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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 37 STAT. · March 4, 1913 · Chapter 149

Chapter 149. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen and for prior years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 149.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen and for prior years, and for other purposes.March 4, 1913. [[H. R. 28858](/us/bill/62/hr/28858).] [[Public, No. 434](/us/pl/62/434).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Deficiencies appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year 913nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for prior years, and for other purposes, namely:
EXECUTIVE.Executive. The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directedWilliam H. Crook.Credit in accounts. to credit in the accounts of William H. Crook, disbursing clerk, Executive Office, the sum of $505 disallowed by the Auditor for the State and other Departments in his accounts of disbursements for the quarters ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twelve, on account of expense incurred in painting the walls and woodwork of the rooms in the Winder Building occupied by the Commission on Economy and Efficiency.
To make the salary of the Secretary to the President at the rate ofSecretary to the President.Salary to June 30, 1914.Rate fixed. $7,500 per annum from March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, inclusive, $3,312.50, and hereafter said salary is fixed at the rate of $7,500 per annum. The cost of printing Senate Document Numbered One thousand oneBudget message.Payment for printing. hundred and thirteen of this session shall be charged wholly to and paid out of any balance remaining unexpended March fourth, nine-teen hundred and thirteen, of the appropriation for the President’s Commission on Economy and Efficiency.
Hereafter the Executive shall not extend or accept any invitationInternational congresses, etc.Authority required for participation. to participate in any international congress, conference, or like event, without first having specific authority of law to do so. DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. Claims of American citizens for losses in Samoa in eighteenSamoan claims.Payment of awards.Vol. 36, p. 1034. hundred and ninety-nine: For the payment of the amounts found by the Secretary of State to be due to American citizens for losses growing out of the joint naval operations of the United States and Great Britain in and about the town of Apia, Samoan Islands, in eighteen hundred and ninety-nine, the King of Sweden, by an international award, having found the United States and Great Britain to be responsible for such losses, $14,811.42.
Payment to Panama under treaty of November eighteenth,Panama.Annual payment to.Vol. 33, p. 2238. nineteen hundred and three: To enable the Secretary of State to pay to the Government of Panama the first annual payment due on February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, from the Government of the United States to the Government of Panama under the treaty of November eighteenth, nineteen hundred and three, $250,000. International radiotelegraphic conference: To meet the prorataInternational radio-telegraphic conference.Pro rata share.*Post*, p. 1596. share of the United States in the necessary expenses of the radio-telegraphic service of the International Telegraph Bureau at Berne, for the last half of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $200.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. The sums of $49,300 and $18,000 are appropriated to pay, duringExpenses, postal savings system.Office of Treasurer.Office of Auditor for Post Office Department. the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, the salaries of clerks and others and miscellaneous expenses in the offices of the Auditor for the Post Office Department and the Treasurer of the United States, respectively, provided for in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, to be paid from the appropriation for establishing and maintaining postal savings depositories.
Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: To supply a deficiencySuppressing counterfeiting, etc. in the appropriation for suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, $3,000. 914 Public buildings.public buildings. Cleveland, Ohio.Cleveland, Ohio, post office, customhouse, and courthouse: To make payment for certain extra work and materials deemed necessary during the progress of the work of construction, $60. Rent.To pay balance for rent of temporary quarters at Cleveland, Ohio, for the accommodation of Government officials from October thirty-first to December twenty-second, nineteen hundred and ten, $5,033.94.
Sacramento, Cal.Fuel, fights, and water for public buildings: To pay Ambrose B. Stannard, the sum covering final payment due him under his contract for the extension and remodeling of the Federal building at Sacramento, California, on account of the appropriation “Fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, nineteen hundred and ten,” $200. Mechanical equipment.Mechanical equipment for public buildings: To make payment of various emergency expenditures in connection with the mechanical equipment of public buildings for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, and as an addition to the appropriation for that fiscal year, $18.70.
To make payment of various emergency expenditures in connection with the mechanical equipment of public buildings for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, and as an addition to the appropriation for that fiscal year, $516.96. Brown, David and Newman.General expenses of public buildings: Authority is hereby granted the Secretary of the Treasury to pay Brown, David and Newman the sum of $4.30, from the appropriation for “General expenses of public buildings, nineteen hundred and twelve,” covering cost of advertising for bids m connection with the construction of the executive mansion at Juneau, Alaska.
Louis Ayres.To pay Louis Ayres, for traveling expenses from New York, New York, to Honolulu, Hawaii, and return, under departmental instructions of March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and ten, $312.67. Engraving and Printing Bureau.Completion of vaults.*Ante*, p. 425.Washington, District of Columbia, Bureau of Engraving and Printing: So much of the Act of Congress approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, which authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to install vaults, and appropriates $300,000 for that purpose, be amended so as to make such money available for the installation of vaults, vault linings and fittings, and electrical protection complete.
Mints and assay offices.mints and assay offices. Philadelphia, Pa.The expenses of the annual assay commission for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen may be paid from the appropriation “Contingent expenses, mint at Philadelphia, nineteen hundred and thirteen. San Francisco, Cal.The incidental and contingent expenses of the refinery in the San Francisco Mint for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen may be paid from the appropriation “Contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco, nineteen hundred and thirteen.
” Internal revenue.collecting internal revenue. Agents, etc.To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for salaries and expenses of forty revenue agents provided for by law, and fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeeper-gaugers, $50,000. Miscellaneous.To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for miscellaneous expenses, Internal-Revenue Service, including all objects of expenditure authorized in said appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $17,000. 915 revenue-cutter service.Revenue-Cutter Service.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for expenses ofExpenses. the Revenue-Cutter Service, including all objects of expenditure authorized in said appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $35,000. public health service.Public Health Service. For additional salary of the Surgeon General of the Public HealthSurgeon General.*Ante*, p. 309. Service for the last three quarters of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $750, For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissionedPay, etc. medical officers and pharmacists, $60,572.50.
To equalize the pay of six additional assistant surgeons providedExperts in mental disorders.*Ante*, p, 435. for by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, $2,400. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for the maintenanceMaintenance. and ordinary expenses, exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of quarantine stations, including the leprosy hospital and including not exceeding $500 for printing, $14,000: *Provided*, That hereafter the director of the Hygienic Laboratory shall receive the pay and allowances*Proviso*.Pay of Hygienic Laboratory director. of a senior surgeon. customs service.Customs service.
To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs,Collecting revenue. $700,000, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen. miscellaneous, treasury.Miscellaneous. Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryRecoinage, minor coins. to continue the recoin age of worn and uncurrent minor coin of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the 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, $5,000.
Hereafter the Auditor for the Post Office Department shall notAuditor for Post Office Department.Money orders January 1 to June 30, 1912, not to be assorted. assort and verify the money orders pertaining to postmasters’ issued lists covering the period from January first, nineteen hundred and twelve, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve: *Provided*,*Proviso*. That the statements for said period and accompanying money ordersRetention of statements. shall be retained as a part of the record of unpaid money orders required by the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight.
