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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 36 STAT. · June 25, 1910 · Chapter 384

Chapter 384. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 384.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes. June 25, 1910. [[H.R. 25552](/us/bill/61/hr/25552).] [[Public, No. 266](/us/pl/61/266).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Sundry civil expenses, appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, namely:
EXECUTIVE. Executive. To enable the President to secure information to assist him in thePresident.To secure information to assist in administering tariff law, etc.*Ante*, p. 83. discharge of the duties imposed upon him by section two of the Act entitled “An Act to provide revenues, equalize duties and encourage the industries of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, and the officers of the Government in administering the customs laws, including such investigations of the cost of production of commodities, covering cost of material, fabrication and every other element of such cost of production, as are authorized by said Act, and including the employment of such persons as may be required for those purposes; and to enable him to do any and all things in connection therewith authorized by law, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
To enable the President, by the employment of accountants andInquiry into more effective business methods in departments, etc. experts from official and private life, to more effectively inquire into the methods of transacting the public business of the Government in the several executive departments and other government establishments, with the view of inaugurating new or changing old methods of transacting such public business so as to attain greater efficiency and economy therein, and to ascertain and recommend to Congress what changes in law may be necessary to carry into effect such results of his inquiry as can not be carried into effect by executive action alone, and for each and every purpose necessary hereunder, including the employment of personal services at Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere, one hundred thousand dollars.
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department. public buildings. Public buildings. Albany, Georgia, post-office and court-house: For site and completionAlbany, Ga. of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Alton, Illinois, post-office: For site and completion of buildingAlton, Ill. under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Asbury Park, New Jersey, post-office: For site and continuationAsbury Park, N. J. of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars.
Ashtabula, Ohio, post-office: For continuation of building underAshtabula, Ohio. present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Athens, Ohio, post-office: For site and completion of building underAthens, Ohio. present limit, including five thousand dollars for acquisition of additional land for site, thirty thousand dollars. Atlanta, Georgia, old post-office building: The Secretary of theAtlanta, Ga.Sale of old building to City. Treasury is authorized to have appraised, in a fair and impartial manner, the old post-office building in the city of Atlanta, Georgia, having in view the value of said building for municipal purposes, and to convey said building, together with the lot or lots heretofore donated by the city of Atlanta to the Government of the United States on which said building is situated, to the said city of Atlanta, on the payment by it into the Treasury of the United States of the amount of the appraised value of said building thus ascertained: *Provided,* That the acceptance of such conveyance by the city of*Proviso.*Conditions.704 Atlanta shall constitute a release of any and all obligations of the Government of the United States under the deed from the city of Atlanta to the United States or by the agreement referred to therein.
Burlington, New Jersey, public building: The Secretary of theBurlington, N.J. Treasury is hereby authorized, at his option, to reduce the fire limit to not less than twenty-four feet. Bangor, Maine, custom-house and post-office: For retaining wallBangor, Me. and approaches, sixty thousand dollars. Bellingham, Washington, post-office: For continuation of buildingBellingham, Wash. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Boston, Massachusetts, custom-house: For continuation of buildingBoston, Mass. under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars.
Brookhaven, Mississippi, post-office: For site and continuation ofBrookhaven, Miss. building under present limit, twelve thousand dollars. Carbondale, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of buildingCarbondale, Pa. under present limit, five thousand dollars. Catlettsburg, Kentucky, post-office and court-house: For continuationCatlettsburg, Ky. of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Charleston, West Virginia, post-office and court-house: For continuationCharleston, W.
Va. of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For rental of temporary quarters at Charleston, West Virginia, forRent. accommodation of government officials, ten thousand dollars. Chelsea, Massachusetts, post-office: For site and continuation ofChelsea, Mass. building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Cleveland, Ohio, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quartersCleveland, Ohio. for the accommodation of government officials, eighteen thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Concord, New Hampshire, post-office: For the extension, alteration,Concord, N. H. and improvement of the public building in the city of Concord, New Hampshire, now used for a post-office and for other purposes, including heating, plumbing, lighting, and for drainage and approaches thereto, thirty-two thousand dollars. Council Bluffs, Iowa, post-office and court-house: For additionalCouncil Bluffs, Iowa. land and continuation of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars.
Danville, Illinois, post-office and court-house: For site and continuationDanville, Ill. of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. Dayton, Ohio, post-office and court-house: For continuation ofDayton, Ohio. addition to present building, under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That within the authorized limit of cost of*Proviso.*Acquisition of a new site.*Ante*, p. 694. an addition to said building, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to contract for the acquisition of a new site for a post-office and court-house in Dayton, Ohio, toward payment for which the unexpended balances of appropriations hereby and heretofore made for post-office and court-house at Dayton, Ohio, are made available.
Des Moines, Iowa, old post-office and court-house: For remodelingDes Moines, Iowa. and repairing, sixty thousand dollars. Denver, Colorado, post-office: For continuation of building underDenver, Colo. present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Dothan, Alabama, post-office: For site and completion of buildingDothan, Ala. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Easton, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of buildingEaston, Pa. under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Enid, Oklahoma, post-office and court-house: For continuation ofEnid, Okla. building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Eureka, California, post-office and custom-house: For site and completionEureka, Cal. of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars.705 Fernandina, Florida, post-office, custom-house, and court-house:Fernandina, Fla. For site and completion of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For rental of temporary quartern at Fort Dodge, Iowa, for accommodationFort Dodge, Iowa. of government officials, two thousand dollars.
Gainesville, Florida, post-office: For site and completion of buildingGainesville, Fla. under present limit, sixty-five thousand dollars. Great Falls, .Montana, post-office and court-house: For site, andGreat Falls, Mont. continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Greensburg, Pennsylvania, post-office: For continuation of buildingGreensburg, Pa. under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Greenwood, Mississippi, post-office: For site and continuation ofGreenwood, Miss. building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars.
Gulfport, Mississippi, post-office and custom-house: For site andGulfport, Miss. completion of building under present limit, sixty-five thousand dollars. Hattiesburg, Mississippi, post-office: For completion of building,Hattiesburg, Miss. fifteen thousand dollars. Kansas City, Kansas, post-office: For continuation of the enlargement,Kansas City, Kans. extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, sixty thousand dollars. Kearney, Nebraska, post-office:
For site and completion of buildingKearney, Nebr. under present limit, thirty-seven thousand dollars. Lagrange, Georgia, post-office: For site and continuation of buildingLagrange, Ga. under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Lake Charles, Louisiana, post-office and court-house: For site andLake Charles, La. for completion of building under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars. Lander, Wyoming, post-office: For continuation of building underLander, Wyo. present limit, thirty thousand dollars.
Lexington, North Carolina, post-office: For site and continuationLexington, N. C. of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. London, Kentucky, post-office and court-house: For site and completionLondon, Ky. of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Los Angeles, California, post-office and court-house: For rental ofLos Angeles, Cal. temporary quarters and expenses incident thereto, five thousand dollars. Madison, Wisconsin, post-office: For enlarging the mailing platformMadison, Wis. and necessary improvements of the building, five thousand dollars.
Manistee, Michigan, post-office: For site and completion of buildingManistee, Mich. under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. Manitowoc, Wisconsin, post-office: For site and completion ofManitowoc, Wis. building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Marion, Ohio, post-office: For site and completion of buildingMarion, Ohio. under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Milledgeville, Georgia, post-office: For site and continuation ofMilledgeville, Ga. building under present limit, ten thousand dollars.
Minneapolis, Minnesota, post-office: For continuation of buildingMinneapolis, Minn. under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. Missoula, Montana, post-office: For continuation of building underMissoula, Mont. present limit, thirty thousand dollars. Moline, Illinois, post-office: For site and completion of buildingMoline, Ill. under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Moscow, Idaho, post-office and court-house: For site and continuationMoscow, Idaho. of building under present limit, five thousand dollars.
Newark, Ohio, post-office: For site and continuation of buildingNewark, Ohio. under present limit, five thousand dollars.706 New Orleans, Louisiana, post-office and court-house: For continuationNew Orleans, La. of building under present limit, three hundred thousand dollars. New York, New York, assay office building: For completion of enlargement,New York, N. Y.Assay office. extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, one, hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
New York, New York, post-office: For continuation of buildingPost-office.Limit of cost increased. under present limit, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars; the limit of cost of said building is hereby increased to four million five hundred thousand dollars, and the appropriations made and to be made therefor shall be available under said limit. New York, New York, barge office: For continuation of reconstructionBarge office. of annex, and building pier in connection therewith, under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars.
North Yakima, Washington, post-office: For continuation of buildingNorth Yakima, Wash. under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, post-office: For site for and completionOklahoma City, Okla. of building under present limit, one hundred thousand dollars. Ottumwa, Iowa, post-office and court-house: For continuation ofOttumwa, Iowa. building under present limit, thirty-five thousand dollars. Owensboro, Kentucky, post-office and court-house: For site andOwensboro, Ky. completion of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Peru, Indiana, post-office: For continuation of building under presentPeru, Ind. limit, five thousand dollars. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, post-office and court-house: ForPhiladelphia, Pa. repairs, painting, and so forth, twenty-five thousand dollars. Pittsfield, Massachusetts, post-office: For site and completion ofPittsfield, Mass. building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Port Arthur, Texas, post-office and custom-house: For site andPort Arthur, Tex. continuation of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars.
Portland, Maine, court-house: For additional ground and completionPortland, Me. of building under present limit, forty thousand dollars. Quincy, Illinois, post-office and court-house: For continuation ofQuincy, Ill. the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, fifteen thousand dollars. For rental of temporary quarters at Quincy, Illinois, for accommodationRent. of government officials, six thousand dollars. Richmond, Virginia, post-office, court-house, and custom-house:Richmond, Va.
For continuation of reconstruction and enlargement of building under present limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of governmentRent. officials at Richmond, Virginia, four thousand dollars. Roanoke, Virginia, post-office and court-house: For additional landRoanoke, Va. and the completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling or improvement of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. For rental of temporary quarters at Roanoke, Virginia, for accommodationRent. of government officials, one thousand dollars.
For rental of temporary quarters at Rock Island, Illinois, forRock Island, Ill. accommodation of government officials, two thousand dollars. Roswell, New Mexico, post-office and court-house: For site andRoswell, N. Mex. continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Sacramento, California, post-office and court-house: For continuationSacramento, Cal. of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, thirty thousand dollars.
Saint Louis, Missouri, post-office: For site and completion of buildingSaint Louis, Mo. under present limit, seventy-seven thousand five hundred dollars.707 Salina, Kansas, post-office and court-house: For completion ofSalina, Kans. addition to building, including acquisition of additional site, sixty thousand dollars. Salisbury, North Carolina, post-office: For site and continuation ofSalisbury, N. C. building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. San Angelo, Texas, post-office and court-house:
For site and continuationSan Angelo, Tex. of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Salt Lake City, Utah, post-office and court-house: For additionalSalt Lake City, Utah. land, and continuation of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, seventy-five thousand dollars. San Antonio, Texas, post-office and court-house: For completion ofSan Antonio, Tex. the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars.
San Diego, California, post-office and custom-house: For site andSan Diego, Cal. continuation of building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollar's. Santa Cruz, California, post-office: For continuation of buildingSanta Cruz, Cal. under present limit, ten thousand dollars. Saratoga Springs, New York, post-office: For site and completion ofSaratoga Springs, N.Y. building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, post-office: For completion of buildingSault Sainte Marie, Mich. under present limit, forty thousand dollars.
Sheridan, Wyoming, post-office and court-house: For site and completionSheridan, Wyo. of building under present limit, twenty thousand dollars. Shreveport, Louisiana, post-office and court-house: For continuationShreveport, La. of building under present limit, fifty thousand dollars. For rental of temporary quarters at Shreveport, Louisiana, for theRent. accommodation of government officials, eight thousand dollars. Texarkana, Texas, court-house: For site and completion of buildingTexarkana, Tex. under present limit, forty-five thousand dollars.
Toledo, Ohio, post-office: For completion of building under presentToledo, Ohio. limit, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Waterloo, New York, public building: The Secretary of the TreasuryWaterloo, N. Y.Vol. 35, p. 488. is authorized to expend for the purchase of a site for a public building at Waterloo, New York, in addition to the amount heretofore provided, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for a site for the public building at Hornell, New York. Waxahachie, Texas, postoilice:
For site and continuation of buildingWaxahachie, Tex. under present limit, five thousand dollars. Wilmington, Delaware, post-office and court-house: The sum ofWilmington, Del. one thousand five hundred dollars in addition to the amount heretofore authorized for the purchase of land for enlargement of building may be used for such purchase, but the total limit of cost heretofore fixed for additional land and enlargement of said building shall not be exceeded. Woonsocket, Rhode Island, post-office:
For site and completion ofWoonsocket, R. I. building under present limit, twenty-five thousand dollars. Washington, District of Columbia, Bureau of Engraving and Printing:Washington, D. C.Bureau Engraving and Printing building.Closing D street from Fourteenth to Fifteenth, SW. Authority is hereby given to close D street southwest between Fourteenth and Fifteenth streets, bounded on the north by block two hundred and thirty-two and on the south by block two hundred and thirty-three, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, for use in connection with the erection of the building for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing.
Fire-alarm system, Treasury Department: For maintenance of theFire-alarm system, Treasury building. automatic fire-alarm system now in the Treasury and Winder buildings, two thousand two hundred and fifty-six dollars.708 For repairs and preservation of public buildings: Repairs and preservationRepairs and preservation. of custom-houses, court-houses, and post-offices, quarantine stations and marine hospitals, buildings and wharf at Sitka, Alaska, buildings not reserved by the vendors on sites acquired for buildings or the enlargement of buildings, and other public buildings and the grounds thereof, including necessary wire screens, under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, six hundred thousand dollars: *Provider,* That of this amount not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars*Proviso.*Marine hospitals, etc. may be used for marine hospitals and quarantine stations, including wire screens for same, and not exceeding twelve thousand dollars for the Treasury, Butler, and Winder buildings, at Washington, District of Columbia.
Special repairs to the Treasury building in Washington, District ofSpecial repairs.Treasury, Washington, D. C., and subtreasury, New York. Columbia, and subtreasury building, New York, New York: To rearrange, improve, and modernize the interior of the Treasury building in Washington, District of Columbia, and the subtreasury building in New York, New York, including approaches thereto, the mechanical and vault equipments of the same to fit the said buildings for the economical transaction of business, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding one hundred and eighty thousand dollars shall be applicable to the Treasury building and one hundred and seventy thousand dollars to the subtreasury in New York.
Mechanical equipment for public buildings: For heating, hoisting,Mechanical equipment. plumbing, gas piping, ventilating, and refrigerating apparatus, vacuum cleaning systems, interior pneumatic-tube, conduit, wiring, and call-bell systems, and repairs to the same, for all public buildings, including buildings not reserved by the vendors on sites acquired for buildings or the enlargement of buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, and including not exceeding thirty thousand dollars for marine hospitals and quarantine stations, and not exceeding nine thousand dollars for the Treasury, Butler, and Winder buildings at Washington, District of Columbia, and including not exceeding ten thousand dollars for maintenance, changes in and repairs of pneumatic-tubePneumatic tube system, New York. system between the appraiser’s warehouse at Greenwich, Christopher, Washington, and Barrow streets and the new custom-house in Bowling Green, Borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, including repairs to the street pavement and subsurface necessarily incident to or resulting from such maintenance, changes, or repairs, four hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults, safes, andVaults, safes, and locks. locks for same, and repairs thereto, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the lock-box equipment and repairs to same in completed and occupied buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, sixty thousand dollars. Electrical protection to vaults, public buildings: For installationElectrical burglar alarms. and maintenance of electrical burglar-alarm devices authorized by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, nineteenVol. 32, p. 1091. hundred and three, including the post-office, court-house, and so forth, building at Chicago, Illinois, and the post-office and subtreusuryChicago, Ill. building at Boston, Massachusetts, thirty thousand dollars.Boston, Mass.
General expenses of public buildings: To enable the SecretaryGeneral expenses. of the Treasury to execute and give effect to the provisions of section six of the Act of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page five hundred and thirty-seven, part one):Vol. 35, p. 537.Additional salary, Supervising Architect. For additional salary of one thousand dollars for the Supervising Architect of the Treasury for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, and for compensation of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers,709 computers, and such other services as the Secretary of the TreasuryDraftsmen, etc., in Architect’s.
Office. may deem necessary and specially order, to be employed only in the office of the Supervising Architect exclusively to carry into effect public building legislation, including the administrative work in connection with the annual appropriations under the control of the Supervising Architect’s office: *Provided,* That the expenditures on*Provisos.*Limit. this account for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, shall not exceed four hundred thousand dollars; for compensation of supervising superintendents, superintendents,Superintendents, inspectors, etc., at buildings. and junior superintendents of construction, inspectors of public buildings, and inspectors of mechanical and electrical engineering, in connection with the erection and inspection of work on public buildings, at rates of compensation to be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, but in no case exceeding those heretofore authorized to be paid out of appropriations for public buildings: *Provided,* That the expenditures on this account for the fiscalLimit. year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, shall not exceed two hundred and forty thousand dollars; for compensation of mechanical labor force, including carpenters, plumbers, machinists,Mechanical labor force. and such other services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order, including the compensation of superintendents and assistant superintendents of repairs, engaged in work incident to repair of buildings, mechanical equipment, and vaults, safes, and locks, at such rates of compensation as may be determined by the Secretary of the Treasury, but in no case to exceed for any one person the rates current for similar services at the time and in the place where such services are performed: *Provided,* ThatLimit. the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, shall not exceed eighty thousand dollars; for expenses of superintendence, including traveling expensesTraveling and miscellaneous expenses. of building and furniture inspectors and other officers and employees, on duty or detailed in connection with work on public buildings and the furnishing and equipment thereof, under orders from the Treasury Department, office rent, and expenses incident thereto; for superintendents, including temporary stenographic and other assistance incident to the preparation of reports and the care of public property, and so forth; for commissions to disbursing agents in accordance with law; for cost of advertising; for office, supplies, including drafting materials, specially prepared paper, typewriting machines and exchange of same, and furniture, carpets, and office equipment, stationery, telephone service, and such other articles and supplies as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve for the use of the office of the Supervising Architect, not including heat, fight, janitor service, awnings, curtains, or any expenses for the general maintenance of the Treasury building, but including not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for books of reference, technical periodicals and journals, subscriptions to which may be paid in advance, and also for contingencies of every kind and character, including compensation and expenses of judges to select plans, care of sites acquired for public buildings, commissions toCommissions to architects.Vol. 27, p. 468. architects under the provisions of the Act approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, traveling expenses of site agents, recording deeds and other evidences of title, telphone service at completed public buildings for use of custodians, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates, and photographic materials, and such other minor and incidental expenses not enumerated, connected solely with work on public buildings and the acquisition of sites, and the administrative work connected with the annual appropriations under the Supervising Architect’s office, as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve, but not including surveys, plaster models, photographs, test pit borings, or mill and710 shop inspections; in all, for the foregoing objects for general expenses of public buildings, eight hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* ThatTermination of expenses, etc., inspector of furniture. expenditures for traveling expenses and subsistence of persons detailed to assist the inspector and assistant inspector of furniture may continue to be made, as heretofore, from the appropriation for “ Furniture, and repairs of same, for public buildings” for the remainder of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and ten, and no longer. marine hospitals.
Marine hospitals. Chicago, Illinois, marine hospital: For construction of elevator inChicago, Ill. marine hospital, Chicago, Illinois, six thousand dollars. Detroit, Michigan, marine hospital: For construction of twoDetroit, Mich. smoking rooms at marine hospital, Detroit, Michigan, one thousand dollars. Mobile, Alabama, marine hospital: For construction of two ironMobile, Ala. stairways at marine hospital, Mobile, Alabama, five hundred dollars. quarantine stations. Quarantine stations.
Brunswick, Georgia, Quarantine Station: For new wharf, eightBrunswick, Ga. thousand six hundred and sixty-four dollars. Columbia River Quarantine Station: For hospital, four thousandColumbia River. five hundred dollars. San Juan, Porto Rico, Quarantine Station: The appropriation ofSan Juan, P. R.Vol. 33, p. 458. twenty-three thousand five hundred dollars for lazaretto, executive building, laundry, and attendants’ quarters, on Miradores Island, San Juan Harbor, inaile in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, is hereby reappropriated and made available for said purposes, and to continue available as other appropriations for quarantine stations under public buildings, making m all forty-nine thousand seven hundred dollars available for said quarantine station. life-saving service.
Life-Saving Service. For salaries of superintendents for the life-saving stations, asSuperintendents. follows: For one superintendent for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Massachusetts, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Rhode Island and Fishers Island, two thousand dollars; For one superintendent for the coast of Long Island, two thousand two hundred dollars;
For one superintendent for the coast of New Jersey, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one thousand nine hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, two thousand dollars;
For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, two thousand two hundred dollars;711 For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, two thousand two hundred dollars; For one superintendent for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, two thousand two hundred dollars; in all, twenty-seven thousand nine hundred dollars.
