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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 37 STAT. · August 24, 1912 · Chapter 355

Chapter 355. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 355.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes.August 24, 1912.[[H. R. 25069](/us/bill/62/hr/25069).][[Public, No. 302](/us/pl/62/302).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America, in Congress assembled*,Sundry civil expenses appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fecal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, namely:
EXECUTIVE.Executive. To enable the President to continue, by the employment of accountantsPresident.Inquiry into more effective business methods only in executive departments, etc. and experts from official and private life, such officials to receive no compensation beyond their official salaries, to more effectively inquire into the methods of transacting the public business of the Government only in the several executive departments and other executive Government establishments, with the view of inaugurating new or changing old methods of transacting such public business so as to attain greater efficiency and economy therein, and to ascertain and recommend to Congress what changes in law may be necessary to carry into effect such results of his inquiry as cannot be carried into effect by Executive action alone, and for each and every purpose necessary hereunder, including the employment of personal services at Washington or elsewhere, $75,00’0: *Provided*, That not exceeding*Proviso*.Limit of pay. three persons may be employed hereunder at rates of compensation exceeding $4,000 per annum.
And a report hereunder shall beReport by December 31, 1912. submitted at the last regular session of the Sixty-second Congress and not later than December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twelve. 418 UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. public buildings.Public buildings. Abbeville, S. C.Abbeville, South Carolina, post office: For continuation of erection of building under present limit., $10,000. Abilene, Kuns.Abilene, Kansas, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $26,000.
Alameda, Cal.Alameda, California, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $45,000. Alpena, Mich.Alpena, Michigan, post office: For completion of the erection of building under present limit, $15,000. Athol, Mass.Athol, Massachusetts, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $10,000. Auburn, N. Y.Auburn, New York, post office and courthouse: For continuation of enlargement; extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $10,000.
Augusta, Ga.Augusta, Georgia, post office and courthouse: For continuation of building under present limit, $100,000. Austin, Tex.Austin, Texas, post office: For continuation of erection of building under present limit, $50,000. Barre, Vt.Barre, Vermont, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $15,000. Bedford City, Va,Bedford City, Virginia, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $5,000. Bellefontaine, Ohio.Bellefontaine, Ohio, post office:
For commencement of building under present limit, $40,000. Bellingham, Wash.Bellingham, Washington, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $75,000. Beloit, Kans.Beloit, Kansas, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $30,000. Bennington, Vt.Bennington, Vermont, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $20,000. Biddeford, Me.Biddeford, Maine, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $25,000.
Billings, MontBillings, Montana, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $25,000. Bismarck, N. Dak.Bismarck, North Dakota, post office and courthouse: For continuation of building under present limit, $25,000. Bloomington, Ind.Bloomington, Indiana, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $20,000. Bonham, Tex.Bonham, Texas, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $5,000. Boonville, Mo.Boonvillo, Missouri, post office:
For commencement of building under present limit, $25,000. Boston, Mass.Customhouse.Boston, Massachusetts, customhouse: For continuation of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of the building under present limit, $250,000. Bowling Green, Ohio.Bowling Green, Ohio, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $30,000. Brookfield, Mo.Brookfield, Missouri, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $25,000. Brookings, S. Dak.Brookings, South Dakota, post office:
For commencement of building under present limit, $35,000. Brownwood, Tex.Brownwood, Texas, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $40,000. Butler, Pa.Butler, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $50,000. Camden, Me.Camden, Maine, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $20,000. 419 Carnegie, Pennsylvania, post office: For site and commencementCarnegie, Pa. of building under present limit, $17,719.
Carrollton, Georgia, post office: For commencement of buildingCarrollton, Ga. under present limit, $30,000. Casper, Wyoming, post office: For commencement of buildingCasper, Wyo. under present limit, $30,000. Cedartown, Georgia, post office: For commencement of buildingCedartown, Ga. under present limit, $30,000. Charleroi, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation of buildingCharleroi, Pa. under present limit, $10,000. Charleston, West Virginia, post office and courthouse:
For completionCharleston, W. Va. of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of the building under present limit, $75,000. For rent of temporary quarters at Charleston, West Virginia, forRent. accommodation of Government officials, $8,500. Charlotte, North Carolina, post office and courthouse: For continuationCharlotte, N. C. of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $90,000. Chickasha, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse:
For commencementChickasha, Okla. of building under present limit, $20,000. Clarksville, Texas, post office: For commencement of buildingClarksville, Tex. under present limit, $30,000. For balance due for rent of temporary quarters at Cleveland,Ohio,Cleveland, Ohio.Rent. for the accommodation of Government officials from December twenty-second, nineteen hundred and ten, to January seventh, nineteen hundred and eleven, $2,346. For rent of temporary quarters at Columbus, Ohio, for the accommodationColumbus, Ohio.Rent. of Government officials, $479.45.
Concordia, Kansas, post office: For commencement of buildingConcordia, Kans. under present limit, $35,000. Cortland, New York, post office: For continuation of buildingCortland, N. Y. under present limit, $10,000. Covington, Virginia, post office: For commencement of buildingCovington, Va. under present limit, $20,000. Crowley, Louisiana, post office: For continuation of building underCrowley, La. present limit, $10,000. Cullman, Alabama, post office: For commencement of buildingCullman, Ala. under present limit, $25,000.
Cynthiana, Kentucky, post office: For commencement of buildingCynthiana, Ky. under present limit, $15,000. For rent of temporary quarters at Danville, Virginia, for theDanville, Va.Rent. accommodation of Government officials, $223.02. Dayton, Ohio, post office and courthouse: For continuation ofDayton, Ohio. building under present limit, $275,000. Defiance, Ohio, post office: For commencement of building underDefiance, Ohio. present limit, $35,000. Del Rio, Texas, post office and courthouse:
For continuation ofDel Rio, Tex. building under present limit, $10,000. Denison, Iowa, post office: For commencement of building underDenison, Iowa. present limit, $25,000. Denver, Colorado, post office: For completion of building underDenver. Colo. present limit, $200,000. Douglas, Wyomming, post office: For commencement of buildingDouglas, Wyo. under present limit, $40,000. Duquoin, Illinois, post office: For continuation of building underDuquoin, Ill present limit, $20,000.
Elberton, Georgia, post office: For continuation of building underElberton, Ga. present limit, $30,000. Elkins, West Virginia, post office: For continuation of buildingElkins, W, Va. under present limit, $50,000. 420 Evanston. Ill.Evanston, Illinois, post, office: For continuation of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $10,000. Rent.For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials, and moving expenses incident thereto, at Evanston, Illinois, $4,000.
Fairmont. W. Va.Fairmont, West Virginia, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $10,000. Florence, Ala.Florence, Alabama, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $10,000. Fort Madison, Iowa.Fort Madison, Iowa, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $35,000. Frankfort, Ind.Frankfort, Indiana, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $35,000. Franklin, La.Franklin, Louisiana, post office:
For continuation of building under present limit, $5,000. Fulton, N. Y.Fulton, New York, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $1,000. Gadsden, Ala.Gadsden, Alabama, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $15,000. Gaffney, S. C.Galtney, South Carolina, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $5,000. Galveston, Tex.Appraiser’s stores.Galveston, Texas, appraiser’s stores: For continuation of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of the building under present limit, $25,000.
Rent.*Post*, p. 868.For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials, and moving expenses incident thereto, at Galveston, Texas, $8,000. Goshen, Ind.Goshen, Indiana, post office: For continuation of building under present limit. $10,000. Grafton, W. Va.Grafton, West Virginia, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $75,000. Grand Junction, Colo.Grand Junction, Colorado, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $50,000.
Grass Valley, Cal.Grass Valley, California, post office: For commencement of building under present, limit, $20,000. Great Bend, Kans.Great Bend, Kansas, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $10,000. Greenville, N. C.Greenville, North Carolina, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $1,000. Guthrie, Okla.Guthrie, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For continuation of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $30,000.
Hanover, Pa.Hanover, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $30,000. Harrisburg, Ill.Harrisburg, Illinois, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $20,000. Harrisburg, Pa.Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, post office and courthouse: For continuation of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $30,000. Rent.For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, $5,000.
Hickory, N. C.Hickory, North Carolina, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $15,000. Hillsboro, Tex.Hillsboro, Texas, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $5,000. Hilo, Hawaii.Hilo, Hawaii, post office, customhouse, and courthouse: For continuation of building under present limit, $25,000. 421 Homestead, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation of buildingHomestead, Pa. under present, limit, $10,000. Hopkinsville, Kentucky, post office:
For commencement of buildingHopkinsville, Ky. under present limit, $1,000, Iowa Falls, Iowa, post office: For commencement of buildingIowa Falls, Iowa. under present limit, $10,000. Ironton, Ohio, post office: For completion of building under presentIronton, Ohio. limit, $20,000. Jersey City, New Jersey, post office: For continuation of buildingJersey City, N. J. under present limit, $100,000. Johnstown, New York, post office: For completion of buildingJohnstown, N. Y. under present limit, $50,000.
Johnstown, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation of buildingJohnstown, Fa. under present limit, $30,000. Kingfisher, Oklahoma, post office: For commencement of buildingKingfisher. Okla. under present limit, $25,000. Lansing, Michigan, post office: For continuation of the enlargement,Lansing, Mich. extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $15,000. For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of GovernmentRent, officials and moving expenses incident thereto at Lansing, Michigan, $6,000.
La Salle, Illinois, post office: For continuation of building underLa Salle, Ill. present limit, $15,000. Laurel, Mississippi, post office: For commencement of buildingLaurel, Miss, under present limit, $30,000. Laurens, South Carolina, post office: For continuation of buildingLaurens, S. C. under present limit, $10,000. Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, post office: For commencement of buildingLawrenceburg, Ky. under present limit, $30,000. Lebanon, Tennessee, post office: For commencement of building underLebanon, Tenn. present limit, $1,000.
Le Mars, Iowa, post office: For commencement of building underLe Mars, Iowa. present limit, $15,000. Lewes, Delaware, post office: For commencement of building underLewes, Del, present limit, $20,000. Lincoln, Nebraska, post office and courthouse: For continuation ofLincoln, Nebr. the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $25,000. For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of GovernmentRent. officials, and for moving expenses incident thereto, at Lincoln, Nebraska, $8,000.
Live Oak, Florida, post office: For commencement of buildingLive Oak, Fla. under present limit, $1,000. Livingston, Montana, post office: For commencement of buildingLivingston, Mont. under present Emit, $40,000. Lorain, Ohio, post office: For site and commencement of buildingLorain, Ohio. under present limit, $41,250. To pay for maintaining are lights in nineteen hundred and ten, inLos Angeles, Cal. connection with the occupancy of the temporary quarters at Los Angeles, California, pending the completion and occupancy of the new building, $42.
Louisville. Kentucky7, post office: For extending the present lookoutLouisville, Ky. system, $6,500. For rent of temporary quarters at Lynchburg, Virginia, for theLynchburg, Va.Rent accommodation of Government officials, $2,500. Mansfield, Ohio, post office: For continuation of building underMansfield, Ohio. present limit, $10,000. Marlin, Texas, post office: For commencement of building underMarlin, Tex. present limit, $20,000. 422 Marshall, Mo.Marshall, Missouri, post office:
For completion of building under present limit, $45,000. Marshall, Tex.Marshall, Texas, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $1,000. Maryville, Mo.Maryville, Missouri, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $10,000. Mattoon, III.Mattoon, Illinois, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $20,000. McAlester, Okla.McAlester, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For continuation of building under present limit, $70,000.
McCook, Nebr.McCook, Nebraska, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $45,000. Menomonie, Wis.Menomonie, Wisconsin, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $1,000. Mexico, Mo.Mexico, Missouri, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $10,000. Miami, Fla.Miami, Florida, post office, courthouse, and customhouse: For continuation of building under present limit, $35,000. Milwaukee, Wis.Milwaukee, Wisconsin, appraisers’ stores:
For commencement of building under present limit, $45,000. Minneapolis, Minn.Minneapolis, Minnesota, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $150,000. Missoula, MontMissoula, Montana, post office: For completion of building under present limit. $50,000. Mobile, Ala.Mobile, Alabama, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $40,000. Monroe, N. C.Monroe, North Carolina, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $25,000.
Moorhead, Minn.Moorhead, Minnesota, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $35,000. Morgantown, W. Va.Morgan town, West Virginia, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $20,000. Morristown, Tenn.Morristown, Tennessee, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $20,000. Mount Vernon, N. Y.Mount Vernon, New York, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $1,000. Muskogee, Okla.Muskogee, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse:
For continuation of the building under present limit, $25,000. Newark, N. Y.Newark, New York, post office: For completion of the erection of building under present limit, $12,000. Newark, Ohio.Newark, Ohio, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $10,000. New Bedford, Mass.New Bedford, Massachusetts, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $175,000. New Haven, Conn.New Haven, Connecticut, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $125,000.
New Orleans, La.Now Orleans, Louisiana, post office and courthouse: For continuation of building under present limit, $100,000. New York, N. Y., appraisers’ stores.New York, New York, appraisers’ stores: For installing metal conduits and wiring, fire-alarm system, controllable standpipe or sprinkler system, inclosing elevator shafts, and providing the building with outside fire escapes on each of the four sides, $75,000. Assay office.New York, New York, assay office: For continuation of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of the building under present limit, $150,000.
Barge office.New York, New York, barge office: For continuation of the annex and building pier in connection therewith under present limit, $75,000. Post office.New York, New York, post office: For continuation of building, plans and foundations, under present limit, $700,000. 423 North Tonawanda, Now York, post office: For continuation ofNorth Tonawanda, N. Y. building under present limit, $50,000. North Yakima, Washington, post office: For completion of buildingNorth Yakima, Wash. under present limit, $40,000.
Oldtown, Maine, post office: For commencement of building underOldtown, Me. present limit, $28,000. Olympia, Washington, post office: For continuation of buildingOlympia, Wash. under present limit, $10,000. Oneonta, New York, post office: For commencement of buildingOneonta, N. Y, under present Limit, $15,000. Opelika, Alabama, post office: For commencement of buildingOpelika, Ala. under present limit, $25,000. Orange, New Jersey, post office: For continuation of building underOrange, N.
J. present limit, $60,000. Orangeburg, South Carolina, post office: For continuation of buildingOrangeburg, S. C. under present limit, $10,000. Ottawa, Kansas, post office: For commencement of building underOttawa, Kans. present limit, $35,000. Oxford, North Carolina, post office: For commencement of buildingOxford, N. C. under present limit, $25,000. Paris, Texas, post office: For continuation of the enlargement,Paris, Tex. extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $20,000.
Pasadena, California, post office: For commencement of buildingPasadena, Cal. under present limit, $5,000. Pensacola, Florida, post office and courthouse: For continuationPensacola, Fla. of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $40,000. Petoskey, Michigan, post office: For commencement of buildingPetoskey, Mich. under present limit, $25,000. Phoenix, Arizona, post office and courthouse: For completion ofPhoenix, Ariz. building under present limit, $20,000.
Pocatello, Idaho, post office and courthouse: For commencementPocatello, Idaho. of building under present limit, $50,000. Point Pleasant, West Virginia, post office: For continuation ofPoint Pleasant, W. Va. building under present limit, $10,000. Pontiac, Illinois, post office: For continuation of building underPontiac, Ill. present limit, $10,000. Poplar Bluff, Missouri, post office: For commencement of buildingPoplar Bluff, Mo. under present limit, $20,000. Portsmouth, Ohio, post office and courthouse:
For continuation ofPortsmouth, Ohio. the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of the building under present limit, $10,000. For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of GovernmentRent. officials and for moving expenses incident thereto at Portsmouth, Ohio, $5,000. Pulaski, Tennessee, post office: For commencement of buildingPulaski, Tenn. under present limit, $20,000. Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation ofPunxsutawney, Pa. building under present limit, $40,000.
Raleigh, North Carolina, post office: For continuation of theRaleigh, N. C. enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $60,000. For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of GovernmentRent. officials and moving expenses incident thereto at Raleigh, North Carolina, $9,000. Rapid City, South Dakota, post office; For commencement ofRapid City, S. Dak. building under present limit, $50,000. Red Oak, Iowa, post office: For commencement of building underRed Oak, Iowa. present limit, $50,000. 424 Reidsville, N.
C.Reidsville, North Carolina, post office and courthouse: For additional land and the completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $10,000. Rent.For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto at Reidsville, North Carolina, $3,500. Richmond. Va.Rent.For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials at Richmond, Virginia, $30,000.
Riverside, Cal.Riverside, California, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $5,000. Robinson, Ill.Robinson, Illinois, post office: For balance due on site under present limit for site and building, $6,000. Rochelle, Ill.Rochelle, Illinois, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $15,000. Rochester, N. H.Rochester, New Hampshire, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $40,000. Rock Island, Ill.Rent.For rental of temporary quarters at Rock Island, Illinois, accommodation of Government officials, $2,000.
Rock Springs, Wyo.Rock Springs, Wyoming, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $15,000. Rolla, Mo.Rolla., Missouri, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $25,000. Roswell, N. Mex.Roswell, New Mexico, post office and courthouse: For completion of building under present limit, $20,000. Saint Louis, Mo., customhouse.Saint Louis, Missouri, customhouse: For continuation of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $20,000.
Rent.For rent of temporary quarter’s for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto at Saint Louis, Missouri, $10,000. Saint Petersburg, Fla.Saint Petersburg, Florida, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $30,000. Salt Lake City, Utah.Sait Lake City, Utah, post office and courthouse: For additional ground and completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of the building under present limit, $10,000.
San Diego, Cal.San Diego, California, post office and courthouse: For continuation of building under present limit, $10,000. San Francisco, Cal.Subtreasury.San Francisco, California, subtreasury: For continuation of building under present limit, $100,000. San Juan, P. R.San Juan, Porto Rico, post office and courthouse: For completion of building under present limit, $50,000. Savannah, Ga.Savannah, Georgia, post office: For extending the present lookouts, $2,500. Schenectady, N.
Y.Schenectady, New York, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $10,000. Searcy. Ark.Searcy, Arkansas, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $1,000, Shelbyville, Tenn.Shelbyville, Tennessee, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $1,000. Sioux Falls, S. Dak.Sioux Falls, South Dakota, post office and courthouse: For completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of the building under present limit, $50,000.
Rent.For rent of temporary quarters at Sioux Falls, South Dakota, for the accommodation of Government officials, $4,000. Somerset, Ky.Somerset, Kentucky, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $10,000. South Chicago, Ill.South Chicago, Illinois, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $75,000. Springfield, Mo.Springfield, Missouri, post office and courthouse: For continuation of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $30,000. 425 Springfield, Tennessee, post office:
For commencement of buildingSpringfield, Tenn. under present limit, $10,000. Stamford, Connecticut, post office: For balance due on site underStamford, Conn. present limit for site and building, $15,000. Steelton, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation of buildingSteelton, Pa. under present limit, $10,000. Steubenville, Ohio, post office: For balance due on site under presentSteubenville, Ohio. limit for site and building, $5,000. Suffolk, Virginia, post office: For completion of building underSuffolk, Va. present limit, $17,000.
Sunbury, Pennsylvania, post office: For commencement of buildingSunbury, Pa. under present limit, $25,000. Talladega, Alabama, post office: For continuation of building underTalladega, Ala. present limit, $15,000. Tifton, Georgia, post office: For commencement of building underTifton, Ga. present limit, $30,000. Traverse City, Michigan, post office and customhouse: For continuationTraverse City, Mich. of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $10,000.
Tulsa, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For commencementTulsa, Okla. of building under present limit, $50,000. Vicksburg, Mississippi, post office and courthouse: For continuationVicksburg, Miss. of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $30,000. Walla Walla, Washington, post office and courthouse: For continuationWalla Walla, Wash. of building under present limit, $20,000. Waltham, Massachusetts, post office: For balance due on site underWaltham, Mass. present limit for site and building, $23,051.20.
Washington, District of Columbia, Bureau of Engraving and Printing:Washington, D. C.Engraving and Printing Bureau.Vaults. For continuation of building under present limit, $75,000. For construction and installation of vaults and vault fittings, $300,000. So much of the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal yearAuthority for special plans, etc., repealed.Vol. 36, p. 1383. nineteen hundred and twelve, as authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to procure from a specially qualified engineer or engineers, plans and specifications for and complete engineering services in connection with supervision of construction and installation of vaults for the new building for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is repealed.
For the enlargement of the power plant, including additionalPower plant, enlarging. boilers, settings, connections and apphances, tunnels, and ducts, complete, to equip the same for supplying heat and steam to the present buildings and to the new building heretofore authorized to be constructed for said bureau, $50,000. So much of the urgent deficiency Act approved August fifth, nineteenAuthority for special plans for equipment, repealed.Vol. 36, p. 121. hundred and nine, as authorizes the Secretary of the Treasury to procure from certain engineers plans and specifications for the mechanical and electrical equipment of the new Bureau of Engraving and Printing Building is repealed.
Washington, District of Columbia, post office: For continuation ofPost office. building under present limit, $500,000. Washington, District of Columbia, Treasury Building: To compensateTreasury Building.Special repairs. the contractor for special repairs of the Treasury Building, for work done by him in connection with the east front and its approaches, under the same conditions and limitations as those contained in his contract for special repairs, $907.25, which amount shall be considered as a full settlement of all claims arising in this connection on the part of said contractor, relative to the work of the east front.