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay toEmma Morris.Payment to. Emma Morris, widow of Frank II. Morris, late Auditor of the Treasury for the War Department, who lost his life on the twenty-second day of December, nineteen hundred, while in the discharge of his official duties in the Winder Building, $2,000, the same being equivalent to six months’ salary of the said Frank H. Morris. The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directedJoseph Lanzon.Military record established. to regard the service of Joseph Lanzon, late ordnance sergeant.
United States Army, as continuous from May twentieth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, to September second, nineteen hundred and twelve, the date of his death. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission. To carry out the objects of the “Act concerning carriers engagedArbitrating railway employees differences.Vol. 30, p. 424. in interstate commerce and their employees,” approved June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, $5,000. 916 Physical valuation of railroads.*Ante*, p. 701.To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to carry out the objects of the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ’An Act to regulate commerce approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts commendatory thereof by providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers subject thereto and securing information concerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities,” approved March first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $100,000.
District of Columbia.DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Assessor’s office.Assessor’s office: Leave of absence with pay for an additional period of sixty days may be granted to A. E. Grant, clerk in the assessor’s office, District of Columbia. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For additional amount required for contingent expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal yearn, as follows: For nineteen hundred and nine, $3. For nineteen hundred and eight, $6. For nineteen hundred and seven, $3.
For nineteen hundred and six, $3. Coroner’s office.Coroner’s office:For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in appropriation for contingent expenses of the coroners office, fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $100. Advertising.General advertising: For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in appropriation for general advertising authorized and required by law and tor tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, $9.
Public Library.Free Public Library: For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in appropriation for contingent expenses of the Free Public Library, fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, $1.67. Condemning land.Condemnation of land: For additional amount required for condemnation of streets, roads, and alleys, fiscal year nineteen hundred and five, $25.80. Extension of streets, etc.Extension, and so forth, of streets and avenues: For additional amount required for payment of costs and expenses of condemnation proceedings, taken pursuant to the following public Acts, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia:
Bladensburg Road.Vol. 34, p. 843.An Act for the widening of Bladensburg Road, and for other purposes, approved January ninth, nineteen hundred and seven, $263.39. Zoological Park highways.Vol. 33, p. 522.An Act for the opening of connecting highways on the east and west sides of the Zoological Park, District of Columbia, approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen bundled and four, $68.40. Adams Mill Road.Adams Mill Road: For additional amount required for expenses of condemnation in the matter of the widening of Adams Mill Road, $4.05.
Sewers.Sewers: For additional amount required for purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, fiscal years as follows: For nineteen hundred and four, $72. For nineteen hundred and three. $27.95. Public scales.Streets: For additional amount required for replacement and repair of public scales, $150. Electrical supplies.Electrical Department: For additional amount required for general supplies for the electrical department, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, $20.20.
Public schools, repairs, etc.Public Schools: For additional amount required for necessary repairs to and changes in plumbing in existing school buildings, fiscal *Proviso*.Pianos.Vol. 36, p. 988.year nineteen hundred and ten, $373.52: *Provided*, That any balances remaining in the appropriations for the equipment of the extension to Western High School and equipment of Normal School Numbered 917One, appropriated by the Act of March second, nineteen hundred and eleven, are Hereby made available for the purchase of pianos for said schools.
Columbia Institution for the Deaf: For additional amountColumbia Institution for the Deaf. required for expenses attending the instruction of deaf persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, $700. Metropolitan police: For additional amount required for maintenanceHarbor patrol. of harbor patrol, fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, $3.40. Fire Department: For additional amount required for forage,Fire department. $924.16. For additional amount required for house and furniture for truck company in southeastern section of city in square numbered nine hundred and twenty-five, $12.50.
Health department: Contagious-disease service: *Provided*, ThatHealth department.*Proviso*. the limitation of $10,000 for salaries or compensation for personalPersonal services, prevention of contagious diseases. services in the appropriation for the prevention of the spread of contagious diseases, fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, in the District of Columbia appropriation Act approved June twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, is increased to $12,000. Public crematory:
For additional amount required for maintenance,Crematory. including personal services, of the public crematory, $500. Police court building: For additional amount required to payPolice court building. costs incident to condemnation of additional ground for site for new police court building, $50.40. Washington Asylum and Jail: For additional amount requiredAbandoned families. for payments to destitute women and children, $2,500. Support of prisoners: For additional amount required for maintenanceSupport of prisoners. of jail prisoners of the District of Columbia at the Washington Asylum and Jail, including pay of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, $3,500.
Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum: ForColumbia Hospital for Women. additional amount required for the care and treatment of indigent patients, under contract made with the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $1,267.80. Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital: For additionalEmergency Hospital.*Ante*, p. 172. amount required for emergency care and treatment of, and free disgensary service to, indigent patients under a contract made with the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen (Act June twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, volume thirty-seven, page one hundred and seventy-two, section one), $2,500.
Eastern Dispensary: For additional amount required for emergencyEastern Dispensary. care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract made with the Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, $1,500. Industrial Home School for Colored Children: For additionalIndustrial school for colored children. amount required for maintenance, including purchase and care of horses, wagons, and harness, $1,750. Hospital for the Insane: For additional amount required forHospital for Insane.Indigent patients. support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane, in said District, as provided by law, $35,000.
Hereafter all collections or reimbursements on account of chargesDeposit of reimbursement of charges. paid or payable by the District of Columbia for the care and support of the insane of said District at the Government Hospital for the Insane shall be made to the Commissioners of the, District of Columbia and covered into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of 918the revenues of the United States and the revenues of the District of Columbia in equal parts. Feeble-minded children.For additional amount required for maintenance of feeble-minded children, $4,000.
Care of children.For additional amount required for board and care of children committed to the guardianship of the Board of Children’s Guardians by the courts of the District of Columbia, fiscal years as follows: For nineteen hundred and twelve, $1,035.61. Child-caring institutions.Authority is hereby granted to pay, in addition to the sum of $1,500 heretofore authorized, a further sum not to exceed $6,000 to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control, fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen.
Authority is hereby granted to pay, in addition to the sum of $5,500 heretofore authorized, a further sum not to exceed $1,035.61 to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control, fiscal year nine-teen hundred and twelve. Workhouse.W. A. Smoot and Company.Workhouse: The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby authorized and directed to pay to W. A. Smoot and Company (Incorporated) the sum of $156.31 for fuel furnished without the usual inspection required by law, fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen.
Militia.Naval battalion.Militia: For pay of officers and enlisted men of the naval battalion for the annual cruise, July eleventh to twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, inclusive, $2,335.44. Parade expenses.For hire of horses for parade on March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $570. For pay of bands for parade on March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $236. Major Boyd Taylor.Credit in accounts.The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to allow and credit in the accounts of Major Boyd Taylor, disbursing officer, Organized Militia, the sum of $260, being the amount disallowed and charged against him on the books of the Treasury Department.
