Chapter 6. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 6.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes. December 22, 1911.[[H. R. 15930](/us/bill/62/hr/15930).][[Public, No. 51](/us/pl/62/51).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following sums be,Urgent deficiencies appropriations. and are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, and for other purposes, namely:
DEPARTAIENT OF STATE.Department of State. For the expenses of the arbitration of outstanding pecuniary claimsBritish-American Claims Commission.*Post*, p. 1625. between the United States and Great Britain, in accordance with the special agreement concluded for that purpose August eighteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, and the schedules of claims thereunder, including office rent in the District of Columbia, and the compensation of arbitrator, umpire, agent, counsel, clerical and other assistants, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, twenty-five thousand dollars.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Distinctive paper for United States securities: To supply a deficiencyDistinctive paper for United States securities. in the appropriation for distinctive paper for United States securities, fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, including transportation, traveling and laundry expenses, salaries of register, assistant registers, counters, watchmen, and skilled laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury, fifty-seven thousand three hundred and twenty dollars. public buildings.Public buildings.
To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for “General expensesGeneral expenses. of public buildings” on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, including commissions to architects, commissions to disbursing agents, and contingencies of all kinds, as set forth in House Document Numbered One hundred and three, Sixty-second Congress, first session, sixty-five thousand five hundred and seventy-eight dollars and sixty-one cents. engraving and printing.Engraving and printing.
To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for labor and expensesSalaries. of engraving and printing, fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, as follows: For salaries of all necessary employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, one hundred and thirty-six thousand four hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the SecretaryWages. of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, one hundred and ninety-four thousand two hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.
For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials exceptMaterials, etc. 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, thirty-nine thousand four hundred dollars, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. 48 public health and marine-hospital service.Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service.
To supply deficiencies in the appropriations for expenses of Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, as follows: Pay, etc.For pay, allowances, and commutation of quarters for commissioned medical officers and pharmacists, thirty-nine thousand dollars; For pay of all other employees, forty-two thousand dollars; Maintenance of hospitals.For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and for all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, eight thousand dollars;
Medical care, etc.For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment of all other persons entitled to relief, and miscellaneous expenses other than marine hospitals, which are not included under special heads, ten thousand dollars; In all, ninety-nine thousand dollars. revenue-cutter service.Revenue-Cutter Service New vessels.Vol. 86. p. 826.For the completion and equipment of two revenue cutters authorized by the Act approved April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and ten, one hundred and seventy-five thousand dollars each, three hundred and fifty thousand dollars.
WAR DEPARTMENT. War Department.Battleship “Maine.” Removing wreck of.Vol. 36, pp. 353, 789, 1407.Wreck of battleship Maine: For additional amount for the raising or the removal of the wreck of the battleship Maine from the harbor of Habana, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved May ninth, nineteen hundred and ten, two hundred and fifty thousand dollars, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Memorial at Habana.Portion transferred to Cuba for.The Secretary of War is authorized to transfer to the Republic of Cuba, for incorporation into a memorial monument to be erected in Habana, some part of the wreck of the United States ship Maine, or of its equipment, now in the harbor of Habana, such as is no longer required for preservation or use by the United States.
Donation of relics to municipalities, etc.The Secretaries of War and Navy are further authorized to donate any parts of the wreck of the Maine, or of its equipment, or of any property found therein, not needed by the United States, to any municipality of the United States, or to any military or naval association or society in the United States, or to the former officers and crew of *Provisos*.Restriction.the Maine, or their heirs or representatives: *Provided,* That such parts can be recovered and removed from the wreck without interference with the general work of removal now in progress under the Expenses, care, etc., by donees.War Department: *Provided further,* That all labor and costs of such removal shall be defrayed by the municipality or other body desiring the relic, and that reasonable assurance shall be furnished that the parts so donated will be properly preserved and cared for as memorials and shall not be sold or otherwise disposed of without prior authority of the original donors. back pay and bounty.Back pay and bounty.
Payment of.For payment of amounts for arrears of pay of two and three year Volunteers, for bounty to Volunteers and their widows and legal Vol. 14, p. 322.heirs, for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred Commutation of rations.and sixty-six, and for amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in States of the so-called Confederacy, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, two hundred thousand dollars. 49 No claim for arrears of pay, bounty, or other allowances growingLimit for filing claims. out of the service of Volunteers who served in the Army of the United States during the Civil War shall be received or considered by the accounting officers of the Treasury unless filed in the office of the Auditor for the War Department on or before December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twelve: *Provided,* That hereafter no agent or*Proviso*.Fees by attorneys prohibited. attorney shall demand or accept, for his services in connection with the prosecution of claims for arrears of pay, bounty, or other allowances due on account of the services during the Civil War of an officer or enlisted man of the Regular or Volunteer Armies of the United States, filed after the passage of this Act, any fee for any services rendered in connection therewith.
