thousand dollars; in all, four thousand eight hundred dollars. For rent of office for the surveyor-general, stationery, and drawing materials, post-office box rent, registering letters, telephone, ice, repair of furniture, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of the Territory of New Mexico, two thousand New Mexico. dollars; and for clerks in his office, ten thousand dollars; in all, twelve thousand dollars.
For pay of messenger, stationery, printing, drafting instruments, plats, drawing paper, binding records, telephone, registration of letters, post-office box rent, drayage, towels, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. For surveyor-general of North Dakota, two thousand dollars; and North Dakota. for the clerks in his office, four thousand dollars; in all, six thousand dollars. 676 For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, stationery, printing, binding, lights, ice, post-office box rent, repairs of furniture, typewriters, and instruments, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Oregon. For surveyor-general of Oregon, two thousand dollars; and for the clerks in his office, seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For pay of messenger, stationery, telephone, towels, binding, postoffice box rent, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. South Dakota. For surveyor-general of South Dakota, two thousand dollars; and for clerks in his office, five thousand dollars; in all, seven thousand dollars.
For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messengers, stationery supplies, drafting instruments, fuel, ice, binding records, post-office box rent, telegrams, registration of letters, towels, furniture and typewriter repairs, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand five hundred dollars. Utah. For surveyor-general of Utah, two thousand dollars; and for the clerks in his office, nine thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand dollars.
For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of janitor, stationery, plats and supplies, printing and binding, drawing tables, drafting instruments, post-office box rent, typewriters, drayage, towels, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand two hundred dollars. Washington. For surveyor-general of Washington, two thousand dollars; and for the clerks in his office, seven thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, nine thousand eight hundred dollars.
For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of janitor, furniture and repairs, stationery, binding records, books, blanks, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand seven hundred dollars. Wyoming. For surveyor-general of Wyoming, two thousand dollars; and for the clerks in his office, six thousand nine hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand nine hundred dollars. For rent of office for the surveyor-general, pay of messenger, stationery and supplies, lights, printing, binding, books, post-office box rent, drafting instruments, mounting maps, ice, towels, furniture and repairs, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand three hundred and fifteen dollars.
Post-Office Department. POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Pay of Postmaster-General, clerks, etc. Office Postmaster-General: For compensation of the Postmaster- General, eight thousand dollars; chief clerk, Post-Office Department, including five hundred dollars as superintendent of Post-Office Department building, three thousand dollars; private secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; disbursing clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; bookkeeper and accountant, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two stenographers, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; appointment clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk, assistant to chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; curator of museum, one thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; telephone operator, one thousand dollars; messenger in charge of mails, nine hundred dollars; one messenger; two Engineers, watchmen, etc. assistant messengers; page, three hundred and sixty dollars; engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; eight assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; electrician, one thousand four hundred dollars; two assistant electricians, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; 677 three dynamo tenders, at nine hundred dollars each; one fireman, who shall be a blacksmith, and one fireman, who shall be a steam fitter, at nine hundred dollars each; ten elevator conductors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; fourteen firemen; carpenter, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant carpenter, one thousand dollars; captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; additional to two watchmen acting as lieutenants of watchmen, at one hundred and twenty dollars each; thirty-one watchmen; foreman of laborers, eight hundred dollars; thirty laborers; ten laborers and coal passers, at five hundred dollars each; plumber, and awning maker, at nine hundred dollars each; female laborer, five hundred and forty dollars; three female laborers, at five hundred dollars each; two female laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; and thirty-two charwomen; in all, one hundred and forty-three thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
Office of the purchasing agent: For purchasing agent, four, Purchasing agent, clerks, etc. thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; two clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one assistant messenger; actual and necessary expenses of the purchasing agent while traveling on business of the Post-Office Department, five hundred dollars; in all, sixteen thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.
