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Chapter 186. Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 186.— An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, and for other purposes. May 22, 1908.[[H. R. 16882.]](/us/bill/70/hr/16882)[[Publie. No. 130.]](/us/pl/70/130) *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 nine, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. For compensation of Senators, six hundred and ninety thousandPay of Senators. dollars. For mileage of Senators, forty-sevenMileage. thousand dollars. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others inOfficers, clerks, etc. the service of the Senate, namely: Office of the Vice-President: For Secretary to the Vice-Vice-President’s office. President, four thousand dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; telegraph operator, one thousand five hundred dollars; telegraph page, six hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand five hundred and forty dollars.
Chaplain: For Chaplain of the SenateChaplain.Secretary of the Senate, assistant, clerks, etc. , one thousand dollars. Office of Secretary: For Secretary of the Senate, including compensation 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; assistant secretary, Henry M.
Rose, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; financial clerk, three thousand dollars, and one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars addi- 185 tional while the office is held by the present incumbent; minute and journal clerk, and enrolling clerk, at three thousand dollars each; principal clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; executive clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; reading clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant financial clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; librarian, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant librarian, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant librarian, one thousand six hundred dollars; skilled laborer, one thousand two hundred dollars; five 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 four hundred dollars; assistant keeper of stationery, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant in stationery loom, 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-eight thousand nine hundred and seventy-six dollars.
Document Room: For superintendent of the document room (GeorgeDocument room.Superintendent, etc. H. Boyd), three thousand dollars; first assistant in document room, two thousand dollars; assistant in document room, two thousand dollars; assistant in document room, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to superintendent of document room, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; skilled laborer, one thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.
Clerks and Messengers to Committees: For clerk of printingClerks and messengers to committees. records, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, four 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, three thousand dollars; messenger, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Claims, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, two thousand dollars; messenger, nine hundred dollars ; clerk to the Committee on Commerce, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand eight hundred 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 bundled and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Military Affaira, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; assistant clerk, two thousand dollars; messenger, nine hundred 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 four hundred and forty dollars; clerk to the Committee on Foreign Relations, two thousand five hundred 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, 186 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, Cuban Relations, Interoceanic Canals, Transportation and Sale of Meat Products, Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, Mississippi River and its Tributaries, Expenditures in the Department of State, Manufactures, University of the United States.
Canadian Relations, Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, and clerk to conference minority of the Senate,clerks at 82,100 a year. at two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars each; clerks to Committees on Woman Suffrage and Mines and Mining, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and thirty-eight thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. For twenty-two clerks to committees, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, thirty-nine thousand six hundred dollars.
Office of Sergeant-at-Arms and Doorkeeper: For Sergeant-at-Sergeant-at-Arms and assistants. Arms and Doorkeeper, five thousand dollars; horse and wagon 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 andMessengers, etc. ninety-two dollars; acting assistant doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred and ninety-two dollars; three messenger’s, acting as assistant doorkeepers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; forty-six messengers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars each; two messengers on the floor of the Senate, at two thousand dollars each: messenger to official reporters’ room, to be selected by the official reporters, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; storekeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; upholsterer and locksmith, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars; four carpenters to assist him, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; janitor, one thousand two hundred dollars;Laborers, etc. skilled laborer, one thousand dollars; two skilled laborers, at one thousand dollars each; two skilled laborers, at nine 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 operators, at nine hundred dollars each; telephone page, seven hundred and twentyPages, etc. dollars; superintendent of press gallery, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of press gallery, one thousand two hundred dollars; two laborers, at eight hundred arid forty dollars each; twenty-four laborers, at nine hundred dollars each; twenty-eight laborers, at seven hundred and twenty doliare each; sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of two dollars and fifty cents per day each during the session, four thousand six hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and fifty-eight thousand four hundred and four dollars.
Postmaster, etc. Post-Office: For Postmaster, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant postmaster and mail carrier, two thousand and eighty-eight dollars; clerk, one thousand six hundred 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, nineteen thousand one hundred and eighty-eight dollars. Folding Room: For superintendent of folding room, two thousandFolding 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 doliare; foreman in folding room, one thousand four hundred dollars: nine folders, atone thousand dollars each; fourteen folders, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; and one 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; assistant engineer and electrician, one thousand eight hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, at one thousand four hundred and forty dollars 187 each; eight conductors of elevators, at one thousand two hundred dollars each ; machinist and electrician, one thousand four hundred dollars; machinist and electrician, one thousand four hundred 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; one attendant for service in old library portion of the Capitol, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, twenty-nine thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For thirty-two annual clerks to Senators who are not chairmen ofClerks to Senators. committees, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each, fifty-seven thousand six hundred dollars. For Contingent Expenses, Namely: For stationery and newspapersContingent 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 six hundred and twenty-five dollars.
For postage stamps for the office of the Secretary of the Senate.Postage stamps. two hundred dollars; for the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, three hundred and fifty dollars. To enable the postmaster of the Senate to keep a constant supply of postage stamps for sale to Senators, fifty dollars. For expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and mail wagonsHorses and wagons. for carrying the mails, six thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For materials for folding, two thousand dollars.Folding. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding one dollar per thousand, two thousand dollars. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising, for the heating andFuel, oil, etc. electrical apparatus, exclusive of labor, twenty-five thousand dollars. For purchase of furniture, eight thousand five hundred dollars.Furniture. For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, three thousand dollars.
For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, two thousand dollars. For packing boxes, nine hundred and seventy dollar’s.Packing boxes. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, one hundred and fiftyMiscellaneous items. thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items on account of the Maltby Building, eighteenMaltby Building. thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate,Investigations. 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, hut not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per printed page, twenty-five thousand dollars.
For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, thirtyReporting debates. thousand dollars, payable in equal monthly installments. For repairs of Maltby Building, two thousand dollars. For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents for the Senate,Repairs, Mallby building.Storage warehouse. three thousand six hundred dollars. capitol police.Capitol Police. For captain, one thousand six hundred dollars; three lieutenants, atPay. one thousand two hundred dollars each; two special officers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; and sixty-seven privates, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; one-half of said privates 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-seven thousand nine hundred and fifty 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. 188Contingent 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 directoryCongressional 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. For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives,Pay of Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners.
Delegates from Territories, the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, two million nine hundred and eighty-nine thousand five hundred dollars, and the salary of each of the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands shall be the same as that of the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico. For mileage of Representatives and Delegates, and expenses of ResidentMileage. Commissioners, one hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars.
For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others inOfficers, clerks, etc. the service of the House of Representatives, namely: Office of the Speaker: For Secretary to the Speaker, four thousandSpeaker’s office. 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 four hundred and forty dollars; in all, eleven thousand six hundred and forty dollars.
Chaplain: For Chaplain of the House, one thousand two hundredChaplain. dollars. Office of the Clerk: For Clerk of the House of Representatives,Clerk of House, clerks, etc. including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, five thousand dollars; hire of horse and wagon for use of the Clerk’s office, nine hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; chief clerk, four thousand dollars; journal clerk, four thousand dollars; stenographer to journal clerk, nine hundred dollars; two reading clerks, at four thousand dollars each; tally clerk, and enrolling clerk, at three thousand dollars each; file clerk, three thousand dollars; disbursing clerk, three thousand dollars; printing and bill clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant to chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; distributing clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; index clerk, two thousand three hundred dollars; assistant enrolling clerk, two thousand two hundred dollars; docket clerk, assistant disbursing clerk, resolution and petition clerk, printing and document clerk, assistant journal clerk, stationery clerk, and assistant stationery clerk, at two thousand dollars each; librarian, assistant enrolling clerk, and superintendent clerk’s document room, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; document and hill clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant to printing and bill clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper, assistant in Clerk’s office, assistant in disbursing office, two assistant librarians, and five clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; assistant file clerk, one thousand seven hundred dollars; assistant index clerk, and one special employee in clerk’s document room, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; document clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; locksmith, who shall be skilled in his trade, one thousand two hundred dollars; telegraph operator, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant telegraph operator, authorized and named in resolution adopted January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and two, one thousand four hundred dollars; three telephone operators, at nine hundred dollars each; three 189 telephone operatore, at seventy-five dollars per month each during the session; one night telephone operator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; for services of a substitute telephone operator when required, at two dollars and fifty cents per day, four hundred and fifty dollars; stenographer to the Clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant in stationery room, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant in document room, and one messenger in file room, at nine hundred dollars each; assistant in library, and two messengers in disbursing office, 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, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three laborers, page in enrolling room, and janitor in the library, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; messenger in chief clerk’s office, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor in file room, seven hundred and twenty dollars; allowance to chief clerk for stenographic and typewriter services, five hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and seventeen thousand one hundred and seventy dollars.
Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds:Chief engineers, etc. For chief engineer, one thousand seven hundred doliare; three assistant engineers, atone thousand two hundred dollars each; six conductors of elevators, at one thousand two hundred dollars each, who shall be under the supervision and direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds; machinist, one thousand two hundred dollars; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; two laborers, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each; five firemen, at nine hundred dollars each: laborer, one thousand dollars; three laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, twenty-four thousand two hundred dollars.
Clerks and Janitors To Committees: For clerk to the CommitteeClerks and Janitors to committees. on Ways and Means, three thousand dollars; assistant clerk and stenographer, two thousand dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; janitor, one thousand dollars; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, four thousand dollars, and one thousand dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent: assistant clerk and stenographer, two thousand dollars; assistant clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; janitor, one thousand dollars; clerks to Committees on Accounts, Invalid Pensions, and Post-Offices and Post-Roads, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; clerks to Committees on Agriculture, Banking and Currency, Census, Claims.
District of Columbia, Elections Numbers One, Two, and Three, Foreign Affairs, Interstate and Foreign Commerce, Immigration and Naturalization, Indian Affairs, Industrial Arts and Expositions, Insular Affaire, Irrigation of Arid Lands, Judiciary, Labor, Library, Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Military Affairs, Naval Affairs. Patents, Pensions, Printing, Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Lands, Rivers and Harbors, Revision of the Laws, Territories, War Claims, Enrolled Bills, and clerk to continue Digest of Claims under resolution of March seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, at two thousand dollars each; additional clerk to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant clerk to the Committee on the Judiciary, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant clerk to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, one thousand eight hundred dollars: assistant clerk to the Committee on Pensions, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant clerk to the Committee on Post-Offices 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 dollars; in all, ninety-nine thousand three hundred dollars. 190 For janitors for rooms of the Committees on Accounts, Agriculture,Janitors.
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, Irrigation of Arid Lands, Judiciary, Labor, Library, Merchant Marine and Fisheries, Military Affairs, Naval Affairs, Post-Offices and Post-Roads, Pensions, Printing, Public Buildings and Grounds, Public Lands, Territories, and War Claims, and one for Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department, index clerk’s office, and guard room, twenty-eight in all, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; janitor to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, one thousand dollars; and said janitors shall be appointed by the chairmen, respectively, of said committees,Appointment etc. and shall perform under the direction of the Doorkeeper all of the duties heretofore required of messengers detailed to said committees by the Doorkeeper, and shall be subject to removal by the Doorkeeper at any time after the termination of the Congress during which they were appointed; in all, twenty-one thousand one hundred and sixty dollars.
For an assistant, clerk to each of the Committees on Military AffairsAssistant, clerks. and Naval Affairs, at six dollars per day each during the session, one thousand three hundred and eighty dollars. For ten clerks to committees, at six dollars each per day during theClerks to committees, session. session, six thousand nine hundred dollars. Office of Sergeant-at-Arms: For Sergeant-at-Arms of the Housesergeant-at-Arms, deputy, etc. of Representatives, five thousand dollars; Deputy Sergeant-at-Arms, two thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, three thousand dollars; financial clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; bookkeeper, two thousand two hundred dollars; deputy sergeant-at-arms in charge of pairs, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk in charge of pairs, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant bookkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; skilled laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars; stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; and for hire of horse and wagon for the office of the Sergeant-at-Arms, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-three thousand one hundred and forty dollars.
Office of Doorkeeper: For Doorkeeper, four thousand five hundredDoorkeeper, assistant, etc. dollars; hire of horses and wagon, feed, and repairs, one thousand two hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary; Assistant Doorkeeper, two thousand five hundred dollars; Department messenger, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one special employee, John T. Chancey, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one special employee, one thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of reporters’ gallery, one thousand four hundred dollars; clerk to Doorkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; janitor, one thousand five hundred dollars; twenty-five messengers, at oneMessengers. thousand one hundred dollars each; messenger to the speakers table, one thousand two hundred dollars; fourteen messengers on the soldiers’ roll, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; twelveLaborers. 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, six hundred dollars; ten laborers, known as cloakroom men, two at seventy dollars per month each and eight at fifty dollars per month each; female attendant in ladies’ retiring room, seven hundred and twenty dollars; superintendent of folding room, two thousandSuperintendent of folding room, etc. five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; four clerks, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; foreman, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; messenger, one thousand two hundred dollars; page, seven hundred and twenty dollars; laborer, seven hundred and twenty 191 dollars; thirty-one folder’s, at eight hundred dollars each; two night watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two drivers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each;
“two chief pages, at one thousandPages. two hundred dollars each; messenger in charge of telephone, one thousand two hundred dollars; forty-six pages, during the session, including two riding pages, four telephone pages, press-gallery page, and ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, at two dollars and fifty cents per day each, twelve thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; horse and buggy for Department messenger, two hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent of document loom, twoSuperintendent of document room, etc. thousand live hundred dollars; assistant superintendent of document room, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk in document room, one thousand four hundred dollars; eight assistants in document room, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; and one janitor, eight hundred and forty dollars; for the following for service in old Library portion of the Capitol (transferred from Office of Superintendent of the Capitol) two attendants, at one thousand five hundred dollars each, and one watchman, nine hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and seventy thousand and five dollars.
For employment of Joel Grayson in document room, one thousandJoel Grayson. nine hundred and twenty dollars. For the following minority employees authorized and named in theMinority employees. resolution adopted by the House of Representatives December second, nineteen hundred and seven, namely; One special employee, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two special messengers, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; and one special chief page, nine hundred dollars, and seven hundred dollars additional for services as pair clerk; in all, six thousand two hundred dollars.