A. R. Thompson.Refund to.Refund to A. R. Thompson: For amount required to refund to A. R. Thompson amount of guaranty deposit made June nineteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, to remove frame barn purchased from the District of Columbia, erroneously covered into the Treasury as sale of old houses, to be paid wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, $25. Erroneous collections refunded.Refund of erroneous collections: For amount required to refund certain erroneous collections on account of special assessments, charges, fees, and so forth, covered into the Treasury to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts, $540.16.
Judgments.Judgments: For payment of the judgments, including costs, against, the Distinct of Columbia, set forth in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and sixty-five, and House Document Numbered Fourteen hundred and thirty-three of this session, $6,821.21, together with a further sum sufficient to pay the interest, at not exceeding four per centum, on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment. Supreme Court.Witness’ fees.Fees of witnesses, supreme court:
For fees of witnesses in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and for payment of the [R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160).actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, $2,000. Jurors’ fees.Fees of jurors, supreme court: For fees of jurors in the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, $4,000. Pay of bailiffs, etc.Pay of bailiffs: For payment of not exceeding one crier in each court, of office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for the expense of meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases and 919 of bailiffs in attendance upon the same when ordered by the court, $500.
Miscellaneous expenses: For payment of such miscellaneousMiscellaneous court expenses. expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, including also such expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, $40,000. Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportationSupport of convicts. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, on account of fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $30,000. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $3,243.47. Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts toPart from District revenues. meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. To pay claims adjusted and settled under section four of the riverRiver and harbor damages claims.Vol. 36, p. 676. and harbor appropriation Act, approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, and certified to Congress in House Documents Numbered Nine hundred and ninety-seven, Ten hundred and eighty-three, and Ten hundred and eighty-four, at the present session, $1,157.89.
For emergency repairs to the Chalmette Monument, Chalmette, Chalmette Monument, Louisiana.Louisiana, $200. MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Army. under quartermaster corps. pay of the army. For pay of officers and enlisted men of the Army, $2,879,622.Pay. Commutation of quarters to Army paymasters’ clerks (pay clerks) on duty without troops, at stations where there are no public quarters, as follows: Commutation of quarters to ninety Army paymasters’ clerks (pay clerks)Commutation of quarters, paymaster clerks. from March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, at $24 each per month, $7,368.
Commutation of quarters to eighty-five Army paymasters’ clerks (pay clerks) for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, at $24 each per month, $22,320.80. Commutation of quarters to eighty-five Army paymasters’ clerks (pay clerks) for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, at $24 each per month, $17,499.20. subsistence. For subsistence of the Army, including all objects mentioned underSubsistence. this head in Army appropriation act for fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $700,000.15. relief of sufferers from floods.Relief of flood sufferers.
Expenditures made during the months of January and February,Expenditures authorized. nineteen hundred and thirteen, by the Quartermaster Corps, amount 920*Ante*, p. 633.ing to $13,765.62, and by the Medical Department during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, amounting to $4,408.07, for the relief of sufferers from floods in the Ohio and Green River Valleys and in the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys, are authorized and shall be charged to the unexpended balance of the appropriations “For relief of sufferers from floods in the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys,” made Balance to be covered in.May ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and after said sums are so charged the balance of said appropriations shall be covered into the Treasury. international waterways commission.
International Waterways Commission.Vol. 32, p. 373.For salaries and expenses of the International Waterways Commission, authorized by section four of the river and harbor Act approved June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, for the last half of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $1,750. settlement of accounts. Lieut. Col. William S. Peirce and Maj. T. L. Ames.Credit in accounts, for purchases not made on general supply schedule.Vol. 36, p. 531.Credit in the accounts of Lieutenant Colonel William S.
Peirce and Major T. L. Ames: The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to allow and credit in the accounts of Lieutenant Colonel William S. Peirce, Ordnance Department, United States Army, the sum of $131.15, and in the accounts of Major T. L, Ames, Ordnance Department, United States Army, the sum of $2,802,97, and any additional sums which have been or will be disallowed by the Audit or for the War Department, on account of payments made or due for deliveries made prior to January fifteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, on existing contracts and orders, on the ground that the purchases were not made under the general supply schedule, in accordance with the provisions of section four of the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten.
Capt. D. L. Stone.Credit in accounts.Credit in the accounts of Captain D. L. Stone: The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to allow and credit in the accounts of Captain D. L. Stone, United States Army, the sum of $13,046.33, disallowed against him on the books of the Treasury. Capt. John J. Clark.Credit in accounts.Credit in the accounts of Captain John J. Clark: The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to allow and credit in the accounts of Captain John J.
Clark (formerly John J. A. Clark), Philippine Scouts, the sum of $649.07, disallowed against him on the books of the Treasury. Capt. J. E. Normoyle.Credit in accounts.Credit in the accounts of Captain (now Major) J. E. Normoyle: The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to allow and credit in the accounts of Captain J. E. Normoyle, United States Army, the sum of $1,277.82 disallowed against him on the books of the Treasury. Capt. J. A. Cooper.Credit In accounts.Credit in the accounts of Captain J.
A. Cooper: The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to allow and credit in the accounts of Captain J. A. Cooper, United States Army, the sum of $300, disallowed against him on the books of the Treasury. Capt. Briant H..Credit in accounts.Credit in the accounts of Captain Briant H. Welles: The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to allow and credit in the accounts of Captain Briant H. Wells, United States Army, the sum of $850.05, disallowed against him on the books of the Treasury.
Volunteer Soldiers’ Home.NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, at the following branches, namely: 921 At the Pacific Branch, at Santa Monica, California, $6,000.Santa Monica, Cal. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, at the following branches, namely:
At the Western Branch at Leavenworth, Kansas, $6,000.Leavenworth, Kans. State or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: ForState or 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, fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $19,710.12: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be*Provisos*.Intoxicants. apportioned to any State or Territorial home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold: *Provided further*, ThatCollections from inmates. for any sum or sums collected in any manner 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.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. To pay the claims adjusted and determined by the Navy Department, Navy collision claims.Vol. 36, p. 607.under the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page six hundred and seven), on account of damages occasioned to private property by collisions with vessels of the United States Navy and for which the naval vessels were responsible, certified to Congress at its present session in House Documents Numbered Thirteen hundred and forty-eight and Fourteen hundred and thirteen, and Senate Document Numbered Eleven hundred and seventeen, $1,574.91. hydrographic office.Hydrographic Office.
The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to pay, from the appropriationContingent expenses. “Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic ” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, two vouchers amounting to $41.50, covering wrapping paper and lithographic liquid dryer purchased for the use of the Hydrographic Office, as set forth in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and sixty-five of this session. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Navy. general account of advances. To reimburse “General account of advances,” created by the ActGeneral account of advances.Vol. 20, p. 167. of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and sixty-seven), for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named hereunder in excess of the sums appropriated therefor for the fiscal year given, found to be due the “general account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, the accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to credit by transfer from unexpended balances of appropriations for the Naval Establishment, fiscal years nineteen hundred and twelve and nineteen hundred and thirteen, amounts as follows:
For maintenance, yards and docks, Bureau of Yards and Docks,Bureau of Yards and Docks. nineteen hundred and ten, $33.18; 922 Bureau of Navigation.For naval training station, Great Lakes, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and ten, $99.98; Bureau of Ordnance.For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, nineteen hundred and ten, $2,070.01; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nine-teen hundred and ten, $47.40; Marine Corps.For repairs of barracks, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and ten, $84;
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, nine-teen hundred and nine, $26.64; Bureau of Navigation.For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and eight, $9.99; Portsmouth navy yard.For machinery plant, navy yard, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, $4.47; Dry dock “Dewey.”For repairing dry dock Dewey, $6.74; In all, $2,382.41. Pay.pay of the navy. William J. Bohning.Vol. 35, p. 145.For payment to designated beneficiary of the late William J.
