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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 37 STAT. · August 23, 1912 · Chapter 350

Chapter 350. Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 350.— An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes.August 23, 1912.[[H. R. 26371](/us/bill/62/hr/26371).][[Public, No. 299](/us/pl/62/299).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. Pay of Senators.For compensation of Senators, $720,000. Mileage.For mileage of Senators, $51,000. Officers, clerks, etc.For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate, namely: Vice President’s office.Office of the Vice President: Secretary to the Vice President, $4,000; messenger, $1,440; telegraph operator, $1,500; telegraph page, $600; in all, $7,540. Chaplain.Chaplain: For Chaplain of the Senate, $1,200.
Secretary of the Senate. assistant, clerks, etc.Office of Secretary: Secretary of the Senate, including compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators and of the contingent fund of the Senate, $6,500; hire of horse and wagon for the Secretary’s office, $420; assistant secretary, Henry M. Rose, 361$5,000; chief clerk, $3,250; financial clerk, $3,000 and $1,250 additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; minute and journal clerk, principal clerk, reading clerk, and enrolling clerk, at $3,000 each; executive clerk, and assistant financial clerk, at $2,750 each; librarian, file clerk, chief bookkeeper, assistant journal clerk, two clerks, printing clerk, and clerk compiling a history of revenue bills, at $2,500 each; first assistant librarian, $2,400; keeper of stationery, $2,400; compiler of Navy Yearbook and Senate reportCompiler of Navy Yearbook and river and harbor report. on river and harbor bill, Woodbury Pulsifer, $2,220; indexer for Senate public documents, and two clerks, at $2,220 each; two clerks, at $2,100 each; assistant librarian, $1,800; assistant librarian, $1,600; skilled laborer, $1,200; clerk, $1,800; clerk, $1,600; assistant keeper of stationery, $2,000; assistant in stationery room, $1,200; messenger, $1,440; assistant messenger, $1,200; three laborers, at $840 each; three laborers, at $720 each; laborer in stationery room, $720; in all, $94,040.
Document room: Superintendent, George H. Boyd. $3,000; two assistants,Document room. at $2,250 each; assistant, $1,440; two clerks, at $1,440Superintendent,etc. each; skilled laborer, $1,200; in all, $13,020. Clerks and messengers to committees: Clerk to the CommitteeClerks and messengers to committees on Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Agriculture and Forestry, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,800, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, $4,000, two assistant clerks, at $2,500 each, two assistant clerks, at $1,440 each, messenger. $1,440; laborer, $720; clerk to the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, $2,500, messenger, $1,440, messenger, $1,200; clerk to the Committee on Canadian Relations, $2,220, messenger, $1,440, messenger, $1,200; clerk to the Committee on the Census, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,200, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Civil Service and Retrenchment, $2,220, messenger, $1,440, messenger, $1,200; clerk to the Committee on Claims, $2,500, assistant clerk, $2,000, assistant clerk, $1,440, messenger, $1,200; clerk to the Committee on Coast and Insular Survey, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Coast Defenses, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,440, messenger, $1,200; clerk to the Committee on Commerce, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,800, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Conference Minority of the Senate, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,800, messenger, $1,200; clerk to the Committee on Conservation of National Resources, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,200, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Cuban Relations, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,440, messenger, $1,200; clerk to the Committee on Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on the District of Columbia, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,800, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Education and Labor, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,440, messenger, $1,200; clerk to the Committee on Engrossed Bills, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Enrolled Bills, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,440; clerk to the Committee to Examine the Several Branches of the Civil Service, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce and Labor, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Expenditures in the Interior Department, $2,220, messenger, $1,440, messenger, $1,200; clerk to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Justice, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,440, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Expenditures in the Navy Department, $2,220, messenger, 362Clerks, etc., to committees—Continued.$1,440, messenger, $1,200; clerk to the Committee on Expenditures in the Post Office Department, $2,220, messenger, $1,440, messenger, $1,200; clerk to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of State, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Expenditures in the Treasury Department, $2,220, messenger, SI,440, messenger, $1,200; clerk to the Committee on Expenditures in the War Department, S2,220, messenger, $1,440, messenger, $1,200; clerk and stenographer to the Committee on Finance, $3,000, assistant clerk, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,600, assistant clerk, $1,440, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Fisheries, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,440, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Foreign Relations, $2,500, assistant clerk, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on the Geological Survey, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Immigration, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,800, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Indian Affairs, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,440, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Indian Depredations, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Industrial Expositions, $2,220, messenger, $1,440, messenger, $1,200; clerk to the Committee on Interoceanic Canals, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,440, messenger, $1,200; clerk to the Committee on Interstate Commerce, $2,500, two assistant clerks, at $1,800 each, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee to Investigate Trespassers on Indian Lands, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands, $2,220, messenger, $1,440, messenger, $1,200; clerk to the Committee on the Judiciary, $2,500, assistant clerk, $2,220, two assistant clerks, at $1,800 each, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Joint Committee on the Library, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,440, messenger, $1,200; clerk to the Committee on Manufactures, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,440, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Military Affairs, $2,500, assistant clerk, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,440, messenger, $1,200; clerk to the Committee on Mines and Mining, $2,220, messenger, $1,440, messenger, $1,200; clerk to the Committee on the Mississippi River and its Tributaries, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on National Banks, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Naval Affairs, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,440, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Pacific Islands and Porto Rico, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,800, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Pacific Railroads, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Patents, $2,220, messenger, $1,440, messenger, $1,200; clerk to the Committee on Pensions, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,800, three assistant clerks, at $1,440 each, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on the Philippines, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,800, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, $2,500, three assistant clerks, at $1,440 each, messenger, $1,440; clerk of printing records, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,800, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Private Land Claims, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,800; clerk to the Committee on Privileges and Elections, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,440, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,440, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Public Health and National Quarantine, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Public Lands, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,800, assistant clerk, $1,440, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Railroads, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Revolutionary Claims, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Rules, $2,220, assistant clerk, 363$1,800, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Standards, Weights, and Measures, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Territories, $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,440, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Transportation and Sale of Meat Products, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Transportation Routes to the Seaboard, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on the University of the United States, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; clerk to the Committee on Woman Suffrage, $2,220, messenger, $1,440; in all, $370,940.
Office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper: Sergeant atSergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, assistant, etc. Arms and Doorkeeper, $6,500; horse and wagon for his use, $420, or so much thereof as may be necessary; Assistant Sergeant at Arms, $2,500; assistant doorkeeper, $2,592; acting assistant doorkeeper, $2,592; four messengers, acting as assistant doorkeepers, at $1,800 each; thirty-seven messengers, at $1,440 each; two messengers onMessengers, etc. the floor of the Senate, at $2,000 each; messenger at card door, $1,600; clerk on Journal work for Congressional Record, to be selected by the official reporters, $2,000; storekeeper, $2,220; upholsterer and locksmith, $1,440; cabinetmaker, $1,200; three carpenters, at $1,080 each; janitor, $1,200; four skilled laborers, at $1,000 each; skilledLaborers, etc. laborer, $900; laborer in charge of private passage, $840; three female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring room, at $720 each; chief telephone operator, $1,200; two telephone operators, at $900 each; night telephone operator, $720; telephone page, $720; superintendent of press gallery, $1,800; assistant superintendent of press gallery, $1,400; laborer, $840; twenty-seven laborers, at $720 each; sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of $2.50 per dayPages. each during the session, $4,800; in all, $132,604.
For the following for Senate Office Building under the Sergeant atSenate Office Building.Care, etc. Arms, namely: Stenographer in charge of furniture accounts and keeper of furniture records, $1,200; two messengers, at $1,440 each; attendant in charge of bathing rooms, $1,800; two attendants in battling rooms, at $720 each; three attendants to women’s toilet rooms, at $720 each; janitor for bathing rooms, $720; two messengers acting as mail carriers, at $1,200 each; and messenger for service to the press correspondents, $900; in all, $13,500.
For police force for Senate Office Building under the Sergeant atPolice force. Arms, namely: For sixteen privates, at $1,050 each; one special officer, $1,200; in all, $18,000. Post office: Postmaster, $2,250; chief clerk, $1,800 (DeficiencyPostmaster, etc.*Ante*, p. 37. Act July twenty-first, nineteen hundred and eleven); six mail carriers and one wagon master, at $1,200 each; three riding pages, at $912.50 each; in all, $15,187.50. Folding room: Assistant, $1,400; clerk, $1,200; foreman, $1,400;Folding room. six folders, at $1,000 each; eight folders, at $840 each; in all, $16,720.
Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds: Chief engineer, $2,160; assistant engineer and electrician, $1,800;Chief engineer, etc. three assistant engineers, at $1,440 each; ten conductors of elevators, at $1,200 each; two machinists and electricians, at $1,400 each; four laborers, at $720 each; laborer in charge of Senate toilet rooms in old library space, $660: attendant for service in old library portion of the Capitol, $1,500; in all, $28,120. For the following for the Senate Office Building, under the SuperintendentElevator conductors.
Senate Office Building. of the Capitol Building and Grounds, subject to the control and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, namely: Fourteen elevator conductors, at $1,200 each; in all, $16,800. Clerks to Senators: For thirty-five annual clerks to SenatorsClerks to Senators. who are not chairmen of committees, at $2,000 each, $70,000. Stenographers to Senators: For twenty-two stenographers toStenographers to Senators. Senators who are not chairmen of committees, and three stenog- 364rap hers to the chairmen of the three junior minority committees, at $1,200 each, $30,000.
Contingent expenses.Stationery.Contingent expenses, namely: For stationery for Senators and the President of the Senate, including $6,000 for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $18, 125. Postage stamps.For postage stamps for the office of the Secretary of the Senate, $200; for the office of the Sergeant at Arms, $150; in all, $350. Horses and wagons.For expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, $6,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Folding.For materials for folding, $2,000. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $8,000. Fuel, etc.For fuel and advertising, exclusive of labor, $2,500. Furniture.For purchase of furniture, $8,500. For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, $3,000. For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, $2,000. Packing boxes.For packing boxes, $970. Miscellaneous items.For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $50,000.
Storage warehouse.For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents for the Senate, $3,600, and authority is hereby given to use any part or all of said sum for moving documents contained in said warehouse to buildings owned by the Government. Maltby Building.For miscellaneous items on account of the Maltby Building, $17,280. Investigations,For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding $1.25 per printed page, $25,000.
Reporting debates.For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, $30,000, payable in equal monthly installments. Postage stamps for sale.To enable the Postmaster of the Senate to keep a constant supply of postage stamps for sale to Senators, $200. National Monetary Commission.Library added to Library of Congress.The library collected by the National Monetary Commission is hereby made a part of the Library of Congress and is placed under the administration of the Librarian of Congress, and the sum of $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby appropriated for the purpose of moving the books and the present stacks and shelving to the Library of Congress. capitol police.Capitol police.
Pay.For captain, $1,800; three lieutenants, at $1,200 each, two special officers, at $1,200 each; and sixty-seven privates, at $1,050 each; one-half of said privates to be selected by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and one-half by the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives; in all, $78,150, one half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, $300, one half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. congressional directory.Congressional Directory.
Compiling, etc.For expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory, to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, $1,600. 365 house of representatives.House of Representatives. For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives,Pay of Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners. Delegates from Territories, the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, $3,099,500.
For mileage of Representatives and Delegates, and expenses ofMileage. Resident Commissioners, .$154,000. For compensation of the officers, clerks, messengers, and others inOfficers, clerks, etc. the service of the House of Representatives, namely: Office of the Speaker: Secretary to the Speaker, $4,000; clerkSpeaker’s office. to the Speaker’s table, $3,600, and for preparing Digest of the Rules, $1,000 per annum; clerk to the Speaker, $1,600; messenger to the Speaker, $1,440; messenger to the Speaker’s table, $1,200 (transferred from Doorkeeper’s office); in all, $12,840.
Chaplain: For Chaplain of the House, $1,200.Chaplain. Office of the Clerk: Clerk of the House of Representatives,Clerk of the House, clerks, etc. including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, $6,500; hire of home and wagon for use of the Clerk’s office, $900, or so much thereof as may be necessary; chief clerk, $4,500; journal clerk, and two reading clerks, at $4,000 each; disbursing clerk, $3,400; tally clerk, $3,300; file clerk, $3,250; enrolling clerk, $3,000; chief bill clerk, $3,000 (House resolution May ninth, nineteen hundred and eleven); assistant to chief clerk, and assistant enrolling clerk, at $2,500 each; assistant disbursing clerk, $2,400; stationery clerk, $2,200; librarian, $2,100; assistant file clerk, $1,900; two assistant librarians, and one clerk, at $1,800 each; three clerks, at $1,680 each; bookkeeper, and assistant in disbursing office, at $1,600 each; four assistants to chief bill clerk, at $1,500 each (House resolution May ninth, nineteen hundred and eleven); stenographer to clerk, $1,400; locksmith, who shall be skilled in his trade, $1,300; messenger in chief clerk’s office, and assistant in stationery room, at $1,200 each; messenger in file room, one messenger in disbursing office, and assist-ant in House library, at $1,100 each; stenographer to chief bill clerk, $1,000 (House resolution May ninth, nineteen hundred and eleven); three telephone operators, at $900 each; three telephone operators, at $75 per month each from December first, nineteen hundred and twelve, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirteen; night telephone operator, $900; for services of a substitute telephone operator when required, at $2.50 per day, $200; two laborers m the bathroom, at $900 each; two laborers, and page in enrolling room, at $720 each; allowance to chief clerk for stenographic and type-writer services, $1,000; in all, $92,150.
Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds:Chief engineer, etc. Chief engineer, $1,900; three assistant engineers, at $1,300 each; twenty-four conductors of elevators, including fourteen for service in the House Office Building, at $1,200 each, who shall be under the supervision and direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds; machinist, $1,300; electrician, $1,200; four laborers, at $800 each; in all, $40,300. Clerks, messengers, and janitors to committees:
Clerk to theClerks, messengers, and janitors to committees. Committee on Accounts, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,800, janitor, $1,000; clerk to the Committee on Agriculture, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,800, janitor, $1,000; clerk to the Committee on Appropriations, $4,000, and $1,000 additional while the office is held by the present incumbent, assistant clerk and stenographer, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,900, janitor, $1,000; clerk to the Committee on Banking and Currency, $2,000, assistant clerk, $1,200, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on the Census, $2,000, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on Claims, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,200, janitor, $720; clerk to the 366Committee on.
Coinage, Weights, and Measures, 32,000, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on the District of Columbia, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,800, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on Elections Number One, $2,000, janitor, $1,000; clerk to the Committee on Elections Number Two, $2,000, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on Elections Number Three, $2,000, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on Enrolled Bills, $2,000, janitor, $720; clerk to the Commit-tee on Foreign Affairs, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,800, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on Immigration and Naturalization, $2,000, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on Indian Affaire, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,800, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on Industrial Arts and Expositions, $2,000, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on Insular Affaire, $2,000, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce, $2,500, additional clerk, $2,000, assistant clerk, $1,500, janitor, $1,000; clerk to the Committee on Irrigation of Arid Lands, $2,000, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on Invalid Pensions, $2,500, stenographer, $2,190, assistant clerk, $2,000, janitor, $1,000; clerk to the Committee on the Judiciary, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,600, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on Labor, $2,000, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on the Library, $2,000, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on Merchant Marine and Fisheries, $2,000, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on Military Affaire, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,500, janitor, $1,000; clerk to the Committee on Naval Affaire, $2,400, assistant clerk, $1,500, janitor, $1,000; clerk to the Committee on Patents, $2,000, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on Pensions, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,600, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on Post Offices and Post Roads, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,400, janitor, $1,000; clerk to the Committee on Printing, $2,000, janitor, $1,000; clerk to the Committee on Public Buildings and Grounds, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,200, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on Public Lands, $2,000, assistant clerk, $1,200, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on Revision of the Laws, $2,000, janitor, $720: clerk to the Committee on Rivers and Harbors, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,800, janitor, $1,000; clerk to the Committee on Rules, $2,000, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on Territories, $2,000, janitor, 8720; clerk to the Committee on War Claims, $2,500, clerk, to continue Digest of Claims under resolution of March seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,200, janitor, $720; clerk to the Committee on Ways and Means, $3,000, assistant clerk and stenographer, $2,000; assistant clerk, $1,900, janitor, $1,000, janitor, $720; in all, $162,230.
Janitors.Appointment and duties.Janitors under the foregoing shall be appointed by the chairmen, respectively, of said committees, and shall perform under the direction of the Doorkeeper all of the duties heretofore required of messengers detailed to said committees by the Doorkeeper, and shall be subject to removal by the Doorkeeper at any time after the termination of the Congress during which they were appointed. Clerks to committees, session.For nine clerks to committees, at $6 each per day during the session, $6,480.
Sergeant at Arms, deputy, etc.Office of Sergeant at Arms : Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives, $6,500; Deputy Sergeant at Arms, $2,500; cashier, $3,400; financial clerk, $2,700; bookkeeper, $2,200; deputy sergeant at arms in charge of pairs, $1,800; messenger, $1,400 ; skilled laborer, $840; stenographer and typewriter, $900; and for hire of horse and wagon for the office of the Sergeant at Arms, $600; in all, $22,840. House Office Building.Police force.For police force House Office Building under the Sergeant at Arms, namely:
One lieutenant, $1,200; ten privates, at $1,050 each; in all, $11,700. Doorkeeper, special employees, etc.Office of Doorkeeper: Doorkeeper, $5,000; hire of horses and wagons and repairs of same, $1,200, or so much thereof as may be 367necessary; special employee, John T. Chancey, $1,800; special employee, $1,500; superintendent of reqporters’ gallery, $1,400; janitor, $1,500; sixteen messengers, at $1,180 each; fourteen messengersMessengers, laborers, etc. on the soldiers’ roll, at $1,200 each; fifteen laborers, at $720 each; laborer in the water-closet, $720; laborer, $680; two laborers, known as cloakroom men, at $840 each; eight laborers, known as cloakroom men, two at $720 each, and six at $600 each; female attendant in ladies’ retiring room, $800; superintendent of foldingFolding room.Superintendent, etc. room, $2,500; three clerks, at $1,600 each; foreman, $1,800; messenger, $1,200;Pages, etc. janitor, $720; laborer, $720; thirty-two folders, at $900 each; two drivers, at $840 each; two chief pages, at $1,200 each; messenger in charge of telephones, $1,200; messenger in charge of telephones (for the minority), $1,200; forty-six pages, during the session, including two riding pages, four telephone pages, press-gallery page, and ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, at $2.50 per day each, $13,800; superintendent ofDocument room.Superintendent, etc, document room, $2,900; assistant superintendent, $2,100; clerk, $1,700; assistant clerk, $1,600; seven assistants, at $1,280 each; assistant, $1,100; janitor, $920; messenger to press room, $1,000; in all, $148,900.
For employment of Joel Grayson in document room, $2,150.Joel Grayson. For the following minority employees authorized and named in theMinority employees. resolution adopted by the House of Representatives April tenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, namely: Special employee, $1,800; special messenger and assistant pair clerk, $1,800; special messenger, $1,500; special chief page and pair clerk, $1,800; in all, $6,900. For the assistant department messenger authorized and named inSpecial designated employees. the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives December seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, $2,000.
For the special messenger authorized and named in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives January fifteenth, nineteen hundred, $1,500. To continue employment and for compensation of the assistant foreman of the folding room, authorized and named in the resolution adopted by the House of Representatives February sixth, nineteen hundred, at $3.85 per day, $1,405.25. To continue the employment of the person named in the resolution of the House adopted June fifth, nineteen hundred, as a laborer, $840.
To continue the employment of the laborer authorized and named in the resolution of the House adopted December nineteenth, nineteen hundred and one, $840. To continue the employment of the special messenger authorized and named in the resolution of the House adopted April tenth, nine-teen hundred and eleven, $1,500. Successors to any of the employees provided for in the seven precedingAppointments. paragraphs may be named by the House of Representatives at any time. For clerk to the conference minority of the House of Representatives,Conference minority clerk, etc. $2,000; assistant clerk, $1,200; janitor, $1,000; in all, $4,200.