Office of Assistant Attorney-General for the Post-Office Assistant Attorney-General’s office. Department: Assistant attorney, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant attorney, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; law clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; assistant messenger; in all, fifteen thousand six hundred and seventy dollars. Office First Assistant Postmaster-General:
For First Assistant First Assistant Postmaster-General, clerks, etc. Postmaster-General, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; Superintendent of the Money-Order System, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk Money-Order System, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent of the Dead-Letter Office, two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk of class four, who shall be chief clerk of the Dead-Letter Office; general superintendent of salaries and allowances, four thousand dollars; assistant superintendent of salaries and allowances, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent of post-office supplies, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of post-office supplies, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief of the correspondence division, two thousand dollars; eleven clerks of class four; twenty-three clerks of class three; thirty-four clerks of class two; forty-nine clerks of class one; fifty-two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; sixty clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers; seven assistant messengers; thirty-six laborers; four pages, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; and seven female laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, three hundred and thirty-four thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.
Office Second Assistant Postmaster-General: For Second Second Assistant Postmaster-General, clerks, etc. Assistant Postmaster-General, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of railway adjustments, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of railway adjustments and law clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent of foreign mails, three thousand Foreign mails. dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; chief of division of inspection, two thousand dollars; chief of contract division, two thousand dollars; chief of mail equipment division, two thousand dollars; eleven clerks of class four; forty clerks of class three; thirty-one clerks of class two; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; twenty-four clerks of class one; seventeen clerks, at one thousand 678 dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; messenger in charge of mails, nine hundred dollars; six assistant messengers; in all, two hundred and seven thousand nine hundred and seventy dollars.
Third Assistant Postmaster-General, clerks, etc. Office Third Assistant Postmaster-General: For Third Assistant Postmaster-General, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent postage-stamp supplies and postmasters’ accounts, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent of system of postal finance, who shall give bond in such amount as the Postmaster-General may determine for the faithful discharge of his duties, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent of classification division, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; four special agents, classification division, at two thousand dollars each; chief of files and records division, two thousand dollars; chief of redemption division, two thousand dollars; superintendent of registry system, two thousand five hundred dollars; six assistant superintendents of registry system, at two thousand dollars each; nine clerks of class four; twenty-one clerks of class three; twenty-seven clerks of class two; forty-five clerks of class one; twenty-eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; seven clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; five assistant messengers; ten laborers; in all, two hundred and twenty-eight thousand one hundred and ninety dollars.
Stamped-paper agencies. Clerks, etc., transferred to classified service. *Ante*, p. 438. For the following force now employed in the office of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General on work in connection with stamped-paper agencies and paid from appropriations made in the post-office appropriation Act for pay of agents and assistants to distribute stamps, and postal cards, namely: One clerk, one thousand dollars; five clerks (now laborers), at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one clerk (now laborer), seven hundred and twenty dollars; and three laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each (now paid seven hundred and twenty dollars each); in all, seven thousand nine hundred dollars; and such clerks and laborers as may be so employed on the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and five, are hereby transferred to the rolls of the office of the Third Assistant Postmaster-General and placed in the classified service, without further examination, in the grades and at the rates of compensation herein provided.
Per diem, registry division. For per diem allowance for assistant superintendents of registry system, when actually traveling on business of the Post-Office Department, at a rate to be fixed by the Postmaster-General, not exceeding four dollars, and for other actual and necessary traveling expenses arising in connection with business of the registry system, ten thousand dollars. Per diem, classification division. For per diem allowance for special agents, classification division, when actually traveling on business of the Post-Office Department, at a rate to be fixed by the Postmaster-General, not exceeding four dollars, and for other actual and necessary traveling expenses arising in connection with the business of the classification division, seven thousand dollars.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, clerks, etc. Chief inspector, etc. Office Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General: For Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief post-office inspector, three thousand dollars; chief clerk of mail depredations, two thousand dollars; chief of appointment division, two thousand dollars; chief of bond division, two thousand dollars; superintendent city delivery service, three thousand dollars; superintendent rural free-delivery service, three thousand dollars; supervisor of rural free-delivery service, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant superintendent of city free-delivery system, two thousand dollars; eight clerks of class four: thirty-one clerks of class three; forty-one 679 clerks of class two; sixty-seven clerks of class one; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; seventy-eight clerks, atone thousand dollars each; ninety-two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; page, four hundred and eighty dollars; page, three hundred and sixty dollars; six messengers; ten assistant messengers; and nine laborers; in all, four hundred and eleven thousand one hundred and seventy dollars.