Washington, North Carolina, post office and courthouse: For completionWashington, N. C. of building under present limit, $37,000. Waterville, Maine, post office: For continuation of building underWaterville, Me. present limit, $5,000. 426 Waukegan, Ill.Waukegan, Illinois, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $5,000. Waukesha, Wis.Waukesha, Wisconsin, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $35,000. Weatherford, Tex.Weatherford, Texas, post office:
For commencement of building under present limit, $35,000. Westerly, R. I.Westerly, Rhode Island, post office; For continuation of building under present limit, $15,000. West Point, Miss.West Point, Mississippi, post office: For continuation of budding under present limit, $10,000. Winston-Salem, N. C. Changes in old building from appropriation for addition.Vol. 36, p. 693.Winston Salem, North Carolina, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $80,000. And that so much of the Act of Congress (Public Building Act) approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes, United States, page six hundred and ninety-three), as authorized the Secretary of the Treasury to begin the construction of a suitable and adequate fireproof addition to the present Federal budding at Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and so forth, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to authorize also all necessary changes in, and alterations and repairs of, said old Federal building, and of the heating, ventilating, and plumbing systems and elevators therein which may become necessary by reason of or incident to the extension or enlargement of said building, or which it may be found expedient or advisable to make to such old budding and the heating, ventilating, and plumbing systems and elevators because of, and in connection with, the enlargement, *Proviso*.Use of appropriation for necessary changes in old building.extension, remodeling, or improvement of said old budding; *Provided*, That the additional work herein authorized on the said old building, together with the cost of the addition to the, heretofore authorized budding shall all be done within the limit of $250,000 fixed in the above mentioned Act of June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and Other repairs from maintenance.ten; and the annual appropriations for the general maintenance of public buddings under the control of the Treasury Department shall be construed to be available for all other repairs, and equipment of, said budding, grounds, and approaches, and the heating, hoisting, plumbing, and ventdating apparatus thereof.
Rent.For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto at Winston Salem, North Carolina, $7,000. Wooster, Ohio.Wooster, Ohio, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $40,000. Repairs and preservation.For repairs and preservation of public buddings: Repairs and preservation of customhouses, courthouses, and post offices, quarantine stations and marine hospitals, buddings and wharf at Sitka, Alaska, buildings not reserved by the vendors on sites acquired for buddings or the enlargement of buildings, and other public buildings and the. grounds thereof, including necessary wire screens, under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, *Proviso*.Marine hospitals and quarantine stations.except for work done by contract, $625,000: *Provided*, That of this amount not exceeding $100,000 may be used for marine hospitals and quarantine stations, including wire screens for same, and not Treasury buildings.exceeding $12,000 for the Treasury, Butler, and Winder Buddings, at Washington, District of Columbia.
Mechanical equipment.Mechanical equipment for public buildings: For heating, hoisting, plumbing,gas piping, ventilating, and refrigerating apparatus, electric light plants, vacuum cleaning systems, interior pneumatic-tube, conduit, wiring, call-bell, and signal systems and repairs to the same, for all public buddings, including buildings not reserved by the vendors on sites acquired for buildings or the eidargement of buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, and including 427 not exceeding $40,000 for marine hospitals and quarantine stations, and not exceeding $9,000 for the Treasury, Butler, and Winder Buildings, at Washington, District of Columbia, and including not exceedingPneumatic-tube system, New York City. $10,000 for maintenance, changes in and repairs of pneumatictuoe system between the appraiser’s warehouse at Greenwich, Christopher, Washington, and Barrow Streets and the new customhouse in Bowling Green, Borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, including repairs to the street pavement and subsurface necessarily incident to or resulting from such maintenance, changes, or repairs, $440,000.
Vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings: For vaults, safes, andVaults, Rated, and locks. locks for same, and repairs thereto, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the lock-box equipment and repairs to same in completed and occupied buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, $90,000. Electrical protection to vaults, public buildings: For installationElectrical burglar alarms.Vol. 32, p. 1091. and maintenance of electrical burglar-alarm devices authorized by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, including the post office and courthouse at Chicago,Chicago, Ill.
Illinois, and the post office and subtreasury at Boston, Massachusetts,Boston, Mass. $17,000. General expenses of public buildings: To enable the Secretary ofGeneral expenses.Vol. 35, p. 537. the Treasury to execute and give effect to the provisions of section six of the Act of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page five hundred and thirty-seven, part one): For additional salary of $1,000 for the Supervising Architect of the Treasury for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, for the specific salaries for the personal services in the office of the Supervising Architect of the Additional salary, Supervising Architect.Personal service in Architects office.*Ante*, p. 375.Treasury, set forth under said office in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen (not exceeding $144,770), and for compensation of principal draftsman, foremen draftsmen, architectural draftsmen, and apprentice draftsmen, at rates of pay from $480 to $2,500 per annum; for compensation of structural engineers and draftsmen, at rates of pay from $840 to $2,200 per annum; for compensation of mechanical, sanitary, electrical, heating and ventilating, and illuminating engineers, and draftsmen, at rates of pay from $1,200 to $2,400 per annum; for compensation of computer’s and estimators, at rates of pay from $1,600 to $2,500 per annum: *Provided*, That the*Provisos*.Limit. expenditures for compensation under all the foregoing classes for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall not exceed $317,920; for compensation of supervising superintendents, Superintendents of construction.superintendents, and junior superintendents of construction, at rates of pay from $1,600 to $2,900 per annum, but in no case exceeding $8 per day, Sundays included: *Provided*, That the expenditures on thisLimit. account for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall not exceed $245,000; for expenses of superintendence,Expenses of maintenance. including expenses of all inspectors and other officers and employees, on duty or detailed in connection with work on public buildings and the furnishing and equipment thereof, under orders from the Treasury Department; office rent, and expenses of superintendents, including temporary stenographic and other assistance incident to the preparation of reports and the care of public property, and so forth; for cost of advertising; for office supplies, including draftingSupplies.*Ante*, p. 379. materials, specially prepared paper, typewriting machines and ex-change of same, furniture, carpets, and office equipment, stationetry, telephone service, and such other articles and supplies as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve for the use of the office of the Supervising Architect, exclusive of heat, 428light, janitor service, awnings, curtains, or any expenses for the general maintenance of the Treasury Building, but including not exceeding $1,000 for books of reference, technical periodicals, and journals, subscriptions to which may be paid in advance, and also for contingencies of every kind and description, traveling expenses of site agents, recording deeds and other evidences of title, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates, and photographic materials, and such other minor and incidental expenses not enumerated, connected solely with work on public buildings and the acquisition of sites, and the administrative work connected with the annual appropriations under the Supervising Architect’s office, as the Secretary or the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve, not including surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test pit borings, or mill and shop inspections; in all, for the foregoing objects for general expenses of public buildings, $656,920.
Commissions to architects.Vol. 27, p. 468.Architectural competitions, public buildings: For commissions to architects heretofore selected under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain plans and specifications for public buildings to be erected under the supervision of the Treasury Department, and providing for local supervision of the construction of the same, ” approved February twentieth; eighteen hundred and ninety-three, $175,000.
Architectural competition.Tarsney Act providing for, repealed.Vol. 27, p. 468.The Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain plans and specifications for public buildings to be erected under the supervision of the Treasury Department, and providing for local supervision of the construction of the same,” approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, commonly *Proviso*.Existing contracts not affected.known as the “Tarsney Act” is repealed: *Provided*, That contracts heretofore entered into under said Act shall not be affected by this repeal, and architectural services rendered under such contracts shall be paid for from the appropriation for “Architectural competitions, public buildings.” available at the time payment for the particular service rendered is due.
LIFE-SAVING SERVICE.Life-Saving Service. Superintendents.For district superintendents of life-saving stations, as follows: One for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, $2,200; One for the coast of Massachusetts, $2,200; One for the coasts of Rhode Island and Fishers Island, $2,000; One for the coast of Long Island, $2,200; One for the coast of New Jersey, $2,200; One for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, $2,200; One for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, $2,200;
One for the life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, $1,900; One for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, $2,000; One for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, $2,200; One for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, $2,200; One for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, $2,200;
One for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, $2,200; thirteen in all, $27,900. Keepers.For salaries of two hundred and ninety keepers of life-saving and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, $276,800. Crews of surfmen, etc.For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and life-boat stations, including the old Chicago station, at the rate of seventy 429dollars per month each for the number one surfman in each station, and at the rate of sixty-five dollars per month for each of the other surfmen during the period of actual employment, and three dollars per day for each occasion of service at other times; rations or com-mutation thereof for keepers and surfmen; compensation of volunteersVolunteers. at life-saving and lifeboat stations for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed ten dollars for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; compensation of twelveClerks to superintendents. clerks to district superintendents, one to each of the district superintendents except that of the eighth district, at such rate as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine, not to exceed nine hundred dollars each; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs and outfitsFuel, repairs, etc. for same; rebuilding and improvement of same, including use of additional land where necessary; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters and allowance for heat and light for officersCommutation of quarters, etc. of the Revenue-Cutter Service detailed for duty in the Life-Saving Service; for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eightAllowance for disabled keepers.Vol. 22, p. 57. of the Act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draft animals and their maintenance; for telephone lines and care of same; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage,*Ante*, p. 379. rent, repairs to apparatus, labor, medals, stationery, newspapers for statistical purposes, advertising, and all other necessary expenses not included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, 51,960,000.
REVENUE-CUTTER SERVICE.Revenue-Cutter Service. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay and allowancesPay, etc. of captain commandant and officers of that rank, senior captains, captains, lieutenants, engineer in chief and officers of that rank, captains of engineers,lieutenants of engineers, two constructors, cadets, cadet engineers, two civilian instructors, and pilots employed, and rations for pilots; for pay of warrant and petty officers, ships’ writers, buglers, seamen, oilers, firemen, coal heavers, water tenders, stewards, cooks, and boys, and for rations for the same; for allowance for clothing for enlisted men: for fuel for vessels, and outfits for the same: ship chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, for officers traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters; for maintenance of vessels in the protection of the seal fisheries in Bering Sea and theSeal fisheries. other waters of Alaska, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska; for maintenance of vessels in enforcing the provisions of the Acts relating to the anchorage of vessels in the ports of New YorkAnchorage, etc.Vol. 25, p. 151.Vol. 27, p. 431.Vol. 29, p. 54.Vol. 30, p. 1081. and Chicago, and in the Kennebec River, and the movements and anchorage of vessels in Saint Marys River; for temporary leases and improvement of property for revenue-cutter purposes; not exceeding $5,000 for the improvement of the depot for the service at Arundel Cove, Maryland; not exceeding $150 for medals for excellence in marksmanship; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, $2,260,000.
No additional appointments as cadets or cadet engineers shall beCadets.Appointments restricted. made in the Revenue-Cutter Service unless hereafter authorized by Congress. For repairs to revenue cutters, $175,000.Repairs. 430 engraving and printing.Engraving and printing. Salaries.For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries of all necessary employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, $1,268,051, to be expended under the direction of the *Proviso*.Large notes.Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, Vol. 31, p. 45.except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act ‘‘To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
Wages.For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, $1,742,028, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of *Proviso*.Large notes.the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shah be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than those that may be canceled or retired, except’ in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements Vol. 31, p. 45.of the Act to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
Materials, etc.*Ante*, p. 879.For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary horses and vehicles, and of horse and vehicle for official use of the director when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, $464,227, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Hand-roller presses.Checks, and backs and tints of notes, etc., not required to be printed from.Vol. 30, p. 605.Hereafter the proviso of the Act of July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight (Thirtieth Statutes at Large, page six hundred and four), directing that all bonds, notes, and checks shall be printed on hand-roller presses shall not apply to checks, the backs and tints of ail United States bonds, the backs and tints of all United States paper money, and the backs and tints of bonds and paper money issued by any of the insular possessions of the United States, any or all of which shall be printed from intaglio plates and on such plate printing presses as may be directed by the Secretary of the Treasury, Cheeks and tints.*Provisos*.Backs of notes, and faces of internal-revenue stamps.said presses to be operated by plate printers, except that checks and tints may be printed by any desired process: *Provided*, That the backs of all United States paper money shall be printed from four-subject plates, and the faces of all internal-revenue stamps now printed from intaglio plates on hand-roller or power plate printing presses shall continue to be printed from intaglio plates on hand-roller or power plate printing presses, as the Secretary of the Treasury Restriction on substitution of power for hand-roller presses.may determine, said presses to be operated by plate printers: *Provided further*, That should the Secretary of the Treasury decide to print on the aforesaid power plate printing presses any of the classes of work hereinbefore permitted to be printed on such presses, not more than one-fifth of the total number of hand-roller presses required to produce the estimated quantity of such work in any fiscal year shall Motors to hand-roller presses.be displaced in such fiscal year: *Provided further*, That the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, apply motors to hand-roller presses that are now, or may hereafter be, operated in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, but such presses, if equipped with motors; shall be regarded as hand-roller presses within the meaning of tins Act.
Proceeds from work to he credited to Bureau.During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen all proceeds derived from work performed by the Bureau of Engraving and 431Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for said bureau for the said fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as provided by the Act of August fourth, eighteen hundred andVol. 21, p. 227. eighty-six (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page two hundred and twenty-seven), be credited when received to the appropriation for said bureau for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen. miscellaneous objects, treasury department.Miscellaneous.
Paper for internal-revenueInternal revenue.Paper for stamps. stamps: For paper for internal-revenue stamps, including freight, $80,000. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money coveredRefund of taxes. into Treasury as internal-revenue collections, under the provisionsVol. 35, p. 325. of the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, $30,000. Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: For detectingPunishing violations of internal-revenue laws. and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, $140,000; and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue for which appropriation is made in this Act.
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use for, and in connectionEnforcing laws relating to the Treasury.Details permitted. with, the enforcement of the laws relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its control, not exceeding at any one time four persons paid from the appropriation for the collection of customs, four persons paid from the appropriation for salaries and expenses of internal-revenue agents or from the appropriation for the foregoing purpose, and four persons paid from the appropriation for suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, but not exceeding six persons so detailed shall be employedLimit. at any one time hereunder: *Provided*, That nothing herein*Proviso*.Other details. contained shall be construed to deprive the Secretary of the Treasury from making any detail now otherwise authorized by existing law.
Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent expensesContingent expenses, Independent Treasury.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719).*Ante*, p. 379. under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, for salaries of special agents, and for actual expensesExaminations. of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several subtreasuries and depositories, including national banks acting as depositories under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of[R.
S., sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3649/p718). the United States, also including examinations of cash accounts at mints, $150,000. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight gold coinsRecoinage of gold coins. in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and[R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696](/us/rs/s3512/p696). twelve of the Revised Statutes of the United States, $5,000. Recoinage of minor coms:
To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryRecoinage of minor coins. to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coin of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coin and the amount the same will produce in new coin, $7,500. 432 United States securities.Distinctive paper.Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper for United States securities, including transportation, traveling and laundry, and other necessary expenses, salaries for not more than ten months of not exceeding one register, two assistant registers, five counters, five watchmen, and one skilled laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury, $352,320.
Witness of destruction.Special witness of destruction of United States securities: For pay of the representative of the public on the committee to witness the destruction by maceration of Government securities, at $5 per day while actually employed, 31,565. Distinctive paper for national currency.Expenses of national currency: For distinctive paper, including transportation, traveling, mill, laundry, and other necessary expenses, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury, salaries lor not more than two months of not exceeding one register, two assistant registers, five counters, five watchmen, and one skilled laborer; in all, $59,000.
Canceling, etc.Canceling United States securities and cutting distinctive paper: For extra knives for cutting machines and sharpening same; leather belting, new dies and punches, repairs to machinery, oil, cotton waste, and other expenses connected with the cancellation of redeemed United States securities, $200. Custody of dies rolls, and plates.Custody of dies, rolls, and plates: For pay of custodian of dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the printing of Government securities, namely:
Two custodians, one at $2,000 and one at $1,800; three distributors of stock, one at $1,600, one at $1,400, and one at $1,200; in all, $8,000. Public buildings.Operating force.For operating force for public buildings: For the pay of such personal services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department (except as hereinafter provided), together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, and of sites for public buildings, Assistant custodians, janitors, etc.including assistant custodians, janitors, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen; engineers, firemen, elevator conductors, coal passers, electricians, dynamo tenders, lampists, and wiremen; and for the mechanical labor force in connection with said buildings, including carpenters, plumbers, steam fitters, machinists, and painters, but in no case shall the rates of compensation for such mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place *Provisos*.Buildings for which available.where such services are employed, $2,500,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation shall be available for use in connection with all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the customhouse at Washington, District of Columbia, but not including any other public building within the District of Columbia, and exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, Care of temporary quarters.branch mints, and assay offices: *And provided further*, That hereafter, unless otherwise specifically provided by law, whenever the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to secure temporary quarters for the use of the Government officials pending the alteration, improvement, or repairs to, or the remodeling, reconstruction, or enlargement of, any public building belonging to the United States under the control of the Treasury Department, including the customhouse, Washington, District of Columbia, but exclusive of any other buildings in the District of Columbia, the appropriation for “Operating force for public buildings ” shall be available, if necessary, in connection with certain portions of the premises as may be rented for, or occupied by, such officials, in the same manner, for the same purpose, and to the same extent as if the title to such premises were vested in the United States. 433 Furniture and repairs of furniture;
For furniture and repairs ofFurniture and repairs. same, carpets, and gas and electric light fixture, for all public buildings, exclusive of marine hospitals, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for furniture, carpets, gas and electric fixtures for new buildings, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract, $800,000. And all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings and in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not.
Operating supplies for public buildings: For the purchase of fuel,Operating supplies.Fuel, light, water, etc.*Ante*, p. 379. steam, light, water, water meters, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting and power purposes, telephone service for custodians’ forces, removal of ashes and rubbish, snow and ice, cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and so forth, and for miscellaneous items for the use of the custodians’ forces in the care of public buildings and the grounds thereof, and in the care of the equipment and furnishings in such buildings; and for miscellaneous supplies for the operation (not including repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, hoisting, ventilating and plumbing systems and apparatus, and electric-lighting plants for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including new buildings and the customhouse at Washington, District of Columbia, but not including any other public building within the District of Columbia, and exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, $1,550,000.
And the appropriation herein made for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors, when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Gas governors. no sum shall be paid as rental for such gas governors greater than thirty-five per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct. During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen the SecretaryPneumatic tube service.Furnishing steam to postal service for. of the Treasury is authorized, out of the appropriations “Operating supplies for public buildings” and “Operating force for public buildings,” to furnish steam for the operation of pneumatic tubes of the postal service, as heretofore, and to pay employees in the production of said steam, as heretofore, the proceeds derived from the sale of said steam to be credited to said appropriations in proportion to the amounts expended therefrom.
Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurredSuppressing counterfeiting, etc. under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, and for no other purpose whatever, except in the protection of the person of the President of the United States, $135,000: *Provided*, That no part of this amount be used in defraying*Proviso*.Witnesses. the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United*Post*, p. 465.
States courts.” No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used inPayment to persona detailed forbidden. payment of compensation or expenses of any person detailed or transferred from the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Depart- 434ment, or who may at any time during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen have been employed by or under said Secret Sendee Division. Lands, etc.Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, prefection, and expenses. of sales of lands and other property of the United States, the examination of titles, recording of deeds’, advertising, and auctioneer’s fees, $300.
International Irrigation Congress.Contribution.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to pay to the International Irrigation Congress, to assist in defraying the expenses of the twentieth annual meeting of said Congress, to be hold at Salt Lake City, Utah, commencing September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, $10,000. customs service.Customs service. Collecting customs revenue.Additional.[R. S., sec. 3687, p. 724](/us/rs/s3687/p724).Detection of frauds increased.Vol. 20, p. 386;
Vol. 33, p. 396.*Ante*, p. 379.To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, $4,650,000, being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen. And the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine (Twentieth Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-six), as amended by the Act of April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four (Thirty-third Statutes, page three hundred and ninety-six), authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to expend out of the appropriation for defraying the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs such amount as he may deem necessary, not exceeding $150,000 per annum, for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, are hereby further amended so as to increase the amount to be so expended for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen to $200,000.
Permanent appropriation repealed from June 30, 1913.[R. S., sec. 3687, p. 724](/us/rs/s3687/p724), repealed.Reorganization of service directed.Estimates for reduced cost.Section thirty-six hundred and eighty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States is repealed to take effect from and after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen. The President is authorized to reorganize the customs service and cause estimates to be submitted therefor on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen bringing the total cost of said service for said fiscal year within a sum not exceeding $10,150,000 instead of $10,500,000, the amount authorized to be expended therefor on Scope of reductions.account of the current fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve; in making such reorganization and reduction in expenses he is authorized to abolish or consolidate collection districts, ports, and subports of entry and delivery, to discontinue needless offices and employments, to reduce excessive rates of compensation below amounts fixed by law or Executive order, and to do all such other and further things that in his judgment may be necessary to make such Communication to Congress.organization effective and within the limit of cost herein fixed; such reorganization shall be communicated to Congress at its next regular session and shall constitute for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and until otherwise provided by Congress the permanent organization of the customs service.
Automatic scales.Balances available.Vol. 34, p. 708; Vol. 36, p. 781.Scales for customs service: The unexpended balance of the appropriation made by the sundry civil Act approved Juno thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and by the deficiency Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, for construction and installation of special automatic and recording scales for weighing merchandise, and so forth, in connection with imports, at the various ports of entry under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, is hereby continued and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year Further amount.nineteen hundred and thirteen, together with the further sura of $13,000 for the same purpose.