For salaries of two hundred and ninety keepers of life-saving andKeepers. lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, two hundred and seventy-six thousand eight hundred dollars. For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and lifeboatCrews. stations, including the old Chicago station, at the rate of seventy dollars per month each for the number one surfman in each station, and at the rate of sixty-five dollars per month for each of the other surfmen during the period of actual employment, and three dollars per day for each occasion of service at other times; rations or commutation thereof for keepers and surfmen; compensation of volunteers atCompensation, etc., of volunteers. life-saving and lifeboat stations for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; fuel for stations and houses ofFuel, repairs, etc. refuge; repairs and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of same, including use of additional land where necessary; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters and allowance forCommutation of quarters, etc. heat and light for officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service detailed for duty in the Life-Saving Service; for carrying out the provisions ofAllowance to disabled keepers, etc.Vol. 22, p. 57. sections seven and eight of the act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draft animals and their maintenance; for telephone lines and care of same; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, rent, repairs to apparatus, labor, medals, stationery, newspapers for statistical purposes, advertising, and all other necessary expenses not included under any other head of lifesaving stations on the coasts of the United States, two million and thirty-seven thousand and forty dollars.
For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations onNew stations. the sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, to be available until expended, twenty thousand dollars. revenue-cutter service. Revenue-Cutter Service. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay and allowancesPay, etc. of captain commandant and officers of that rank, senior captains, captains, lieutenants, engineer in chief, and officers of that rank, captains of engineers, lieutenants of engineers, two constructors, cadets, cadet engineers, two contract surgeons, two civilian instructora, and pilots employees, and rations for pilots; for pay of warrant and petty officers, snips’ writers, buglers, seamen, oilers, firemen, coal heavers, water tenders, stewards, cooks, and boys, and for rations for the same; for allowance for clothing for enlisted men; for fuel for vessels, and outfits for the same; ship chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, for officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters; for maintenance of vessels in the protection of the seal fisheries inSeal fisheries.
Bering Sea and the other waters of Alaska, and the enforcement of712 the provisions of law in Alaska; for maintenance of vessels in enforcing the provisions of the Acts relating to the anchorage of vessels inAnchorage.Vol. 25, p. 151.Vol. 27, p. 431.Vol. 29, p. 54.Vol. 30, p. 1081. the ports of New York and Chicago, and in the Kennebec River, and the movements and anchorage of vessels in Saint Marys River; for temporary leases and improvement of property for revenue-cutter purposes; not exceeding fifteen thousand dollars for the improvement of the depot for the service at Arundel Cove, Maryland; not exceeding one hundred and fifty dollars for medals for excellence in marksmanship; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, two million two hundred and-eighty-eight thousand dollars.
For repairs to revenue cutters, one hundred and seventy-fiveRepairs. thousand dollars. Construction of two revenue cutlets: Toward the construction andNew cutters.Construction, etc.*Ante*, p. 326. equipment of two revenue cutters, authorized by the Act approved April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and ten, “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to provide two new revenue cutters, and for other purposes’’ (seventy-five thousand dollars for each vessel), one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
The Secretary of the Navy is hereby directed to transfer and turnEdiz Hook, Wash.Transfer of storehouse, etc., from Navy.Balance for Waadah Island, Wash., available for repairs.Vol. 35, p. 322. over to the Secretary of the Treasury, for the use of the Revenue-Cutter Service, the storehouse and wharf at Ediz Hook, in the State of Washington; and of the unexpended balance of the appropriation made by the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, for the construction of a wharf and storehouse at Waadah Island, Neah Bay, Washington, the sum of five thousand dollars is hereby reappropriated and made available for the repair and completion of said storehouse and wharf.
The unexpended balance of said appropriation to be covered into the Treasury. engraving and printing. Engraving and printing. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries ofSalaries. all necessary employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, one million and eighty-one thousand three hundred and eighty-three dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* That no portion of this sum*Proviso.*Large notes.Vol. 31, p. 45. shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the SecretaryWages. of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, one million five hundred and twenty-two thousand nine hundred and ninety-seven dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* That no portion of this*Proviso.*Large notes.Vol. 31, p. 45. sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials exceptMaterials, etc. distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary homes and vehicles, and of713 horse and vehicle for official use of the director when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, five hundred and thirteen thousand six hundred and thirty-one dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven all proceedsProceeds of work to be credited to Bureau. derived from work performed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for said bureau for the said fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as provided by the Act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page two hundred andVol. 24, p. 227. twenty-seven), shall be credited when received to the appropriation for said bureau for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven. miscellaneous objects, treasury department.
Miscellaneous. Paper for internal-revenue stamps: For paper for internal-revenueInternal revenue.Paper for stamps. stamps, including freight, seventy-six thousand dollars. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money coveredRefund of taxes.Vol. 35, p. 325. into Treasury as internal-revenue collections, under the provisions of the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, thirty thousand dollars. Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws:
For detectingPunishing violations of internal-revenue laws. and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for which appropriation is made.
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use for, and in connectionEnforcing laws relating to the Treasury.Details permitted. with, the enforcement of the laws relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its control, not exceeding at any one lime, three persons paid from the appropriation for the collection of customs, three persons paid from the appropriation for salaries and expenses of internal-revenue agents or from the appropriation for the foregoing purpose, and three persons paid from the appropriation for suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, but not exceeding four persons so detailed shall be employed at any one time hereunder: *Provided,* That nothing*Proviso.*Other details. herein contained shall be construed to deprive the Secretary of the Treasury from making any detail now otherwise authorized by existing law.
Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingentContingent expenses, Independent Treasury.[R.S. sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719). expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, for salaries of special agents, and for actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several subtreasuries and depositories, including national banks acting as depositories under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes[R.
S. sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3649/p718). of the United States, also including examinations of cash accounts at mints, two hundred and forty thousand dollars. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight gold coinsRecoinage of gold coins. in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve[R. S. sec. 3512, p. 696](/us/rs/s3512/p696). of the Revised Statutes of the United States, seven thousand dollars.714 Recoinage of minor coins:
To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryRecoinage of minor coins. to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coin of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse tire Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coin and the amount the same will produce in new coin, fifteen thousand dollars. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paperUnited States securities.Distinctive paper. for United States securities, including transportation, traveling and laundry expenses, salaries for not more than ten months of not exceeding one register, two assistant registers, five counters, five watchmen, and one skilled laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury, three hundred and nineteen thousand dollars.
Special witness of destruction of United States securities: For payWitness of destruction. of the representative of the public on the committee to witness the destruction by maceration of government securities, at five dollars per day while actually employed, one thousand five hundred and sixty-five dollars. Expenses of national currency: For distinctive paper, includingDistinctive paper for national currency. transportation, mill, traveling, laundry, and other necessary expenses, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury, salaries for not more than two months of not exceeding one register, two assistant registers, five counters, five watchmen, and one skilled laborer; in all, fifty-eight thousand dollars.
Canceling United States securities and cutting distinctive paper:Canceling, etc. For extra Knives for cutting machines and sharpening same; leather belting, new dies and punches, repairs to machinery, oil, cotton waste, and other expenses connected with the cancellation of redeemed United States securities, two hundred dollars. Custody of dies, rolls, and plates: For pay of custodian of dies,Custody of dies, rolls, and plates. rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the printing of government securities, namely:
Ono custodian, three thousand dollars; two subcustodians, one at two thousand dollars, and one at one thousand eight hundred dollars; three distributers of stock, one at one thousand six hundred dollars, one at one thousand four hundred dollars, and one at one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, eleven thousand dollars. Pay of assistant custodians and janitors: For pay of assistant custodiansPublic buildings.Assistant custodians and janitors. and janitors, including all personal services for the care of all public buildings under control of the Treasury Department outside of the District of Columbia, and washing towels, sprinkling streets, and removing rubbish, in connection with said buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, two million four hundred thousand dollars; and the Secretary of the Treasury shall so apportion this sum as to prevent a deficiency therein.
General inspector of supplies for public buildings: For one generalInspector of supplies. inspector, under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, whose duty it shall be to inspect public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and report on the efficiency of the custodians’ forces, and the use of fuel, lights, water, miscellaneous supplies, and so forth, three thousand dollars; and for actual necessary traveling expenses, not exceeding two thousand dollars; in all, five thousand dollars.
Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture and repairs ofFurniture and repairs. same, carpets, and gas and electric-light fixtures for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets, gas and electric-light fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, seven hundred thousand dollars, of which sum not more than two hundred and fifty thousand dollars may be expended in other than new build-715ings.
And all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings and in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings: For the purchase ofFuel, lights, and water. fuel, steam, light, water, water meters, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for light and power purposes, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodians’ forces in the care of the buildings, furniture, and heating, hoisting, and ventilating apparatus, and electric-light plants, exclusive of personal service, and all expenses in connection therewith and for expenses of installing electric-light plants, and the removal of ashes, and so forth, in such buildings completed and occupied as may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, under the control of the Treasury Department, inclusive of new buildings, one million five hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
And the appropriation herein made for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors, when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided,* That no sum shall be paid as rental for such gas*Proviso.*Gas governors. governors greater than thirty-five per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall lie determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct. During the fiscal year nineteen hunched and eleven the SecretaryPneumatic tube service.Furnishing steam to postal service for. of the Treasury is authorized, out of the appropriations “Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings,” and “Pay of assistant custodians and janitors,” to furnish steam for the operation of pneumatic tubes of the postal service, as heretofore, and to pay employees in the production of said steam, as heretofore, the proceeds derived from the sale of said steam to be credited to said appropriations in proportion to the amounts expended therefrom.
Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurredSuppressing counterfeiting, etc. under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction, dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money, and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, and for no other purpose whatever, except in the protection of the person of the President of the United States, one hundred and thirty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this amount*Proviso.*Witnesses. be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial 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.
” No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used inPayment to persons detailed forbidden. payment of compensation or expenses of any person detailed or transferred from the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department, or who may at any time during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven have been employed by or under said Secret Service Division. Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care,Lands, etc. protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneer’s fees, three hundred dollars. 716 customs service.
Customs service. To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs,Collecting customs revenue, additional. five million dollars, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven. And the provisions of the Act of March third,Detection of frauds, increase.Vol. 20, p. 386; Vol. 33, p. 396, amended. eighteen hundred and seventy-nine (Twentieth Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-six), as amended by the Act of April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four (Thirty-third Statutes, page three hundred and ninety-six), authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to expend out of the appropriation for defraying the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs such amount as he may deem necessary, not exceeding one hundred and fifty thousand dollars per annum, for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, are hereby further amended so as to increase the amount to be so expended for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven to two hundred thousand dollars.
Scales for customs service: The unexpended balance of the appropriationAutomatic scales.Balance available. of twenty-five thousand dollars made by the sundry civil Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, for constructionVol. 34, p. 708. and installation of special automatic and recording scales for weighing merchandise, and so forth, in connection with imports at the various ports of entry under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, is hereby continued and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven.
Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu ofCompensation in lieu of moieties. moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, twenty-five thousand dollars. public health and marine-hospital service. Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service. Expenses of Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, as follows: For pay, allowances, and commutation of quarters for commissionedPay, etc. medical officers and pharmacists, two hundred and seventy-seven thousand dollars;
For pay of all other employees, three hundred and fifty-two thousand dollars; For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, thirty thousandFreight, etc. four hundred and fifty dollars; For fuel, light, and water, seventy-two thousand dollars;Fuel, etc. For furniture and repairs to same, eight thousand dollars;Furniture. For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospitalSupplies. supplies, forty-five thousand dollars; For rent of building or floor space for purveying depot in Washington,Rent.
District of Columbia, three thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, fourteen thousand nineHygienic Laboratory. hundred dollars; For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and forMaintenance of hospitals. all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, two hundred and thirty-seven thousand dollars; For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment ofMedical examinations, etc. all other persons entitled to relief, and miscellaneous expenses other than marine hospitals, which are not included under special heads, one hundred and sixteen thousand dollars;
For journals and scientific books, for use of the. Public Health andBooks, etc. Marine-Hospital Bureau; subscriptions for journals for use of the service may be paid for in advance, five hundred dollars; In all, one million one hundred and fifty-six thousand one hundredInspection of aliens. dollars, which shall include the amount necessary for the medical717 inspection of aliens, as required by section seventeen of the Act ofVol. 34, p. 903. Congress approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven.
Maintenance of leprosy hospital, Hawaii: For maintenance of theLeprosy hospital, Hawaii. leprosy hospital, Hawaii, thirty-three thousand dollars. Hygienic Laboratory: For grading and the construction of a retainingHygienic Laboratory. wall at the Hygienic Laboratory, fifteen thousand dollars. Quarantine Service: For the maintenance and ordinary expenses,Quarantine Service. including pay of officers and employees of quarantine stations at Portland, Maine; Perth Amboy, New Jersey;
Delaware Breakwater; Reedy Island; Alexandria, Virginia; Cape Charles and supplemental station thereto; Cape Fear; Newborn, North Carolina; Washington, North Carolina; Georgetown, South Carolina; Charleston, South Carolina; Beaufort, South Carolina; Port Royal, South Carolina; Savannah; South Atlantic; Brunswick; Cumberland Sound; Saint Johns River; Biscayne Bay; Key West; Boca Granile; Tampa Bay; Port Inglis; Cedar Key; Punta Rassa; Saint Georges Sound (East and West Pass); Pensacola;
Mobile; New Orleans and supplemental stations thereto (repairs and rehabilitation for New Orleans Quarantine Station, when title perfected, to be payable from the appropriationVol. 34, p. 301. Act of June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and six); Pascagoula; Gulf; San Diego; San Pedro and adjoining ports; Santa Barbara; San Francisco, Port Harford, California; Eureka, Columbia River, Florence, Oregon; Newport, Oregon; Coos Bay, Oregon; Gardner, Oregon; Port Townsend and supplemental stations thereto, quarantine system of the Hawaiian Islands, and the quarantine system of Porto Rico, four hundred thousand dollars.
An expenditure of not to exceed five hundred dollars may bePrinting. incurred during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven for printing on account of the quarantine service at times when the exigencies of that service require immediate action, chargeable to the appropriation “Preventing the introduction and spread of epidemic diseases.” Prevention of epidemics: The President of the United States isPrevention of epidemics. hereby authorized, in case of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague, or black death, to use the unexpended balance of the sumsBalance available.Vol. 35, p. 970. appropriated and reappropriated by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in aid of state and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, including pay and allowances of all officers and employees of the Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service assigned to duty in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same; and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. District of Columbia. For construction, on lands owned by the United States, of storehouseNaval militia storehouse. for naval battalion of the militia of the District of Columbia, twenty thousand dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half out of the Treasury of the United States. For the preparation of the site, approaches, walks, foundation,McMillan Park.Site, etc., for memorial fountain. and piping for the fountain to be erected in McMillan Park, in the District of Columbia, by the James McMillan Memorial Association of Michigan, fifteen thousand dollars.
The authority granted in the District of Columbia appropriationPublic convenience stations.Dupont Circle, revoked.Vol. 35, p. 701. Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, approved March third, nineteen hundred and nine, for the construction of a public convenience station on the triangle west of Dupont Circle, between718 Twentieth and P streets and Massachusetts avenue, is hereby revoked, and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to enter into a supplemental agreement with the contractor for erecting said convenience station, providing for the abandonment of further work of construction, for removing construction work already done,Removal of work done, etc. and for restoring said triangle to the condition which existed prior to the beginning of said station, including, in the discretion of said commissioners, the purchase from the contractor of any or all materials intended for the construction of said station, which material, if purchased, may be used in other construction work by said commissioners; and any balance then remaining of the appropriation for said station shall be covered into the United States Treasury, one half to the credit of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half to the credit of the United States.
Further work on the public convenience station appropriated for inNinth street, between F and G, revoked.Vol. 35, p. 701. the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, approved March third, nineteen hundred and nine, to be located under the sidewalk on the east side of Ninth street northwest, between F and G streets, is hereby suspended, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation therefor is hereby covered into the Treasury, one-half to the credit of the United States and one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia.
UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Smithsonian Institution. International exchanges: For expenses of the system of internationalInternational exchanges. exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, thirty-two thousand dollars. American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches amongAmerican ethnology. the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, including payment in advance for subscriptions, forty-two thousand dollars.
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature: For the cooperationInternational Catalogue of Scientific Literature. of the United States in the work of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, including the preparation of a classified index catalogue of American scientific publications for incorporation in the International Catalogue, the expense of clerk hire, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and other necessary incidental expenses, seven thousand five hundred dollars, the same to be expended under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution.
Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of AstrophysicalAstrophysical Observatory. Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, including payment in advance for subscriptions, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, repairs and alterations of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, thirteen thousand dollars. National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliancesNational Museum.Salaries, cases, furniture, etc. required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of collections, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars;
For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, andHeat, light, etc. telephonic service, fifty thousand dollars; For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of thePreserving, etc., collections. collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and all other necessary expenses, three719 hundred thousand dollars, of which sum five thousand five hundred dollars may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications;
For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference,Books, etc. including payment in advance for subscriptions, two thousand dollars; For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, including all necessaryRepairs. labor and material, fifteen thousand dollars; For postage stamps and foreign postal cards, five hundred dollars;Postage. In all, for the National Museum, four hundred and ninety-two thousand five hundred dollars. Elevatore, Smithsonian building: For constructing and installingElevators, Smithsonian building. two passenger and freight elevators in the Smithsonian building, ten thousand dollars.
National Zoological Park: For continuing the construction ofNational Zoological Park. roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the ground; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees; and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles required for official purposes, and not exceeding one hundred dollars for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, including payment in advance for subscriptions, one hundred thousand dollars; one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of theHalf from District revenues.
United States. Roadways and walks, National Zoological Park: For reconstructingRoadways and walks. and repairing roadways and walks, including materials and labor and all necessary incidental expenses, fifteen thousand dollars; one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. Interstate Commerce Commission. For salaries of seven commissioners, at ten thousand dollars each,Salaries of commissioners. seventy thousand dollars.
For salary of secretary, five thousand dollars.Secretary. For all other authorized expenditures, necessary in the executionExpenses. of laws to regulate commerce, eight hundred thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding fifty thousand dollars may be expended in the employment of counsel, and not exceeding three thousand dollars may be expended for the purchase of necessary books, reports, and periodicals, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for printing other than that done at the Government Printing Office.
To further enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforceEnforcing accounting by railroads.Vol. 34, p. 593,*Ante*, p. 556. compliance with section twenty of the Act to regulate commerce as amended by the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, including the employment of necessary special agents or examiners, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. To carry out the objects of the “Act concerning carriers engagedArbitration of railroad differences.Vol. 30, p. 424. in interstate commerce and their employees,” approved June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, ten thousand dollars.
To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informedRailway safety appliances.Vol. 27, p. 531. regarding compliance with the “Act to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, and with the “Act to supplement ‘An Act to*Ante*, p. 298. promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their cars with automatic couplers and continuous brakes and their720 locomotives with driving wheel brakes, and for other purposes,’ and other safety appliance Acts, and for other purposes,” approved April fourteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, and with the “Act requiringReports, etc., of accidents.*Ante*, p. 350. common carriers engaged in interstate and foreign commerce to make full reports of all accidents to the Interstate Commerce Commission and authorizing investigations thereof by said commission,” approved May sixth, nineteen hundred and ten, and to execute and enforce the requirements of the said Acts, including the employment of inspectors, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation to enable the InterstateInvestigation of block-signal systems, etc.Vol. 35, p. 966. Commerce Commission to investigate in regard to the use and necessity for block-signal systems and appliances for the automatic control of railway trains and any appliances or systems intended to promote the safety of railway operation which may be furnished in completed shape, including experimental tests, at the discretion of the commission, of such of said systems and appliances only us may be furnished in connection with such investigation free of cost to the Government, is hereby reappropriated and made available for said service for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven.
UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. War Department. armories and arsenals. Armories and arsenals. Augusta Arsenal, Augusta, Georgia: For one oil house, two thousandAugusta, Ga. five hundred dollars. Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For ammunition storehouses,Benicia, Cal. thirty-nine thousand dollars. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For overhaulingFrankford, Pa. and extension of boiler and heating plant, forty thousand five hundred dollars. Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois:
For installation of oil-storageRock Island, Ill. tanks with necessary buildings and connections, seven thousand five, hundred dollars; For maintenance and operation of power plant, twelve thousand five hundred dollars; For operating and care and preservation of Rock Island bridgesBridge expenses. and viaduct; and for maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, eighteen thousand dollars; In all, thirty-eight thousand dollars. Proving Ground, Sandy Hook, New Jersey:
For a service magazine,Sandy Hook proving ground, N.J. and for improving the refrigerating plant, four thousand dollars; For the purchase and installation of an underground electric transmission system, six thousand five hundred dollars; In all, ten thousand five hundred dollars. Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, New Jersey: For the construction of onePicatinny, Dover, N.J. magazine for the storage of ammunition, twenty-five thousand dollars. Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts:
For extending theWatertown, Mass. steam-heating system, six thousand dollars; For rearranging the power plant and making additions thereto, including new power house, fifty-five thousand seven hundred dollars; For replacing crane runway in foundry by one of iron construction, seven thousand dollars; In all, sixty-eight thousand seven hundred dollars. Testing machines, Watertown Arsenal: For the necessary professionalTesting machines. and skilled labor, purchase of materials, tools, and appliances for operating the testing machines, for investigative test and tests of material in connection with the manufacturing work of the Ordnance Department, and for instruments and materials for operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, fifteen thousand dollars.721 Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York:
For converting an oldWatervliet, N. Y. foundry into a storehouse, three thousand five hundred dollars; For repairs to stone and brick walls surrounding the arsenal, five thousand dollars; For equipping with motors four thirty-six-inch lathes used in small gun shop, two thousand nine hundred dollars. In all, eleven thousand four hundred dollars. Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvements at arsenals, andRepairs. to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, two hundred and ninety thousand dollars. under quartermaster’s department.