Office of topographer: For topographer, two thousand seven Topogragpher, draftsmen, etc. hundred and fifty dollars; assistant topographer, two thousand dollars; three skilled draftsmen, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; four skilled draftsmen, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; three skilled draftsmen, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three skilled draftsmen, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; examiner, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk of class two; map mounter, one thousand two hundred dollars; mechanic, one thousand dollars; two copyists of maps, at one thousand dollars each; two copyists of maps, at nine hundred dollars each; assistant map mounter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one assistant messenger; in all, thirty-four thousand three hundred and ninety dollars.
Contingent Expenses, Post-Office Department: For the following Contingent expenses. sums, which shall be so apportioned as to prevent deficiencies therein, namely: For stationery and blank books, including amount necessary for the purchase of free penalty envelopes, ten thousand dollars. For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, and power plant, including repairs to elevators, and not exceeding six thousand dollars for changes in boiler furnaces to adapt them to use of anthracite coal, thirty-eight thousand dollars.
For gas and electric lights, one thousand five hundred dollars. For plumbing, one thousand dollars. For telegraphing, four thousand five hundred dollars. For painting, five hundred dollars. For carpets and matting, one thousand five hundred dollars. For furniture, four thousand dollars. For purchase, exchange, and keeping of horses and repair of wagons and harness, to be used only for official purposes, one thousand three hundred dollars. For hardware, two hundred and fifty dollars.
For miscellaneous items, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars, of which sum not exceeding three thousand nine hundred and eighty-five dollars may be expended for telephone service, and not exceeding eight hundred dollars may be expended for law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, and books necessary to conduct the business of the Department. For rent of a suitable building for storage of the files of the Post-Office Rent. Department, three thousand dollars.
For rent of suitable buildings for the storage of post-office supplies, and for the rural free-delivery service, twelve thousand eight hundred dollars. For rent of stable, three hundred dollars. For the publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, including Postal Guide. not exceeding one thousand five hundred copies for the use of the Executive Departments, twenty-five thousand dollars. For miscellaneous expenses in the topographer’s office in the preparation Post-route maps. and publication of the post-route maps, twenty thousand dollars.
And the Postmaster-General may authorize the sale of post-route Sale. maps to the public at the cost of printing and ten per centum thereof added, the proceeds of such sales to he used as a further appropriation for the preparation and publication of post-route maps, and of this 680 amount one hundred dollars may be expended for the purchase of atlases, geographical and technical works, needed in the topographer’s office. Postage. For postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad which is not exempt from postage under article eight of the Paris convention of the Universal Postal Union, five hundred and fifty dollars.