Said clerk, assistant clerk, and janitor to be appointed by the chairman of the conference minority. Office of Postmaster: Postmaster, $4,000; assistant postmaster,Postmaster, assistant, etc. $2,200; registry and money order clerk, $1,500; twelve messengers, including messenger to superintend transportation of mails, at $1,200 each; fourteen messengers, at $100 per month each from December first to March thirty-first, inclusive, four months, $5,600; and one laborer, $720; in all, $28,420.
For hire of horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, $2,500,Horses and wagons or so much thereof as may be necessary. 368 Official reporters.Official reporters : Six official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the House, at $5,000 each; assistant, $2,500; in all, $32,500. Janitor.For janitor for rooms of official reporters of debates, at $60 per month, $720. Stenographers to committees.Stenographers to committees: Four stenographers to commit-tees, at $5,000 each; in all, $20,000.
Janitor.For janitor to rooms of stenographers to committees, at $60 per month, $720. “ During the session” to mean 120 days.That wherever the words “during the session” occur in the fore-going paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the one hundred and twenty days from December second, nineteen hundred and twelve, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, both inclusive. Clerk hire, Members and Delegates.Clerk hire, Members and Delegates: To pay each Member, Delegate, and Resident Commissioner, for clerk hire, necessarily employed by him in the discharge of his official and representative duties, $1,500 per annum, in monthly installments, $618,975, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and Representatives and Delegates elect to Congress whose credentials in due form of law have been duly filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in [R.
S., sec. 81. p. 6](/us/rs/s81/p6).accordance with the provisions of section thirty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall be entitled to payment under *Proviso*.To be placed on roll of employees.this appropriation: *Provided*, That all clerks to Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners shall be placed on the roll of employees of the House and be subject to be removed at the will of the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner by whom they are appointed;
Appointments.and any Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may appoint one or more clerks, who shall be placed on the roll as the clerk of such Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner making such appointments. Contingent expenses.Folding materials.Contingent expenses, namely: For wrapping paper, paste-board, paste, twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding, for the use of Members of the House, and for use in the Clerk’s office and the House folding room, not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed Vol. 28, p. 624.and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk of the House, under the provisions of the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, for the public printing and binding, $10,000.
Furniture.For furniture, and materials for repairs of the same, $10,000. Packing boxes.For packing boxes, $3,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Miscellaneous items, etc.For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, $75,000. Stationery.For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives, Delegates from Territories, and Resident Commissioners, including $5,000 for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, $54,750.
Postage stamps.For postage stamps for the Postmaster, $250; for the Clerk, $450; for the Sergeant at Arms. $300; and for the Doorkeeper, $150; in all, $1,150. library of congress.Library of Congress. Librarian, etc.General administration: Librarian of Congress, $6,500; chief assistant librarian, $4,000; chief clerk, $2,500; Librarian’s secretary, $1,800; clerk, $1,200; clerk (assistant to chief clerk), $1,000; stenographers and typewriters—one at $1,200, one at $720; messenger, $840; junior messenger, $360; photostat operator, $600; in all,$20,720.
Mail and delivery.Mail and delivery: Assistant in charge, $1,500: assistants—one at $900, one at $720, junior messenger, $360; in all, $3,480. 369 Order and accession: Chief of division, $2,500; assistants—oneOrder and accession. at $1,500, one at $1,200, three at $900 each, two at $720 each, two at $600 each, one at $520; two junior messengers, at $360 each; in all, $11,780. Catalogue, classification, and shelf: Chief of division, $3,000; chiefCatalogue, classification, and shelf. classifier, $2,000; assistants—four at $1,800 each, seven at $1,500 each, six at $1,400 each, twelve at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, fourteen at $900 each, four at $800 each, thirteen at $720 each, three at $600 each, ten at $540 each, four at $480 each; six junior messengers, at $360 each; in all, $87,940.
Binding: Assistant in charge, $1,400; assistant, $900; junior messenger,Binding. $360; in all, $2,660. Bibliography: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one at $1,500,Bibliography. two at $900 each, one at $720; stenographer and typewriter, $900; junior messenger, $360; in all, $8,280. Reading rooms (including evening service) and special collections:Reading rooms. Superintendent of reading room, $3,000; assistants—two at $1,800 each, five at $1,200 each, including one in division for the blind (formerly in free public library), two at the charging desk, at $1,080 each, three at $900 each, ten at $720 each, two at $600 each; stenographer and typewriter, $900; attendant, Senate reading room, $900; attend-ants, Representatives’ reading room—one at $900 and one at $720; attendants—two in cloak rooms at $720 each, one in Toner Library, $900, one in Washingtonian Library, $900, two for gallery and alcoves, at $480 each; telephone operator, $600; four junior messengers, at $360 each; two watchmen, at $720 each; evening service, five assistants, at $900 each; fifteen assistants, at $720 each; two assistants, at $600 each; in all, $53,460.
Periodical (including evening service): Chief of division, $2,000;Periodicals. chief assistant, $1,500; assistants—two at $900 each, three at $720 each; stenographer and typewriter, $900; two junior messengers, at $360 each; for arrears of sorting and collating and to enable periodical reading room to be opened m the evenings, two assistants, at $720 each; in all, $10,520. Documents: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one at $1,400,Documents. one at $720; stenographer and typewriter, $900; junior messenger, $360; in all, $6,380.
Manuscript: Chief of division, $3,000; chief assistant, $1,500;Manuscripts. assistant, $900; junior messenger, $360; in all, $5,760. Maps and charts: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one atMaps and charts. $1,400, two at $900 each, one at $720; junior messenger, $360; in all, $7,280. Music: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one atMusic. $1,500, one at $1,000, two at $720 each; junior messenger, $360; in all, $7,300. Prints: Chief of division, $2,000; assistants—one at $1,400, twoPrints. at $900 each; junior messenger, $360; in all, $5,560.
Smithsonian deposit: Custodian, $1,500; assistant, $1,400; messenger,Smithsonian Deposit. $720; junior messenger, $360; in all, $3,980. Congressional Reference Library: Custodian, $1,500; assistants—Congressional Reference Library. one at $1,200, one at $900, one at $720; two junior messengers, at $360 each; in all, $5,040. Law Library: Law librarian, $3,000-assistants—two at $1,400Law Library. each, one at $900, one at $480, one for evening service, $1,500; junior messenger, $360; in all, $9,040.
Copyright office, under the direction of the Librarian ofCopyright office. Congress: Register of copyrights, $4,000; assistant register of copyrights, $3,000; clerks—three at $2,000 each, two at $1,800 each, seven at $1,600 each, one at $1,500, eight at $1,400 each, ten at $1,200 each, ten at $1,000 each, eighteen at $900 each, two at $800 each, ten at. $720 each, four at $600 each, two at $480 each; four 370 junior messengers, at $360 each. Arrears, special service: Three clerks, at $1,200 each; porter, $720; junior messenger, $360; in all, $96,980.
Card indexes.Distribution of card indexes: For service in connection with the distribution of card indexes and other publications of the Library, including not exceeding $500 for freight charges, expressage, and traveling expenses connected with such distribution, $24,500. Temporary services.Temporary services: For special and temporary service, including extra special services of regular employees, at the discretion of the Librarian, $2,000. Carrier service.Carrier service: For service in connection with the Senate and House Office Buildings, $960, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Sunday opening.Sunday opening: To enable the Library of Congress to be kept open for reference use from two until ten o’clock post meridian on Sundays and legal holidays, within the discretion of the Librarian, including the extra services of employees and the services of additional employees under the Librarian, $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Increase of Library.Increase of Library of Congress: For purchase of books for the Library, including payment in advance for subscription books and society publications, and for freight, commissions, and traveling expenses incidental to the acquisition of books by purchase, gift, or exchange, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen Use of balance.hundred and fourteen, $90,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this object for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve.
Law books, etc.For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, under the direction of the Chief Justice, including payment in advance for subscriptions to law periodicals, $3,000; For Supreme Court.For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $2,000; Periodicals.For purchase of miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, including payment in advance for subscriptions to the same, $5,000;
In all, $100,000. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For miscellaneous and contingent expenses of the Library, stationery, supplies, and all stock and materials directly purchased, miscellaneous traveling expenses, postage, transportation, and all incidental expenses connected with the administration of the Library and the Copyright Office, which sum shall be so apportioned as to prevent a deficiency therein, $6,800. Care of building and grounds.Superintendent, etc.Custody, care, and maintenance of Library building and grounds:
Superintendent of the Library building and grounds, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—one at $1,600, one at $1,400, one at $1,000; messenger; assistant messenger; telephone switchboard operator; assistant telephone switchboard operator; captain of watch, $1,400; lieutenant of watch, $1,000; sixteen watchmen, at $720 each; carpenter, painter, and foreman of laborers, three in all, at $900 each; fourteen laborers, at $480 each; two attendants in ladies’ room, at $480 each; four check boys, at $360 each; mistress of charwomen, $425; assistant mistress of charwomen, $300; forty-seven char-women; chief engineer, $1,500; assistant engineers—one at $1,200, three at $900 each; electrician, $1,200; machinists—one at $1,000, one at $900; two wiremen and one plumber, at $900 each; three elevator conductors and ten skilled laborers, at $720 each; in all, $72,185.
Sunday opening.For extra services of employees and additional employees under the superintendent of Library building and grounds to provide for the opening of the Library building from two until ten o’clock post meridian on Sundays and legal holidays, $2,800. 371 For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous supplies, electric and steamGeneral expenses. apparatus, city directory. stationery, mail and delivery service, and all incidental expenses in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of said building and grounds, $14,000.
For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electricalFurniture, etc. work pertaining thereto, $10,000. BOTANIC GARDEN.Botanic Garden. For superintendent, $1,800.Superintendent, etc. For assistants and laborers, under the direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, $14,593.75. For procuring manure, soil, tools, fuel, purchasing trees, shrubs,Repairs and improvements. plants, and seeds; and for services, materials, and miscellaneous supplies, and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Garden, under direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, $6,500.
EXECUTIVE.Executive. For compensation of the President of the United States, $75,000.President. For compensation of the Vice President of the United States,Vice President. $12,000. For the following in the office of the President of the United States:Executive Office.Secretary.Reduction in pay.*Post*, p. 913.Executive clerk, clerks, etc. Secretary, at the rate of $7,500 per annum until March fourth, nine-teen hundred and thirteen, and at the rate of $6,000 per annum on and after March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen; executive clerk, $5,000; chief clerk, $4,000; appointment clerk, $3,500; record clerk, $2,500; two expert stenographers, at $2,500 each; accountant, $2,500; two correspondents, at $2,250 each; disbursing clerk, $2,000; clerks—three at $2,000 each, six of class four, two of class three, five of class two; two of class one; one clerk-messenger, $1,000; two messengers at $900 each; two messengers; three laborers, at $720 each; in all, $72,056.66: *Provided*, That employees of the executive *Proviso*.Details of employees.departments and other establishments of the executive branch of the Government may be detailed from time to time to the office of the President of the United States, for such temporary assistance as may be necessary.
For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationeryContingent expenses. therefor, as well as record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, horses, carriages, harness, automobiles, expenses of stable, including labor, and miscellaneous items, to be expended in the discretion of the President, $25,000. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.Civil Service Commission. For commissioner, acting as president of the commission, $4,500;Commissioners, examiners, etc. two commissioners, at $4,000 each; chief examiner, $3,000; secretary, $2,500; assistant chief examiner, $2,250; three chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; examiner, $2,400; three examiners, at $2,000 each; four examiners, at $1,800 each; clerks—four of class four, twenty-one of class three, twenty-nine of class two, thirty-eight of class one, thirty-two, at $1,000 each, twenty clerks, at $900 each; messenger; assistant messenger; engineer, $840; telephone switch-board operator; two firemen, at $720 each; two watchmen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; three laborers; three messenger boys, at $360 each; two charwomen; in all, $229,830.
Field force: For two district secretaries, at $2,400 each; oneField, force. district secretary, $2,200; four district secretaries, at $2,000 each; two district secretaries, at $1,800 each; clerks—one of class four, one 372of class three, one of class one, seven at $1,000 each, six at $900 each, five at $840 each, two at $720 each; messenger; messenger boy, $480; in all, $42,560. No details from departments, etc.No detail of clerks or other employees from the executive departments or other Government establishments in Washington, District of Columbia, to the Civil Service Commission, for the performance of duty in the District of Columbia, shall be made for or during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen.
The Civil Service Commission Transfer of employees.shall, however, have power in case of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees herein provided for to or from its office force, field force, or rural carrier examining board. Expert examiners on special subjects.Expert examiners: For the employment of expert examiners not in the Federal service to prepare questions and rate papers in examinations on special subjects for which examiners within the service are not available, $2,000.
Electric connection to State, etc., Department Building.Electric conduit and connections: For electric conduit and connections, connecting the commission’s building with the State, War, and Navy Department Building, $4,000. Traveling, etc., expenses.For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners acting under the direction of the commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, $12,000. Administration of oaths.Members of the Civil Service Commission and its duly authorized representatives are hereafter authorized to administer oaths to witnesses in any matter depending before the Civil Service Commission.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. Secretary, Assistants.Director of the Consular Service, counselor, etc.Officials on foreign relations, etc.For Secretary of State, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, $5,000; Second and Third Assistant Secretaries, at $4,500 each; director of the Consular Service, $4,500; counselor for the Department of State, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, $7,500; eight officers to aid in important drafting work, four at $4,500 each and four at $3,000 each, to be appointed by the Secretary of State, any one of whom may be employed as chief of division of far eastern, Latin American, near eastern, or European affairs, or upon other work in connection with foreign relations: assistant solicitor, $3,000; law clerk, $2,500; clerks—two of class three, two of class one, two at $1,000 each; three assistant Chief clerk, chiefs of bureaus, clerks, etc.messengers; chief clerk, $3,000; two Assistant Solicitors of the Department of State, to be appointed by the Secretary of State, at $3,000 each; law clerk and assistant, to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of State, to edit the laws of Congress and perform such other duties as may be required of them, at $2,500 and $1,500, respectively; two chiefs of bureaus, at $2,250 each; five chiefs of bureaus, at $2,100 each; two translators, at $2,100 each; additional to Chief of Bureau of Accounts as disbursing clerk, $200; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; clerks—sixteen of class four, sixteen of class three, twenty-five of class two, forty-one of class one, three of whom shall be telegraph operators, sixteen at $1,000 each, nineteen at $900 each; chief messenger, $1,000; five messengers; twenty-two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $420; packer, $720; four laborers, at $600 each; telephone switchboard operator; assistant telephone switchboard operator; in all, $317,560.
Clerks to distribute information.For two clerks to be employed in the Department of State and to be charged with the distribution of information among the diplomatic missions, one at the rate of $1,800 per annum and one at the rate of $1,600 per annum; in all, $3,400. 373 Contingent expenses, Department of State: For stationery,Contigent expenses. furniture, fixtures, typewriters, including exchange of the same, repairs, and material for repairs, $11,000. For books and maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, includingLibrary. the payment in advance for subscriptions to the same, for the library, $2,000.
For services of lithographer and necessary materials for the lithographicLithographing. press, $1,500. For miscellaneous expenses, including the purchase, care, andMiscellaneous. subsistence of horses, to be used only for official purposes, repair of vehicles and harness, telegraph and electrical apparatus and repairs to the same, street car tickets not exceeding $100, and other items not included in the foregoing, $7,000. For purchase of an automobile mail wagon for official use of theMotor mail wagon.
Department of State, and maintenance of the same for fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $1,000. For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of theRent. Department of State, $11,720. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of the Treasury, $12,000;Secretary, Assistants, clerks, etc. three Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, at $5,000 each; clerk to the Secretary, $2,500; executive clerk, $2,400; stenographer, $1,800; three private secretaries, one to each Assistant Secretary, at $1,800 each;
Government actuary, under control of the Treasury, $2,250; clerks—one of class four, four of class three, two of class two; chief messenger, $1,100; two assistant chief messengers, at $1,000 each; three messengers, at $900 each; three messengers; in all, $60,670. Office of chief clerk and superintendent: Assistant and chief clerk,Assistant and chief clerk, Duties. including $300 as superintendent of Treasury building, who shall be the chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the assistant secretaries of the department, $4,000; assistant superintendentAssistant superintendent, clerks, etc. of Treasury building, $2,500; clerks—four of class four, one of class three, two of class two, two of class one, one at $1,000, one at $900; two messengers; three assistant messengers; messenger boy, $360; storekeeper, $1,200; telegraph operator, $1,200; telephone operator and assistant telegraph operator, $1,200; chief engineer,Engineers, etc. $1,400; three assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; eight elevator conductors, at $720 each, and the use of laborers as relief elevator conductors during rush hours is authorized; eight firemen; coal passer, $500; locksmith and electrician, $1,400; captain of the watch,Watchmen, laborers, etc. $1,400; two lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; sixty-five watch-men; foreman of laborers, $1,000; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; two skilled laborers, at $720 each; wiremen—one at $1,000, one at $900; thirty-four laborers; ten laborers, at $500 each; one plumber, and one painter, at $1,100 each; plumber’s assistant , $720 (in lieu of watchman-fireman, $720, Cox Building); eighty-five charwomen; carpenters—two at $1,000 each, one at $720.
For the WinderWinder Building. Building: Engineer, $1,000; three firemen; conductor of elevator, $720; four watchmen; three laborers, one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the conductor of elevator; laborer, $480; and eight charwomen. For the Cox Building, seventeen hundred andCox Building. nine New York Avenue: Two watchmen-firemen, at $720 each; and one laborer; in all, $170,760. General Supply Committee: Superintendent of supplies, $2,000,General Supply Committee. and two clerks of class two; in all, $4,800. 374 Bookkeeping and Warrants Division.Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants:
Chief of division, $3,500; assistant chief of division, $2,700; estimate and digest clerk, $2,500; two principal bookkeepers, at $2,100 each; twelve bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—fourteen of class four, six of class three, six of class two, three of class one; messenger: three assistant messengers; in all, $86,700. Customs Division.Division of Customs: Chief of division, $4,000; assistant chief of division, $3,000; law clerks—five at $2,500 each, two at $2,000 each; clerks—three of class four, three of class three, three of class two, six of class one, five at $1,000 each; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger boy, $360; in all, $51,620.
Appointments Division.Division of Appointments: Chief of division, $3,000; assistant chief of division, $2,000; executive clerk, $2,000; law and bond clerk, $2,000; clerics—three of class four, four of class three, five of class two, six of class one, four at $1,000 each, one at $900; messenger; two assistant messengers; in all, $42,180. Public Moneys Division.Division of Public Moneys: Chief of division, $3,000; assistant chief of division, $2,000; clerics—five of class four, four of class three, four of class two, one of class one, one at $1,000; messenger; assistant messenger; in all, $29,760.
Loans and Currency Division.Division of Loans and Currency: Chief of division, $3,500; assistant chief of division, $2,700; custodian of paper, $2,250; bond and interest clerk, $2,000 (in lieu of division chief at $2,000 transferred from register’s office); clerks—five of class four (one transferred from register’s office), four of class three (two transferred from register’s office), five of class two (three transferred from register’s office), five of class one (two dropped and four transferred from register’s office), one clerk, $1,000, eighteen at $900 each; assorter of bonds, $800 (transferred from register’s office); twelve expert money counters, at $720 each; messenger; three assistant messengers (one transferred from register’s office); eight laborers; in all, $73,770.
Revenue-Cutter Service Division.Division of Revenue-Cutter Service: Assistant chief of division, $2,400; chief clerk, $2,000; law and contract clerk, $1,800; clerks— one of class four, four of class three, one of class two, three of class one, four at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; messenger; laborer; in all, $27,600. Printing and Stationery Division.Division of Printing and Stationery: Chief of division, $2,500; assistant chief of division, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, three of class three, three of class two, three of class one, one at $1,000, one at $900; bookbinder, $1,250; three messengers; assistant messenger; two laborers; messenger boy, $360; in all, $32,370.