Compensation in lieu or moieties.Compensation in lieu of moicties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, $50,000. 435 PUBLIC HEALTH AND MARINE-HOSPITAL SERVICE.Public Health Service. Expenses of Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, as follows:*Ante*, p, 309. For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissionedPay, etc. medical officers and pharmacists, $437,780. For six additional assistant surgeons who have had a special trainingExperts on mental disorders. in the diagnosis of insanity and mental defect for duty in connection with the examination of arriving aliens with special reference to the detection of mental defection, $11,760.
For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical officers), $200,000. For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $465,805; For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, $30,000;Freight, etc. For fuel, light, and water, $70,000;Fuel, etc. For furniture and repair’s to same, $8,000;Furniture. For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospitalSupplies. supplies, $45,000; For improvement and repairs of building to be occupied by thePurveying depot. purveying depot hi Washington, District of Columbia, including heating and lighting and expenses of removal, shelving, and for additional temporary labor incidental thereto, $2,000.
For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $17,000;Laboratory. For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and forMaintenance of hospitals, etc.*Ante*, p. 379. all other necessary miscellaneous expenses, which are not included under special heads, $245,000: *Provided*, That there may be admitted*Proviso*.Admission of cases for study. into said hospitals for study, persons with infectious or other diseases affecting the public health, and not to exceed ten cases in any one hospital at one time.
For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment ofOutside treatment, etc. all other persons entitled to relief, and miscellaneous expenses other than marine hospitals, which are not included under special heads, $126,000. For journals and scientific books, for use of the Public Health andBooks, etc. Marine-Hospital Bureau; subscriptions for journals for use of the service may be paid for in advance, $500. In all, $1,658,845, which shall include the amount necessary for theInspecting aliens.Vol. 34, p. 903. medical inspection of aliens, as required by section seventeen of the Act of Congress approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven.
Marine Hospital, New Orleans, Louisiana: For mortuary, $600.New Orleans, La. Marine Hospital Sanatorium, Fort Stanton, New Mexico: ForFort Stanton, N. Mex. milk house and cold storage, $4,000. Honolulu Quarantine Station, Hawaii: For sewerage systemHonolulu, Hawaii. and latrines, $35,000. Quarantine Service: For the maintenance and ordinary expenses,Quarantine service.Maintenance, etc.*Ante*, p. 379. usive of pay of officers and employees, of quarantine stations at Eastport and Portland, Maine;
Providence, Rhode Island; Perth Amboy, New Jersey; Delaware Breakwater; Reedy Island; Alexandria, Virginia; Cape Charles and supplemental station thereto; Cape Fear, Newbern, and Washington, North Carolina; Georgetown, Charleston, Beaufort, and Port Royal, South Carolina; Savannah; South Atlantic; Brunswick; Cumberland Sound; Saint Johns River; BiscayneBav; Kev West; Boca Grande; Tampa Bay; Port Inglis; Cedar Key; Punta Rassa; Saint Georges Sound (East and West Pass); Saint Joseph;
Saint Andrews, and Pensacola, Florida; Mobile; New Orleans and supplemental stations thereto; Pascagoula; Gulf; Laredo, Eagle Pass, and El Paso, Texas; San Diego, San Pedro and adjoining ports, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Monterey, and Port Harford, California; Fort Bragg, Eureka, Columbia River, Florence, 436Newport, Coos Bay, and Gardner, Oregon; Port Townsend and supplemental stations thereto; quarantine system of the Hawaiian Islands, including the leprosy hospital; and the quarantine system of Porto Rico, and including, not exceeding, $500 for printing on account of the quarantine service at times when the exigencies of that service require immediate action, $155,000.
Prevention of epidemics.*Ante*, p. 379.Prevention of epidemics; To enable the President of the United States, in case only of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague, or black death, to aid State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which *Proviso*.Report of expenditures.may be then in force, $200,000: *Provided*, That a detailed report of the expenditures hereunder shall annually hereafter be submitted to Congress.
UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.Smithsonian Institution. International exchanges. International exchanges: Nor expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $32,000. American ethnology.American ethnology: For con turning e ethnological researches among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, including the excavation and preservation of archaeologic remains, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, including payment in advance for subscriptions, $42,000. international Catalogue of Scientific Literature.International Catalogue of Scientific Literature:
For the cooperation of the United States in the work of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, including the preparation of a classified index catalogue of American scientific publications for incorporation in the International Catalogue, the expense of clerk hire, the purchase or necessary books and periodicals, and other necessary incidental expenses, $7,500, the same to be expended under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution. Astrophysical Observatory.Astrophysical Observatory:
For maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution including salaries of assistants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, including payment in advance for subscriptions, apparatus, mailing necessary observations in high altitudes, repairs and alterations of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, $13,000. National Museum.Salaries, etc.National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, $50,000;
Heating, lighting, etc.For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service, $50,000; Preserving collections, etc.For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and all other necessary expenses, $300,000, of which sum $5,500 may be used for necessary drawings and Safe for disbursing agent.illustrations for publications and $1,500 for the purchase of a fireproof and burglar-proof safe, with triple time lock, for the office of the disbursing agent for the Government branches under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including the necessary expenses of installation;
Books, etc.For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference, including payment in advance for subscriptions, $2,000; 437 For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, including all necessaryRepairs. labor and material, $10,000; For postage stamps and foreign postal cards, $500;Postage. In all, for the National Museum, $412,500. National Zoological Park: For continuing the construction of roads,National Zoological Park. walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees; and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles required for official purposes, not exceeding $100 for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, payment in advance for subscriptions, and exclusive of architect’s fees or compensation, $100,000; one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues ofHalf from District revenues. the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
Hereafter all plans and specifications for the construction of buildingsPlans, etc., for buildings and bridges. in the National Zoological Park shall be prepared under the supervision of the municipal architect of the District of Columbia, and all plans and specifications for bridges in said park shall be prepared under the supervision of the engineer of bridges of the District of Columbia. For the construction of a rough stone faced or bowlder bridge acrossBridge across Rock Creek.
Adams Mill Road. Rock Creek to replace the present log bridge on the line of the road-way from Adams Mill Road entrance and Cathedral Avenue, $20,000; one half of which sum shall be paid from revenues of the District ofHalf from District revenues. Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission. For salaries of seven commissioners, at $10,000 each, $70,000.Salaries. For salary of secretary, $5,000.
For all other authorized expenditures necessary in the executionExpenses. of laws to regulate commerce, $1,000,000, of which sum not exceedingAmount for counsel, etc. 850,000 may be expended in the employment of counsel, and not exceeding $3,000 may be expended for the purchase of necessary books, reports, and periodicals, and not exceeding $1,500 may be expended for printing other than that done at the Government Printing Office and not exceeding $65,000 may be expended for rent ofRent. buildings in the District of Columbia.
To further enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforceEnforcing Recounting by railroads.Vol. 34, p. 593; Vol. 36, p. 556. compliance with section twenty of the Act to regulate commerce as amended by the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, including the employment of necessary special agents or examiners, $300,000. To carry out the objects of the “Act concerning carriers engagedArbitrating railway differences.Vol. 30, p. 424. in interstate commerce and their employees,’’ approved June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, $10,000.
To enable the Interstate-Commerce Commission to keep informedRailway safety appliances.Vol. 27, p. 531; Vol. 29, p. 85; Vol. 82, p. 943; Vol. 36, pp. 298, 350. regarding and to enforce compliance with Acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads, including the employment of inspectors, $150,000. For the payment of all authorized expenditures under the provisionsSafe locomotive engines and boilers.Vol. 36, p. 913. of the Act of February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, “to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip them locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,” including such stenographic and clerical help to the chief inspector and his two assistants as the Interstate Commerce Com 438mission may deem necessaiy and allowances in lieu of subsistence while away from official headquarters to persons whose traveling expenses are authorized by said Act to be paid at not to exceed 84 per day, 8225,000.
UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenals. Rock Island, III.Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois: For maintenance and operation of power plant, S 12,500; Bridge expenses.For operating and care and preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaduct; and for maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, 818,000; In all, 830,500. Sandy Hook Proving Ground, N. J.Proving ground, Sandy Hook, New Jersey: For constructing and equipping a service magazine and powder refrigerating and heating plant at the Sandy Hook Proving Ground, to replace the one destroyed by fire February eleventh, nineteen hundred and twelve, 86,000.
Picatinny, Dover, N. J.Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, New Jersey: For constructing and equipping one dry house for small-arms powder at the Picatinny Arsenal, to replace the one destroyed by fire April sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, 83,500. Springfield, Mass.Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For increasing the facilities for fire protection, 85,000. Watertown, Mass.Testing machine.Testing machines, Watertown Arsenal: For the necessary professional and skilled labor, purchase of materials, tools, and appliances for operating the testing macliines, for investigative test ami tests of material in connection with the manufacturing work of the Ordnance Department, and for instruments and materials for operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, 815,000.
Watervliet, N. Y.Watervliet Arsenal, Watervliet, New York: For improvements in field and siege gun departments, 815,950. Repairs.Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvements at arsenals, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including 8125,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $290,000. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department.
Military posts.Philippines.Seacoast defenses.Military posts: For continuing the construction of the necessary accommodations for the seacoast artillery in the Philippine Islands, $250,000. Fort Sam Houston, Tex.Additional land.Additional land, Fort Sam Houston, Texas; For purchase of the tract of land now being leased from George W. Brackenridge, for drill purposes, consisting of three hundred and ten acres, more or less, lying just north of the newly purchased ground of the military reservation of Fort Sam Houston, Texas, and extending to the country road recently completed around the reservation, $70,000.
Fort Mackenzie, Wyo.Acceptance of land donated by Wyoming.Grant of land by the State of Wyoming for enlargement military reservation, Fort Mackenzie, Wyoming: The grant by the State of Wyoming by act of its legislature approved February twenty-first, nineteen hundred and five, of title to and jurisdiction over the north-east quarter and northwest quarter of southeast quarter of section eighteen , township fifty-six north, range eighty-four west, of the sixth principal meridian, in the county of Sheridan and State of Wyoming, or the enlargement of the military reservation of Fort Mackenzie, in Lands granted in lieu.said State, is hereby accepted; and the State is hereby permitted to 439select and have patented to it, in compensation for said grant, an equal area of any of the unoccupied, nonmineral, untimbered public lands subject to entry within the State of Wyoming.
Water system, Schofield Barracks, Territory of Hawaii: From the Scofield Barracks, Hawaii.Water system.Use of balance.Vol. 36, p. 1051.unexpended balance of the appropriation for “Water and sewers at military posts,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, there is hereby reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for the construction of the water system for the military reservation and post of Schofield Barracks, in the Territory of Hawaii, the sum of $175,000, or the entire unexpended balance, if less than that sum.
Fort Monroe, Virginia: Wharf, roads, and sewer: For repair andFort Monroe. Va.Wharf, roads, and sewer. maintenance of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms, and water, brooms, and shovels, 81,400; repairs to apron of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, $4,155; wharfinger, $900; four laborers, $1,920; m all, 88,375; for one-third of said sum, to be supplied by the United States,$2,791.66. Repairs and operation of roads, pavements, streets, lights, and generalRepairs to roads,etc. police:
For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, macadam and asphalt block; repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains, $2,170: six laborers cleaning roads, at $480 each; in all, $5,050; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplier! by the United States, $3,366.66. Maintenance of sewer system: For waste, oil, and boiler repairs,Sewer system. sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, $2,100; two engineers, at $900 each; two laborers, at $500 each; in all, $4,900; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $3,266.66.
Roadway conveyed to city of Seattle, Washington.—The SecretaryFort Lawton, Wash.Roadway granted to Seattle. of War is hereby authorized and directed to convey to the city of Seattle, Washington, all the right and title of the United States in and to the Government roadway leading from the east boundary of the military reservation of Fort Lawton, at Magnolia Bluff, adjoining said city, to a wharf site in said city, upon the condition that the roadway so conveyed shall be kept open and maintained without cost to the United States as a public street of the city of Seattle.
The extension of Saint Claude Street, New Orleans, Louisiana.—Jackson Barracks, La.Right of way across, granted to New Orleans. The extension of Saint Claude Street, of the city of New Orleans, in the State of Louisiana, along and through the property of the United States known as the military reservation of Jackson Barracks is here-by authorized, said extension to be of the same width and a continuation of the same lines as said street has to the west side of said military reservation, upon condition that the said street shall be improved and maintained without cost to the United States as a public street of the city of New Orleans.
National cemeteries: For maintaining and improving nationalNational cemeteries, maintenance. cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, $120,000. For pay of seventy-six superintendents of national cemeteries,Superintendents.*Ante*, p. 240. $62,760. Headstones for graves of soldiers: For continuing the work of furnishingHeadstones for soldiers’ graves. headstones of durable stone or other durable material for unmarked graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries, at navy yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places,Vol. 17, p. 345;
Vol. 20, p.281; Vol. 34, p. 56. under the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and March ninth, nineteen hundred and six, also for continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of civilians interred in postCivilians.Vol. 33, p. 496; Vol. 34, p. 741. cemeteries under the Acts of April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, $75,000. 440 Repairs to roadways.Repairing roadways to national cemeteries:
For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special *Provisos*.Encroachments by railroads forbidden.authority of Congress, $12,000: *Provided*, That no railroad shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United Restriction.States: *Provided further*, That no part of tills sum shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village.
China Hall Cemetery, Pa.Sale of land.China or White Hall Cemetery, Pennsylvania: The Secretary of War is hereby authorized and directed to sell for cash, by advertisement or private sale, as in his judgment may best subserve the interests of the United States, and to make the required conveyance, all the right, title, and interest of the United States in and to that certain parcel of land situate on the northwesterly side of China Hall public road leading to Bristol, in the township of Bristol, county of Bucks, State of Pennsylvania, containing one acre, more or less, conveyed to the United States by deed of George Randall and wife, dated the thirtieth day of August, eighteen hundred and sixty-four.
Cave Hill Cemetery, Ky.Purchase of additional laud.Cave Hill Cemetery, Louisville, Kentucky, purchase of additional land: For the purchase of additional land in Cave Hill Cemetery, at Louisville, Kentucky, for the burial of soldiers of the Union Army *Proviso*.Condition.in the late Civil War and in the War with Spain, $25,000: *Provided*, That the amount of land herein authorized to be purchased and the ?rice paid therefor shall be within the discretion of the Secretary of Par.
Roads limited to single approach.No part of any appropriation herein for national cemeteries or the repair of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance of more than a single approach to any national cemetery. Burial of indigent soldiers. D. C.Burial of indigent soldiers: For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either regular or volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding $45 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, Half from District revenues.$3,000, one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Burials of Confederate veteran.Conditions.Hereafter persons dying in the District of Columbia or in the immediate vicinity thereof who have served in the Confederate Armies during the Civil War may be buried in the Confederate section of the Arlington National Cemetery without additional expense to the United States upon the certificate of Camp Numbered One hundred and seventy-one, United Confederate Veterans of the District of Columbia, that suchjpersons are entitled to burial under the authority *Proviso*.Supervision, etc.herein given: *Provided*, That all such interments shall be under the supervision and subject to the approval of the Secretary of War.
Antietam battle field.Repairs, etc.Antietam battle field: For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Antietam battle field, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, $3,000. Superintendent.For pay of superintendent of Antietam battle field, said superintendent to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster’s Department and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, $1,500.
Interment, etc., of remains of officers, soldiers, etc.Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, civilian employees, and so forth: For the expenses of interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes or to such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper authority, in the discretion of the Secretary of 441War, of the remains of officers, including acting assistant surgeons, and enlisted men of the Army active list; for the expenses of interments or of preparation and transportation to their homes, of the remains of civil employees of the Army in the employ of the War Department who die abroad, inclusive of Alaska, or on Army trans-ports; for the expenses of removal of remains from abandoned postsRemovals from abandoned posts, etc. to permanent military posts or national cemeteries, including the remains of Federal soldiers, sailors, or marines interred in fields or abondoned private and city cemeteries; and in any case where the expenses of burial or shipment of the remains of officers or enlisted men of the Army who die on the active list are borne by individuals, where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement to such individuals may be made of theReimbursement to individuals. amount allowed by the Government for such services, to be paid out of the funds appropriated by this Act, but no reimbursement shall be made under this Act of such expenses incurred prior to the first day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, $57,500.
Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago: For care, protection,Confederate Mound, Chicago, Ill. and maintenance of the plat of ground known as “Confederate Mound” in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, $250. Confederate burial plats: For the care, protection, and maintenanceConfederate burial plats.Care, etc. of Confederate burial plats, owned by the United States, located and known by the following designations: Confederate Cemetery, North Alton, Illinois; Confederate Cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio;
Confederate section, Greenlawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana; Confederate Cemetery, Point Lookout, Maryland; and Con-federate Cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, $1,250. Monuments or tablets in Cuba and China: For repairs andMonuments, etc., to soldiers in Cuba and China. preservation of monuments, tablets, roads, fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell, $1,000. Burial of deceased indigent patients:
The unexpended balance ofLittle Rock, Ark.Burial of indigent soldiers dying at Hot Springs Hospital.Use of balance.Vol. 36, p. 724. the appropriation made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven for expenses of burying in the Little Rock, Arkansas, National Cemetery, including transportation thereto, indigent ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either regular or volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die while patients at the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding $35 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive, of cost of grave, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen. national military parks.Military parks.
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuing the Chickamauga and Chattanooga.establishment of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park; for the compensation and expenses of three civilian commissioners, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, including $300 for necessary clericariabor under direction of the chairman of the commission, office expenses, and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; for roads and their maintenance; the purchase of small tracts of lands heretofore authorized by law; in all, $57,060.
Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the work of establishingShiloh. a national military park on the battle field of Shiloh, Tennessee; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners and the secretary, clerical and other services, labor, historical tablets, maps and surveys, roads, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials, office and other necessary expenses, $27,000. 442 Gettysburg.Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the work of establishing the national park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; for the acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; making fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts, and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battle field and the monuments thereon; providing for a suitable office for the com-missioners in Gettysburg; compensation of three civilian commissioners, clerical and other services, expenses, and labor; the purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position, and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, $55,000.
Vicksburg.Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the work of establishing the Vicksburg National Military Park; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners; for clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, the mounting of siege guns, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, eomeiled without praise and without censure; maps, surveys; roads, ridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of lands, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; and other necessary expenses, $44,000.
Naval monument.Use of balance for bronze portraits.Vol. 36. p. 725.The unexpended balance, not exceeding $5,959, of the appropriation of $150,000 for the Union Naval Monument is reappropriated and made available for bronze portraits, with granite pedestals, of brigade and division commanders. Park commissions.Vacancies occurring in, not to be filled.Hereafter vacancies occurring by death or resignation in the membership of the several commissions in charge of national military parks shall not be filled, and the duties of the offices thus vacated shall devolve upon the remaining commissioners or commissioner for *Proviso*.Secretary of War to be member of commission, etc.each of said parks: *Provided*, That as vacancies occur hereunder the Secretary of War shall become ex officio a member of the commission effected with full authority to act with the remaining commissioners or commissioner, and in case of the vacation of all the offices of commissioner in any one park hereunder the duties of such commission shall thereafter be performed under the direction of the Secretary of War. under engineer department.Engineer Department Battleship “Maine.”Allowance to officer on duty at Habana.Wreck of battleship Maine:
Authority is hereby granted to the Secretary of War to authorize the payment, out of appropriations heretofore made for the removal of the wreck of the battleship Maine from the harbor of Habana, to the officer of the Corps of Engineers, United States Army, assigned to station and duty in Habana, Cuba, in connection with the removal of the said wreck, of an allowance not to exceed $5 per diem during the period that he has been and may be stationed in Habana in connection with the said duty.
Yellowstone.Yellowstone National Park: For maintenance and repair of improvements, $100,000, including not to exceed $4,500 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the east boundary, and not to exceed $1,500 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserves leading out of the park from the south boundary, to be expended by and under the direction of the *Proviso*.Restriction on removal of snow.Secretary of War: *Provided*, That, no portion of this appropriation shall be expended for the removal of snow from any of the roads for the purpose of opening them in advance of the time when they will be cleared by seasonal changes.
Roads, bridges, etc.For widening and improving surface of roads, and for building bridges and culverts, from the belt-line road to the western border; from The Thumb Station to the southern border; and from the Lake Hotel Station to the eastern border, all within Yellowstone National 443Park, to make such roads suitable and safe for animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles, $77,000. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon : For the construction ofCrater Lake. a wagon road and the necessary bridges through Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, together with a system of tanks and water-supply pipes to provide for sprinkling, in accordance with the recommendations contained in the report of the War Department published as House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-eight, Sixty-second Congress, second session, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $50,000.
Buildings and grounds in and around Washington: For improvementBuildings and grounds, District of Columbia. and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion,Improvement and care. $4,000. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, $2,000. For repair and reconstruction of the greenhouses at the nursery, $3,000. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, $2,000. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, $1,500.
For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, $2,000. For care and improvement of Monument Grounds and annex,Monument grounds. $7,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Garfield Park, $2,500. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; repairing and extending water pipes, and purchase of apparatus for cleaning them; hose; manure, and hauling the same; removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, flower pots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, and moss, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances; cleaning statues and repairing pedestals, $18,550.
