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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 38 STAT. · July 16, 1914 · Chapter 141

Chapter 141. Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 141.— An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and for other purposes. July 16, 1914.[[H. R. 15279](/us/bill/63/hr/15279).][[Public, No. 127](/us/pl/63/127).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, for the objects hereinafter expressed, namely:
LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. Pay of Senators.For compensation of Senators, $720,000. Mileage.For mileage of Senators, $51,000. Officers, clerks, etc.For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others. Vice President’s office.Office of the Vice President: Secretary to the Vice President, $4,000; messenger, $1,440; telegraph operator, $1,500; telegraph page, $600; in all, $7,540. Chaplain.Chaplain: For Chaplain, $1,200. Secretary of the Senate, assistant, clerks, etc.Office of Secretary:
Secretary of the Senate, including compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators and of the contingent fund of the Senate, $6,500; hire of horse and wagon for the Secretary’s office, $420; assistant secretary, Henry M. Rose, $5,000; chief clerk, $3,250; financial clerk, $3,000 and $1,250 additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; minute and journal clerk, principal clerk, reading clerk, and enrolling clerk, at $3,000 each; executive clerk, and assistant financial clerk, at $2,750 each; librarian, 455file clerk, chief bookkeeper, assistant journal clerk, printing clerk, and three clerks, at $2,500 each; first assistant librarian, $2,400; keeper of stationery, $2,400; four clerks, at $2,220 each; two clerks, at $2,100 each; assistant librarian, $1,800; skilled laborer, $1,200; clerks—one $1,800, two at $1,600 each, one $1,440; assistant keeper of stationery, $2,000; assistant in stationery room, $1,200; messenger, $1,440; assistant messenger, $1,200; laborers—three at $840 each, three at $720 each, one in stationery room $720; in all, $95,480.
Document room: Superintendent, George H. Boyd, $3,000; assistants—twoDocument room.Superintendent, etc. at $2,250 each, one $1,440; one clerk, $1,440; skilled laborer, $1,200; in all, $11,580. Clerks and messengers to the Following committees: AdditionalClerks and messengers to committees. accommodations for the Library of Congress—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $l?440, messenger $1,200; Agriculture and Forestry— clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Appropriations—clerk $4,000, two assistant clerks at $2,500 each, two assistant clerks at $1,440 each, messenger $1,440, laborer $720;
To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Banking and Currency— clerk $3,000, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Canadian Relations—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Census—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Civil Service and Retrenchment—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Claims—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,000, assist-ant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440;
Coast and Insular Survey—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Coast Defenses—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Commerce—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Conference Minority of the Senate—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, two messengers at $1,200 each; Conservation of National Resources—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200;
Cuban Relations—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments—clerk $2,220, assist-ant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; District of Columbia—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Education and Labor—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Engrossed Bills—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,200; Enrolled Bills—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200;
To Examine the Several Branches of the Civil Service-clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Departments of Commerce and Labor—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Interior Department—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Department of Justice—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440;
Expenditures in the Navy Department—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Post Office Department—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Department of State—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Treasury Department—-clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the War Department—clerk $2,220, assist-ant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Finance—clerk $3,000, assist-ant clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,600, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; two experts, one for the majority and one for the minority, at $2,000 each;
Fisheries—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Five Civilized Tribes of Indians—clerk 456$2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Foreign Relations— clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, messenger $1,440; Forest Reservations and Protection of Game—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Geological Survey—clerk $2,220, assist-ant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Immigration—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Indian Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440;
Indian Depredations—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Indus-trial Expositions—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Interoceanic Canals—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,200; Interstate Commerce—clerk $2,500, two assist-ant clerks at $1,800 each, messenger $1,440; To Investigate Trespassers on Indian Lands—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200;
Judiciary—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, two assistant clerks at $1,800 each, messenger $1,440; Joint Committee on the Library—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Manufactures—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Military Affairs— clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Mines and Mining—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Mississippi River and Its Tributaries—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200;
National Banks— clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Naval Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Pacific Islands and Porto Rico—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Pacific Railroads—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Patents—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Pensions—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, three assistant clerks at $1,440 each, messenger $1,440;
Philippines—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,000, two assistant clerks at $1,440 each, messenger $1,440; Printing—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Private Land Claims—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,200; Privileges and Elections—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Public Buildings and Grounds$clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440;
Public Health and National Quarantine—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Public Lands—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Railroads—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Revolutionary Claims—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Rules—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Standards, Weights, and Measures—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Territories—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440;
Transportation and Salo of Meat Products—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Transportation Routes to the Seaboard—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; University of the United States—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Woman Suffrage—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; in all, $418,880. Authorizations re-pealed.All Senate resolutions passed prior to July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, authorizing the payment for clerical and messenger services from the contingent fund of the Senate are hereby repealed.
Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, assistant, etc.Office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper: Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $6,500; Assistant Sergeant at Arms, $2,500; Assistant Doorkeeper, $3,000; Acting Assistant Doorkeeper, $3,000; Messengers, etc.messengers—four (acting as assistant doorkeepers) at $1,800 each, thirty-two at $1,440 each, one at $1,000, two on the floor of the 457Senate at $2,000 each, one at card door $1,600; clerk on Journal work for Congressional Record, to be selected by the official reporters, $2,000; storekeeper, $2,220; upholsterer and locksmith, $1,440; cabinetmaker, 31,200; three carpenters, at $1,080 each: janitor, $1,200; skilled laborers—four at $1,000 each; laborer in charge of privateLaborers, etc. passage, $840; three female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring room, at $720 each; telephone operators—chief at $1,200, two atPages. $900 each, night operator $720; telephone page, $720; press gallery— superintendent $1,800; assistant superintendent $1,400; laborers— one $840, three at $800 each, thirty-two at $720 each; sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of $2.50 per day each during the session, $4,600; in all, $131,700.
For the following for Senate Office Building under the SergeantSenate Office Building.Care, etc. at Arms, namely: Stenographer in charge of furniture accounts and keeper of furniture records, $1,200; three attendants to women’s toilet rooms, at $720 each; messengers—two acting as mail carriers, at $1,200 each, one for service to the press correspondents $900; in all, $6,660. For police force for Senate Office Building under the Sergeant atPolice force. Arms, namely: Sixteen privates, at $1,050 each; special officer, $1,200; in all, $18,000.
Post office: Postmaster, $2,250; chief clerk, $1,800; six mail carriers,Postmaster, etc. and one wagon master, at $1,200 each; three riding pages, at $912.50 each; in all, $15,187.50. Folding room: Foreman, $1,400; assistant, $1,400; clerk, $1,200;Folding room. folders—six at $1,000 each, eight at $840 each; in all, $16,720. Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds:Chief engineer, etc. Chief engineer, $2,160; assistant engineer and electrician, $1,800; three assistant engineers, at $1,440 each; ten elevator conductors, at $1,200 each; two machinists and electricians, at $1,400 each; laborers—four at $720 each, one in charge of Senate toilet rooms in old library space, $660; attendant for service in old library portion of the.
Capitol, $1,500; in all, $28,120. For the following for the Senate Office Building, under the SuperintendentElevator conductors, Senate Office Building. of the Capitol Building and Grounds, subject to the control and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, namely: Fourteen elevator conductors, at $1,200 each; in all, $16,800. For assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of committees, asAssistance to Senators. follows: Twenty-four clerks, at $2,000 each; twenty-four assistants clerks, at $1,200 each; and twenty-four messengers, at $1,200 each; in all, $105,600.
Contingent expenses: For stationery for Senators and the PresidentContingent expenses.Stationery. of the Senate, including $6,000 for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $18,125. For postage stamps for the office of the Secretary, $200; for thePostage stamps. office of the Sergeant at Arms, $100; in all, $300. For the purchase of two automobiles, including the driving, maintenance,Automobiles for Vice President and Speaker. and care of same, one for the use of the Vice President and one for the use of the Speaker of the House of Representatives, $9,000; one half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate andDivision of expenses. the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives.
For expenses of maintaining and equipping motor vehicles for carryingMail vehicles. the mails, $6,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For materials for folding, $2,000.Folding. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $8,000.cd. For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor,Fuel, etc. $1,500. For purchase of furniture, $8,500.Furniture. 458 For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, $3,000.