Quartermaster’s Department. Military posts: For the construction and enlargement at militaryMilitary posts. posts of such buildings as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, including the installation therein of plumbing and of heating and lighting apparatus; but no part of this sum shall be used for the purchase of land, for construction of buildings at coast artillery posts, nor for the establishment of any military prison, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That hereafter no money*Proviso.*Limit of quarters for officers. appropriated for military posts shall be expended for the construction of quarters for officers of the army, or for barracks and quarters for the artillery the total cost of which, including the heating and plumbing apparatus, wiring and fixtures, shall exceed, in the case of quarters of a general officer, the sum of fifteen thousand dollars, of a colonel or an officer above the rank of captain, twelve thousand dollars, and of an officer of and below the rank of captain, nine thousand dollars.
Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses: For the construction andBarracks and quarters for seacoast defenses. enlargement of barracks and quarters for the coast artillery and of other buildings in connection with the adopted project for seacoast defenses, including the installation therein of plumbing, and of heating and lighting apparatus, to be expended as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, four hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this sum shall be used for the construction*Proviso.*Limit of quarters for officers.Vol. 35, p, 363. of officers’ quarters to cost in excess of the limits established in the sundry civil appropriation act, approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight.
Replacing barracks and quarters, Philippine Islands: To providePhilippine Islands.Replacing quarters destroyed by cyclone, etc. shelter and protection for officers and enlisted men of the army, including buildings for offices and storage of supplies, in lieu of the buildings at Camp Bumpus, destroyed by typhoon November sixth, nineteen hundred and nine, and at Camp Keithley, destroyed by fire March fourth, nineteen hundred and ten, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Seacoast defenses, Philippine Islands and Hawaii:
For continuingPhilippine Islands and Hawaii.Seacoast defenses. the construction of the necessary accommodations for the seacoast artillery in Philippine Islands and Hawaii, three hundred and seventy-five, thousand dollars. Cavalry post, Hawaii Territory: For continuing the construction ofHawaii.Cavalry post, quarters, etc. the officers’ quarters, barracks, storehouses, and so forth, necessary for the accommodation of headquarters and two squadrons of cavalry, a contract is hereby authorized to be entered into, in addition to the appropriation of two hundred thousand dollars heretofore made, not to exceed four hundred thousand dollars, subject to appropriations to be made therefor by Congress.
Presidio Military Reservation, San Francisco, California: For continuingPresidio, San Francisco, Cal.Improving grounds. the improvement of the grounds within the Presidio Military722 Reservation, San Francisco, California, seven thousand and five hundred dollars. Military prison, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas: For completing theFort Leavenworth, Kans.Reconstructing military prison. reconstruction, upon land owned by the United States, of the military prison at Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, this amount to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of the prison, one hundred and eighty-three thousand dollars.
Fort Monroe, Virginia: Wharf, roads, and sewer: For repair andFort Monroe, Va.Wharf, etc. maintenance of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms, and water for flushing urinals and closets, painting, repairs, brooms, and shovels, nine hundred and eighty dollars; repairs to apron of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, four thousand one hundred and fifty-five dollars; wharfinger, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, nine hundred dollars; in all, six thousand nine hundred and thirty-five dollars; for one-half of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, three thousand four hundred and sixty-seven dollars and fifty cents.
Repairs and operation of roads, pavements, streets, lights, andRepairs, etc. general police: For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, macadam and asphalt block; repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains; two thousand one hundred and seventy dollars; six laborers cleaning roads, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, five thousand and fifty dollars; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, three thousand three hundred and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents.
Maintenance of sewer system: For waste, oil, and pump and boilerSewer system. repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, two thousand one hundred dollars; two engineers, at nine hundred dollars each; two firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at five hundred dollars each; in all, six thousand one hundred dollars; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, four thousand and sixty-six dollars and sixty-six cents. Fort Hancock Military Reservation, New Jersey:
The Secretary ofFort Hancock Military Reservation, N. J.Sewer outlet. War is hereby authorized to accept a conveyance from the riparian commissioners of the State of New Jersey, dated the twenty-second day of December, in the year nineteen hundred and nine, of a tract of submerged land in front of the military reservation of Fort Hancock, New Jersey, required for the construction and maintenance of the proposed sewer outlet from the said military reservation, and to pay the consideration of one hundred dollars therein specified.
Nebraska rifle range: For the purchase of land in the State ofNebraska rifle range.Purchase of site. Nebraska, the site to be selected by the Secretary of War, for a rifle range for the use of the United States Army, twenty-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. National cemeteries: For maintaining and improving nationalNational cemeteries.Maintenance. cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars.
For pay of seventy-six superintendents of national cemeteries,Superintendents. sixty-two thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. Headstones for graves of soldiers: For continuing the work of furnishingHeadstones for soldiers’ graves. headstones for unmarked graves of Union soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy-yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March third, eighteen hundredVol. 17, p. 345.Vol. 20, p. 281. and seventy-three, and February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, also for continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of civilians interred in post cemeteries underCivilians.Vol. 33, p. 496.Vol. 34, p. 741. the Acts of April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available.723 For the erection of a monument over the grave of Brigadier-GeneralBrig.
Gen. James Shields.Monument, Carrollton, Mo.Post, p. 1597. James Shields in Saint Mary’s Cemetery, at Carrollton, Missouri, as authorized by the Act approved March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, three thousand dollars. Repairing roadways to national cemeteries: For repairs to roadwaysRepairs to roadways. to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress, twelve thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no*Provisos.*Encroachments by railroads forbidden. railroad shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States: *Provided further,* That no part of thisRestriction. sum shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village.
No part of any appropriation for national cemeteries or the repairLimited to single approach. of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance of more than a single approach to any national cemetery. For the completion of a protective fence along the roadway leadingMound City, Ill.Fence, etc. from Mounds to the national cemetery near Mound City, Pulaski County, Illinois, and for the drainage of the ponds or borrow pits caused by the construction of said roadway, three thousand dollars, to be expended under the Quartermaster-General.
Chalmette National Cemetery, Louisiana: The act of sale by theChalmette, La.Title recognized. New Orleans Terminal Company, dated July twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, conveying certain lands and servitudes to the United States for the enlargement of the Chalmette National Cemetery, Louisiana, in exchange for the light to close the river road, bo, and the same is hereby, accepted as sufficient title to the premises described therein, for the purpose of the expenditure of any moneys appropriated, or which may be appropriated, for the improvement and maintenance of the same.
Burial of indigent soldiers: For expenses of burying in the ArlingtonBurial of indigent soldiers. National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either regular or volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding forty-five dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, three thousand dollars, one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Antietam battlefield: For repair and preservation of monuments,Antietam battlefield.Repairs, etc. tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Antietam battlefield, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, three thousand dollars. For pay of superintendent of Antietam battlefield, said superintendentSuperintendent. to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, one thousand five hundred dollars.
Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, civilian employees, andInterment, etc., of remains of officers, soldiers, etc. so forth: For the expenses of interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes or to such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper authority, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of the remains of officers, including acting assistant surgeons, and enlisted men of the army active list; for the expenses of interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes, of the remains of civil employees of the army in the employ of the War Department who die abroad, inclusive of Alaska, or on army transports; for the expenses of removal of remains from abandoned postsRemoval from abandoned posts. to permanent military posts or national cemeteries, including the724 remains of federal soldiers, sailors, or marines interred in fields or abandoned private and city cemeteries; and in any case where theReimbursement to individuals. expenses of burial or shipment of the remains of officers or enlisted men of the army who die on the active list are borne by individuals, where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement to such individuals may be made of the amount allowed by the Government for such services, to be paid out of the funds appropriated by this Act, but no reimbursement shall be made under this Act of such expenses incurred prior to the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, sixty-five thousand dollars.
Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago: For care, protection,Confederate Mound, Chicago. and maintenance of the plat of ground known as “Confederate Mound” in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, two hundred and fifty dollars. Burial of indigent patients: For expenses of burying in the LittleLittle Rock, Ark.Burial of indigent soldiers, etc.*Post*, p. 1400. Rock, Arkansas, National Cemetery, including transportation thereto, indigent ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, cither regular or volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die while patients at the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding thirty-five dollars for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, four hundred dollars.
Construction of driveway, War Department branch printing office:Driveway to department branch printing office. For the removal of the earth embankment adjoining the War Department branch printing office, located at seventeen hundred and twenty-five F street northwest, bounded on the west by the cement walk east of the War Department branch printing office, on the north by the War Department stables, on the east by the paved alley west of the Winder Building, and on the south by the street sidewalk, to the grade of the paved alley alongside the Winder Building; the construction of a concrete retaining wall to hold up the sidewalk leading into the branch printing office, and for concreting the entire area excavated, one thousand and seventy-five dollars.
Care of insane soldiers of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry:Insane Porto Rican soldiers.Care, etc. For the care, maintenance, and treatment, at asylums in Porto Rico, of insane soldiers of the Porto Rico Regiment of Infantry, to be available to meet the expenses which have already been incurred during the present fiscal year and which may be incurred during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, seven hundred and twenty dollars. national military parks.
Military parks. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuingChickamauga and Chattanooga.Additional commissioner.*Ante*, p. 293. the establishment of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park; for the compensation and expenses of three civilian commissioners, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, messenger, office expenses, and all other necessary expenses; foundations for state monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; for roads and their maintenance; the purchase of small tracts of lands heretofore authorized by law, including eight thousand dollars for continuing the improvement and maintenance of the road owned by the Government from Stevens Gap by way of Davis’s Cross Roads to Crawfish Springs in the park; in all, forty three thousand dollars.
Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the work of establishingShiloh. a national military park on the battlefield of Shiloh, Tennessee; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretary, clerical and other services, labor, historical tablets, maps and surveys, roads, purchase and transportation of supplies and725 materials, office, and other necessary expenses, twenty-seven thousand dollars. Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the work of establishingGettysburg. the national park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; for the acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; making fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts, and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battlefield and the monuments thereon; providing for a suitable office for the commissioners in Gettysburg; compensation of three civilian commissioners, clerical and other services, expenses, and labor; the purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position, and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, sixty-three thousand dollars.
Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the work ofVicksburg. establishing the Vicksburg National Military Park; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretary and historian; for clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, the mounting of siege guns, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps, surveys; roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of lands, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; and other necessary expenses, fifty thousand dollars.
For continuing the const ruction of a memorial, under present limitNaval memorial. of cost, commemorative of the services of the Union Navy in the operations of the Vicksburg campaign and siege, March twenty-ninth to July fourth, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, one hundred thousand dollars. under engineer department. Yellowstone National Park: For manitenance and repair ofYellowstone. improvements, including twenty thousand dollars for improvement of the roads leading into the park from the eastern and southern boundaries, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War; and to be immediately available: *Provided,* That no portion of this appropriation shall be expended for*Proviso.*Restriction. the removal of snow from the roads for the purpose of opening them in advance of the, time when they will be cleared by seasonal changes.
Mount Rainier National Park: For additional work upon theMount Rainier. wagon road into said park from the west, heretofore surveyed and commenced, under the direction of the. Secretary of War, to be immediately available, twenty-five thousand dollars. Crater Lake National Park: For surveying, locating and preparingCrater Lake. plans and estimates for roads and trails in Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, and to cover all expenses incident thereto, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, ten thousand dollars. buildings and grounds in and around Washington:
For improvementBuildings and grounds, District of Columbia. and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of ExecutiveImprovement and care. Mansion, four thousand dollars. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, two thousand dollars. For repair and reconstruction of the greenhouses at the nursery, three thousand dollars. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, two thousand dollars. For ordinary cure of Franklin Park, one thousand five hundred dollars.
For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, two thousand dollars.726 For care and improvement of Monument grounds and annexMonument grounds. (Potomac Park) to Monument grounds, seven thousand dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Garfield Park, two thousand five hundred dollars. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; repairing and extending water pipes, and apparatus for cleaning them; hose; manure, and hauling the same; removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, flower pots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, moss, and lycopodium, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances, cleaning statues, and repairing pedestals, eighteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars.
For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horse and vehicle for official use of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, and of other necessary vehicles, for official use, twenty-six thousand dollars. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, three thousand dollars. For improvement and maintenance of Judiciary Park, two thousand five hundred dollars. For laying cement and other walks in various reservations, two thousand dollars.
For broken-stone road covering for parks, three thousand five hundred dollars. For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, two thousand dollars. For care and maintenance of Potomac Park, fifteen thousandPotomac Park. dollars. For completing the southern half of north B street from Virginia avenue eastward to Fifteenth street west as a park roadway according to plans prepared in the office of public buildings and grounds, to be expended under the direction of the officer in charge of that office, five thousand dollars.
For grading, soiling, seeding, and planting that portion of Potomac Park between the tidal basin and B street north, twenty-five thousand dollars. For oiling macadam roads, five thousand dollars. One half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in andHalf from District revenues. around Washington ” shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be madeLimit for concrete, etc., pavements. for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than one dollar and eighty-five cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness.
For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of executive departments, one thousand dollars. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be requested by the superintendent of the Library building, one thousand dollars. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol and House Office. Building as may be requested by the superintendent of the Capitol building, three thousand dollars.
For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion groundsExecutive Mansion grounds. (within iron fence), four thousand dollars.727 For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, two thousand four hundred dollars. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for. the repair of shops and storehouse, one thousand dollars. For changing roads in the Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence) and purchasing broken stone for same, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Executive Mansion: For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishingExecutive Mansion.Care, etc. of Executive Mansion, and for purchase; maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official purposes, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine, thirty-five thousand dollars. For fuel for the Executive Mansion greenhouses and stable, six thousand dollars. For care and maintenance of greenhouses, Executive Mansion, nine thousand dollars. For repairs to greenhouses, Executive Mansion, three thousand dollars.
For traveling expenses of the President of the United States, to beTraveling expenses of the President. expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, twenty-five thousand dollars, to be available during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and ten and nineteen hundred and eleven. Lighting the Executive Mansion and public grounds: For gas,Lighting Executive Mansion and public grounds. pay of lamplighters, gas fitters, and laborers; purchase, erection, and repair of lamps and lamp-posts; purchase of matches, and repairs of all kinds; stoves, fuel, amt lights for office and office stable, watchmen’s lodges, and for the greenhouses at the nursery, seventeen thousand dollars: *Provided,* That for each five-foot burner not connected*Provisos.*Maximum for lamps. with a meter in the lamps on the public grounds not more than eighteen dollars shall be paid per lamp for gas, including lighting, cleaning, and keeping the lamps in repair, under any expenditure provided for in this Act; and said lamps shall burn every night, on the average, from fifteen minutes after sunset to forty-five minutes before sunrise; and authority is hereby given to substitute other illuminating material for the same or less price, and to use so much of the sum hereby appropriated as may be necessary for that purpose: *Provided further,* That four thousand seven hundred dollars of the foregoingPart from District revenues. sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the remainder from the Treasury of the United States: *And provided further,* That not more than six thousand dollars of said appropriationHigher candle-power. may be expended for lighting, extinguishing, cleaning, repairing, and painting park lamps of a higher candlepower than those provided for above and not less than sixty candlepower, which lamps shall cost not to exceed twenty dollars and eighty-live cents per lamp per annum and shall otherwise be subject to the restrictions of this paragraph.
For lighting six arc electric lights in Executive Mansion groundsElectric lighting. within the iron fence, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said lights, five hundred and ten dollars. For lighting six arc electric lights at the propagating gardens, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each of said lights, five hundred and ten dollars.
For lighting arc electric lights in public-grounds, as follows: For seven in grounds south of the Executive Mansion, thirty-two in Lafayette, Franklin, Judiciary, and Lincoln parks, fourteen in grounds south of Executive Mansion and in Monument Park, and sixty-seven in Potomac Park driveway, one hundred and twenty in all, at not exceeding eighty-five dollars per light per annum, which sum shall cover the entire cost of lighting and maintaining in good order each728 of said lights; in all, ten thousand two hundred dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the departments and Government Printing Office:Government telegraph.For care and repair of existing lines, five hundred dollars. Grant memorial: For continuing work for the erection of theGrant memorial. memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant, thirty-five thousand dollars. Washington Monument: For the care and maintenance of theWashington Monument.Maintenance. Washington Monument, namely: For one custodian, at one hundred dollars per month; one steam engineer, at eighty dollars per month; one assistant steam engineer, at seventy dollars per month; one fireman, at fifty-five dollars per month; one assistant fireman, at fifty-five dollars per month; one conductor of elevator car, at seventy-five dollars per month; one attendant on floor, at sixty dollars per month; one attendant on top floor, at sixty dollars per month; three night and day watchmen, at sixty dollars per month each; in all, eight thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars.
Tor fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes,Expenses. brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors; repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery; and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric plant in good order, three thousand dollars. Repairs of building where Abraham Lincoln died:
ForBuilding where Abraham Lincoln died. painting and miscellaneous repairs, two hundred dollars. Improvements, Wakefield, Virginia: For repairs to fences andWakefield, Va. cleaning up and maintaining grounds about the monument, one hundred dollars. Unveiling statue of General Baron von Steuben: ForStatue of von Steuben.Expenses of unveiling. unveiling and dedicating the statue of General Baron von Steuben and for each and every purpose connected therewith, two thousand five hundred dollars.
Commission of Fine Arts: To meet the expenses made necessaryCommission of Fine Arts. by the Act approved May seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act establishing a Commission of Final Arts,” to be*Ante*, p. 371. disbursed by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, on vouchers approved by the commission, who shall be the secretary and shall act as the executive officer of said commission, ten thousand dollars. Rivers and harbors, contract work: Toward the constructionRivers and harbors, contract work. of works on harbors and rivers, under contract and otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, namely:
For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundredVol. 29, p. 203. and ninety-six, as follows: Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For completing improvementCleveland, Ohio. under contract authorization, forty-two thousand dollars. For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of eighteen hundredVol. 30, p. 1121. and ninety-nine, as follows: Improving channel in Gowanus Bay, New York: For continuingBay Ridge and Red Hook channels, New York. improvement of Bay Ridge and Red Hook channels, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundredVol. 32, p. 331. and two, as follows: Improving Arthur Kill, New York and New Jersey: For continuingArthur Kill, N. Y. and N. J. improvement of channel from Kill van Kull to Raritan Bay, thirty thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing improvementCleveland, Ohio. in accordance with plan for new harbor entrance and break-729water extension, in completion of contract authorization, one hundred thousand dollars.
For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundredVol. 33, p. 1117. and five, as follows: Improving Hay Lake and Neebish channels, Saint Marys River,Saint Marys River, Mich.Hay Lake and Neebish channels. Michigan: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, forty thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of Mississippi River between SaintMississippi River.Saint Paul to Minneapolis.Locks and dams. Paul and Minneapolis by the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered One and Two, in completion of contract authorization, fifty-nine thousand five hundred and forty-three dollars.
Improving Saint Marys River, Michigan: For continuing improvementSaint Marys River, Mich. at the falls, in completion of contract authorization, twenty-five thousand dollars. For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundredVol. 34, p. 1073. and seven, as follows: Improving Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee rivers, Alabama:Black Warrior, etc., rivers, Ala. For continuing improvement by the construction of locks and dams, in completion of contract authorization, three hundred and twelve thousand dollars.
Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For continuingBoston, Mass. improvement of thirty-five foot channel, nine hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Bridgeport, Connecticut: For continuingBridgeport, Conn. improvement, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing, improvementCleveland, Ohio. in accordance with plan for new harbor entrance and breakwater extension, one hundred and forty-nine thousand dollars. Improving Detroit River, Michigan:
For continuing improvementDetroit River, Mich. of Livingstone Channel in accordance with plan “B,” east route, six hundred thousand dollars. Improving Kennebec River, Maine: For continuing improvementKennebec River, Me. from the mouth to Gardiner, in completion of contract authorization, forty-three thousand five hundred dollars. Improving harbor at Ludington, Michigan: For continuing improvement,Ludington, Mich. three hundred thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River from mouth of Ohio River to Minneapolis,Mississippi River.From the Ohio to the Missouri.
Minnesota: For continuing improvement of Mississippi River from the mouth of the Ohio River to and including the mouth of the Missouri River, in completion of contract authorization, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For continuing improvement of Mississippi River from the mouthFrom the Missouri to Minneapolis. of the Missouri River to Minneapolis, Minnesota, in completion of contract authorization, five hundred thousand dollars. Improving New York Harbor, New York: For continuing improvementAmbrose Channel, New York Harbor. of Ambrose Channel, in completion of contract authorization, three hundred and twenty-four thousand five hundred and ten dollars.