Bohning, coal passer, United States Navy, the amount deducted for expenses of interment for which no expenses were incurred, in accordance with the Act of May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, being a deficiency for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, $35. Pay, miscellaneous.pay, miscellaneous. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Pay, miscellaneous,” including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $103,241.78.
Bureau of Navigation.bureau of navigation. Recruiting.The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to pay, from the appropriation “Recruiting, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and twelve,” four vouchers, set forth on page twelve of House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and sixty-five of the present session, amounting to $136.84, covering advertising placed in newspapers for recruits for the Navy by the naval recruiting officer, naval recruiting station, New Orleans, Louisiana, during the month of June, nineteen [R.
S., sec. 3828, p. 749](/us/rs/s3828/p749).hundred and twelve, in advance of authority from the Secretary of the Navy, as required by section thirty-eight hundred and twenty-eight, Revised Statutes. Morning Patriot, Jackson, Mich.Advertising.For payment of an advertisement in the Morning Patriot, Jackson, Michigan, from February sixth, nineteen hundred and seven, to March twelfth, nineteen hundred and seven, and from March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, to April eighteenth, nineteen hundred and seven, bills for which were not submitted until November, nineteen hundred and twelve, being a deficiency for the fiscal year nine-teen hundred and seven, $33.
Bureau of Equipments.bureau of equipment. National Electric Signaling Company.For amount required to cover the unpaid balance due on the contract with the National Electric Signaling Company, dated May seventh, nineteen hundred and nine, for equipping the naval high-powered radio station at Arlington, Virginia, being a deficiency for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, $46,000. Coal and transportation.To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Coal and transportation,” Bureau of Equipment, including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $237,595.33. 923 bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Provisions, Navy,”Provisions. including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $747,092.56. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Contingent, BureauContingent. of Supplies and Accounts,” including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $11,968.14.
Bureau of Steam Engineering: For balance due on contractBureau of Steam Engineering.Mosher Water Tube Boiler Company. with Mosher Water Tube Boiler Company, dated January twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, for eight marine water-tube boilers, being a deficiency for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, $7,305.60. marine corps.Marine Corps. For provisions, Marine Corps, including items specified under thisProvisions. head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $56,500. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation “Medical Department,”Medical Department. including all objects mentioned under this title of appropriation in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $60,000. public works, bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks. For concrete and granite dry dock, $1,310.99.Concrete dry dock. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. To pay the accounts set forth on page fourteen of House DocumentContingent expenses.
Numbered Thirteen hundred and sixty-five of this session, chargeable to the appropriation for contingent expenses fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $116.60. Capitol Building: For work at Capitol and for general repairsCapitol.Repairs, etc. thereof, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $3,500. For payment due the Washington Gas Light Company for gasWashington Gas Light Company. service for the months of June, July, August, September, October, November, and December, nineteen hundred and twelve, and January, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $542.14.
For payment due the Potomac Electric Power Company for electricPotomac Electric Power Company. current for the months of June, July, August, September, October, November, and December, nineteen hundred and twelve, and January, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $352.36. Senate Office Building: To pay balances on contracts and forSenate Office Building. labor and material for the construction of approaches to the Senate Office Building, $15,000. Capitol power plant: To pay the Atlas Engine Works balanceCapitol power plant. on contract for furnishing boilers for the Capitol power plant,Boilers. $2,136.17.
For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the power plantFuel, oil, etc. which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and Congressional building, $6,148.82. 924 Removing buildings, etc., enlarging Capitol grounds.For expenses of removal of the buildings or other structures upon the land acquired for the enlargement of the Capitol Grounds, for grading, seeding, and soiling, and preparation or plans for permanently improving the same, $35,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen.
Public Lands.public land service. Wendell V. Hall.Surveys.For payment to Wendell V. Hall, United States deputy surveyor for surveys of public lands in New Mexico, executed by him and necessary to complete the lines of survey embraced in his contract numbered four hundred and thirty-three, and special instructions issued thereunder, dated January twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, being the balance of the amount found due him by the Commissioner of the Vol. 35, p. 986.General Land Office in the settlement of this accounts in accordance with the rates as authorized in the Act making appropriation for the survey and resurvey of public lands for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, in which the work was executed, $199.58.
E. D. M. Fowle.Credit in accounts.The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to allow credit in the accounts of E. D. M. Fowle, special disbursing agent, General Land Office, the sum of $96, being the amount disallowed by the Auditor for the Interior Department in the settlement of Iris accounts for the fiscal year ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, under the appropriation for “Protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, nineteen hundred and ten and nineteen hundred and eleven,” in accordance with a decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury, dated January eighteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, for payment of additional per diem allowance to employees in the field service of the General Land Office, while afloat between Alaskan points.
Charles F. Read.Credit in accounts.The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to allow credit in the accounts of Charles F. Head, special disbursing agent, General Land Office, the sum of $66.70, being the amount disallowed by the Auditor for the Interior Department in the settlement of his accounts for the fiscal years of nineteen hundred and eleven and nine-teen hundred and twelve, under the appropriations for “Protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, nineteen hundred and ten and nineteen hundred and eleven,” and “ Expenses of hearings in land entries, nineteen hundred and twelve,” in accordance with a decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury, dated April eighth, nineteen hundred and eleven, for excess payments to officers in the States of Missouri and New Mexico for taking depositions in land-entry cases, as per schedule of disallowances on file in the General Land Office.
Stock Growers’ Journal.Advertising.The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay, out of the appropriation for “Surveying the public lands, nineteen hundred and eleven and nineteen hundred and twelve,” act of Congress approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, the voucher for $8.55 of the Stock Growers’ Journal, of Miles City, Montana, as certified by United States Surveyor Richard E. Bandy, and approved by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, for the publication in three weekly editions of said newspaper, from August thirtieth to September thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, of an advertisement for the recovery of strayed or stolen horses, the property of the General Land Office, used in connection with the surveying service.
Surveys within land grants.Use of fund for office work.Vol. 13, p. 364.Vol. 28, p. 937.The fund derived from the Act approved July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four, and the appropriation “Surveys within land grants (reimbursable), Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five,” is hereby made available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen for office work upon surveys 925under these Acts in the offices of the surveyors general and in the General Land Office.