For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, $2,000. Packing boxes.For packing boxes, $970. Warehouse for documents.For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents for the Sen-ate, $1,800. Removal of documents, etc.The Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds is hereby authorized and directed to remove any unused documents and mate-rial now in the Capitol Building or Senate and House Office Buildings, and the Patent Office models now stored in the Senate and House Office Buildings, to some building or buildings located on Reservation Numbered Thirteen, in the District of Columbia, and the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds is hereby made the custodian of the building or buildings so selected.
Miscellaneous items.For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $50,000. Investigations.For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding $1 per printed page, $25,000. Reporting debates.For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, $30,000, payable m equal monthly installments. capitol police.Capitol police.
Pay.For captain, $1,800; three lieutenants, at $1,200 each; two special officers, at $1,200 each; forty-seven privates, at $1,050 each; one-half of said privates to be selected by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and one-half by the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives; in all, $57,150, one half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, $200, one half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. joint committee on printing.Joint Committee on Printing.
Clerk, etc.Vol. 28, p. 603.For clerk, $3,000; inspector, under section twenty of the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $2,000; Congressional Directory.Compiling, etc.stenographer, $1,000; for expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory, $1,600; in all, $7,600, one-half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. house of representatives.House of Representatives.
Pay of Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners.For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, Delegates from Territories, the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, $3,304,500. Commencement of salaries for unexpired terms.The salaries of Representatives in Congress, Delegates from Territories, and Resident Commissioners, elected for unexpired terms, shall commence on the date of their election and not before.
Mileage.For mileage of Representatives and Delegates and expenses of Resident Commissioners, $175,000. Officers, clerks, etc.For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others. Speaker’s office.Office of the Speaker: Secretary to Speaker, $4,000; clerk to Speaker’s table, $3,600, and for preparing Digest of the Rules, $1,000 per annum; clerk to Speaker, $1,600; messenger to Speaker, $1,440; messenger to Speaker’s table, $1,200; in all, $12,840. 459 Chaplain: For Chaplain, $1,200.Chaplain.
Office of the Clerk: Clerk of the House of Representatives, Clerk of the House, clerks, etc.including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, $6,500; hire or horse and wagon for use of the Clerk’s office, $900, or so much thereof as may be necessary; chief clerk, $4,500; journal clerk, and two reading clerks, at $4,000 each; disbursing clerk, $3,400; tally clerk, $3,300; file clerk, $3,250; enrolling clerk, $3,000; chief bill clerk, $3,000; assistant to chief clerk, and assistant enrolling clerk, at $2,500 each; assistant disbursing clerk,$2,400; stationery clerk,$2,200; librarian, $2,100; assistant file clerk, $1,900; two assistant librarians, one messenger and assistant journal clerk, and one clerk, at $1,800 each; three clerks, at $1,680 each; bookkeeper, and assistant in disbursing office, at $1,600 each; four assistants to chief bill clerk, at $1,500 each; stenographer to Clerk, $1,400; locksmith, who shall be skilled in his trade, $1,300; messenger in chief clerk’s office, and assistant in stationery room, at $1 200 each; messenger in file room, messenger in disbursing office, and assistant in House library, at $1,100 each; stenographer to chief bill clerk, $1,000; four telephone operators, including one night operator, at $900 each; three telephone session operators, at $75 per month each from December first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifteen; substitute telephone operator when required, at $2.50 per day, $500; two laborers in the bathroom, at $900 each; two laborers, and page in enrolling room, at $720 each; allowance to chief clerk for stenographic and typewriter Services, $1,000; in all, $94,250.
Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds:Chief engineer, etc. Chief engineer, $1,900; assistant engineers—three at $1,300 each, one at $1,200; twenty-four elevator conductors, including fourteen for service in the House Office Building, at $1,200 each, who shall be under the supervision and direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds; machinist, $1,300; electrician, $1,200; three laborers, at $800 each; in all, $40,700. Clerks, messengers, and janitors to the following committees:Clerks, messengers, and janitors to committees.