For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations,Reservations, etc. including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horse and vehicle for official use of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, and of other necessary vehicles, for official use, $27,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, $3,000. For improvement and maintenance of Judiciary Park, $2,500. For laying cement and other walks in various reservations, $2,000. For broken-stone road covering for parks, $3,500.
For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, $2,000. For care and maintenance of Potomac Park, $15,000.Potomac Park. For grading, soiling, seeding, and planting that portion of Potomac Park west of the railroad embankment, $35,000. No part of any money appropriated in this Act shall be expendedRestriction on lagoons and speedway. for or toward the construction of any lagoon,, or other artificial body of water, or speedway, on any portion of Potomac Park in the District of Columbia.
For oiling or otherwise treating macadam roads, $4,000. Toward the construction of a macadam road around the entireRiver front of Potomac Park. river and harbor front of the portion of Potomac Park east of the railroad embankment, $25,000. For grading and improving the portion of Seaton Park bordering Sixth Street northwest, $3,500. For commencing the improvement of Montrose Park, and for its care and maintenance, $5,000. 444 For spraying machine, $1,500. Halt from District revenues.One half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in and around Washington” shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
Limit for concrete, etc., pavements.Under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washing-ton City at a higher price than one dollar and eighty-five cents per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of executive departments, $1,000.
For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be requested by the superintendent of the Library Building, $1,000. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol, the Senate and House Office Buildings, as may be requested by the superintendent of the Capitol Building, $4,000. Executive Mansion grounds.For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), $5,000.
Engineer.For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, $2,400. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouse, $1,000. Express authority for buildings in parks, etc.Hereafter there shall not be erected on any reservation, park, or public grounds, of the United States within the District of Columbia, any building or structure without express authority of Congress. Executive Mansion.Care, etc.Executive Mansion:
For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive Mansion, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official purposes, to be expended by con-tract or otherwise, as the President may determine, $35,000. Fuel.For fuel for the Executive Mansion, greenhouses, and stable, $6,000. Greenhouses.For care and maintenance of greenhouses, Executive Mansion, $9,000. For repairs to greenhouses, Executive Mansion, $3,000. Travel expenses of the President.For traveling expenses of the President of the United States, to be expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, $25,000.
Portrait of President Taft.For purchase for the Executive Mansion of an oil portrait of President Taft, including frame for the same, to be expended as the President may direct, $4,000. Lighting.For lighting the Executive Mansion, grounds, and greenhouses, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $8,600, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Lighting and heating public grounds.Lighting and heating fob the public ground’s: For lighting the public grounds, watchmen’s lodges, offices, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $15,000;
For heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $3,820; Half from District revenues.In all, $18,820, or so much thereof as may be necessary, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other hall from the Treasury of the United States. Government telegraph.Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the Departments and Government Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, $500. 445 Washington Monument;
For the care and maintenance of theWashington MonumentMaintenance. Washington Monument, namely: For custodian, $1,200; steam engineer, $960; assistant steam engineer, $840; fireman, $060; assistant fireman, $660; conductor of elevator car, $900; attendant on floor, $720; attendant on top floor, $720; three night and day watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $8,820. For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes,Expenses. brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors; repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery; and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric plant in good order, $3,000.
Repairs of building where Abraham Lincoln died: ForBuilding where Abraham Lincoln died.Wakefield, Va. painting and miscellaneous repairs, $200. Improvements, birthplace of Washington, Wakefield, Virginia: For repairs to fences and cleaning up and maintaining grounds about the monument, $100. Monument to the late President Tyler, Richmond, Virginia:Monument to President Tyler, Richmond, Va.Vol. 36, p. 1345. For erection of a suitable monument over the grave of the late John Tyler, former President of the United States, in the Hollywood Cemetery, Richmond, Virginia, as authorized by the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven: *Provided*, That no part*Provisos*.Provision for maintenance. of said amount shall be expended until such time as the Secretary of War is satisfied of the existence of a responsible legal association for the care and maintenance of said monument: *And provided further*,No further expense.
That when the said monument is erected the responsibility for the care and maintenance of the same shall be with such association and without expense to the United States, $10,000. Monument to Generals Screven and Stewart, Midway, Monument to Gens. Screven and Stewart. Vol. 36, p. 1352.Georgia: For construction, erection, and completion of a joint monument to be erected in the old cemetery at Midway, Liberty County, Georgia, in memory of the lives and public services of General James Screven and General Daniel Stewart, $10,000.
Memorial monument at Germantown, Pennsylvania: To aidGermantown memorial monument.Vol. 36, p. 1352. in erecting a monument at Germantown, Pennsylvania, in commemoration of the founding of the first permanent German settlement in America, to be expended subject to the provisions of the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, authorizing the expenditure of tins sum as a part contribution toward the erection of said monument: *Provided*, That the money for the*Proviso*.Direction of expenditure. erection of said monument shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War and by such officer as may be designated by him, $25,000.
Commission of Fine Arts: To meet the expenses made necessaryCommission of Fine Arts.Expenses.Vol. 36, p. 371. by the Act approved May seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act establishing a Commission of Fine Arts,” including the purchase of periodicals, maps, and books of reference, to be disbursed, on vouchers approved of the commission, by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, who shall be the secretary and shall act as the executive officer or said commission, $5,000.
Rivers and harbors, contract work:Rivers and harbors, contract work.Construction. Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers, under contract and otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, namely: For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteenVol. 34, p. 1073. hundred and seven, as follows: Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For continuingBoston, Mass. improvement of thirty-five foot channel, $25,000. 446 Cleveland, Ohio.Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio:
For continuing improvement in accordance with plan for new harbor entrance and breakwater extension, $200,000. Passaic River, N. J.Improving Passaic River, New Jersey: For continuing improvement of channel in Newark Bay and Passaic River. $33,000. Saint Marys River, Mich.New lock.Improving Saint Marys River, Michigan: For continuing improvement at the falls by the construction of a new lock, with a separate canal, $1,500,000. Vol. 86, p. 630.For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and ten, as follows:
Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee Rivers.Improving Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee Rivers, Alabama: For continuing improvement by the construction of locks and dams in completion of contract authorization, $250.000. Delaware River.Philadelphia to Trenton.Improving Delaware River, Pennsylvania and New Jersey: For continuing improvement by excavating a channel twelve feet deep from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Trenton, New Jersey, $70,000. Fairport, Ohio.Improving harbor at Fairport, Ohio:
For completing improvement, $45,000. Ohio River.Specified locks and dams.Improving Ohio River below Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For continuing improvement by the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered Seven, Nine, Ten, Twelve, Nineteen, Twenty, Twenty-nine, Forty-one, and Forty-eight, $1,141,000. Providence River and Harbor. R. I.Improving Providence River and Harbor, Rhode Island: For continuing improvement between Kettle Point and Gaspee Point and on the western side of the harbor at and above Fields Point, $104,000.
Puget Sound-Lake Washington Waterway.Puget Sound-Lake Washington Waterway: For continuing improvement by the construction of a double lock, with the necessary accessory works, $500,000. Saginaw River, Mich.Improving Saginaw River, Michigan: For continuing improvement, $100,000. Arthur Kill, channel north of Shooters Island.Improving channel north of Shooters Island, between New York and New Jersey: For continuing improvement, $30,000. Siuslaw River, Oreg.Improving Siuslaw River, Oregon:
For continuing improvement by jetty construction at the mouth, $35,000. Vol. 36, p. 933.For works authorized by the river and harbor act of nineteen hundred and eleven, as follows: Aransas Pass and Bay. Tex.Improving Aransas Pass and Bay, Texas: For continuing construction of a deep-water harbor or port within the entrance to Aransas Pass at Harbor Island, in completion of contract authorization, $250,000. Ashtabula, Ohio.Improving Harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio: For continuing improvement, $200,000.
Bellingham, Wash.Improving Harbor at Bellingham, Washington: For continuing improvement of Whatcom Creek Waterway, in completion of con-tract authorization, $52,250. Black Warrior, etc., rivers, Ala.Improving Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee Rivers, Alabama: For continuing improvement by the construction of locks and dams, $215,000. Chicago, Ill.Improving Harbor at Chicago, Illinois: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, $240,000. Chicago River, Ill.Improving Chicago River, Illinois:
For continuing improvement, $28,000. Columbia and Willamette Rivers, Oreg.Improving Columbia and Lower Willamette Rivers, below Portland, Oregon: For continuing improvement, $200,000. Conneaut, Ohio.Improving Harbor at Conneaut, Ohio: For continuing improvement, SI 00,000. Connecticut River, Conn.Improving Connecticut River, Connecticut: For continuing improvement below Hartford, $40,000. 447 Improving Delaware River, Pennsylvania anil New Jersey: ForDelaware River.Philadelphia to the sea. continuing improvement of thirty-five foot channel from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the sea, $450,000.
Harbor of Refuge, Duck Island Harbor, Connecticut: For continuingDuck Island, Conn. improvement, 850,000. Improving Grays Harbor, Washington: For continuing improvementGrays Harbor, Wash. of Grays Harbor and Bar Entrance by extension of north jetty in completion of contract authorization, $655,000. Improving Hillsboro Bay, Florida: For continuing improvement,Hillsboro Bay, Fla. $200,000. Improving harbor at Hilo, Hawaii: For continuing improvement,Hilo, Hawaii. $100,000. Improving Humboldt Harbor and Bay, California:
For continuingHumboldt Harbor and Bay, Cal. improvement, $250,000. Improving Kentucky River, Kentucky: For continuing improvementKentucky River. Ky. by the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered Thirteen and Fourteen, $168,000. Improving Mackinac Harbor, Michigan: For continuing improvement,Mackinac, Mich. $35,000. Improving Missouri River: For continuing improvement with aMissouri River.Kansas City to the mouth. view to securing a permanent six-foot channel between Kansas City, Missouri, and the mouth, in completion of contract authorization, $600,000.
Breakwater from Mount Desert to Porcupine Island, Maine: ForBar Harbor, Me.Breakwater. continuing construction of breakwater at Bar Harbor, $75,000. Improving harbors at New Bedford and Fairhaven, Massachusetts:New Bedford and Fairhaven, Mass. For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, $127,000. Improving harbor at Norfolk, Virginia: For continuing improvement,Norfolk, Va. including approaches thereto and channels to Newport News and up the Southern Branch of Elizabeth River, $425,000.
Improving Ouachita River, Arkansas and Louisiana: For continuingOuachita River, Ark. and La. improvement by the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered Two, Four, Six, and Eight, $50,000. Harbor of refuge at Point Judith, Rhode Island: For continuingPoint Judith, R. I. improvement, $160,000. Improving Sabine-Neches Canal, Texas: For continuing improvementSabine-Neches Canal, Tex. of sections “a” and “c” from Port Arthur Canal to mouth of Necbes River and from mouth of Neches River to Beaumont, $35,000.
Improving Saint Johns River, Florida: For continuing improvementSaint Johns River, Fla. from Jacksonville to the ocean, $350,000. Improving San Pablo Bay, California: For continuing improvementSan Pablo Bay, Cal. of channel through Pinole Shoal, $122,000. Improving Snohomish River, Washington: For continuing improvement,Snohomish River, Wash. $75,000. Improving South Haven Harbor, Michigan: For continuing improvement,South Haven, Mich. $40,000. Improving Willapa, River and Harbor, Washington:
For continuingWillapa River and Harbor, Wash. improvement, $75,000. Improving Winyah Bay, South Carolina: For continuing improvement,Winyah Bay, S. C. in completion of contract authorization, $100,000. Maps, War Department: For publication of engineer maps forMaps. use of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, $5,000. Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For survey ofSurvey of northern and north western lakes. northern and northwestern lakes, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, and issuing charts and bulletins, and of investigating lake, levels, with a view to their regulation, $125,000: *Provided*, That the survey of said northern and*Proviso*.New York canal system included. northwestern lakes be extent ed so as to include the lakes and other natural navigable waters embraced in the navigation system of the “New York canals.” 448 California Debris Commission.Vol. 27. p. 507.California Debris Commission:
For defraying the expenses of the commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, $15,000. New York Harbor.Preventing deposits, etc.Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: Inspectors, etc.For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, office force, and expenses of office, $10,260; Crews, etc.For pay of crews and maintenance of patrol fleet, six steam tugs, and one launch, $75,000;
In all, $85,260. International Waterways Commission.Continued until December 31, 1912.Vol. 82, p.373.International Waterways Commission: For continuing until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twelve, the work of investigation and report by the International Waterways Commission, authorized by section four of the river and harbor Act approved *Proviso*.Report at next session.June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, $10,000: *Provided*, That report as to the progress of the work be made by the American Commissioners to Congress at the beginning of the next session. medical department.Medical Department.
Artificial limbs.Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, $115,000. Surgical appliances.Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliances to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, $2,000. Trusses.R. S., sec. 1176, p. 211Vol. 20, p. 353.Trusses for disabled soldiers: For trusses for persons entitled thereto under section eleven hundred and seventy-six, Revised Statutes of the United States, and the Act of Congress amendatory thereof approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, $5,000.
Providence Hospital, D. C.Destitute patients.Support and medical treatment of destitute patients: For the support and medical treatment of medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon General of the Army, $19,000, one half of which sum snail be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Garfield Hospital, D. C.Garfield Memorial Hospital:
For maintenance, to enable it to Destitute patients.provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, under a contract to be made with the Board of Charities of the District of Columbia, $19,000, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Use of balances for equipping “Willard Memorial Building.”The existing unexpended balance of the appropriation for additional repairs and for furniture and covered way connecting the main building of Garfield Memorial Hospital ’with the new children’s ward is reappropriated and made available for furniture and equipment for the “Henry A.
Willard Memorial Building” of said Garfield Memorial Hospital. Columbia Hospital, D. C.Supervision, etc., of plans for new buildings.*Ante*, p. 172.Columbia Hospital: The preparation of plans and specifications for a new building for Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in-Asylum, for which appropriation was made in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes,” approved June twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and the 449expenditure of said appropriation, shall be under the direction and supervision of the president of the board of directors of Columbia Hospital and of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds. national dome tor disabled volunteer soldiers.National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: For current expenses, namely:Dayton, Ohio.Current expenses. Pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are. hereinafter noted, and their clerks, weighmasters, and orderlies; also payments for chaplains, religious instruction, and entertainment for the members of the home, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, janitors, watchmen, and fire company; for all property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the home; for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and Tor repairs not done by the home; and for stationery, advertising, legal advice, for payments due heirs of deceased members: *Provided*, That all receipts*Proviso*.Effects of deceased members. on account of the effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall also be available for such payments; and for such other expenditures as cannot properly be included under other heads of expenditure, $62,000;
For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks,Subsistence. porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; the cost of all articles purchased for the regular ration, and the subsistence of civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the branch, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; of tobacco; of all dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers’ tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the home, $255,000;
For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers’Household. quarters; for bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and of civilian employees permanently employed and residing at the branch, and for their repair, if thev are not repaired by the home; for fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; for engineers and firemen, bathhouse keepers, janitors, laundry employees, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and for their repairs, unless the repairs are made by the home, $115,000;
For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists.Hospital. hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, drivers, funeral escort, janitors, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; burial of the dead; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other special articles necessary for the wards, for hospital furniture, including special articles and appliances for hospital kitchen and dining room; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the home, $69,640;
For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of theTransportation. home, $1,500; For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths,Repairs. carpenters, painters, gas litters, electrical workers, plumbers, tin-smiths, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, whitewashers, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; 450also for repairs of roads and other improvements of a. permanent *Proviso*.Restriction on new buildings.character, $57,000: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriation for repairs for any of the branch homes shall be used for the construction oi any new building;
Farm.For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers, and for all tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; for grain, hay, and straw, dressing, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; for all animals purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park); for all materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, and park, including cemetery; and Tor construction of roads and walks, and for repairs not done by the home, $24,860;
In all, $585,000. Milwaukee, Wis.Current expenses.Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current exgenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the entral Branch, $46,000; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $137,000; Household,For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $69,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $43,760;
Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $1,200; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $34,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $9,240; New boilers.For two steam boilers, $10,000; In all, $350,200. Togus, Me.Current expenses.Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $48,000;
Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $126,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $78,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $41,800; Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $1,000; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $48,000;
Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under tliis head for the Central Branch, $17,500; In all, $360,300. , Hampton, Va.Current expenses.Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $47,000; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $169,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $73,000;
Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $44,000; Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $1,800; RepairsFor repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $48,000; New boilers.For two additional boilers in power house, $12,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under its head for the Central Branch, $10,000; In all, $404,800, 451 Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas:
For current expenses,Leavenworth, Kans.Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $49,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, $187,000; For household, including the same objects specified under thisHousehold. head for the Central Branch, $86,000: *Provided*, That no part of this*Proviso*.Restriction on fuel oil. sum shall be used for fuel oil if it shall appear to the board of managers that coal as a fuel can be procured and used more economically;
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, $50,000; For transportation of members of the home, $3,000;Transportation, For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head forRepairs. the Central Branch, $45,000. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFann. the Central Branch, $17,360. In all, $437,360. Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For current expenses,Santa Monica, Cal.Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $47,000.
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, $175,000. For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, $63,000. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, $51,740; For transportation of members of the home, $3,000;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headRepairs. for the Central Branch, $48,000;
For elevator in convalescent barracks, $1,000; For sewage disposal plant, $20,000;Sewage plant For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, $12,260; In all, $421,000. Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For current expenses, includingMarion, Ind.Current expenses. the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $43,000; . For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, $123,000;
For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, oil, and water, $43,000; For Hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, $37,820; For transportation of members of the home, $1,000;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under tins head forRepairs. the Central Branch, $30,000;
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, $12,680; In all, $200,500. Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses, includingDanville, Ill.Current expenses. the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $47,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this headSubsistence. for the Central Branch, $170,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, $72,000;
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head forHospital. the Central Branch, $44,000; For transportation of members of the home, $1,800;Transportation. 452 Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $30,000; For connecting corridor between barracks, $2,700; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $11,000; In all. $378,500. Johnson City, Tenn.Current expenses.Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee:
For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $40,000; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $122,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $47,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under the head of Central Branch, $33,000; Transportation.For transportation of member’s of the home, $3,500;
Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $28,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $18,000; In all, $291,500. Hot Springs, S. Dak.Current expenses.Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $24,000; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $38,000;
Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $40,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $33,880; Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $8,000; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $14,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $6,120;
In all, $164,000. Clothing for all branches.For clothing for all of the branches, namely: Expenditures for clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; also all sums expended for labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed, and for use in the tailor shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other home shops in which any Bind of clothing is made or repaired, $250,000. Salaries, etc., Board of Managers.For salaries of officers and employees of the Board of Managers, and for outside relief and incidental expenses, namely:
For president of the Board of Managers, $4,000; secretary of the Board of Managers, $500; general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the Board of Managers, $4,500; inspector general and chief surgeon, $4,000; assistant general treasurer and assistant inspector general, $3,000; assistant inspector general, $3,000; clerical services for the offices of the president, general treasurer and inspector general and chief surgeon, $15,500; clerical services for managers, $4,500; for traveling expenses of the Board of Managers, their officers and employees, including officers of branch homes when detailed on inspection work, $16,000; for outside relief, $500; for rent, legal services, medical examinations, stationer}’, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, $7,000; in all, $62,500.
In all, for National Horae for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $3,995,660. *Proviso*.Intoxicants.*Provided*, That no part of the foregoing appropriations shall be expended for any purpose at any branch of the National Home for 453Disabled Volunteers that maintains or permits to be maintained on its premises a bar, canteen, or other place where beer, wine, or other intoxicating liquors are sold. State or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For continuingState and Territorial homes. aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabledVol. 25, p. 450. volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $1,200,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation*Provisos*. shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial homo that maintainsIntoxicants. a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold: *Provided farther*, That for any sum or sums collected in any manner fromCollections from inmates. inmates of such State or Territorial homes to be used for the support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained. back pat and bounty.Back pay and bounty.
For payment of amounts for arrears of pay of two and three yearPayment of. volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred andVol. 14, p. 322. sixty-six, and for amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners ofCommutation of rations. war in States of the so-called Confederacy, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $200,000.
For payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances onWar with Spain, etc. account of service of officers and men of the Army during the War with Spain and in the Philippine Islands that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, $5,000. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. PUBLIC BUILDINGS.Public buildings.
Repairs of buildings, Interior Department: For repairs of InteriorRepairs to Department buildings. Department and Pension Buildings, and of the old Post Office Department Building, occupied by the Interior Department, including preservation and repair of steam-heating and electric-fighting plants and elevators, $30,000, of which sum not exceeding $7,500 may be expended for day labor, except for work done by contract. Renewal of plumbing and general repairs, Pension Office Building:Pension Office.
For repairing and renewing plumbing and rearranging toilet roomsPlumbing, etc. in the Pension Office Building, and the construction of necessary sewer and connections therefor, $20,000. For the repair of roof and skylights on the Pension Office Building,Roof, etc. $4,000. Improvement of electric-light plant for the Department of InteriorElectric plant Tunnel. buildings: For labor and material required in the construction of a concrete or brick tunnel or conduit to connect the Patent Office and the old Post Office Department Buildings under F Street northwest, between Seventh and Eighth Streets, is hereby authorized, $3,500.
For steel book stacks for scientific library of the Patent Office,Bookstacks, Patent Office. $2,500. Capitol Building: For work at Capitol and for general repairsCapitol.Repairs, etc.*Ante*, p. 399. thereof, including flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Capitol and for Senate and House Office Buildings; flagstaffs, halyards, and tackle, wages of mechanics and laborers; purchase, 454maintenance, and driving of office vehicle, and not exceeding 8100 for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books and city directory, 830,000.