Department of Justice. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Pay of Attorney-General, Assistants, Solicitor-General, etc. Office of the Attorney-General: For compensation of the Attorney-General, eight thousand dollars; Solicitor-General, seven thousand five hundred dollars; assistant to the Attorney-General, seven thousand dollars; five Assistant Attorneys-General, at five thousand dollars each; Assistant Attorney-General of the Post-Office Department, four thousand five hundred dollars; solicitor of internal revenue, four thousand five hundred dollars; solicitor for the Department of State, four thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant attorneys, at three thousand dollars each; four assistant attorneys, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; assistant attorney, two thousand dollars; assistant attorney, in charge of dockets, two thousand five hundred Clerks, etc. dollars; law clerk and examiner of titles, two thousand seven hundred dollars; chief clerk and ex officio superintendent of the buildings, two thousand five hundred dollars; private secretary to the Attorney-General, two thousand five hundred dollars; confidential clerk to the Attorney-General, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer to the Solicitor-General, one thousand six hundred dollars; two confidential clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; law clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; two law clerks, at two thousand dollars each; attorney in charge of pardons, two thousand four hundred dollars; disbursing clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; appointment clerk, two thousand dollars; five clerks of class four; eight clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one; telegraph operator and stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; eleven clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; chief messenger, one thousand dollars; one messenger; seven assistant messengers; four laborers; three watchmen; engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant engineer, nine hundred dollars; three firemen; two conductors of the elevator, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; eight charwomen; superintendent of buildings, two hundred and fifty dollars;
Division of accounts: Chief of division of accounts, two thousand five hundred dollars; four clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; seven clerks of class two; six-clerks of class one; two copyists; one packer, eight hundred and forty dollars; in all, two hundred and eleven thousand six hundred and forty dollars. Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses, Department of Justice: For the following sums, which shall be so apportioned as to prevent deficiencies therein, namely:
For furniture and repairs, two thousand dollars. For books for law library of the Department, two thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase of session laws and statutes of the States and Territories for library of Department, five hundred dollars. For stationery for Department, including office of the Solicitor of the Treasury and office of the Solicitor of the Department of Commerce and Labor, four thousand dollars. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney-General, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars. 681 For official transportation, including purchase, keep and shoeing of Horses, etc. animals, and purchase and repairs of wagons and harness, two thousand five hundred dollars.
For the rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Rent. Columbia used by the Department of Justice, twenty-two thousand eight hundred dollars. Office of the Solicitor of the Treasury: For Solicitor of the Solicitor of the Treasury, assistants, etc. Treasury, four thousand five hundred dollars; Assistant Solicitor, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; two docket clerks, at two thousand dollars each; three clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, twenty-nine thousand six hundred and eighty dollars.
For law books for office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, three hundred dollars. Office of the Solicitor of the Department of Commerce and Solicitor of Department of Commerce and Labor. Labor: For Solicitor of the Department of Commerce and Labor, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk and law clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk of class three; clerk of class one; and messenger; in all, ten thousand one hundred and forty dollars.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. Department of Commerce and Labor. Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secretary of Pay of Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc. Commerce and Labor, eight thousand dollars; Assistant Secretary, five thousand dollars; private secretary to the Secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; confidential clerk to the Secretary, one thousand six hundred dollars; private secretary to the Assistant Secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief clerk and superintendent, three thousand dollars; disbursing clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief of division, two thousand dollars; twelve clerks of class four (including one Census clerk); ten clerks of class three; twelve clerks of class two; ten clerks of class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; seven clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two telegraph operators, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; five messengers; nine assistant messengers; seven messenger boys, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; one engineer, at one thousand dollars; one assistant engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one skilled laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars; two skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two conductors of elevators, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two firemen, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; sixteen laborers; one driver and foreman of stables, eight hundred and forty dollars; six hostlers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; one cabinetmaker, one thousand dollars; one carpenter, nine hundred dollars; captain of the watch, one thousand two hundred dollars; five watchmen; fifteen charwomen; in all, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
For compensation at not more than ten dollars per day and actual Promotion of foreign trade. Special commercial agents. necessary traveling expenses of special agents to investigate trade conditions abroad, with the object of promoting the foreign commerce of the United States, thirty thousand dollars; and the results of such investigation shall be reported to Congress. Bureau of Corporations: For Commissioner of Corporations, five Bureau of Corporations. Commissioner clerks, etc. thousand dollars;
Deputy Commissioner, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk to Commissioner, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one; nine clerks, at one thousand dollars each; nine copyists; one messenger; 682 one assistant messenger; two messenger boys, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, sixty thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars. Special attorneys, examiners, etc.