That any person entitled to enter lands under the homestead laws,Homestead entries.Choice of prior entrymen to perfect proof under former law. who may have established residence upon unsurveyed lands (which were subject to homestead entry) prior to the passage and approval of the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled “An Act to amend section twenty-two hundred and ninety-one and section*Ante*, p. 123. twenty-two hundred and ninety-seven, of the Revised Statutes relating to homesteads,” may perfect Iris proof for such lands under said Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, or under the law existing at the time of the establishment of such residence, as he may elect, such election to be signified to the Department of the Interior in accordance with rules and regulations to be prescribed by the the Secretary. geological survey.Geological Survey.
The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directedJohn D. McChesney.Credit in accounts, purchases not under supply schedule. to credit in the accounts of John D. McChesney, chief disbursing clerk, United States Geological Survey, the following amounts, under the appropriations named, covering items suspended, and to be suspended, on the ground that the materials were not purchased under the general supply schedule in accordance with the provisions of section four of the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundredVol. 36, p. 531. and ten, said items being shown in detail on pages eighteen and nineteen of House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and sixty-five of this session and for fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal years nineteen hundred and eleven and nineteen hundred and twelve, $149.56. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $1,373.66. PENSIONS.Pensions. For Army and Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows,Invalids, etc. minor children, and dependent relatives, Army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress, $15,000,000: *Provided*, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy*Provisos*.Navy pensions. pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that purpose: *Provided further*, That the amount expended under each of the above items shall beAccounts. accounted for separately.
For fees and expenses of examining surgeons, pensions, for services Examining surgeons.Fees, etc.rendered within the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $100,000. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Enforcement of antitrust laws: For the enforcement of antitrustEnforcing antitrust laws. laws, on account of fiscal years, as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $65,000. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $2,539.02. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, $1,410.60.
To enable the Attorney General to employ, at his discretion andOpinions of Attorneys General.Preparation.[R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314). 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-nine of the Opinions of the Attorneys General, the printing of said volume toPrinting.[R.
S., sec. 383, p. 63](/us/rs/s383/p63). be done in accordance with the provisions of section three hundred and eighty-three of the Revised Statutes, $500. To pay the publishers of the Federal Reporter for the estimated Federal court Report and Digests.continuations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $740. 926 Conduct of customs cases.For expenses of representing the interests of the Government in all matters of reappraisement and classification of imported goods and of litigation incidental thereto, including salaries, traveling expenses, and rentals, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $60.80.
Alaska.Incidental expenses.Incidental expenses, District of Alaska: For furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses for the offices of the marshals and attorneys for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $117.56. S. W. Curriden.Credit in accounts.The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized to allow and credit in the accounts of S. W. Curriden, treasurer for the National Training School for Boys, the sum covering expenditures made by him for periodicals for the use of the school, for the fiscal year nine-teen hundred and ten, $36,03.
C. E. Newcomer.Payment to.Payment from the appropriation known as “Salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, nineteen hundred and twelve,” of the salary of C. E. Newcomer for acting as deputy United States marshal in the judicial district of New Mexico during the period from January seventh to February twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve, at the rate of $1,200 per annum is hereby authorized. Judicial.JUDICIAL. Commerce Court.Salaries and extenees March 5 to June 30, 1913.*Ante*, p. 412.Commerce Court:
For the Commerce Court, from March fifth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, both dates inclusive, namely: Clerk, at the rate of $4,000 per annum; deputy clerk, at the rate of $2,500 per annum; marshal, at the rate of $3,000 per annum; deputy marshal, at the rate of $2,500 per annum; for rent of necessary quarters in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, and furnishing same for the Commerce Court; for books, periodicals, stationery, printing, and binding; for pay of bailiffs and all other necessary employees at the seat of government and elsewhere, not otherwise specifically provided for, and for such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $16,111.11; in all, $19,977.78.
United States courts.UNITED STATES COURTS. Marshals.For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including the office expenses of United States marshals in the District of Alaska, to include payment for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, and including services in Alaska and Oklahoma in collecting evidence for the United States when so specially directed by the Attorney General, $125,000. District attorneys.For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys arid their regular assistants, including office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska and salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney, $50,000.
Commissioners’ fees.[R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189).For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section one thousand and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, on account of fiscal year, as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $3,000. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $500. Witness fees. etc.Fees of witnesses, United States courts: For fees of witnesses and for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by [R.
S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160).section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, $300,000. 927 To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for pay of bailiffs andBailiffs, etc. criers, under the conditions and limitations and for the objects specified in the appropriation for this purpose in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $25,000. For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorizedMiscellaneous. by the Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, and, so far as it may be deemed necessary by the Attorney General, for such expenses in the District of Alaska, fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $88,000. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, $1,221.86. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, $446.09. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, $19.60. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for support of prisoners,Support of prisoners. including all the objects specified in the appropriation for this purpose in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hunched and thirteen, fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $35,000. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $9,500. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, $300. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, $61.25. For fees of jurors, fiscal year nineteen hundred and six, $6.80.Jurors’ fees. For supplies, including exchange of typewriting and adding machinesSupplies. for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $2,709. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seven, $7.10. For payment of assistants to the Attorney General and to UnitedAssistant attorneys. States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, including payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General in special cases, and such counsel shall not be required to take oath of office in accordance with section three hundred[R. S., sec. 366, p. 62](/us/rs/s366/p62). and sixty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States, fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $3,953.78. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, $2,500. For support of the United States penitentiary, Leavenworth,Penitentiaries.Leavenworth, Kans. Kansas: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for this penitentiary in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $6,000. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $1,725.41.
For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney General, including the same objects specified under this head for this penitentiary in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $483.10. For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, medical and surgical supplies, and all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, $500.
For support of the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia,Atlanta, Ga. as follows: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $8,700. For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the Attorney General, including the same objects specified under this head for 928the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $15,000.
For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $600. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $73.09. McNeil Island,Wash.For support of the United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington, as follows: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for supplies for guards, $1,000.
For clothing and transportation, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $1,000. For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for such other purposes as may be directly ordered and approved by the Attorney General, fiscal years as follows:
For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $307.01. Postal service.OUT OF THE POSTAL REVENUES. Rent, light, and fuel.For rent, light, and fuel for first, second, and third class post offices, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, to pay the accounts set forth on page twenty-five of House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and sixty-five of this session, $41.66. Indemnity lost registered mail.For payment of limited indemnity for the loss of pieces of domestic registered matter, fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $18,000.
Railroad routes.For inland transportation by railroad routes, $105,500. Parcel post equipment, etc.*Ante*, p. 557.To enable the Postmaster General to carry out effectively the provisions of section eight of the act approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes, he is hereby authorized to provide by purchase, rental, or otherwise, such equipment and supplies, including vehicles, maps, stamps, directories, and printed instructions, as may be necessary, and to appoint and compensate such additional employees as may be required, including employees in the Post Office Department at Washington, District of Columbia, and for these purposes and to supplement existing appropriations, $750,000. audited settlements submitted by the auditor for the post office department.