Mail and Files Division.Division of Mail and Files: Superintendent of Mail, $2,500; registry clerk, $1,800; distributing clerk, $1,400; clerks—one of class two; one of class one; one at $1,000; document clerk, $1,000; mail messenger, $1,000; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $360; in all, $13,100. Special Agents Division.Division of special agents: Assistant chief of division, $2,400; clerks—one of class three, one of class two, four of class one, two at $900 each; messenger; in all, $12,840. .
Disbursing clerk, deputy, etc.Office of disbursing clerk: Disbursing clerk, $3,000; deputy disbursing clerk, $2,750; clerks—three of class four, two of class three (one transferred from office of Auditor for War Department), three of class two (one transferred from office of Auditor for Interior Department), two of class one (one transferred from office of Auditor for Interior Department), clerk, $1,000; messenger; in all, $22,790. Supervising Architect, chiefs, etc.Office of the Supervising Architect:
Supervising Architect, $5,000; executive officer, $3,250; chief constructor (formerly superintendent of drafting and constructing division), $3,000; chief computer (formerly superintendent of computing division), $2,750; chief of files and records division (formerly chief of law and records division), $2,500; chief of accounts division, $2,500; chief of maintenance division (formerly chief of inspection division), $2,500; chief 375mechanical and electrical engineer, $2,750; four technical clerks, at $1,800 each; clerks—seven of class four, additional to one clerk of class four as bookkeeper, $100, nine of class three, five of class two, one of class one; foreman of duplicating gallery, 81,800; four messengers; assistant messenger; one laborer; four inspectors, at $2,190 each; inspector, $1,800; in all, $83,850.
For the following now authorized and payable from general appropriations,Employees paid from general expenses of public buildings.*Post*, p. 427. namely: For chief of technical division, $3,000; assistant constructor, $2,750; assistant chief of files and record division, $2,250; chief structural engineer, $2,750; assistant chief structural engineer, $2,400; inspectors of supplies—one at $2,300, one at $1,800; inspectors—-five at $2,300 each, three at $2,000 each, one at $1,800; photographer, $2,000; six administrative clerks, at $2,000 each; clerks— one of class four, four at $1,700 each, four of class three, six at $1,500 each, eight of class two, eight at $1,300 each, thirteen of class one, four at $1,100 each, six at $1,000 each, three at $900 each, two at $840 each; duplicating paper chemist, $1,200; foreman vault, safe and lock shop, $1,100; assistant messenger; messenger boys—three at $480 each, two at $360 each; skilled laborers—four at $1,000 each, seven at $960 each, one at $900, one at $840; laborer, $600; in all, $144,770, which shall be paid out of the appropriation made in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen for “General Expenses of Public Buildings.
” For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and annuallyEstimates to be submitted for office services. thereafter specific estimates shall be submitted for salaries for all personal services of the foregoing character required in the office of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, and except as appropriations may be made thereunder no such personal services shall be employed in said office at Washington, District of Columbia. Office of Comptroller of the Treasury:
Comptroller of theComptroller’s office. Treasury, $6,000; Assistant Comptroller of the Treasury, $4,500; chief clerk, $2,500; chief law clerk, $2,500; nine law clerks revising accounts and briefing opinions—one at $2,100, and eight at $2,000 each; expert accountants—six at $2,000 each; private secretary, $1,800; clerks—eight of class four, three of class three, one of class two; stenographer and typewriter, $1,400; typewriter-copyist, $1,000; two messengers; assistant messenger; one laborer; in all, $73,460.
Hereafter the administrative examination of all public accounts,Administrative examination of accounts by heads of bureaus.Vol. 28, p. 211. preliminary to their audit by the accounting officers of the Treasury, shall be made as contemplated by the so-called Dockery Act, approved July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and all vouchers and pay rolls shall be prepared and examined by and through the administrative heads of divisions and bureaus in the executive departments and not by the disbursing clerks of said departments,Duties of disbursing Clerks. except those vouchers heretofore prepared outside of Washington may continue to be so prepared and the disbursing officers shall make only such examination of vouchers as may be necessary to ascertain whether they represent legal claims against the United States.
Office of Auditor for Treasury Department: Auditor, $4,000;Office of Auditor for Treasury Department. chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; two chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—eighteen of class four, fifteen of class three, thirteen of class two, thirty-one of class one, ten at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; three assistant messengers; three laborers; in all, $141,790. Office of Auditor for War Department: Auditor, $4,000;Office of Auditor for War Department. chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chief of division of accounts, $2,500; two chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty-four of class four, forty-nine of class three (one transferred to disbursing clerk), sixty-two of class two, fifty of class one, 376ten at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; skilled laborer, $900; messenger; five assistant messengers; ten laborers; messenger boy, $480; in all, $310,070.
Office of Auditor for Navy Department.Office of Auditor for Navy Department: Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chief of division, $2,000; assistant chief of division, $2,000; clerks—eleven of class four, twenty of class three, sixteen of class two, twenty-three of class one, eleven at $1,000 each, nine at $900 each; messenger; assistant messenger; three laborers; in all, $136,690. Office of Auditor for Interior Department.Office of Auditor for Interior Department:
Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; two chiefs of division, at $2,000 each: clerks—fourteen of class four, sixteen of class three, twenty-eight of class two (one transferred to office of disbursing clerk), twenty-five of class one (one transferred to office of disbursing clerk), eleven at $1,000 each, one at $900; two messengers; three assistant messengers; one laborer; in all, $148,650. Office of Auditor for State, etc., Departments.Office of Auditor for State and other Departments:
Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; two chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—sixteen of class four, one of class four (special examiner), seventeen of class three, thirteen of class two, thirteen of class one, five at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; one messenger; two assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, $116,950. Office of Auditor for Post Office Department.Office of Auditor for Post Office Department: Auditor, $5,000; assistant and chief clerk, $3,000; law clerk, $3,000; expert accountant, $2,750; four chiefs of division, at $2,250 each; four assistant chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; four principal bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty-seven of class four, fifty-one of class three, sixty-two of class two, ninety-one of class one, fifty nine at $1,000 each; fifty-five at $900 each; skilled laborer, $1,000; skilled laborers (formerly money-order assorters)—fifteen at $840 each, twenty-five at $780 each, eighty-four at $720 each, forty-nine at $660 each; female laborer, $660; eight skilled laborers, at $840 each; eleven skilled laborers, at $720 each; messenger boys—four at $480 each, five at $360 each; nine male laborers, at $660 each; forewoman, $480; and nineteen charwomen; in all, $629,370. *Proviso*.Reduction in grades below $1,000 per annum.*Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury may, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, in his discretion, diminish the number of positions of the several grades below the grade of clerk at $1,000 per annum in the office of the Auditor for the Post Office Piece-rate payment on mechanical devices.Department and use the unexpended balances of the appropriations for the positions so diminished as a fund to pay, on a piece-rate basis, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, the compensation of such number of employees as may be necessary to tabulate, by the use of mechanical devices, the accounts and vouchers of the postal service.
Postal Savings System accounts.Employees authorized to audit.Postal Savings System, Audit of the Accounts of, Office of Auditor for the Post Office Department.—The Secretary of the Treasury may employ such number of clerks and employees of the several classes and at the several rates of compensation recognized by law, and expend such sums for contingent and miscellaneous items, as may be necessary, in his judgment, to audit the accounts of the postal savings system in the Office of the Auditor for the Post Office Department: *Provisos*.Advances.*Provided*, That the money required to pay such clerks and employees, and contingent and miscellaneous items, not exceeding $50,000 for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall be advanced to the Secretary of the Treasury at regular intervals out of any available *Post*, p. 559.Estimates to be submitted.appropriation for the establishment, maintenance, and extension of postal-savings depositories: *Provided further*, That estimates hereunder shall be submitted in detail for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and annually thereafter. 377 Office of the Treasurer:
Treasurer of the United States,Treasurer’s office. $8,000; Assistant Treasurer, $3,600; Deputy Assistant Treasurer, $3,200; cashier, $3,600; assistant cashier, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; five chiefs of division, at $2,500 each; assistant chief of division, $2,250; vault clerk, $2,500; principal bookkeeper, $2,500; assistant bookkeeper, $2,100; two tellers, at $2,500 each; two assistant tellers, at $2,250 each; vault clerk, Bond Division, $2,000; clerk for the Treasurer, $1,800; clerks—twenty-four of class four, eighteen of class three, fifteen of class two, thirty-three of class one, eighteen at $1,000 each, twenty-four at $900 each; coin clerk, $1,400; expert counters—twenty-nine at $900 each, fifteen at $800 each, forty at $720 each, seventeen at $700 each; mail messenger, $840; eight messengers; seven assistant messengers; twenty-three laborers; six messenger boys, at $360 each; compositor and pressman, $1,600; pressman, $1,400; silver piler, $1,000; in all, $345,390.
For the force employed in redeeming the national currency (to beRedemption of national currency. reimbursed by the national banks), namely: Superintendent, $3,500; teller, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,400; assistant teller and assistant bookkeeper, at $2,000 each; clerks—five of class four, seven of class three, nine of class two, twenty-five of class one; expert counters— ten at $1,200 each, fifty-two at $1,000 each, forty-two at $900 each, thirty-two at $800 each, eighteen at $700 each; two messengers; four assistant messengers; four charwomen; in all, $220,720.
Salaries, force employed on work of the Postal Savings System inPostal Savings System. the office of the Treasurer of the United States (reimbursable): The Secretary of the Treasury may employ such number of clerks and employees of the several classes and at the several rates of compensation recognized by law, and expend such sums for contingent and miscellaneous items, as may be necessary, in his judgment, to transact the business of the Postal Savings System in the office of the Treasurer of the United States: *Provided*, That the money required to pay such*Provisos*.Advances. clerks and employees, and contingent and miscellaneous items, not exceeding $18,000 for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall be advanced to the Secretary of the Treasury at regular intervals out of any available appropriation for the establishment, maintenance,*Post*, p. 569. and extension of postal savings depositories: *Provided further*, That estimates hereunder shall be submitted in detail forEstimates to be submitted. the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, and annually there-after.
For repairs to canceling and cutting machines in the office of theCanceling, etc., machines. Treasurer of the United States, $200. Office of the Register of the Treasury: Register, $4,000;Register’s office. Assistant Register, $2,500; chief of division, $2,000 (one transferred to Loans and Currency Division); clerks—three of class four (one transferred to Loans and Currency Division); three of class three (two transferred to Loans and Currency Division and one dropped); two of class two (three transferred to Loans and Currency Division); five of class one (four transferred to Loans and Currency Division); four, at $1,000 each; eighteen, at $900 each; messenger; assistant messenger (one transferred to Loans and Currency Division); and two laborers; in all, $50,580.
Office of the Comptroller of the Currency: Comptroller ofOffice of Comptroller of the Currency. the Currency, $5,000; Deputy Comptroller, $3,500; Deputy Comptroller, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chiefs of division—one at $2,500, two at $2,200 each; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; clerks—eight of class four, additional to bond clerk, $200, thirteen of class three, thirteen of class two, twenty-six of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each; seven at $900 each; stenographer, $1,600; six counters, at $840 each; messenger; five assistant messengers; three laborers; two messenger boys, at $360 each; in all, $142,780. 378 National currency expenses.For expenses of the national currency (to be reimbursed by the national banks), namely:
Superintendent, $2,500; teller, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, four of class two, five of class one, four at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; engineer, $1,000; twelve expert counters, at $840 each; three counters, at $700 each; assistant messenger; fireman; messenger boy, $360; two charwomen; in all, $43,460. Special examinations. etc.For expenses of special examinations of national banks and bank plates, of keeping macerator in Treasury Building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerator, and for procuring information relative to banks other than national, $4,800.
Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue.Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue: Commissioner of Internal Revenue. $6,000; deputy commissioner. $4,000; deputy commissioner, $3,600; chemist, $2,500; first assistant chemist, $1,800; second assistant chemist, $1,600; third assistant chemist, $1,400; three heads of divisions, at $2,500 each; six heads of divisions, at $2,250 each; superintendent of stamp vault, $2,000; private secretary, $1,800; clerks—two at $2,000 each; twenty-nine of class four, twenty-five of class three, thirty-seven of class two, thirty-seven of class one; thirty-two, at $1,000 each; forty-two, at $900 each: three messengers; twenty-one assistant messengers; and sixteen laborers; in all, $336,100.
Denatured alcohol.For the following, formerly authorized and paid from appropriation for “withdrawal of denatured alcohol,” namely: Chief chemist, $3,000; first assistant chemist, $1,800; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, four of class two, three of class one; one messenger; in all, $18,240. Stamp agent, etc.For stamp agent, $1,600; stamp agent, $900; counter, $900; in all, $3,400, the same to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers. Life-Saving Service.Office of Life-Saving Service:
General Superintendent of the Life-Saving Service, $4,000, and $500 additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; assistant general superintendent, $2,500; principal clerk, $2,000; title and contract clerk, $2,000; topographer and hydrographer, $l,800;civil engineer, $1,800; draftsman, $1,500; clerks—three of class four, five of class three, four of class two, five of class one, three at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $48,120.
Engraving and Printing Bureau.Bureau of Engraving and Printing: Director, $6,000; assistant director, $3,500; chief of division of assignments and reviews, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; medical and sanitary officer, $2,000; stenographer, $1,800; clerks—one of class four, six of class three, nine of class two, nine of class one, eight at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each, six at $840 each, fifteen at $780 each; disbursing agent, $2,400; storekeeper, $1,600; assistant storekeeper, $1,000; clerk in charge of purchases and supplies, $2,000; nine attendants, at $600 each; helpers—two at $900 each, two at $720 each, two at $600 each; three messengers; seven assistant messengers; captain of the watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; forty-six watchmen; two forewomen of charwomen, at Limit on payment for services.$540 each; nineteen day charwomen, at $400 each; fifty-two morning and evening charwomen, at $300 each; foreman of laborers, $900; four laborers; seventy-five laborers, at $540 each; in all, $216,380; and no other fund appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used for services, in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, of the character specified in this paragraph, except in cases of emergency arising after the passage of this Act, and then only on the written approval of the Secretary of the Treasury.
Secret Service Division.Secret Service Division: Chief, $3,600; assistant chief, who shall discharge the duties of chief clerk, $3,000; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, two of class two, one of class one, one at $1,000; assistant messenger; in all, $15,720. 379 Office of the Director of the Mint; Director, $5,000; examiner,Office of Director of the Mint. $3,000; computer and adjuster of accounts, $2,500; assayer, $2,200; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, one of class one; private secretary, $1,400: messenger; assistant in laboratory, $1,200; assistant messenger; skilled laborer, $720; in all, $25,580.
For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise,Freight. between mints and assay offices, $25,000. For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expendedContingent expenses. under the direction of the director, namely: For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, pamphlets, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, $800. For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purposeExaminations, etc. of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations, and for the collection of statistics relative to the annual productionPrecious metals, statistics. and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, $4,000.
Office of Surgeon General of Public Health and Marine-HospitalPublic Health Office.*Ante*, p. 309. Service: Surgeon General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,000; private secretary to the Surgeon General, $1,800; clerks—three of class four, two of class three, six of class two, one of whom shall be translator, seven of class one, three at $900 each; messenger; three assistant messengers; two laborers, at $540 each; in all, $40,980. Contingent expenses, Treasury Department: For the followingContingent expenses. sums, which shall be so apportioned as to prevent deficiencies therein, namely:
For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureausStationery. and offices, $50,000, and in addition thereto sums amounting to $86,150 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen as follows: Contingent expenses, IndependentAdditional, deducted from bureaus, offices, etc. Treasury, $7,200; contingent expenses, mint at Philadelphia, $500; contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco, $300; contingent expenses, mint at Denver, $300; contingent expenses, assay office at New York, $500; materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $3,300; suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, $400; expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, $2,100;
Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, $1,850; Quarantine Service, $590; preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $260; Life-Saving Service, $1,400; fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, $4,750; general expenses of public buildings, $3,550; collecting the revenue from customs, $37,300; miscellaneous expenses of collecting internal revenue, $18,700; and for expenses of collecting the corporation tax, $3,150; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $50,000, the total appropriation for stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen.
For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal UnionPostage. countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, $1,000. For materials for the use of the bookbinder located in the TreasuryBinding. Department, $250. For newspaper clippings, law books, city directories, and otherReference books, etc. books of reference relating to the business of the department, $1,000. For investigation and experimentation and to secure better methodsInvestigation to obtain better administrative methods. of administration, with a view to increased efficiency or to greater economy in the expenditure of public money, including necessary traveling expenses, in connection with special work, or obtaining of better administrative methods in any branch of the service within or under the Treasury Department, including the temporary employment of agents, stenographers, accountants, or other expert services either within or without the District of Columbia, $20,000. 380 Freight, etc.
Rent.For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $7,000. Vehicles, etc.For rent of buildings, $52,000. Files.For purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks, and maintenance of horses and carriages, to be used for official purposes only, including not exceeding $6,000 for the purchase of two motor trucks and one motor delivery wagon, $8,000. Fuel, etc.For purchase of file holders and file cases, $4,000. Lighting.For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $12,000.
Miscellaneous.For purchase of gas, electric current for fighting and power purposes, gas and electric-light fixtures, electric-light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, $17,000. Labor-saving machines, etc.For washing and hemming towels, for the purchase of awnings and fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower-garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps and repairs of same, stamp ink, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, toilet paper, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, street car tickets not exceeding $250, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public auction in Washington, District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, $11,500. ...
Transferring records. etc.For purchase of labor-saving machines, including the purchase and exchange of registering accountants, numbering machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, $8,000. Carpets, etc.For shelving and transferring records and files from and to the Treasury Building and its annexes in Washington, $500. For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats, rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, $3,000.
Furniture.For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair caning, chair covers, desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $10,000. Automatic Fire alarms.For maintenance of the automatic fire-alarm systems in the Treasury and Winder Buildings, $2,166. .
Burglar-alarm devices.Electrical burglar-alarm devices, Treasury Building, Washington, District of Columbia: For installation and maintenance of electrical burglar-alarm devices in the Treasury Building at Washington, District of Columbia, $720. Auditor for Post Office Department.Contingent expenses.Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Office of Auditor for the Post Office Department, namely: For miscellaneous items, including purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriting machines, of which not exceeding $375 may be used for rental of telephones, and not exceeding $300 may be used for the purchase of law books, books of reference, and city directories, $3,500;
For furniture and repairs, $1,500; For purchase, exchange, and repair of adding machines, $1,000. ExpendituresIn all, $6,000, to be expended under the direction of the Auditor for the Post Office Department under rules and regulations to be 381prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and to operate as a specific exception of the said office from the appropriation for contingent expenses, Treasury Department, unless otherwise provided by law. For the purchase of tabulating equipment for use in auditingTabulating equipment. accounts and vouchers of the postal service, including exchange, repairs, miscellaneous expenses of installation, cards and filing devices, $81,700, to be expended under the direction of the Auditor for the Post Office Department under rules and regulations to be proscribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That not*Proviso*.Limit of rent. exceeding $16,800 may be expended for the rental of tabulating and card-sorting machines. collecting internal revenue.Collecting Internal revenue.
For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, andCollectors, surveyors, etc. deputy collectors, and surveyors, and clerks, messengers, and janitors in internal-revenue offices, $2,100,000: *Provided*, That no part of*Proviso*.Witness fees. this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any officer, designated above, subpeanaed by the United States court to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from*Post*, p. 465. the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts.
” On and after October first, nineteen hundred and twelve, theCollection districts reduced.[R. S., sec. 3141, p. 601](/us/rs/62/3141), amended.Vol. 19, p. 303. whole number of collection districts for the collection of internal revenue and the whole number of collectors of internal revenue shall not exceed sixty-three. For salaries and expenses of forty revenue agents provided for byAgents, gaugers, etc. law, and fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries and expenses of store-keepers and storekeepergaugers, $2,565,000.
For rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia, telephoneMiscellaneous.*Ante*, p. 379. service, and other miscellaneous expenses incident to the collection of internal revenue, and for the purchase of necessary books of reference and periodicals for the chemical laboratory and law library, at a cost not to exceed $500, and reasonable expenses for not exceedingExpenses of injuries, etc. sixty days immediately following the injury of field officers or employees in the Internal-Revenue Service while in line of duty, of medical attendance, surgeon’s and hospital bills made necessary by reason of such injury, and for homes crippled or killed while being used by officers in making raids, not exceeding $150 for any horse so crippled or killed, $75,000.
For expenses of collecting the corporation tax authorized by theCollecting corporation tax.Vol. 36, p. 112.Care, etc., of corporation returns. tariff Act approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, $150,000. For classifying, indexing, exhibiting, and properly caring for the returns of all corporations required by section thirty-eight of the tariff Act approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, includingVol. 36, p. 112.*Ante*, p. 879, the employment in the District of Columbia of such clerical and other personal services and for rent of such quarters as may be necessary, $30,000: *Provided*, That any and all such returns shall be open*Proviso*.Regulation of inspection. to inspection only upon the order of the President, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and approved by the President. independent treasury.Independent Treasury.
Office of assistant treasurer at Baltimore: AssistantAssistant tresurers’ offices.Baltimore. treasurer, $4,500; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,900; exchange teller, $1,800; vault clerk, $1,800; two clerks, at $1,600 each; three clerks, at $1,400 each; four clerks, at $1,200 each; five clerks, at $1,000 each; messenger, $840; three watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $34,700. 382 Boston.Office of assistant treasurer at Boston: Assistant treasurer, $5,000; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,500; clerk, $2,200; vault clerk, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,000; redemption teller, $1,800; five clerks, at $1,600 each; clerk, $1,500; one clerk, $1,400; four clerks, at $1,200 each; three clerks, $1,100 each; five clerks, at $1,000 each; clerk, $900; chief guard, $1,100; three watchmen, at $850 each; laborer and guard, $720; in all, $47,270.
Chicago.Office of assistant treasurer at Chicago: Assistant treasurer, $5,000; cashier, $3,000; vault clerk, $2,250; paying teller, $2,500; assorting teller, $2,000; redemption teller, $2,000; change teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,000; clerk, $1,600; bookkeeper, $1,800; two bookkeepers, at $1,500 each; clerk, $1,750; clerk, $1,600; three clerks, at $1,500 each; six clerks, at $1,500 each; twenty-two clerks, at $1,200 each; clerk, $900; hall man, $1,100; messenger, $840; three watchmen, at $720 each; janitor, $720; in all, $76,120.
Cincinnati.Office of assistant treasurer at Cincinnati: Assistant treasurer, $4,500; cashier, $2,250; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,800; four clerks, at $1,200 each; two clerks, at $1,300 each; vault clerk, $1,800; bookkeeper, $1,800; clerk, $1,200; two clerks, at $1,000 each; clerk and stenographer, $1,000; chief watchman, $840; two watchmen, at $600 each; in all, $27,790. New Orleans.Office of assistant treasurer at New Orleans: Assistant treasurer, $4,500; cashier, $2,250; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,000; vault clerk, $1,800; bookkeeper, $1,500; clerk, $1,500; assorting teller, $1,200; six clerks, at $1,200 each; two clerks, at $1,000 each; typewriter and stenographer, $1,000; day watchman, $720; night watchman, $720; messenger, $500; in all, $28,890.
New York.Office of assistant treasurer at New York: Assistant treasurer, $8,000; cashier (formerly deputy assistant treasurer and cashier), $4,200; assistant cashier (formerly assistant cashier and chief clerk), $3,600; chief of check pay division (formerly assistant cashier and vault clerk), $3,000; bond clerk and assistant vault clerk (formerly chief of division), $2,800; paying teller (formerly chief of division), $3,000; receiving teller (formerly chief of division), $2,800; chief of redemption division (formerly chief of division), $2,700; vault and authorities clerk (formerly chief of division), $2,500; chief clerk (formerly chief paying teller), $3,000; chief of coin division (formerly chief of division), $2,700; chief bookkeeper, $2,400; assistant chief of canceled check division (formerly assistant teller), $2,250; assistant chief of redemption division (formerly assistant teller), $2,250; assistant paying teller (formerly assistant teller), $2,250; paying teller, coin division (formerly assistant teller), $2,100; assist-ant chief, check pay division (formerly assistant teller), $2,000: assistant chief, coin division (formerly assistant teller), $2,000; chief of minor coin division (formerly assistant teller), $2,000; four book-keepers (formerly assistant tellers), at $2,000 each; paying teller, minor coin division (formerly assistant teller), $1,800; assistant receiving teller (formerly assistant teller), $1,800; two bookkeepers (formerly assistant tellers), at $1,500 each; clerks—one at $2,300, one at $2,100, two at $2,000 each, one (formerly assistant teller). $1,900, three (formerly assistant tellers), at $1,800 each, one (formerly assist-ant teller), $1,700, six, at $1,600 each, nine, at $1,500 each; thirteen, at $1,400 each; eight, at $1,300 each; fourteen, at $1,200 each; five, at $1,100 each; five, at $1,000 each; messengers—two at $1,200 each, five at $900 each, two at $800 each; chief guard (formerly chief detective), $1,500; guard (formerly assistant detective), $1,200; two guards (formerly two hall men), at $1,000 each; superintendent of building, $1,800; chief engineer (formerly engineer), $1,200; two engineers, at $1,050 each; eight watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $190,610. 383 Office of assistant treasurer at Philadelphia:
AssistantPhiladelphia. treasurer, $5,000; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,250; coin teller, 32,000; vault clerk. $1,900; bookkeeper, $1,800; assorting teller, $1,800; receiving teller, $1,700; redemption teller, $1,600; clerks— one at $1,600, two at $1,500 each, three at $1,400 each, one at $1,300, five at $1,200 each, one at $1,000; chief guard, $1,100; six counters, at $900 each; six watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $48,470. Office of assistant treasurerSaint Louis. at Saint Louis:
Assistant treasurer, $4,500; cashier. $2,500; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,800; assorting teller, $1,800; change teller, $1,600; three clerks, at $1,500 each; coin teller, $1,200; bookkeeper, $1,500; seven clerks, at $1,200 each; two clerks, at $1,100 each; three clerks, at $1,000 each; three clerks, at $900 each; two watchmen, at $720 each; two janitors, at $600 each; guard, $720; in all, $41,060. Office of assistant treasurerSan Francisco. at San Francisco: Assistant treasurer, $4,500; cashier, who also acts as vault clerk, $3,000; bookkeeper, $2,000; clerk, $2,000; paying teller, $2,400; receiving teller, $2,000; three clerks, at $1,800 each; clerk, $1,500; clerk, $1,400; two clerks, at $900 each; messenger, $840; four watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $29,720.
For paper for interest, transfer, redemption, pension, and otherPaper for checks. checks and drafts for the use of the Treasurer of the United States, assistant treasurers, pension agents, disbursing officers, and others, $9,000. MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICES.Mints and assay offices. Mint at Carson, Nevada: Assayer in charge, who shall also performCarson, Nev. the duties of melter, $2,250; assistant assayer, $1,500; chief clerk, $1,600; clerk, $1,000; in all, $6,350. For wages of workmen and other employees, $6,200.
For incidental and contingent expenses, $3,000. Mint at New Orleans, Louisiana: Assayer, who shall have generalNew Orleans, La.[R. S., sec. 3560, p. 702](/us/rs/s3560/p702). charge of the institution as under section thirty-five hundred and sixty, Revised Statutes, and who shall be a practical assayer, $2,500; assistant assayer, $1,500; chief clerk, who shall perform the duties of cashier, $1,500; three clerks, $1,200 each; assayer’s assistant, $1,200; in all, $10,300. For wages of workmen and other employees, $7,500.
For incidental and contingent expenses, $3,500. Mint at San Francisco, California: Superintendent, $4,500;Ban Francisco, Cal. assayer, superintendent melting and refining department, and superintendent coining department, at $3,000 each; chief clerk, and cashier, at $2,500 each; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant assayer, $2,200; assistant melter and refiner, and assistant coiner, at $2,000 each; assistant cashier, $1,800; assistant bookkeeper, $1,800; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; one clerk, $2,000; one clerk, $1,800; six clerks, at $1,600 each; private secretary, $1,400; two clerks, at $1,400 each; two clerks, at $1,200 each; in all, $54,300.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $122,500. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery*Ante*, p. 879. and repairs, exclusive of that required for the refinery, melter and refiners’ wastage, and loss on sale of sweeps, arising from the manufacture of ingots for coinage, and for wastage and loss on sale of coiners’ sweeps, $40,000. Assay office at Boise, Idaho: Assayer in charge, who shall alsoBoise, Idaho. perform the duties of melter, $2,250; assistant assayer, $1,600; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of cashier, $1,500; assayer’s assistant, $1,500; one clerk, $1,200; in all, $8,050.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $3,540. For incidental and contingent expenses, $2,500. 384 Charlotte, N. C.Assay office at Charlotte, North Carolina: Assayer and melter, $1,500. For wages of workmen and other clerks and employees, $900. For incidental and contingent expenses, $400. Deadwood, S. Dak.Assay office at Deadwood, South Dakota: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $2,000; clerk, $1,200; assistant assayer, $1,600; assayer’s assistant, $1,400; in all, $6,200.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $3,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, new machinery, and so forth, $1,500. Helena, Mont.Assay office at Helena, Montana: Assayer in charge, $2,500; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of cashier, $1,800; clerk, $1,600; clerk, $1,400; assistant assayer, $1,700; assayer’s assistant, $1,400; in all, $10,400. For wages of workmen and other employees, $6,500. For incidental and contingent expenses, $3,250. Seattle, Wash.Assay office at Seattle, Washington:
Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $2,750; assistant assayer, $2,000; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of caslner, $2,000; one clerk, $1,700; two clerks, at $1,600 each; clerk, $1,400; in all, $13,050. For wages of workmen and other employees, $22,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including rent of building, $6,500. Salt Lake City, Utah.Assay office at Salt Lake City, Utah: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $2,500; assistant assayer, $1,600; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of cashier, *Proviso*.Acting assayer.$1,600; *Provided*, That the chief clerk shall perform the duties of assayer in charge in his absence; clerk, $1,400; in all, $7,100.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $4,500. For incidental and contingent expenses, $3,500. Coiner, and melter and refiner.Positions abolished.[R. S., secs. 3496–3498, 3501, 3504, 3508, 3509, 3530, 3534 , 3538–3542, 3550, 3551, 3554, 3556. pp. 694–696, 699–702](/us/rs/s3496–3498/3404/3508/3509/3530/3534/3538–3542/3550/3551/3554/3556/pp694–696/699–702), amended.The position of coiner, which has heretofore existed in each of the coinage mints, and the position of melter and refiner, which has heretofore existed in each of the coinage mints and in the United States assay office at New York, are hereby abolished, to take effect on and after July first, nineteen hundred and twelve, and on and after that date the duties and responsibilities heretofore imposed by law on the officers holding said positions in each of said mints and the assay office shall devolve upon the superintendents of said institutions;
Employees to be appointed by Secretary.and all assistants and employees of the mints and assay offices of the United States shall, from and after July first, nineteen hundred and twelve, be appointed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Denver, Colo.Mint at Denver, Colorado: Superintendent, $4,500; assayer, $3,000; superintendent melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent coining department, $2,500; chief clerk and cashier, at $2,500 each; deposit weigh clerk and bookkeeper, at $2,000 each; assistant assayer, $2,200; two clerks, at $2,000 each; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; assistant cashier, $1,800; two clerks, at $1,800 each; four clerks, at $1,600 each; two clerks, at $1,400 each; one clerk, $1,200; private secretary, $1,200; in all, $47,200.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $94,000. *Ante*, p. 379.For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in melting and refining department and coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $35,000. Philadelphia, Pa.Mint at Philadelphia: Superintendent, $4,500; engraver. $4,000; assayer, $3,000; superintendent melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; assistant assayer, $2,200; assistant superintendent of melting and refining department, $2,000; cashier, and bookkeeper, at $2,500 each; one clerk, and deposit weigh clerk, at $2,000 each; 385assistant cashier, and curator, at $1,800 each; two clerks, at $1,700 each; eight clerks, at $1,600 each; one clerk, $1,500; six clerks, at $1,400 each; one clerk, $1,300; three clerks, at $1,200 each (including one formerly paid from “parting and refining”); five clerks, at $1,000 each; one clerk, $900; in all, $73,200.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $305,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery*Ante*, p. 379. and repairs, wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, $70,000. Assay office at New York: Superintendent, $5,000; assayer,New York, N. Y. $3,000; superintendent of melting and refining department, $3,000; chief clerk, cashier, deposit weigh clerk, and assistant assayer, at $2,500 each; two clerks, and assayer’s assistant, at $2,000 each; bookkeeper, $2,350; assistant cashier, and four clerks, at $1,800 each; one clerk (formerly paid from “parting and refining”), $1,600; one clerk, $1,500; private secretary, $1,400; one clerk, $1,250; seven clerks, at $1,000 each; in all, $51,100.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $80,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery*Ante*, p. 379. and repairs, wastage in the melting department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion, $60,000. government in the territories.Government in Territories. District of Alaska: Governor, $7,000; four judges, at $7,500Alaska.*Post*, p. 512. each; four attorneys, at $5,000 each; four marshals, at $4,000 each; four clerks, at $3,500 each; in all, $87,000.
For incidental and contingent expenses, clerk hire, not to exceed $2,250; janitor service, not to exceed $900; traveling expenses of the governor while absent from Juneau on official business; rent of offices and quarters in Juneau, stationery, lights, and fuel, to be expended under the direction of the governor, $7,150. Territory of Hawaii: Governor, $7,000; secretary, $4,000; chiefHawaii. justice, $6,000; two associate justices, at $5,500 each; in all, $28,000. For judges of circuit courts, at $4,000 each, so much as may be necessary, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen.
For contingent expenses of the Territory of Hawaii, to be expended by the governor for stationery, postage, and incidentals, $1,000, and for private secretary to the governor, $2,000; in all, $3,000. For legislative expenses, namely: Furniture, light, telephone, stationery, record casings and files, printing and binding, indexing records, postage, ice, water, clerk hire, mileage of members, and incidentals, pay of chaplain, clerk, sergeant at arms, stenographers, typewriters, janitors, and messengers, $30,000: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.Restriction of pay for extra session. members of the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii shall not draw their compensation of $200 or any mileage for an extra session, held in compliance with section fifty-four of an Act to provide a governmentVol. 31, p. 150. for the Territory of Hawaii, approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen no vacancyClassified service to be reduced.Restriction on filling vacancies. occurring in the classified service of the War Department herein provided for shall be filled except by promotion or demotion from among those within said service, until the whole number of those herein authorized in said classified service of the department shall have been reduced not less than five per centum. And the salariesSalaries to lapse. or compensation of all places herein provided for that may be em 386braced within such reduction shall not be available for expenditure but shall lapse and be covered into the Treasury.
Secretary, Assistant, assistant and chief clerk, clerks, etc.Office of the Secretary: Secretary of War, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, $5,000; assistant and chief clerk, $4,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary, $2,000; stenographer to the Secretary, $2,000; clerk to the Assistant Secretary, $2,400; assistant chief clerk, $2,400; disbursing clerk, $2,750; appointment clerk, $2,250; four chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; superintendent of buildings outside of State, War, and Navy Department Building, in addition to compensation as chief of division, $500; chief telegrapher, $1,800; clerks—four of class four, five of class three, fifteen of class two, nineteen of class one, six at $1,000 each, one at $900; foreman, $1,200; carpenter, $1,200; chief messenger, $1,000; carpenter, $900; skilled laborer, $900; six messengers; seven assistant messengers; telephone switchboard operator; assistant telephone switchboard operator; two messenger boys, at $360 each; engineer, $900; assistant engineer, $720; fireman; four watchmen; five watchmen, at $660 each; eight laborers; two laborers, at $540 each; hostler, $600; two hostlers and one watchman, at $540 each; elevator conductors—one at $600, one at $540; four charwomen; in all, $149,820.
Adjutant General’s Office.Adjutant General’s Office: Chief clerk, $2,000; ten chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—forty-eight of class four, sixty-four of class three, ninety-four of class two, two hundred and thirty-two of class one, eighty-eight at $1,000 each; engineer, $1,400; assistant engineer, $900; two firemen; skilled mechanic, $1,000; ten messengers; fifty-eight assistant messengers; messenger boy, $360; eight watchmen; superintendent of building, $250; and eighteen laborers; in all, $781,950; all employees provided for by this paragraph for the Adjutant General’s Office of the War Department shall be exclusively engaged on the work of this office for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen.
Inspector General’s Office.Office of the Inspector General: Clerks—one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, one of class one; messenger; assistant messenger; and messenger, $600; in all, $12,560. Judge Advocate General’s Office.Office of the Judge Advocate General: Chief clerk and solicitor, $2,500; law clerks—one at $2,400, one at $2,000; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, six of class one; copyist; two messengers; assistant messenger; in all, $26,600.
Signal Office.Signal Office: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, one of class two, four of class one, ten at $1,000 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; in-all, $25,800. Skilled draftsmen, etc.The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the various appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense and for the Signal Service of the Army, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the *Proviso*.Limit, etc.foregoing employees appropriated for in the Signal Office: *Provided, *That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall not exceed $25,000, and that the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Wireless engineers.*Post*, p. 570.The services of one wireless engineer and one wireless assistant, as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the appropriation for the Signal Service of the Army, to be paid from such appropriation, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the Signal *Proviso*.Limit, etc.Office: *Provided*, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall not exceed $3,600, and that the Secretary of War shall each 387year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Office of the Quartermaster General: Chief clerk, $2,500;Quartermaster General’s Office.*Post*, p. 591. two chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—nine of class four, fourteen of class three, twenty-seven of class two, fifty-eight of class one, forty at $1,000 each, thirteen at $900 each; advisory architect, $4,000; experienced builder and mechanic, $2,500; inspector of sup-plies, $2,500; draftsmen—three at $1,800 each, seven at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each, one at $1,200; supervising engineer, $2,750; two civil engineers, at $1,800 each; assistant civil engineer, $1,200; electrical engineer, $2,000; electrical and mechanical engineer, $2,000; marine engineer, $3,500; assistant marine engineer, $1,800; sanitary and heating engineer, $1,800; blue-print operator, $900; four messengers; eleven assistant messengers; two assistant messengers, at $600 each; female messenger, $480; seven laborers; laborer, $480; in all, $275,610.
Office of the Commissary General: Chief clerk, $2,000;Commissary General’s Office.*Post*, p. 591. clerks—six of class four, eight of class three, eight of class two, eighteen of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; laborer; in all, $77,940. Office of the Surgeon General: Chief clerk, $2,000; law clerk,Surgeon General’s Office. $2,000; clerks—thirteen of class four, eleven of class three, twenty-six of class two, thirty-two of class one, ten at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; anatomist, $1,600; engineer, $1,400; three firemen; skilled mechanic, $1,000; two messengers; ten assistant messengers; three watchmen; superintendent of building (Army Medical Museum and Library), $250; six laborers; chemist, $2,088; assistant chemist, $1,500; principal assistant librarian, $2,250; pathologist, $1,800; microscopist, $1,800; assistant librarian, $1,800; four charwomen; in all, $166,108.
Office of the Paymaster General: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks— Paymaster General’s Office.*Post*, p. 591.six of class four, seven of class three, twelve of class two, eleven of class one, five at $1,000 each, nine at $900 each; messenger; assistant messenger; four laborers; laborer, $600; in all, $72,150. Office of the Chief of Ordnance: Chief clerk, $2,000; chief ofOrdnance Office. division, $2,000; clerks—five of class four, seven of class three, twelve of class two, twenty-eight of class one, nine at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; messenger, $780; messenger, $720; laborer; in all, $91,760.