For the assistant Department messenger authorized and named inSpecial employees. the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives December seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, two thousand dollars. For the special messenger authorized and named in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives January fifteenth, nineteen hundred, one thousand four hundred dollars. For clerk to the conference minority of the House of Representatives, two thousand dollars; and for assistant clerk, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, three thousand five 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 live 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, eight hundred and forty 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 seventy dollars per month, eight hundred and forty 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 four hundred dollars. Successors to any of the employees provided for in the eight precedingAppointments. paragraphs may be named by the House of Representatives at any time. Office of Postmaster: For Postmaster, three thousand dollars:Postmaster, assistant, etc. assistant postmaster, two thousand dollars; thirteen messengers, including messenger to superintend transportation of mails, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; fourteen messengers, at one hundred dollars per month each, from December first to March thirty-first, inclusive, 192 four months, five thousand six hundred dollars; and one laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, twenty-six thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.
For hire of horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, two thousandHorses and wagons. five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Official, Reporters: For six official reporters of the proceedingsOfficial reporters. and debates of the House, at five thousand dollars each; assistant official reporter, one thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, thirty-one thousand eight hundred dollars. For janitor for rooms of official reporters of debates, seven hundredJanitor. and twenty dollars.
Stenographers to Committees: For four stenographers to committees,Stenographers to committees. at five thousand dollars each; assistant stenographer to committees, one thousand six hundred dollars; janitor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, twenty-two thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. That wherever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing“During the session” to mean 115 days. paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the one hundred and fifteen days from December seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and nine, both inclusive.
For Clerk Hire. Members and Delegates: To pay each MemberClerk hire, Members and Delegates. and Delegate for clerk hire, necessarily employed by him in the discharge of his official and representative duties, one thousand five hundred dollars per annum, in monthly installments, five hundred and ninety-four thousand 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 the provisions of section thirty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall be entitled toR.
S., sec. 31, p. 6. payment under this appropriation. For Contingent Expenses, Namely: For wrapping paper, pasteboard,Contingent expenses.Folding material. paste, twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding, for the use of Members of the House, and for use in the Clerk’s 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 House, under the provisions of the Act approved JanuarVol. 28, p. 624. twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the public printing and binding), ten thousand dollars.
For fuel and oil for the heating apparatus, thirty-eight thousandFuel and oil. dollars. For furniture, and materials for repairs of the same, twentyFurniture. thousand dollars. For packing boxes, three thousand five hundred dollars, or so muchPacking boxes. thereof as may be necessary. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,Miscellaneous items, etc. exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, seventy-five thousand dollars.
For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives,Stationery. including five thousand dollars for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, fifty-four thousand three hundred and seventy-five dollars. For postage stamps for the Postmaster, two hundred and fifty dollars;Postage stamps. for the Clerk, four hundred and fifty dollars; for the Sergeant-at-Arms, three hundred dollars; and for the Doorkeeper, one hundred and fifty dollars; in all, one thousand one hundred and fifty dollars. library of congress.Library of Congress.
General administration: For Librarian of Congress, six thousand dollars; chief assistant librarian, four thousand dollars; chief clerk,Librarian, etc. 193 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 delivery;
For assistant in charge, one thousand five hundredMall and delivery. dollars; assistant, nine hundred dollars: two assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars. Order and accession: For chief of division, two thousand five hundredOrder and accession. 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, classification, and shelf: For chief of division, threeCatalogue, classification, and shell. thousand dollars; chief classifier, two thousand dollars; four assistants, atone thousand eight hundred dollars each; seven assistants, atone 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 assistante, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three assistants, at six hundred dollars each; ten assistante, 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 nine hundred and forty dollars.
Binding: For assistant, in charge, one thousand four hundred dollars;Binding. assistant, nine hundred dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, two thousand six hundred and sixty dollars. Bibliography: For chief of division, three thousand dollars; assistant,Bibliography. one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; mid one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, eight thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.
Reading rooms (including evening service) and special collections:Reading rooms, etc. For superintendent of reading room, three thousand dollars; two assistante, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; four assistants, atone 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 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 assistante, 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 (including evening service): For chief of division, twoPeriodicals. thousand dollars; chief assistant, one thousand five hundred dollars; two assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; three assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty 194 dollars each; for arrears of sorting and collating and to enable periodical rending room to be open in the evenings, two assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, ten thousand five hundred and twenty dollars.
Documents: For chief of division, three thousand dollars; assistant.Documents. one thousand four hundred dollars; stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; assistant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger, three hundred anti sixty dollars; in all, six thousand three hundred and eighty dollars. Manuscript: For chief of division, three thousand dollars; chiefManuscripts. assistant, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, nine hundred dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, live thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
Maps and charts: B or chief of division, three thousand dollars; assistant,Maps and charte. one thousand four 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 two hundred and eighty dollars. Music: For chief of division, two thousand dollars; assistent, oneMusic. 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: For chief of division, two thousand dollars; assistant, onePrints. thousand four hundred dollars; two assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; messenger, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, five thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. Smithsonian deposit: For custodian, one thousand five hundred dollars;Smithsonian deposit. assistant, one thousand four hundred dollars; messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, three thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.
Congressional Reference Library: For custodian, one thousand fiveCongressional Reference Library. hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; assist· ant, 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: For law librarian, two thousand five hundred dollars;Law library. 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, under the direction of the Librarian of Congress:Copyright office. Register of copyrights, three thousand dollars; assistant register of copyrights, two thousand five hundred 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, atone 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; two clerks, at six hundred dollars each; two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each.
Arrears, special 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-seven thousand eight hundred dollars. Distribution of Card Indexes: For service in connection with theCard indexes. distribution of card indexes and other publications of the Library, including not exceeding five hundred dollars for freight charges, expressage, and traveling expenses connected with such distribution, sixteen thousand eight hundred dollars. 195Temporary Services:
For special and temporary service, includingTemporary, etc., service. extra special services of regular employees, 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 openSunday opening. 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 forIncrease of Library. the Library, and for freight, commissions, and traveling expenses incidental to the acquisition of books by purchase, gift, or exchange, one hundred thousand dollars; For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, underLaw books, etc. 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, includingPeriodicals. payment in advance for subscriptions to the same, five thousand dollars; In all, one hundred and nine thousand five hundred dollars. Contingent Expenses: For miscellaneous and contingent expensesContingent expenses. of the Library, 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.
Indexes, Digests, and Compilations of Law: To continue theIndexes, etc., of law.Vol. 84, p. 1399. preparation of the new index to the Statutes at Large, in accordance with the plan approved by the Judiciary Committees of both Houses of Congress, and to prepare such other law indexes, digests, and compilations of law as may be required, by Congress for official use, namely: For one assistant, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant, nine hundred dollars: two assistants, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and five hundred dollars as additional compensation to the law librarian; in all, five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
Custody, Cake, and Maintenance of Library Building and Grounds:Care of buildings and grounds.Superintendent, clerks, etc. 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; one telephone switchboard operator; one assistant telephone switchboard operator; captain of watch, one thousand four hundred dollars; lieutenant of watch, one thousand dollars; sixteen 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; four check hoys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; mistress of charwomen, four hundred and twenty-live 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 196 twenty dollars each; nine firemen; six skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: in all, seventy-six thousand nine hundred arid five dollars.
For extra services of employees and additional employees under theSunday opening. superintendent of Library building and grounds to provide for the opening of the Library building from two until ten o’clock post meridian on Sundays and legal holidays, two thousand eight hundred dollars. For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous supplies, electric andGeneral expenses. steam apparatus, city directory, stationery, and all incidental expenses in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of said building and grounds, thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars.
For furniture, including partitions, screens shelving, and electricalFurniture. work pertaining thereto, forty thousand dollars. Toward the construction, mechanical equipment, electric lighting,Shelving for bound newspapers, etc. and roofing of a stack of shelving for bound newspapers and books in the southeast court of the Library building, to cost not exceeding three hundred and twenty thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars. Files, House of Representatives: To move the tiles of the HouseRemoval of files, House of Representatives. of Representatives from the Library of Congress to the House Office Building and construct the necessary equipment therefor, six thousand two hundred and fifty 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, fourteen 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, six thousand five hundred dollars.
EXECUTIVE.Executive. For compensation of the President of the United States, fifty thousandCompensation of the President. dollars. For compensation of the Vice-President of the United States,Compensation of the Vice-President. twelve thousand dollars. For compensation to the following in the office of the President ofExecutive Office.Secretary of the President, clerks, etc. the United States: Secretary, six 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; seven clerks, at two thousand dollars each; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class four, who shall be a telegrapher; four clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; steward, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief doorkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five doorkeepers, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; three 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, nine hundred dollars; laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, sixty-nine thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars: *Provided*, That employees of the Executive Departments*Proviso*.Detail of employees. 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. 197For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationeryContingent expenses. therefor, as well as record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, horses, harness, expenses of stable, including labor, and miscellaneous items, to be expended in the discretion of the President, twenty-live thousand dollars.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.Civil Service commission. For Commissioner, acting as president of the Commission, fourCommissioners, examiners, etc. thousand five hundred dollars; two Commissioners, at four thousand dollars each; chief examiner, three thousand dollars; secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant chief examiner, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; three examiners, at two thousand dollars each; eight clerks of class four; seventeen clerks of class three; twenty-four clerks of class two; twenty-nine clerks of class one; twenty one clerks, at one thousand dollars each; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; five clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger; engineer, eight hundred and forty dollars; one telephone switchboard operator; two firemen; two watchmen; one elevator conductor, seven bundled and twenty dollars; three laborers; and three messenger hoys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, one hundred and eighty-three thousand five hundred and ten dollars.
Field Force: For one examiner, two thousand four hundred dollars;Field force.Examiners, clerks, etc. two examiners, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; four examiners, at two thousand dollars each; two examiners, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class one; seven clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; five clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each: two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one messenger boy, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, forty-two thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
Rural Carrier Examining Board: For one chief of division, twoRural carrier examining board. thousand dollars; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; three clerks, atone thousand dollars each; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each, and one assistant messenger; in all, twenty-two thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Details from Departments forbidden. That no detail of clerks or other employees from the Executive Department 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 foror during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine.
The Civil ServiceTransfer of employees. Commission shall, however, have power in case of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees herein provided for to or from its office force, field force, or rural carrier examining board. For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examinersExpenses. acting 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, twelve thousand dollars;Pay of Secretary, Assistants, clerks, etc. Assistant Secretary, five thousand dollars; Second and Third Assistant Secretaries, at four thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, three thousand dollars; two assistant solicitors of the Department of State, at three thousand dollars each; law clerk, and assistant, 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; two chiefs of bureaus, at two 198 thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; six 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; clerk to the Secretary of State, one thousand eight hundred dollars; fifteen clerks of class four; fourteen clerks of case three; twenty-three clerks of class two; thirty-six clerks of class one. two of whom shall be telegraph operators; fourteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; sixteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; chief messenger, one thousand dollars; five messengers; twenty-two assistant messengers; messenger boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; packer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four laborers, at six hundred dollars each; one telephone switch-board operator; one assistant telephone switch-board operator; carpenter, one thousand dollars; for emergency clericalEmergency services. services, to be expended by the Secretary of State in his discretion, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may lie necessary; in all, two hundred and forty-six thousand nine hundred dollars.
Contingent Expenses, Department of State: For stationery,Contingent expenses. furniture, fixtures, and repairs and material for repairs, seven thousand dollars. Additional. For an additional amount for the foregoing purposes, five thousand dollars. For books and maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, for theLibrary. library, two thousand dollars. For services of lithographer and necessary materials for the lithographicLithographing. press, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For miscellaneous expenses, including the purchase, care, and subsistenceMiseellaneous. of horses, to be used only for official purposes, repair of wagons, carriages, and harness, rent of stable. telegraphic and electric apparatus and repairs to the same, and other items not included in the foregoing; in all, eight thousand dollars. For rent of building in the District of Columbia for the use of theRent. Department of State, three thousand dollars. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department.
Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secretary ofPay of Secretary, Assistants, clerks, etc. the Treasury, twelve thousand dollars; three Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, at five thousand 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; examiner, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; four clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; four messengers; and one laborer; in all, fifty-five thousand nine hundred and seventy doll a is.
Office of chief clerk and superintendent; For chief clerk, includingChief clerk, clerks, etc. 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 bund red dollars; six 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 ; three clerks of class one (one as librarian) (decrease of one transferred to offices of disbursing clerks); one clerk, nine hundred dollars (in lieu of one clerk at same salary transferred from Office of Director of the Mint); one clerk, one thousand 199 dollars ; live assistant messengers; two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; storekeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; telegraph operator, one thousand two hundred dollars; telephone operator and assistant telegraph operator, one thousand twoEngineers, etc. hundred dollars; chief engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; three assistant engineers, atone 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, one thousand four hundred dollars; captain of the watch, one thousand four hundred dollars;Watchmen. two lieutenants of the watch, at nine hundred dollars each; sixty-four watchmen ; foreman of laborers, one thousand dollars; skilled laborer,Laborers. male, eight hundred and forty dollars; wireman, one thousand dollars; two skilled laborers, male, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; thirty-three laborers; one laborer, six hundred dollars; ten laborers, at five hundred dollars each; three laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; eighty-seven charwomen; foreman of cabinet shop, oneCabinet shop. thousand five hundred dollars; 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 WinderWinder Building. Building: Engineer, one thousand 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 eight charwomen. For the Cox Building, seventeen hundred and nineCox Building. New York avenue: Three watchmen-firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and one laborer.
For the following now authorized and being paid from the appropriation for repairs of the Treasury building: One plumber, one thousand one hundred dollars; one painter, one thousand one hundred dollars; one skilled laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars; in all, one hundred and ninety-five thousand eight hundred and ninety dollars. Division of bookkeeping and warrants: For chief of division, threeBookkeeping and warrants division. thousand live 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; twelve bookkeepers, at two thousand dollars each; fourteen clerks of class four; six clerks of class three; six clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; one messenger; four assistant messengers; and one laborer; in all, ninety thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
Division of customs: For chief of division, three thousand dollars;Customs division. 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; one messenger; and two assistant messengers; in all, thirty-eight thousand three hundred and eighty dollars. Division of appointments:
For chief of division, three thousand dollars;Appointment division. assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; executive clerk, two thousand dollars; law and bond clerk, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four; four clerks of class three (including one transferred from division of mail and files); five clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; three assistant messengers; in all, forty-three thousand eight hundred dollars.
