Chapter 1. Making appropriations for certain expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty-third Congress, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 1.— An Act Making appropriations for certain expenses incident to the first session of the Sixty-third Congress, and for other purposes. May 1, 1913.[[H. R. 2973](/us/bill/63/hr/2973).][[Public No. 1](/us/pl/63/1).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Appropriations for legislative, etc., expenses. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, namely:
UNDER LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. The appropriations for mileage of Senators, Members of the House Mileage appropriations for Senators and Members made available.Vol. 37, pp. 739, 743.of Representatives, and Delegates from the Territories, and expenses of Resident Commissioners, made in the legislative, executive, and Judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, be, and the same are hereby, made immediately available and authorized to be paid to Senators, Members of the House of Representatives, Delegates from the Territories, and Resident Commissioners, for attendance on the first session of the Sixty-third Congress, house of representatives.House of Representatives.
For stationery for Members and Delegates and Resident Commissioners, Stationery.at $125 each, for the first session of the Sixty-third Congress, $55,000. For the following employees during the first session of the Sixty-third Congress, but not longer than until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, namely: For forty-six pages, including two riding pages, four telephone Pages and telephone operators.pages, one press gallery page, and ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, at $2.50 per day each; three telephone operators, at the rate of $75 per month each; in all, $10,535, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. For the following in the Department of Labor, pursuant to the Salaries of Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.Vol. 37, p. 736.Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, creating a Department of Labor, from March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, or from the date of their appointment and qualification, 12respectively, until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, namely: Secretary of Labor, at the rate of $12,000 per annum;
Assistant Secretary of Labor, at the rate of $5,000 per annum; Solicitor of the Department of Justice for the Department of Labor, at the rate of $5,000 per annum; chief clerk, at the rate of $3,000 per annum; disbursing clerk, at the rate of S3,000 per annum; private secretary to the Secretary, at the rate of $2,500 per annum; confidential clerK to the Secretary, at the rate of $1,800 per annum; and private secretary to the Assistant Secretary, at the rate of $2,100 per annum; in all, $42,300, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Appropriations for bureaus, etc., transferred to Department, made available.Vol. 37, pp. 783, 786, 788.*Post*, p. 64.All appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and balances, after March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, of appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, together with all appropriations made or to be made in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, for the bureaus, offices, or other divisions of whatever designation or character, transferred from the Department of Commerce and Labor to the Department of Labor, under the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall be available for expenditure in and by the Department of Labor, and shall be treated the same as though said branches of the public service had been directly named in the laws making said appropriations as parts of the Department of Labor, under the direction of the *Proviso.*Allotment of general appropriations.Secretary of the department: *Provided*, That as to all general appropriations for printing and binding, and contingent or miscellaneous expenses, the amounts that shall be transferred hereunder, except where the same are specifically fixed by law, shall in the case of each bureau, office, or other division be not less than the average amount expended on account of or allotted for expenditure to each of the same during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and twelve and nineteen hundred and thirteen.
Officers and employees transferred from Department of Commerce and Labor.The Secretary of Commerce is authorized and directed, as soon as may be practicable, to transfer to the Department of Labor all chiefs of division, assistant chiefs of di vision, clerks, messengers, assistant messengers, watchmen, charwomen, laborers, or others now employed in the divisions of his office who were, up to March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, wholly engaged upon the work relating to the business of the bureaus and offices of the Department of Commerce and Labor transferred to the Department oi Labor under the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen; and in proportion to the number of persons in the divisions of his office whose time and labor were partially devoted to the work of said bureaus and offices he shall transfer approximately an equivalent number of clerks and other employees to said Department of Labor, and the appropriations made for the compensation of all persons transferred hereunder shall be credited to and disbursed by the Department of Labor.
Annual estimates to be submitted.The Secretary of Labor shall submit to Congress, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, and annually thereafter, estimates in detail for all personal services and for all general and miscellaneous expenses for the Department of Labor. THE PANAMA CANAL.Panama Canal. Sec. 2. Moneys received during the year for services. supplies, etc., credited to appropriations.*Post*, p. 71. That during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, all moneys received by the Isthmian Canal Commission, or the governor of the Panama Canal, from any services rendered or materials and supplies furnished employees, the Panama Railroad Company, the Canal Zone government, the Panama Government, and other departments of the United States Government, from hotel and hospital 3supplies and services; from rentals, wharfage, and so forth; from labor, materials, and supplies and other services furnished vessels and to those unable to obtain similar labor, materials, supplies, and services elsewhere, shall be credited to the appropriation from which payments for the materials, supplies, labor, or other services were originally made; except that moneys received from the sale of material Construction equipment, etc., to be covered into the Treasury.and equipment purchased and used for construction purposes, and as a reimbursement for the expenditures incurred in constructing waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, including interest on such expenditures, excluding payments on account of the expenses for maintenance of such waterworks, sewers, and pavements incurred under agreement with the Panama Government, and otherwise herein disposed of, shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts; and except that after the canal Canal profits.is opened for use and operation the net profits accruing from the operations herein authorized shall annually be covered into the Treasury of the United States, as provided for the profits accruing from the business authorized in section six of the Panama Canal Act.Vol. 37, p. 504.
That until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, Unserviceable equipment, etc., may be sold without advertising.when any material, supplies, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama 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. RENTAL OF BUILDINGS.Rented buildings, District of Columbia.
Sec. 3. Hereafter the statement of buildings rented within the Statement to include details of floor space, etc.Vol. 27, p. 199.District of Columbia for use of the Government, required by the Act of July sixteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-two (Statutes at Large, volume twenty-seven, page one hundred and ninety-nine), shall indicate as to each building rented the area thereof in square feet of available floor space for Government uses, the rate paid per square foot for such floor space, the assessed valuation of each building, and what proportion, if any, of the rental paid includes heat, light, elevator, or other service.
Approved, May 1, 1913.