For compensation and per diem, to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, of special attorneys, special examiners, and special agents, for the purpose of carrying on the work of said Bureau Vol. 32, p. 827. as provided by the Act approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three, entitled “An Act to establish the Department of Commerce Per diem, etc. and Labor,” the per diem to be subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding four dollars per day, to each of said special attorneys, special examiners, and special agents, and also of other officers and employees in the Bureau of Corporations, while absent from their homes on duty outside of the District of Columbia, and for their actual necessary traveling expenses, including necessary sleeping-car fares; in all, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Bureau of Manufactures. Bureau of Manufactures: Chief of Bureau of Manufactures, four thousand dollars; clerk of class four; clerk of class two; clerk of class one; clerk, at one thousand dollars; clerk, at nine hundred dollars; and assistant messenger; in all, eleven thousand and twenty dollars. Bureau of Labor. Bureau of Labor: For compensation of the Commissioner of Labor, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; four statistical experts, at two thousand dollars each; five clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; six clerks of class two; twelve clerks of class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two copyists; one messenger; one assistant messenger; three watchmen; four laborers; three charwomen; two special agents, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; six special agents, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; ten special agents, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; four special agents, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and six thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
Special agents, etc., per diem. For per diem in lieu of subsistence of special agents and employees, while traveling on duty away from their homes and outside of the District of Columbia, at a rate not to exceed three dollars per day, and for their transportation, and for employment of experts and temporary assistance, and for traveling expenses of officers and employees, and for the purchase of reports and materials for the reports and bulletins of the Bureau of Labor, and for subvention to “International Association for Labour Legislation,” and necessary expenses connected with representation of the United States Government therein, sixty-five thousand one hundred and forty dollars.
Stationery. For stationery, one thousand dollars. Books, etc. For books, periodicals, and newspapers for the library, in addition to the amount authorized by section one hundred and ninety-two, [R. S., sec. 192, p. 30](/us/rs/s192/p30). Revised Statutes, the sum of one hundred dollars may be expended for newspapers for the purpose of procuring strike data, and the annual subscriptions for newspapers and periodicals for the Bureau may be paid in advance, one thousand dollars. Postage.
For postage stamps to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, four hundred and fifty dollars. Rent, etc. For rent of rooms, including steam heat and elevator service, six thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses, namely: For furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, telephone service, expressage, storage for documents, not to exceed seven hundred and fifty dollars, repairs of cases and furniture, fuel and lights, soap, brushes, brooms, mats, oils, and other absolutely necessary expenses, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Light-House Board. Light-House Board: For chief clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; title and contract clerk, two thousand dollars; accountant, two 683 thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; three clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; eleven clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one clerk, eight hundred and forty dollars; one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant messengers; one laborer; one messenger boy, four hundred and eighty dollars; assistant civil engineer, two thousand four hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand five hundred and sixty dollars; draftsman, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, forty-six thousand six hundred and forty dollars.
The Census Office: For Director, six thousand dollars; four chief Census Office. Director, clerks, etc. statisticians, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; disbursing and appointment clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; geographer, two thousand dollars; stenographer, one thousand five hundred dollars; eight expert chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; four clerks of class four; seven clerks of class three; sixteen clerks of class two; three hundred clerks of class one; two hundred and twenty-five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; thirty clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; expert map mounter, one thousand dollars; engineer, one thousand dollars; electrician, one thousand dollars; two skilled laborers, at one thousand dollars each; five skilled laborers, at nine hundred dollars each; ten watchmen; six messengers; two firemen; ten assistant messengers; nineteen unskilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; thirty-five charwomen; in all, seven hundred and forty-five thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
For securing information for census reports, provided for by law, Reports. including per diem compensation of special agents and expenses of the same and of detailed employees, the cost of transcribing State, municipal, and other records, the temporary rental of quarters outside of the Rent, etc. District of Columbia for supervising special agents, and the employment by them of such temporary service as may be necessary in collecting the statistics required by law, five hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available and so apportioned as to prevent a deficiency therein: *Provided*, That the total expenditure for such rentals *Provisos*.