The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services, not clerical,Skilled draftsmen, etc. as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed in the office of the Chief of Ordnance to carry into effect the various appropriations for the armament of fortifications and for the arming and equipping of the Organized Militia, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the amount specifically appropriated for draftsmen in the Army Ordnance Bureau: *Provided*, That the entire*Proviso*.Limit, etc. expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall not exceed $45,000, and that the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Office of the Chief of Engineers: Chief clerk, $2,000; twoEngineer Office. chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—eight of class four, eleven of class three, thirteen of class two, sixteen of class one, ten at $1,000 each; eleven at $900 each; six messengers; three assistant messengers; and two laborers; in all, $103,820. And the services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and suchSkilled draftsmen, etc. other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifica- 388*Proviso*.Limit, etc.tions, and surveys, to be paid from such appropriations: *Provided, *That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen shall not exceed $42,000; and that the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Insular Affairs Bureau.Office of the Bureau of Insular Affairs: Law officer, $4,500; chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—ten of class four, three of class three, ten of class two, nineteen of class one, eighteen at $1,000 each; three messengers; two assistant messengers; five laborers; two charwomen; in all, $91,840. Militia Affairs Division, Office of Chief of Staff.Vol. 35, p. 403.Division of Militia Affairs, Office of the Chief of Staff: For the following now authorized by section twenty of the Act approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, as amended by the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, namely:
Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, nine of class one, seven at $1,000 each; messenger; one assistant messenger; two laborers; two charwomen; in all, $34,160. Rent.For rent of quarters, $2,500. Misccellaneons expenses.For miscellaneous expenses of the Division of Militia Affairs, including stationery, fuel, light, furniture, telegraph and telephone service, and necessary printing and binding, $3,500, which sum, together with Paid from militia appropriation.Vol. 34, p. 449.the foregoing amounts for salaries and rent, shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for militia under the provisions of section sixteen hundred and sixty-one, Revised Statutes, as amended, and no other or further sums shall be expended from said appropriation for or on account of said Division of Militia Affairs during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses of the War Department: For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, including their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers (subscriptions to periodicals may be paid for in advance), maps; typewriters and adding machines, including their exchange; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to the buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department building) occupied by Adjutant General’s office, the Bureau of Insular Affairs, and the other offices of the War Department and its bureaus located in the Lemon Building; expenses of horses and vehicles, including their exchange, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; street car tickets, not exceeding $300; temporary labor not to exceed $1,000, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $48,000.
Stationery.For stationery for the War Department and its bureaus and offices, $25,000. Postage stamps.For postage stamps for the War Department and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, $500. Rent.For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for use of the War Department, as follows: Medical dispensary, Surgeon General’s office, $1,000; War Department, $7,200; Adjutant General’s office, $2,300; Bureau of Insular Affairs, $2,220; in all, $12,720.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.Public buildings and grounds. Superintendent, assistant, clerks, etc.Office of public buildings and grounds: Superintendent, $3,000; assistant and chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class two and stenographer, one of class one; messenger; landscape architect, $2,400; surveyor and draftsman, $1,500; in all, $16,140. 389 For foremen, gardeners, mechanics, and laborers employed in theForemen, etc. public grounds, $31,200.
For one sergeant of park watchmen, $950.Watchmen. For second sergeant of park watchmen, $900. For day watchmen, as follows: One in Franklin Park and adjacentDay force. reservations on New York Avenue; one in Lafayette Park; two in Smithsonian Grounds and neighboring reservations; one in Judiciary Park; one in Lincoln Park and adjacent reservations; one in Iowa Circle and reservations to the northneast; one in Thomas and Scott Circles and neighboring reservations; one in Washington Circle and neighboring reservations; one in Dupont Circle and neighboring reservations; one in McPherson Park and Farragut Square; one in Stanton Park and neighboring reservations; two in Henry and Seaton Parks and neighboring reservations; one in Mount Vernon Park and reservations to the northeast; one in grounds south of the Executive Mansion; one in Garfield and Marion Parks and reservations to the east: one in Monument Park; and three in Potomac Park; twenty-one in all, at $720 each, $15,120.
For night watchmen, as follows: Two in Smithsonian Grounds and neighboringNight force. reservations; one in Judiciary Park; two in Henry and Seaton Parks and adjacent reservations; one in grounds south of the Executive Mansion; one in Monument Park; one in Garfield Park and neighboring reservations; one in Iowa, Scott, and Thomas Circles and neighboring reservations; one in Stanton and Lincoln Parks and neighboring reservations; one in Lafayette and McPherson Squares and Franklin and Farragut Parks; one in Washington and Dupont Circles and neighboring reservations; one in Mount Vernon Park and neighboring reservations: two for greenhouses and nursery; and four in Potomac Park; nineteen in all, at $720 each, $13,680.
For watchman for the care of the monument and dock at Wakefield,Wakefield, Va. Virginia, the birthplace of Washington, $300. For contingent and incidental expenses, including purchase of professionalContingent expenses. and scientific books and periodicals, books of reference, blank books, photographs, and maps, $700. For purchase and repair of bicycles and revolvers for park watchmen and for purchase of ammunition, $400. For purchasing and supplying uniforms to park, Monument, andUniforms. bridge watchmen, $2,800.
Of the foregoing amounts appropriated under Public Buildings andPart from District revenues. Grounds, the sum of $32,875 shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. state, war, and navy department building.State, War, and Navy Department Building. Office of the superintendent: Clerk of class three; stenographerClerks, engineers, watchmen, etc. and typewriter, $900; chief engineer, $1,400; five assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; electrical machinist, $1,200; captain of the watch, $1,200; two lieutenants of the watch, at $840 each; forty-nine watch-men; carpenter, $1,000; electrician, $1,200; machinist, painter, and plumber, at $1,000 each; three dynamo tenders, at $900 each; seven skilled laborers or mechanics, at $840 each; messenger; foreman of laborers, $840; ten firemen; eleven conductors of elevators, at $720 each; seventeen laborers; three second-class firemen, at $660 each; four forewomen of charwomen, at $300 each; seventy-seven charwomen; gardener, $720; in all, $112,440.
For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items, and city directories,Fuel, lights, etc. $32,000. Navy Department Annex, Mills Building: Engineer, $1,200;Mills Building. four firemen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; five watchmen; four laborers; one forewoman, $300; nine charwomen; in all, $14,220. 390 For repairs, supplies, and miscellaneous articles, Mills Building (Navy Department Annex), 82,000. Electric generator.For purchase and installation of one three-hundred-kilowatt electric generator and appurtenances, in main building, $14,000.
State DepartmentState Department Annex: Laborer, $660.Annex. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. Secretary. Assistant, clerks, etc.Office of the Secretary: Secretary of the Navy, $12,000; Assist-ant Secretary of the Navy, $5,000; chief clerk, $3,000; private secretary to Secretary, $2,500; clerk to Secretary, $2,250; clerk to Assist-ant Secretary, $2,000; disbursing clerk, $2,250; stenographer, $1,800; clerks—four of class four, two of class three, four of class two, five of class one, one at $1,100, four at $1,000 each; stenographer, $1,200; telegraph operator, $1,100; two copyists; carpenter, $900; four messengers; four assistant messengers; three laborers; three messenger boys, at $600 each; messenger boy, $420; messenger boy, $400; telephone switchboard operator; assistant telephone switchboard operator; in all, $75,060.
Solicitor’s office.Office of the Solicitor: Solicitor, $4,000; law clerks—one at $2,500, one at $2,250, one at $2,000; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class two, one at $840; messenger, $600; in all, $16,990. Library.Library of the Navy Department: Clerk of class two; clerk of class one; assistant messenger; one laborer; in all, $3,980. Naval Records of Rebellion.Office of Naval Records of the Rebellion: Chief clerk, $2,000; agent, to be selected by the Secretary of the Navy from the officers of the late Confederate navy, $1,800; clerks—-one of class three (indexer) three of class two, three of class one, two at $1,000 each; copyist; copyist, $720; assistant messenger; necessary traveling expenses for collection of records, $100; in all, $17,640.
All employees provided for by this paragraph shall be exclusively engaged on the work of this office during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen. Continuing publication.For continuing the publication of an edition of eleven thousand copies of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, in accordance with the plan approved by Vol. 28, p. 190.the Secretary of the Navy under the Act of Congress approved July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four, and for the purpose of making such maps and illustrations as relate to the work, $21,000.
Judge Advocate General’s office.Judge Advocate General, United States Navy: Law clerk, $2,200; clerks—one of class four, one at $1,300, two of class one, three at $1,000 each, one at $900; assistant messenger; in all, $12,320. Bureau of Navigation.Bureau of Navigation: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—one at $2,000, four of class four, five of class three, five of class two, eight of class one, three at $1,100 each, fourteen at $1,000 each; fourteen copyists; nine copyists, at $840 each; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $600; five laborers; in all, $78,600.
Naval Intelligence Office.Office of Naval Intelligence: Clerk of class four; clerks— one of class two, one at $1,300, three at $1,000 each; two translators, at $1,400 each; assistant draftsman, $1,200; messenger boy, $600; in ail, $12,100. Bureau of Equipment.*Ante*, p 339.Bureau of Equipment: Chief clerk, $2,000; expert in wireless telegraphy, $3,000; draftsman, who shall be an expert in marine construction, $2,000; bookkeeper and accountant, $1,800; one drafts-man, $1,700; electrical expert and draftsman, $1,600; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, one of class two, one at $1,300, two of class one, four at $1,000 each; draftsman for work in connection with depots for coal, $1,200; two copyists; assistant messenger; messenger boy, $600; blue printer, $600; messenger boy, $360; and two laborers; in all, $32,800. 391 The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as theTechnical services.
Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Equipment, and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January first, nineteen hundred and twelve, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “ Increase of the Navy” and “ Equipment of vessels, to be paid from the appropriation “Equipment of vessels”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on*Proviso*.Limit, etc. this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen shall not exceed $9,500.
A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Hydrographic Office : Hydrographic engineer, $3,000; assistant,Hydrographic Office. $2,200; assistant, $2,000; nautical experts—one at $1,800, two at $1,600 each, one at $1,400, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; clerks—one of class two, one of class one; custodian of archives, $1,200; copyists—three at $900 each, one at $840, two at $720 each; compiler, $1,400; editor of Notice to Mariners, $1,800; computer, $1,400; draftsmen—three at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each, five at $1,000 each, one at $900; three apprentice draftsmen, at $700 each; chief engraver, $2,000; engravers—two at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, one at $1,400, six at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one at $720; apprentice engraver, $800; apprentice engraver, $700; plate printers—chief, $1,400, one at $1,200, one at $1,000, two at $900 each, one at $800; apprentice plate printers—one at $700, one at $600; chief lithographer, $1,800; two lithographers, at $1,000 each; apprentice lithographer, $700; electrotyper and chart plate maker, $1,200; assistant messenger; four laborers; helpers—two at $720 each, two at $660 each, one at $600, one at $500, one at $480; in all, $102,700.
Additional employees, for production of charts from metallic platesAdditional employees for metallic-plate photo printing. by photolithographic process: Draftsmen—one at $1,800, two at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each, five at $1,000 each; process photographer, $1,600; photographic printer, $1,200; lithographic press-man, $1,400; lithographic transferer, $1,400; two negative cutters, at $1,000 each; two feeders, at $480 each; in all, $20,560. For purchase of copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packingMaterials. boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copper plates, cleaning copper-plates; tools, instruments, power, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; the preparation of Pilot Charts and their supplements, and the printing and mailing of the same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, $7,000.
Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston, New York, Philadelphia,Branch offices, contingent expenses. Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Port Town-send, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, Panama, and Galveston, including furniture, fuel, lights, works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, stationery, miscellaneous articles, rent and care of offices, care of time balls, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and express charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for the Pilot Charts, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, $11,000. 392 Employees.For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $17,960.
Additional equipment. etc., for metallic-plate photo printing.Additional equipment and supplies for production of charts from metallic plates by photolithographic process: For purchase of copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios; electro typing copperplates; cleaning copper-plates; tools, instruments, power, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer or photolithographic and other charts to copper; care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; the preparation of Pilot Charts and their supplements and the printing and mailing of the same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference, and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $19,000.
Press, etc.Lithographic press and attachments, including motors, $6,500. Additional drafting equipment, $820. Additional photographic equipment, $3,120. Monthly Pilot Chart, North Pacific Ocean.For a monthly Pilot Chart of the North Pacific Ocean showing graphically the matters of value and interest to the maritime community of the Pacific coast, and particularly the directions and forces of the winds to be expected during the month succeeding the date of issue; the set and strength of the currents; the feeding grounds of whales and seals; the regions of storm, fog, and ice: the positions of derelicts and floating obstructions to navigation; the best routes to be followed by steam and by sail; expenses of communicating and circulating information; lithographing and engraving; the purchase of materials for and printing and mailing the chart, $2,000.
Personal services, etc., in Washington restricted.No expenditure shall be incurred or authorized for personal services or otherwise under the Hydrographic Office at Washington, District of Columbia, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen except as herein authorized by appropriations under the Navy Department or under appropriations that may be made for printing and binding. Naval Observatory.Naval Observatory: For assistant astronomers—one at $2,400; two at $1,800 each; assistant in department of nautical instruments, $1,600; clerks—one of class four, one of class two; instrument maker, $1,500; electrician, $1,500; librarian, $1,400; assistants—three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, two at $1,000 each; stenographer and typewriter, $900; foreman and captain of the watch, $1,000; carpenter, and engineer, at $1,000 each; three firemen; six watchmen; elevator conductor, $720; nine laborers; in all, $43,240.
Computations.For miscellaneous computations, $5,000. Library.For professional and scientific books, periodicals, engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library, $750. Apparatus, etc.For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, $2,000. Contingent expenses.For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences, furniture, gas, chemicals, and stationery, freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage, and expressage, plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses, $3,000.
For fuel, oil, grease, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power plant, and water-supply system; purchase and maintenance of teams; material for boxing nautical instruments for transportation; paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, $8,000. 393 Nautical Almanac Office: For assistants in preparing forNautical Almanac Office. publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac, namely:
One at $2,000, who may act as or be appointed director; two at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; copyist and typewriter, $900; assistant messenger; and one messenger boy. $420; in all, $15,640. For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publicationComputers. the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, $7,000. Bureau of Steam Engineering: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—Bureau of Steam Engineering. one of class four, one of class three, two of class two, one at $1,300, three of class one, one at $1,100, three at $1,000 each, one at $840; assistant messenger; two laborers; two laborers, at $600 each; messenger boy, $600; draftsman, $1,400; assistant draftsman, $1,200; stenographers and typewriters—one at $1,000, one at $900; in all, $26,380.
The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as theTechnical services. Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Steam Engineering and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January first, nineteen hundred and twelve, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy” and “Steam machinery, to be paid from the appropriation “Steam machinery”: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.Limit, etc. expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen shall not exceed $33,700.
A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Bureau of Construction and Repair: Chief clerk, $2,000;Bureau of Construction and Repair. clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, three at $1,300 each, three of class one, nine at $1,100 each, fifteen at $1,000 each; five copyists; two assistant messengers; laborer; messenger bovs—nine at $600 each, one at $400; in all, $57,800.
The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as theTechnical services. Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Construction and Repair and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January first, nineteen hundred and twelve, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy” and “Construction and Repair,” to be paid from the appropriation “Construction and Repair”: *Provided, **Proviso*.Limit, etc.That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen shall not exceed $88,300.
A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Bureau of Ordnance: Chief clerk, $2,000; ordnance engineer,Bureau of Ord nance. mechanical draftsman, and computer, $3,000; draftsman, $1,800; assistant draftsman, $1,400; clerks—two of class three, two of class two, one at $1,300, three of class one, one at $1,100, five at $1,000 each; three copyists; two copyists at $840 each; assistant messenger; messenger boys—two at $600 each, two at $400 each; laborer; in all. $32,960.
The services of clerks, draftsmen, and such other technical servicesTechnical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Ordnance, and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January first, nineteen hundred and twelve, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy” and “Ordnance and ordnance stores” to be paid from the appropriation “Ordnance and ordnance stores”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year*Proviso*.Limit, etc. nineteen hundred and thirteen shall not exceed $12,800.
A state- 394ment of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each, shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Civilian assistant, $2,500; two chief bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—four of class four, eight of class three, seven of class two, fifteen of class one, ten at $1,100 each, twenty-eight at $1,000 each, twelve at $900 each; two copyists, at $840 each; five assistant messengers; messenger boys—one at $600, three at $400 each; laborer; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $113,040.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks— two of class four, one of class three, one of class two, one of class one, two at $1,100 each, three at $1,000 each; copyist, $840; assistant messenger; laborer; driver for naval dispensary, $600; and laborer for naval dispensary, $480; in all, $18,300. Bureau of Yards and Docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks : Chief clerk, $2,000; draftsman and clerk, $1,800; clerks—one of class three, one of class two, two of class one, one at $1,100, six at $1,000 each; assistant messenger; three messenger boys, at $600 each; and two laborers; in all, $20,140.
Technical services.The services of skilled draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Yards and Docks to carry into effect the various appropriations and allotments thereunder and be paid from such *Proviso*.Limit, etc.appropriations and allotments: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen shall not exceed $50,000. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each, shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates.
Naval Militia Office.Vol. 30, p. 1272.Naval Militia Office: For the following, now authorized and being paid from the appropriation for “Arming and equipping Naval Militia,” namely, chief clerk, $1,600; stenographer, $1,200; messenger *Ante*, p. 336.boy, $600; in all, $3,400, which sum shall be paid from the appropriation for “Arming and equipping Naval Militia” for the fiscal year Restriction.nineteen hundred and thirteen, and no other or further sums shall be expended from said appropriation for or on account of said Naval Militia office; but all other expenses on account thereof shall be paid out of the appropriations for contingent expenses and for printing and binding for the Navy Department, as in the case of other like expenses of that department.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses, Navy Department: For professional and technical books and periodicals, law books, and necessary reference books, including city directories, railway guides, freight, passenger, and express tariff books, for department library, $2,000. For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, drawing materials, horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes, street-car tickets not exceeding $250, freight, expressage, postage, typewriters and computing machines and exchange of same, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, $40,000; it shall not be lawful to expend, for any Use of naval appropriations for Department supplies, etc., forbidden.of the offices or bureaus of the Navy Department at Washington, any sum out of appropriations made for the Naval Establishment for any of the purposes mentioned or authorized in this paragraph.
Fireproof files.Toward installing steel fireproof file cases and file boxes required to furnish additional filing space and to replace old wooden file cases and file boxes, $2,500. Rent.For the rental of the Mills Building during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $24,500. Restriction on use of naval appropriations.No part of any appropriations made for the naval service shall be expended for any of the purposes herein provided for on account of the Navy Department at Washington, District of Columbia, except for personal services in certain bureaus as herein expressly authorized. 395 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department.
Office of the Secretary: For compensation of the Secretary ofSecretary, and Assistants. the Interior, $12,000; First Assistant Secretary, $5,000; Assistant Secretary, $4,500; chief clerk, including $500 as superintendent ofChief clerk.Duties. buildings, who shall be chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary of the Interior to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries of the department, $4,000; assistant to the Secretary, $2,750; assistant attorney, $2,500; two special inspectors,Attorney, inspectors, clerks, etc. whose employment shall be limited to the inspection of offices and the work in the several offices under the control of the Department of the Interior, at $2,500 each; six inspectors, at $2,500 each; chief disbursing clerk. $2,250; clerk in charge of supplies, $2,250; clerk in charge of mails, files, and archives, $2,250; clerk in charge of publications, $2,250; private secretary to the Secretary of the Interior, $2,500; clerks—four at $2,000 each, thirteen of class four, eighteen of class three, twenty-one of class two, twenty-four of class one, three at $1,000 each; returns office clerk, $1,600; female clerk, to be designated by the President, to sign land patents, $1,200; eight copyists; multigraph operator, $900; assistant multigraph operator, $720; typewriter repairer, $900; two telephone switchboard operators; nineMessengers, watchmen, etc. messengers; seven assistant messengers; twenty-one laborers; skilled mechanics—one at $900 and one at $720; two carpenters, at $900 each; plumber, $900; electrician, $1,000; laborer, $600; six laborers, at $480 each; packer, $660; two conductors of elevator, at $720 each; eight, charwomen; captain of the watch, $1,200; forty watchmen; additional to two watchmen acting as lieutenants of watchmen, at $120 each; engineer, $1,200; assistant engineer, $1,000; seven fire-men; clerk to sign, under the direction of the Secretary, in his nameClerk to sign tribal deeds. and for him, his approval of all tribal deeds to allottees and deeds for town lots made and executed according to law for any of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory, $1,200; in all, $275,570.