Division of public moneys: For chief of division, three thousandPublic moneys division. dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; five clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; one 200 clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one messenger; and one assistant messenger; in all, thirty thousand six hundred and sixty dollars. Division of loans and currency: For chief of division, three thousandLoans 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; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; eighteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; fifteen expert money 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; forty-three paper counters and laborers, at six hundred and twenty dollars each; and one laborer, five hundred and fifty dollars; in all, eighty-eight thousand two hundred and seventy-two dollars.
Division of Revenue-Cutter Service: For assistant chief of division,Revenue-Cutter division. two thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; law and contract clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five 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; assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, twenty-five thousand five hundred and eighty dollars. Division of printing and stationery:
For chief of division, two thousandPrinting and stationery division. five hundred dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; throe clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three messengers; one assistant messenger; two laborers: 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, forty thousand nine hundred and thirty-eight dollars.
Division of mail and files: For chief of division, two thousand fiveMails and files division. 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; one mail messenger; one thousand two hundred dollars; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two assistant messengers; one laborer; one laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand four hundred dollars.
Division of special agents: For assistant chief of division, two thousandSpecial agents. four hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each ; and one messenger; in all, twelve thousand five hundred and forty dollars. Offices of disbursing clerks: For two disbursing clerks, at two thousandDisbursing clerks. five hundred dollars each; two clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; one clerk of class two; four clerks of class one (including one transferred from office of chief clerk); one clerk, one thousand dollars; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one messenger; one laborer; in all, twenty-three thousand dollars.
Office of the Supervising Architect: In the construction branchSupervising Architect, superintendents, clerks, etc. of the Treasury: For Supervising Architect, five thousand dollars: assistant to Supervising Architect, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent of drafting and constructing division, three thousand dollars; superintendent of computing division, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; chief of law and records division, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; chief of accounts division, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief of inspection division, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief of division of equipment, 201 two thousand five hundred dollars; chief mechanical and electrical engineer, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; six clerks of class four; six clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; contract clerk, two thousand dollars; foreman duplicating gallery, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four technical clerks, who shall also be skilled stenographers and typewriters, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; four inspectors, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each: one inspector, one thousand eight hundred dollars; five messengers; one assistant messenger; and two laborers; in all, eighty-one thousand eight hundred dollars.
And the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, computers,Draftsmen, etc. and such other services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order, may be employed only in the office of the Supervising Architect exclusively to carry into effect the various appropriations for the construction of public buildings, to be paid for from and equitably charged against such appropriations: *Provided**Proviso*, Limit.*Post*, p. 490. **, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, shall not exceed three hundred 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, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Office of Comptroller of the Treasury: For Comptroller ofComptroller’s office. the Treasury, five thousand five hundred dollars; Assistant Comptroller of the Treasury, four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, 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; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; stenographer and typewriter, one thousand four hundred dollars; one typewriter-copyist, one thousand dollars; two messengers; one assistant messenger; and two laborers; in all. seventy-one thousand four hundred and twenty 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; fifteen clerks of class three; thirteen clerks of class two; thirty-one clerks of class one; seventeen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three assistant messengers; four laborers; in all, one hundred and fifty-three thousand seven hundred dollars.
Office of Auditor for War Department: For Auditor, fourOffice of Auditor for War Department. 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 clerks of class three; seventy-one clerks of class two; eighty-three clerks of class one; twenty clerks, at one thousand dollars each; fourteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, nine hundred dollars; three clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each: one messenger; five assistant messengers; and twelve laborers; in all, three hundred and ninety-one thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.
Office of Auditor for Navy Department: For Auditor, fourOffice 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; nineteen clerks of class three; fifteen clerks of class two; twenty-three clerks of class one; seventeen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; fifteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one clerk, eight hundred dollars; one messenger: 202 one assistant messenger; and three laborers; in all. one hundred and forty-six thousand three hundred and forty dollars.
Office of Auditor for Interior Department: For Auditor, fourOffice of Auditor for Interior Department. thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; thirteen clerks of class four; sixteen clerks of class three; twenty-eight clerks of class two; twenty-nine clerks of class one; fifteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two assistant messengers; four skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; six laborers: and one female laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, one hundred and seventy thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.
Office of Auditor for State and Other Departments: ForOffice of Auditor for State, etc., Departments. Auditor, four thousand dollars; Deputy Auditor, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; three chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; sixteen clerks of class four: one clerk of class four (special examiner); seventeen clerks of class three; thirteen clerks of class two; thirteen clerks of class one: live clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; two assistant messengers; and three laborers; in all, one hundred and twenty thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars.
Office of Auditor for Post-Office Department : For Auditor,Office of Auditor for Post-Office Department. four thousand dollars; two Deputy Auditors, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; law clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; eight chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; forty clerks of class four; additional to one clerk as disbursing clerk, four hundred and fifty dollars; seventy-two clerks of class three; ninety-one clerks of class two; one hundred and twenty-one 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: fifteen female skilled laborers, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; sixty-nine skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; fifteen female operatives, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; fifty-three skilled laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; fifteen female operatives, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; eight messengers; twelve assistant messengers; six watchmen; twenty-four male laborers, at six hundred and sixty dollars each: and twenty-one charwomen; in all, eight hundred and twenty-five thousand two hundred and seventy dollars.
Office of the Treasurer: For Treasurer of the United States,Treasurer’s office. 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; two assistant chiefs of division, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each: 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; one vault clerk, Bond Division, two thousand dollars; clerk for the Treasurer, one thousand eight hundred dollars: twenty-four clerks of class four; eighteen clerks of class three; sixteen clerks of class two: coin clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; thirty-one clerks of class one; seventeen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; fifty-six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; twenty expert counters, at nine hundred dollars each; twenty expert counters, at eight hundred dollars each; sixty-five expert counters, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; nine expert counters, at seven hundred dollars each: mail messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; 203 seven messengers; six assistant messengers; thirty-one laborers; six messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; eleven char women; foreman pressman, one thousand live hundred dollars; thirteen pressmen, atone thousand four hundred dollars each; forty separators, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; twenty feeders, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; compositor and pressman, one thousand six hundred dollars: machinist, one thousand dollars; in all, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the force employed in redeeming the national currency (to beRedemption of national currency. 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; three clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; seven clerks of class two; twenty-five clerks of class one: fifteen expert counters, at one thousand dollars each; twenty-seven expert counters, at nine hundred dollars each; twenty-one expert counters, at eight hundred dollars each; eleven expert counters, at seven hundred dollars each; one messenger; four assistant messengers; and three charwomen; in all, one hundred and thirty-three thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
For repairs to canceling and cutting machines in the office of theRepairs to canceling, etc., machines. Treasurer of the United States, two hundred dollars. Office of the Register of the Treasury: For Register, fourRegister’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; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; twenty-one clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; two assistant messengers; twelve counters, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and five laborers; in all, eighty-two thousand and twenty dollars.
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency; For ComptrollerOffice of Comptroller of the Currency. of the Currency, five thousand dollars; Deputy Comptroller, three thousand five hundred dollars; Deputy Comptroller, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief of division, two thousand five hundred dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; bookkeeper, two thousand dollars; assistant bookkeeper, two thousand dollars; eight clerks of class four; additional to bond clerk, two hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; thirteen clerks of class three; thirteen clerks of class two; thirteen clerks of class one; thirteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each: thirteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three counters, at seven hundred dollars each; one messenger; four assistant messengers; three laborers; and two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, one hundred and twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars.
For expenses of the national currency (to be reimbursed by theNational currency expenses. national banks), namely: For superintendent, two thousand five hundred dollars; teller, two thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; three clerks of class two; five clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; engineer, one thousand dollars; five clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three counters, at seven hundred dollars each; one fireman; one messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; and one assistant messenger; in all, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars.
For expenses of special examinations of national banks and bankSpecial examinations, etc. 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, eight thousand dollars. 204 Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue: For CommissionerOffice 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 live hundred dollars; one first assistant chemist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one second assistant chemist, one thousand six hundred dollars; one third assistant chemist, one thousand four hundred dollars; one fourth assistant chemist, one thousand two hundred dollars; two heads of di visions, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; seven heads of divisions, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; superintendent of stamp vault, two thousand dollars; private secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; twenty-eight clerks of class four: twenty-four clerks of class three; thirty-six clerks of class two; thirty-six clerks of class one; thirty-one clerks, at one thousand dollars each: forty-four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers; nineteen assistant messengers; and twenty laborers; in all, three hundred and twenty-eight thousand two hundred and ten dollars.
For one stamp agent, one thousand six hundred dollars; one stampStamp 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 ofLife-Saving Service. the Life-Saving Service, four thousand dollars, and live hundred dollars additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; assistant general superintendent, two thousand live 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; live clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two assistant messengers; and one laborer; in all, forty-eight thousand dollars.
Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For Director of Bureau,Bureau of Engraving and Printing. five thousand dollars; assistant director, three, thousand five hundred dollars; accountant, two thousand live hundred dollars: stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four clerks of class three; nine clerks of class two; nine clerks of class one: seven clerks, at one thousand dollars each; disbursing agent, two thousand four hundred dollars; storekeeper, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant storekeeper, one thousand dollars; clerk in charge of purchases and supplies, two thousand dollars; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; eleven clerks, at seven hundred and eighty dollars each; nine attendants, at six hundred dollars each; two helpers, at nine hundred dollars each; three helpers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two helpers, at six hundred dollars each; three messengers; seven assistant messengers; captain of the watch, one thousand four hundred dollars: two lieutenants of the watch, at nine hundred dollars each; forty-six watchmen; two forewomen of charwomen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; nineteen day charwomen, at four hundred dollars each; fifty-two morning and evening charwomen, at three hundred dollars each; foreman of laborers, nine hundred dollars: four laborers; seventy-five laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, two hundred thousand three hundred dollars; and no other fund appropriated by this or any other ActLimitation on payment for services. shall be used for services, in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, of the character specified in this paragraph.
Secret Service Division: For one chief, four thousand dollars;Secret service division. assistant chief, who shall discharge the duties of chief clerk, three thousand dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three: two 205 clerks of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; and one attendant, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, sixteen thousand one hundred and twenty dollars. Office of the Director of the Mint: For Director, four thousandOffice of Director of the Mint. 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; three clerks of class four; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one messenger; assistant in laboratory, one thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, thirty thousand one hundred and twenty dollars.
For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise,Freight. between mints and assay offices, sixty-five thousand dollars. For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expendedContingent expenses. under the direction of the Director, namely; For assay laboratory, chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including text-books on metallurgical processes, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purposeExaminations, etc. of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations, three thousand dollars.
For books, pamphlets, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, four hundred dollars. For the collection of statistics relative to the annual production andPrecious metals statistics. consumption of the precious metals in the United States, two thousand five hundred dollars. Office of Surgeon-General of Public Health and Marine-Public Health And Marine Hospital Service. Hospital Service: For Surgeon-General, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; private secretary to the Surgeon-General, one thousand eight hundred dollars; six clerks of class two, one of whom shall be translator; six clerks of class one; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each: one messenger; three assistant messengers; and two laborers, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in all, thirty-nine thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars.
Contingent Expenses, Treasury Department: For the followingContingent expenses. sums, which shall be so apportioned as to prevent deficiencies therein, namely: For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus,Stationery. forty thousand dollars. For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal UnionPostage. countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, one thousand five hundred dollars. For purchasing material for binding important records, six hundredBinding. dollars.
For newspapers, newspaper clippings, law books, city directories,Newspapers, etc. and other books of reference relating to the business of the Department, one thousand dollars. For investigation of accounts and records, including the necessaryInvestigations. 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, sevenFreight, etc. thousand dollars. For rent of buildings, forty-seven thousand five hundred and sixty-sixRent. dollars. 206 For purchase of horses and wagons, for office and mail service, toHorses 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 live hundred dollars. For purchase of ice, including ice for the office of the Auditor forIce. the Post-Office Department, two thousand four hundred dollars.
For purchase of file holders and tile cases, four thousand dollarsFiles. . For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grateFuel. baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, eleven thousand dollars. tor 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 andMiscellaneous. 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 of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, ten thousand dollars.
For shelving and transferring records and files from and to theTransferring flies, etc. Treasury building and its annexes in Washington, one thousand dollars. For purchase and exchange of registering accountants, numberingNumbering machines, etc. machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, five thousand dollars. For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats,Carpets, etc. rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, four thousand dollars.
For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair caning, chair covers,Furniture. desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, ventilators, typewriters, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, ten thousand dollars. Contingent and Miscellaneous Expenses, Office of AuditorOffice of Auditor For Poet-Office Departmeat.Contingent Expenses. For the Post-Office Department, Namely :
For miscellaneous items, including purchase, repair and exchange of typewriting machines, 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, four thousand dollars. For carpets and repairs, five hundred dollars; For furniture and repairs, two thousand dollars; For purchase, exchange, and repair of adding machines, one thousand dollars;
In all, seven thousand five 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.207 collecting internal revenue.Collecting internal revenue. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, and deputyCollectors, etc. collectors, and surveyors, and clerks, messengers, and janitors in internal-revenue offices, two million and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided*, That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses*Proviso.*Use for witness fees forbidden. of any officer, designated above, subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trials before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “ Fees of witnesses, United States courts.
” For salaries and expenses of forty revenue agents provided for byAgents, gaugers, etc. law, and fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeeper-gaugers, two million four hundred thousand dollars. For rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia, telephoneMiscellaneous.*Post*, p. 825. service, and other miscellaneous expenses incident to the collection of internal revenue, and for the purchase of necessary books of reference and periodicals for the chemical laboratory and law library, at a cost not to exceed five hundred dollars, eighty-five thousand dollars.