Improving harbor at Norfolk, Virginia: For continuing improvementNorfolk, Va. of harbor and approaches, from deep water in Hampton Roads to the junction of the eastern and southern branches, including removal of shoals at the mouth of the eastern branch, one hundred thousand dollars. Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For continuingOhio River.Locks and Dams Nos. 13 and 18. construction of Locks and Dams Numbered Thirteen and Eighteen, fifty thousand dollars. For continuing construction of Lock and Dam Numbered Twenty-six,No. 26. four hundred thousand dollars.
Improving Passaic River, New Jersey: For continuing improvementPassaic River, N. J. of channel in Newark Bay and Passaic River, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars.730 Improving Saint Marys River, Michigan: For continuing improvementSaint Marys River, Mich.New canal, etc. at the falls by the construction of a new lock, with a separate canal, six hundred thousand dollars. Improving harbor at San Juan, Porto Rico: For continuing improvement,San Juan, P. R. in completion of contract authorization, eighty thousand dollars.
Improving Trinity River, Texas: For the construction of locks andTrinity River, Tex. dams, in completion of contract authorization, eighty-five thousand dollars. Improving Mississippi River: For continuing improvement ofMississippi River Commission.Mississippi River.From Head of Passes to the Ohio. Mississippi River from Head of Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River, including salaries and clerical, office, traveling, and miscellaneous expenses of the Mississippi River Commission, in completion of contract authorization, two million dollars.
For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundredVol. 35, p. 815. and nine, and in completion of contract authorizations, as follows: Improving Appomattox River, Virginia: For completion of theAppomattox River, Va. work of deflection and improvement of the river at Petersburg, sixty thousand dollars. Improving Aransas Pass and Bay, Texas: For continuing improvement,Aransas Pass and Bay, Tex. three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Big Sandy River, West Virginia and Kentucky:
ForBig Sandy River, W. Va. and Ky. completing improvement at Dam Numbered One, Tug Fork, and Dam Numbered One, Levisa Fork, Big Sandy River, twenty-five thousand dollars. Improving Ohio River below Pittsburg, Pennsylvania: For completionOhio River.Dam No. 37. of Lock and Dam Numbered Thirty-seven, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Improving Tennessee River below Chattanooga, Tennessee, Alabama,Tennessee River, below Chattanooga.Hales bar, Tenn. and Kentucky: For continuing improvement at Hales bar, Tennessee, fifty thousand eight hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Maps, War Department: For publication of engineer maps for useMaps. of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, five thousand dollars. Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For survey ofSurvey of northern and northwestern lakes. northern and northwestern lakes, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, and issuing charts and bulletins, and of investigating lake levels, with a view to their regulation, to be immediately available, one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.
California Débris Commission: For defraying the expenses of theCalifornia Debris Commission.Vol. 27, p. 507. commission in carrying on the work authorized by the act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, fifteen thousand dollars. Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injuriousNew York Harbor.Deposits. deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, office force, and expensesInspectors. of office, ten thousand two hundred and sixty dollars;
For pay of crews and maintenance of six steam tugs and one launch,Crews, etc. seventy-five thousand dollars; For renewing engines and boilers of steam tug Vigilant, fifteenRepairs. thousand dollars; In all, one hundred thousand two hundred and sixty dollars. International Waterways Commission: For continuing theInternational Waterways Commission.Vol. 32, p. 373. work of investigation and report by the International Waterways Commission, authorized by section four of the river and harbor Act approved June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, twenty thousand dollars.
Bridge Across Mississippi River at Fort Snelling, Minnesota:Mississippi River.Bridge, Fort Snelling, Minn.For maintenance and repairs, one thousand two hundred dollars. 731 medical department. Medical Department. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, orArtificial limbs, etc. commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, one hundred and five thousand dollars. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliancesSurgical appliances. to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, two thousand dollars.
Trusses for disabled soldiers: For trusses for persons entitledTrusses.[R. S., sec. 1176, p, 211](/us/rs/s1176/p211).Vol. 20, p. 353. thereto under section eleven hundred and seventy-six, Revised Statutes of the United States, and the Act of Congress amendatory thereof approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, six thousand dollars. Support and medical treatment of destitute patients: For theProvidence Hospital.Destitute patients. support and medical treatment of medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon-General of the Army, nineteen thousand dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
For screening doors and windows of isolating ward of ProvidenceScreens, isolating ward. Hospital for minor contagious diseases, five hundred dollars. Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it to provideGarfield Hospital. Destitute patients. medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, under a contract to be made with the Board of Charities of the District of Columbia, nineteen thousand dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other halt from the Treasury of the United States.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation for additional repairsChildren’s ward.Vol. 35, p. 1006.Balance for equipment. and for furniture, and covered way connecting the main building of Garfield Memorial Hospital with the new children’s ward is hereby reappropriated and made immediately available for such furnishings and equipment, of whatever kind, as may be found by the hospital directors to be necessary to put the new children’s ward in proper condition for use by patients.
For the payment by the Garfield Memorial Hospital on account ofAdditional land.Payment for. the purchase of the land described as lots two hundred and ninety-four, two hundred and ninety-five, two hundred and ninety-six, two hundred and ninety-seven, two hundred and ninety-eight, and two hundred and ninety-nine on the subdivision of part of Mount Pleasant as the same appeal’s in Liber County fourteen at folio twenty-five in the office of the surveyor of the District of Columbia (the same real estate as that described in the deed from Schneider and others to the hospital of April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine), twenty-five thousand dollars, to be drawn by the board of directors of the hospital and applied by them exclusively and only to the object herein stipulated, and to be paid one-half from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from the Treasury of the United States.
To aid the Children’s Hospital on account of addition to and alterationsChildren’s Hospital.Additions, etc. and improvements of building, and for furnishings and equipment, of whatever kind, in the discretion of the board of directors, to be paid to said directors, and to be applied by them exclusively to the objects named herein, twenty-five thousand dollars, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. 732 national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: For current expenses, namely:Dayton, Ohio. Pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks, weighmasters, and orderlies; also payments for chaplains, religious instruction, and entertainment for the members of the home, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, janitors, watchmen, and fire company; for all property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the homo; for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and for repairs not done by the home; and for stationery, advertising, legal advice, for payments due heirs of deceased members: *Provided,* That all receipts*Proviso.*Effects of deceased members. on account of the effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall also be available for such payments; and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditure, seventy-one thousand dollars;
For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary sergeants, commissarySubsistence. clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; the cost of all articles purchased for the regular ration, and the subsistence of civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the branch, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; of tobacco; of all dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers’ tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the home, two hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars;
For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers’Household. quarters; for bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and of civilian employees permanently employed and residing at the branch, and for their repair, if they are not repaired by the home; for fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; for engineers and firemen, bath-house keepers, janitors, laundry employees, anti for all labor, materials, anti appliances required for household use, and for their repairs, unless the repairs are made by the home, one hundred and twenty-four thousand dollars;
For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists,Hospital. hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, drivers, gravediggers, funeral escort, janitors, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; burial of the dead; for surgical instruments anti appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, anti all other special articles necessary for the wards, for hospital furniture, including special articles and appliances for hospital kitchen and dining room; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; for tools of gravediggers, and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the home, seventy-two thousand dollars;
For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of theTransportation. home, three thousand dollars; For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths,Repairs. carpenters, painters, gas fitters, electrical workers, plumbers, tinsmiths, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, whitewashes, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; also for repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent character, sixty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of the*Proviso.*Restriction.733 appropriation for repairs for any of the branch homes shall be used for the construction of any new building;
For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers,Farm. farm hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers, and for all tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; for grain, hay, and straw, dressing, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; for all animals purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park); for all materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, and park; and for construction of roads and walks, and for repairs not done by the home, twenty-four thousand five hundred dollars;
In all, six hundred and seven thousand five hundred dollars. Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses,Milwaukee, Wis.Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-eight thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and twenty-seven thousand five hundred dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, seventy thousand dollars;
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, forty-three thousand five hundred dollars; For transportation of members of the home, one thousand eightTransportation. hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs. the Central Branch, thirty-six thousand dollars; For completion of iron fence, ten thousand dollars;Iron fence. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, ten thousand five hundred dollars;
In all, three hundred and forty-seven thousand three hundred dollars. Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: For current expenses, includingTogus, Me.Current expenses. the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-eight thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and twenty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under thisHousehold. head for the Central Branch, eighty-two thousand dollars;
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, forty-two thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the home, one thousand twoTransportation. hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headRepairs. for the Central Branch, sixty thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, seventeen thousand five hundred dollars; In all, three hundred and seventy thousand seven hundred dollars.
Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses,Hampton, Va.Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-nine thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under thisHousehold. head for the Central Branch, seventy-eight thousand dollars; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, forty-five thousand dollars;
For transportation of members of the home, two thousand twoTransportation. hundred dollars;734 For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headRepairs. for the Central Branch, forty-five thousand dollars; For three barracks, one hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars;Barracks. For farm, including the same objects specified under its head forFarm. the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars; In all, five hundred and fifty-one thousand two hundred dollars. Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas:
For current expenses,Leavenworth, Kans.Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-eight thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and sixty-two thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under thisHousehold.*Proviso.*Restriction. head for the Central Branch, eighty-seven thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this sum shall be used for fuel oil if it shall appear to the board of managers that coal as a fuel can be procured and used more economically;
For hospital, including the, same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, fifty-three thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the home, three thousand dollars;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs. the Central Branch, fifty-three thousand dollars; For farm, including the same, objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, eighteen thousand dollars; In all, four hundred and thirty-four thousand dollars.
Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For current expenses,Santa Monica, Cal.Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-one thousand five hundred dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, one hundred and sixty-three thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, fifty-nine thousand dollars;
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, fifty thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the home, three thousand fiveTransportation. hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headRepairs. for the Central Branch, fifty thousand dollars; For six tent houses for hospital, one thousand six hundred dollars;Tents for hospital. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, twelve thousand dollars;
In all, three hundred and ninety thousand six hundred dollars. Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For current expenses, includingMarion, Ind.Current expenses. the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-four thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and seven thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under thisHousehold. head for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, oil, and water, forty-eight thousand dollars;
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, thirty-seven thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the home, one thousand fiveTransportation. hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headRepairs. for the Central Branch, thirty-three thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars;
In all, two hundred and eighty-four thousand dollars.735 Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses, includingDanville, Ill.Current expenses. the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, fifty-two thousand live hundred dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, seventy-nine thousand dollars;
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, forty-six thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the home, two thousand fiveTransportation. hundred dollars; For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs. the Central Branch, thirty-one thousand dollars; For steam tunnels and equipment, ten thousand dollars;Steam tunnels. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, thirteen thousand five hundred dollars;
In all, three hundred and eighty-four thousand five hundred dollars. Mountain Branch, Johnson Citv, Tennessee: For current expenses,Johnson City, Tenn.Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, forty-four thousand five hundred dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, one hundred and two thousand five hundred dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, fifty-five thousand dollars;
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, twenty-nine thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the home, three thousand dollars;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs. the Central Branch, thirty-five thousand dollars; For tuberculosis ward, ten thousand dollars;Tuberculosis ward. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, twenty thousand dollars;
In all, two hundred and ninety-nine thousand dollars. Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For currentHot Springs, S. Dak.Current expenses. expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, twenty-seven thousand dollars; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, thirty-two thousand dollars; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, forty-three thousand dollars;
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, thirty-six thousand dollars; For transportation of members of the home, nine thousand dollars;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headRepairs. for the Central Branch, ten thousand dollars; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, eight thousand dollars; For chaplains’ quarters, live thousand dollars;Chaplains’ quarters.
In all, one hundred and seventy thousand dollars. For clothing for all of the branches, namely: Expenditures for clothing,Clothing for all branches. underclothing, hats, caps, boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; also all sums expended for labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed, and for use in the tailor shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other homo shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, three hundred thousand dollars. For salaries of officers and employees of the Board of Managers,Salaries, etc., Board of Managers. and for outdoor relief and incidental expenses, namely:
For president of the Board of Managers, four thousand dollars; secretary of the Board of Managers, five hundred dollars; general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the Board of Managers, four736 thousand five hundred dollars; inspector-general and chief surgeon, four thousand dollars; assistant general treasurer and assistant inspector-general, three thousand dollars: assistant inspector-general, three thousand dollars; clerical services for the offices of the president, general treasurer, and inspector-general and chief surgeon, fifteen thousand five hundred dollars; clerical services for managers, four thousand five hundred dollars; for traveling expenses of the Board of Managers, their officers and employees, including officers of branch homes when detailed on inspection work, sixteen thousand dollars; for outdoor relief, one thousand dollars; for rent, legal services, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, seven thousand dollars; in all, sixty-three thousand dollars.
In all, for National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, four million two hundred and one thousand eight hundred dollars. *Provided,* That no part of the foregoing appropriations shall be*Proviso.*Intoxicants. expended for any purpose at any branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteers that maintains or permits to be maintained on its premises a bar, canteen, or other place where beer, wine, or other intoxicating liquors are sold. Hereafter the application of any person for membership in theApplications.Disposition of property of inmates, to be a part of.
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and the admission of the applicant thereunder shall be and constitute a valid and binding contract between such applicant and the Board of Managers of said home that on the death of said applicant while a member of such home, leaving no heirs at law nor next of kin, all personal property owned by said applicant at the time of his death, including money or choses in action held by him and not disposed of by will, whether such property be the proceeds of pensions or otherwise derived, shall vest in and become the property of said Board ofUse for post fund.
Managers for the sole use and benefit of the post fund of said home, the proceeds to be disposed of and distributed among the several branches as may be ordered by said Board of Managers, and that all personal property of said applicant shall, upon his death, while a member, at once pass to and vest in said Board of Managers, subject to be reclaimed by any legatee or person entitled to take the same by inheritance at any time within five years after the death of such member. The Board of Managers is directed to so changeNotice to applicants. the form of application for membership as to give reasonable notice of this provision to each applicant and as to contain the consent of the applicant to accept membership upon the conditions herein provided.
State or territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: ForState and Territorial homes.Vol. 25, p. 450. continuing aid to state or territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, one million one hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this appropriation shall be apportioned*Provisos.*Intoxicants. to any state or territorial homo that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold: *Provided further,* That forCollections from inmates, etc., deducted. any sum or sums collected in any maimer from inmates of such state or territorial homes to be used for the support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any state or territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained. back pay and bounty.
Back pay and bounty. For payment of amounts for arrears of pay of two and three year volunteers, for bounty to volunteer’s and their widows and legal737 heirs, for bounty under the Act. of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundredVol. 14, p. 322.Commutation of rations. and sixty-six, and for amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in States of the so-called Confederacy, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, four hundred thousand dollars.
For payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances onWar with Spain. account of service of officers and men of the army during the war with Spain and in the Philippine Islands that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, five thousand dollars. STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDING. State, War and Navy Department building.
Installation of ice plant, State, War, and Navy DepartmentIce plant. building: For purchase and installation of ice plant in the State, War, and Navy Department building, nine thousand dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Interior Department. public buildings. Public buildings. Repairs of buildings, Interior Department: For repairs of InteriorRepairs. Department and Pension buildings, and of the old Post-Office Department building, occupied by the Interior Department, including preservation and repair of steam heating and electric lighting plants and elevators, twenty thousand dollars, of which sum not exceeding seven thousand five hundred dollars may be expended for day labor, except for work done by contract: *Provided,* That a detailed statement of the*Proviso.*Report of expenditures. expenditure of this appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten shall be made to Congress at the beginning of its next regular session, and thereafter a similar statement for each subsequent fiscal year shall be submitted to Congress at the beginning of each regular session.
Repairs, Pension Office building: For special repairs to the PensionPension Office.Repairs. Office building, three thousand five hundred dollars. Department of the Interior, heating plant: For the improvementExtension of department heating system to. of and the extending of the heating system of the Department of the Interior to the Pension Office building, including necessary conduits, the laying and construction of which over and under the necessary streets and reservations is hereby authorized, twenty thousand dollars.
Elevators, Pension Office building: For the installation of electricElevators. elevators in the Pension Office building and the changes in the building incident thereto, fifteen thousand dollars. Capitol building: For work at Capitol and for general repairsCapitol.Repairs, etc. thereof, including flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Capitol and for Senate and House Office buildings; flagstaffs. halyards, and tackle, wages of mechanics and laborers; purchase, maintenance, and driving of office vehicle, and not exceeding one hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books and city directory, thirty thousand dollars.
For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art inWorks of art. the Capitol, including repairs to frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, one thousand five hundred dollars. Senate Office building: Toward the construction of the fireproofSenate Office Building.Construction.Vol. 33, p. 481. building for committee rooms and offices for the United States Senate, provided for in the sundry civil Act, approved April twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and four, including not exceeding fifty dollars for738 the purchase of necessary technical books, ninety-five thousand dollars.
For metal shelving, Senate Office building, for the accommodationShelving, etc. of the library and document room of the Senate, and for storage of documents, thirty-eight thousand dollars. For maintenance, miscellaneous items and supplies, and for allMaintenance. necessary personal and other services for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building, under the direction and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, thirty-nine thousand three hundred and sixty dollars.
The Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds is authorizedRefrigerating plant, etc., for Capitol, etc.Plans to be submitted. and directed to submit at the next session of Congress, plans and specifications and estimate of cost for a refrigerating plant, including an ice making machine for the Capitol Building and the Senate and House Office buildings. Improving the Capitol grounds: For the care and improvement ofCapitol grounds.Improving. the grounds surrounding the Capitol, Senate and House Office buildings, pay of one clerk, mechanics, gardeners, for fertilizers, repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways, thirty thousand dollars.
Enlarging the Capitol grounds: It is hereby declared to be the purposeEnlarging grounds.Acquirement of specified squares.*Post*, p. 1414. of Congress to ultimately acquire all of squares numbered six hundred and thirty-two, six hundred and thirty-three, six hundred and thirty-four, six hundred and eighty, six hundred and eighty-one, six hundred and eighty-two, six hundred and eighty-three, six hundred and eighty-four, six hundred and eighty-five, seven hundred and twenty-one, seven hundred and twenty-two, and seven hundred and twenty-three, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, forAvenue from Union Station to Peace Monument. the enlargement of the Capitol grounds, and for the construction of a direct avenue of about one hundred and fifty feet in width from the junction of Pennsylvania avenue and First street northwest to the Union Station plaza, the center line of said avenue to be located on the axis of the Peace Monument and the site, of the westerly fountain in said plaza, the Vice-President of the United States, the Speaker ofPurchase by Vice-President, Speaker, and Superintendent of Capitol. the House of Representatives of the United States, and the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds are hereby authorized and directed to acquire said premises by purchase, condemnation, orYearly purchases. otherwise and to expend for that purpose not more than five hundred thousand dollars in any one fiscal year, commencing with the year nineteen hundred and eleven, and the persons authorized to acquire such property shall annually, within said limit, purchase whatever of said property is in their judgment offered at the lowest prices relative to its actual value, provided they shall not purchase any property at above its fair actual value.
If in any year there should not be offeredCondemnation proceedings authorized on failure of offers. property substantially up to said sum of five hundred thousand dollars at its fair value or less, the Vice-President of the United States, the Speaker of the House of Representatives of the United States, and the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds are authorized to institute condemnation proceedings in order to secure any or all of the land herein authorized to be acquired, but for not to exceed what they estimate to be five hundred thousand dollars’ worth in any one fiscal year.
If such condemnation proceedings areApplication to court. deemed necessary, they shall be in accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, providing a site for the enlargement of the Government Printing Office (Statutes at Large, volume twenty-six, chapter eightVol. 26, p. 412. hundred and thirty-seven). For the execution or the foregoing, five hundred thousand dollars. Lighting the Capitol and grounds: For lighting the Capitol andLighting Capitol and grounds. grounds about the same, including the Senate and House Office buildings, Botanic Garden, Senate and House stables, and engine house, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the Senate739 and House of Representatives; for gas anti electric lighting; pay of superintendent of meters, at the rate of one thousand six hundred dollars per annum, who shall inspect all gas and electric meters of the Government in the District of Columbia without additional compensation, lamplighters, gas litters, and for materials and labor for gas and electric lighting, and for general repairs, one hundred thousand dollars.
For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house, andRepairs, stables, etc. Senate and House stables, and for repairs to and paving of floors and courtyards of same, one thousand five hundred dollars. public lands service. Public lands. Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: For salaries andRegisters and receivers. commissions of registers of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding three thousand dollars per annum each, five hundred and seventy thousand dollars.
Contingent expenses of land offices; For clerk hire, rent, and otherContingent expenses. incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the exchange of typewriters, two hundred and ninety-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That this appropriation shall be available for the payment*Provisos.*Per diem. of per diem, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars per day, of clerks detailed to examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in the operation of said offices, and in the opening of new land offices and reservations, while on such duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks, including necessary sleeping-car fares: *Provided further,* That no expensesRestriction on expenditures. chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositingDepositing moneys. money received from the disposal of public lands, by registered mail, bank exchange, or otherwise, as may be directed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under rules to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, one thousand five hundred dollars. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlementTimber depredations, protecting, and swamp-land claims. of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity:
To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available, of which sum five hundred thousand dollars is for the purpose of bringing up the work of the General Land Office hereunder so as to make the same current and not exceedingNorthern Pacific grant. thirty thousand dollars to enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to complete the examination and classification of lands within the limits of the Northern Pacific grant under the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, as provided in the Act ofVol. 13, p. 367.Vol. 28, p. 683.