Marble pedestals for statuary.For twenty-two marble pedestals for statuary in the Capitol Building, to replace the temporary wooden pedestals now in use, 83,725. Works of art.For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art in the Capitol, including repairs to frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $1,500. Improving grounds.Improving the Capitol Grounds: For the care and improvement of the grounds surrounding the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, pay of one clerk, mechanics, gardeners, for fertilizers, repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways, $30,000.
Repairs to stable, etc.For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house, and Senate and House stables, and for repairs to and paving of floors and Purchases not restricted to Supply Committee.Vol. 36, p. 531.courtyards of same, including personal services, $1,500; this and the three foregoing sums may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be expended for purchases of articles without reference to section four of the Act approved June seventeen, nineteen hundred and ten, concerning purchases for executive departments.
Enlarging grounds.Vol. 36, p. 733.Enlarging the Capitol Grounds: To continue the acquisition of the land described in the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, and as authorized and prescribed in said Act, for enlarging the Capitol Grounds, $500,000. pension bureau.Pension Office. Temporary extra clerks on service pensions.Three hundred thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to employ, temporarily, extra clerks by the Commissioner of Pensions to aid him in the work incident to the adjudication of pension claims filed under the Act entitled “An Act granting a service *Ante*, p. 112.pension to certain defined veterans of the Civil War and the War with Mexico,” approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and twelve, at Employment of former Government clerks.salaries not to exceed $1,200 each; and in order to facilitate said work the Commissioner of Pensions is authorized to employ clerks heretofore employed in other departments of the Government service, or others who may be sufficiently skilled to do the required work, without complying with the requirements of the civil-service laws: *Proviso*.Further legislation for continuance.*Provided, however*, That none of said extra clerks shall continue in the service beyond the fiscal year of this appropriation without further legislation, or by reason of said employment alone be eligible for transfer to the service in other departments, or be continued longer than may be necessary to do the work hereby provided for. public lands service.Public lands.
Registers and receivers.Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding $3,000 per annum each, $560,000. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the exchange *Provisos*.Per diem.of typewriters, $410,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of per diem, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding four dollars per day, of clerks detailed to examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in the operation of said offices, and in the opening of new land offices and reservations, while on such duty, and for actual necessary traveling Restriction on expenditures.expenses of said clerks, including necessary sleeping-car fares: *Provided further*, That no expenses chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office. 455 To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to temporarilyAdditional clerks la Land Office. employ additional clerks as follows:
Eight clerks, at the rate of $1,200 per annum each; eight clerks, at the rate of $1,000 per annum each; eight copyists, at the rate of $900 per annum each; in all, $21,700, or so much thereof as may be necessary. That the failure of a homestead entryman to give notice of electionHomesteads.Failure to give notice, not to prejudice rights of entry men.*Ante*, p. 123. of making his proof as required by the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, being an Act to amend sections two hundred and ninety-one and two hundred and ninety-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States, relating to homesteads, shall not in anywise prejudice his rights to proceed in accordance with the law under which such entry was made.
Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositingDepositing moneys. money received from the disposal of public lands, by registered mail, bank exchange, or otherwise, as may be directed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under rules to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, $1,000. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlementTimber depredation protecting, and swamp-land claims.*Ante*, p. 399. of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity:
To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, including not exceeding $25,000 for clerical services in bringing up and making current the work of the General Land Office, instead of $250,000 made available for that puipose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, and not exceeding $25,000 additional for expenses of hearings held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, $500,000: *Provided*, That agents and others*Proviso*.Per diem. employed under this appropriation shall be allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding $3 per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, except when agents are employed inAlaska service. the District of Alaska they may be allowed not exceeding $6 per day each, in lieu of subsistence.
Expenses of hearings inland entries: For expenses of hearings orHearings in land entries. other proceedings held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine the character of lands; whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law; and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, $35,000. Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of theReproducing plats of surveys. General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, to furnish local land offices with the same, and for reproducing by photolithography original plats of surveys prepared in the offices of surveyors general, $5,000.
Manual of Surveying Instructions: For continuing the preparationManual of Surveying Instructions.New edition authorized. and publication of a revised edition of the Manual of Surveying Instructions, issued in nineteen hundred and two, for use of surveyors of public lands under the direct system of surveys, the Use of balance.Vol. 36, p. 797.unexpended balance of the appropriation therefor is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen. Restoration of lands in forest reserves:
To enable the Secretary ofNational forests.Advertising restoration of lands, etc. the Interior to meet the expenses of advertising the restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves, or of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest reserve purposes, $20,000. 456 Opening Indian reservations to entry.Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable): To meet the expenses pertaining to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reservation lands as may be opened during the fiscal year nineteen *Proviso*.Reimbursement.hundred and thirteen: *Provided*, That the expenses pertaining to the opening of each of said reservations and paid for out of this appropriation shall be reimbursed to the United States from the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively, $20,000.
California.Examining lieu land selections.Examination of California lieu selection: To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to make field examinations of selected lieu lands in the State of California and to adjudicate the Proviso.Per diem to agents, etc.same in the General Land Office, $28,000: *Provided*, That agents or others employed or detailed under this appropriation shall be allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding $3 per day each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares. surveying the public lands.Surveying.
Expenses.For surveys and resurveys of public lands, under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the *Provisos*.Preferences.Secretary of the Interior, $700,000: *Provided*, That in expending this appropriation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of Vol. 26, p. 616.lands granted to the. States by the Act approved February Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222.twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and to surveying under such other Acts as provide for land grants to the several States and Territories and such indemnity lands as the several States and Territories may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, except railroad land grants and other surveys shall include lands adapted to agriculture and lands deemed advisable to survey on account of availability for irrigation or dry farming, lines of reservations, and lands within Compensation to surveyors.boundaries of forest reservations.
The surveys and resurveys to be made by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, at such compensation not exceeding $200 per month as Supervisors of surveys.he may prescribe, except that the Secretary of the interior may appoint not to exceed two supervisors of surveys whose compensation shall not exceed $250 per month each, and except in the District of Alaska, where a compensation not exceeding $10 per day may be allowed such surveyors and such per diem allowance, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $3, as he may prescribe, and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car faros, Clerks, etc., inspecting.said per diem and traveling expenses to be allowed to all surveyors employed hereunder and to such clerks who are competent surveyors who may be detailed to make surveys, resuryeys, or examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, Mineral, coal, and timber lands.and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making, by such competent surveyors, fragmentary surveys, examination of unaccepted contract surveys heretofore made and such Resurveys.other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of hinds for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf Monuments for section comers.of the United States: *Provided further*, That the sum of not exceeding ten per centum of the amount hereby appropriated may be expended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval or the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal or other equally durable monuments to be used for public-land survey corners wherever practicable. 457 For temporary employment of clerks for the purpose of bringing upTemporary clerks on returns of surveys. arrears of work upon the returns of surveys in the General Land Office:
Four clerks, at the rate of S$1,200 per annum each; three clerks, at the rate of $1,000 per annum each; two copyists, at the rate of $900 per annum each; four copyists, at the rate of $720 per annum each; in all, $10,920, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Completing field notes of surveys in Minnesota and North. Dakota:Minnesota and North Dakota, completing field notes. To complete the drafting and field-note writing pertaining to the surveys in the States of Minnesota and North Dakota caused by the discontinuance of the offices of the surveyors general in those States, $2,920.
For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandonedAbandoned military reservations. military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved JulyVol. 23, p. 103. fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, $10,000.Casa Grande. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed, at theHot Springs, Ark.Surveys, etc., of sewer system. earliest practicable date, to make a survey of the sewer system of the city of Hot Springs, abutting the Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas, and to prepare plans and estimate of the cost of increasing the present storm drainage system as well as the present sanitary sewer system of the city of Hot Springs, the report of survey, including estimate of cost of the work, to be submitted to Congress as soon as practicable after the first day of December, nineteen hundred and twelve.
TheContribution by Hot Springs. expenses incurred hereunder shall not exceed $10,000; one-half of such expenses shall be paid out of the revenues derived from privileges and otherwise on the Hot Springs Reservation, and the other half shall be paid by the city of Hot. Springs, Arkansas. united states geological survey.Geological Survey. Office of the Director of the Geological Survey: For director,Salaries.Director, etc. $6,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chief disbursing clerk, $2,500; librarian, $2,000; photographer, $2,000 ; assistant photographers—one at $900, one at $720; clerks—one of class two, three, of class one, one at $1,000, four at $900 each; four copyists, at $720 each; watchmen— one at $840, four at $720 each; janitor, $600; four messenger boys, at $480 each; in all, $35,340;
Scientific assistants of the Geological Survey: For geologists—twoScientific assistants. at $4,000 each, one at $3,000, one at $2,700; two paleontologists, at $2,000 each; one chemist, $3,000; geographers—one at $2,700, one at $2,500; two topographers, at $2,000 each; in all, $29,900; General expenses of the Geological Survey: For every expenditureExpenses.*Ante*, p.399. requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Geological Survey, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, to be expended under the regulations from time to time C rescribed by the Secret ary of the Interior, ami under the following eads, namely:
For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees,Skilled laborers, etc. $20,000; For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States,Topographic Surveys. $350,000; For geologic, surveys in the various portions of the United States,Geologic surveys. $300,000; For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources ofAlaska mineral resources. Alaska, $90,000; . For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of theChemical and physical researches.
United States, including researches with a view of determining geological conditions favorable to the presence of deposits of potash salts, $40,000; 458 Illustrations.For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, $18,280; Mineral resources report.For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the United States, $75,000; Water supply.For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of the United States, and for the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, $150,000;
Books, etc.For the purchase, of necessary books for the library, including directories and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, including payment in advance for subscriptions to publications, $2,000; Maps.For engraving and printing the geologic maps, $110,000; National forest surveys.For continuation of the topographic surveys of the public lands that have been or may hereafter be designated as national forests, $75,000; In all, for the United States Geological Survey, $1,295,520. bureau of mikes.Bureau of Mines.
Salaries and general expenses.*Ante*, p. 399.For the general expenses of the Bureau of Mines, including the pay of the director and the necessary assistants, clerks, and other employees in the office at Washington, District of Columbia, and in the field, and for every other expense requisite for and incident to the general work of the Bureau of Mines in Washington, District of Columbia, and in the field, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $66,100;
Investigating mine explosions.For the investigation as to the causes of mine explosions, methods of mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, the appliances best adapted to prevent accidents, the possible improvement of conditions under which mining operations are carried on, the use of explosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents and other inquiries and technologic investigations pertinent to the mining industry, $320,000; Testing fuels.For the analyzing and testing of the coals, lignites, ores, and other mineral fuel substances belonging to or for the use of the United States, including personal services in the Bureau of Mines at Washington, District of Columbia, not in excess of the number and total compensation of those so employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $135,000;
Inquiries relating to safety, etc.For inquiries and investigations into the mining and treatment of ores and other mineral substances, with special reference to safety *Proviso*.Restrictions.and waste, $50,000: *Provided*, That no part thereof may be used for investigation in behalf of any private party, nor shall any part thereof be used for work authorized or required by law to be done by any other branch of the public service. Mine inspector, Alaska.For one mine inspector for duty in Alaska, $3,000;
For per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence at a rate not exceeding $5 per day when absent on official business from his designated headquarters, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said inspector, including necessary sleeping-car fares, $3,500; Books, etc.For technical and scientific books and publications and books of reference, $1,500; Headquarters for mine rescue ears.For the purchase or lease of the necessary land, where and under such conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, for the headquarters of five mine-rescue cars and for the construction of the *Proviso*.Acceptance of lands.necessary railway sidings on the same, $4,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to accept any suitable land or lands that may be donated for said purpose.
In all, for the Bureau of Mines, $583,100. 459 miscellaneous objects, department of the interior.Miscellaneous. Expenses of testimony in disbarment proceedings: For actual andDisbarment proceedings, expenses. necessary expenses to enable the Secretary of the Interior to take testimony, and prepare the same, in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the Department of the Interior, its bureaus and offices, $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Care and custody of the insane of Alaska: For the care and custodyAlaska.Care of insane. of persons legally adjudged insane in the district of Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, $60,000. Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior inEducation of natives. his discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; for erection, repair, and rental of school buildings; for text-books and industrial apparatus; for pay and necessary traveling expenses of general agent, assistant agent, superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, $200,000; so much of which sum as may be necessary for the purchase of supplies shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Limit of pay, etc. no person employed hereunder as special agent or inspector, or to perform any special or unusual duty in connection herewith, shall receive as compensation exceeding $200 per month, in addition to actual traveling expenses and per diem not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence, when absent on duty from his designated and actual post, of duty: *Provided*, That of the sum hereby appropriated notServices in District. exceeding $7,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
All expenditures of money appropriated herein for school purposesSupervision of expenditures. in Alaska shall be under the supervision and direction of the Com-missioner of Education and in conformity with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to conduct and methods of instruction and expenditure of money as may from time to time be recommended by him and approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Reindeer for Alaska: For the support of reindeer stations in Alaska,Reindeer. and for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of the reindeer, $5,000.
Protection of game in Alaska: For carrying out the provisions ofProtection of game.Vol. 36, p. 102. an Act approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act tor the protection of game in Alaska, and for other purposes,” including salaries, traveling expenses of game wardens, and all other necessary expenses, $15,000, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska. For the suppression of the traffic hi intoxicating liquors among theSuppressing liquor traffic. natives of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $12,000.
Lease of property at Hot Springs, Arkansas: The Secretary of theHot Springs, Ark.Lease of Arlington Hotel authorized. Interior is hereby authorized to lease certain premises fronting on Central Avenue and on Fountain Street, now occupied by the buildings of the Arlington Hotel Company, at Hot Springs, Arkansas, on such terms and conditions as he may determine. No lease madeTerm. hereunder shall be for a longer period than twenty years. In caseValuation of improvements if to new lessee. said premises shall be leased to another lessee than the Arlington Hotel Company the provision of the lease ending March third, nineteen hundred and twelve, for a valuation of and payment for the improvements made by the Arlington Hotel Company shall be recognized by said Secretary; but he shall have the power to fix a time within which such valuation must, be made, and if such valuation is not made within the time so fixed said Secretary may lease the premises free from all claim of said Arlington Hotel Company. 460 Yellowstone Park.Yellowstone National Park:
For the administration and protection of the Yellowstone National Park, $5,500. Limit on cost of buildings in national parks.No expenditure for construction of administration or other buildings cost-in case of any building exceeding one thousand dollars shall hereafter be made in any national park except under express *Proviso*.Exception.authority of Congress: *Provided*, That this shall not apply to buildings now in the process of actual construction. Care of buffalo.For procuring feed for buffalo, salaries of buffalo keepers, $3,000.
Yosemite Park.Yosemite National Park, California: For protection and improvement of the Yosemite National Park and the construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads other than toll roads, $80,000. Examination of San Francisco water supply.Balance reappropriated to continue work.Vol. 36, p. 745.So much of the appropriation of twelve thousand dollars made in the sundry civil act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, to enable the Secretary of the Interior to examine into the data required to be submitted by the city of San Francisco with reference to a water supply for that city from Lake Eleanor and adjacent watersheds partially within the Yosemite Park, or from any other available sources of water supply, and to collect such independent data and information as may be necessary in the premises, including all incidental expenses of the officers of the Engineer Corps of the United States Army detailed by the Secretary of War as an advisory board to the Secretary of the Interior in connection therewith, as remains unexpended on the thirtieth day of June, nineteen hundred and twelve, is hereby reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen to enable the Secretary of the Interior to continue such work during that period.
Sequoia Park.Sequoia National Park, California: For the protection and improvement of the Sequoia National Park and the construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads other than toll roads, $15,550. General Grant Park.General Grant National Park, California: For protection and improvement of the General Grant National Park, construction of fences and trails, and repairing and extension of roads, $2,000. Crater Lake Park.Crater Lake National Park, Oregon:
For protection and improvement of the Crater Lake National Park and repairing and extension of roads, $3,000. Mesa Verde Park. Lands included.Vol. 31, p. 616.Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For protection and improvement of Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado, including the lands within five miles of the boundaries of said reservation, which, under the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, are to be administered by the same service established for the custodianship of the park, $15,000.
Mount Rainier Park.Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For protection and improvement of Mount Rainier National Park, construction of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads, $20,000. Glacier Park.Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration and improvement of Glacier National Park, the construction of roads, bridges, telephone fines, and the repair of roads, trails, bridges, $75,000. Platt Park.Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For maintenance, bridging, roads, and trails, under direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $8,000. government hospital for the insane.Government Hospital for Insane.
Maintenance, etc.For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps, Revenue-Cutter Service, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have 461become insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the United States who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary horses and vehicles and of horses and vehicles for official use of the superintendent, $314,400; and not exceeding $1,500 of this sum may be expended in defraying the expense of the removal of patients to their friends; not exceeding $1,000 may be expended in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital and for the medical library, and not exceeding $1,500 for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients.
Hereafter in determining the per capita cost of maintenance andDetermining per capita coat of patients. treatment of patients in the Government Hospital for the Insane the expenditures for repair of buildings, roadways, and walks shall be included. To reimburse the United States the amount due on account of one-halfDistrict of Columbia.Transfer from revenues to reimburse cost of excess indigent patients.*Post*, p. 969. of the per capita cost of maintenance of indigent patients in the Government Hospital for the Insane from the District of Columbia in excess of the number charged to and paid for by said District during the fiscal years eighteen hundred and eighty-one to nineteen hundred and eleven, inclusive, there shall be transferred from the revenues of the District of Columbia to the United States, beginning with the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, the sum of $769,536.09, which amounts so transferred shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.
For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital forBuildings and grounds. the Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, $55,000. For roadways, grading, and walks, $5,000. For the construction and equipment of five tubercular cottages, toTubercular cottages. accommodate twenty patients each, with concrete foundation, out-side finish of stucco, on wooden studs, inside plastered, including furniture for the same, $20,000. columbia institution for the deaf.Columbia Institution for the Deaf.
For support of the institution, including salaries and incidentalSupport, etc. expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, $66,500. For repairs to the buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, $5,000. howard university.Howard University. For maintenance of the Howard University, to be used in paymentMaintenance, etc. of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and’ other regular employees of the university, and for ice and stationery, the biuanco of which shall be paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than $1,500 shall be used for normal instruction, $60,000;
For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the department of manual arts, $12,000; For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures, for the libraries, $1,500; For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, $6,000; Medical department: To meet in part cost of needed equipment,Medical department. laboratory supplies, and apparatus, and repair of laboratories and buildings, $7,000; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, ami natural-history studies, and use in laboratories of the new Science Hall, including cases and shelving, $2,000; 462 For fuel and light, in part payment for fuel and light, Freedmen’s Hospital and Howard University, including necessary labor to care for and operate the same, $3,500;
Conduit from hospital power plant.Authority is hereby granted to Howard University to construct, under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior and without expense to the Government, a tunnel or conduit under W Street, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, from square three thousand and sixty-seven to square three thousand and seventy-three, in order to connect the buildings of Howard University, located on the latter block, with the power, heating, and lighting plant of Freedmen’s Hospital.
In all, $92,000. freedmen’s hospital.Freedmen’s Hospital. Salaries, etc.For salaries and compensation of the surgeon in chief, not to exceed three thousand dollars, and for all other professional and other services that may be required and expressly approved by the Secretary of the Interior; in all, $32,040. A detailed statement of the expenditure of this sum shall be submitted to Congress; For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $26,000;
Nurses’ home.Vol. 36, p. 1428.For furniture and furnishings, including awnings and screens, and other necessary articles, for the proper equipment of the nurses’ home, authorized by sundry civil Act approved March fourth, nine-teen hundred and eleven, $6,000; In all, $64,040. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. public buildings.Public buildings. Courthouse, D. C.Repairs.Courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia: For construction work at the courthouse and repairs thereof, as per estimate of the Superintendent of the Capitol, $5,000.
Court of Claims.Court of Claims Building: For emergency repairs, $600. Leavenworth, Kans.Penitentiary.Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: For continuing construction of the new United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $100,000, to be available immediately and to remain available until expended, all of which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary. Atlanta, Ga.Penitentiary.Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia:
For continuing the construction of the United States Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, $75,000, to be available immediately and to remain available until expended, all of which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary. National Training School for Boys, D. C.National Training School for Boys: For the continuation of the central school building, gymnasium, and baths, $15,000. miscellaneous objects, department of justice.Miscellaneous.
Specified appropriations not to be used for paying persons holding other offices, or employed within preceding year.That no part of any appropriation made under this Act for the following purposes, namely, conduct of customs cases; defending suits and claims against the United States; detection and prosecution of crime; defense in Indian depredation claims; enforcement of antitrust laws; suits to set aside conveyances of allotted lands, Five Civilized Tribes; enforcement of acts to regulate commerce; for payment of assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases; and for payment of such miscellaneous expenditures as may 463be authorized by the Attorney General for the United States courts and their officers; shall be used for the payment of any salary, fee, compensation, or allowance in any form whatever to any person who holds any other office, place, position, or appointment under the United States Government, or any department thereof, or to anyone hereafter appointed, designated, or employed, who within one year next preceding the date of his appointment, designation, or employment has held any other office, place, position, or appointment under the United States Government or any department thereof: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Not applicable unless service formerly rendered thereon.