To carry out the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for theDenatured alcohol expenses.Vol. 34, p. 217. withdrawal from bond, tax free, of domestic alcohol when rendered unfit for beverage or liquid medicinal uses by mixture with suitable denaturing materials,” as amended by the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and seven. And for the employment of such additional force of chemists, internal-revenue agents, inspectors, deputy collectors, clerks, laborers, and other assistants as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may deem proper and necessary to the prompt and efficient operation and enforcement of this law, and for the purchase of locks, seals, weighing beams, gauging instruments, and for all necessary expenses incident to the proper execution of this law, two hundred thousand dollars. independent treasury.Independent Treasury.
Office of Assistant Treasurer At Baltimore: For assistantAssistant treasurers offices.Baltimore. 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, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; messenger, at eight hundred and forty dollars; three watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, thirty-four thousand dollars.
Office of Assistant Treasurer At Boston: For assistant treasurer,Boston. five thousand dollars; chief clerk, and paying teller, at two thousand five hundred dollars each: receiving teller, two thousand dollars; assistant paying teller, two thousand two hundred dollars; vault clerk, two thousand dollars; assistant receiving teller, one thousand six hundred dollars; first bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; 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; eight 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-six thousand seven hundred and ten dollars.
Office of Assistant Treasurer At Chicago: For assistant treasurer,Chicago. five thousand dollars; cashier, three thousand dollars; vault 208 clerk, two thousand dollars; paying teller, two thousand dollars; assorting teller, one thousand eight hundred dollars; silver and redemption teller, change teller, and receiving teller, at two thousand dollars each; clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two bookkeepers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; assistant paying teller, one thousand six hundred dollars; one chief coin, coupon, and currency clerk, at one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; three coin, coupon, and currency clerks, at one thousand live hundred dollars each; six clerks, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; twenty 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, seventy-two thousand six hundred and fifty-dollars.
Office of Assistant Treasurer At Cincinnati: For assistant treasurer,Cincinnati. four thousand five hundred dollars; cashier, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assistant cashier, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; receiving teller, one thousand five hundred dollars: vault clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; 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-four thousand four hundred and ten dollars.
Office of Assistant Treasurer At New Orleans: For assistantNew 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 treasurer,New York. 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 three thousand dollars each; chief of division, two thousand seven 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 assistant tellers, one assistant chief of division, and three bookkeepers, at two thousand dollars each; nine 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 209 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; three engineers, at one thousand and fifty dollars each; eight watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, two hundred and six thousand five hundred and ten dollars.
Office of Assistant Treasurer At Philadelphia: For assistantPhiladelphia. 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.
Office of Assistant Treasurer At Saint Louis: For assistantSaint Louis. 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; two assistant tellers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; 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-nine thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
Office of Assistant Treasurer At San Francisco: For assistantSan Francisco. 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; messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; four watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and two coin counters, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, thirty thousand four hundred and twenty dollars.
For salaries of special agents, and for actual expenses of examinersSpecial agents, examinations. 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 hundredR. S., sec.3649, p.718. and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, also 210 including examinations of cash accounts at mints, three thousand dollars. For paper for interest, transfer, redemption, pension, and otherPaper for checks. checks and drafts for the use of the Treasurer of the United States, assistant treasurers, pension agents, disbursing officers, and others, thirteen thousand dollars.
MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICES.Mints and assay offices. Mint At Carson, Nevada: For assayer in charge, who shall alsoCarson, Nev. perform the duties of melter, two thousand dollars; assistant assayer, and one clerk, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; one clerk. one thousand dollars; in all, six thousand dollars. For wages of workmen, and not exceeding one thousand eight hundred dollars for other clerks and employees, four thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, two thousand dollars.
Mint At Denver, Colorado: For superintendent, four thousandDenver, Colo. 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; weigh clerk, and bookkeeper, at two thousand dollars each; assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, and assistant coiner, at two thousand dollars each; abstract clerk, and warrant clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; 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-nine thousand one hundred dollars.
For wages of workmen and adjusters, and not exceeding thirty-two thousand five hundred dollars for other clerks and employees, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including melter and refiner’s 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, fifty thousand dollars. Mint At New Orleans, Louisiana: For superintendent, threeNew Orleans, La. thousand five hundred dollars; assayer, melter and refiner, and coiner, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; chief clerk, and cashier, at two thousand dollars each; assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, and assistant coiner, at one thousand nine hundred 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 twelve thousand five hundred dollars for other clerks and employees, sixty-two thousand eight hundred dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including machinery and repairs, wastage of operative officers, and loss on sale of sweeps, thirty thousand dollars. Mint At Philadelphia: For superintendent, four thousand fivePhiladelphia, Pa. hundred dollars; engraver, four thousand dollars; assayer, melter and refiner, and coiner, at three thousand dollars each; chief clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant assayer, assistant melter and refiner, and assistant coiner, at two thousand dollars each; cashier, and bookkeeper, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; abstract clerk, and weigh clerk, at two thousand dollars each; cashier’s clerk, warrant clerk, and register of deposits, at one thousand seven hundred 211 dollars each; assistant weigh clerk, and assayer’s computation clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; in all, forty-three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For wages of workmen, and adjusters, and not exceeding seventy-eight thousand six hundred and forty dollars for other clerks and employees, four hundred thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, exclusive of that required for the refinery, 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 not exceeding five hundred dollars in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint, eighty-five thousand dollars.
Mint At San Francisco, California: For superintendent, fourSan Francisco, Cal. 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, and assistant weigh clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; and superintendent’s calculating clerk, at one thousand six hundred dollars; in all, forty-one thousand one hundred dollars.
For wages of workmen and adjusters, and not exceeding forty thousand dollars for other clerks and employees, one hundred and sixty-five thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery, exclusive of that required for the refinery, melter and refiners’ wastage, and loss on sale of sweeps, arising from the manufacture of ingots for coinage, and for wastage of and loss on sale of coiners’ sweeps, forty-five thousand dollars. Assay Office At Boise, Idaho:
For assayer, who shall also performBoise, Idaho. the duties of melter, two thousand dollars; chief clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, three thousand four hundred dollars. For wages of workmen, and not exceeding one thousand eight hundred and forty dollars for other clerks and employees, eight thousand three hundred dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, three thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. Assay Office At Charlotte, North Carolina: For assayer andCharlotte, N.
C. melter, one thousand five hundred dollars: assistant assayer, one thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; in all, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. For wages of workmen and other clerks and employees, one thousand and eighty dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, nine hundred and twenty dollars. Assay Office At Deadwood, South Dakota: For assayer in charge,Deadwood, S. Dak. 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.
For wages of workmen and other clerks and employees, four thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, including rent of building, two thousand dollars. Assay Office At Helena, Montana: For assayer in charge, twoHelena, Mont. thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars; in all, five thousand four hundred and fifty dollars. 212 For wages of workmen, and not exceeding six thousand and thirty dollars for other clerks and employees, fourteen thousand five hundred dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, four thousand dollars.New York, N. Y. Assay Office At New York: For superintendent, four thousand five hundred dollars; assayer, and melter and refiner, at three thousand dollars each; chief clerk, cashier, assistant melter and refiner, and weigh clerk, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; bookkeeper, two thousand three hundred and fifty dollars: warrant clerk, two thousand dollars; abstract clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant cashier, bar clerk, assayer’s computation clerk, and assistant weigh clerk, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; register of deposits, one. thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; assayer’s first assistant, two thousand five hundred dollars; assayer’s second assistant, two thousand one hundred and fifty dollars; assayer’s third assistant, two thousand dollars; in all, forty-one thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars.
For wages of workmen, messengers, and not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars for other clerks and employees, thirty-five thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, twelve thousand five hundred dollars. Assay Office At Saint Louis, Missouri: For assayer in charge,Saint Louis, Mo. two thousand dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars: in all, three thousand dollars. For wages of workmen (including janitor), one thousand dollars. For incidental and contingent expenses, seven hundred and fifty dollars.
Assay Office At Seattle, Washington : For assayer in charge, whoSeattle, Wash. 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; in all, nine thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. For wages for workmen, and not exceeding sixteen thousand dollars for other clerks and employees, thirty-two thousand dollars.
For incidental and contingent expenses, including rent of building, eight thousand dollars. government in the territories.Government in Territories. District of Alaska: For governor, five thousand dollars; threeAlaska. 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, not to exceed two thousand dollars; traveling expenses of the governor while absent from Juneau on official business; rent of office and quarters in Juneau, stationery, lights, and fuel to be expended under the direction of the governor, five thousand five hundred dollars.
That the appropriation for incidental and contingent expenses ofFurniture, etc., for governor’s office.Vol. 34, p. 963. the office of the governor of Alaska for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight shall be available for the purchase and repair of furniture in the governor’s office and quarters at Juneau, Alaska, and for alterations and repairs of buildings occupied as office and quarters. Territory of Arizona: For governor, three thousand dollars;Arizona. chief justice, and four 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, twenty thousand three hundred dollars. 213 For contingent expenses of the Territory, including not to exceed five hundred dollars for traveling expenses of the governor while absent from the capital on official business, to be expended by the governor, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For legislative expenses, namely: For rent, messenger, postage, stationery, fuel, lights, printing, and incidental expenses for secretary’s office, for pay of members and officers of the legislative assembly, mileage, rent of rooms for the legislature and committees, furniture, stationery, printing, binding, fuel, lights, and incidentals, twenty-four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars. Territory of New Mexico: For governor, three thousand dollars;New Mexico. 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, live hundred dollars; in all. twenty-three thousand three hundred dollars.
For contingent expenses of Territory, including not to exceed five hundred dollars for traveling expenses of the governor while absent from the capital on official business, to be expended by the governor, one thousand live hundred 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, for pay of members and officers of the legislative assembly, mileage, rent of rooms for the legislature and committees, furniture, stationery, printing, binding, fuel, lights, and incidentals, twenty-four thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Territory of Hawaii: For governor, five thousand dollars; secretary,Hawaii. 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 nine. For contingent expenses of the Territory of Hawaii, to be expended by the governor for stationery, postage, and incidentals, one thousand 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 five hundred dollars.
For legislative expenses, namely: Furniture, light, telephone, stationery, record casings and tiles, printing and binding, indexing records, postage, ice, water, clerk hire, mileage of members, incidentals, pay of chaplain, clerk, sergeant-at-arms, stenographers, typewriters, janitors, and messengers, thirty thousand dollars: *Provided*, That the*Proviso.*Restriction. members of the legislature of the Territory of Hawaii shall not draw their compensation of two hundred dollars, or any mileage, for any extra session held in compliance with section fifty-four of an Act to provideVol. 31, p. 150. a government for the Territory of Hawaii, approved April thirtieth, anno Domini nineteen hundred.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secretary ofPay of Secretary. Assistant. assistant and chief clerk, clerks, etc. War, twelve thousand dollars; Assistant Secretary, five thousand dollars; assistant and chief clerk, four thousand dollars; private secretary to the. Secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; clerk to the Secretary, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; stenographer to the Secretary, one thousand eight 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 five hundred dollars; appointment clerk, two thousand dollars; 214 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, two hundred and fifty dollars; chief telegrapher, one thousand eight hundred dollars: four clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; fifteen clerks of class two; nineteen clerks of class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars: one clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; carpenter, one thousand dollars; chief messenger, one thousand dollars; one carpenter, nine hundred dollars; one skilled laborer, nine hundred dollars; six messengers; seven assistant messengers; one, telephone switchboard operator: one assistant telephone switch-board operator; two messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; engineer, nine hundred dollars; assistant engineer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one fireman; four watchmen; five watchmen, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; eight laborers; two laborers, at four hundred and seventy dollars each; hostler, six hundred dollars; two hostlers, and one watchman, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger boy, four hundred and eighty dollars; two elevator conductors, one at six hundred dollars and one at four hundred and seventy dollars; four charwomen; in all, one hundred and forty-six thousand nine hundred and ten dollars.
Adjutant-General’S Office: For chief clerk, two thousand dollarsAdjutant-General’s Office. ; 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 Adjutant-General’s Office of the War Department shall be exclusively engaged on the work of this office for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine.
Office of the Inspector-General: For one clerk of class fourInspector-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; in all, twelve thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. Office of the Judge-Advocate-General: For chief clerk andJudge-Advocate General’s Office. solicitor, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one clerk of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; one copyist; two messengers; and one assistant messenger; in all, twenty thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
Signal Office: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two clerksSignal Office. of class four; two clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger; one assistant, messenger; and one laborer; in all. twenty-five thousand eight hundred dollars. The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as theSkilled draftsmen etc.
Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the various appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the Signal Office: *Provided*, That the entire expenditures for this purpose*Proviso.*Limit, etc. for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, shall not exceed twenty-five thousand dollars, and that the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to 215 Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Office of the Quartermaster-General: For chief clerk, twoQuartermaster-General Office thousand dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; nine clerks of class four: twelve clerks of class three; twenty-six clerks of class two; sixty-one clerks of class one; forty clerks, at one thousand dollars each; fourteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; advisory architect, four thousand dollars; experienced builder and mechanic, two thousand five hundred dollars; one inspector of supplies for the Army, two thousand five hundred dollars; three draftsmen. at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; seven draftsmen, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; five draftsmen, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; two draftsmen, atone thousand two hundred dollars each; supervising engineer, two thousand five hundred dollars; two civil engineers, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; assistant civil engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; electrical engineer, two thousand dollars; one marine engineer, three thousand five hundred dollars; sanitary and heating engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; writer of specifications and computer, one thousand two hundred dollars; coal-testing engineer, nine hundred and sixty dollars; blueprint operator, nine hundred dollars; four messengers; eleven assistant messengers; two assistant messengers, at six hundred dollars each; female messenger, four hundred and eighty dollars; seven laborers; and one laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all. two hundred and seventy-four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars.