Limit. shall not exceed two thousand dollars, and that for temporary service two thousand dollars: *And provided further*, That no expense shall be Restriction. incurred for the two last-named items unless the same shall have been previously authorized by the Director. For rental of quarters, twenty-two thousand and eighty dollars. Rent. For stationery, eight thousand dollars. For furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, Furniture, etc. telegraphing, expressage, horses and wagons, feed for and shoeing of horses, diagrams, awnings, shelving, file cases, file holders, office fixtures, fuel, light, and other absolutely necessary expenses, twelve thousand dollars.
For purchase of books of reference, periodicals, and manuscripts, Books. two thousand five hundred dollars. For tabulating census returns, including cost of cards and rental of Tabulating returns, etc. necessary apparatus, and the cost of experimental work in developing tabulating machinery, forty thousand dollars. Bureau of Statistics: for Chief of Bureau, four thousand dollars; Bureau of Statistics. chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one chief of division, two thousand one hundred dollars; statistical clerk, two thousand dollars; six clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; one clerk, expert in foreign statistics and languages, to compile Statistical Abstract of the World, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer and typewriter, one thousand five hundred dollars; eight clerks of class two; twelve clerks of class one; translator, one thous-684and two hundred dollars; twelve clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four copyists; one messenger; three assistant messengers; four laborers; and one female laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, seventy-seven thousand five hundred and seventy dollars.
Internal and foreign commerce. For payment of the services of experts, and for other necessary expenditures connected with the collection of facts relative to the internal and foreign commerce of the United States, four thousand dollars. Tariff of foreign countries. To enable the Bureau of Statistics, under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, to collate and arrange the tariffs of foreign countries in form for distribution, to be printed in the English language, utilizing as far as practicable the reports of the International Bureau for the Publication of Customs Tariffs, and accompanied by a statement showing the equivalent in currency, weights, and measures of the United States of all foreign terms of currency, weights, and measures used in such tariffs, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Steamboat-Inspection Service. Office Supervising Inspector-General Steamboat-Inspection Service: For Supervising Inspector-General, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class three; one clerk of class one; one clerk of class one (stenographer and typewriter); one messenger; in all, eleven thousand nine hundred and forty dollars, the same to be paid from the permanent appropriations for the Steamboat-Inspection Service. Bureau of Navigation.
Bureau of Navigation: For Commissioner of Navigation, four thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; additional to one clerk designated as deputy commissioner, six hundred dollars; clerk to Commissioner, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; nine clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, twenty-eight thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. Bureau of Immigration.
Bureau of Immigration: For Commissioner-General of Immigration, four thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars, and two hundred and fifty dollars additional for services as actuary; confidential clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; statistician and stenographer, with power to act as immigrant inspector, two thousand dollars; one supervising immigrant inspector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; three clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two copyists; two messengers; one assistant messenger; in all, thirty thousand nine hundred and fifty dollars, which, together with all other expenses of regulating immigration, shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration: *Proviso*.
Refund of head tax. Vol. 32, p. 1213. *Provided*, That the Commissioner-General of Immigration, with the approval of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, shall have power to refund head tax heretofore and hereafter collected under section one of the immigration Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that such collection was erroneously made. Bureau of Standards. Bureau of Standards: For Director, five thousand dollars; physicist, four thousand dollars; chemist, three thousand five hundred dollars; associate chemist, two thousand two hundred dollars; three associate physicists, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; one associate physicist, two thousand dollars; two assistant physicists, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; four assistant physicists, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one assistant chemist, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant chemist, one thousand four hundred dollars; three assistant physicists, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; five laboratory assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; five laboratory assistants, at one thousand dollars each; six laboratory assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; four 685 aids, at six hundred dollars each; three laboratory apprentices, at five hundred and forty dollars each; three laboratory apprentices, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; storekeeper, one thousand dollars; librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars; secretary, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; one elevator boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; one computer, one thousand dollars; chief mechanician, one thousand six hundred dollars; mechanician, one thousand four hundred dollars; one mechanician, one thousand two hundred dollars; two mechanicians, at one thousand dollars each; mechanician, nine hundred dollars; two watchmen; skilled woodworker, eight hundred and forty dollars; two skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistant messengers; engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; assistant engineer, nine hundred dollars; three firemen; electrician, nine hundred dollars; three laborers; janitor, six hundred dollars; and two female laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, ninety-nine thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.