That this inhibition shall not apply except in cases where the persons appointed, designated, employed, or paid shall have previously rendered service in connection with the same subject matter: *And provided further*, That nothing in the foregoing provision shall Details allowed if Compensation not increased.prevent or authorize a person who holds an office, place, position, or appointment under the United States Government, or any department thereof, from being detailed to other work faffing under the appropriations for the purpose hereinbefore named, and from being paid out of said appropriations, the amount of the payments not to exceed the amount of compensation which said person would have received from his regular-office, place, position, or appointment, together with his expenses incident to the temporary detail.
Conduct of customs cases: For Assistant Attorney General, $8,000;Conductor customs cases.Assistant Attorney General. Deputy, attorneys, etc. Deputy Assistant Attorney General, $7,500; one assistant attorney, $5,000; one assistant attorney, $4,500; one assistant attorney, $3,000; special attorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs cases, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General, as authorized by section thirty of the Act of August fifth,Vol. 36, p. 108. nineteen hundred and nine, $35,000; necessary clerical assistance and other employees at the seat of government and elsewhere, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General; supplies, printing, traveling, and other miscellaneous and incidental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $24,500; in all, $87,500.
For traveling expenses, fees, and mileage allowance of witnessesWitnesses, Board of General Appraisers. before the Board or United States General Appraisers, $5,000, which sum shall be paid from the permanent annual appropriations for expenses of collecting the revenue from customs. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For defrayingDefending suite in claims. the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and such other expenditures as may be necessary in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including defense for the United States in the matter of French spoliation claims, not exceeding $500 of which may be expended for law books, to lx; expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $15,000.
Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecutionProsecution of crimes. of crimes against the United States; the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks, and referees of the United States courts and the Territorial courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time; for the protection of the person of the President of the United States; for such other investigations regarding official matters under the control of the Department of Justice as may be directed by the Attorney General, including not to exceed $10,000 for necessary employees at the seat of government, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $400,000. 464 Inspection of prisons, etc.Inspection of prisons and prisoners:
For the inspection of United States prisons and prisoners, and for the collection, classification, and preservation of criminal identification records, and their exchange with the officials of State and other institutions, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $10,000. Investigating frauds, etc.Investigation and prosecution of frauds: To defray the expenses of the investigation and prosecution of frauds upon the revenues and other frauds upon the United States, $5,000.
Defense in Indian depredation claims.Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and expenses in defense of the Indian depredation claims, including not exceeding six thousand dollars for salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $21,000. Traveling, etc., expenses.Advances permitted.Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, including advances made by the disbursing clerk, authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, t he provisions of the first [R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).paragraph of section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, $10,000. Enforcing antitrust lawn.Enforcement of antitrust laws: For the enforcement of antitrust laws, including not exceeding $10,000 for salaries of necessary employees at the seat of government, $200,000. Conveyances of allotted lands.Expenses of suits to set aside.Suits to set aside conveyances of allotted lands, Five Civilized Tribes:
For the payment of necessary expenses incident to any suits brought at the request of the Secretary of the Interior in the eastern judicial district of Oklahoma, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $20,000, together with the unexpended balance *Proviso*.Appeals to Supreme Court.of the appropriations heretofore made for this purpose: *Provided*, That not to exceed $10,000 of said sum shall be available for the expenses of the United States on appeals to the Supreme Court of the United States.
Enforcing acts to regulate commerce.Vol. 24, p. 379; Vol. 36, p. 539.Enforcement of Acts to regulate commerce: For expenses of representing the Government in all matters arising under the Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended, including traveling expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, including salaries of employees at Washington, $10,000. Seminole allotments.Expenses of suits affecting titles.Suits affecting title to Seminole allotted lands in Oklahoma:
For the payment of necessaiy expense incident to any suits brought, including the salaries of attorneys specially employed to set aside illegal conveyances of Seminole allotments, to protect the possession of Seminole allottees in their allotted lands, or in the prosecution of any criminal proceedings based on frauds perpetrated upon Seminole allottees with respect to their allotted lands, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney Genera], $15,000. Judicial Code.Indexing, etc.For indexing and annotating the “Judicial Code,” $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the work to be done under the direction of the Judiciary Committee of the Senate.
Federal Court Reports and Digests.Federal Court, Reports and Digests: To pay the publishers of the Federal Reporter for the estimated continuations for the fiscal year commencing July first, nineteen hundred and twelve, $2,860. Lawyers’ Cooperative Edition.Volume 56.For fifteen copies of volume fifty-six of the Lawyers’ Cooperative Edition, at $5 per volume, in addition to the distribution made by the Interior Department, $75. Equity Rules.Expenses of revising by Supreme Court.For defraying the necessary expenses incurred and to be incurred for stenographic services, printing, and expert assistance for the Supreme Court of the United States in revising the Equity Rules, $7,500, to be disbursed by the marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States on the order of the Chief Justice of the United States, 465 notwithstanding section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the[R.
S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314).Vol. 18, p. 109. Revised Statutes, or section three of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. Protecting interests of United States in suits affecting Pacific rail-roads:Pacific Railroad suits.Expenses. To enable the Attorney General to represent and protect the interests of the United States in matters and suits affecting the Pacific railroads, and for expenses in connection therewith, $10,000. JUDICIAL.Judicial. united states courts.United States courts.
For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United StatesMarshals, salaries, etc. marshals and their deputies, including the office expenses of United States marshals in the District of Alaska, 31,400,000, to include payment for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, and including services in Alaska and Oklahoma in collecting evidence for the United States when so specially directed by the Attorney General. Advances to United States marshals, in accordanceAdvances. with existing law, may be made from the proper appropriations, as herein provided, immediately upon the passage of this Act; butRestriction. no disbursement shall be made prior to July first, nineteen hundred and twelve, by said disbursing officers from the funds thus advanced, and no disbursements shall be made therefrom to liquidate expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve or prior years.
For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses ofDistrict attorneys.Salaries. United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, 3550,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for*Proviso*.Services during vacancies. the payment of the salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney.
For fees of United States district attorney for the District ofDistrict of Columbia.Fees, district attorney.Regular assistants. Columbia, $28,940. For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys, who are appointed by the Attorney General, at a fixed annual compensation, $325,000. For payment of assistants to the Attorney General and to UnitedAssistants in special cases. States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, $200,000.
This appropriation shall be available alsoForeign counsel. for the payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General in special cases, and such counsel shall not be required to take oathOath.[R. S., sec. 366, p. 62](/us/rs/s366/p62). of office in accordance with section three hundred and sixty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States. For fees of clerks, $300,000. On and after July first, nineteen hundred and twelve, the clerk ofPay of clerk, Illinois northern district.Vol. 28, p. 204. the District Court for the Northern District of Illinois shall be compensated for his services as such clerk as other clerks of United States district courts are compensated.
For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peaceCommissioners, etc., fees. acting under section one thousand and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, $11.5,000. For fees of jurors, $1,125,000.Jurors’ fees. Fees of witnesses, United States courts: For fees of witnesses andWitness fees. etc.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160). for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, $1,000,000.
For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers,Rent of court rooms. $50,000. 466 Bailiff^ etc.For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York and *Provisos*.Actual attendance.[R. S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/s715/p136).the northern district of Illinois: *Provided*, That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the Restriction.order of the courts: *Provided further*, That no such persons shall be employed during vacation; for the payment of the expenses of circuit Traveling, etc,, expenses of judges.and district judges of the United States and the judges of the district Vol. 36, p. 1161.courts of the United States in Alaska and Hawaii, as provided by section two hundred and fifty-nine of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and Jury expenses.amend the laws relating to the judiciary”; of meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the In Alaska.Vol. 31, p. 362.same, when ordered by the court, and of meals and lodging for jurors in Alaska, as provided by section one hundred and ninety-three, Title II, of the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred; and of Jury commissioners.compensation for jury commissioners, $5 per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, $275,000.
Miscellaneous expenses.For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General, for the United States courts and their *Proviso*.Alaska.officers, $490,000: *Provided*, That in so far as it may be deemed necessary by the Attorney General, this appropriation shall be available for such expenses in the District of Alaska. Supplies.For supplies, including exchange of typewriting and adding machines for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $35,000.
Support of prisoners.For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, as well before as after conviction, and continuing insane after expiration of sentence, who have no friends to whom they can be sent; for expenses of shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their homes in the United States; for the expense of care and medical treatment of guards employed by the United States who may be injured by prisoners while said guards are endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppressing mutiny; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, and not exceeding $10,000 for repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, $500,000.
Leavenworth, Kans.Penitentiary.For the support of the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, as follows: Subsistence.For subsistence, including supplies for prisoners, warden, deputy warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining room furniture and utensils, and for farm and garden seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, $40,000; Clothing, transportation, etc.For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including such clothing as can be made at the penitentiary; for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, provided that such gratuities shall be furnished to prisoners sentenced for terms of imprisonment of not less than six months, and including transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the Doited States; for expenses of shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their homes in the United States; for expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on duty; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, $25,000;
Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney General, including fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, purchase of fuel for generating steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and 467lime; forage for issue to public animals, and hay and straw for bedding; blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; for labor and materials for repairing steam-heating plant, electric plant and water circulation, and drainage; for labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings; for general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables, policing buddings and grounds; for the purchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; for payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; for advertising in newspapers; for fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental conditions of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; for pay of extra guards or employees when deemed necessary by the Attorney General, and for expense of care and medical treatment of guards who may be injured by prisoners while said guards are endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppressing mutiny, $40,000;
For hospital supplies, including purchase of medicines, medical andHospital supplies. surgical supplies, and all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners, $2,500; For salaries, including pay of officials ami employees, as follows; Salaries.Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplain, $1,500; chaplain, $600; physician, $1,600; chief clerk, $1,800; bookkeeper and record clerk, $1,200;stenographer, $900; four clerks, at $900 each; head cook, $1,000; steward and storekeeper, $1,200; superintendent of farm and transportation, $900; three captains of watch, at $1,000 each; guards, at $70 per month each, $52,080; two teamsters, at $600 each; engineer and electrician, $1,500; assistant engineer and electrician, $1,200; in all, $79,280;
For foremen, laundryman, tailor, and printer, when necessary, $3,300; In all, for penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $190,080. For support of the United States Penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia,Atlanta, Ga.Penitentiary. as follows: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $30,000; For clothing and transportation, including the same objects specifiedClothing, transport tattoo, etc. under this head for the United States Penitentiary at Leaven-worth, Kansas, $20,000.
For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the AttorneyMiscellaneous, General, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $25,000; For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified underHospital supplies. this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $2,500; For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows:Salaries. Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplain, $1,500; chaplain, $1,200; chief clerk, $1,800; physician, $1,600; bookkeeper and record clerk, $1,200; stenographer, $900; six clerics, at $900 each; telephone operator, $480; engineer and electrician, $1,500; assistant engineer and electrician, $1,200; three captains of watch, at $1,000 each; steward and storekeeper, $1,200; superintendent of farm and transportation, $900; two teamsters, at $600 each; head cook, $1,000; guards, at $70 per month each, $43,000; in all, $73,080 ; 468 For foremen, tailor, blacksmith, shoemaker, laundryman, and carpenter, when necessary, $4,000;
In all, for penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, $154,580. McNeil Island, Wash.Penitentiary.Subsistence.For support of the United States Penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington, as follows: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States Penitentiary at Leaven-worth, Kansas, and for supplies for guards, $12,000; Clothing, transportation, etc.For clothing and transportation, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States Penitentiary at Leaven-worth, Kansas, $6,000.
Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and for such other purposes as may be directly ordered and approved by the Attorney General, $10,000; Hospital supplies.For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $1,000; Salaries.For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows:
For warden, $2,000; deputy warden, $1,200; physician, $1,200; steward and cook, $1,000; superintendent of boats, $1,200; guards, at $70 per month each, $10,500; in all, $17,100. In all, for penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, $46,100. National Training School for Boys, D. C.Salaries.For support of the National Training School for Boys, District of Columbia: For superintendent, $2,500; assistant superintendent, $1,500; teachers and assistant teachers, $9,120; chief clerk, $1,000; storekeeper and steward, $600; matron of school , $600; parole officer, $900; office clerk, $720; assistant office clerk, $480; six matrons of families, at $240 each; foremen of and skilled helpers in industries, $3,800; farmer, $600; assistant farmer, $420; teamster, $360; florist, engineer, and shoemaker, at $540 each; baker, and tailor, at $600 each; cook, $480; assistant engineer, $420; laundress, $360; dining-room attendant, boys, $300; dining-room attendant, officers, $240; housemaid, $216; seamstress, $240; assistant cook, $300; nurse, $600; watchmen, not to exceed eight in number, $2,880; secretary and treasurer to board of trustees, $900; in all, $33,796.
Maintenance.For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dry goods, leather, shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, furniture, tableware, farm implements, seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books and periodicals, printing, and entertainments, stationery, plumbing, painting, glazing, medicines and medical attendance, stock, vehicles, fencing, repairs to buildings, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding $1,500, for additional labor or services, for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates, and for rewards for their recapture, and not exceeding $500 for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, $10,500.
Repairs.For extraordinary repairs to buildings, fences, and roadways, and for purchase of equipment, $2,000; Furniture.For furniture, $3,000; In all, for National Training School for Boys, $49,296. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.Department of Commerce and Labor, lighthouses, beacons, and fog signals.Lighthouses, etc, Light vessel for general service.Light vessel, general service: For constructing and equipping one light vessel for general service, $130,000; Point Loma, Cal.Fog signal, etc.Point Loma Light Station, California:
Numbered six. For establishing a fog signal and additional quarters at Point Loma Light Station, San Diego, California, $17,500. 469 lighthouse service.Lighthouse Service. General expenses, Lighthouse Service: For supplies, repairs, maintenance,General expenses.*Ante*, p. 411. and incidental expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoyage, fog signals, lighting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted, light vessels, other aids to navigation, and lighthouse tenders, including the establishment, repair, and improvement of beacons and day marks and purchase of land for same, the establishment of post lights, buoys submarine signals, and fog signals, the establishment of oil or carbide houses, not to exceed $10,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Limit for oil and carbide bouses.
That no oil or carbide house erected hereunder shall exceed $550 in cost; the construction of necessary outbuildings at a cost not exceeding $200 at any one light station in any fiscal year, the improvements of grounds and buildings connected with light stations and depots, wages of laborers attending post lights, pay of temporary employees while engaged on works of general repair and maintenance, rations and provisions or commutation thereof for keepers of lighthouses,Rations, etc. officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials and other authorized persons of the Lighthouse Service on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, and money accruing from commutation for rations and provisions for the above-named persons on board of tenders and fight vessels may be paid on proper vouchers to the person having charge of the mess of such vessels, reimbursement under rules described by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor of keepers of eight stations and masters of fight vessels and of lighthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothing furnished shipwrecked persons who may be temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all $5,000 in any fiscal year, fuel and rent of quarters where necessary for keepers of lighthouses, the purchase of land sites for fog signals,Purchase of sites, etc. the rent of necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or to mark changeable channels and which in consequence cannot be made permanent, the rent of offices, depots, andContingent expenses. wharves, traveling expenses and mileage, library books for light stations and vessels, and technical books and periodicals not exceeding $1,000, and for all other contingent expenses of district offices and depots, and for contingent expenses of the office of the Bureau of Light-houses in Washington, $2,609,400.
Salaries of keepers of lighthouses: For salaries of not exceeding oneKeepers’ salaries. thousand seven hundred and fifty lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights exclusive of post fights, $930,000. Salaries, lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers andLighthouse vessels.Salaries. crews of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $957,420. Salaries, Lighthouse Service: For salaries of seventeen lighthouseInspectors, etc. inspectors and of clerks and other authorized permanent employees in the district offices and depots of the Lighthouse Service, exclusive of those regularly employed in the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses, Washington, District of Columbia, $475,960. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey.
For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of theExpenses.*Ante*, p. 411. Coast and Geodetic Survey, and including compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, and commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate not exceeding $2.50 per day each, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, and under the following heads: *Provided*, That advances of money*Proviso*.Advances. under this appropriation may be made to the Coast and Geodetic 470Survey and by authority of the superintendent thereof to chiefs of parties, who shall give bond under such rules and regulations and in such sum as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may direct, and accounts arising under such advances shall be rendered through and by the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the Treasury Department as under advances heretofore made to chiefs of parties.
Field expenses.Atlantic and Gulf coasts.*Proviso*.Island limitation.Field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States: *Provided*, That not more than $25,000 of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of said outlying islands, 565,000; Pacific coasts.For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts on the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, $165,000;
Physical hydrography.For continuing researches in physical hydrography relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, $6,400; Coast Pilot, etc.For offshore soundings and examination of reported dangers on the coasts of the United States, and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations, and including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, $15,000;
Magnetic observations, etc.For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States, and for making magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the purchase of additional magnetic instruments, and the lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic buildings; for continuing the line of exact Points to State surveys.levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; for furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied as far as practicable in States where points have not been furnished; for determinations of geographical positions, and for continuing gravity observations, $50,000;
Special surveys.For any special surveys that may be required by the Bureau of Lighthouses or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, including expenses of surveys in aid of the shellfish commission of the State of Maryland, $10,000; Miscellaneous.For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, including the preparation or purchase of preliminary plans and specifications of vessels and the actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the superintendent, and for the expenses of the International Geodetic Association.attendance of the American delegates at the meetings of the International Geodetic Association, not to exceed $550, $3,000;
In all, for field expenses, $314,400. Vessels.Repairs, etc.Repairs and maintenance of vessels; For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including the traveling expenses of the person inspecting the repairs, $40,000. “Pathfinder”Repair of steamer Pathfinder: For extraordinary repairs to the steamer Pathfinder, to be available until expended, $20,000. Pay, etc.Officers and men, vessels, Coast and Geodetic Survey: For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including professional seamen serving as executive officers and mates on vessels of the survey , to execute the work of the survey herein provided for and authorized by law, $245,000.
Salaries.Superintendent.Assistants.Salaries, Coast and Geodetic Survey: For superintendent, $6,000; For pay of assistants, to be employed in the field or office, as the superintendent may direct, one or whom may be designated by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to act as assistant superintendent: 471Two, at $4,000 each; one, $3,200; five, at $3,000 each; five, at $2,500 each; one, $2,400; eight, at $2,200 each; eight, at $2,000 each; eight, at $1,800 each; eight, at $1,600 each; eight, at $1,400 each; ten, at $1,200 each; six aids, at $1,100 each; eighteen aids, at $1,000 each; five aids, at $900 each; in all, salaries, $160,200.
Pay of office force, namely: For disbursing agent, $2,500; chief ofOffice force.Clerks. division of library and archives, $1,800; clerks—two, at $1,800 each; three, at $1,650 each; four, at $1,400 each; eight, at $1,200 each; five at $1,000 each; ten, at $900 each; six, at $720 each; For topographic and hydrographic draftsmen, namely: One, $2,400;Draftsmen. one, $2,200; three, at $2,000 each; three, at $1,800 each; three, at $1,600 each; three, at $1,400 each; three, at $1,200 each; five, at $1,000 each;
For astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers,Computers. namely: One, $2,500; one, $2,200; two, at $2,100 each; three, at 81,800 each; three, at $1,600 each; four, at $1,400 each; five, at $1,200 each; For copperplate engravers, namely: One, $2,400; two, at $2,200Engravers. each; three, at $2,000 each; three, at $1,800 each; two, at $1,600 each; two at $1,400 each; two, at $1,200 each; two, at $1,000 each. For engravers and apprentices, at not exceeding $1,000 each, $3,600;
For electrotypers and photographers, plate printers and theirElectrotypers, etc. helpers, instrument makers, carpenters, engineer, and other skilled laborers, namely: One, $2,400; one, $2,000; two, at $1,600 each; eleven, at $1,200 each; five, at $1,000 each; three, at $900 each; one, at $600; seven, at $700 each; For watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers, namely: Three,Watchmen, etc. at $880 each; four, at $820 each; three, at $720 each; four, at $700 each; two, at $640 each; three, at $630 each; four, at $550 each; in all, pay of office force, $193,120.
Office expenses: For the purchase of new instruments, includingOffice expenses. their exchange, for materials and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and for books, scientific and technical books and journals and books of reference, maps, charts, and subscriptions; for copperplates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals, for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; and for pnotolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use, and for the employment of expert lithographers in the office at an expenditure not exceeding $3,500; for stationery for the office and field parties, transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses, office wagon and horses, heating, lighting, and power, telephones, including the operation of switchboard, telegrams, ice, and washing, office furniture, repairs, traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, and not exceeding for extra labor, $3,400; in all, $50,000.
That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast andAllowances restricted. Geodetic Survey shall be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the superintendent), except as now provided by law. bureau of fisheries.Bureau of Fisheries. Office of commissioner: For commissioner, $6,000; deputy commissioner,Salaries.Commissioner, etc. $3,500; chief clerk, $2,400; accountant, $2,100; librarian, $1,200; one clerk of class four; three clerks of class three; clerk to 472commissioner, $1,600; one clerk of class one; one clerk, $1,000; ten clerics, at $900 each; engineer, $1,080; three firemen, at $720 each; two watchmen, at $720 each; five janitors and messengers, at $S720 each; janitress, $480; messenger boy, $360; four charwomen, at S240 each; in all, $44,680.