Office of the Commissary-General: For chief clerk, two-thousandCommissary-General’s Office. dollars; four clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; twenty clerks of class one; sixteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; eight clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; messenger; two assistant messengers; one laborer; in all, seventy-four thousand three hundred and forty dollars. Office of the Surgeon-General: For chief clerk, two thousandSurgeon-General’s Office. dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; thirteen clerks of class four; eleven clerks of class three; twenty-six clerks of class two; thirty-two clerks of class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; anatomist, one thousand six hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; assistant engineer, for night duty, nine hundred dollars; two firemen; skilled mechanic, one thousand dollars; one messenger; eleven assistant messengers; three watchmen; superintendent of building (Army Medical Museum and Library), two hundred and fifty dollars; six laborers; chemist, two thousand and eighty-eight dollars; assistant chemist, one thousand five hundred dollars; principal assistant librarian, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; pathologist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; microscopist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; assistant librarian, one thousand eight hundred dollars; four charwomen; in all, one hundred and sixty-six thousand one hundred and sixty-eight dollars.
Office of the Paymaster-General: For chief clerk, two thousandPaymaster-Generals Office. dollars; six clerks of class four; seven clerks of class three; twelve clerks of class two; eleven clerks of class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; nine clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger: one assistant messenger; four laborers; one laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, seventy-one thousand nine hundred dollars. Office of the Chief of Ordnance: For chief clerk, two thousandOrdnance Office. dollars; five clerks of class four; six clerks of class three: eleven clerks of class two; twenty-six clerks of class one; eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each: four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each: two messengers; one assistant messenger; one messenger, seven hundred and 216 eighty dollars; one messenger, seven hundred and twenty dollars; 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 and for the arming and equipping of the organized militia, to be paid from such appropriations. in addition to the amount specifically appropriated for*Proviso.*Limit, etc. draftsmen in the Army Ordnance Bureau: *Provided*, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, shall not exceed forty-five thousand dollars, and that the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Office of the Chief of Engineers: For chief clerk, two thousandEngineer’s Office. dollars; two chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; eight clerks of class four: eleven clerks of class three; twelve clerks of class two; fifteen clerks of class one; nine clerks, at one thousand dollars each; eleven clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; six messengers; three assistant messengers; and two laborers; in all, one hundred thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. And the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such otherSkilled draftsmen, etc. services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and*Proviso*.Limit, etc. surveys, to be paid from such appropriations: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine, shall not exceed fifteen thousand dollars; and that the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Office of the Bureau of Insular Affairs: For law officer,Insular Affairs Bureau. four thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; eight clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two; nineteen clerks of class one; eighteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two messengers; two assistant messengers; five laborers; two charwomen; in all, eighty-seven thousand four hundred dollars. Contingent Expenses of the War Department : For purchase ofContingent expenses. 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 Adjutant-General’s office, the Bureau of Insular Affairs, 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.
For stationery for the War Department and its bureaus and offices,Stationery. twenty-five thousand dollars. For rent of buildings for use of the War Department, as follows: ForRent. 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 Adjutant-General’s office, two thousand three hundred dollars; and for Bureau of Insular Affairs, two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars; in all. seventeen thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars. 217 For postage stamps for the War Department and its bureaus, asPostage. 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. Office of Public Buildings and Grounds: For one assistant engineer,Engineer, clerks, etc. two thousand four hundred dollars; assistant and chief clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; clerk and stenographer, one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger; landscape gardener, two thousand four hundred dollars; surveyor and draftsman, one thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand three hundred and forty dollars.
For foremen, gardeners, mechanics, and laborers employed in theForemen, etc. public grounds, thirty-one thousand two hundred dollars. For one sergeant of park watchmen, nine hundred and fifty dollars. For second sergeant of park watchmen, nine hundred dollars. For day watchmen as follows: One in Franklin Park; one in LafayetteWatchmen. 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: and 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 south of Executive Mansion: one in Monument Park; one at Monument Park Annex (Potomac Park): and 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. One day watchman and one night watchman for that part of Potomac Park between the causeway of the Pennsylvania Railroad bridge, the Potomac River, and the tidal reservoir, two in all, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, one thousand four hundred and forty dollars.
One night watchman in that part of Potomac Park between the Virginia channel of the Potomac River, the tidal reservoir, and the sewer canal, seven hundred and twenty dollars. Night watchmen for Stanton and Lincoln parks and ten adjoining reservations, Lafayette. Franklin. McPherson, and Farragut parks. Washington. Dupont, Iowa, and Thomas circles, Mount Vernon Square, and reservations on Massachusetts avenue from Seventh to Seventeenth streets, four in all, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars.
For contingent and incidental expenses, including purchase of professionalContingent expenses. and scientific books and periodicals, books of reference, blank books, photographs, and maps, seven hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of bicycles and revolvers for park watchmen and for purchase of ammunition, three hundred dollars. Of the foregoing amounts appropriated under Public Buildings andAmount from District revenues. Grounds, the sum of thirty thousand two hundred and fifty-five dollars shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. 218 state, war, and navy department building.State, War, and Navy Department building.
Office of the superintendent: For one clerk of class one; stenographerClerks, engineers, watchmen, etc. and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; chief engineer, one thousand four hundred dollars; five assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; one electrical machinist, one thousand two hundred dollars; captain of the watch, one thousand two hundred dollars; two lieutenants of the watch, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; forty-nine watchmen; carpenter, one thousand dollars; electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; machinist, painter, and plumber, at one thousand dollars each; three dynamo tenders, at nine hundred dollars each; seven skilled laborers (mechanics), at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger; foreman of laborers, eight hundred and forty dollars; ten firemen; eleven conductors of elevators, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; seventeen laborers; three second class firemen, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; four forewomen of charwomen, at three hundred dollars each; seventy-seven charwomen; one gardener, seven hundred and twenty dollars; in all, one hundred and twelve thousand and forty dollars.
Mills Building: For the following for service in fireproof buildingMills Building. authorized to be rented for use of the Navy Department, namely: One engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; four firemen; two elevator conductors, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each: five watchmen; four laborers; one forewoman, three hundred dollars; nine charwomen; in all, fourteen thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. State Department Annex: For one laborer, six hundred and sixtyState Department annex. dollars.
For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items and city directories,Fuel, lights, etc. thirty-two thousand dollars. For repairs, supplies, and miscellaneous articles, Mills Building, twoRepairs, etc., Mills Building. thousand dollars. The superintendent of the State, War, and Navy building shall alsoSuperintendent’s duties extended. act as superintendent of the Navy Department Annex, or Mills Building, and the State Department Annex building. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department.
Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secretary ofPay of Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc. the Navy, twelve thousand dollars; Assistant Secretary of the Navy, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, three thousand dollars; private secretary to Secretary, two thousand five hundred dollars; clerk to Secretary, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; clerk to Assistant Secretary, two thousand dollars; disbursing clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; four clerks of class four; stenographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; three clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand one hundred dollars; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; telegraph operator, one thousand one hundred dollars; two copyists; carpenter, nine hundred dollars; four messengers; five assistant messengers (including one transferred from Bureau of Navigation); one laborer; three messenger boys, at six hundred dollars each; one messenger boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; one messenger boy, four hundred dollars; one telephone switchboard operator; one assistant telephone switch board operator; in all, seventy thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.
Office of the Solicitor: Solicitor, who shall perform the dutiesSolicitor’s Office. of the Judge-Advocate-General of the Navy in case of the death, resignation, absence, or sickness of that officer, four thousand dollars; law clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk, two thousand dollars; clerk of class four; clerk of class three; clerk of class two; 219 clerk, at eight hundred and forty dollars; and messenger boy at six hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand seven hundred and forty dollars.
Library of the Navy Department: For one clerk of class two;Library. one clerk of class one; one assistant messenger; one laborer; in all, three thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars. Office of Naval Records of the Rebellion: For chief clerk,Naval Records of the Rebellion. 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; three clerks of class two (including one transferred from Bureau of Yards and Docks); one clerk of class three, (indexer); two clerks of class one; two clerks at one thousand dollars each; two copyists; copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars: one assistant messenger; necessary traveling expenses for collection of records, one hundred dollars; in all, seventeen thousand three hundred and forty dollars.
For continuing the publication of an edition of eleven thousandContinuing publication. copies of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, in accordance with the plan approved by the Secretary of the Navy under the Act of Congress approved July thirty-first,Vol. 28, p. 190. 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, United States Navy:
For one clerk,Judge-Advocate-General’s Office. one thousand three hundred dollars; two clerks of class one (including one transferred from Bureau of Supplies and Accounts); three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one assistant messenger; in all, eight thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Bureau of Navigation: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars; oneBureau of Navigation. clerk, two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; thirteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; five copyists; nineteen copyists, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; two assistant messengers (reduction of one transferred to Secretary’s office); one messenger boy, six hundred dollars; and five laborers (including one transferred from Secretary’s office); in all, seventy-five thousand five hundred dollars.
Office of Naval Intelligence: For one clerk of class four; oneNaval Intelligence Office. clerk of class two; two translators, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; 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; in all, twelve thousand one hundred dollars. Bureau of Equipment: For chief clerk, two thousand dollars;Bureau of Equipment. draftsman, who shall be an expert in marine construction, two thousand dollars; bookkeeper and accountant, one thousand eight hundred 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; eight 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 two laborers (including one transferred from Secretary’s office); in all, thirty thousand five hundred dollars.
Hydrographic Office: For hydrographic engineer, three thousandHydrographieOffice. dollars; one assistant, two thousand two hundred dollars; one assistant, two thousand dollars; one nautical expert, one thousand eight hundred 220 dollars; two nautical experts, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one nautical expert, at one thousand three hundred dollars; two 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 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; editor of Notice to Mariners, one thousand six hundred dollars; one computer, one thousand four 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; live draftsmen, at one thousand dollars each; one draftsman, nine hundred dollars; three apprentice draftsmen, at seven 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; six engravers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two engravers, at one thousand dollars each; one engraver, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one apprentice engraver, eight hundred dollars; one apprentice engraver, seven 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 nine hundred dollars each; one plate printer, eight hundred dollars; one apprentice Elate printer, seven hundred dollars; one apprentice plate printer, six undred dollars; one chief lithographer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two lithographers, at one thousand dollars each; one apprentice lithographer, seven hundred dollars; one electrotyper and chart plate maker, 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 and two thousand two hundred dollars.
For purchase of copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packingMaterials. 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 supplementsPilot 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.
Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston. New York, PhiladelphiaBranch offices.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, stationery, miscellaneous articles, rent and care of offices, care of time balls, 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, eleven thousand dollars.
For services of necessary employees at branch offices, seventeenEmployees. thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars. 221 For a monthly Pilot Chart of the North Pacific Ocean, showingMonthly Pilot Chart.North 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 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.
No expenditure shall be incurred or authorized for personal servicesPersonal services restricted. or otherwise under the Hydrographic Office at Washington, District of Columbia, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine except as herein authorized by appropriations under the Navy Department or under appropriations that may be made for printing and binding. Naval Observatory: For pay of three assistant astronomers, oneNaval observatory. at two thousand four hundred 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; assistant, one thousand four hundred dollars; three assistants, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; librarian, one thousand four hundred dollars; two assistants, at one thousand dollars each; stenographer and typewriter, nine hundred dollars; foreman and captain of the watch, one thousand dollars; carpenter, and engineer, at one thousand dollars each; three firemen; six watchmen; elevator conductor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; and nine laborers: in all. forty-three thousand two hundred and forty dollars.
For miscellaneous computations, five thousand dollars. For professional and scientific books, periodicals, engravings, photographs,Computation.Books, etc. and fixtures for the library, seven hundred and fifty dollars. For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, twoApparatus. thousand dollars. For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences, furniture, gas, chemicals,Contingent expenses. and stationery, freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage, and expressage, plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses, three thousand dollars.
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, eight thousand dollars. For repairs to main building, five thousand dollars.Repairs. Nautical Almanac Office: For the following assistants in preparingNautical Almanac Office. for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, namely:
One, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; two, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each: three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two, atone 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 four hundred and forty dollars. For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publicationComputers. the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, six thousand dollars. 222 Bureau of Steam Engineering:
For chief clerk, two thousandBureau of Steam Engineering. dollars; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; one clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars; three clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand one hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand dollars 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-six thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.
Bureau of Construction and Repair: For chief clerk, twoBureau of Construction and Repair. thousand dollars; two clerks of class four (including one transferred from Judge-Advocate-General’s Office); two clerks of class three (one transferred to Secretary’s office); three clerks of class two; three clerks, at one thousand three hundred dollars each; three clerks of class one; nine clerks, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; fifteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; five copyists; two assistant messengers (including one transferred from Bureau of Yards and Docks); one laborer; nine messenger boys, at six hundred dollars each; one messenger boy, four hundred dollars; in all, fifty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars.
The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as theTechnical services. Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only 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**Proviso.*Limit, etc. **, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine shall not exceed one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; a statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, 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; ordnanceBureau 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 three; two clerks of class two; one clerk, one thousand three hundred dollars; three 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; two messenger boys, at four hundred dollars each; and one laborer; in all, thirty-two thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For civilian assistant, twoBureau of Supplies and Accounts. thousand five hundred dollars: two chief bookkeepers, at two thousand dollars each; four clerks of class four; seven clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; fifteen clerks of class one; eight clerks, at one thousand one hundred dollars each; twenty-four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; three clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; eight copyists; two copyists, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; four assistant messengers (including one instead of one laborer transferred from Secretary’s office); 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, one hundred thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery : For chief clerk, two thousandBureau 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 223 copyists, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one assistant messenger; one laborer; driver for Naval Dispensary, six hundred dollars; and one laborer, for Naval Dispensary, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, seventeen thousand three hundred and forty dollars.
Bureau of Yards and Docks: For chief clerk, two thousand dollarsBureau of Yards and Docks. ; draftsman and clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand one hundred dollars; six clerks, at one thousand dollars each (including one transferred from Secretary’s office); one assistant messenger: three messenger boys, at six hundred dollars each; and two laborers (including one transferred from Naval Intelligence); in all, eighteen thousand nine hundred and forty dollars.
The services of skilled draftsmen and such other technical servicesTechnical services. as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Yards and Docks to carry into effect the various appropriations for “public works” to be paid from such appropriations: *Provided.* That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal*Proviso.*Limit, etc. year nineteen hundred and nine shall not exceed thirty thousand dollars; a statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates.