February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, such examination and classification when approved by the Secretary of the Interior to have the same force and effect as a classification by the mineral land commissioners provided for in said Act of February twenty-sixth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, And not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars additional for expenses of hearings held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, and not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars additional for clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of district land offices: *Provided,* That agents and others employed*Proviso.*Per diem.740 under this appropriation shall be allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding three dollars per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, except when agents are employed in the district of Alaska they mayException. be allowed not exceeding six dollars per day each, in lieu of subsistence.
Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearings heldHearings in land entries. by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, thirty-five thousand dollars. Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of theReproducing plats of surveys. General Land Office to continue, to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, and to furnish local land offices with the same, three thousand five hundred dollars.
Examinations of desert lands: To enable the Secretary of the InteriorDesert lands to States. to examine, under such regulations and at such compensation as he may prescribe, the desert lands selected by the States under the provisions of section four of the Act of Congress approved AugustVol. 28, p. 422.Vol. 35, p. 346. eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and the Act of May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, one thousand dollars: *Provided,* That if such examinations be made by detailed clerks or*Proviso.*Expenses. employees of the department, they shall be entitled to actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, and not exceeding three dollars per day in lieu of subsistence.
Restoration of lands in forest reserves: To enable the Secretary ofForest reserves.Advertising restoration of lands, etc. the Interior to meet the expenses of advertising the restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves, or of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest-reserve purposes, twelve thousand dollars. Salaries, General Land Office: For twenty-six copyists, at sevenSalaries. hundred and twenty dollars each; five copyists, at nine hundred dollars each; five clerks, at one thousand dollars each; five clerks of class one; five clerks of class two; five clerks of class three; in all, forty-nine thousand two hundred and twenty dollars.
Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable): The appropriation ofOpening Indian reservations to entry.Expenses. twenty-five thousand dollars to meet the expenses of opening to entry and settlement ceded lands within Indian reservations is hereby continued and made available to meet the expenses pertaining to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reservation lands as may be opened during the. fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven: *Provided,* That the expenses pertaining to the opening of each of said*Proviso.*Reimbursement. reservations and paid for out of said appropriation shall be reimbursed to the United States from the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively.
For completing the surveys within the Flathead Indian Reservation,Flathead Indian Reservation, Mont.Surveys, etc. Montana, embracing town sites and the subdivision of unallotted lands fronting on Flathead Lake (reimbursable), ten thousand dollars. surveying the public lands. Surveying. For surveys and resurveys of public lands, under the supervision ofRates. the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, four hundred and fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That in expending this appropriation preference shall be*Provisos.*Preferences. given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the ActVol. 25, p. 676. approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine,Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222. and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hun-741dred and ninety; and, second, to surveying under such other Acts as provide for land grants to the several States and Territories, except railroad land grants and such indemnity lands as the several States and Territories may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, and other surveys shall include lands adapted to agriculture and lands deemed advisable to survey on account of availability for irrigation or dry farming, lines of reservations, and hinds within boundaries of forest reservations.
The surveys and resurveys to be made by such competent surveyorsDetermination of compensation by Secretary.*Post*, p. 890. as the Secretary of the Interior may select, at such compensation not exceeding two hundred dollars per month as he may prescribe, except in the District of Alaska, where a compensation not exceeding ten dollars per day may be allowed such surveyors and such per diem allowance, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding three dollars, as he may prescribe, said per diem allowance to br also made to such clerksClerks, etc., inspecting mineral, coal, and timber lands, etc. who are competent surveyors who may be detailed to make surveys, resurveys, or examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making, by such competent surveyors, fragmentary surveys and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States, the sum hereby appropriated to be immediately available: *Provided further,*Monuments for section corners.That the sum of not exceeding ten per centum of the amount hereby appropriated may be expended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal or other equally durable monuments to be used for public-land survey corners wherever practicable.
Toward surveying public lands, including cost of office work in theSpecial surveys. Montana. *Post*, p. 1307. surveyor-general’s onice not to exceed three thousand dollars, in Valley, Dawson, Custer, and Fergus counties, Montana, one hundred thousand dollars. Toward surveying lands of the United States in Idaho, includingIdaho.*Post*, p. 1307. cost of office work in the surveyor-general's office not to exceed three thousand dollars, one hundred thousand dollars. Authority is hereby given for the survey of township thirty-twoNevada. north, range twenty-three east, Mount Diablo base and meridian, Nevada, and the regulations governing public surveys requiring settlers’ applications and their examination in the field are hereby waived.
Authority is hereby given for the survey of all the remainingOregon. unsurveyed townships in Harney County, Oregon, and the regulations governing public surveys requiring settlers’ applications and their examination in the field are hereby waived. Authority is hereby given for the survey of townships twenty-twoUtah. south, ranges twenty-three and twenty-four east, twenty-one south, range twenty-five east, Salt Lake base and meridian, Utah, and the regulations governing public surveys requiring settlers’ applications and their examination in the field are hereby waived.
For continuing the survey of public lands in Garfield, Iron, Kane,*Post*, p. 1307 San Juan, and Washington counties, in the State of Utah, fifty thousand dollars, of which amount the sum of not exceeding two thousand dollars may be expended for the necessary office work in the surveyor-general’s office in connection with this survey. For the survey of the lands of the United States in the District ofAlaska. Alaska, one hundred thousand dollars. The foregoing surveys in Montana, Idaho, Utah, and Alaska shall be made in accordance with the provisions herein for surveys and resurveys of public lands.
For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandonedAbandoned military reservations. military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of742 the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approvedVol. 23, p. 103. July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, two thousand five hundred dollars. Completing field notes, and so forth, of surveys in Minnesota, NorthMinnesota, North Dakota, and Louisiana.Completing field notes.
Dakota, and Louisiana: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to complete the unfinished drafting and field-note writing pertaining to surveys in the States of Minnesota, North Dakota, and Louisiana caused by the discontinuance of the offices of the surveyors-general in those States, three thousand five hundred dollars. bureau of mines. Bureau of Mines. For the general expenses of the Bureau of Mines, including the payGeneral expenses.*Ante*, p. 369. of the director and the necessary assistants, clerks, and other employees in the office at Washington, District of Columbia, and in the field, and for every other expense requisite for and incident to the general work of the Bureau of Mines in Washington, District of Columbia, and in the field, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, fifty-four thousand dollars;
For dismantling and removing chemical laboratories, equipment,Transfer of laboratories, etc., from Geological Survey.Equipment, etc. and office furniture from the office of the Geological Survey, to the the office of the Bureau of Mines in Washington, District of Columbia, and reinstalling and equipping the laboratories in the office of the Bureau of Mines with fixtures,, including laboratory plumbing, sinks, hoods, coal sampling and crushing machinery, fourteen thousand seven hundred dollars;
For rent, of offices in the city of Washington, and for furnishing theRent of offices. same, together with such books, records, stationery and appliances as the Secretary of the Interior may provide, ten thousand dollars; For the investigation as to the causes of mine explosions, methods ofInvestigation of mine explosions. mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, the appliances best adapted to prevent accidents, the possible improvement of conditions under which mining operations are carried on, the use of explosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents and other inquiries and technologic investigations pertinent to the mining industry, three hundred and ten thousand dollars;
For the analyzing and testing of the coals, lignites, ores, and otherTesting fuels. mineral fuel substances belonging to or for the use of the United States, heretofore under the supervision of the United States Geological Survey, one hundred thousand dollars; For making public reports of the work, investigations and informationReports of investigation.*Post*, p. 883. obtained by said Bureau of Mines, with the recommendations of such bureau, five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this*Proviso.*Printing restriction. sum shall be expended for printing except at the Government Printing Office;
For salaries of two mine inspectors, authorized by the Act approvedMine inspectors.Vol. 26, p. 1104. 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; and said inspectors are hereby authorized to inspect coal and other mines in the District of Alaska, to which District the provisions of said act are hereby extended and made applicable; For per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the SecretaryPer diem, etc. 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, except in Alaska, when such allowance shall be at the rate of five dollars per day, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said inspectors, including necessary sleeping-car fares, four thousand five hundred dollars;
In all for the Bureau of Mines, five hundred and two thousand two hundred dollars. 743 united states geological survey. Geological Survey. Office of the Director of the Geological Survey: For director, sixSalaries of Director, etc. thousand dollars: chief clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; chief disbursing clerk, two thousand five hundred dollars; librarian, two thousand dollars; photographer, two thousand dollars; two assistant photographers, one at nine hundred dollars and one at seven hundred and twenty dollars; one clerk of class two; three clerks of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; four copyists, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; watchman, eight hundred and forty dollars; four watchmen, at six hundred dollars each; janitor, six hundred dollars; four messengers, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; in all, thirty-four thousand eight hundred and sixty dollars;
Scientific assistants of the Geological Survey: For two geologists,Scientific assistants, etc. at four thousand dollars each; For one geologist, three thousand dollars; For one geologist, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For two paleontologists, at two thousand dollars each; For one chemist, three thousand dollars; For one geographer, two thousand seven hundred dollars; For one geographer, two thousand five hundred dollars; For two topographers, at two thousand dollars each; in all, twenty-nine thousand nine hundred dollars;
General expenses of the Geological Survey: For every expenditureExpenses. requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Geological Survey, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field to be expended under the regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under the following leads, namely: For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees,Skilled laborers. twenty thousand dollars; For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States,Topographic surveys. three hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to be immediately available;
For geologic surveys in the various portions of the United States,Geologic surveys. three hundred thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of theChemical and physical researches. United States, twenty thousand dollars; For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey,Illustrations. eighteen thousand two hundred and eighty dollars; For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of theMineral resources.
United States, seventy-five thousand dollars; For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of theWater supply. United States, and for the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars; For the purchase of necessary books for the library, including directoriesBooks, etc. and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, two thousand dollars;
For engraving and printing the geological maps, one hundred thousandMaps. dollars; So much of the Act establishing a Bureau of Mines, approved MayStructural materials. Transfer of work to Bureau of Mines repealed. *Ante*, p. 370. sixteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, as transfers to said Bureau the supervision of the investigations of structural materials and equipment therefor is repealed; For continuation of the topographic surveys of the public landsNational forests surveys. that have been or may hereafter be designated as national forests, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be immediately available;
In all, for the United States Geological Survey, one million one hundred and seventy-five thousand and fifteen dollars. 744 indian affairs. Indian Department. That twenty-five thousand dollars of the amount heretofore appropriatedFort Hall Reservation.Irrigating work, immediately available.*Ante*, p. 274. for continuing the work of constructing an irrigation system or the irrigation of lands on the Fort Hall Reservation, in Idaho, and lands ceded by the Indians of said reservation, as provided in the Act approved April fourth, nineteen hundred and ten, be, and the same is hereby, made immediately available for the purposes therein mentioned.
For the payment of all and any necessary expense incurred incidentSeminole Indians. Protecting title of allottees. to any suits brought at the request of the Secretary of the Interior, including the salary of an attorney specially employed, to set aside illegal conveyances of title or protecting the possession of Seminole allottees to their allotted lands in the Seminole Nation, to be. expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, six thousand dollars. miscellaneous objects, department of the interior.
Miscellaneous. Expenses of testimony in disbarment proceedings: For actual andDisbarment proceedings.Expenses. necessary expenses to enable the Secretary of the Interior to take testimony, and prepare the same, in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the Department of the Interior, its bureaus and offices, two thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Supreme Court Reports: To pay the publishers of the decisionsSupreme Court Reports. of the Supreme Court for two hundred and seventy copies of volumes two hundred and nineteen to two hundred and twenty-three inclusive, official edition, at two dollars per volume, and for fifteen copies of volume fifty-four of the Decisions of the Supreme Court, Lawyers’ Cooperative Publishing Company, at five dollars per volume, two thousand seven hundred and seventy-five dollars.
Care and custody of the insane of Alaska: For the care and custodyAlaska.Care of insane. of persons legally adjudged insane in the district of Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, fifty thousand dollars. Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in hisEducation of natives. discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; for erection, repair, and rental of school buildings; for text-books and industrial apparatus; for pay and necessary traveling expenses of general agent, assistant agent, superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, two hundred thousand dollars, so much of which sum as may be necessary for the purchase of supplies shall be immediately available: *Provided,* That*Provisos,*Limit of pay. no person employed hereunder as special agent or inspector, or to perform any special or unusual duty in connection herewith, shall receive as compensation exceeding two hundred dollars per month, in addition to actual traveling expenses and per diem not exceeding four dollars in lieu of subsistence, when absent on duty from his designated and actual post of duty: *Provided,* That of the sum hereby appropriatedServices, Washington, D.
C. not exceeding seven thousand dollars may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia. All expenditures of money appropriated herein for school purposesSupervision of expenditures. in Alaska shall be under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Education and in conformity with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to conduct and methods of instruction and expenditure of money as may from time to time be recommended by him and approved by the Secretary of the Interior.
Reindeer for Alaska: For the support of reindeer stations in Alaska,Reindeer. and for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of the reindeer, twelve thousand dollars.745 Protection of game in Alaska: For carrying out the provisions of anProtection of game, Vol. 35, p. 102. Act approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act for the protection of game in Alaska, and for other purposes,” including salaries, traveling expenses of game wardens, and all other necessary expenses, ten thousand dollars, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska.
Yellowstone National Park: For the administration and protectionYellowstone Park. of the Yellowstone National Park, five thousand five hundred dollars. For procuring feed for buffalo, salaries of buffalo keepers, threeCare of buffaloes. thousand dollars. Yosemite National Park, California: For protection and improvementYosemite Park. of the Yosemite National Park and the construction of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads other than toll roads, including twelve thousand dollars to be immediately available for necessary material and labor in the installation of a road-sprinkling system, sixty-two thousand dollars.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to examine into the dataExamination of San Francisco, Cal., water supply.*Post*, p. 1420. required to be submitted by the city of San Francisco with reference to a water supply for that city both from Lake Eleanor and adjacent watersheds partially within the Yosemite Park or from any other available sources of water supply, and to collect such independent data and information as may be necessary in the premises, including all incidental expenses of the officer's of the Engineer Corps of the United States Army detailed by the Secretary of War as an advisory board to the Secretary of the Interior in connection therewith, twelve thousand dollars.
Sequoia National Park, California: For the protection and improvementSequoia Park. of the Sequoia National Park and the construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads other than toll roads, fifteen thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. General Grant National Park, California: For protection andGeneral Grant Park. improvement of the General Grant National Park, construction of fences and trails, and repairing and extension of roads, two thousand dollars.
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For protection and improvementCrater Lake Park. of the Crater Lake National Park and repairing and extension of roads, three thousand dollars. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For protection and improvementMesa Verde Park.Vol. 34, p. 616. of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, including the lands within five miles of the boundaries of said reservation, which, under the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, are to be administered by the same service established for the custodianship of the park, including twelve thousand five hundred dollars for the construction of a road, twenty thousand dollars.
Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For protection andMount Rainier Park. improvement of Mount Rainier National Park, construction of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads, three thousand dollars. Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For the improvementWind Cave Park. and protection of the Wind Cave National Park, two thousand five hundred dollars. Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For care and maintenance ofPlatt Park. Platt National Park including all personal service, five thousand dollars.
Glacier National Park, Montana: For improvement of GlacierGlacier Park.*Ante*, p. 354. National Park, the construction and repair of trails and roads, fifteen thousand dollars. government hospital for the insane. Government Hospital for Insane. For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps,746 Revenue-Cutter Service, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the United States who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary horses and vehicles and of horses and vehicle for official use of the superintendent, three hundred and twenty-seven thousand eight hundred dollars; and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars of this sum may be expended in defraying the expense of the removal of patients to their friends; not exceeding one thousand dollars may be expended in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital and for the medical library, and not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients.
For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for theBuildings and grounds. Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, forty thousand dollars. For roadways, grading, and walks, five thousand dollars. columbia institution for the deaf and dumb. Columbia Institution for Deaf and Dumb. For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, sixty-seven thousand dollars.
For repairs to the buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, five thousand dollars. howard university. For maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in paymentHoward University. of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, the balance of which shall be paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than one thousand five hundred dollars shall be used for normal instruction, fifty-three thousand two hundred dollars;
For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the department of manual arts, nine thousand dollars; For addition to the manual training and arts building, twenty-three thousand dollars; For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures, for the libraries, one thousand five hundred dollars; For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, four thousand dollars, to be immediately available; Medical department: To meet in part cost of needed equipment,Medical department.*Post*, p. 796. laboratory supplies, and apparatus, ten thousand dollars;
For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, and natural-history studies, and use in laboratories, including cases and shelving, five hundred dollars; For fuel and light, three thousand five hundred dollars; In all, one hundred and four thousand seven hundred dollars. freedmen’s hospital. Freedmen’s Hospital. For salaries and compensation of the surgeon in chief, not to exceed three thousand dollars, and for all other professional and other services that may be required and expressly approved by the Secretary of the Interior: in all, twenty-nine thousand five hundred dollars.
A detailed statement of the expenditure of this sum shall be submitted to Congress;747 For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, twenty-one thousand dollars; For rent of quarters for hospital nurses and for heating and lighting the same, three thousand dollars; For equipping additional wing to Freedmen’s Hospital buildingAdditional wing.Vol. 35, p. 992. authorized by sundry civil Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, including furniture, instruments, screens, awnings, and other necessary equipment, two thousand dollars;
In all, fifty-five thousand five hundred dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Department of Justice. public buildings. Court-house, Washington, District of Columbia: For constructionCourt-house, D. C. Repairs. work at the court-house and repairs thereof, as per estimate of the Superintendent of the Capitol, ten thousand dollars. For reconstruction of the elevator in the Court of Claims building,Court of Claims.Elevator. three thousand five hundred and fifty dollars. Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, construction:
For continuingLeavenworth, Kans.Penitentiary. construction of the new United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, one hundred thousand dollars, to be available immediately and to remain available until expended, all of which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary. Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, construction: For continuing theAtlanta, Ga.Penitentiary. construction of the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, and the wall around same, seventy-five thousand dollars, to be available immediately and to remain available until expended, all of which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary.
National Training School for Boys: For construction of a newNational Training School for Boys. family building, to be immediately available, twenty-five thousand dollars. For construction of a shop building, to be immediately available,*Post*, p. 800. five thousand dollars. miscellaneous objects, department of justice. Miscellaneous. Conduct of customs cases: For Assistant Attorney-General, eightConduct of customs cases.Assistant Attorney-General, deputy, attorneys, etc. thousand dollars;
Deput y Assistant Attorney-General, seven thousand five hundred dollars; two assistant attorneys, at five thousand dollars each; one assistant attorney, four thousand five hundred dollars; one assistant attorney, three thousand dollars; one assistant attorney, two thousand five hundred dollars; special attorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs cases, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney-General, as authorized by*Ante*, p. 108. section thirty of the Act of August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, thirty-five thousand dollars; necessary clerical assistance and other employees, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney-General; supplies, printing, traveling, and other miscellaneous and incidental expenses to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars; in all, ninety thousand dollars.
Defending suits in claims against the United States: For defrayingDefending suits in claims. the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and such other expenditures as may be necessary in defending suits748 in the Court of Claims, including defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, not exceeding five hundred dollars of which may be expended for law books, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty-five thousand dollars.
Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection andProsecution of crimes. prosecution of crimes against the United States; the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks, and referees of the United States courts and the territorial courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney-General at any time; for the protection of the person of the President of the United States; for such other investigations regarding official matters under the control of the Department of Justice as may be directed by the Attorney-General; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars.
Inspection of prisons and prisoners: For the inspection of UnitedInspection of prissons, etc. States prisons and prisoners, and for the collection, classification, and preservation of criminal identification records, and their exchange with the officials of state and other institutions, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, ten thousand dollars. Investigation and prosecution of frauds: To defray the expensesInvestigating frauds, etc. of the investigation and prosecution of frauds upon the revenues and other frauds upon the United States, fifty thousand dollars.
Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and expensesDefense in Indian depredation claims. in defense of the Indian depredation claims, including not exceeding seven thousand dollars for salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, twenty-five thousand dollars. For the payment of any and all expenses, incurred or to be incurred,Mexican Kickapoo Indians.Prosecutions for fraudulent conveyances, etc. in or about the prosecutions for crimes committed in the United States or the Republic of Mexico in connection with the false makingor unlawful procurement of conveyances purporting to affect title to. lands in Oklahoma allotted to Kickapoo Indians, twenty thousand dollars, to be available until expended, at the discretion of the Attorney-General, the provision of section thirty-six hundred and[R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). forty-eight of the Revised Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding. Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and otherTraveling, etc., expenses. miscellaneous and emergency expenses, authorized and approved by the Attorney-General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of the first paragraph of section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight,[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, ten thousand dollars.
Incidental expenses, District of Alaska: For furniture, fuel, books,Alaska.Incidental expenses. stationery, and other incidental expenses, for the offices of the marshals and attorneys, seven thousand dollars. Traveling expenses, District of Alaska: For the actual and necessaryTraveling expenses. expenses of the judges and clerks in the District of Alaska when traveling in the discharge of their official duties, six thousand dollars. Enforcement of antitrust laws and Acts to regulate commerce:Enforcing antitrust laws, etc.Vol. 35, p. 1014.