Postmasters.Compensation.Compensation to postmasters: For amount to reimburse the postal revenues for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, being the amount retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriation, $69,303.40. For amount to reimburse the postal revenues for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, being the amount retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriation, $9.20. 929 DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. To pay the accounts set forth in House Document NumberedPurchases not from general supply schedule.Vol. 36, p. 531.
Twelve hundred and ninety-one of this session, the same being for purchases not made under the general-supply schedule in accordance with the provisions of section four of the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, $132.55. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.Department of Commerce and Labor. bureau of lighthouses.Lighthouses Bureau. To pay the claims for damages which have been considered, adjusted,Damages from collisions.Vol. 36, p. 537. and determined to be due the claimants by the Commissioner of Lighthouses, under authority of the provisions of section four of the Act of June seventeenth nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page five hundred and thirty-seven), on account of damages occasioned by collisions for which the vessels of the Lighthouse Service have been found responsible, certified to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Twelve hundred and sixty-nine, $193. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Repairs and maintenance of vessels: For installation of wirelessVessels. apparatus on three vessels, $9,000. For rewiring the Coast and Geodetic Survey buildings, $4,300.Rewiring buildings. bureau of standards.Bureau of Standards. For the following additional positions in the Bureau of StandardsAdditional employees. for the period from March fifth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, namely: One watchman, at the rate of $720 per annum; one fireman, at the rate of $720 per annum; one assistant engineer, at the rate of $1,500 per annum; two laborers, at the rate of $660 each per annum; in all, $1,372.66, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. To pay Gheretein Y. Heyburn, widow of the late Senator Weldon B. Weldon B. Heyburn.Payment to widow.Heyburn, from the State of Idaho, $7,500. To pay Frances Jane Rayner, widow of the late Senator Isidor Isidor Rayner.Payment to widow.Raymer from the State of Maryland, $7,500. To pay Leila Carter Davis, widow of the late Senator Jeff Davis,Jeff Davis.Payment to widow. from the State of Arkansas, $7,500. To pay Mary Cathcart Ransdell, widow of the late Sergeant atDaniel M.
Ransdell.Payment to widow. Arms of the Senate, Daniel M. Ransdell, a sum equal to one year’s salary at the rate ho was receiving at the time of his demise, $6,500. The Secretary of the Senate is hereby authorized and directed to payAmos W. W, Woodcock, Charles H. Arbuckle, and W. Orr Chapman.Services. Amos W. W. Woodcock for services as clerk to Senator William P. Jackson, of Maryland, from November twenty-ninth to December third, nineteen hundred and twelve; Charles H. Arbuckle for services as clerk to Senator K.
L Perky, of Idaho, from November eighteenth to December second, nineteen hundred and twelve; and W. Orr Chap man for services as stenographer to Senator K. I. Perky, of Idaho, from November twenty-second to December second, nineteen hundred am twelve; from the appropriations for salaries to clerks, messengers 930and others in the service of the Senate, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen. Clerks and stenographers to Senators.For three clerks at $2,000 each per annum and eleven stenographers at $1,200 each per annum to Senators who are not chairmen of committees, from March fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, so much thereof as may be necessary, $6,240.
Robert W. Farrar.Services.To pay Robert W. Farrar for indexing and extra services as clerk to the Committee on Pensions, Sixty-second Congress, third session, $1,000. Dennis M. Kerr.Services.To pay Dennis M. Kerr for services as assistant clerk by detail to the Committee on Pensions, Sixty-second Congress, third session, $1,000. James F. Belford.Services.To pay James F. Belford for services rendered as secretary to the commission to investigate the pneumatic-tube postal system, $225.
Senate Election Cases.Preparing revised edition.Senate Election Cases: To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay, upon vouchers approved by the present chairman of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, for preparing a revised edition of Senate Election Cases, bringing the same down to the close of the Sixty-second Congress, as directed by Senate resolution of January eighteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and said sum, or any part thereof, in the discretion of the present chairman of the Committee on Privileges and Elections, may be paid as additional compensation to any employee of the United States, and shall continue to be available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.
Pages.For sixteen pages from April first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, both dates inclusive, $3,600, or so much thereof as may be necessary, Horses and mail wagons.For expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, $500. Official reporters.Extra services.To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the Senate for expenses incurred from July first, nineteen hundred and twelve, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, $2,880.
Restaurants and kitchens.For the Capitol: For repairs, improvements, and equipment for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $17,500. Harry B. Straight.Services.To pay Harry B. Straight for extra clerical services rendered in connection with the omnibus claims bill, $250.
Garfield Charles.Compiling Treaties, Conventions, etc.To pay Garfield Charles for compensation for compiling a supplement to the compilation entitled “Treaties, Conventions, International Acts, and Protocols between the United States and Other Powers, seventeen hundred and seventy-six to nineteen hundred and nine,” under resolution of the Senate (Senate resolution three hundred and eighty), Sixty-second Congress, second session, $1,500. G. B. Spaulding, F. A. Johnson, and J. D.
Preston.Services.G. B. Spaulding, $500; F. A. Johnson, $500; and J. D. Preston, $370, for services rendered to the Committee on Privileges and Elections making investigation of the amount of money paid to National and Congressional campaign committeess of all political parties, and so forth, from November eighth, nineteen hundred and our, to the election of November fifth, nineteen hundred and twelve, inclusive. Edward T. Clark.Services.Edward T. Clark, for extra services in connection with the preparation of the immigration bill, $250.
Joseph Reardon.Extra services.Pay to Joseph Reardon for extra clerical services rendered to the Honorable Obadiah Gardner, of Maine, from October first to December first, nineteen hundred and eleven, $200. 931 house of representatives.House of Representatives. To pay the widow of C. C. Anderson, late a Representative fromC. C. Anderson.Pay to widow. the State of Ohio, $7,500. To pay the widow of Richard F. Connell, late a RepresentativeRichard F. Connell.Pay to widow. from the State of New York, $7,500.
To pay the widow of George H. Utter, late a Representative fromGeorge H. Utter.Pay to widow. the State of Rhode Island, $7,500. To pay the widow of J. G. McHenry, late a Representative fromJ. G. McHenry.Pay to widow. the State of Pennsylvania, $7,500. To pay the widow of W. W. Wedemeyer, late a RepresentativeW. W. Wedemeyer.Pay to widow. from the State of Michigan, $7,500. To pay the widow of S. C. Smith, late a Representative from theS. C. Smith.Pay to widow. State of California, $7,500.
To pay the widow of George S. Legare, late a Representative from theGeorge S. Legare.Pay to widow. State of South Carolina, $7,500. For allowances to the following contestants and contestées forContested-election expenses. expenses incurred by them in contested-election cases, as audited and recommended by the Committees on Elections: Edwin W. Higgins, $2,000;Edwin W. Higgins. Raymond J. Jodoin, $1,200;Raymond J. Jodoin. George S. Legare, or his legal representatives, $1,500;George S.