Architect and engineer, etc.Office of architect and engineer: Architect and engineer, $2,200; assistant architect, $1,600; draftsman, $1,200; in all, $5,000. Division of Fish Culture.Office.Division of Fish Culture—Office: Assistant in charge, $2,700; superintendent of car and messenger service, $1,600; one clerk of class three; two clerks of class two; two clerks of class one; clerk, $900; in all, $12,000. Station employees.Central station.Division of Fish Culture—Station employees:
Central Station and Aquaria, Washington, District of Columbia: Superintendent of station and aquaria, $1,500; two skilled laborers, at $720 each; laborer, $600; in all, $3,540. Green Lake, Me.Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $900; fish culturist, $900: two laborers, at $600 each; in all. $4,500. Craig Brook, Me.Craig Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Saint Johnsbury and Holden, Vt.Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station and Holden (Vermont) Auxiliary Station:
Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; fishculturist, $900; skilled laborer, $720; four laborers, at $600 each; in all, $6,720. Gloucester, Mass.Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish culturist, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Woods Hole, Mass.Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; machinist, $960; fish culturist, $900; pilot and collector, $720; three firemen, at $600 each; four laborers, at $600 each; in all, $8,280.
Cape Vincent,N. Y.Cape Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; skilled laborer, $720; machinist, $960; two firemen, at $720 each; two laborers, at $600 each; in ail, $5,820. Bryans Point, Md.Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, $360. Wytheville, Va.Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $900; fish culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Put in Bay, Ohio.Put in Bay
(Ohio)Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,000; machinist, $960; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,660. Northville, Mich.Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $960; fish culturist, $900; four laborers, at $600 each; in all, $5,760. Alpena, Mich.Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, $1,200; fish culturist, $900; in all, $2,100. Duluth, Minn.Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $900; fish culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Neosho, Mo.Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $900; skilled laborer, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,320. Leadville, Colo.Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; two fish culturists, at $900 each; skilled laborer, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; cook, $480; in all, $6,900. San Marcos, Tex.San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; fish culturist, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $5,400. Baird and Battle Creek, Cal.Baird (California) and Battle Creek (California) Stations: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,080; foreman, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $5,280. Clackamas, Oreg.Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishculturist, $900; skilled laborer, $720; two laborers, at $600 each: in all $4,320. Manchester, Iowa.Manchester
(Iowa)Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishculturist, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Bozeman, Mont.Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, $1,500;fishculturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Erwin, Tenn.Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishculturist, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. 473 Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Nashua, N. H. $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Edenton, N. C. $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Baker Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Baker Lake, Wash. $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Puget Sound (Washington) Stations: Three foremen, at $1,200Puget Sound, Wash. each; nine laborers, at $600 each; in all, $9,000. Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Cold Springs, Ga. $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Spearfish, S. Dak. $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia) Station: Superintendent,White Sulphur $1,500; fishculturist, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all,Springs, W. Va. $4,200. Tupelo (Mississippi) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Tupelo, Miss. $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Boothbay Harbor (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Boothbay Harbor, Me. $900; engineer, $1,100; skilled laborer, $780; three firemen, at $600 each; custodian of lobster pounds, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $8,000. MammothSpring (Arkansas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Mammoth Spring, Ark. $900: three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Yes Bay (Alaska) Hatchery: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman,Yes Bay, Alaska. $1,200; two skilled laborers, at $960 each; three laborers, at $900 each; cook, $900; in all, $8,220. Afognak (Alaska) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200;Afognak, Alaska. two skilled laborers, at $960 each; three laborers, at $900 each; cook, $900; in all, $8,220. Homer (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; scientificHomer, Minn. assistant, $1,400; scientific assistant, $1,200; foreman, $1,200; engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at $600 each; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $8,700. Louisville (Kentucky) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Louisville, Ky. $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Fish-cultural station, South Carolina: Superintendent, $1,500;South Carolina. fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Saratoga (Wyoming) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Saratoga, Wyo. $900, two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Biological station, Fairport, Iowa: Director, $1,800; superintendentFairport, Iowa, biological station. of fish culture, $1,500; scientific assistant, $1,400; scientific assistant, $1,200; foreman, $1,200; shell expert, $1,200; engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at $600 each; two laborers, at $600 each; in ail, $11,700. Biological station, Beaufort, North Carolina: Superintendent andBeaufort. N. C., biological station. director, $1,500; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $2,700. Employees at large: Two field station superintendents, at $1,800Employees at large. each; two fishculturists, at $960 each; two fish culturiste, at $900 each; five machinists, at $960 each; two coxswains, at $720 each; in all, $13,560. Distribution employees: Five car captains, at $1,200 each; six carDistribution employees. messengers, at $1,000 each; five assistant car messengers, at $900 each; five car laborers, at $720 each; five car cooks, at $600 each; in all, $23,100. Division of inquiry respecting food fishes: Assistant in charge,Division of inquiry. $2,700; assistant, $2,500; assistant, $1,600; two assistants, at $1,200 each; two assistants, at $900 each; one clerk of class one; two clerks, at $900 each; in all, $14,000. Division of statistics and methods of the fisheries: Assistant inDivision of statistics, etc. charge, $2,500; two clerks of class four; one clerk of class two; two clerks, at $1,000 each; one clerk, at $900; statistical agent, $1,400; 474three statistical agents, at $1,000 each; one local agent at Boston, Massachusetts, $300; one local agent at Gloucester, Massachusetts, $600; one local agent at Seattle, Washington, $600; in all, $16,300. Vessel service.“ Albatross.”Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: One naturalist, $1,800; one general assistant, $1,200; one fishery expert, $1,200; clerk, $1,000; in all, $5,200. “Fish Hawk.”Steamer Fish Hawk: One cabin boy, $480. “Grampus.”Schooner Grampus: Master, $1,500; first mate, $1,080; second mate, $840; engineer, $840; cook, $600; three seamen, at $600 each; one cabin boy, $420; in all, $7,080. “Phalarope.”Steamer Phalarope: Master, $1,200; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; two seamen, at $600 each; cook, $600; in all, $4,820. “Curlew.”Steamer Curlew: Pilot, $1,100; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; cook, $600; in all, $3,520. “Gannet.”Steamer Gannet: Master, $1,200; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; two seamen, at $600 each; in ah, $4,220. .. _ Division of Alaska fisheries.Division of Alaska Fisheries: Chief of division, $3,500; assistant, $1,800; clerk of class two; clerk of class one; clerk, $900; agent, Fur seals.fur-seal fisheries, $3,650; assistant agent, fur-seal fisheries, $2,920; two assistant agents, fur-seal fisheries, at $2,190 each; naturalist, fur-seal fisheries, $3,000; janitor service, fur-seal fisheries, $480; two physicians, Pribilof Islands, at $1,200 each; two school-teachers, Pribilof Islands, at $1,200 each; storekeeper, Pribilof Islands, $1,800; agent, Alaska salmon fisheries, $2,500; inspector, Salmon.Alaska salmon fisheries, $1,800; assistant agent, Alaska salmon fisheries, $2,000; assistant Wardens.agent, Alaska salmon fisheries, $1,800; warden, Alaska Service, $1,200; four deputy wardens, Alaska Service, at $600 each; in all, $41,530. Administration expenses.*Ante*, p.411.Expenses of administration: For expenses of the office of the commissioner, including stationery, scientific and reference books tod periodicals, and newspapers, for library, furniture, telegraph and telephone service, repairs to and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, and compensation of temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $10,000. Propagation expenses.Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, equipment, and operations of the fishcultural stations of the bureau, the general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including the movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, and temporary labor, $335,000. Maintenance of vessels.Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of the vessels and launches, including the purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $60,000. Inquiry respecting food fishes.Field expenses.Inquiry respecting food fishes: For expenses of the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food fishes in the waters of the United States, and for investigations and experiments in respect to the aquatic animals, plants, and waters, in the interests of fish culture and the fishery industries, including expenses of travel and preparation of reports, and for all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $40,000. Investigating beam or otter trawling fishing.To enable the Commissioner of Fisheries to investigate the method of fishing known as beam or otter trawling and to report to Congress whether or not this method of fishing is destructive to the fish species or is otherwise harmful or undesirable, $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Statistical inquiry.Statistical inquiry: For expenses in the collection and compilation of the statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, including travel and preparation of reports and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $7,500. 475 Protecting the sponge fisheries: For expenses in protecting theSponge fisheries.Expenses protecting. sponge fisheries, including employment of inspectors, watchmen, and temporary assistants, hire of boats, rental of office and storage, care of seized sponges and other property, travel, and all other expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act of JuneVol. 84, p. 313. twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, to regulate the sponge fisheries, $3,500. Alaska Fisheries Service: For protecting the seal fisheries ofAlaska Fisheries Service.Protecting seal fisheries.Food to natives, etc. Alaska, including the furnishing of food, fuel, and clothing and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands, Alaska, transportation of supplies to and from the islands, expenses of travel of agents and other employees and subsistence while on the Pribilof Islands, purchase, hire, and maintenance of vessels, including crews for same, and for all other expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act of April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and ten,Vol. 36, p. 326. entitled “An Act to protect the seal fisheries of Alaska and for other purposes”; and for the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska,Salmon fisheries. including travel, hire of boats, employment of temporary labor, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $90,000. Philippine fisheries report: For special expenses connected with thePhilippine fisheries.Expenses of preparing report on. preparation of reports on the aquatic resources and fisheries of the Philippine Islands, based on investigations conducted in the years nineteen hundred and seven to nineteen hundred and ten by the United States fisheries steamer Albatross, including services of temporary experts, artists, and assistants, $3,000. miscellaneous objects, department of commerce and labor.Miscellaneous. immigration stations.Immigrant Stations. Immigrant station, Ellis Island, New York Harbor: Toward theEllis Island, N. Y.Additional building. construction, at a total cost, under a contract which is hereby authorized, not to exceed $350,000, of an additional story on baggage and dormitory building, and metal and masonry projection on northerly side of said building, $150,000. Galveston, Tex.Equipping, etc.Immigration station, Galveston, Texas: For furnishing, equipping, and placing in effective operation the immigration station erected at Galveston, Texas, pursuant to the provisions of the act entitled “An Act to provide for the establishment of an immigration stationVol. 34, p. 1412. at Galveston, in the State of Texas, and the erection in said city, on a site to be selected for said station, of a public building,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, 815,000. Immigration station, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Additional forPhiladelphia, Pa.Buildings and pier. erection and furnishing of the necessary buildings and pier at the immigration station. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to complete the same under the limit of cost fixed in the sundry civil appropriationVol. 36, p. 1442, Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, $105,000. Immigration station, Angel Island, California: For the purchase ofAngel Island, Cal.Water barge. a water barge for use in conveying fresh water to the immigration station on Angel Island, California, $3,000. immigration service.Immigration Service. Expenses of regulating immigration: For all expenses of theImmigration of aliens.Expenses of enforcing laws.*Ante*, p.411. enforcement of the laws regulating the immigration of aliens into the United States, including the contract-labor laws; for the costs of the reports of decisions of the Federal courts, and digest thereof, for the use of the Commissioner General of Immigration; for salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees appointed to enforceVol. 34, p. 596. said laws; for the enforcement of the provisions of the Act of February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act toVol. 36, p. 263. 476regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States” and acts amendatory thereof; for expenses of necessary supplies, including exchange of typewriting machines, alterations, and repairs, and for all other expenses authorized by said Act; also for preventing the Chinese exclusion.unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and the expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or Refunding head tax.seaboard for deportation, and for the refunding of head tax upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that collection was made through error of Government officers; all to be expended under the *Proviso*.Maintenance and return of Chinese persons.direction of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, $2,525,000: *Provided*, That all charges for maintenance or return of Chinese persons applying for admission to the United States shall hereafter be paid or reimbursed to the United States by the person, company, partnership, or corporation bringing such Chinese to a port of the United States as applicants for admission. Naturalization Division.Special examiners, etc.Miscellaneous expenses, Division of Naturalization: For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, of examiners, interpreters, clerks, and stenographers, for the purpose of carrying on the work of the Division of Naturalization, Bureau Vol. 84, p. 596.of Immigration and Naturalization, provided for by the Act of Congress 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” and for their actual Traveling expenses, etc.necessary traveling expenses while absent from their official stations, including street-car fare on official business at official stations, subject to such rilles and regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe; and for the actual necessary traveling expenses of the officers and employees of the Division of Naturalization in Washington while absent on official duty outside of the District of Columbia; for telegrams, verifications to legal Capera, telephone service in offices outside of the District of Columbia; not to exceed $3,800 for rent of offices outside of the District Assistance to clerks of courts.Vol. 34, p. 600.Vol. 36, p. 830.of Columbia where suitable quarters cannot be obtained in public buildings; and for the purpose of carrying into effect section thirteen of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page eight hundred and ninety-six), as amended by the Act approved Juno twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, and that the expenditures from this appropriation shall be in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe, $200,000. William von Foreinger and Alexander Graham.Informers’ fees.Payments to William von Forienger and Alexander Graham: To pay to William von Forienger and Alexander Graham for information furnished that led to the collection of 310,000 in penalties from the Firth Caipet Company, of Firthcliff, New York, for importing aliens under contract, in violation of the immigration laws, $1,000 each, $2,000. Scandinavian-American Line.Refund to the Scandinavian-American Line: For refund to the Refund to.Scandinavian-American Line of amount overpaid for one-half the cost of inland transportation incidental to the deportation of the aliens Ilans Larsen and Ernest Tingquist, $13.50. bureau of standards.Bureau of Standards. Refrigerating industries.Investigations of, etc.For investigations incident to the establishment of units and standards of refrigeration, and the determination of the physical constants of materials used in the refrigeration industries, such as 477ammonia, aqueous ammonia solutions, carbonic acid, brines, and so forth, and the determination of the thermal conductivities of materials, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000. To enable the Secretary of Commerce and Labor to acquire, byEnlargement of site. condemnation or otherwise, about three hundred and eighty thousand two hundred and ninety-five square feet of additional land for enlargement of the present site of the Bureau of Standards, $85,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the land to be acquired hereunder being described as follows: First, plat at the west; starting at the northwest corner of theDescription. present site of the Bureau of Standards and running five hundred and sixteen feet south by thirty-two degrees forty-four minutes west along Idaho Avenue to Idaho Circle; thence one hundred and sixty-six feet on the arc of a circle bounding Idaho Circle to Tilden Street; thence eighty feet east by twenty-five degrees forty minutes south along Tilden Street; thence due east one Hundred and sixty feet to the southwest corner of the present site of the Bureau of Standards; thence about six hundred and twenty-five feet due north along the west boundary of the Bureau of Standards to the starting point, including about one hundred and two thousand one hundred and seventy square feet. Second, plat east and north of the present site; starting at the southeast corner of the present site of the Bureau of Standards, running due east three hundred and sixty-five feet; thence due north six hundred and twenty-five feet; thence due west about nine hundred and sixty-five feet to the northwest corner of the present site of the Bureau of Standards; thence along the boundary of the Bureau of Standards grounds in the middle of Pierce Mill Road about six hundred and twenty-two feet to the northeast corner of the site; and thence due south of the east boundary of the Bureau of Standards about four hundred and sixty feet to the starting point, containing about two hundred and seventy-eight thousand one hundred and twenty-five square feet. The area of the two plats together is about three hundred and eighty thousand two hundred and ninety-five square feet. bureau of labor.Bureau of Labor. International Congress on Social Insurance: For rent, clerical assistance,International Congress on Social Insurance.Expenses of meeting. printing, postage, stationery, and all other necessary expenses incidental to the organizing and the carrying on of the meetings of the International Congress on Social Insurance, to be held in Washington, District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor (Act of March third, nineteenVol. 36, p. 1034. hundred and eleven), $10,000. bureau of the census.Census Office. For collection of statistics concerning the quantity of leaf tobaccoLeaf tobacco.Collecting statistics of quantity, etc.*Ante*, p. 106. in all forms in the United States and its possessions and making report of same as authorized by the Act entitled “An Act to collect and publish additional statistics of tobacco,” approved April thirtieth, nine-teen hundred and twelve, $15,000. For securing information for census reports of cotton production,Cotton production.Collecting statistics of.*Ante*, p. 198. and periodical reports of stocks of baled cotton in the United States and of the domestic and foreign consumption of cotton, and to enable the Bureau of the Census to carry out the provisions of “An Act authorizing the Director of the Census to collect and publish statistics of cotton,” approved July twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve, $30,000. 478 DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. Canadian Water Boundary Commission.Salaries and expenses.International Joint Commission, United States and Great Britain: For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissioners, salaries of clerks, and other employees appointed by the commissioners on the part of the United States with the approval solely of the Secretary of State, including rental of offices at Washington, District of Columbia, expense of printing, purchase of books, periodicals, and papers, and all necessary traveling and other expenses, and for the one-half of all reasonable and necessary joint expenses of the International Joint Commission incurred under the terms of the Vol. 36, p. 2448.treaty between the United States and Great Britain concerning the use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada and other purposes, signed January eleventh, nineteen hundred and Use of balances.Vol. 36, p. 1364.nine, the balance unexpended July first, nineteen hundred and twelve, of the appropriation made for all the foregoing purposes for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, is hereby reappropriated and made available for expenditure for said purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State. Ascertainment of electoral vote.Expenses of printing.Vol. 24, p. 373.Printing ascertainment of electors for President and Vice President.—To pay the expenses of printing, in compliance with the requirements of the Act of February third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the certified copies of the final ascertainment of the electors for President and Vice President of the United States, as transmitted by the executive of each State to the Secretary of State, 31,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. UNDER LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. Statement of appropriations.Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the direction of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, in-creased, or reduced, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills passed during the first and second sessions of the Sixty-secondVol. 25, p. 587. Congress, as required by the Act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, $4,000, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work. Messengers of electoral vote.Payment of mileage.Conveying votes of electors for President and Vice President: For the payment of the messengers of the respective States for conveying to the seat of government the votes of the electors of said States for President and Vice President of the United States, at the rate of twenty-five cents for every mile of the estimated distance by the most usual roads traveled from the place of meeting of the electors to the seat of government of the United States, computed for one distance only, $14,000. Botanic Garden.Botanic Garden: For general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, painting, glazing, resurfacing footwalks and roadways, general Repairs, etc.repairs to packing sheds, storerooms, and stables, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $7,000. Removal of fence,Vol. 36, p. 1403.The appropriation in the sundry civil Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, for removing fence and wall around the Botanic Garden and such grading, soiling, seeding, and sodding as may be incident thereto, is hereby made available for said purposes for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen. Senate.Indexing reports, etc., of committees.Senate: For indexing, when necessary, reports and hearings of Senate committees and joint committees of the Senate and House of 479Representatives, under the direction of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, $1,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Biographical Congressional Directory: To enable the Secretary ofBiographical Congressional Directory.Expenses of preparing new edition, from 1776 to 1911. the Senate to pay, upon vouchers approved by the chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing, for preparing a new edition of the Biographical Congressional Directory, from the Continental Congress to the Sixty-first Congress, both inclusive (seventeen hundred and seventy-six to nineteen hundred and eleven), as directed by Senate resolution of March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and said sum or any part thereof, in the discretion of the chairman of the Joint Committee on Printing, may be paid as additional compensation to any employee of the United States, and shall continue to be available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen. Joint Committee on Printing, as provided for in an Act providingJoint Committee on Printing.Clerk.Vol. 28, p. 601. for the public printing and binding and the distribution of public documents approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and Acts amendatory thereof: Clerk, $3,000, to be paid by the Secretary of the Senate. Inspector for the Joint Committee on Printing, as provided for inInspector.Vol. 28, p. 603. section twenty of an Act to provide for the public printing and binding, approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $2,000, one half to be paid by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be paid by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items andSenate Office Building.Maintenance, etc. supplies, and for all necessary personal and other services for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building, under the direction and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, $46,000, which sum shall be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds under the supervision and direction of the Senate Committee on Rules without reference to section four of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, concerning purchases for executive departments. House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneousHouse Office Building.Maintenance, etc. items, and for all necessary services, $35,932. For weather strips for windows, $2,700. Capitol power plant: For lighting the Capitol, Senate and HouseCapitol power plant.Maintenance, etc. Office Buildings, and Congressional Library Building, and the grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, Senate stables and engine house, House stables, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the Senate; pay of superintendent of meters, at the rate of $1,600 per annum, who shall inspect all gas and electric meters of the Government in the District of Columbia without additional compensation; for necessary personal and other services; and for materials and labor in connection with the maintenance and operation of the heating, lighting, and power plant, and substations connected therewith, $90,000. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the power plantFuel, oil, etc. which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and Congressional buildings, $77,000. This and the three foregoing appropriations shallPurchases not restricted to supply committee. be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds under the supervision and direction of the commission in control of the House Office Building, appointed under the actVol. 34, p. 1365. approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, and without reference to section 4 of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteenVol. 36, p. 531. hundred and ten, concerning purchases for executive departments. 