Contingent Expenses, Navy Department: For professional andContingent expenses. technical books and periodicals, for Department library, two thousand dollars. 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, fortyRestriction. thousand dollars; it shall not be lawful to expend, for any of the offices or bureaus of the Navy Department at Washington, any sum out of appropriations made for the naval establishment for any of the purposes mentioned or authorized in this paragraph.
For the rental of Mills Building, authorized by Act of CongressRent. approved July first, nineteen hundred and two, twenty-four thousand live hundred dollars. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Department of the Interior. Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secretary ofPay of Secretary. Assistants, attorneys, etc. the Interior, twelve thousand dollars; First Assistant Secretary, five thousand dollars; Assistant Secretary, four thousand live hundred dollars; Assistant to the Secretary, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant attorney, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; assistant attorney, two thousand five hundred dollars;’ four assistant attorneys, at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; chief clerk, three thousand dollars; additional to one member of BoardBoard of Pension Appeals. of Pension Appeals, acting as chief of the board, five hundred dollars; twelve members of a Board of Pension Appeals, at two thousand dollars each; two special inspectors, whose employment shall be limitedSpecial inspectors. to the inspection of offices and the work in the several offices under the control of the Department of the Interior, at two thousand five hundred dollars each (in lieu of one special land inspector and five specialClerks etc. inspectors at two thousand five hundred dollars each); chief disbursing clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; clerk in charge of supplies, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; clerk in charge of mails, files, and archives, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; clerk in charge of publications, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; four clerks, at two thousand dollars each; private secretary to the Secretary of the Interior, two thousand five hundred dollars; thirteen clerks of class four (two clerks of class four transferred 224 to Indian Office and one transferred to General Land Office); eighteen clerks of class three; twenty-one clerks of class two (three clerks of class two transferred to Indian Office and two transferred to General Land Office); twenty-four clerks of classone(six clerks of class one transferred to Indian Office, three transferred to General Land Office, and two omitted); 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; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each (three clerks, at one thousand dollars each, transferred to General Land Office); five copyists.(seven transferred to Indian Office); switchMessengers, etc. board telephone operator; nine messengers; seven assistant messengers; eighteen 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; assistantClerk to sign tribal deeds. engineer, one thousand dollars; seven firemen; one clerk, to 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, two hundred and eighty-six thousand five hundred and forty dollars:*Proviso.*Transfer from Board of Pension Appeals to classified service.Vol. 22, p. 403. *Provided*, That in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, persons employed June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, as additional members of the Board of Pension Appeals may be transferred and appointed to places in the classified service of the Department of the Interior without reference to the “Act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States,” approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three.
For employees, for the proper protection, heating, care, and preservationEmployees, old Post-Office building. of the old Post-Office Department building, occupied by the Department of the Interior, namely: One engineer and electrician, one thousand six 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; nine 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 three hundred and eighty 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 two special inspectors, DepartmentPer diem, etc., inspectors. 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 225 under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, four thousand dollars.
General Land Office: For the Commissioner of the General LandGeneral Land Office. 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 five hundred dollars; chief law clerk, two thousand five hundred 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; one chief of division of surveys, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; one chief of division, two thousand four hundred dollars; nine 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, at two thousand dollars each; thirty-eight clerks of class four (including one transferred from Secretary’s office); sixty-four clerks of class three; sixty-nine clerks of class two (including two transferred from Secretary’s office); seventy-two clerks of class one (including three transferred from Secretary’s office); sixty clerks, at one thousand dollars each (including three transferred from Secretary’s office); sixty copyists; two messengers; ten assistant messengers; six skilled laborers, who may act as assistant messengers when required, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; sixteen laborers; one laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; one packer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one depositary acting for the Commissioner as receiver of public moneys, two thousand dollars; clerk and librarian, one thousand dollars; in all, five hundred and seventy-two thousand four hundred and fifty dollars.
That hereafter the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,Temporary Assistant Commissioner. authorized to designate an officer or employee of the General Land Office to act temporarily as Assistant Commissioner of that Office during the absence of the Assistant Commissioner, or in case of a vacancy in the office of such Assistant Commissioner, or when such Assistant Commissioner is acting as Commissioner, and all acts performed by any officer or employee while acting under such designation shall have the same force and effect as if performed by said Commissioner or Assistant Commissioner.
That hereafter the Secretary of the Interior be, and he is hereby,Temporary recorder. authorized to designate an officer or employee of the General Land Office to perform temporarily the duties of the Recorder of that office in the absence of that officer and in the case of a vacancy in the office of such Recorder, and the acts of any person so designated shall have all the force and effect of an act performed by the Recorder. For per diem in lieu of subsistence of inspectors and of clerksPer diem, etc., investigation. 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.
For law books for the law library of the General Land Office, fourLaw books. hundred dollars. 226 For connected and separate United States and other maps, preparedMaps.*Proviso.*Distribution. in the General Land Office, twenty thousand 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, live hundred copies shall be delivered to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the residue shall be delivered to the Secretory 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. For separate State and Territorial maps, prepared in the GeneralState and Territorial maps. Land Office, two thousand dollars. Mine Inspectors: For salaries of two mine inspectors, authorizedMine 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 SecretoryExpenses. 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. For continuing the work authorized by the Act approved MarchProtection of miners’ lives.Vol. 26, p. 1104. third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, and for the protection of the lives of miners in the Territories and in the District of Alaska, and for conducting investigations as to the causes of mine explosions with a view to increasing safety in mining, to be immediately available, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which sum not more than fifty thousand dollars may be used for salaries.
Indian Office: For the Commissioner of Indian Affairs, five thousandIndian Office. dollars; Assistant Commissioner, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; financial clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; one chief of division, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars (in lieu of chief of division, at same salary, transferred from Secretary’s office); two chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; law clerk, two thousand dollars; private secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; principal bookkeeper, one thousand eight hundred dollars; ten clerks of class four (including two transferred from Secretary’s office); nineteen clerks of class three; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand four hundred dollars; twenty-two clerks of class two (including three transferred from Secretary’s office); architect, one thousand six hundred dollars; two draftsmen, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; forty-two clerks of class one (including six transferred from Secretary’s office and three employed temporarily); twenty-three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, one thousand four hundred dollars, one stenographer, one thousand dollars, and one clerk, at one thousand two hundred dollars, to superintendent of Indian schools; twenty-nine copyists (including seven transferred from Secretary’s office and one employed temporarily); one messenger; four assistant messengers; three laborers; messenger boy. three hundred and sixty dollars; and four charwomen; in all, two hundred and twenty-one thousand two hundred and seventy dollars.
Pension Office: For the Commissioner of Pensions, five thousandPension 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 227 dollars; two qualified surgeons who shall be experts in their profession, at two thousand dollars each; thirty-five medical examiners who shall be surgeons of education, skill, and experience in their profession, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; nine chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; law clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief of board of review, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; fifty-four principal examiners, at two thousand dollars each; private secretary, to be selected and appointed by the Commissioner of Pensions, two thousand dollars; eighteen assistant chiefs of division, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; three stenographers, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; sixty-nine clerks of class four; eighty-five clerks of class three; three hundred clerks of class two; three hundred and seventy clerks of class one; one hundred and twenty-five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; forty-nine copyists; superintendent of building, one thousand four hundred dollars; two engineers, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; three firemen; twenty-seven messengers; twelve assistant messengers; twenty messenger boys, at four hundred dollars each; forty 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 six hundred and fifty thousand two hundred and seventy dollars.
No vacancy now existing in the clerical service of the Pension Office,Filling vacancies suspended. or which may occur after March first, nineteen hundred and eight, and prior to July first, nineteen hundred and eight, shall be filled by original appointment or by transfer from any other office or bureau of the Department of the Interior. Nor shall any transfer from said PensionTransfers. Office existing March first, nineteen hundred and eight, be returned to said Office. For per diem, when absent from home and traveling on duty outsidePer diem, etc., investigations. 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, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For an additional force of one hundred special examiners for oneAdditional special examiners. year, at a salary of one thousand three hundred dollars each, one hundred and thirty thousand 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: For the Commissioner of Patents, five thousandPatent Office. 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 five hundred dollars; chief clerk, who shall be qualified to act as a principal examiner, three thousand dollars; two law examiners, at two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars each; three examiners in chief, at three thousand dollars each; examiner of interferences, two thousand seven hundred dollars; examiner of trade-marks and designs, two thousand seven hundred dollars; forty-two principal examiners, at two thousand seven hundred dollars each; fifty-eight first assistant examiners, at two thousand four hundred dollars each; sixty-eight second assistant examiners, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; seventy-eight third assistant examiners, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one hundred fourth assistant examiners, at one thousand five hundred dollars each: 228 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; six chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; three assistant chiefs of division, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; nine clerks of class four; nine clerks of class three; fifteen clerks of class two; ninety 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; eighty-five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; messenger and property clerk, one thousand dollars; ninety copyists; eighty-five copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; and during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine classified laborers now employed in the Patent Office may be appointed copyists at seven hundred and twenty dollars, but may not he further promoted unless they shall have passed the civil-service examination; three messengers; twenty-five assistant messengers; fourteen laborers, at six hundred dollars each; fifteen laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; thirty-nine messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, one million one hundred and eighty-five thousand six hundred and ten dollars.
For purchase of professional and scientific books and expense ofBooks, 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 producing copies of drawings of the weekly issue 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; one hundred and forty thousand dollars.
For investigating the question of the public use or sale of inventionsInvestigating use of inventions, etc. for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and for expense 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 theInternational Bureau, Berne. International Bureau at Berne, Switzerland, seven hundred and fifty dollars. Bureau of Education:
For Commissioner of Education, four thousandBureau of Education. five hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; statistician, one thousand eight hundred dollars; specialist in charge of landgrant 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; six copyists; two copyists, at eight hundred dollars each; copyist, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two skilled laborers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one messenger; one assistant messenger; three laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; laborer, four hundred dollars; in all, fifty-six thousand five hundred dollars.
For books for library, current educational periodicals, other currentBooks, etc. publications, and completing valuable sets of periodicals, five hundred dollars. For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of information,Special reports. four thousand 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 repairing the same, two thousand five hundred dollars. 229 Office of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds:Superintendent of Capitol, etc.
For Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; chief electrical engineer, two thousand four hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; assistant draftsman, eight hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer and typewriter, one thousand two hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand five 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, one thousand 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-five thousand two hundred and sixty dollars.
Contingent Expenses, Department of the Interior: For theContingent expenses. 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 six thousand five hundred 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, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars.
For stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined fileStationery, etc. wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster-General, 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. For professional and scientific books, law books, and books to completeBooks, etc. 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.
For rent of buildings for the Department of the Interior, namely:Rent. 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; in all, thirty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars. For rent of rooms in the Union Building for Patent Office modelModel exhibit. exhibit during so much of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine as may be necessary, and for necessary expenses of removal and storage of said exhibit, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Commission to report, etc., on transfer of models.*Post*, p. 924.
That a commission, which is hereby created, to consist of the Secretary of the Interior, the Commissioner of Patents, and the Secretary of the Smithsonian Institution, shall determine which of the models of the Patent Office may be of possible benefit to patentees or of historical value, such models thus selected to be cared for in the new National Museum building, the remainder of said models shall before January first, nineteen hundred and nine, be disposed of by sale. gift, or otherwise as the, Commissioner of Patents, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, shall determine. 230 For rent of basement of the addition to the main building of theGeological Survey, Additional rent.
Geological Survey, required for additional storage of documents, maps, and so forth, and for work room, one thousand five hundred dollars. For rent of additional office accommodations for the Geological Survey in the main building of the Survey, Washington, District of Columbia (formerly occupied by the Reclamation Service), three thousand dollars. For postage stamps for the Department of the Interior and its bureaus,Postage stamps. as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, three thousand dollars. surveyors-general and their clerks.Surveyors-general.
For surveyor-general and ex officio secretary of the district ofAlaska. Alaska, four thousand dollars; clerks in his office, seven thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand dollars. For rent of offices for surveyor-general, pay of messenger, stationery, printing, binding, drafting instruments, typewriters, books of reference for office use, furniture, fuel, lights, and other incidental expenses, two thousand dollars. For surveyor-general of the Territory of Arizona, two thousand fiveArizona. hundred dollars; and for the clerks in his office, eight thousand dollars; in all, ten thousand five hundred 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 cases, drafting tables, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. For surveyor-general of California, three thousand dollars; and forCalifornia. the clerks in his office, eleven thousand four hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand four hundred 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, three thousand dollars;Colorado. and for the clerks of his office, seventeen thousand two hundred and twenty-five dollars; in all, twenty thousand two hundred and twenty-five 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, telephone, post-office box rent and register stamps, books of reference for office use, typewriter, and other incidental expenses, four thousand dollars.
For surveyor-general of Idaho, three thousand dollars; and for theIdaho. clerks in his office, ten thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirteen thousand live hundred dollars. For pay of messenger, stationery, binding, printing, drafting instruments, post-office box rent, furniture, typewriters, ice, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. For surveyor-general of Louisiana, one thousand eight hundredLouisiana. dollars; and for the clerks in his office, six thousand eight hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand six hundred dollars.
For messenger, stationery, binding records, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, seven hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of Montana, three thousand dollars; and forMontana. the clerks in his office, thirteen thousand dollars; in all, sixteen 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, eight hundred dollars. 231 For surveyor-general of Nevada, two thousand live hundred dollars;Nevada. and for the clerks in his office, five thousand four hundred dollars; in all, seven thousand nine 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, hooks of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, one thousand dollars. For surveyor-general of the Territory of New Mexico, two thousandNew Mexico. live hundred dollars; and for clerks in his office, ten thousand five hundred dollars; in all, thirteen 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 Oregon, three thousand dollars; and for theOregon. clerks in his office, eight thousand dollars; in all, eleven thousand dollars. For stationery, telephone, towels, binding, post-office box rent, books of reference for office use. and other incidental expenses, five hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of South Dakota, two thousand dollars; andSouth Dakota. 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 three hundred dollars.