For employees, for the proper protection, heating, care, and preservationEmployees, old Post Office Department building. of the old Post Office Department building, occupied by the Department of the Interior, namely: Engineer and electrician, $1,600; assistant engineer, $1,000; four firemen; three watchmen, acting as lieutenants, at $840 each; twenty watchmen; conductor of elevator, $720; fourteen laborers; nine laborers, at $480 each; three skilled mechanics (painter, carpenter, and plumber), at $900 each; in all, $39,380.
Office of Assistant Attorney General: Assistant attorneys—Assistant Attorney General’s office. one at $3,000, two at $2,750 each, four at $2,500 each, seven at $2,250 each, eleven at $2,000 each; medical expert, $2,000; four clerks of class three, one of whom shall act as stenographer and one of whom shall be a stenographer and typewriter; clerk of class one; in all, $65,850. For per diem in lieu of subsistence of two special inspectors, DepartmentPer diem, etc., special inspectors. of the Interior, while traveling on duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding $4 per day, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation (including temporary employment of stenographers, typewriters, and other assistance out-side of the District of Columbia, and for incidental expenditures necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations), to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $4,500.
For traveling expenses of six inspectors, at $4 per day, when actually employedTraveling expenses, etc., inspectors. on duty in the field, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fare, in lieu of all other expenses now authorized by law, and for incidental expenses of negotiation, inspection, and investigation, including telegraphing and expenses to and going from the seat of 396government and while remaining there under orders and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, for a period not to exceed twenty days, $9,600.
General Land office.General Land Office: Commissioner of the General Land Office, $5,000; assistant commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk, $2,750; chief law clerk, $2,500; two law clerks, at $2,200 each; three law examiners of surveyors general and district land offices, at $2,000 each; recorder, $2,000; chiefs of division—two at $2,400 each, ten at $2,000 each; assistant chief of division, $2,000; law examiners—thirteen at $2,000 each, ten at $1,800 each, eighteen at $1,600 each; clerks—twenty-seven of class four, fifty-one of class three, seventy-four of class two, seventy-seven of class one, sixty-five at $1,000 each; sixty-five copyists; twenty-six copyists, at $720 each; two messengers; ten assistant messengers; messenger boys—ten at $600 each, six at $480 each; six skilled laborers, who may act as assistant messengers when required, at $660 each; sixteen laborers; laborer, $480; packer, $720; depositary acting for the commissioner as receiver of public moneys, $2,000; clerk and librarian, $1,000; in all, $630,650.
Per diem, etc., investigations.For per diem in lieu of subsistence of examiners and of clerks detailed to inspect offices of United States surveyors general and other offices in surveying service, to investigate fraudulent land entries, trespasses on the public lands, and cases of official misconduct, while traveling on duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior, not exceeding $4 per day, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, and for employment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations, and when authorized by the Com-missioner of the General Land Office, $8,500.
Law books.For law books for the law library of the General Land Office, $400. Maps.For connected and separate United States and other maps, prepared in the General Land Office, $20,000: *Provided*, That of the *Proviso*.Distribution.United States maps procured hereunder seven thousand two hundred copies shall be delivered to the Senate and fourteen thousand four hundred copies shall be delivered to the House of Representatives, five hundred copies shall be delivered to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the residue shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Interior for distribution.
And all maps delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives hereunder shall be mounted with rollers ready for use. State and Territorial maps.For separate State and Territorial maps, including maps showing areas designated by the Secretary of the Interior under the enlarged homestead acts, prepared in the General Land Office, $3,300. Filing appliances.For appliances in connection with filing system in the General Land Office, $3,000. Indian Office.Indian Office: Commissioner of Indian Affairs, $5,000; assistant commissioner, $3,500; second assistant commissioner, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, $2,250; financial clerk, $2,250; chiefs of division—one at $2,250, one at $2,000; law clerk, $2,000; assistant chief of division, $2,000; private secretary, $1,800; clerks— fourteen of class four, twenty-five of class three, twenty-four of class two, two at $1,500 each, forty-three of class one, twenty-three at $1,000 each; stenographer, $1,000; twenty-nine copyists; messenger; four assistant messengers; four messenger boys, at $360 each; in all, $231,710.
Estimates for all personal services to be submitted.Restriction.For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and annually thereafter estimates in detail shall be submitted for all personal services required in the Indian Office, and after the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen it shall not be lawful to employ in said office any personal services other than those specificially appropriated for in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation 397Acts, except temporary details of field employees for service connected solely with their respective employments.
Pension Office: CommissionerPension Office.*Post*, p. 454. of Pensions, $5,000; Deputy Com-missioner, $3,600; chief clerk, $2,500; assistant chief clerk, $2,000; medical referee, $3,000; assistant medical referee, $2,250; two qualified surgeons, at $2,000 each; fifteen medical examiners, at $1,800 each: eight chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; law clerk, $2,250; chief of board of review, $2,250; fifty-seven principal examiners, at $2,000 each; private secretary, to be selected and appointed by the Com-missioner of Pensions, $2,000; sixteen assistant chiefs of division, at $1,800 each; three stenographers, at $1,600 each; clerks—ninety-five of class four, one hundred of class three, two hundred and seventy-five of class two, two hundred and ninety-five of class one, sixty-five, at $1,000 each; thirty copyists; twenty-seven messengers; twelve assistant messengers; seventeen skilled laborers, at $660 each; twenty messenger boys, at $400 each; superintendent of building, $1,400; twenty-three laborers; ten female laborers, at $400 each; fifteen charwomen; one painter, and one cabinetmaker, skilled in their trades, at $900 each; captain of the watch, $840; three sergeants of the watch, at $750 each; twenty watchmen; for the following under the chief clerk of the Interior Department:
Engineer, $1,200; and two firemen; in all, $1,478,100. No transfers from the Pension Office existing July first, nineteenNo return of transfers. hundred and twelve, shall be returned to said office. For per diem, when absent from home and traveling on duty outsidePer diem, etc., investigations. the District of Columbia, for special examiners or other persons employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertaining to said bureau, in lieu of expenses for subsistence, not exceeding $3 per day, and for actual and other necessary expenses, including telegrams, $215,000.
For completing the installation of the card-index system of theCard Index. records of the Pension Office, $5,000. For an additional force of forty-five special examiners for one year,Additional special examiners. at $1,300 each, $58,500, and no person so appointed shall be employed in the State from which he is appointed; and any of those now employed in the Pension Office or as special examiners may be reap-pointed if they be found to be qualified. Patent Office: Commissioner of Patents $5,000; first assistantPatent Office. commissioner, who shall perform such duties pertaining to the office of commissioner as may be assigned to him by the commissioner, $4,500; assistant commissioner, who shall perform such duties pertaining to the office of commissioner as may be assigned to him by the commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk, who shall be qualified to act as principal examiner, $3,000; two law examiners, at $2,750 each; three examiners in chief, at $3,500 each; examiner of interferences, $2,700; examiner of trade marks and designs, $2,700; six assistant examiners of trade-marks and designs, at $1,500 each; examiner of classification, $3,600; fortythreeprincipal examiners, at $2,700 each; sixty-three first assistant examiners, at $2,400 each; seventy-three second assistant examiners, at $2,100 each; eighty-eight third assistant examiners, at $1,800 each; one hundred and ten fourth assistant examiners, at $1,500 each; financial clerk, who shall give bonds in such amount as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, $2,250; librarian, $2,000; six chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; three assistant chiefs of division, at $1,800 each; private secretary, to be selected and appointed by the Commissioner of Patents, $1,800; translator of languages, $1,800; clerks—nine of class four, nine of class three, seventeen of class two, one hundred and thirty of class one, ninety at $1,000 each; three skilled draftsmen, at $1,200 each; four draftsmen, at $1,000 each; messenger and property clerk, $1,000; ninety copyists; fifty copyists, 398at $720 each; four messengers; twenty-five assistant messengers; fourteen laborers, at $600 each; forty-five laborers, at $480 each; forty messenger boys, at $360 each; in all, $1,311,010.
Books, etc.For purchase of professional and scientific books and expense of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments, $2,500. For purchase of law and other reference books, $500. Copies of weekly issues of patents, etc.For producing copies of the weekly issue of patents, designs, and trade-marks; for the reproduction of copies of drawings and specifications of exhausted patents and other papers, $140,000. Investigating use of inventions.For investigating the question of the public use or sale of inventions for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and such other questions arising in connection with applications for patents as may be deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Patents; and for expense attending defense of suits instituted against the Com-missioner of Patents, $500.
International Bureau, Berne.For the share of the United States in the expense of conducting the International Bureau at Berne, Switzerland, $750. Bureau of Education.Bureau of Education: Commissioner of Education, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,000; specialist in higher education, $3,000; for the Investigating rural education, etc.investigation of rural education, industrial education, and school hygiene, including salaries, $15,000; editor, $2,000; statistician, $1,800; specialists in charge of land-grant college statistics, $1,800; translator, $1,800; collector and compiler of statistics, $2,400; specialists—one in foreign educational systems, and one in educational systems, at $1,800 each; clerks—two of class four, three of class three, four of class two, eight of class one, seven at $1,000 each; six copyists; two copyists, at $800 each; copyists, $720; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; messenger; one assistant messenger; three laborers, at $480 each; laborer, $400; in all, $81,800.
Library.For books for library, current educational periodicals, other cur-rent publications, and completing valuable sets of periodicals, including payment in advance for subscriptions to publications, $500. Special reports.For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of information, $4,000. Distributing documents, etc.For the purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents, and for the collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus and appliances, textbooks, and educational reference books, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and for repairing the same, $2,500.
Superintendent of Capitol, etc.Office of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds: Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,000; chief electrical engineer, $3,000; civil engineer, $2,400; two draftsmen, at $1,200 each; clerk, $1,600; stenographer and typewriter, $1,000; compensation to disbursing clerk, $1,000; messenger; person in charge of the heating of the Supreme Court and central portion of the Capitol, $1,000; laborer in charge of water-closets in central portion of the Capitol, $660; seven laborers for cleaning Rotunda, corridors, Dome, and old library portion of Capitol, at $660 each; two laborers in charge of public closets of the House of Representatives and in the terrace, at $720 each; bookkeeper and accountant, $1,800; and one stenographer, at $720; in all, $30,480.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior: The fol-lowing sums, which shall be so apportioned as to prevent deficiencies therein, namely: For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary of the Interior and the bureaus, offices, and buildings of the Interior Department, including $7,500 for the Civil Service Commission: For furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, adver 399rising, telegraphing, street car tickets not exceeding $250, expressage, wagons and harness, motor trucks, motorcycles, and bicycles, maintenance and exchange of same, food, forage, and shoeing of horses, diagrams, awnings, filing and labor-saving devices, constructing model and other cases and furniture, and other necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for, including traveling expenses, fuel and lights, typewriting and adding machines and exchange of same, $122,000.
For stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-linedStationery. wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the Department of the Interior and its several bureaus and offices, including not to exceed $5,000 for the Civil Service Commission, $69,500; and, in addition thereto, sumsAdditional, deducted from bureaus,, offices, etc. amounting to $44,400 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, as follows:
Contingent expenses of pension agencies, $18,000; protecting public lands and timber, $2,000; contingent expenses of offices of surveyors general, $2,600; Capitol building and repairs, $300; Geological Survey, $2,100; Bureau of Mines, $1,200; Indian warehouses, $500; Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, $1,000; Indian schools, $17,000; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $69,500, the total appropriation for stationery for the Department of the Interior and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen.
For professional and scientific books, law books, and books to completeBooks, etc. broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $1,000, of which sum $250 may be used for the Civil Service Commission. For rent of buildings for the Department of the Interior, namely:Rent For Geological Survey, $29,200; additional rooms for the engraving and printing divisions of the Geological Survey, $1,200; rent of additional rooms for the Geological Survey, $2,500;
Civil Service Com-mission, $16,875; in all, $49,775. For rent of basement of the addition to the main building of the Geological Survey, required for additional storage of documents, maps, and so forth, and for workroom, $1,500. For rent of additional office accommodations for the Geological Survey in the main building of the survey, Washington, District of Columbia (formerly occupied by the Reclamation Service), $3,000. For rent of building for the Bureau of Mines, $10,000. For postage stamps for the Department of the Interior and itsPostage stamps. bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, $3,500. surveyors general and their clerks.Surveyors general.
For surveyor general and ex officio secretary of the districtAlaska. of Alaska, $4,000: clerks in his office, $7,000; in all, $11,000. For rent of offices for surveyor general, pay of messenger, stationery, printing, binding, drafting instruments, typewriters, books of reference for office use, furniture, fuel, lights, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, $2,500. For surveyor general of Arizona, $3,000; and for the clerks in hisArizona. office, $13,000; in all, $16,000.
For rent of office for the surveyor general, stationery, binding records, books of reference for office use, typewriter and repairs, repairs of furniture, freight and drayage, filing cases, drafting sup-plies and tables, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, $1,800. 400 California.For surveyor general of California, $3,000; and for the clerks in his office, $11,400; in all, $14,400. For pay of messenger, stationery, binding records, repairing maps, repairs to locks, clocks, furniture, batteries, and typewriter, towels, telephone, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, $1,500.
Colorado.For surveyor general of the State of Colorado, $3,000; and for the clerks of his office, $22,000; in all, $25,000. For rent of office for the surveyor general, pay of messenger, stationery, printing and binding, furniture and repairs, muslin for mounting plats, drafting instruments, record books, indexing volumes of letters, ice, telephone, post-office box rent and register stamps, books of reference for office use, typewriter, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, $4,000.
Idaho.For surveyor general of Idaho, $3,000; and for the clerks in his office, $16,000; in all, $19,000. For pay of messenger, stationery, binding, printing, drafting instruments, post-office box rent, furniture, typewriters, ice, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, $1,500. Montana.For surveyor general of Montana, $3,000; and for the clerks in his office, $20,000; m all, $23,000. For pay of messenger, lights, post-office box rent, ice, stationery, printing, binding, furniture, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, $1,500.
Nevada.For surveyor general of Nevada, $3,000; and for the clerks in his office, $8,000; in all, $11,000. For stationery, and drawing materials, post-office box rent, registering letters, telephone, ice, repair of furniture, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, $1,000. New Mexico.For surveyor general of New Mexico, $3,000; and for clerks in his office, $15,500; in all, $18,500. For pay of messenger, stationery, printing, drafting instruments, plats, drawing paper, binding records, telephone, registration of letters, post-office box rent, drayage, towels, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, $1,500.
Oregon.For surveyor general of Oregon, $3,000; and for the clerks in his office, $13,000; in all, $16,000. For stationery, telephone, towels, binding, post-office box rent, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, $900. South Dakota.For surveyor general of South Dakota, $2,000. For the clerks in his office, $4,000. For rent of office for the surveyor general, pay of messengers, stationery supplies, drafting instruments, fuel, ice, binding records, post-office box rent, telegrams, registration of letters, towels, furniture and typewriter repairs, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, $800.
Utah.For surveyor general of Utah, $3,000; and for the clerks in his office, $14,000; in all, $17,000. For pay of janitor, stationery, plats and supplies, printing and binding, drawing tables, drafting instruments, post-office box rent, typewriters, drayage, towels, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, $1,000. Washington.For surveyor general of Washington, $3,000; and for the clerks in his office, $11,000; in all, $14,000. 401 For rent of office for the surveyor general, pay of janitor, furniture and repairs, stationery, binding records, books, blanks, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, $1,500.
For surveyor general of Wyoming, $3,000, and for the clerks in hisWyoming. office, $17,000; in all, $20,000. For pay of messenger, stationery, and supplies, lights, printing, binding, books, post-office box rent, drafting instruments, mounting maps, ice, towels, furniture and repairs, books of reference for office use, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of type-writers, $1,200. That no expenses chargeable to the foregoing appropriations forRestriction on clerk hire, etc. clerk hire and incidental expenses in the offices of the surveyors general shall be incurred by the respective surveyors general in the conduct of said offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post Office Department. Office Postmaster General: For Postmaster General, $12,000;Postmaster General, chief clerk, clerks, etc. chief clerk, Post Office Department, including $500 as superintendent of Post Office Department buildings, $4,000; private secretary, $2,500; disbursing clerk, $2,250; bookkeeper and accountant, $1,800; two stenographers, at $1,600 each; appointment clerk, $2,000; clerk, assistant to chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, five of class three, including assistant printing clerk, six of class two, three of class one, four, at $1,000 each; three, at $900 each; curator of museum, $1,000; telephone switchboard operator; assistant telephone switchboard operator; messenger in charge of mails, $900; messenger; two assistant messengers; page, $360; engineer, $1,400;Engineers, watchmen, etc. eight assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; electrician, $1,400; two assistant electricians, at $1,200 each; three dynamo tenders, at $900 each; fireman, who shall be a blacksmith, and fireman, who shall be a steam fitter, at $900 each; ten elevator conductors, at $720 each; seventeen firemen; carpenters—one at $1,200, one at $1,000; two, at $900 each; captain of the watch, $1,000; additional to two watch-men acting as lieutenant of watchmen, at $120 each; twenty-four watchmen; foreman of laborers, $800; forty-five laborers; plumber and awning maker, at $900 each; female laborers—one at $540, three at $500 each, three at $480 each; forty-five charwomen; in all, $172,150.
Division of Post-office Inspectors: Chief inspector, $4,000; chiefDivision of post-office inspectors. clerk, $2,000; clerks—three of class four, eight of class three, twelve of class two, sixteen of class one, fourteen at $1,000 each, fifteen at $900 each; three assistant messengers; laborer; in all, $90,520. Division of the Purchasing Agent: Purchasing agent, $4,000; chiefPurchasing agent’s division. clerk, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class two, two of class one, two at $1,000 each; assistant messenger; actual and necessary expenses of the purchasing agent while traveling on business of the Post-Office Department, $500; in all, $16,420.
Division of Assistant Attorney General for the Post-Office Department:Assistant Attorney General’s division. Assistant attorneys—one at $2,750, one at $2,000; law clerk, $1,800; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, three of class two, one of class one, one at $1,000, one at $900; assistant messenger; in all, $19,770. Office First AssistantFirst Assistant Postmaster General, etc.Salaries and allowances division. Postmaster General: First Assistant Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; superintendent division of salaries and allowances, $4,000; assistant superintendent division of salaries and allowances, $2,250; chief division of correspondence, $2,000; clerks—eight of class four, seven of class three, eleven 402of class two, eight of class one, four at $1,000 each, eight at $900 each; messenger; four assistant messengers; laborer; two pages, at $360 each; in all, $82,650.
Appointments division.Division of postmasters’ appointments: Superintendent, $3,000; two assistants, at $2,000 each; clerks—three of class four, fourteen of class three, ten of class two, six of class one, four at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; two messengers; in all, $63,480. City delivery division. Division of city delivery: Superintendent, $3,000; assistant superintendent, $2,000; clerks—three of class three, two of class two, seven of class one, four at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; laborer; in all, $28,300.