For apparatus, machinery, tools, and appliances used in connection Apparatus, etc. with the buildings or with the work of the Bureau, laboratory supplies, materials and supplies used in the construction of apparatus, machinery, or other appliances; piping, wiring, and construction incident to the installation of apparatus, machinery, or appliances; furniture for laboratories and offices, cases for apparatus, forty thousand dollars. For repairs and necessary alterations, one thousand dollars.
Repairs. For fuel for heat, light, and power; office expenses, stationery, books Miscellaneous items. and periodicals (subscriptions to periodicals may be paid in advance); traveling expenses; expenses of the visiting committee; expenses of attendance of American member at the meeting of the International Committee of Weights and Measures; traveling expenses of two delegates to the International Committee of Electrical Units and Standards, one of whom shall be an officer or employee of the Bureau of Standards; and contingencies of all kinds, twelve thousand five hundred dollars.
For grading, construction of roads and walks, piping grounds for Roads, walks, etc. water supply, lamps, wiring for lighting purposes, and other expenses incident to the improvement or care of grounds, one thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor: Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses of the offices and bureaus of the Department for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, namely:
For the purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding two thousand five hundred dollars), stationery, furniture and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, lighting and heating; for the purchase, exchange, and care of horses and vehicles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges, postage, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, and adding machines, and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, seventy-five thousand dollars, which sum shall be so apportioned as to prevent a deficiency therein.
For rent of buildings, namely: For office of the Secretary of Rent. Commerce and Labor, and the bureaus of Corporations, Manufactures, and Immigration, eleven thousand eight hundred and thirty dollars; for the Light-House Board, office of Steamboat Inspection Service, 686 and Bureau of Navigation, seven thousand six hundred dollars; Bureau of Statistics, four thousand five hundred and thirty-nine dollars and eighty-four cents; stables, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty-five thousand one hundred and sixty-nine dollars and eighty-four cents.
Judicial. JUDICIAL. Supreme Court. Justices. Supreme Court: For the Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, thirteen thousand dollars; and for eight associate justices, at twelve thousand five hundred dollars each; Marshal. For marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States, three thousand five hundred dollars; Clerks to justices. For stenographic clerk for the Chief Justice and for each associate justice of the Supreme Court, at not exceeding one thousand six hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and thirty thousand nine hundred dollars.
Circuit judges. Circuit courts: For twenty-seven circuit judges, at seven thousand dollars each, one hundred and eighty-nine thousand dollars; Clerks. For nine clerks of circuit courts of appeals, at three thousand five hundred dollars each, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars; Messenger, eighth circuit. For messenger, to act as librarian and crier, circuit court of appeals, eighth circuit, two thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and twenty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
District judges. District courts: For salaries of the seventy-four district judges of the United States, at six thousand dollars each, four hundred and forty-four thousand dollars. Indian Territory, courts. United States courts, Indian Territory: For salaries of the eight judges of the United States in the Indian Territory, at five thousand dollars each, forty thousand dollars. Hawaii, courts. District court, Territory of Hawaii: For the payment of the salaries of the judge, clerk, and the reporter of the United States district court for the Territory of Hawaii, at five thousand dollars, three thousand dollars, and one thousand two hundred dollars, respectively, nine thousand two hundred dollars.