Legare. L. C. Dyer, $2,000;L. C. Dyer. Thomas E. Kinney, $2,000;Thomas E. Kinney. Richard Bartholdt, $2,000;Richard Bartholdt. Charles J. Maurer, $1,000;Charles J. Maurer. Patrick F. Gill, $2,000;Patrick F. Gill. Theron E. Catlin, $2,000;Theron E. Catlin. George D. McCreary, $1,884.85;George D. McCreary. Frank H. Hawkins, $1,005.22;Frank H. Hawkins. Dick T. Morgan, $225;Dick T. Morgan. George R. McLean, $2,000;George R. McLean. Charles C. Bowman, $2,000;Charles C. Bowman. In all, $22,815.07.
For assistant clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, authorizedAssistant clerk Appropriations Committee. by resolution of the House, from January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, at the rate of $1,800 per annum, $2,595. To continue the employment of seven messengers, at $100 perMessengers in post office. month each, in the post office of the House of Representatives, from April first to November thirtieth, inclusive, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $5,600.
For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,Miscellaneous items, etc. exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, fiscal years as follows: For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $75,000. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $10,000. For furniture, and materials for repairs of the same, $29,500.Furniture. For folding speeches, to continue available during the fiscal yearFolding. nineteen hundred and fourteen, $3,000.
For expenses under the resolution of the House of RepresentativesRearranging Hall of Representatives. adopted January tenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to procure and install the necessary furniture and furnishings for the Hall of Representatives in accommodating and seating the Members of the House of the Sixty-third Congress and to do all such other things as may be necessary in the preparation of the Hall of Representatives for the assembling of the Sixty-third Congress, under the direction and supervision of the Commission to Rearrange and Reconstruct the Hall of the House of Representatives, $25,000.
The Maltby building is transferred to the control of the commissionMaltby building.Transferred to use of Members. in charge of the House Office Building and rooms therein shall be 932assigned for use of Members of the House of Representatives who cannot be accommodated in the House Office Building in the same manner and under the same conditions as rooms are assigned in the House Office Building. House Office Building.Additional rooms.For the construction of additional rooms at the House Office Building and for each and every purpose connected therewith, to be expended under the Commission in Control of the House Office Building, $220,370, to continue available until expended.
South Trimble.Contested-elections digest.Vol. 24, p. 445.To pay South Trimble Clerk of the House of Representatives, the amount due for services in compiling, arranging for the printer, reading proof, indexing of testimony, stenography and typewriting, supervision of the work, and expenses incurred in the contested elections of the Sixty-second Congress, as authorized by an Act entitled “An Act relating to contested elections,” approved March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the sum of $2,153.90, and an additional sum of $1,400 to such persons as were actually engaged in the work designated by the said South Trimble, and in such proportions as he may deem just for assistance rendered in the work; in all, $3,553.90.
Official reporters and stenographers.Extra services.To pay the official reporters of debates $440 each and the stenographers to committees $550 each to reimburse them for money actually expended by them for clerical assistance from July first, nineteen hundred and twelve, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $4,840. Clerk of the House.Credit in accounts.To credit the accounts of the Clerk of the House of Representatives the amount paid fourteen messengers in the House post office on account of the last four days in the month of August, nineteen hundred and twelve, $186.20.
A. A. Steele.Services.To pay A. A. Steele for indexing the judicial code for the use of the Committee on the Judiciary, $200. Ways and Means Committee.Expenses authorized for, 1st session 63d Congress.After March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, those members of the Committee on Ways and Means who are Members elect of the House to the Sixty-third Congress, or a majority of them, until the meeting of the first session of the Sixty-third Congress, and the Committee on Ways and Means during the first session of that Congress, are authorized to employ such expert, clerical, and stenographic services, and to gather such information, through Government agents or otherwise, as to them may seem fit in the preparation of a bill or bills for the revision of the present tariff law; and they are authorized to have such printing and binding done, and to incur such other expenses as may be deemed necessary; all the expenses hereunder, except for printing and binding, not exceeding $10,000 shall be paid out of the contingent fund of the House on the usual vouchers approved as now provided by law.
District of Columbia Committee.Expenses authorized for, 1st session 63d Congress. After March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, those members of the Committee on the District of Columbia who are Members elect of the House to the Sixty-third Congress, or a majority of them, until the meeting of the first session of the Sixty-third Congress, and the Committee on the District of Columbia during the first session of that Congress, are authorized to expend, for the purposes stated, and under the conditions stipulated in the resolutions of the House numbered one hundred and fifty-four, two hundred, five hundred and thirty-six, adopted June first, sixth, and twelfth, respectively, nineteen hundred and twelve, out of the contingent fund of the House, a sum not exceeding the balance unexpended on March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, of the whole amount authorized to be expended under said resolutions.
Judiciary Committee.Expenses authorized for, 1st session 63d Congress.After March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, those members of the Committee on the Judiciary, who are members-elect of the House to the Sixty-third Congress, or a majority of them, until the 933meeting of the first session of the Sixty-third Congress, and the Committee on the Judiciary during the first session of that Congress, are authorized to expend for experts, accountants, and clerical and other assistants for the purposes stated in House resolution number four hundred and eighty-six out of the contingent fund of the House a sum not in excess of the balance unexpended under said resolution.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.Government Printing Office. 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, $16,200. Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the Leaves of absence.provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $10,750.
For payment to Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes.De Fontes, as messengers on night duty during the present session of Congress, for extra services, $700 each; in all, $2,100. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper forPublic printing and binding.For Congress. the public printing and binding, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for the lithographing, mapping, and engraving for both Houses of Congress; for salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary employees; rents, fuel, gas, electric current, gas and electric fixtures, and ice; bicycles, electrical vehicles, and the care and driving of the same; freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, and all other items needed in the prosecution, delivery, and mailing of the work, $268,000.
For the Interstate Commerce Commission, $10,000.Interstate Commerce Commission. JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.Judgments, United States Courts. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costsPayment.Vol. 24, p. 505. of suit, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney General in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and seventy-four, and which have not been appealed, namely:
Under War Department, $2,958.10;Classification. Under the Department of the Interior, $4,379.80; In all, $7,337.90; together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. For payment of judgment against the Government of the UnitedCobridge Steamship Company. States in favor of the Cobridge Steamship Company (Limited), certified to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and seventy-three, $4,094.
JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.Judgments, Court of Claims. For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims,Payment. reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Thirteen Hundred and seventy-eight, and Senate Document Numbered Eleven hundred and twenty, namely: Under War Department, $110,200.25;Classification. Under Navy Department, $154,790.80;934 Under Department of Justice, $230; Under Post Office Department, $8,329.45; In all, $273,550.50.
Judgments, Indian depredation claims.JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS. Payment.For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and seventy-six, and Senate Document Numbered Eleven hundred and nineteen, at its present session, Deductions.Vol. 26, p. 853.$26,410; said judgments to be paid after the deductions required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the Reimbursements.educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: *Proviso*.Appeal.*Provided*, That no one of said judgments provided in the paragraph shall be paid until the Attorney General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.