Second Assistant Postmaster General, etc.Railway adjustments division. Foreign mails division.Office Second Assistant Postmaster General: Second Assistant Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; superintendent division of railway adjustments, $3,000; assistant superintendent division of railway adjustments, $2,250; superintendent division of foreign mails, $3,000; assistant superintendent division of foreign mails, $2,000; superintendent division of inspection, $2,000; superintendent division of equipment, $2,000; clerks—eleven of class four (three transferred to office of Fourth Assistant), twenty-four of class three (seventeen transferred to office of Fourth Assistant), twenty-four of class two (ten transferred to office of Fourth Assistant), fourteen of class one (fourteen transferred to office of Fourth Assistant), twelve at $1,000 each (four transferred to office of Fourth Assistant), five at $900 each (two transferred to office of Fourth Assistant); messenger in charge of mails, $900; five assistant messengers (two transferred to office of Fourth Assistant); page, $480; in all, $151,830.
Railway Mail Service Division.Division of Railway Mail Service: General superintendent, $4,000; assistant general superintendent, $3,500; chief clerk, $2,000; clerks— two of class four, five of class three, six of class two, five of class one, three at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; in all, $40,300. Third Assistant Postmaster General, etc.Stamps division.Finance division.Office Third Assistant Postmaster General: Third Assistant Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; superintendent Division of Stamps, $2,750; superintendent Division of Finance, who shall give bond in such amount as the Postmaster General may determine for the faithful discharge of his duties, $2,250; assistant superintendent Division of Finance, $2,000; superintendent Classification division.Registered mails division.Division of Classification, $2,750; chief Division of Redemption, $2,000; superintendent Division of Registered Mails, $2,500; clerks—nine of class four, twenty-three of class three, thirty-two of class two, forty-four of class one, twenty-eight at $1,000 each, eighteen at $900 each; messenger; five assistant messengers; twelve laborers; page, $360; in all, $229,270.
Money orders division.Division of Money Orders: Superintendent, $3,500; chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—three of class four, seven of class three, eleven of class two, eleven of class one, ten at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each; assistant messenger; four laborers; in all, $73,310. Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, etc.Office Fourth Assistant Postmaster General: Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; superintendent Rural mails division.Division of Rural Mails, $3,000; assistant superintendent Division of Rural Mails, $2,000; chief clerk Division of Rural Mails, $2,000 (in lieu of superintendent Division of Contracts, transferred from office of Second Assistant); clerks—seven of class four (including three transferred from office of Second Assistant), twenty of class three (including seventeen transferred from office of Second Assistant), twenty-two of class two (including ten transferred from office of Second Assistant), forty-four of class one (including fourteen transferred from office of Second Assistant), forty-three at $1,000 each (including four transferred from office of Second Assistant), ten at $900 each (including two transferred from office of Second Assistant); stenographer, $1,600; stenographer, $1,200; two messengers; three assistant messengers (including two transferred from 403office of Second Assistant); two laborers; two pages, at $360 each; in all, $203,380.
Division of Dead Letters: Superintendent, $2,750; clerk of classDead letters division. four, who shall be chief clerk; clerks—five of class four, eight of class three, ten of class two, thirty-four of class one, thirty-eight at $1,000 each, thirty-nine at $900 each; messenger; three assistant messengers; fifteen laborers; six female laborers, at $480 each; in all, $170,030. Division of Supplies: Superintendent, $2,500; assistant superintendent,Supplies division. $2,000; clerks—two of class four, three of class three, eleven of class two, eighteen of class one, sixteen at $1,000 each, eight at $900 each; messenger; eleven assistant messengers; eighteen laborers; page, $360; in all, $94,100.
Division of Topography: For topographer, $2,750; assistantTopography division. topographer, $2,000; skilled draftsmen—four at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, four at $1,400 each, five at $1,200 each; examiner, $1,200; clerk of class two; map mounter, $1,200; mechanic, $1,000; copyists of maps—seven at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; assistant map mounter, $720; assistant messenger; in all, $46,790. Contingent Expenses, Post Office Department: For stationeryContingent expenses.Stationery. and blank books, index and guide cards, folders, and binding devices, including amount necessary for the purchase of free penalty envelopes, $20,000.
For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, and power plant, includingHeating plant, etc. repairs to elevators, the purchase and exchange of tools and electrical supplies, and removal of ashes, $35,000. For gas and electric lights, $350. For telegraphing, $4,000. For painting, $2,000. For purchase, exchange, hire, and keeping of horses and vehicles, and repair of vehicles and harness, to be used only for official purposes, $2,500. For miscellaneous items, including the exchange of typewriters,Miscellaneous adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; street car tickets not exceeding $200; plumbing, floor coverings; and postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad which is not exempt under Article Eleven of the Rome convention of the Universal Postal Union, $20,000, of which sum not exceeding $3,985 may be expended for telephone service, and not exceeding $1,500 may be expended for law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, books necessary to conduct the business of the department; and repairs to the Post Office Department building.
For furniture and filing cabinets, $5,000.Furniture, etc. For rent of a suitable building for storage of the files of the PostRent. Office Department, $3,000. For rent of stables, $500. For the publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, includingOfficial Postal Guide not exceeding three thousand copies for the use of the executive departments, $24,000. For miscellaneous expenses in the Division of Topography in thePost-route maps,etc preparation and publication of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blue prints, including tracing for photolithgraphic reproduction, $26,000.
And the Postmaster General may authorize theSale, etc. sale to the public of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blue prints at the cost of printing and ten per centum thereof added, the proceeds of such sales to be used as a further appropriation for the preparation and publication of post-route maps and rural-delivery maps or blue prints. Of this amount $100 may be expended in the purchase of atlases, geographical and technical works needed in the Division of Topography. 404 Restriction on postal service appropriations.Vol. 5, p. 80.No part of any appropriations made for the service of the Post Office Department in conformity with the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, shall be expended for any of the purposes herein provided for on account of the Post Office Department at Washington, District of Columbia.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Attorney General, Solicitor General, Assistants, etc.Office of the Attorney General: Attorney General, $12,000; Solicitor General, $10,000; assistant to the Attorney General, $7,000; seven Assistant Attorneys General, at $5,000 each; Assistant Attorney General of the Post Office Department, $5,000; Solicitor of Internal Attorneys, assistants, etc.Revenue, $5,000; Solicitor for the Department of State, $5,000; four attorneys, at $5,000 each, one of whom shall have charge of all condemnation proceedings in the District of Columbia and supervise the examination of titles and matters arising from such condemnation proceedings in which the United States shall be a party or have an interest, and no special attorney or counsel, or services of persons other than of those provided for herem, shall be employed for such purposes; attorneys—one at $3,750, three at $3,500 each, one at $3,250, twelve at $3,000 each, two at $2,500 each; assistant attorneys—one at $3,500, two at $3,000 each, two at $2,750 each, five at $2,500 each, one at Chief clerk, clerks, etc.$2,400, two at $2,000 each; assistant examiner of titles, $2,000; chief clerk and ex officio superintendent of the buildings, $3,000; superintendent of buildings, $500; private secretary and assistant to the Attorney General, $3,000; clerk to the Attorney General, $1,600; stenographer to the Solicitor General, $1,600; law clerks—three at $2,000 each, two of class four, clerk in office of the Solicitor of Internal Superintendent of prisons, etc.Revenue, $1,800; attorney in charge of pardons, $3,000; superintendent of prisons, $4,000; disbursing clerk, $2,750; appointment clerk, Investigation division, etc.$2,000;
Chief of Division of Investigation, $3,500; examiners—three at $2,500 each, four at $2,250 each, two at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each; librarian, $1,800; clerks—eight of class four, twelve of class three, seven of class two, sixteen of class one, fourteen at $1,000 each, Messengers, watchmen, etc.twenty-one at $900 each; chief messenger, $1,000; packer, $900; messenger, $960; five messengers; thirteen assistant messengers; seven laborers; seven watchmen; engineer, $1,200; two assistant engineers, at $900 each; four firemen; two conductors of the elevator, at $720 each; head charwoman, $480; twenty-two charwomen.
Division of accounts.Division of Accounts: Chief of Division of Accounts, $2,500; chief bookkeeper and record clerk, $2,000; clerks—three of class four, four of class three, six of class two, five of class one, two at $900 each; in all, $424,610. Administrative audit of accounts.The administrative audit of all expenditures under the control of the Department of Justice shall hereafter be made in the Division of Accounts of that Department. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses, Department of Justice:
For furniture and repairs, including carpets, file holders, and cases, $4,500. For books for law library of the department, $3,000. For purchase of session laws and statutes of the States and Territories for library of department, $500. For books for office of Solicitor of the Department of Commerce and Labor, $300. For stationery for department and its several bureaus, $6,500. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and adding machines and exchange of same, street car tickets not exceeding $200, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney General, $25,000. 405 For official transportation, including purchase and exchange, keep, and shoeing of animals, and purchase, exchange, and repairs of wagons and harness, $2,500.
For the rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District ofRent. Columbia used by the Department of Justice, $32,200. Office of the Solicitor of the Treasury: Solicitor of theSolicitor of the Treasury, assistant, etc. Treasury, $5,000; Assistant Solicitor, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,000; two law clerks, at $2,000 each; two docket clerks, at $2,000 each; clerks— two of class four, two of class three, two of class two; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $28,980. For law books for office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, $300.
Office of the Solicitor of the Department of Commerce andSolicitor of Commerce and Labor, assistant, etc. Labor: Solicitor of the Department of Commerce and Labor, $5,000; Assistant Solicitor, $3,000; clerks—three of class four, two of class three, three of class two, three of class one; messenger; in all, $25,240. DEPARTAIENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.Department of Commerce and Labor. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of Commerce and Labor,Secretary, Assistant, chiefs of divisions,etc. $12,000;
Assistant Secretary, $5,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; confidential clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; private secretary to Assistant Secretary, $2,100; chief clerk and superintendent, $3,000; disbursing clerk, $3,000; Chief of Appointment Division, $2,500; Chief, Division of Publications, $2,500; Chief, Division of Sup-plies, $2,100; clerks—ten of class four, eleven of class three, twelve of class two, eleven of class one, ten at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; two telephone operators, at $720 each; messenger to the Secretary, $1,000; five messengers; ten assistant messengers; seven messenger boys, at $480 each; engineer, $1,000; three skilled laborers, at $840 each; two conductors of elevators, at $720 each; two firemen, at $660 each; eighteen laborers; five laborers, at $480 each; cabinetmaker, $1,000; carpenter, $900; chief watchman, $900; eleven watchmen; eighteen charwomen; in all, $170,300.
Bureau of Corporations: Commissioner of Corporations, $5,000;Bureau of Corporations. deputy commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk, $2,500; clerk to commissioner, $1,800; clerks—four of class four, four of class three, six of class two, ten of class one, fifteen at $1,000 each; sixteen copyists; messenger; assistant messenger; three messenger boys, at $480 each; in all, $79,200. . For compensation and per diem, to be fixed by the Secretary ofSpecial attorneys, etc. Commerce and Labor, of special attorneys, special examiners, and special agents, for the purpose of carrying on the work of said bureau, as provided by the Act approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundredVol. 82, p. 827. and three, entitled ‘‘An Act to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor,” the per diem to be, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding $4 per day to each of said special attorneys, special examiners, and special agents, and also of other officers and employees in the Bureau of Corporations while absent from their homes on duty outside of the District of Columbia, and for their actual necessary traveling expenses, including necessary sleeping-car fares; in all, $175,000.
Bureau of Labor: Commissioner of Labor, $5,000; chief statistician,Bureau of Labor. who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, $3,000; four statistical experts, at $2,000 each; clerks—five of class four, five of class three, six of class two, twelve of class one, nine at $1,000 each; two copyists; two assistant messengers; twolaborers; special agents— four at $1,800 each, six at $1,600 each, eight at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; in all, $102,160. 406 Special agents, etcFor per diem, in lieu of subsistence, of special agents and employees while traveling on duty away from their homes and outside of the District of Columbia, at a rate not to exceed $3 per day, and for their transportation, and for employment of experts and temporary assistance, to be paid at the rate of not exceeding $8 per day, and for traveling expenses of officers and employees, and for the purchase of reports International Association for Labour Legislation.and materials for the reports and bulletins of the Bureau of Labor, and for subvention to ‘‘International Association for Labour Legislation,” and necessary expenses connected with representation of the United States Government therein, $64,090.
Library.For books, periodicals, and newspapers for the library the sum of $100 may be expended for newspapers for the purpose of procuring strike data, and the annual subscriptions for newspapers and periodicals for the bureau may be paid in advance, $1,000. Medical examination of injured employees.Vol. 35, p. 557.To enable the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to provide and pay for the medical examination of employees of the United States receiving compensation for injuries under the provisions of the Act of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, as directed by section five of said Act, $3,000.
Bureau of Lighthouses.Bureau of Lighthouses: Commissioner, $5,000; deputy com-missioner, $4,000; chief constructing engineer, $4,000; superintendent of naval construction, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one at $2,000, two of class four, one of class three, two of class two, six of class one, five at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each, one at $840, one at $720; messenger; assistant messenger; two messenger boys, at $480 each; assistant engineers—one at $3,000, one at $2,400, one at $2,250; draftsmen—one at $1,800, one at $1,560, one at $1,440, one at $1,200; in all, $64,630.
Census Office.Census Office: For Director, $6,000; four chief statisticians, at $3,000 each; chief clerk, $2,500; geographer, $2,000; stenographer, $1,500; eight expert chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—eleven of class four, twenty of class three, thirty-two of class two, three hundred of class one, eighty-three at $1,000 each, eighty-seven at $900 each; engineer, $1,000; electrician, $1,000; skilled laborers—two at $1,000 each, four at $900 each, ten at $720 each; six watchmen; three messengers; three firemen; five assistant messengers; eight unskilled laborers, at $720 each; four messenger boys, at $480 each; fourteen charwomen; in all, $696,340.
Appointments at $1,200 or loss.In certifying eligibles from the civil-service registers for the purpose of appointment to positions of clerkships in the Census Office herein-before provided for at salaries of $1,200 or less, the Civil Service Com-mission shall, so far as practicable under the law of apportionment, certify those who have had at least one year’s experience in census work. Temporary clerks.Appointments from Thirteenth Census force.*Post.* p. 784.Temporary clerks:
In addition to the employees hereinbefore provided for, the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may appoint, on the recommendation of the Director of the Census, for such time as may be necessary, but not beyond June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, not exceeding one hundred and seventy-five temporary clerks, from among the employees of the Thirteenth Census force, such clerks to be paid salaries not greater than nine hundred dollars per annum, or to be paid on a piece-price basis, and for the payment of the compensation of said temporary clerks there is appropriated the sum of $120,000.
Special reports, etc.For securing information for census reports, provided for by law, semimonthly reports of cotton production, and periodical reports of stocks of baled cotton in the United States and of the domestic and foreign consumption of cotton; per diem compensation of special agents and expenses of the same and of the detailed employees, whether employed in Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere; 407the cost of transcribing State, municipal, and other records; the temporary rental of quarters outside or the District of Columbia; for supervising agents, and the employment by them of such temporary service as may be necessary in collecting the statistics required by law: *Provided*, That the compensation of not to exceed five special*Proviso*.Pay of specia1 agents. agents provided for in this paragraph may be fixed at an amount not to exceed $8 per day, $342,000.
For rental of quarters, $22,080.Rent. For stationery, $10,000.Stationery.*Post*, p. 411.Contingent expenses. For furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraph and telephone service, photographic work and supplies,*Post*, p. 411. transportation and preparing articles for shipment, horses, wagons, electric truck, and maintenance thereof, diagrams, maps, blue prints, awnings, shelving, filing apparatus, fuel, light, office fixtures, street car tickets not exceeding $200, and other absolutely necessary expenses, including the purchase, rental, construction, re-pair, and exchange of mechanical appliances, repairs to the Census Building, and necessary expenses in connection with the prosecution of fraudulent census returns, $15,000.
For purchase of books of reference and periodicals, $500.Books, etc. For experimental work in developing tabulating machines and repairsTabulating returns. to such machinery and other mechanical appliances, including technical and mechanical service in connection therewith, whether performed in Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere, and the purchase of necessary machinery and supplies, $26,000. For printing and binding in connection with the results of thePrinting and binding.
Thirteenth Decennial Census, $272,000. The Bureau of Manufactures and the Bureau of Statistics, both ofBureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.Consolidation of Bureaus of Manufactures and Statistics into. the Department of Commerce and Labor, are hereby consolidated into one bureau to be known as the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, to take effect July first, nineteen hundred and twelve, and the duties required by law to be performed by the Bureau of Manufactures and the Bureau of Statistics are transferred to and shall after that date be performed by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
Those certain duties of the Department of Labor, or Bureau ofInvestigating abroad cost of production of dutiable articles, etc., transferred from Labor Bureau.Vol. 25, p. 183. Labor,contained in section seven or the Act approved June thirteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, that established the same, which especially charged it “to ascertain, at as early a date as possible, and whenever industrial changes shall make it essential, the cost of producing articles at the time dutiable in the United States, in leading countries where such articles are produced, by fully specified units of production, and under a classification showing the different elements of cost, or approximate cost, of such articles of production, including the wages paid in such industries per day, week, month, or year, or by the piece; and hours employed per day; and the profits of manufacturers and producers of such articles; and the comparative cost of living, and the kind of living; what articles are controlled by trusts or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor, and what effect said trusts, or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor have on production and prices,” are hereby transferred to and shall hereafter be discharged by the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce, and it shall be also the duty of said Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to make such special investigationSpecial Investigations. and report on particular subjects when required to do so by the President or either House of Congress.
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce: Chief of bureau, $4,000;Salaries. assistant chiefs of bureau, one at $3,000, one at $2,750; Chief of Di-vision of Consular Reports, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,250; stenographer to chief of the bureau, $1,600; clerks—seven of class four, five of class 408three, one at $1,500, eleven of class two, fourteen of class one, seven-teen at $1,000 each, eleven at $900 each; messenger; five assistant messengers; four laborers; laborer, $480; in all, $104,860.
Tariffs of foreign countries, etc.To enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to collate and publish the tariffs of foreign countries in the English language, with the equivalents in currency, weights, and measures of the United States of all such foreign terms used in said tariffs, and to furnish information to Congress and the Executive relative to customs laws and regulations of foreign countries, and the purchase of books and periodicals, $10,000. To promote and develop foreign and domestic commerce.To further promote and develop the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States, $60,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor.
Steamboat Inspection Service.Steamboat-Inspection Service : For Supervising Inspector General, $4,000; chief clerk and Acting Supervising Inspector General in the absence of that officer, $2,000; clerks—two of class three, one of class two, one of class one, two at $1,000 each; messenger; in all, $14,640. Supervising inspectors.[R. S., sec. 4404, p. 853](/us/rs/s4404/p853).Inspectors.Vol. 34, p. 106; Vol. 35, p. 428.Salaries of steamboat inspectors: For salaries of ten supervising inspectors, at $3,000 each, as authorized by section forty-four hundred and four, Revised Statutes United States; for salaries of inspectors of hulls and inspectors of boilers, as authorized by the Acts of Congress approved April ninth, nineteen hundred and six, and May twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, $167,100; for salaries of Assistant inspectors.assistant inspectors, as authorized by the Act of Congress approved Vol. 34. p. 106.April ninth, nineteen hundred and six, as follows:
For the port of New York, New York, twenty-seven, at $2,000 each; for the port of New Orleans, Louisiana, four, at $1,800 each; for the port or Baltimore, Maryland, six, at $1,800 each; for the port of Boston, Massachusetts, six, at $1,800 each for the port of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, eight, at $1,800 each; for the port of San Francisco, California, eight, at $1,800 each; for the port of Buffalo, New York, four, at $1,600 each; for the port of Milwaukee, Wisconsin, eight, at $1,600 each; for the port of Norfolk, Virginia, four, at $1,600 each; for the port of Seattle, Washington, eight, at $1,600 each; in all, $347,100.
Clerk hire.Clerk hire, service at large: For the compensation, not exceeding $1,500 a year to each person, of clerks to boards of steamboat inspectors, to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor Vol. 84, p. 107.in accordance with the provisions of the Act of April ninth, nineteen hundred and six, $83,000. Contingent expenses.*Post*, p. 411.Contingent expenses: For the payment of fees to witnesses; for traveling and other expenses when on official business of the Super-vising Inspector General, supervising inspectors, local and assistant [R.