That the balance of the appropriation entitled “Enforcement of antitrust laws, nineteen hundred and ten,” shall be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, and an additional appropriation of two hundred thousand dollars is hereby made for the same purposes and for the enforcement of Acts to regulate commerce. Suits to set aside conveyances of allotted lands, Five CivilizedConveyances of allotted lands.Expenses of suits to set aside. Tribes: For the payment of necessary expenses incident to any suits brought at the request of the Secretary of the Interior in the eastern judicial district of Oklahoma, to be expended under the749 direction of the Attorney-General, fifty thousand dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.*Oklahoma western judicial district.That the sum of ten thousand dollars of the above amount, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended in the prosecution of cases in the western judicial district of Oklahoma, and not to exceed ten thousand dollars of said sum shall be available for the expenses of the United States on appeals to the Supreme Court ofAppeals to Supreme Court. the United States.
Opinions of Attorneys-General: To enable the Attorney-General toVol. 27. Opinions of Attorneys-General.[R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314). employ at his discretion, and irrespective of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, such competent person or persons as will, in his judgment, best perform the service to edit and prepare for publication and superintend the printing of volume twenty-seven of the Opinions of the Attorneys-General, the printing of said volume to be done in accordance with the provisions of section three hundred and eighty-three of the Revised[R.
S., sec. 383, p. 63](/us/rs/s383/p63). Statutes, five hundred dollars. Opinions and briefs of Solicitor of Treasury: To enable the Attorney-GeneralOpinions, etc., Solicitor of the Treasury.[R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314). to employ at his discretion, and irrespective of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes, such competent person or persons as will, in his judgment, best perform the service to edit and prepare for publication and superintend the printing of a digest of the opinions and briefs of the Solicitor of the Treasury, five hundred dollars.
Investigating title of United States in lands in District of Columbia:Title to District public lands.Vol. 35, p. 543. To carry on the work required by section twenty-six of the public buildings Act approved May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, ten thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General. JUDICIAL. Judicial. united states courts. United States Courts. For defraying the expenses of the Supreme Court; of the circuit andExpenses. district courts of the United States, including the district court in the Territory of Hawaii; of the supreme court and court of appeals of the District of Columbia; of the district court of Alaska; of the circuit courts of appeals; of suits and preparations for or in defense of suits in which the United States is interested; of the prosecution of offenses committed against the United States; and in the enforcement of the laws of the United States, specifically the expenses stated under the following appropriations, namely:
For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshalsMarshals’ salaries, etc. and their deputies, one million four hundred and fifty thousand dollars, to include payment for services rendered in behalf of the Uniteli States or otherwise. Advances to United States marshals, in accordanceAdvances. with existing law, may be made from the proper appropriations, as herein provided, immediately upon the passage of this Act; but noRestriction. disbursement shall be made prior to July first, nineteen hundred and ten, by said disbursing officers from the funds thus advanced, and no disbursements shall be made therefrom to liquidate expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten or prior years.
For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses ofDistrict attorneys.Salaries, etc. United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, five hundred and forty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That this appropriation*Proviso.*Service during vacancies. shall be available for the payment of the salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney.750 For fees of United States district attorney for the District of Columbia,District of Columbia.Fees, district attorney.Regular assistants. twenty-three thousand eight hundred dollars.
For payment of regular assistants to Uniteti States district attorneys, who are appointed by the Attorney-General, at a fixed annual compensation, two hundred and eighty-five thousand dollars. For payment of assistants to the Attorney-General and to UnitedAssistants in special cases. States district attorneys employed by the Attorney-General to aid in special cases, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. This appropriation shall be available also for the payment of foreignForeign counsel. counsel employed by the Attorney-General in special cases, and such counsel shall not be required to take oath of office in accordance withOath. section three hundred and sixty-six, Revised Statutes of the United[R.
S., sec. 366, p. 62](/us/rs/s366/p62). States. For fees of clerks, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars.Clerks’ fees. For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peaceUnited States commissioners, etc., fees.[R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189). acting under section one thousand and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, one hundred and fifteen thousand dollars. For fees of jurors, one million one hundred and twenty-fiveJurors’ fees. thousand dollars.
Fees of witnesses, United States courts: For fees of witnesses andWitness fees.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160). for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, eight hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers,Rent of court rooms. seventy thousand dollars. For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and oneBailiffs, etc. crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York and the northern district of Illinois: *Provided,* That all persons employed*Provisos.*Actual attendance.[R.
S., sec. 715, p. 36](/us/rs/s715/p36). under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts: *Provided further,* That no such person shall be employedTraveling, etc., expenses of judges. during vacation; of reasonable expenses actually incurred for travel and attendance of district judges directed to hold court outside of their districts, not to exceed ten dollars per day each, to be paid on written certificates of the judges, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his accounts with the United States; of reasonable expenses actually incurred for travel and attendance ofAttendance circuit courts of appeals. justices or judges who shall attend the circuit court of appeals held at any other place than where they reside, not to exceed ten dollars per day, the same to be paid upon written certificates of said judge, and such payments shall be allowed the marshal in the settlement of his account with the United States; of meals and lodgingsJury expenses. for jurors in Uniteti States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court; and of compensation for juryJury commissioners. commissioners, five dollars per day, not exceeding throe days for any one term of court, two hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorizedMiscellaneous expenses. by the Attorney-General, for the United States courts and their officers, four hundred and forty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That in*Proviso.*Alaska. so far as it may be deemed necessary by the Attorney-General, this appropriation shall be available for such expenses in the District of Alaska. For supplies, including exchange of typewriting machines for theSupplies. United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney-General, thirty-five thousand dollars.
For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothingSupport of prisoners. and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, as well before as after conviction, and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who751 have no friends to whom they can be sent; for the expense of care and. medical treatment of guards employed by the United States who may be injured by prisoners while said guards are endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppressing mutiny, and not exceeding ten thousand dollars for repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For the support of the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth,Leavenworth. Kans.Penitentiary. Kansas, as follows: For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, deputySubsistence. warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining room furniture and utensils, and for farm and garden seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, fifty thousand dollars; For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including suchClothing, etc. clothing as can be made at the penitentiary; for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, including transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States; for expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on duty; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, twenty-five thousand dollars;
For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney-General,Miscellaneous. for fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, purchase of fuel for generating steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and lime; forage for issue to public animals, and hay and straw for bedding; blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use m chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; for labor and materials for repairing steam-heating plant, electric plant and water circulation, and drainage; for labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings; for general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds; for the purchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; for payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; for advertising in newspapers; for fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental condition of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; for pay of extra guards when deemed necessary by the Attorney-General, and for expense of care and medical treatment of guards who may be injured by prisoners while said guards are endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppressing mutiny, forty thousand dollars;
For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, medical andHospital. surgical supplies, and all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, two thousand five hundred dollars; For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows:Salaries. Warden, four thousand dollars; deputy warden, two thousand dollars; chaplain, one thousand five hundred dollars; chaplain, six hundred dollars; physician, one thousand six hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; bookkeeper and record clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; steward, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of farm and transportation, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of industries and storekeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; three captains of watch, at one thousand dollars each; guards, at seventy dollars per month each, fifty-two thousand and eighty dollars; two teamsters, at six hundred dollars each; engineer and electrician, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant752 engineer and electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, seventy-nine thousand one hundred and eighty dollars;
For foreman, shoemaker, harness maker, carpenter, blacksmith, tailor, and tinner, when necessary, four thousand eight hundred dollars; In all, for penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, two hundred and one thousand four hundred and eighty dollars. For support of the United States Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia,Atlanta, Ga.Penitentiary. as follows: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, thirty-five thousand dollars;
For clothing and transportation, including the same objects specifiedClothing. under this head for the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, twenty thousand dollars; For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the Attorney-General,Miscellaneous. including the same objects specified under this head for the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, twenty-four thousand dollars; For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under thisHospital. head for the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, two thousand dollars;
For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows:Salaries. Warden, four thousand dollars; deputy warden, two thousand dollars; chaplain, one thousand five hundred dollars; chaplain, one thousand two hundred dollars; chief clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; physician, one thousand six hundred dollars; bookkeeper and record clerk, one thousand two hundred dollars; stenographer, nine hundred dollars; six clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; telephone operator, four hundred and eighty dollars; engineer and electrician, one thousand five hundred dollars; assistant engineer and electrician, one thousand two hundred dollars; three captains of watch, at one thousand dollars each; steward and storekeeper, nine hundred dollars; superintendent of farm and transportation, nine hundred dollars; two teamsters, at six hundred dollars each; cook, and baker, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; guards, at seventy dollars per month each, forty-three thousand dollars; in all, seventy-two thousand two hundred and twenty dollars;
For foreman, tailor, blacksmith, shoemaker, laundryman, and carpenter, when necessary, four thousand dollars; In all, for penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, one hundred and fifty-seven thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. For support of the United States Penitentiary, McNeil Island,McNeil Island, Wash.Penitentiary.Subsistence. Washington, as follows: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and for supplies for guards, ten thousand dollars;
For clothing and transportation, including the same objectsClothing, etc. specified under this head for the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, six thousand dollars; For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specifiedMiscellaneous. under this head for the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and for such other purposes as may be directly ordered and approved by the Attorney-General, fifteen thousand dollars; For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under thisHospital. head for the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, one thousand dollars;
For salaries, including pay of officials and employees as follows: ForSalaries. warden, two thousand dollars; deputy warden, one thousand two hundred dollars; physician, one thousand two hundred dollars; cook, seven hundred and twenty dollars; guards, at seventy dollars per753 month each, ten thousand five hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand six hundred and twenty dollars; In all, for penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, forty-seven thousand six hundred and twenty dollars.
For support of the National Training School for Boys, District ofNational Training School for Boys, D. C.Salaries. Columbia: For superintendent, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant superintendent, one thousand five hundred dollars; teachers and assistant teachers, seven thousand eight hundred dollars; matron of school, six hundred dollars; five matrons of families, at two hundred and forty dollars each; foremen of and skilled helpers in industries, three thousand eight hundred dollars; farmer, six hundred dollars; assistant farmer, four hundred and twenty dollars; florist, engineer, baker, cook, shoemaker, and tailor, at four hundred and eighty dollars each; assistant engineer, three hundred and sixty dollars; laundress, three hundred and sixty dollars; two dining-room attendants, and housemaid, at one hundred and eighty dollars each; nurse, three hundred and sixty dollars; watchmen, not to exceed eight in number, two thousand eight hundred and eighty dollars; office clerk, seven hundred and twenty dollars; assistant office clerk, four hundred and eighty dollars; parole officer, nine hundred dollars; secretary and treasurer to board of trustees, six hundred dollars; in all, twenty-eight thousand five hundred dollars;
For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dryMaintenance. goods, leather, shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, furniture, tableware, farm implements, seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books, stationery, plumbing, painting, glazing, medicines and medical attendance, stock, vehicles, fencing, repairs to buildings, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding one thousand five hundred dollars, for additional labor or services, and for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, not exceeding five hundred dollars, sixteen thousand dollars;
For extraordinary repairs to buildings, and for connecting buildingsRepairs. of the school with the city water supply and with city sewerage system, and for approaches to buildings, four thousand three hundred dollars; In all for National Training School for Boys, forty-eight thousand eight hundred dollars. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Department of Agriculture. To enable the Secretary of Agriculture to test such plants and woodsPlants and woods for making paper.Tests, etc.*Ante*, p. 430. as may require tests to ascertain if they be suitable for making paper, including rent, and the employment of labor in the city of Washington and elsewhere, and all other necessary expenses, as an additional amount, the sum of thirty thousand dollars, to be immediately available.
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR. Department of Commerce and Labor. LIGHT-HOUSE ESTABLISHMENT. Light-House Establishment. Supplies of light-houses: For supplying fog signals, light-houses,Supplies.*Ante*, p. 537. and other lights with illuminating, cleaning, preservative, and such other materials as may be required for annual consumption; for books, boats, and furniture for stations, traveling expenses of civilian members of the Light-House Board in attending meetings of board at Washington, actual hire of special conveyance when necessary to inspect light stations, and not exceeding three hundred dollars for the purchase of technical and professional books and periodicals for the use of the Light-House Board, and for all other necessary incidental expenses, including the pay of employees other than clerks in754 the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, three hundred and ten thousand dollars.
Repairs and incidental expenses of light-houses: For repairingRepairs. and improving light stations, and aids to navigation, including the establishment and repair of day marks and beacons, construction of necessary outbuildings, at a cost not exceeding two hundred dollars at any one light station in any fiscal year; improvement of grounds connected with the same; and salaries of employees other than clerks, five hundred and fifty thousand dollars; purchase and installation of illuminating apparatus; purchase of tools and material for use in making general repairs; and freight and other incidental expenses pertaining to repairs and improvements of light stations and grounds, fifty thousand dollars; in all, six hundred thousand dollars.
Salaries of keepers of light-houses: For salaries, fuel, rations,Keepers’ salaries. rent of quarters where necessary, and all other necessary incidental expenses of not exceeding one thousand seven hundred and fifty light-house and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights, one million two hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Expenses of light-vessel s: For seamen’s wages, rations, salaries,Light-vessels. supplies, and temporary employment and all other necessary incidental expenses of light-vessels, including the pay of employees other than clerks in the offices of the light-house inspectors and the light-house engineers and at light-house depots, six hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
For repairs of light-vessels, one hundred and thirty thousand dollars. Expenses of buoyage: For expenses of establishing, replacing, andBuoyage. maintaining buoys of any and all kinds, and spindles, and for all other necessary incidental expenses relating thereto, including the pay of employees other than clerks in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at light-house depots, four hundred thousand dollars. Expenses of fog signals: For establishing, replacing, duplicating,Fog signals. and improving fog signals, including submarine signals, and buildings connected therewith, and for repairs the purchase of land sites for fog signals, and for all other necessary incidental expenses of the same, including the pay of employees other than clerks in the offices of the light-house inspectors and light-house engineers and at lighthouse depots, two hundred thousand dollars.
Lighting of rivers: For the pay of employees other than clerks inLighting of rivers. the offices of the light-house inspectors; and for establishing, supplying, and maintaining post lights on the Hudson and East rivers, New York; the Raritan River, New Jersey; Connecticut River, and Thames River between Norwich and New London, Connecticut; the Delaware River between Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, and Trenton, New Jersey; the Elk River, Maryland; Monongahela River; York River and James River, Virginia;
Cape Fear River, North Carolina; Savannah River, Georgia; Saint Johns and Indian rivers, Florida; at Chicott Pass, and to mark navigable channel along Grand Lake, Louisiana; at the mouth of Red River, Louisiana; on the Mississippi, Missouri, Ohio, Tennessee, Illinois, and Great Kanawha rivers; Sacramento and San Joaquin rivers, California; on the Columbia and Willamette rivers, Oregon; on Puget Sound, Washington Sound, and adjacent waters, Washington; and the channels in Saint Louis and Superior bays, at the head of Lake Superior;
Lake of the Woods, including Rainy River; Fox River; Lake Winnebago and connecting lakes and channels; in Alaskan waters and Hawaiian waters; the Light-House Board being hereby authorized to lease the necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or are used to point out changeable channels, and which in consequence can not be made permanent, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars.755 Maintenance of light-house tenders: For salaries of officers andLight-house tenders.Maintenance. crews; rations and provisions for officers, crews, and officials of the Light-House Establishment on duty on board; fuel, water, and other necessary incidental expenses; one million two hundred and sixty thousand dollars.
Repairs to light-house tenders: For repairs to light-house tenders,Repairs. one hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For pay of clerks in the offices of the light-house inspectors andClerks outside of Washington. light-house engineers and at light-house depots, exclusive of services in the office of the Light-House Board, at Washington, District of Columbia, one hundred and fifty thousand two hundred and seventy dollars. Oil houses for light stations: For establishing isolated oil housesOil houses. for the storage of mineral oil, ten thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no*Proviso.*Limit. oil house erected hereunder shall exceed five hundred and fifty dollars in cost.
Maintenance of lights on channels of Great Lakes: To enable theGreat Lakes. Secretary of Commerce and Labor, under the supervision of the Light-House Board, by contract or otherwise, to maintain lights necessary for the safe navigation of those channels in the connecting waterways of the Great Lakes which have been constructed or artificially improved by the Government of the United States, where the same can not properly be lighted from the American side, four thousand dollars.
Neebish Channel, Saint Marys River, Michigan: For maintainingSaint Marys River, Mich.Vol. 35, p. 20. lights provided for in the Act approved February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, for lighting Neebish Channel, Saint Marys River, Michigan, three thousand dollars. Pointe au Pelee light-vessel Lake Erie: For maintenance of a light-vesselPointe au Pelee, Lake Erie. on the southeast shoal, Pointe au Pelee Passage, Lake Erie, four thousand dollars. All the provisions in the sundry civil appropriation Act approvedLight-vessel.Indefinite appropriation for vessels repealed.Vol. 20, p. 379.
March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine (Twentieth Statutes at Large, page three hundred and seventy-nine), in the paragraph under the head “Expenses of light-vessels,” are hereby repealed. Hereafter there shall be submitted, following each estimate for supportDetailed statements to be made with estimates. of the Light-House Establishment, statements showing the amount required for each object of expenditure mentioned in each of said estimates, together with a statement of the expenditures under each of such objects for the fiscal year terminated next preceding the period of submitting said estimates. coast and geodetic survey.
Coast and Geodetic Survey. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of theExpenses. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and including compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the fieldwork, and commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate not exceeding two dollars and fifty cents per day each, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and under the following heads: *Provided,**Proviso.*Advances.That advances of money under this appropriation may be made to the Coast and Geodetic Survey and by authority of the superintendent thereof to chiefs of parties, who shall give bond under such rules and regulations and in such sum as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may direct, and accounts arising under such advances shall be rendered through and by the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the Treasury Department as under advances heretofore made to chiefs of parties.756 Field expenses:
For surveys anti necessary resurveys of the AtlanticField expenses. and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States: *Provided,**Proviso.*Island limitations.That not more than twenty-five thousand dollars of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of said outlying islands, seventy thousand dollars, to be immediately available; For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts on the Pacific OceanPacific coast. under the jurisdiction of the United States: *Provided,* That this*Proviso.*Employing, etc., Filipinos. appropriation be available for the transportation to and from Manila and employment in the office at Washington of not to exceed three Filipinos at any one time, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars, to be immediately available;
For continuing researches in physical hydrography relating toPhysical hydrography. harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the. United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, six thousand four hundred dollars; For offshore soundings and examination of reported dangers onCoast Pilot. the coasts of the United States, and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations, and including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, fifteen thousand dollars;
For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridianMagnetic observations. lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States, and for making magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the purchase of additional magnetic instruments, and the lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic buildings; for continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; for furnishing points to state surveys, to be applied as far as practicablePoints to State surveys. in States where points have not been furnished; for determinations of geographical positions, and for continuing gravity observations, fifty thousand dollars;
For any special surveys that may be required by the Light-HouseSpecial surveys. Board or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, including expenses of surveys in aid of the shellfish commission of the State of Maryland, to be immediately available, fifteen thousand dollars; For objects not herein before named that may be deemed urgent,Miscellaneous. including the preparation or purchase of preliminary plans and specifications of vessels and the actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the superintendent, and for the expenses of the attendance of the American delegates at the meetings of the InternationalGeodetic Association.
Geodetic Association, not to exceed five hundred and fifty dollars, four thousand dollars; *Provided,* That ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be*Proviso.*Interchangeable expenditures. available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation; In all, for field expenses, three hundred and twenty thousand four hundred dollars. Repairs and maintenance of vessels: For repairs and maintenanceVessels. of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including the traveling expenses of the person inspecting the repairs, forty thousand dollars.
Officers and men, vessels, Coast and Geodetic Survey: For allPay, etc. necessary employees to man and equip the vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including professional seamen serving as executive officers and mates on vessels of the Survey, to execute the work of the757 Survey herein provided for and authorized by law, two hundred and forty-five thousand dollars. Salaries, Coast and Geodetic Survey: For Superintendent, sixSalaries.Superintendent. thousand dollars; For pay of assistants, to be employed in the field or office, as theAssistants. superintendent may direct, one of whom may be designated by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to act as assistant superintendent:
For two assistants, at four thousand dollars each; For one assistant, three thousand two hundred dollars; For five assistants, at three thousand dollars each; For five assistants, at two thousand five hundred dollars each; For one assistant, two thousand four hundred dollars; For eight assistants, at two thousand two hundred dollars each; For eight assistants, at two thousand dollars each; For eight assistants, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For eight assistants, at one thousand six hundred dollars each;
For eight assistants, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For ten assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For six aids, at one thousand one hundred dollars each;Aids. For thirteen aids, at nine hundred dollars each; and ten aids, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; In all, one hundred and fifty-six thousand six hundred dollars. Pay of office force: For one disbursing agent, two thousand fiveOffice force. hundred dollars; For one chief of division of library and archives, one thousand eight hundred dollars;
For clerical force, namely:Clerical. For two, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand six hundred and fifty dollars each; For four, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For eight, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand dollars each; For six, at nine hundred dollars each; For one, at eight hundred dollars; For seven, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; For one, at six hundred dollars; For topographic and hydrographic draftsmen, namely:Draftsmen.