For surveyor-general of Utah, three thousand dollars; and for theUtah. clerks in his office, ten thousand dollars; in all, thirteen thousand dollars. For 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, nine hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of Washington, three thousand dollars; andWashington. for the clerks in his office, ten thousand dollars; in all. thirteen thousand 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 five hundred dollars. For surveyor-general of Wyoming, three thousand dollars; and forWyoming. the clerks in his office, eleven thousand seven hundred dollars; in all, fourteen thousand seven hundred dollars. For 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 dollars. *Provided*, That no expenses chargeable to the foregoing appropriations*Proviso.*Restriction on clerk hire. etc. for clerk hire and incidental expenses, in the offices of the surveyors-general, shall be incurred by the respective surveyors-general in the conduct of said offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
POST-OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post-Office Department. Office Postmaster-General: For compensation of the PostmasterPay of Postmaster-General. clerks, etc. General. twelve 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 232 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; printing clerk, (now detailed from Government Printing Office), two thousand dollars; assistant printing clerk, (now detailed from Government Printing Office), one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; three clerks of class three; six clerks of class two; four clerks of class one: five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; curator of museum, one thousand dollars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; telephone switch-board operator; assistant telephone switch-board operator; messenger in charge of mails, nine hundred dollars; one messenger; two assistant messengers; page,Engineers, watchmen. etc. 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; 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; seventeen firemen; carpenter, one thousand two hundred dollars; carpenter, one thousand dollars; two carpenters, at nine hundred dollars each; 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; three female laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; and forty charwomen; in all, one hundred and seventy-one thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars.
Division of post-office inspectors: Chief inspector, four thousandChief post-office inspector, clerks, etc. dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four; eight clerks of class three; twelve clerks of class two; sixteen clerks of class one; fifteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; fourteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three assistant messengers; and one laborer; in all, ninety thousand six hundred and twenty dollars. Division of the purchasing agent;
For purchasing agent, four thousandPurchasing agent, clerks, etc. 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; three 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, seventeen thousand four hundred and twenty dollars. Division of Assistant Attorney-General for the Post-Office Department:Assistant Attorney-General’s division.
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 AssistantFirst Assistant Post-master-General, clerks, etc.Salaries and allowances division.
Postmaster-General, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent division of salaries and allowances, four thousand dollars; assistant superintendent division of salaries and allowances, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief, division of correspondence, two thousand dollars; nine clerks of class four; seven clerks of class three (including one transferred from office of Postmaster-General); eleven clerks of class two; eight clerks of class one; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each: ten clerks, at 233 nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; four assistant-messengers; one laborer; two pages, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, eighty seven thousand two hundred and fifty dollars.
Division of postmasters’ appointments: Superintendent, three thousandAppointments division. dollars; two assistants, at two thousand dollars each; three clerks of class four; fifteen clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two; five clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; and two messengers; in all, sixty-three thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars. Division of city delivery: Superintendent, three thousand dollars;City delivery division. assistant superintendent, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one; four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger, and one laborer; in all, twenty-eight thousand three hundred dollars.
Office Second Assistant Postmaster-General: For SecondSecond Assistant Postmaster-General, clerks, etc.Railway adjustments division. Assistant Postmaster-General, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent division of railway adjustments, three thousand dollars; assistant superintendent division of railway adjustments and law clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent, division of foreign mails, three thousandForeign mails division. dollars; chief clerk, division of foreign mails, two thousand dollars; chief, division of inspection, two thousand dollars; chief, division of contracts, two thousand dollars; chief, division of equipment, two thousand dollars; fourteen clerks of class four; forty-one clerks of class three; thirty-five clerks of class two; twenty-eight clerks of class one; eighteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; messenger in charge of mails, nine hundred dollars; seven assistant messengers; in all, two hundred and twenty-six thousand four hundred and ninety dollars.
Division of railway mail service: General superintendent, fourRailway mail service. thousand dollars; assistant general superintendent, three thousand five hundred dollars; chief clerk, office of general superintendent, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; six clerks of class two; five clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, forty thousand three hundred dollars. Office Third Assistant Postmaster-General:
For Third AssistantThird Assistant Postmaster-General, clerks, etc.Stamps division Postmaster-General, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent division of stamps, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; superintendent division of 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; assistant superintendent division of finance, two thousand dollars; superintendent, division of classification,Classification division. two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; six special agents, division of classification, at two thousand dollars each; chief division of redemption, two thousand dollars; superintendent division of registeredRegistered mails division. mails, two thousand five hundred dollars; six assistant superintendents division of registered mails, at two thousand dollars each; nine clerks of class four; twenty-three clerks of class three; thirty-two clerks of class two; forty-five clerks of class one; thirty-one clerks, at one thousand dollars each; twenty clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; five assistant messengers; twelve laborers; one page, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all, two hundred and fifty-nine thousand two hundred and seventy dollars.
For per diem allowance for assistant superintendents, division ofPer diem, etc.Registered mails division. registered mails, 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 234 expenses arising in connection with business of the division of registered mails, ten thousand dollars. For per diem allowance for special agents, division of classification,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 division of classification, seven thousand dollars.
Division of money orders: Superintendent, three thousand fiveMoney orders division. hundred dollars: chief clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: three clerks of class four; seven clerks of class three; eleven clerks of class two; eleven clerks of class one; ten clerks, at one thousand dollars each; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one assistant messenger; and four laborers; in all, seventy-three thousand three hundred and ten dollars. Office Fourth Assistant Postmaster-General:
For Fourth AssistantFourth Assistant Postmaster-General, etc.Rural delivery. Postmaster General, five thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent, division of rural free delivery, three thousand dollars; assistant superintendent, division of rural delivery, two thousand dollars; four clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; twelve clerks of class two, thirty-one clerks of class one; stenographer, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; forty-five clerks, at one thousand dollars each: nineteen clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers; one assistant messenger; two laborers; and two pages, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, one hundred and forty-seven thousand eight hundred and forty dollars.
Division of dead letters: Superintendent, two thousand seven hundredDead letters division. and fifty dollars; one clerk of class four, who shall be chief clerk; two clerks of class four; eight clerks of class three; ten clerks of class two: twenty-nine clerks of class one; forty-four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; forty-six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; three assistant messengers; fifteen laborers; six female laborers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, one hundred and seventy thousand nine hundred and thirty dollars.
Division of supplies: Superintendent, two thousand five hundredSupplies division. dollars; assistant superintendent, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; three clerks of class three; eleven clerks of class two; eighteen clerks of class one; sixteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; eight clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger: eleven assistant messengers; eighteen laborers; and one page, three hundred and sixty dollars; in all. ninety-two thousand one hundred dollars.
Division of topography: For topographer, two thousand seven hundredTopography division. 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; four 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; seven copyists of maps, at one thousand dollars each; nine copyists of maps, at nine hundred dollars each; assistant map mounter, seven hundred and twenty dollars; one assistant messenger; in all, forty-seven thousand and ninety dollars.
Contingent Expenses, Post-Office Department: For stationeryContingent expenses. and blank books, including amount necessary for the purchase of free penalty envelopes, twenty-five thousand dollars. For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, and power plant, including repairs to elevators. forty thousand dollars. 235 For gas and electric lights, one thousand five hundred dollars. For telegraphing, four thousand five hundred dollars. For painting, one thousand six hundred dollars.
For plumbing, one thousand dollars. For carpets and matting, one thousand dollars. For furniture, two thousand five hundred dollars. For indexes and filing devices, one thousand five hundred dollars. For purchase, exchange, and keeping of horses and wagons, and repair of wagons and harness, to be used only for official purposes, one thousand five hundred dollars. For miscellaneous items, including the exchange of typewriters and adding machines, eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars, of which sum not exceeding three thousand nine hundred and eighty-five dollars may be expended for telephone service, and not exceeding one thousand five 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-OfficeRent. Department, three thousand dollars. For rent of stable, five hundred dollars. For the publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, includingOfficial Postal Guide. not exceeding three thousand copies for the use of the Executive Departments, twenty-five thousand dollars. For miscellaneous expenses in the Division of Topography in thePost-route maps. preparation and publication of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blueprints, including tracing for photolithographic reproduction, thirty-one thousand dollars.
And the Postmaster-General maySale. authorize the sale to the public of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blueprints at the cost of printing and ten per centum thereof added, the proceeds of such sales to be used as a further appropriation for the preparation and publication of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blueprints. of this amount one hundred dollars may be expended in the purchase of atlases, geographical and technical works needed in the Division of Topography.
For postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad which isPostage stamps. not exempt from postage under article eight of the Paris convention of the Universal Postal Union, seven hundred and fifty dollars. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Office of the Attorney-General: For compensation of the AttorneyPay of AttorneyGeneral. Solicitor-General, Assistants, etc. -General, twelve 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, five thousand 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 thousandAssistant attorneys. dollars each; two assistant attorneys, at two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars each; four assistant attorneys, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; one assistant attorney, two thousand four hundred dollars: two assistant attorneys, at two thousand dollars each; assistant attorney, in charge of dockets, two thousand five hundred dollars; law clerk and examiner of titles, two thousand sevenClerks, etc. hundred dollars; chief clerk and ex officio superintendent of the buildings, two thousand five hundred dollars; superintendent of buildings, five hundred dollars; private secretary and assistant to the Attorney-General, three thousand dollars; clerk to the Attorney-General, one thousand six hundred dollars; stenographer to the Solicitor-General, one thousand six hundred dollars; two law clerks, 236 at two thousand dollars each: one law clerk of class four; one law clerk in office of the solicitor of internal revenue, two thousand dollars; attorney in charge of pardons, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; disbursing clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; appointment clerk, two thousand dollars; librarian, one thousand six hundred dollars; five clerks of class four; eleven clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one; telegraph operator and stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; eleven clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; chief messenger, one thousand dollars; three messengers; six assistant messengers; five laborers; three watchmen; engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at nine hundred dollars each; four firemen; two conductors of the elevator, atDivision of accounts. seven hundred and twenty dollars each; twelve charwomen.
Division of accounts: Chief of division of accounts, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief bookkeeper and record clerk, two thousand dollars; three clerks of class four; five clerks of class three; seven clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each: one packer, nine hundred dollars; in all, two hundred and thirty-nine thousand seven hundred dollars. For the following now authorized and being paid from appropriations as follows: From the appropriation for defending suits in claims against theDefending suits in claims.Attorney, etc.
United States: Two attorneys at three thousand five hundred dollars each; seven attorneys at three thousand dollars each; one law clerk of class four; one clerk of class four; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; four clerks at one thousand dollars each; five clerks at nine hundred dollars each; two assistant messengers; in all, forty-four thousand one hundred and forty dollars. From the appropriation for pay of special assistant attorneys UnitedSpecial assistant attorneys.
States courts: One attorney at five thousand dollars; one attorney, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars: two attorneys at three thousand dollars each; one attorney at two thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant examiner of titles, two thousand dollars; in all, eighteen thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars. From the appropriation for prosecution of crimes: One superintendentProsecution of crime. of prisons and prisoners, three thousand dollars; one chief examiner, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; three examinersExaminers, etc. at two thousand five hundred dollars each; four examiners at two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars each; two examiners at two thousand dollars each; three examiners at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; one clerk at nine hundred dollars; in all, thirty-two thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
From the appropriation for enforcement of the antitrust laws: OneAntitrust laws.Attorneys enforcing. attorney at five thousand dollars; one attorney at three thousand dollars; in all, eight thousand dollars. From the appropriation for defense of suits before Spanish TreatySpanish Treaty Commission.Assistant attorney general. Claims Commission: One assistant attorney-general, five thousand dollars. From the appropriation for punishing violations of the intercourseIndian intercourse frauds. acts and frauds:
One clerk of class four. From the appropriation for defense in Indian depredation claims:Indian depredation claims.*Post*, p. 579. One assistant attorney-general, five thousand dollars. From the appropriation for care of rented buildings: One clerk atCare of rented buildings. one thousand dollars; two messengers; four assistant messengers; one watchman; two laborers; one head charwoman at four hundred and eighty dollars; eight charwomen; in all. ten thousand dollars. Contingent Expenses, Department of Justice:
For furniture andContingent expenses repairs, three thousand dollars. For books for law library of the Department, three thousand dollars. 237 For purchase of session laws and statutes of the States and Territories for library of Department, five hundred dollars. For books tor office of Solicitor of the Department of Commerce and Labor, three 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, typewriters, and exchange of same, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney-General, nineteen thousand dollars. For official transportation, including purchase, keep, and shoeing of 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 ofRent.
Columbia used by the Department of Justice, twenty-four thousand six hundred dollars. Office of the Solicitor of the Treasury: For Solicitor of theSolicitor of the Treasury, clerks, etc. Treasury, five thousand dollars; Assistant Solicitor, three thousand dollars: chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two law clerks, at two thousand dollars each; two docket clerks, at two thousand dollars each; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class two; one assistant messenger; and one laborer; in all, twenty-eight thousand nine hundred and eighty dollars.
For law books for office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, four hundred and fifty dollars. Office of the Solicitor of Tile Department of Commerce and Labor:Solicitor of Department of Commerce and Labor, clerks, etc. For Solicitor of the Department of Commerce and Labor, five thousand dollars; chief clerk and law clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two clerks of class four; two clerks of class three; three clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; and one messenger; in all, twenty-two thousand six hundred and ninety dollars.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.Department of Commerce and Labor. Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secretary ofPay of Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc. Commerce and Labor, twelve 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 Assistant Secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; chief clerk and superintendent, three thousand dollars; disbursing clerk, two thousand seven hundred and fifty dollars; chief of appointment division, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; two .chiefs of division, at two thousand dollars each; ten 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; five clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two telegraph operators, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; five messengers; nine assistant messengers; seven messenger boys, atMessengers, etc. four hundred and eighty dollars each; one engineer, one thousand dollars: one skilled laborer, eight hundred and forty dollars; two conductors of elevators, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two firemen, at six hundred and sixty dollars each; nine laborers; one packer, eight hundred and forty dollars; 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; six watchmen; fifteen charwomen; in all. one hundred and fifty-five thousand eight hundred and forty dollars. 238 For compensation at not more than ten dollars per day and actualSpecial 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, forty thousand dollars: and the results of such investigations shall be reported to Congress.