Whoever shall violatePunishment for. this provision upon conviction shall be punished by a fine of not exceeding five hundred dollars or imprisonment for a period not exceeding six months, or both, and shall be disbarred from practice before the Treasury Department. 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 twelve and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, eight thousand dollars.
No claim for arrears of pay, bounty, or other allowances growingLimit for filing claims. out of the service of Volunteers who served in the Army of the United States during the War with Spain shall be received or considered by the accounting officers of the Treasury unless filed in the office of the Auditor for the War Department on or before December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fourteen. For unveiling and dedicating the Columbus Memorial, and for eachColumbus Memorial.Dedication expenses. and every purpose connected therewith, including erecting and taking down stands, and placing the grounds in sightly condition, to be available until expended, two thousand five hundred dollars.
INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Interior Department. general land office.Public lands. Contingent expenses of land offices: To reimburse the appropriationContingent expenses.Fire at Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. for contingent expenses of land offices, fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, for emergency disbursements required to be made therefrom in order to restore the public property and important records of the United States land office at Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, destroyed by fire on October twenty-first, nineteen hundred and eleven, as set forth in House Document Numbered Three hundred and seven of the present session of Congress, five thousand seven hundred and twenty-five dollars and eighty-five cents.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. For the reimbursement of the appropriation entitled “ProtectingSouthern Pacific Railroad land suits. Public Lands, Timber, and so forth, nineteen hundred and twelve,” covering the costs of abstracts required in the proposed suits in California involving lands valuable for mineral, which were patented to the Southern Pacific Railroad Company, three thousand dollars. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.Department of Commerce and Labor. census office.Census Office.
For salaries and necessary expenses for preparing for, taking, compiling,Salaries, etc. and publishing the Thirteenth Census of the United States, rent of office quarters, for carrying on during the decennial census 50period all other census work authorized and directed by law, including construction and repair of card-punching, card-sorting, and card-tabulating machinery, and technical and mechanical services in. connection therewith, purchase, rental, construction, repair and exchange of mechanical appliances, five hundred thousand dollars. bureau of standards.Bureau of Standards.
Additional laboratory.Vol. 36, p. 1232.For completing the construction of a fireproof laboratory to provide additional laboratory space authorized by Act of Congress approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, one hundred and fifty thousand dollars. bureau of labor.Bureau of Labor. Special agents, etc.For per diem, in lieu of subsistence, of special agents and employees while traveling on duty away from their homes and outside of the District of Columbia, at a rate not to exceed three dollars per day, and for their transportation, and for employment of experts and temporary assistance, and for traveling expenses of officers and employees, and for the purchase of reports and materials for the reports and bulletins of the Bureau of Labor, and for subvention to International Association for Labour Legislation, and necessary expenses connected with representation of the United States Government therein, twenty thousand dollars.
OUT OF THE POSTAL REVENUES.Postal service. Freight on postal cards, etc.For pay of freight or expressage on postal cards, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, and empty mail bags, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, forty-seven thousand and eighty-five dollars. Star routes transportation.For inland transportation by star routes, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, seventeen thousand dollars. LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. Mileage.For mileage of Senators for the second session of the Sixty-second Congress, forty-seven thousand dollars.
Morris K. Harralson and William M. Tripp.Services.The Secretary of the Senate is hereby authorized and directed to pay Morris K. Harralson, clerk to the Honorable Hoke Smith, of Georgia, from November nineteenth to December third, nineteen hundred and eleven; and William M. Tripp, clerk to the Honorable Obadiah Gardner, of Maine, from October fifth to December fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, for clerical services rendered, from the appropriation for salaries to clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve.
Maltby Building.Repairs.Investigations.For repairs to Maltby Building, five hundred dollars. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding one dollar and twenty-five cents per printed page, twenty-five thousand dollars. Employers’ liability and workmen’s compensation commission.That the time in which the commission to investigate the matter of employers’ liability and workmen’s compensation, created under joint resolution approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, Time for report extended.Vol. 36, pp. 884, 1315.shall be required to report through the President to Congress, is hereby extended to and including the first day of March, nineteen hundred and twelve. 51 house of representatives.House of Representatives.
For mileage of Representatives and Delegates, and expenses ofMileage. Resident Commissioners, for the second session of the Sixty-second Congress, one hundred and fifty-four thousand dollars. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,Miscellaneous items, etc. exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, fifty thousand dollars. For furnishings for House Office Building, including steel cases forHouse Office Building.Furnishings. new stationery room and for renewal of locks on doors of Members’ offices, eleven thousand and forty-seven dollars, under the direction and supervision of the House Office Building Commission.
Approved, December 22, 1911.