For one, at two thousand four hundred dollars; For one, at two thousand two hundred dollars; For three, at two thousand dollars each; For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand dollars each; For two, at nine hundred dollars each; For astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers,Computers. namely:
For one, at two thousand five hundred dollars; For one, at two thousand two hundred dollars; For two, at two thousand one hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For four, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For five, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For copperplate engravers, namely:Engravers. For three, at two thousand dollars each; For three, at one thousand eight hundred dollars each;
For three, at one thousand six hundred dollars each; For two, at one thousand four hundred dollars each; For three, at one thousand two hundred dollars each;758 For three, at one thousand dollars each; For engravers and apprentices, at not exceeding one thousand dollars each, three thousand six hundred dollars; For electrotypers and photographers, plate printers and theirElectrotypers, etc. helpers, instrument makers, carpenters, engineer, and other skilled laborers, namely: For one, at two thousand dollars;
For one, at one thousand eight hundred dollars; For one, at one thousand six hundred dollars; For one, at one. thousand six hundred dollars; For eleven, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; For five, at one thousand dollars each; For three, at nine hundred dollars each; For seven, at seven hundred dollars each; For watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers, namely:Watchmen, etc. For three, at eight hundred and eighty dollars each; For four, at eight hundred and twenty dollars each;
For three, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; For four, at seven hundred dollars each; For two, at six hundred and forty dollars each; For two, at six hundred and thirty dollars each; For three, at five hundred and fifty dollars each; For two, at three hundred and sixty-five dollars each; Tn all, one hundred and eighty-four thousand seven hundred and ninety dollars. Office expenses: For the purchase of newT instruments, for materialsOffice expenses. and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and for books, scientific and technical books and journals and books of reference, maps, charts, and subscriptions; for copperplates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; and for photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use, and for the employment of expert lithographers in the office at an expenditure not exceeding three thousand five hundred dollars; for stationery for the office and field parties, transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses, office wagon and horses, heating, lighting, and power, telephones, including the operation of switchboard, telegrams, ice, and washing, office furniture, repairs, traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, and for extra labor not to exceed three thousand four hundred dollars; in all, fifty thousand dollars.
That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast andAllowances. Geodetic Survey shall be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the superintendent), except as now provided by law. bureau of fisheries. Bureau of Fisheries. Office of commissioner: For commissioner, six thousand dollars;Salaries.Commissioner, etc. deputy commissioner, three thousand dollars; chief clerk, two thousand four hundred dollars; accountant, two thousand one hundred dollars; librarian, one thousand two hundred dollars: one clerk of class four; three clerks of class three; clerk to commissioner, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class one; one clerk, one thousand dollars; ten clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; engineer, one thousand and eighty dollars; three firemen, at seven hundred759 and twenty dollars each; two watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five janitors and messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; janitress, four hundred and eighty dollar’s; messenger boy, three hundred and sixty dollars; four charwomen, at two hundred and forty dollars each; in all, forty-four thousand one hundred and eighty dollars.
Office of architect and engineer: Architect and engineer, two thousandOffice of architect and engineer. two hundred dollars; assistant architect, one thousand six hundred dollars; draftsman, one thousand two hundred dollars; in all, five thousand dollars. Division of fish culture—Office: Assistant in charge, two thousandDivision of fish culture. seven hundred dollars; superintendent of car and messenger service, one thousand six hundred dollars; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; in all, eleven thousand one hundred dollars.
Division of fish culture—Station employees: Central Station andStation employees.Central Station. Aquaria, Washington, District of Columbia: Superintendent of station and aquaria, one thousand five hundred dollars; clerk, nine hundred dollars; two skilled laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; laborer, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand four hundred and forty dollars. Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveGreen Lake, Me. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars.
Craigs Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveCraigs Brook, Me. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars. Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station and Holden, Vermont, AuxiliarySaint Johnsbury, Vt. Station: Superintendent, ono thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; four laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, six thousand seven hundred and twenty dollars.
Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousandGloucester, Mass. five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars. Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, one thousandWoods Hole, Mass. five hundred dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; pilot and collector, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; four laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, eight thousand two hundred and eighty dollars.
Cape Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, one thousandCape Vincent, N. Y. five hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two firemen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, three hundred andBryans Point, Md. sixty dollars. Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveWytheville, Va. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand five hundred dollars.
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(Ohio)Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredPut in Bay, Ohio. dollars; foreman, one thousand dollars; machinist, nine hundred and sixty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand six hundred and sixty dollars.760 Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveNorthville, Mich. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred and sixty dollars; fish cul turist, nine hundred dollars; four laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand seven hundred and sixty dollars. Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, one thousand two hundredAlpena, Mich. dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; in all, two thousand one hundred dollars. Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveDuluth, Minn. hundred dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in-all, four thousand five hundred dollars. Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredNeosho, Mo. dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars: skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveLeadville, Colo. hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two fish culturista, at nine hundred dollars each; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; cook, four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, six thousand nine hundred dollars. San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveSan Marcos, Tex. hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand four hundred dollars. Baird (California) and Battle Creek (California) stations: Superintendent,Baird, and Battle Creek, Cal. one thousand five hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand and eighty dollars; foreman, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, five thousand two hundred and eighty dollars. Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveClackamas, Oreg. hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laboréis, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. Manchester
(Iowa)Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredManchester, Iowa. dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars. Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superin tendent, one thousand fiveBozeman, Mont. hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredErwin, Tenn. dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars. Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, one thousandNashua, N. H. five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, one thousandEdenton, N. C. five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. Baker Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, one thousandBaker Lake, Wash. five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. Puget Sound (Washington) Stations: Throe foremen, at one thousandPuget Sound, Wash. two hundred dollars each; nine laborers, at six hundred dollars each: in all, nine thousand dollars. Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveCold Springs, Ga. hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, one thousandSpearfish, S. Dak. five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers. at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars.761 White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia) Station: Superintendent,White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. one thousand five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; three laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, four thousand two hundred dollars. Tupelo (Mississippi) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveTupelo, Miss. hundred dollars: fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. Boothbay Harbor (Maine) Station: Superintendent, one thousandBoothbay Harbor, Me. five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand one hundred dollars; skilled laborer, seven hundred and eighty dollars; three firemen, at six hundred dollars each; custodian of lobster pounds, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, eight thousand dollars. Mammoth Spring (Arkansas) Station: Superintendent, one thousandMammoth Spring, Ark. five hundred dollars; fish culturist, nine hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, three thousand six hundred dollars. Yes Bay (Alaska) Hatchery: Superintendent, one thousand fiveYes Bay, Alaska. hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollar’s; two skilled laborers, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; three laborers, at nine hundred dollars each; cook, nine hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Afognak (Alaska) Station: Superintendent, one thousand five hundredAfognak, Alaska. dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; two skilled laborers, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; three laborers, at nine hundred dollars each; cook, nine hundred dollars; in all, eight thousand two hundred and twenty dollars. Homer (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, one thousand fiveHomer, Minn. hundred dollars; scientific assistant, one thousand four hundred dollars; scientific assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand dollars; two firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, eight thousand seven hundred dollars. Biological station, Fairport, Iowa: Director, one thousand eightFairport, Iowa.Biological station. hundred dollars; superintendent of fish culture, one thousand five hundred dollars; scientific assistant, one thousand four hundred dollars; scientific assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; foreman, one thousand two hundred dollars; shell expert, one thousand two hundred dollars; engineer, one thousand dollars; two firemen, at six hundred dollars each; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, eleven thousand seven hundred dollars. Biological station, Beaufort, North Carolina: Superintendent andBeaufort, N. C.Biological station. director, one thousand five hundred dollars; two laborers, at six hundred dollars each; in all, two thousand seven hundred dollars. Employees at large: Two field-station superintendents, at oneEmployees at large. thousand eight hundred dollars each; two fish culturista, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two fish culturists, at nine hundred dollars each; five machinists, at nine hundred and sixty dollars each; two coxswains, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, thirteen thousand five hundred and sixty dollars. Distribution employees: Five car captains, at one thousand twoDistribution employees. hundred dollars each; six car messengers, at one thousand dollars each; five assistant car messengers, at nine hundred dollars each; five car laborers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; five car cooks, at six hundred dollars each; in all, twenty-three thousand one hundred dollars. Division of inquiry respecting food fishes: Assistant in charge, twoDivision of inquiry. thousand seven hundred dollars; assistant, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant, one thousand six hundred dollars; two assistants, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; two assistants, at762 nine hundred dollars each; one clerk of class one; two clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; in all, fourteen thousand dollars. Division of statistics and methods of the fisheries: Assistant inDivision of statistics. charge, two thousand five hundred dollars: two clerks of class four; one clerk of class two; two clerks, at one thousand dollars each; one clerk, at nine hundred dollars; statistical agent, one thousand fourhundred dollars; three statistical agents, at one thousand dollars each; one local agent at Boston, Massachusetts, three hundred dollars; one local agent at Gloucester, Massachusetts, six hundred dollars; in all, fifteen thousand seven hundred dollars. Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: One naturalist, one thousandVessels.“Albatross.” eight hundred dollars; one general assistant, one thousand two hundred dollars; one fishery expert, one thousand two hundred dollars; clerk, one thousand dollars; m all, five thousand two hundred dollar’s. Steamer Fish Hawk: One cabin boy, four hundred and eighty dollars.“Fish Hawk.” Schooner Grampus: Master, one thousand five hundred dollars;“Grampus.” first mate, one thousand and eighty dollars; second mate, eight hundred and forty dollars; engineer, eight hundred and forty dollars; cook, six hundred dollars; three seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; one cabin boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all, six thousand nine hundred dollars. Steamer Phalarope: Master, one thousand two hundred dollars;“Phalarope.” engineer, one thousand one hundred dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; cook, six hundred dollars; in all, four thousand seven hundred dollars. Steamer Curlew: Pilot, one thousand one hundred dollars; engineer,“Curlew.” one thousand one hundred dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; cook, six hundred dollars; in all, three thousand five hundred and twenty dollars. Steamer Gannet: Master, one thousand two hundred dollars;“Gannet.” engineer, one thousand one hundred dollars; fireman, seven hundred and twenty dollars; two seamen, at five hundred and forty dollars each; in ail, four thousand one hundred dollars. Expenses of administration: For expenses of the office of the commissioner,Administration expenses. including stationery, purchase of special reports, books for library, furniture, expenses of the attendance of American official delegates at the Fifth International Fisheries Congress not to exceedInternational Fisheries Congress. seven hundred and fifty dollars, purchase and care of necessary horses and vehicles, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horse and vehicle for official use of commissioner, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; telegraph and telephone service, repais to and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, and compensation of temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, and for the Alaskan fur-seal and salmon fisheries services, including travel and all necessary expenses connected therewith, twelve thousand dollars. Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, equipment, andPropagation expenses. operations of the fish-cultural stations of the bureau, the general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including the movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, and temporary labor, three hundred thousand dollars. Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of the vessels andMaintenance of vessels. launches, including the purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, fifty-eight thousand dollars. Inquiry respecting food fishes: For expenses of the inquiry intoInquiries respecting food fishes.Field expenses. the causes of the decrease of food fishes in the lakes, rivers, and coast763 waters of the United States, and for the study of the waters of the interior, the Atlantic, Gulf, and Pacific coasts in the interests of fish culture and the commerciai fisheries, expenses of travel and preparation of reports, and for all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, thirty-five thousand dollars. Statistical inquiry: For expenses in the collection and compilationStatistical inquiry. of the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, including travel and preparation of reports and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, seven thousand five hundred dollars. And ten per centum of the foregoing amounts for the miscellaneousInterchangeable expenditures. expenses of the work of the bureau shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on the objects named, but no more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of appropriation. Agents at salmon fisheries in Alaska: For one agent, two thousandSalmon fisheries, agents, etc. five hundred dollars; and one assistant agent, two thousand dollars; inspector, one thousand eight hundred dollars (transferred from office of the commissioner); in ail, six thousand three hundred dollars. The sum of eight thousand dollars appropriated by the Act makingLaunch for freshwater mussel station.Reappropriation.Vol. 34, p. 721. appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seven, for the purchase or construction of a steam launch for use in the propagation of salmon, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the purchase or construction of a steam or other launch for use in connection with the biological and fish-cultural stations for the propagation of the fresh-water mussel. Biological station, Fairport, Iowa: For completion of biologicalFairport, Iowa.Buildings, etc. station nt Fairport, Iowa, including construction of buildings, ponds, and equipment, to be immediately available, forty thousand dollars. Fish-cultural station, upper Mississippi River Valley (Homer,Homer, Minn.Buildings, etc. Minnesota): For continuation of fish-cultural station in upper Mississippi River Valley, including construction of buildings, ponds, and equipment, to be immediately available, twenty-five thousand dollars. miscellaneous objects, department of commerce and labor. Miscellaneous. Alaskan seal fisheries: For salaries of agents at seal fisheries inAlaskan seal fisheries.Agents’ salaries, etc.*Ante*, p. 326. Alaska, as follows: For one agent, three thousand six hundred and fifty dollars; one assistant agent, two thousand nine hundred and twenty dollars; two assistant agents, at two thousand one hundred and ninety dollars each; one naturalist, three thousand dollars; janitor service at the government buildings at the Pribilof Islands, not exceeding four hundred and eighty dollars; in all, fourteen thousand four hundred and thirty dollars. For furnishing food, fuel, and clothing and other necessaries of lifeFood, etc., for natives. to the native inhabitants on the islands of Saint Paul and Saint George, Alaska, nineteen thousand five hundred dollars. immigration service. Immigration service. Expenses of regulating immigration: For all expenses of the enforcementImmigration of aliens.Expensess enforcing laws. of the laws regulating the immigration of aliens into the United States, including the contract-labor laws; for the costs of the reports of decisions of the federal courts, and digests thereof, for the use of the Commissioner-General of Immigration; for salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees appointed to enforce said laws; for the enforcement of the provisions of the Act of FebruaryVol. 34, p. 898. twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States ” (Thirty-fourth764 Statutes, page eight hundred and ninety-eight); for expenses of necessary supplies, alterations, and repairs, and for all other expenses authorized by said Act; also for preventing the unlawful entry ofChinese exclusion. Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and the expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the. cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation, and for the refunding of head tax upon presentation ofRefunding head tax. evidence showing conclusively that collection was erroneously made; all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, two million five hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That not to exceed fifty thousand dollars of said sum*Provisos.*Employees on contract labor.Vol. 34, p. 906. may be expended as provided in section twenty-four of the Act of February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States:” *Provided,*Chinese exclusion expenses. That the expenditures for the enforcement of the Chinese-exclusion Act shall not exceed five hundred thousand dollars. Hereafter there shall be submitted, following the estimates underDetailed estimates required. the foregoing appropriation for expenses of regulating immigration, statements showing the amount required for each object of expenditure mentioned in said estimates, together with a statement of the expenditures under each of such objects for the fiscal year terminated next preceding the period of submitting said estimates. The Secretary of Commerce and Labor is hereby authorized toMontreal, Canada.Immigration office, rent. execute a lease for office quarters for the United States Immigration Service at Montreal, Canada, for a period of four years and six months from January first, nineteen hundred and ten, at a rate of rental not to exceed four thousand five hundred dollars per annum. Immigration Station Ellis Island, New York Harbor: For newEllis Island station, N. Y.Buildings. crematory, fifteen thousand dollars; for reconstruction of ferry rack, six thousand dollars; in all, twenty-one thousand dollars. For the construction of an eight-inch, cast-iron water main fromGalveston, Tex.Station at “Pelican Spit.”Water supply.*Ante*, p. 372. pier numbered fourteen, in the city of Galveston, Texas, across the channel of the harbor of Galveston, Texas, to such place on “Pelican Spit,” Galveston Harbor, as may be necessary to furnish ample water facilities to the immigrant station thereon, fifteen thousand one hundred and fifty-eight dollars. For the construction and complete installation of electric light,Electric cables. power, and telephone cables between the city of Galveston, Texas, and the immigrant station on “Pelican Spit,’’ five thousand dollars, in all, twenty thousand one hundred and fifty-eight dollars: *Provided,**Proviso.*Deposit by Galveston, Tex.That before contracts are made for the performance of the work herein authorized and appropriated for, the city of Galveston, Texas, shall deposit ten thousand dollars with the Secretary of Commerce and Labor for credit of “Miscellaneous receipts,” to be covered into the Treasury, as provided in section three thousand six hundred and[R. S., sec. 3618, p. 713](/us/rs/s3618/p713). eighteen, Revised Statutes of the United States. Salaries and expenses, Division of Naturalization: For compensation,Naturalization division.Special examiners, clerks, etc. to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, of examiners, interpreters, clerks, and stenographers, for the purpose of carrying on the work of the Division of Naturalization, Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, provided for by the Act of CongressVol. 34, p. 596. approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to establish a Rureau of Immigration and Naturalization and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States,” and for their actual necessary travelingTraveling expenses. expenses while absent from their official stations, including street-car fares on official business at official stations, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe; and for the actual necessary traveling expenses of the officers and765 employees of the Division of Naturalization in Washington while absent on official duty outside of the District of Columbia; for telegrams, verifications to legal papers, telephone service in offices outside of the District of Columbia; not to exceed three thousand dollars for rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia where suitable quarters can not be obtained in public buildings; and for the purposeClerks of courts.Assistance in naturalization cases.Vol. 34, p. 600. of carrying into effect that part of section thirteen of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page eight hundred and ninety-six), which provides: “And in case the*Post*, p. 830. clerk of any court collects fees in excess of the sum of six thousand dollars in any one year, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may allow to such clerk from the money which the United States shall receive additional compensation for the employment of additional clerical assistance, but tor no other purpose, if in the opinion of the said Secretary the business of such clerk warrants such allowance:” *Provided,* That the total compensation for the additional clerical*Proviso.*Limit. assistants authorized by that portion of the said section quoted above to be employed by the clerks of courts shall in no case exceed one-half of the gross amount of fees collected by such clerks in naturalization cases during the fiscal year immediately preceding, and that the expenditures from this appropriation shall be in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Payment of fees to Austrian seamen detained at Ellis Island to beAustrian seamen.Witness fees at Ellis Island. used as witnesses: To enable the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to pay to seven Austrian seamen, who were detained at the, Ellis Island inmigrant Station for several months in order that they might be used as witnesses in the prosecution arising under the immigration laws, a fee of one dollar per day for the time actually detained, one thousand eight hundred and twenty dollars. shipping service. Shipping service. For rent, stationery, and other requisites for the transaction of theContingent expenses. business of shipping commissioners’ offices, including rent of office quarters for the United States shipping commissioner at San Francisco, California, for not exceeding six months of the fiscal year, one thousand and fifty dollars, and rent of temporary quarters for the United States shipping commissioner at New York, New York, not to exceed two thousand eight hundred dollars, ten thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. For tools, appliances, and instruments for the admeasurement ofCounting and measuring appliances. vessels and the counting of passengers, one thousand dollars. bureau of standards. Bureau of Standards. For the continuation of the investigation of the structural materialsInvestigation of structural materials. both belonging to and for the use of the United States, such as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, under the supervision of the Director of the Bureau of Standards, including necessary personal services, to be immediately available, fifty thousand dollars. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Department of State. To meet the expenses on the part of the United States in theNorth Atlantic fisheries arbitration.*Post*, p. 2141. arbitration before the Permanent Court of Arbitration at The Hague, under the special agreement of January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and nine, for the submission of questions relating to fisheries on the North Atlantic coast under the general treaty of arbitrationVol. 35, p. 1960. concluded between the United States and Great Britain on April fourth, nineteen hundred and eight, one hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary.766 For the purpose of paying salaries and expenses and the one-halfCanadian boundary waters commission.*Post*, pp. 1290, 1364, 2448. share of all reasonable and necessary joint expenses of the commission incurred under the terms of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain, concerning boundary waters between the United States and Canada, signed January eleventh, nineteen hundred and nine, seventy-five thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State. UNDER LEGISLATIVE. Legislative. Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the directionStatement of appropriations. of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the first and second sessions of the Sixty-first Congress, as required by the Act approved October nineteenth,Vol. 25, p. 587. eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, four thousand dollars, to be paid to the persons designateci by the chairmen of said committees to do said work. Senate, Secretary’s office: For compiler of the Navy Yearbook andNavy Yearbook and Senate’ documents.Compiler, etc.Distribution of Yearbook. indexer for Senate public documents (Pitman Pulsifer), three thousand five hundred dollars; and hereafter said Navy Yearbook shall be prepared and published for each calendar year and distributed as other public documents; and six thousand additional copies shall be printed and bound in cloth and distributed as follows: One thousand five hundred for the Senate, three thousand for the House of Representatives, one thousand for the Navy Department, and five hundred for the Committees on Naval Affairs of Senate and House. Botanic Garden: For general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus,Botanic Garden.Repairs, etc. painting, glazing, resurfacing foot walks and roadways, new steam boiler for heating propagating range, general repairs to packing sheds, storerooms, new metal roof on stable south side Maryland avenue, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, seven thousand dollars. House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneousHouse Office Building.Maintenance, etc. items, and for all necessary services, thirty-one thousand dollars. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. Government Printing Office. public printing and binding. Office of the Public Printer: Public Printer, five thousand five hundredPublic Printer, purchasing agent, etc. dollars; purchasing agent, three thousand six hundred dollars; attorney, three thousand dollars; secretary to the Public Printer, two thousand five hundred dollars; accountant, two thousand five hundred dollars; assisting purchasing agent, two thousand five hundred dollars; cashier and paymaster, two thousand five hundred dollars; clerk in charge of the Congressional Record at the Capitol, two thousand five hundred dollars; assistant accountant, two thousand two hundred and fifty dollars; chief timekeeper, two thousand dollars; paying teller, two thousand dollars; one clerk, two thousand dollars; telegrapher and clerk, one thousand eight hundred dollars; ten clerks of class four; eleven clerks of class three; six clerks of class two; six clerks of class one; nine clerks, at one thousand dollars each; four clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; six clerks, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; twelve clerks, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; paymaster’s guard, one thousand dollars; one chief doorkeeper, one thousand two hundred dollars; one doorkeeper, one thousand two767 hundred dollars; six assistant doorkeepers, at one thousand dollars each; two messengers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; delivery man, one thousand two hundred dollars; five delivery men, at nine hundred and fifty dollars each; telephone switchboard operator, seven hundred and twenty dollars; three assistant telephone switchboard operators, at six hundred dollars each; five messenger boys, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, one hundred and thirty-three thousand seven hundred and eighty dollars; Office of the Deputy Public Printer: Deputy Public Printer, fourDeputy Public Printer, inspector, etc.Vol. 28, p. 603. thousand five hundred dollars; inspector of paper and material, as provided for in section twenty of an Act to provide for the public printing and binding, approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, two thousand dollars; two clerks of class one; one clerk, nine hundred dollars; one chemist, one thousand four hundred dollars; one messenger, eight hundred and forty dollars; one messenger boy, four hundred and twenty dollars; in all twelve thousand four hundred and sixty dollars; Watch force: Captain of the watch, one thousand two hundred dollars;Watch force. two lieutenants of the watch, at nine hundred dollars each; and sixty-four day and night watchmen, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, forty-nine thousand and eighty dollars; Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisionsHolidays. of the law granting holidays and the executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office, two hundred thousand dollars; Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with theLeaves of absence. provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, three hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That hereafter employees in the Government*Proviso.*Employees with annual salaries. Printing Office receiving annual salaries fixed by law shall be allowed leave at the rate of pay received by them at the time such leave is granted, the same to be payable from the specific appropriation for their salaries; For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for thePublic printing and binding.Aggregate amount. public printing and binding, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving, for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the supreme court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the. Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the International Bureau of American Republics, the Executive Office, and theOffice expenses. departments; for salaries, compensation, or wages, of all necessary employees additional to those herein specifically appropriated for, including the compensation of the foreman of binding, and the foreman of printing; rents, fuel, gas, electric current, gas and electric fixtures, and ice; bicycles, horses, wagons and harness, and the care, driving, and subsistence of the same, to be used only for official purposes, including the purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official use of the officers of the Government Printing Office, when in writing ordered by the Public Printer; freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; furniture, typewriters, and carpets; traveling expenses, stationery, postage, and advertising; directories, technical books, and books of reference, not exceeding five hundred dollars; adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; purchase and installation of storage batteries; machinery (not exceeding one hundred thousand dollars): equipment, and for repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor alterations to buildings; necessary equipment,Supplies for emergency room. maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Government Printing Office who may be taken768 suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty; other necessary contingentMiscellaneous items, etc. and miscellaneous items authorized by the Public Printer; and for all the necessary materials and equipment needed in the prosecution and delivery of the work, four million six hundred and ninety-one thousand seven hundred and thirty dollars; In all, for public printing and binding, five million four hundred and twenty-seven thousand and fifty dollars; and from the said sum printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedingsAllotments.Congress. and debates, one million eight hundred and sixty-one thousand eight hundred and fifty dollars. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. The allotment for printing and binding for Congress is hereby madeImmigration Commission publications. available to the extent of not exceeding ten thousand dollars for the printing, under the provisions of existing law and the rules of the Senate and House or Representatives relating to public printing, as public documents of such of the publications of the Immigration Commission as the commission may designate. And the superintendentSale. of documents is hereby authorized to order reprinted from time to time such public documents of the Immigration Commission as may be required for sale. For the State Department, thirty-seven thousand dollars.Departments, etc. For the Treasury Department, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the War Department, two hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For the Navy Department, one hundred and fifty-three thousand dollars, including not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars for the Hydrographic Office. For the Interior Department, including not exceeding forty thousand dollars for the Civil Service Commission, and not exceeding twenty-five thousand dollars for the publication of the. Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, two hundred and eight-five thousand five hundred dollars. For the Patent Office, as follows: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; or printing, exclusive of illustrations, and binding the monthly volumes of patents, and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indexes, six hundred and forty thousand dollars. For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing and binding the Annual Reports of the Board of Regents, with general appendixes, ten thousand dollars; under the Smithsonian Institution, for the Annual Reports of the National Museum, with general appendixes, and for printing labels and blanks, and for the Bulletins and Proceedings of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not exceed four thousand copies, and binding, in half morocco or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to and acquired by the National Museum Library, thirty-four thousand dollars; for the Annual Reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and for miscellaneous printing and binding for the bureau, twenty-one thousand dollars; for miscellaneous printing and binding for the International Exchanges, two hundred dollars; the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, one hundred dollars; the National Zoological Park, two hundred dollars;769 the Astrophysical Observatory, two hundred dollars; and for the Annual Report of the American Historical Association, seven thousand dollars; in all, seventy-two thousand seven hundred dollars. For the United States Geological Survey, as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the Annual Report of the Director, and for the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, and for printing and binding the same publications, of which sum not more than thirty-five thousand dollars may be used for engraving, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars. For the Department of Justice, thirty-five thousand dollars. For the Post-Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars. For the Department of Agriculture, including not to exceed twenty-five thousand dollars for the Weather Bureau, and including the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five,Vol. 28, p. 612.Vol. 34, p. 825. and in pursuance of the provisions of Public Resolution Numbered Thirteen of the first session Fifty-ninth Congress, and also including not to exceed one hundred and twenty-five thousand dollars for farmers’ bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of four-fifths of which shall be delivered to or sent out under the addressed franks furnished by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as they shall direct, four hundred and sixty thousand dollars. For the Department of Commerce and Labor, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey, three hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars: *Provided,* That no part of this allotment shall be expended*Proviso.*Census Bureau. for printing and binding for the Bureau of the Census. For printing, and binding in cloth, an international commercialInternational commercial directory. directory prepared by the Bureau of Manufactures, Department of Commerce and Labor, six thousand five hundred dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and copies of the said directory shall be sold by the Public Printer in accordance with the law governing the sale of public documents at not less than five dollars per volume theSale. proceeds of such sales to be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided,* That one hundred copies shall be delivered*Proviso.*Copies to Bureau of Manufactures. to the Secretary of Commerce and Labor for the use of the Bureau of Manufactures. For the Supreme Court of the United States, ten thousand dollars; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ, unless it shall otherwise order. For the supreme court of the District of Columbia, one thousand five hundred dollars. For the Court of Claims, twenty thousand dollars. For the Library of Congress, including the copyright office, and the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the copyright office, and binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for building and grounds, Library of Congress, two hundred and. two thousand dollars. For the Executive Office, two thousand dollars. For the Interstate Commerce Commission, ninety thousand dollars. For the United States Court of Customs Appeals, five thousand dollars. For the International Bureau of the American Republics, twenty thousand dollars. And no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum herebyRestriction. appropriated shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition770 thereto, in either of said last quarters the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended. All expenditures from appropriations made herein under GovernmentApportionment of expenditures to work executed. Printing Office, except appropriations for salaries and for stores and general expenses in and for the office of superintendent of documents, shall be equitably apportioned and charged, by the Public Printer, to each publication or work executed under any of the foregoing allotments so that the total charges for work done from the appropriations aforesaid shall not be less than the total amount actually expended from all of said appropriations. Hereafter no employee of the Government Printing Office shall beDetails of employees restricted. detailed to duties not pertaining to the work of public printing and binding in any executive department or other government establishment unless expressly authorized by law. office of the superintendent of documents. Office of Superintendent of Documents. For superintendent of documents, three thousand dollars; assistantSuperintendent, assistants, etc. superintendent of documents, two thousand five hundred dollars; one clerk of class four; four clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; seven clerks of class one; three clerks, at one thousand dollars each; twelve clerks, at nine hundred dollars each; twelve clerks, seven hundred and twenty dollars each; one cataloguer in charge, one thousand eight hundred dollars; two cataloguers, at one thousand five hundred dollars each; three cataloguera, at one thousand two hundred dollars each; one, cataloguer, one thousand one hundred dollars; five cataloguera, at one thousand dollars each; seven cataloguera, at nine hundred dollars each; one cashier, one thousand six hundred dollars; one librarian, one thousand five hundred dollars; one shipper in charge, one thousand two hundred dollars; one stock keeper, one thousand one hundred dollars; three stock keepers, at one thousand dollars each; five stock keepers, at nine hundred dollars each; two stock keepers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; two assistant messengers, at seven hundred and twenty dollars each; three mailers, at eight hundred and forty dollars each; one janitress, four hundred and eighty dollars; two folders, at six hundred and twenty-six dollars each; twelve laborers, at six hundred and twenty-six dollars each; five messenger boys, at four hundred and twenty dollars each; in all, one hundred thousand five hundred and eighty-four dollars. For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving machinesContingent expenses. and accessories, time stamps, adding and numbering machines, awnings, curtains, books of reference, directories, books, miscellaneous office and desk supplies; wrapping paper, including wrappers for Congressional Record and Patent Office Gazette; twine, glue, envelopes, postage, car tickets, soap, toilet paper, towels, disinfectants, and ice; dray age, express, freight, telephone and telegraph service; repairs to building, elevators, and machinery; preserving sanitary condition of building, light, heat, and power; stationery and office printing, including blanks, price lists, and bibliographies; temporary labor in preparing condemned publications for sale as waste paper, not exceeding two thousand dollars; advertising public documents for sale, said advertising to be paid for by exchange of government publications at the regular sale prices, not to exceed five thousand dollars; for catalogues and indexes, not exceeding sixteen thousand dollars; for binding reserve remainders, and for supplying books to depository libraries; in all, one hundred and sixty thousand dollars: *Provided,* That the office*Proviso.*Control of office, etc. of the superintendent of documents shall be under the control of the Public Printer as heretofore; the disbursements on account of salaries or other expenses of the office of the superintendent of documents shall be made by the Public Printer, and a statement thereof shall be included in his annual report for each fiscal year. THE ISTHMIAN CANAL. Isthmian Canal. 771To continue the construction of the Isthmian Canal, to be expendedConstruction.Vol. 32, p. 482. under the direction of the President, in accordance with an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific oceans, approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto: First. For salaries of officers and employees of the Isthmian CanalCanal Commission.Salaries in the United States. Commission, including assistant purchasing and shipping agents, and all other employees in the United States, one hundred and forty thousand dollars. Second. For incidental expenses, including rents, cable and telegraphIncidental expenses. service, supplies, stationery and printing, and actual necessary traveling expenses in the United States (including rent of the PanamaRent. Canal building in the District of Columbia, seven thousand five hundred dollars, text-books and books of reference, one thousand dollars, and additional compensation to the Auditor for the War Department for extra services in auditing accounts of the Isthmian Canal, one thousand dollars), seventy thousand dollars. Third. For pay of members of the commission and officers andConstruction, etc., departments.Pay of commissioners and employees on the Isthmus. employees on the Isthmus, other than skilled and unskilled labor, including civil engineers, superintendents, instrumentmen, transitmen, levelmen, rodmen, draftsmen, timekeepers, mechanical and electrical engineers, quartermasters, clerks, accountants, stenographers, storekeepers, messengers, office boys, foremen and subforemen, wagon masters, watchmen and stewards, including those temporarily detailed for duty away from the Isthmus, in the departments of construction and engineering, quartermaster’s, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, three million nine hundred thousand dollars: *Provided,* That not more than five thousand dollars of this*Proviso.*Pay of secretary. appropriation shall be paid as compensation to the secretary of the commission. Fourth. For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus, includingLabor. engineers, conductors, firemen, brakemen, electricians, teamsters, cranesmen, machinists, blacksmiths and other artisans, and their helpers; janitors, sailors, cooks, waiters, and dairymen, for the departments of construction and engineering, quartermaster’s, disbursements and examination of accounts, thirteen million five hundred thousand dollars. Fifth. For purchase and delivery of material, supplies and equipment,Purchase of material, etc. including cost of inspecting material and of paying traveling expenses incident thereto, whether on the Isthmus or elsewhere, and such other expenses not in the United States as the commission deems necessary to best promote the constriction of the Isthmian Canal, for the departments of construction and engineering, quartermaster’s, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, fifteen million dollars. Sixth. For miscellaneous expenditures, cable and telegraph service,Miscellaneous. stationery and printing, local railway transportation, special trains, including pay-train service; transportation of currency to the Isthmus, recruiting and transporting laborers, transporting employees from the United States, repatriating laborers and employees, actual necessary traveling expenses while on the Isthmus on official business; expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the. Isthmus and all other incidental and contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, for the departments of construction and engineering, quartermaster’s, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, nine hundred thousand dollars.772 Seventh. For pay of the member of the commission in charge, ofGovernment of Canal Zone.Pay of Commissioner, officers, etc. officers and employees, other than skilled and unskilled labor, including foremen, subforemen, watchmen, messengers, and storekeepers, of the department of civil administration, including those necessarily and temporarily detailed for duty away from the Isthmus, six hundred thousand dollars; Eighth. For skilled and unskilled labor for the department of civilLabor. administration, twenty thousand dollars; Ninth. For material, supplies, equipment, construction and repairsMaterials, etc. of buildings, and contingent expenses of the department of civil administration, one hundred thousand dollars; Tenth. For survey of lands in the Canal Zone, seventy-five thousandSurvey of lands. dollars. Eleventh. For pay of the member of the commission in charge, ofSanitation department.Pay of officers and employees. officers and employees other than skilled and unskilled labor, including hospital dispensera, internes, nurses, attendants, messengers, office boys, foremen, and subforemen, watchmen, and stewards, of the department of sanitation on the Isthmus, including those temporarily detailed for duty away from the Isthmus, six hundred thousand dollars; Twelfth. For skilled and unskilled labor of every grade and kind,Labor. for the department of sanitation on the Isthmus, two hundred thousand dollars; Thirteenth. For material, supplies, equipment, construction andMaterials, etc. repairs of buildings, and contingent expenses of the department of sanitation on the Isthmus, seven hundred and fifty thousand dollars. Fourteenth. For the payment of the cost of relocating the PanamaRelocating Panama Railroad, etc. Railroad, including salaries, wages, material, and supplies, and all other expenses incident thereto, two million dollars. In all, thirty-seven million eight hundred and fifty-five thousandAmount. dollars, the same to be available until expended: *Provided,* That*Proviso.*Expenditures paid from proceeds of bond sales. all expenditures from the appropriations herein and hereafter made for the Isthmian Canal shall be paid from, or reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States out of the proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized in section eight of the said Act approved JuneVol. 32, p. 484.*Ante*, p. 117. twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, and section thirty-nine of the tariff act approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine. Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall he available interchangeablyTen per cent interchangeable. for expenditure on objects named; but not more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of the appropriation. No part of the foregoing appropriations for the Isthmian CanalLongevity.Restriction on allowances for. shall be applied to the payment of allowances for longevity service, or lay-over days other than such as may have accumulated under existing orders of the commission, prior to July first, nineteen hundred and nine. Sec. 2. The foregoing appropriations shall be available to reimbursePanama Railroad Company.Reimbursement for marine and fire losses. the Panama Radroad Company for marine losses, and for losses due to destruction of or damage to its plant, equipment, or commissary supplies by fire: *Provided,* That the Panama Railroad*Provisos.*Insurance to cease. Company shall carry no insurance against loss from causes covered by this appropriation: *Provided further,* That hereafter payment byAnnual subsidy not required. the Panama Railroad Company to the United States, in accordance with the treaty with Panama, of the annual subsidy of two hundredVol. 33, p. 2238. and fifty thousand dollars, as provided by the concession granted by the United States of Colombia, shall not be required. Sec. 3. All funds collected by the government of the Canal ZoneDistribution of revenues. from rentals of public lands and buildings in the Canal Zone and the cities of Panama and Colon, and from the zone postal service, and from court fees and fines, and collected or raised by taxation in whatever form under the laws of the government of the Canal Zone, are hereby appropriated until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, as follows: The revenues derived from the postal773 service to the maintenance of that service; the remaining revenues, after setting aside a miscellaneous and contingent fund of ten thousand dollars, to the maintenance of the public-school system in the zone; to the construction and maintenance of public improvements within the zone; to the maintenance of the administrative districts; to the maintenance *of* Canal Zone charity patients in the hospitals of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and to the maintenance of administrative district prisoners. A detailed and classified statement of allStatement to Congress. receipts and expenditures without the duplication of items under this paragraph, shall be submitted to Congress after the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven. Sec. 4. All funds realized during the fiscal year nineteen hundredFunds from services, sales, etc.Reappropriated for construction. and eleven by the Isthmian Canal Commission from the performance of services by the commission, or from rentals, or from the sale of materials and supplies under the custody or control of the commission, are appropriateci for expenditure under any of the foregoing classified appropriations for the department of construction and engineering, and a full and separate report in detail of all transactions hereunder shall be made to Congress. Sec. 5. Hereafter there shall be submitted under each item of appropriation,Estimates.Detailed statement of employees, materials, etc., to accompany. proposed in the annual estimates for construction of the Isthmian Canal, notes giving in parallel columns information which will show the number, by grade or classes, of officers, employees, and skilled and unskilled laborers proposed to be paid under each of said appropriations for the ensuing fiscal year and those being paid at the close of the fiscal year next preceding the period when said estimates are prepared and submitted; also, in connection with each item forPayments other than salaries. material and miscellaneous purposes other than salaries or pay for personal services, the amounts actually expended or obligated for like purposes during the entire fiscal year next preceding the preparation and submission of said estimates. Sec. 6. Hereafter the statement of the proceeds of all sales of oldBook of Estimates.Statement of sales, etc., to be separate from.[R.S.,sec. 3672, p. 722](/us/rs/s3672/p722), repealed. material, condemned stores, supplies, or other public property of any kind shall be submitted to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof as a separate communication and shall not hereafter be included in the annual Book of Estimates. Sec. 7. So much of the Act approved June nineteenth, eighteenShipping commissioners.Permanent appropriations repealed.Vol. 24, p. 79. hundred and eighty-six (Statutes at. Large, volume twenty-four, page seventy-nine), as makes a permanent indefinite appropriation to pay compensation to shipping commissioners and the clones of the shipping commissioners for services under said Act is hereby repealed, to take effect from and after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven; and the Secretary of Commerce and Labor shall, for the fiscal yearEstimates required. nineteen hundred and twelve, and annually thereafter, submit to Congress in the regular Book of Estimates detailed estimates for compensation of such commissioners and clerks. Sec. 8. All laws and parts of laws, to the extent that they makeSteamboat Inspection Service.Permanent indefinite appropriations for, repealed.[R. S., sec. 3689, p. 724](/us/rs/s3689/p724), amended. a permanent indefinite appropriation to pay salaries of the Supervising Inspector-General, supervising inspectors, local inspectora, and assistant inspectors of steam vessels, and clerks of the steamboat inspectors, and for contingent expenses of the Steamboat Inspection Service, are repealed, to take effect from and after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven; and the Secretary of Commerce andEstimates required. Labor shall, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, and annually thereafter, submit to Congress, in the regular Book of Estimates, detailed estimates for salaries and contingent expenses of the Steamboat Inspection Service. Sec. 9. Hereafter the steward, housekeeper, or such other employeeExecutive Mansion, D. C.Designation of custodian of property in.[R. S., secs. 1832–1834, p. 323](/us/rs/s1832–1834/p323), amended.Bond. of the Executive Mansion as the President may designate, shall, under the direction of the President, have the charge and custody of and be responsible for the plate, furniture, and public property therein, and shall, before entering upon the duties of the office, give bond for the774 faithful discharge thereof, said bond to be in the sum of ten thousand dollars, and be approved by the Secretary of War. And hereafter aAnnual inventory required. complete inventory, in proper books, shall be made annually in the month of June, under the direction of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, of all the public property in and belonging to the Executive Mansion, showing when purchased, its cost, condition, and final disposition. This inventory shall be submitted to the PresidentApproval, filing, etc. for his approval, and shall then be kept for reference in the Office of Public Buildings and Grounds, which shall furnish a copy thereof to the steward, housekeeper, or other employee responsible for the property. Sec. 10. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officersSums for salaries to be in full. and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, and all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act be, and the same are hereby, repealed. Approved, June 25, 1910.
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