Right of appeal.None of the judgments contained in this Act shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. Confederated Band of Ute Indians.Payment to credit of Indians.For the net amount of a judgment of the Court of Claims in favor of the Confederated Bands of Ute Indians, dated February thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, to remain in the Treasury to the credit of the Interest.Ute Indians. The amount of said judgment shall bear interest at four per centum per annum from and after February thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, such interest to be available under Per capita payments, etc., annually.annual appropriations by Congress for cash per capita payments to the Ute Indians entitled, or for expenditure for their benefit, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, $3,305,257.19.
Sec. 2. Claims certified by accounting officers.That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or Vol. 18, p. 110.carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service Vol. 23, p. 254.of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and seventy-two, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows:
CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.For miscellaneous expenses, Internal-Revenue Service, $1.40. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $50,743.48. For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, $844.91. For Life-Saving Service, $2,038.72. 935 For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, $248.24. The post office, Alexandria, Minnesota, $60. For interest on refund of customs duties arising under Act of MarchVol. 18, p. 469. third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, $483.09.
For refund to the National Cartage and Warehouse Company,*Post*, p. 1348. New York City (Private Act, Numbered One hundred and twenty, January twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve), $95.40. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $23,354.02.Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $80.35. For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $591.
For subsistence of the Army, $109.75. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, $554.10. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $5. For barracks and quarters, $11.11. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $11,552.07. For water and sewers at military posts, $1,862.42. For current and ordinary expenses, Military Academy, $108. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $3.66. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, $6. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT.
For pay of the Navy, $31,691.23.Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. For pay, miscellaneous, $55.30. For pay, Marine Corps, $1,077.49. For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, $505.97. For pay, Naval Academy, $345.92. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $48.89. For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $15.75. For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, 51 cents. For naval training station, Rhode Island, Bureau of Navigation, $258.24. For naval training station, Great Lakes, Bureau of Navigation, $6.
For Naval War College, Bureau of Navigation, $125.36. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $719.56. For torpedo station, Bureau of Ordnance, $62.60. For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, $5,545.71. For coal and transportation, Bureau of Equipment, $795.59. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $1,680.63. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $352.58. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $801.82. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $2,050.02.
For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $10,086.83. For enlistment bounties to seamen, $300. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, $3,55. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. For return of funds of patients, Government Hospital for the Insane,Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. $6.62. For education of natives of Alaska, $60. 936 For Alaskan, exhibit, Alaska-Yukon-Pacific Exposition, Seattle, Washington, $4.34.
For salaries, office of surveyor general of Nevada, nineteen hundred and twelve, $638.72. For contingent expenses of land offices, $9.66. For expenses of healings in land entries, $2.40. For reproducing plats of surveys, General Land Office, nineteen hundred and twelve, $53. For payment to settlers on Des Moines River lands, $350. For surveying the public lands, $24,046.88. For re-marking boundary line between Texas and New Mexico, $2,327.33. For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, nineteen hundred and twelve, $124.45.
For Indian schools, support, $18.57. For Indian school buildings, $179. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and twelve, $85,334.92. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian service, nineteen hundred and twelve, $2,468.44. For telegraphing, transportation, and so forth, Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and eleven, $876.32. For telegraphing, transportation, and so forth, Indian supplies, $102.90. For expenses of Indian commissioners, nineteen hundred and eleven, 50 cents.
For support of Mission Indians, California, $352.75. For protecting property interests of minor allottees, Five Civilized Tribes, nineteen hundred and twelve, $343.57. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $24.23. For support of Indians of Colville and Puyallup Agencies, Washington, nineteen hundred and eleven, $1. For town sites and allotments, Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), $21.33. For Army pensions, $279. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Department.For increase of Library of Congress, $5.55. For contingent expenses, Executive Office, nineteen hundred and eleven, $65.05. For administration of the customs laws, nineteen hundred and twelve, $3,092.56. For salaries, secretaries of embassies and legations, $10.60. For expenses of consular inspectors, $980.47. For relief and protection of American seamen, $68.71. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $14.76. For preservation of collections, National Museum, $87.40.
For miscellaneous expenses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, nineteen hundred and twelve, $1,863.84, one-half of which shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of the Treasury of the United States. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $11.22. For meat inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry, $3.30. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $96.37. For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, $9.06. For botanical investigations and experiments, 45 cents.
For cotton-boll-weevil investigations, 68 cents. 937 For vegetable pathological investigations, $3.90. For general expenses, Forest Service, $93. For improvement of the national forests, $46.30. For laboratory, Department of Agriculture, $3. For soil investigations, $1.94. For entomological investigations, $6.53. For collecting agricultural statistics, $4.04. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $1.07. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, $2.22. For expenses of regulating immigration, $75.75.
For repairs and incidental expenses of lighthouses, $2.64. For expenses of light vessels, $808.35. For expenses of buoyage, $467.50. For equipment, Bureau of Standards, $1.11. For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, $202.56. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $10.81. For inspection of prisons and prisoners, nineteen hundred and twelve, $204.32. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $666.87. For fees of clerks, United States courts, nineteen hundred and eleven, $192.80.
For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and twelve, $828.77. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $93.30. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $2.20. Miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $22.20. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. For payments of rewards, $575.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department For indemnity for loss by registered mail, $303.43. For inland mail transportation—Star, $515.05.
For mail messenger service, $3.87. For mail transportation—Railroad, $251.95. For transportation of foreign mails, $299.79. For shipment of supplies, $57.35. For freight on mail bags, postal cards, and so forth, $224.72. For City Delivery Service, $301.20. For rent, light, and fuel, $7.10. For Rural Free Delivery Service, $160.40. For claims for additional salary of letter carriers under section twoVol. 24, p. 355. of Act of June third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, $420.25.
For overtime claims of letter carriers under Act approved JuneVol. 36, p. 865. twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, $336.18. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certifiedAdditional claims certified by accounting officers. to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section fiveVol. 18, p. 110. of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteenVol. 23, p. 254. hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Eleven hundred and fourteen, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: 938 CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE WAR DEPARTMENT.
Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $4,636. For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $845.20. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $409.79. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE NAVY DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.For pay of the Navy, $2,584. For pay, Marine Corps, $4.31. For contingent, Marine Corps, $10.59. For recruiting, Bureau of Navigation, $45.
For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $21.48. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $330.41. For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, $1,000. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $4.96. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $133.50. For Engineering Experimental Station, Annapolis, Maryland, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $49.28. For enlistment bounties to seamen, $174.17. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE INTERIOR DEPARTMENT. Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.For surveying the public lands, $1,940.32.
For re-marking boundary line between Texas and Now Mexico, $100. For Indian schools, support, $53.30. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and twelve, $1,630.33. For support of Indians in California, $115.53. For Indian school, Rapid City, South Dakota, beating plant, $352.07. For indemnity to certain Chickasaw Indians for losses, treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, $24,830. CLAIMS ALLOWED BY THE AUDITOR FOR THE STATE AND OTHER DEPARTMENTS.
Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments.For equipment, Bureau of Standards, $16.79. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $17.80. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and twelve, $46.30. Approved, March 4, 1913.
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