S., Title LII, pp. 852–869](/us/rs/tLII/pp852–869).Vol. 25, p. 80Vol. 24, p. 80.Vol. 28, p. 699; Vol. 29, p. 530; Vol. 33, p 1026; Vol. 34, p. 105 Vol. 35, p. 428.inspectors, and clerks; for instruments, furniture, stationery, janitor service, and every other thing necessary to carry into effect the pro-visions of Title fifty-two, Revised Statutes, of the Act of April fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, amending the Act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, as amended by the Acts of March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, March third, nineteen hundred and five, April ninth, nineteen hundred and six, and May twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, $90,000.
Bureau of Navigation.Bureau of Navigation: Commissioner of Navigation, $4,000; Deputy Commissioner, $2,400; chief clerk, $2,000 clerk to com-missioner, $1,600; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, three of class two, four of class one, two at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; two messengers; in all, $33,280. Shipping commissioners .Vol. 23, p. 59.Shipping service: For salaries of shipping commissioners in amounts not exceeding the following: At Baltimore, $1,200; at Bath, $1,000; at Boston, $3,000; at Gloucester, $600; at Honolulu, $1,200; at 409Mobile, $1,200; at New Bedford, $1,200; at New Orleans, $1,500; at New York, $5,000; at Norfolk, $1,500; at Pascagoula, $300; at Philadelphia, $2,400; at Portland, Maine, $1,300; at Port Townsend, $3,500; at Providence, $1,800; at Rockland, $1,200; at San Francisco, $4,000; in all. $31,900.
Clerk hire: For the compensation to be fixed by the Secretary ofClerk hire. Commerce and Labor not to exceed $1,600 per annum to each person, of clerks in the offices of the shipping commissioners, $35,000. Contingent expenses: For rent, stationery, and other requisites forContingent expenses,*Post*, p. 411. the transaction of the business of shipping commissioners’ offices and rent of temporary quarters for the United States shipping commissioner at New York, New York, not to exceed $3,150, and for janitor in his office, $840; in all, $9,000.
For tools, appliances, and instruments for the admeasurementTools, etc.*Post*, p. 411. of vessels and the counting of passengers, $1,000. Enforcement of navigation laws: To enable the Secretary of CommerceMotor boats, etc., to enforce navigation laws. and Labor to provide and operate such motor boats and employ thereon such persons as may be necessary for the enforcement, under his direction by customs officers, of the laws relating to the navigation and inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, and counting of passengers on excursion boats, $15,000.
Wireless communication: To enable the Secretary of CommerceWireless communication on ocean steam.Vol. 36, p. 629.*Ante, p.* 199. and Labor to enforce the Act approved June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act to require apparatus and operators for radio-communication on certain ocean steamers”; and to employ such persons and means as may be necessary, $10,000. Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization: CommissionerBureau of Immigration and Naturalization. General of Immigration, $5,000;
Assistant Commissioner General, who shall also act as chief clerk and actuary, $3,500; private secretary, $1,800; chief statistician, $2,000; clerks—three of class four, five of class three, six of class two, eight of class one, eight at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; in all, $59,500. For the purpose of carrying into effect the provisions of the ActNaturalization Division.Vol. 84, p. 596. approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States,” namely:
Chief of Division of Naturalization, $3,500; assistant chief of division, $3,000; clerks—four of class four, six of class three, eight of class two, eleven of class one, eight at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $480; in all, $60,260. For Division of Information established under section forty of theInformation Division.Vol. 34, p. 909. Act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigrations of aliens into the United States,” namely:
Chief of division, $3,500; assistant chief of division, $2,500; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, two of class two, three of class one, one at $900; messenger; in all, $19,340. Bureau of Standards: Director, $6,000; chief physicist, $4,800;Bureau of Standards. physicist, qualified in optics, $3,600; two physicists at $3,600 each; associate physicists—one at $2,700, three at $2,500 each, three at $2,200 each, five at $2,000 each; assistant physicists—seven at $1,800 each, eleven at $1,600 each, fourteen at $1,400 each; chief chemist, $4,800; associate chemists—one at $2,500, one at $2,200; assistant chemists—two at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each; laboratory assistants—fifteen at $1,200 each, twelve at $1,000 each, eleven at $900 each; three laboratory helpers, at $720 each; aids—nine at $720 each, six at $600 each; laboratory apprentices— six at $540 each, six at $480 each; storekeeper, $1,000; librarian, $1,400; secretary, $2,200; clerks—one of class four, one of class 410three, two of class two, two of class one, four at $1,000 each, two at $900 each, two at $720 each; telephone operator, $720; messenger boys—two at $480 each, three at $360 each; elevator boy, $360; chief mechanician, $1,800; mechanicians—one at $1,500, one at $1,400, two at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each, one at $900; three watchmen; skilled woodworkers—one at $1,000, one at $840; five skilled laborers, at $720 each; draftsman, $1,200; packer and shipper, $840; messenger; superintendent of mechanical plant, $2,500; assistant engineers—two at $1,200 each, one at $1,000, one at $900; three firemen; glass blower, $1,400; electricians—one at $1,200, one at $900; four laborers; janitors—two at $660 each, one at $600; two female laborers, at $360 each; in all, $239,940.
Apparatus, etc.*Post*, p. 411.For apparatus, machinery, tools, and appliances used in connection with the buildings or with the work of the bureau, laboratory supplies, materials and supplies used in the construction of apparatus, machinery, or other appliances, including their exchange; piping, wiring, and construction incident to the installation of apparatus, machinery, or appliances; furniture for laboratories and offices, cases for apparatus, $50,000. Repairs, etc.For repairs and necessary alterations to buildings, $2,000.
Miscellaneous.*Post*, p. 411.For fuel for heat, light, and power; office expenses, stationery, books and periodicals (subscriptions to periodicals may be paid m advance); traveling expenses; street-car tickets not exceeding $100; expenses of the visiting committee; expenses of attendance of American member at the meeting of the International Committee of Weights and Measures; and contingencies of all kinds, $25,000. Care, etc., of grounds.For grading, construction of roads and walks, piping grounds for water supply, lamps, wiring for lighting purposes, and other expenses incident to the improvement and care of grounds, $3,000.
Electric currents.Investigating effects on water pipes, etc.For completing investigation of the effects of electric currents upon gas and water pipes, and upon the re-enforced foundations of buildings, bridges, and other structures, and for determining methods of discovering and preventing the destructive effects of such currents, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000. Structural materials investigations.For the continuation of the investigation of the structural materials, such as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $75,000.
Testing machines for physical constants, etc.For the maintenance and operation of testing machines, including personal services in connection therewith in the District of Columbia and in the field, for the determination by the Bureau of Standards of the physical constants and the properties of materials as authorized by law, $30,000. Water-meter testing tank.Children’s Bureau.*Ante*, p. 79.For the construction of a water current meter testing tank, $5,000. Children’s Bureau: For the following as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to establish in the Department of Commerce and Labor a bureau to be known as the Children’s Bureau,” approved April ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve, namely:
Chief of bureau, $5,000; assistant chief of bureau, $2,400; statistical expert, $2,000; private secretary to the chief of bureau, $1,500; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, one of class two, one of class one, one at $1,000; special agents—one at $1,400, one at $1,200; copyist; messenger; in all, $25,640. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including the purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $2,500), stationery, furniture and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, 411lighting and heating; for the purchase, exchange, and care of horses and vehicles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters and adding machines, including their exchange; repairs to the building occupied by the offices of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor; storage of documents belonging to the Bureau of Light-Houses, not to exceed $1,500, and for storage of documents belonging to the Bureau of Labor, not to exceed $750, street car tickets not exceeding $300; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $60,000, and in additionAdditional, deducted from bureaus, etc., for purchasing supplies through general supply committee. thereto sums amounting to $66,500 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, and added to the appropriation “Contingent Expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor,” in order to facilitate the purchase through the central purchasing office as provided in the Act of JuneVol. 86, p. 531. seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-six, page five hundred and thirty-one), of certain supplies for bureaus and offices for which contingent and miscellaneous approriations are specifically made as follows:
General expenses, Lighthouse Service, $8,000; stationery, Bureau of the Census, $10,000; Miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of the Census, $15,000; books and periodicals, Bureau of the Census, $500; contingent expenses, Steam-oat-inspection Service, $3,000; contingent expenses, shipping service, $500; instruments for measuring vessels and counting passengers, $500; expenses of regulating immigration, $13,500; equipment, Bureau of Standards, $1,000; general expenses, Bureau of Standards, $1,800; general expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $4,200; miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $8,500; and the said total sum of $126,500 shall be and constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, to be expendedTo be expended through Division of Supplies. through the central purchasing office (Division of Supplies), Department of Commerce and Labor, and shall also be available for objects and purposes of the several appropriations mentioned under the title “Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor” in this Act.
For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District ofRent Columbia for the use of the Department of Commerce and Labor, $50,000. JUDICIAL.Judicial. Supreme Court: Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of theSupreme Court. United States, $15,000; eight associate justices, at $14,500 each; marshal, $4,500; nine stenographic clerks, one for the Chief Justice and one for each associate justice, at not exceeding $2,000 each; in all, $153,500. Circuit Courts of Appeals: Thirty-four circuit judges, at $7,000Circuit courts of appeals. each; nine clerks of circuit courts of appeals, at $3,500 each; messenger, to act as librarian and crier, circuit court of appeals, eighth circuit, $3,000; in all, $272,500.
District courts: Ninety-three district judges, at $6,000 each,District judges. $558,000. District court, Territory of Hawaii: Two judges, at $6,000Hawaii district court. each; clerk, $3,000; reporter, $1,200; $16,200. Retired justices and judges: To pay the salaries of the UnitedRetired judges. States justices and judges retired under section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary for[R. S., sec. 714. p. 135](/us/rs/s714/p135). the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby appropriated.
Court of Appeals, District of Columbia: Chief justice, $7,500;District of Columbia court of appeals. two associate justices, at $7,000 each; clerk, $3,250, and $250 addi 412tional as custodian of the Court of Appeals Building; assistant or *Provisos*.Reports.deputy clerk, $2,250; reporter. $1,500: *Provided*, That the reports issued by him shall not be sold for more than $5 per volume; crier, who shall also act as stenographer and typewriter in the clerk’s office when not engaged in court room, $1,000; three messengers, at $720 each; necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s office, $1,000; three stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at $1,200 each; in all, $36,510, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia:
One-half of fees to credit of District.*Provided*, That on and after July first, nineteen hundred and twelve, the fees collected by the clerk of the Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, shall be deposited in the Treasury, one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia. District of Columbia supreme court.Supreme Court, District op Columbia: Chief justice and five associate judges, at $6,000 each; six stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at $900 each; in all, $41,400, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of *Proviso*.One-half of surplus fees to credit of District.Columbia: *Provided*, That on and after July first, nineteen hundred and twelve, the surplus fees collected by the clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia shall be deposited in the Treasury, one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia.
Yellowstone Park.Commissioner.Commissioner, Yellowstone Park: Commissioner in Yellowstone National Park, $1,500. And the provisions of section twenty-one of Vol. 29. p. 181.the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall not be construed as impairing the right of said commissioner to receive said salary as herein provided. Books for judicial officers.Books for judicial officers: For the purchase and rebinding of law books and books of reference for United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the nine libraries of the United States circuit courts of appeals, to be expended under the *Proviso*.Transmittal to successors.direction of the Attorney General: *Provided*, That such books shall in all cases be transmitted to their successors in office; all books purchased thereunder to be plainly marked, “The property of the United States,” $16,000.
Court of Customs Appeals.Court of Customs Appeals: Presiding judge and four associate judges, at $7,000 each; marshal, $3,000; clerk, $3,500; assistant clerk, $2,000; five stenographic clerks, at $1,600 each; stenographic reporter, $2,500; and messenger, $840; in all, $54,840. Miscellaneous expenses.For rent of necessary quarters in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $7,000; for necessary traveling expenses of members of the court and clerk, $330; for books, periodicals, and stationery, supplies, freight, telephone and telegraph, heat, light, and power service, drugs, chemicals, and cleansers, furniture, and printing; for pay of bailiffs and all other necessary employees not otherwise specifically provided for; and for such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $8,000; in all, $15,330.
Commerce Court.Until March 4, 1913.*Post*, p. 926.Commerce Court: For the following until and including March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, 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, $33,888.89; in all, $42,022.22.
Court of Claims.Court of Claims: Chief justice, $6,500; four judges, at $6,000 each; chief clerk, $3,500; assistant clerk, $2,500; bailiff, $1,500; clerks— one at $1,600, two at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each; stenographer, 413$1,200; chief messenger, $1,000; three firemen; three watchmen; elevator conductor, $720; two assistant messengers; two laborers; two charwomen; in all, $56,480. For auditors and additional stenographers, when deemed necessary,Auditors, etc. in the Court of Claims, and for a stenographer, at $1,600, for the chief justice, to be disbursed under the direction of the court, $6,000.
For stationery, court library, repairs, including repairs to bicycles,Contingent expenses. fuel, electric light, electric elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, $3,900. For reporting the decisions of the court and superintending theReporting decisions. printing of the forty-seventh volume of the reports of the Court of Claims, $1,000, to be paid on the order of the court, notwithstanding section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes or[R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314).Vol. 18, p. 109. section three of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.
For pay of a custodian of the building occupied by the Court ofCustodian. Claims, $500, to be paid on the order of the court, notwithstanding section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes or[R. S., sec. 1765, p.314](/us/rs/s1765/p314).Vol. 18, p. 109. section three of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. Sec. 2. The pay of telephone-switchboard operators, assistantPay of switchboard operators, assistant messengers, laborers, etc., rated. messengers, firemen, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen provided for in tills Act, except those employed in mints and assay offices, unless otherwise specially stated, shall be as follows:
For telephone-switchboard operators, assistant messengers, firemen, and watchmen, at the rate of $720 per annum each; for laborers, at the rate of $660 per annum each; assistant telephone-switchboard operators, at the rate of $600 each, and for charwomen, at the rate of $240 per annum each. Sec. 3. That the appropriations herein made for the officers,No pay for permanently incapacitated persons. clerks, and persons employed in the public service shall not be available for the compensation of any persons incapacitated otherwise than temporarily for performing such service: *Provided*, That no part*Proviso*.Restriction on salaries from lump-sum appropriations. of any money appropriated in lump sum in this Act shall be available for the payment of personal services at a rate of compensation in excess of that paid for the same or similar services during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve; nor shall any person employed at a specific salary under this Act be transferred during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen and be paid from a lump-sum appropriation a rate of compensation greater than such specific salary and the heads of departments shall cause this provision to be enforced.
Sec. 4. The Civil Service Commission shall, subject to the approvalClassified service D. C.Efficiency rating based on personal records to be established in departments. of the President, establish a system of efficiency ratings for the classified service in the several executive departments in the District of Columbia based upon records kept in each department and independent establishment with such frequency as to make them as nearly as possible records of fact. Such system shall provide aRatings for promotion, demotion, and retention. minimum rating of efficiency which must be attained by an employee before he may be promoted; it shall also provide a rating below which no employee may fall without being demoted; it shall further provide for a rating below which no employee may fall without being dismissed for inefficiency.
All promotions, demotions, or dismissalsCivil-service rules to govern changes. shall be governed by provisions of the civil service rules. Copies of all records of efficiency shall be furnished by the departments andRecords to Commission. independent establishments to the Civil Service Commission for record in accordance with the provisions of this section: *Provided, *That in the event of reductions being made in the force in any of the*Proviso*.Retention of honorably discharged soldiers and sailors. executive departments no honorably discharged soldier or sailor whose record in said department is rated good shall be discharged or dropped, or reduced in rank or salary. 414 Punishment for violations.Any person knowingly violating the provisions of this section shall be summarily removed from office, and may also upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year.
Sec. 5. Employees.Punishment for violating law requiring specific appropriations for, etc.Vol. 22, p. 255. That any person violating section four of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act approved August fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two (Statutes at Large, volume twenty-two, page two hundred and fifty-five), shall be summarily removed from office, and may also upon conviction thereof be punished by a fine of not more than one thousand dollars or by imprisonment for not more than one year.
Sec. 6. Contingent funds, etc.Apportionment of amount to be expended by each office or bureau.Vol. 34, p. 49. That in addition to the apportionment required by the so-called antideficiency Act, approved February twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and six (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-four, page forty-nine), the head of each executive department shall, on or before the beginning of each fiscal year, apportion to each office or bureau of his department the maximum amount to be expended therefore during the fiscal year out of the contingent fund or funds appropriated No change except on written order.for the entire year for the department, and the amounts so apportioned shall not be increased or diminished during the year for which made except upon the written direction of the head of the department, in which there shall be fully expressed his reasons therefor;
Purchases limited to contingent funds.and hereafter there shall not be purchased out of any other fund any article for use in any office or bureau of any executive department in Washington, District of Columbia, which could be purchased out of the appropriations made for the regular contingent funds of such department or of its offices or bureaus. Sec. 7. Telephone service.No expenditures for, in private residences, etc. That no money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be expended for telephone service installed in any private residence or private apartment or for tolls or other charges for telephone service from private residences or private apartments, except for long-distance telephone tolls required strictly for the public business, and so shown by vouchers duly sworn to and approved by the head of the department, division, bureau, or office in which the official using such telephone or incurring the expense of such tolls shall be employed.
Sec. 8. Distribution of publications.All work connected with, to be done by Public Printer. That no money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used after the first day or October, nineteen hundred and twelve, for services in any executive department or other Government establishment at Washington, District of Columbia, in the work of ad-dressing, wrapping, mailing, or otherwise dispatching any publication for public distribution, except maps, weather reports, and weather cards issued by an executive department or other Government establishment at Washington, District of Columbia, or for the purchase of material or supplies to be used in such work; and on and after October first, nineteen hundred and twelve, it shall be the duty of the Public Printer to perform such work at the Government Printing Equipment, etc., to be transferred.Office.
Prior to October first, nineteen hundred and twelve, each executive department and other Government establishment at Washington, District of Columbia, shall transfer to the Public Printer such machines, equipment, and materials as are used in addressing, Mailing lists, etc.wrapping, mailing, or otherwise dispatching publications; and each head of such executive department and other Government establishment at Washington, District of Columbia, shall furnish from time to time to the Public Printer mailing lists, in convenient form, and changes therein, or franked slips, for use in the public distribution of Furnishing copies.publications issued by such department or establishment; and the Public Printer shall furnish copies of any publication only in accordance with the provisions of law or the instruction of the head of the Employment of persons in departments, etc., to cease.department or establishment issuing the publication.
The employment of all persons in the several executive departments and other 415Government establishments at Washington, District of Columbia, wholly in connection with the duties herein transferred to the Public Printer, or whose services can be dispensed with or devolved upon another because of such transfer, shall cease and determine on or before the first day of October, nineteen hundred and twelve, and theirSalaries to lapse. salaries or compensation shall lapse for the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen and be covered into the Treasury.
A detailed statement of all machines, equipment, and material transferredStatement to Congress. to the Government Printing Office by operation of this provision and of all employments discontinued shall be submitted to Congress at its next session by the head of each executive department and other Government establishments at Washington, District of Columbia, in the annual estimates of appropriations: *Provided*, That nothing in*Proviso*.Department orders, etc., excepted. this section shall be construed as applying to orders, instructions, directions, notices, or circulars of information, printed for and issued by any of the executive departments or other Government establishments or to the distribution of public documents by Senators orCongressional distribution not changed.
Members of the House of Representatives or to the folding rooms and documents rooms of the Senate or House of Representatives. Sec. 9. That until otherwise provided by law, the regular annualAnnual estimates to be made as now required by law. estimates of appropriations for expenses of the Government of the United States shall be prepared and submitted to Congress, by those charged with the duty of such preparation and submission, only in the form and at the time now required by law, and in no other form and at no other time.
Sec. 10. That all laws or parts of laws inconsistent with this ActInconsistent laws repealed. are repealed. Approved, August 23, 1912.
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