Retired judges. [R. S., sec. 714, p. 135](/us/rs/s714/p135). Retired judges: To pay the salaries of the United States judges retired under section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, is hereby appropriated. Court of appeals, District of Columbia. Court of appeals, District of Columbia: For the chief justice of court of appeals of the District of Columbia, seven thousand five hundred dollars; and for two associate justices, at seven thousand dollars each;
For clerk, three thousand dollars; For assistant or deputy clerk, two thousand dollars; *Proviso*. Reports. For reporter, one thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the reports issued by him shall not be sold for more than five dollars per volume; For crier, nine hundred dollars; For messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; For necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s office, five hundred dollars; in all, thirty thousand one hundred and twenty dollars, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Supreme court, District of Columbia. Supreme court, District of Columbia: For salaries of the chief justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia and of the five associate judges, at six thousand dollars each, thirty-six thousand dollars, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia. Clerk, Illinois northern district. Vol. 28, p. 204. Clerk of District court, northern district of Illinois: For salary of the clerk of the district court for the northern district of 687 Illinois, as authorized by the Act of July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, three thousand dollars.
Commissioner, Yellowstone Park: For salary of commissioner in Yellowstone Park. Commissioner. Receipt of fees not to impair salary. Vol. 29, p. 184. Yellowstone National Park, one thousand five hundred dollars. And the provisions of section twenty-one of 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-seven, and for other purposes, approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall not be construed as impairing the right of said commissioner to receive said salary as herein provided.
Books for libraries of circuit courts of appeals: For the purchase Law books, circuit courts of appeals. of law books and rebinding law books for the nine libraries of the United States circuit courts of appeals, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General upon the requisition of the court (all books purchased hereunder to be plainly marked “The property of the United States”), nine thousand five hundred dollars. Court of Claims: For the chief justice of the Court of Claims, six Court of Claims. thousand five hundred dollars; four judges, at six thousand dollars each; chief clerk, three thousand five hundred dollars; assistant clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; bailiff, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one messenger; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three firemen; three watchmen; elevator conductor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one assistant messenger; one laborer; and two charwomen; in all, fifty-three thousand five hundred and forty dollars.
To defray the cost of the employment of auditors and additional Auditors, etc. stenographers, when deemed necessary, in the Court of Claims, to be disbursed under the direction of the court, eight thousand dollars. For stationery, court library, repairs, fuel, electric light, electric Contingent expenses. elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, three thousand four hundred dollars. For reporting the decisions of the court and superintending the Reporting decisions. printing of the fortieth volume of the reports of the Court of Claims, to be paid on the order of the court, one thousand dollars; said sum to be paid to the reporters, notwithstanding section seventeen hundred [R.
S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314). and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, or section three of the Act of Vol. 18, p. 109. June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter three hundred and twenty-eight. Sec. 2. That the pay of assistant messengers, firemen, watchmen, Rates of pay, assistant messengers, firemen, etc. laborers, and charwomen provided for in this Act, except those employed in mints and assay offices, 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. Sec. 3. That the appropriations herein made for the officers, clerks, No pay to permanently incapacitated persons. and persons employed in the public service shall not be available for the compensation of any persons incapacitated, otherwise than temporarily, for performing such service.
Sec. 4. No part of any money appropriated by this or any other Restriction on use of horses, carriages, etc. Act shall be used for purchasing, maintaining, driving, or operating any carriage or vehicle (other than those for the use of the President of the United States, the heads of the Executive Departments, and the Secretary to the President, and other than those used for transportation of property belonging to or in the custody of the United States), for the personal or official use of any officer or employee of any of the Executive Departments or other Government establishments at Wash-688ington, District of Columbia, unless the same shall be specifically authorized by law or provided for in terms by appropriation of money, Name of Department to be painted on carriages, etc. and all such carriages and vehicles so procured and used for official purposes shall have conspicuously painted thereon at all times the full name of the Executive Department or other branch of the public service to which the same belong and in the service of which the same are used.
Sec. 5. Repeal. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this Act are repealed. Approved, February 3, 1905.
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