Bureau of Corporations: For Commissioner of Corporations, fiveBureau of Corporations. 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; nine clerks of class one; thirteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; eleven copyists; two clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one messenger; one assistant messenger; three messenger boys, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, seventy-two thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.
For compensation and per diem, to be fixed by the Secretary ofSpecial attorneys, etc. Commerce and Labor, of special attorneys, special examiners, and special agents, for the purpose of carrying on the work of said Bureau,Vol. 82, p. 827. as provided by the Act approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three, entitled “An Act to establish the Department of Commerce 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 ail, one hundred and seventy-live thousand dollars.
Bureau of Manufactures: Chief of Bureau, four thousand dollars;Bureau of Manufactures. assistant chief of Bureau, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief of division, two thousand one hundred dollars; stenographer to chief of Bureau, one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; three assistant messengers; one skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers; in all, thirty-two thousand eight hundred dollars.
To enable the Bureau of Manufactures, to collate and arrange inTariffs of foreign countries. the Bureau of Manufactures 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, and for the purchase of books and periodicals on foreign tariffs, five thousand five hundred dollars.
Bureau of Labor: For Commissioner of Labor, live thousand dollars;Bureau of Labor. chief statistician, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, three thousand 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: four special agents, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; six special agents, at one thousand six hundred dollars each: eight special agents, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; four special agents, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; in all, one hundred and seven thousand four hundred and eighty dollars.
For per diem, in lieu of subsistence, of special agents and employeesSpecial agents, etc. 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 239 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 AssociationInternational Association of Labour Legislation. for Labour Legislation,” and necessary expenses connected with representation of the United States Government therein, sixty-four thousand and ninety dollars.
For books, periodicals, and newpapers for the library the sum ofBooks, etc. 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. To complete the investigation into the industrial, social, moral,Woman and child workers.Investigating condition of.Vol. 34, p. 866.*Proviso.*Restriction on employees. educational, and physical condition of woman and child workers in the United States, undertaken in accordance with Act of Congress approved January twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and seven: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the employment of any person in making said investigation who is not now in the employ of the Government or hereafter regularly appointed after competitive examination and certification through the Civil Service Commission, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars Light-House Board:
For chief clerk, two thousand four hundredLight-House Board. dollars; title and contract clerk, two thousand dollars; accountant, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; seven 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; two messenger boys, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; 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-eight thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.
The Census Office: For Director, six thousand dollars; four chiefCensus Office.Director, clerks, etc. statisticians, at three thousand dollars each; chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars, and five hundred dollars additional for acting as Director of the Census in the absence of that officer and for superintending census publications; 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; twenty-five clerks of class two; three hundred and forty clerks of class one; one hundred and forty-two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; fifteen 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; four skilled laborers, at nine hundred dollars each; ten watchmen; five messengers; two firemen; five assistant messengers; ten skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; seven unskilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; four messenger hoys, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; twenty-four charwomen; in all, seven hundred and four thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars.
For securing information for census reports, provided for by law,Special reports, etc. semimonthly reports of cotton production, and periodical reports of the domestic and foreign consumption of cotton, 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 District of Columbia for supervising special agents, and the employment by them of such temporary service as may be necessary in collecting the statistics 240 required by law, three hundred and fifty-five thousand dollars, of this amount thirty thousand dollars to be immediately available.
For rental of quarters, twenty-two thousand and eighty dollars.Rent For stationery, eight thousand dollars.Stationery. For furniture, carpets, ice. lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising,Contingent expenses. telegraph and telephone service, photographic work and supplies, transportation and preparing articles for shipment, horses and maintenance thereof, wagons, diagrams, maps and blueprints, awnings, shelving, tiling apparatus, fuel, light, office fixtures, and other absolutely necessary expenses, including repairs to the Census building, twenty thousand dollars.
For purchase of books of reference and periodicals, one thousandBooks, etc. dollars. For tabulating census returns, including cost of cards, rental, purchaseTabulating returns. and construction of 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; chief of division, two thousand dollars; five clerks of class four; four clerks of class three; stenographer and typewriter, one thousand five hundred dollars; eight clerks of class two; ten clerks of class one; thirteen clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six copyists; one messenger; one assistant messenger; two laborers; and one female laborer, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, seventy thousand one hundred and ten dollars.
For payment of the services of experts, and for other necessaryInternal and foreign commerce. expenditures connected with the collection of facts relative to the internal and foreign commerce of the United States, four thousand dollars. Office Supervising Inspector-General Steamboat-Inspection Service:Steamboat-Inspection Service. For Supervising Inspector-General, four thousand dollars: chief clerk and Acting Supervising Inspector-General in the absence of that officer, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class three; two clerks of class one: one clerk (tile clerk and stenographer), one thousand dollars; one clerk, one thousand dollars; one messenger; in all, fourteen thousand four hundred and forty dollars, the same to be paid from the permanent appropriation for the Steamboat-Inspection Service.
Bureau of Navigation: For Commissioner of Navigation, fourBureau of Navigation. thousand dollars; Deputy Commissioner, two thousand four hundred dollars; chief clerk, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; clerk to Commissioner, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; three clerks of class two; four clerks of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; five clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers; in all, thirty-two thousand three hundred and eighty dollars.
Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization: For CommissionerBureau of Immigration and Naturalization. -General of Immigration, four thousand dollars; Assistant Commissioner-General, who shall also act as chief clerk and actuary, three thousand dollars; private secretary, one thousand eight hundred dollars; statistician and stenographer, with authority to act as immigrant inspector, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class four; three clerks of class three: five clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; eight clerks, at one thousand dollars each; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two messengers; one assistant messenger; in all, forty-five thousand six hundred dollars, which, together with all other expenses of regulating immigration, shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration.
For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the ActNaturalization division.Vol. 34, p. 596. approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to 241 provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States,” namely: Chief of Division of Naturalization, three thousand five hundred dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand five hundred dollars; three clerks of class four; three clerks of class three; five clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one: four clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; one messenger; one assistant messenger; in all, thirtyeight thousand nine hundred and sixty dollars.
For division of information established under section forty of theInformation division.Vol. 34, p. 909. Act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States,” namely: For chief of division, three thousand five hundred dollars; assistant chief of division, two thousand five hundred dollars; two clerks of class four; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one messenger; in all, nineteen thousand eight hundred and forty dollars, which shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration.
Bureau of Standards: For Director, five thousand dollars;Bureau of Standards. physicist, four thousand dollars; chemist, four thousand dollars; associate chemist, two thousand five hundred dollars; three associate physicists, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; one associate physicist, two thousand two hundred dollars; two associate physicists, at two thousand dollars each; six assistant physicists, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; seven assistant physicists, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; one assistant chemist, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant chemist, one thousand six hundred dollars; assistant chemist, one thousand four hundred dollars; eight assistant physicists, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; eight laboratory assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; seven laboratory assistants, at one thousand dollars each; six laboratory assistants, at nine hundred dollars each; four aids, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two aids, at six hundred dollars each; three laboratory apprentices, at five hundred and forty dollars each: four 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 three; one clerk of class two; one clerk of class one; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; two clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one. messenger boy, four hundred and eighty dollars; three messenger boys, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; one elevator boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; chief mechanician, one thousand six hundred dollars; mechanician, one thousand four hundred dollars; two mechanicians, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two mechanicians, at one thousand dollars each; mechanician, nine hundred dollars; two watchmen; skilled woodworker, eight hundred and forty dollars; three skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars: two assistant messengers; engineer, one thousand eight hundred dollars; one assistant engineer, one thousand two hundred dollars; two assistant engineers, at one thousand dollars each; assistant engineer, nine hundred dollars; three firemen; electrician, nine hundred dollars; four laborers; janitor, six hundred and sixty dollars; janitor, six hundred dollars: and two female laborers, at three hundred and sixty dollars each; in all, one hundred and forty-one thousand five hundred and forty dollars.
For apparatus, machinery, tools, and appliances used in connectionApparatus, etc. with the buildings or with the work of the Bureau, laboratory supplies, materials and supplies used in the construction of apparatus, 242 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 to buildings, one thousand dollars.Repairs, etc.
Toward the construction of a fireproof laboratory to provide additionalLaboratory.Contract for new building. laboratory space, to cost not exceeding one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars, under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, fifty thousand dollars. For fuel for heat, light, and power; office expenses, stationery,Miscellaneous. books 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 theInternational committees.
International Committee of Weights and Measures; traveling expenses of two delegates to the International Committee on Electrical Units and Standards, one of whom shall be an officer or employee of the Bureau of Standards; and contingencies of all kinds, fifteen thousand dollars. For grading, construction of roads and walks, piping grounds forRoads, walks, etc. water supply, lamps, wiring for lighting purposes, and other expenses incident to the improvement and care of grounds, three thousand dollars.
Contingent Expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor:Contingent expenses. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the Department, including the Alaskan fur-seal fisheries and the Alaskan salmon fisheries services, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses arc not specifically made, including 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 to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, and adding machines, including their exchange; repairs to the building occupied by the offices of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; storage, of documents belonging to the Light-House Board, not to exceed one thousand five hundred dollars, and for storage of documents belonging to the Bureau of Labor, not to exceed seven hundred and fifty dollars, and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, fifty thousand dollars.
For rent of buildings, and parts of buildings in the District of ColumbiaRent. for the use of the Department of Commerce and Labor, fifty thousand dollars. JUDICIAL.Judicial. Supreme Court: For the Chief Justice of the Supreme CourtSupreme Court.Justices. of the United States, thirteen thousand dollars; and for eight associate justices, at twelve thousand five hundred dollars each; For marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States, three thousandMarshal. five hundred dollars;
For stenographic clerk for the Chief Justice and for each associateClerks to justices. 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 Courts: For twenty-nine circuit judges, at seven thousandCircuit judges. dollars each, two hundred and three thousand dollars; For nine clerks of circuit courts of appeals, at three thousand fiveClerks, circuit courts of appeals. hundred dollars each, thirty-one thousand five hundred dollars; 243 For messenger, to act as librarian and crier, circuit court of appeals,Messenger, eighth circuit. eighth circuit, three thousand dollars; in all, two hundred and thirty seven thousand five hundred dollars.
District Courts: For salaries of the eighty-five district judges ofDistrict judges. the United States, at six thousand dollars each, five hundred and ten thousand dollars. District Court, Territory of Hawaii: For the, payment of theHawaii courts. 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: To pay the salaries of the United States judgesRetired judges.R. S.,sec. 714, p.135. 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 nine, is hereby appropriated. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia: For the chief justiceCourt of appeals, District of Columbia. 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 two hundred and fifty dollars; For assistant or deputy clerk, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For reporter, one thousand five hundred dollars: *Provided*, That the*Proviso.*Reports. reports issued by him shall not be sold for more than five dollars per volume; For crier, who shall also act as stenographer and typewriter in the clerk’s office when not engaged in court room, one thousand dollars; For two messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each;
For necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s office, eight hundred dollars; For three stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, thirty-four thousand four hundred and forty dollars, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia. Supreme Court, District of Columbia: For salaries of the chiefSupreme court. District of Columbia. justice of the supreme court of the District of Columbia and of the five associate judges, at six thousand dollars each; six stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, forty-one thousand four hundred dollars, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Clerk of District Court, Northern District of Illinois: ForClerk, Illinois northern district. salary of the clerk of the district court for the northern district of 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 inCommissioner. Yellowstone Park.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 purchaseLaw 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, sixCourt of Claims. thousand five hundred dollars; four judges, at six thousand dollars each; chief clerk, three thousand five hundred dollars: assistant clerk, 244 two thousand five hundred dollars; bailiff, one thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk, one thousand six hundred dollars; two clerks, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; stenographer, one thousand two hundred dollars; three clerks, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one chief messenger, one thousand dollars; three firemen; three watchmen; elevator conductor, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant messengers; one laborer; and two charwomen; in all. fifty-five thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
To defray the cost of the employment of auditors and additionalAuditors, etc. stenographers, when deemed necessary, in the Court of Claims, and for a stenographer at one thousand six hundred dollars for the chief justice, to be disbursed under the direction of the court, six thousand dollars. For stationery, court library, repairs, fuel, electric light, electricContingent expenses. elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, three thousand nine hundred dollars. For repairs deemed necessary to preserve the building occupied byRepairs. the Court of Claims, under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol, five hundred dollars.
For reporting the decisions of the court and superintending theReporting decisions. printing of the forty-third 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 reporter, notwithstanding section seventeenR.S. sec. 1765, p. 314.Vol. 18, p. 109. hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, or section three of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, chapter three hundred and twenty-eight.
For pay of a custodian of the. building occupied by the Court ofCustodian. Claims, to be paid on the order of the court, five hundred dollars; andR.S.,sec. 1765, p. 314.Vol. 18, p. 109. section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes and section three of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, shall not be applied to this provision. Sec. 2. The pay of telephone switchboard operators, assistant messengers,Pay of switchboard operators, assistant messengers, laborers, etc., rated. firemen, watchmen, 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 telephone switchboard operators, 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, assistant telephone switch-board operators at the rate of six hundred dollars each, and for charwomen, at the rate of two hundred and forty dollars per annum each. Sec. 3. The appropriations herein made for the officers, clerks, andNo pay to permanently incapacitated persons. persons employed in the public service shall not be available for the compensation of any persons incapacitated otherwise than temporarily for performing such service, and the heads of Departments shall cause this provision to be enforced.
Sec. 4. It shall be the duty of the head of each Executive DepartmentTravel expenses of Department employees at Washington to be annually reported, etc. and other Government establishment at Washington to submit to Congress at the beginning of each regular session a statement showing in detail what officers or employees (other than special agents, inspectors, or employees, who in the discharge of their regular duties are required to constantly travel) of such Executive Department or other Government establishment have traveled on official business from Washington to points outside of the District of Columbia during the preceding fiscal year, giving in each case the full title of the official or employee, the destination or destinations of such travel, the business or work on account of which the same was made, and the total expense to the United States charged in each case.
Sec. 5. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this Act areRepeal. repealed. Approved, May 22, 1908.
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