480 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.Government Printing Office. public printing and binding. Public Printer, purchasing agent, etc.Office of the Public Printer: Public Printer, $5,500; purchasing agent, $3,600; chief clerk, $2,500; accountant, $2,500; assistant purchasing agent, $2,500; cashier and paymaster, $2,500; clerk in charge of the Congressional Record at the Capitol, $2,500; assistant accountant, $2,250; chief timekeeper, $2,000; paying teller, $2,000; telegrapher and clerk, $1,800; clerks—one at $2,000, ten of class four, eleven of class three, six of class two, six of class one, nine at $1,000 each, live at $900 each, seventeen at $840 each; paymaster’s guard, $1,000; chief doorkeeper, $1,200; doorkeeper, $1,200; six assistant doorkeepers, at $1,000 each; two messengers, at $840 each; chief delivery man, $1,200; five delivery men, at $950 each; telephone switchboard operator, $720; three assistant telephone switchboard operators, at $600 each; six messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $132,700. Deputy Public Printer, etc.Office of the Deputy Public Printer: Deputy Public Printer, $4,500; two clerks of class one; one clerk, $900; one chemist, $1,600; one messenger, $840; in all, $10,240. Watch force.Watch force: Captain of the watch, $1,200; two lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; and sixty-four day and night watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $49,080. Holidays.Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $185,000. Leaves, of absence.Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $320,000. Public printing and binding.Aggregate amount.For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing and binding, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving, for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Interstate Commerce Commission, Office expenses.the International Bureau of American Republics, the Executive Office, and the departments; for salaries, compensation, or wages, of all necessary employees additional to those herein specifically appropriated for, including the compensation of the foreman of binding, and the foreman of printing; rents, fuel, gas, electric current, gas and electric fixtures, and ice; bicycles, horses, wagons and harness, electrical vehicles, and the care, driving, and subsistence of the same, to be used only for official purposes, including the purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official use of the officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing ordered by the Public Printer; freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; furniture, typewriters, and carpets; traveling expenses, stationery, postage, and advertising; directories, technical books, and books of reference, not exceeding $500; adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; machinery (not exceeding $100,000); equipment, and for repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor alterations to buildings; necessary equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Government Printing Office who Miscellaneous items, etc.may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty; other necessary contingent and miscellaneous items authorized by the Public Printer; and for all the necessary materials and equipment needed in the prosecution and delivery of the work, $4,252,880; 481 In all, for public printing and binding, including salaries of officeTotal. force, payments for holidays and leaves of absence, and the last-named sum, $4,949,900; and from the said sum printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedingsAllotments.Congress. and donates, $1,750,000. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. For the State Department, $35,000.Departments, etc. For the Treasury Department, $340,000. For the War Department, $190,000: *Provided*, That the sum of*Proviso*.Army medical bulletins. $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the publication, from time to time, of bulletins prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General of the Army, for the instruction of medical officers, when approved by the Secretary of War. For the Navy Department, $145,000, including not exceeding $25,000 for the Hydrographic Office. For the Interior Department, including not exceeding $40,000 for the Civil Service Commission, and not exceeding $25,000 for the publication of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, $290,000. For the Patent Office, as follow’s: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trademarks, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; for printing and binding the monthly volumes of patents, and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indices, $420,000. The paragraph of section seventy-three of the Act approved JanuaryMonthly volume of patents issued.Provision for binding repealed.Vol. 28, p. 620. twelfth, eighteen hundred ninety-five (Statutes at Large Volume twenty-eight, page six hundred and twenty), relating to the binding and disposal of volumes of the specifications and drawings of each patent issued, is repealed. For the United States Geological Survey, as follows: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the Annual Report of the Director, and for the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, and for printing and binding the same publications, of which sum not more than $35,000 may be used for engraving, $145,000. For the Smithsonian Institution, for printing and binding the Annual Reports of the Board of Regents, with general appendixes, ten thousand dollars; under the Smithsonian Institution, for the Annual Reports of the National Museum, with general appendixes, and for printing labels and blanks, and for the Bulletins and Proceedings of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not exceed four thousand copies, and binding, in half morocco or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to or acquired by the National Museum Library, $34,000; for the Annual Reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and for miscellaneous printing and binding for the Bureau, $21,000, for miscellaneous printing and binding for the International Exchanges, $200; the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, $100; the National Zoological Park, $200; for miscellaneous printing and binding for the Astrophysical Observatory, $400, and for one thousand five hundred copies of Volume Three of the. Annals of the Astrophysical Observatory of the Smithsonian Institution, $2,000; and for the Annual Report of the American Historical Association, $7,000; in all, $74,900. 482 For the Department of Justice, $35,000. For the United States Court of Customs Appeals, $2,000. For the Post Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, $290,000. For the Department of Agriculture, including not to exceed $47,000 for the Weather Bureau, and including the Annual Report of theVol. 26. p. 612. Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and in pursuance of the Vol. 34, p. 825.provisions of Public Resolution Numbered Thirteen of the first session . fifty-ninth Congress, and also including not to exceed $125,000 for farmers’ bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of four-fifths of which shall be delivered to or sent out under the addressed franks furnished by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as they shall direct, $475,000. For the Department of Commerce and Labor, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Census Office, and Children’s Bureau, *Proviso*.Thirteenth Census excluded.$400,000: *Provided*, That no part of this allotment shall be expended for printing and binding reports of the Thirteenth Census. For the Supreme Court of the United States, $15,000; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ unless it shall otherwise order. For the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, $1,500. For the Court of Claims, $25,000, For the Library of Congress, including the copyright office, and the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the copyright office, and binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for building and grounds, Library of Congress, $202,000. For the Executive Office, $3,000. For the Interstate Commerce Commission, $90,000. For the International Union of American Republics, $20,000. Restriction.That no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated for the public printing and for the public binding shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended; and no department or Government establishment shall consume in any such period a greater percentage of its allotment than can be lawfully expended during the same period of the whole appropriation. Apportionment of expenditures to work executed.All expenditures from appropriations made herein under Government Printing Office, except appropriations for salaries and for stores and general expenses in and for the office of superintendent of documents, shall be equitably apportioned and charged, by the Public Printer, to each publication or work executed under any of the foregoing allotments so that the total charges for work done from the appropriations aforesaid shall not be loss than the total amount actually Pay of pressmen.expended from all of said appropriations. Hereafter pressmen shall be paid at the rate of 55 cents per hour. office of the superintendent of documents.Office of superintendent of documents. Superintendent, assistant, etc.For superintendent of documents, $3,500; assistant superintendent of documents, $2,500; one clerk of class four; four clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; eight clerks of class one; eight clerks, at $i,000 each; six clerks, at $900 each; ten clerks, at $720 each; cataloguer in charge, $1,800; two cataloguers, at $1,500 each; three cataloguers, at $1,200 each; one cataloguer, $1,100; seven cataloguers, at $1,000 each; three cataloguers, at $900 each; cashier, $1,600; one 483librarian, $1,500; shipper in charge, $1,200; stock keeper, $1,100; three stock keepers, at $1,000 each; five stock keepers, at $900 each; two stock keepers, at $720 each; two assistant messengers, at $720 each; three mailers, at $840 each; janitress, $626; two folders, at $626 each; eleven laborers, at $626 each; five messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $98,364. For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-savingContingent expenses. machines and accessories, time stamps, adding and numbering machines, awnings, curtains, books of reference, directories, books, miscellaneous office and desk supplies; wappers for Congressional Record and Patent Office Gazette-twine, glue, envelopes, postage, car tickets, soap, toilet paper, towels, disinfectants, and ice; drayage, express, freight, telephone and telegraph service; repairs to building, elevators, and machinery; preserving sanitary condition of building, light, heat, and power; stationery and office printing, including blanks, price lists, and bibliographies, $30,000; for catalogues and indexes, not exceeding $16,000; for binding reserve remainders, and for supplying books to depository libraries, $94,000; in all, $140,000. THE ISTHMIAN CANAL.Isthmian Canal. To continue the construction of the Isthmian Canal, to be expendedConstruction.Vol. 32, p. 482.*Post*, p. 560. under the direction of the President, in accordance with an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans,” approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto: First. For salaries of officers and employees of the IsthmianCanal Commission.Salaries in United States. Canal Commission, including assistant purchasing and shipping agents, and all other employees in the United States, $150,000. Second. For incidental expenses, including rents, cable and telegraphIncidental expenses. service, supplies, stationery and printing, and actual necessary traveling expenses in the United States (including rent of the Panama Canal building in the District of Columbia, $7,500, textbooks and books of reference, $1,000, and additional compensation to the Auditor for the War Department for extra services in auditing accounts of the Isthmian Canal, $1,000), $50,000. Third. For pay of members of the commission and officers andConstruction, etc., departments.Commissioners and employees on the Isthmus. employees on the Isthmus, other than skilled and unskilled labor, including civil engineers, superintendents, instrumentmen, transit-men, levelmen, rodmen, draftsmen, timekeepers, mechanical and electrical engineers, quartermasters, clerks, accountants, stenographers, storekeepers, messengers, office boys, foremen and subforemen, wagon masters, watchmen, and stewards, including those temporarily detailed for duty away from the Isthmus, in the departments of construction and engineering, quartermaster’s, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, and for those employed in connection with the preservation of plans, drawings, and other records, $3,000,000: *Provided*, That not more than $5,000 of this appropriation*Proviso*.Pay of secretary. shall be paid as compensation to the secretary of the commission. Fourth. For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus, includingLabor. engineers, conductors, firemen, brakemen, electricians, teamsters, cranesmen, machinists, blacksmiths, and other artisans, and their helpers; janitors, sailors, cooks, waiters, and dairymen, for the departments of construction and engineering, quartermaster’s, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, $11,000,000. Fifth. For purchase and delivery of material, supplies, and equipment,Purchase of materials, etc. including cost of inspecting material and or paying traveling expenses incident thereto, whether on the Isthmus or elsewhere, and 484such other expenses not in the United States as the commission deems necessary to best promote the construction of the Isthmian Canal, Payment of damages to private property.including not exceeding $50,000 for the payment of damages caused to the owners of private lands, or private property of any kind, by Vol. 33, p. 2234.reason of the grants contained in the treaty between the United States and the Republic of Panama proclaimed February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and four, or by reason of the operations of the United States, its agents or employees, or by reason of the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and protection of the said canal or of the works of sanitation and protection therein provided for, which may be compromised by agreement between the claimant and the chairman of the commission without the intervention of a joint commission, for the departments of construction and engineering, quartermaster’s, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, and for a permanent administration building, $12,000,000. Sixth. Miscellaneous, For miscellaneous expenditures, cable and telegraph service, stationery and printing, local railway transportation, special trains, including pay-train service; transportation of currency to the Isthmus, recruiting and transporting laborers, transporting employees from the United States, repatriating laborers and employees, actual necessary traveling expenses while on the Isthmus on official business; expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations of the Istlimus, and all other incidental and contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, for the departments of construction and engineering, quartermaster’s, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, $790,000. Seventh. Government of Canal Zone.Commissioner, officers, etc. For pay of the member of the commission in charge of the department of civil administration, of officers and employees, other than skilled and unskilled labor, including foremen, subforemen, watchmen, messengers, and storekeepers, of the departments of civil administration and law, including those necessarily and temporarily detailed for duty away from the Isthmus, $500,000; Eighth. Labor. For skilled and unskilled labor for the department of civil administration , $15,000; Ninth. Materials, etc. For material, supplies, equipment, construction and repairs of buildings, and contingent expenses of the departments of civil administration and law, including not exceeding $500 for law books, $75,000. Tenth. Sanitation department.Commissioner, officers, etc. For pay of the member of the commission in charge, of officers and employees other than skilled and unskilled labor, including hospital dispensers, internes, nurses, attendants, messengers, office boys, foremen and subforemen, watchmen, and stewards, of the department of sanitation on the Istlimus, including those temporarily detailed for duty away from the Istlimus, $700,000. Eleventh. Labor. For skilled and unskilled labor of every grade and kind, for the department of sanitation on the Istlimus, $200,000; Twelfth. Materials, etc. For material, supplies, equipment, construction and repairs of buildings, medical aid and support of the insane, and of indigent persons permanently disabled, while in the line of duty and in the employ of the Isthmian Canal Commission, from earning a livelihood, and contingent expenses of the department of sanitation New quarantine station excluded.on the Isthmus, $500,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for or toward the construction of a new quarantine station. Terminal facilities, etc.Use of appropriations for.The foregoing sums, so far as necessary, shall be available for necessary dry dock, coaling plant, shops, and other facilities for repairing and supplying vessels and necessary wharves, sheds, and other terminal facilities, and for the consolidation and preservation of the files of papers and other records which have accumulated or may accumulate during the construction of the canal and needed or useful or 485having a permanent value or historical interest, as may be determined by the chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission. In all, $28,980,000, the same to be immediately available and toAmount. continue available until expended: *Provided*, That all expenditures*Proviso*.Expenditures from sale of bonds. from the appropriations heretofore, herein, and hereafter made for the construction of the Isthmian Canal, including any portion of such appropriations which may be used for the construction of the necessary dry dock, coaling plant, shops, and other facilities for repairing and supplying vessels, and all necessary wharves, sheds, and other terminal facilities, exclusive of fortifications, shall be paidFortifications excluded. from or reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States out of the proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized in section eight of the said Act approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, andVol. 32, p. 484.Vol. 36. p. 117. section tliirtynine of the tariff Act approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine. Except in cases of emergency, or conditions arising subsequent toNumber of employees limited to estimates. and unforeseen at the time of the passage of this Act, there shall not be employed at any time during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen under any of the foregoing appropriations for the Isthmian Canal, any greater number of persons than are specified in the notes submitted respectively in connection with the estimates for each of said appropriations in the annual Book of Estimates for said year, nor shall there be paid to any of such persons during that fiscal yearCompensation restricted. any greater rate of compensation than was authorized to be paid to persons occupying the same or like positions on the fast day of July, nineteen hundred and ten, and all employments made or compensation increased because of emergencies or conditions so arising shall be specifically set forth, with the reasons therefor, by the chairman of the commission in his report for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen. In cases of emergencies arising subsequent to and unforeseen atInterchangeable appropriations. the time of submitting the annual estimates to Congress, ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on objects named; but not more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of the appropriation. No part of the foregoing appropriations for the Isthmian CanalLongevity allowances restricted. shall be applied to the payment of allowances for longevity service, or lay-over days other than such as may have accumulated under existing orders of the commission, prior to July first, nineteen hundred and nine. fortifications, isthmian canal.Fortifications. For the following for fortifications and armament thereof for the Isthmian Canal, to be immediately available and to continue avail-able until expended, namely: Surveys: For detailed surveys of the areas on the Canal ZoneSurveys. required for military purposes, including the cost of marking permanently the boundaries of such areas, $50,000; Causeway: For the construction of a causeway or bridge for useCauseway. in connection with fortifications, Isthmian Canal, $150,000; Seacoast batteries: For construction of seacoast batteries on theSeacoast batteries.Use of balances.Vol. 36, p. 1451. Canal Zone, $1,000,000, and any balances of the appropriation for the construction of seacoast batteries on the Canal Zone made by the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven; Submarine mine structures: For the construction of mining casemates,Submarine mine structures. cable galleries, torpedo storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and then accessories on the Canal Zone, $220,200; Field fortifications and camps: For the construction of field fortificationsField fortifications, etc. and the preparation of camp sites on the Canal Zone, $200,000; 486 Seacoast cannon.Armament of fortifications: For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for the manufacture at the arsenals, to cost ultimately not to exceed $2,324,000, $500,000; Ammunition.For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, $575,000; Submarine mines.Submarine mines: For the purchase of submarine mines and the necessary appliances to operate them for closing the channels leading to the Isthmian Canal, $111,750; In all, specifically for fortifications and armament thereof for the Isthmian Canal, $2,806,950. Sec. 2. Distribution of revenues. All funds collected by the government of the Canal Zone from rentals of public lands and buildings in the Canal Zone and the cities of Panama and Colon, and from the zone postal service, and from court fees and fines, and collected or raised by taxation in whatever form under the laws of the government of the Canal Zone, are hereby appropriated until find including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, as follows: The revenues derived from the postal service to the maintenance of that service; the remaining revenues, including any balances unexpended in prior years, after setting aside a miscellaneous and contingent fund of not exceeding ten thousand dollar’s, to the maintenance of the public-school system in the zone; to the construction and maintenance of public improvements within the zone; to the maintenance of the administrative districts; to the maintenance of Canal Zone charity patients in the hospitals of the Isthmian Canal Commission, and to the maintenance Statement to Congress.of administrative district prisoners. A detailed and classified statement of all receipts and expenditures without the duplication of items under this paragraph shall be submitted to Congress after the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen. Sec. 3. Funds from services, sales, etc., appropriated for construction. All funds realized during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen by the Isthmian Canal Commission from the performance of services by the commission, or from rentals, or from the sale of materials and supplies under the custody or control of the commission, are appropriated for expenditure under any of the foregoing classified appropriations for the department of construction and engineering, and a? full and separate report in detail of all transactions under this section shall be made to Congress. Unserviceable equipment, etc., may be sold without advertising.That until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, when any material, supplies, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Isthmian Canal is no longer needed, or is no longer serviceable, it may be sold in such manner as the President may direct, and without advertising in such classes of cases as may be authorized by him; and the President is authorized, in his discretion, to sell and convey to the Republic of Administration Building in Panama.Sale authorized.Panama the building situated in the city of Panama known as “the Administration Building,” together with the ground on which the same is located, for a sum of not less than $80,000, and the proceeds of such sale, if made, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States. Sec. 4. Toro Point Light.No moneys to be used for. That hereafter no payments shall be made for maintenance or other charge in connection with the Toro Point Light, Isthmus of Panama, out of moneys of the United States or of the Panama Railroad Company. Sec. 5. Division of records, authorized for preservation of papers, etc. The chairman of the Isthmian Canal Commission is authorized to establish a division of records and, as the requirements of the service permit, to consolidate in the custody thereof the files of papers and other records which have accumulated or which may 487accumulate during the period of the construction of the Isthmian Canal; and he is directed to carefully preserve, properly index, and arrange for use all papers needed or useful in the transaction of current business or having a permanent value oi historical interest; and he is authorized to destroy or otherwise dispose of duplications in the files and other papers which are not needed or useful in the transaction of current business and have no permanent value or historical interest and which have been recommended to him for destruction or other disposition by a committee of three competent persons who have personally examined the papers and in connection with their recommendation have submitted a concise statement of the condition and character thereof. Sec. 6. Hereafter there shall be submitted, in the annual Book of Estimates for lump sum appropriations.Statements required.Estimates, following every estimate for a general or lump sum impropriation which exceeds $250,000 in amount, a statement showing in parallel columns: First, the number of persons, if any, intended to be employed andStatement of expenditures contemplated. the rates of compensation to each, and the amounts contemplated to be expended for each of any other objects or classes of expenditures specified or contemplated in the estimate; and Second, the number of persons, if any, employed and the rates ofExpenditures of preceding year. compensation paid each, and the amounts expended for each other object or class of expenditures out of the appropriation corresponding to the estimate so submitted, during the completed fiscal year next preceding the period for which the estimate is submitted. Sec. 7. No specific or indefinite appropriation made hereafter inRegular appropriations restricted to fiscal year. any regular annual appropriation Act shall be construed to be permanent or available continuously without reference to a fiscal year unless it belongs to one of the following five classes: “Rivers and harbors,”Exceptions.Vol. 18. p. 110, “lighthouses,” “fortifications,” “public buildings,” and “pay of the Navy and Marine Corps,” last specifically named in and excepted from the operation of the provisions of the so-called “covering-in Act” approved June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, or unless it is made in terms expressly providing that it shallSpecial provisions excepted. continue available beyond the fiscal year for which the appropriation Act in which it is contained makes provision. Sec. 8. After June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, postmasters,Oaths to expense accounts.Additional officers authorized to administer. assistant postmasters, collectors of customs, collectors of internal revenue, chief clerks of the various executive departments and bureaus, or clerks designated by them for the purpose, the superintendent, the acting superintendent, custodian, and principal clerks of the various national parks and other Government reservations, superintendent, acting superintendents, and principal clerks of the different Indian supenrftendencies or Indian agencies, and chiefs of field parties, are required, empowered, and authorized, when requested, to administer oaths, required by law or otherwise, to accounts for travel or other expenses against the United States, with like force and effect as officers having a seal; for such services whenNo charges allowed. so rendered, or when rendered on demand after said date by notaries public, who at the time are also salaried officers or employees of the United States, no charge shall be made; and on and after July first,No reimbursement hereafter. nineteen hundred and twelve, no fee or money paid for the services herein described shall be paid or reimbursed by the United States. Sec. 9. All of the records relating to naturalization or declarationsNaturalization, of intention to become citizens of the United States and all certificatesStatus of papers, etc., Louisville, Ky., city-court.Vol. 34, p. 630. of naturalization filed, recorded, or issued prior to an Act to validate certain certificates of naturalization approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, in or from the Louisville city court, sometimes called the Louisville police court, Kentucky, shall for all purposes be deemed to be and to have been made, filed, recorded, or 488issued by a court with jurisdiction to naturalize aliens, but shall not be by this Act further validated or legalized. Sec. 10. Attendance at meetings. etc.Restriction on payments for, modified.*Ante*, p. 184. That section eight of the District of Columbia appropriation Act, approved June twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, shall not take effect or be operative during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen except to the extent that it prohibits the payment of membership fees or dues in societies or associations: Written authority required for incurring expense.*Provided*, That during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen expenses of attendance of officers or employees of . the Government at any meeting or convention of members of any society or association shall be incurred only on the written authority and direction of the heads of executive departments or other Government Statement to Congress.establishments or the Government of the District of Columbia; and a detailed statement of all such expenses incurred from June thirtieth until December first, nineteen hundred and twelve, shall be submitted to Congress on or before January first, nineteen hundred and thirteen. Sec. 11. Sums for salaries to be in full. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officers and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, and all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are repealed. Approved, August 24, 1912.
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