Accounts—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $1,000; Agriculture—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $1,000; Appropriations—clerk $4,000 and $1,000 additional while the office is held by the present incumbent, assistant clerk and stenographer $2,500, assistant clerks, one $1,900, one $1,800, janitor $1,000; Banking and Currency—clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Census—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Claims—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720;
Coinage, Weights, and Measures—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; District of Columbia—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720; Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives in Congress—clerk $2,000; Elections Number One—clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000; Elections Number Two—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Elections Number Three— clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Enrolled Bills—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Foreign Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720; Immigration and Naturalization—clerk $2,000, janitor $720;
Indian Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720; Industrial Arts and Expositions—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Insular Affairs— clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Interstate and Foreign Commerce—clerk $2,500, additional clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $1,000; Irrigation of Arid Lands—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Invalid Pensions—clerk $2,500, stenographer $2,190, assistant clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000; Judiciary—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, janitor $720;
Labor—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Library—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Merchant Marine and Fisheries—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Military Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $1,000; Naval Affairs—clerk $2,400, assistant clerk $1,500, 460janitor, $1,000; Patents—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Pensions— clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, janitor $720; Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,400, janitor $1,000; Printing—clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000;
Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Public Lands—clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Revision of the Laws—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Rivers and Harbors—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $1,000; Roads—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Rules—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Territories—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; War Claims—clerk $2,500, clerk to continue Digest of Claims under resolution of March seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720;
Ways and Means—clerk $3,000, assistant clerk and stenographer, $2,000, assistant clerk $1,900, janitors, one $1,000, one $720; in all, $168,750. Janitors.Appointment.Janitors under the foregoing shall be appointed by the chairmen, respectively, of said committees, and shall perform under the direction of the Doorkeeper all of the duties heretofore required of messengers detailed to said committees by the Doorkeeper, and shall be subject to removal by the Doorkeeper at any time after the termination of the Congress during which they were appointed.
Clerks to committees, session.For nine clerks to committees, at $6 each per day during the session, $6,210. Sergeant at Arms, Deputy, etc.Office of the Sergeant at Arms: Sergeant at Arms, $6,500; Deputy Sergeant at Arms, $2,500; cashier, $3,400; financial clerk, $2,700; bookkeeper, $2,200; deputy sergeant at arms in charge of pairs, $1,800; messenger, $1,400; stenographer and typewriter, $900; skilled laborer, $840; hire of horse and wagon, $600; in all, $22,840. House Office Building.Police force.For police force, House Office Building, under the Sergeant at Arms:
Lieutenant, $1,200; ten privates, at $1,050 each; in all, $11,700. Doorkeeper, special employees, etc.Office of Doorkeeper: Doorkeeper, $5,000; hire of horses and wagons and repairs of same, $1,200, or so much thereof as may be necessary; special employee, $1,500; superintendent of reporters’ Messengers, laborers, etc.gallery, $1,400; janitor, $1,500; messengers—sixteen at $1,180 each; fourteen on the soldiers’ roll, at $1,200 each; laborers—fifteen at $720 each, one in the water-closet $720, one $680, two known as cloakroom men at $840 each, eight known as cloakroom men, two at $720 each and six at $600 each; female attendant in ladies’ retiring Folding room.Superintendent, etc.room, $800; superintendent of folding room, $2,500; foreman, $1,800; three clerks, at $1,600 each; messenger, $1,200; janitor, $720; laborer, $720; thirty-two folders, at $900 each; two drivers at $840 each;
Pages, etc.two chief pages, at $1,200 each; two messengers in charge of telephones (one for the minority), at $1,200 each;forty-six pages, during the session, including two riding pages, four telephone pages, press-gallery page, and ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of Document room.Superintendent, etc.the House, at $2.50 per day each, $13,225; superintendent of document room, $2,900; assistant superintendent, $2,100; clerk, $1,700; assistant clerk, $1,600; assistants—seven at $1,280 each, one $1,100; janitor, $920; messenger to press room, $1,000; in all, $146,525.
Joel Grayson.For employment of Joel Grayson in document room, $2,150. Minority employees.For minority employees authorized and named in the resolution adopted April seventh, nineteen hundred and thirteen, namely: Special employee, $1,800; special messenger and assistant pair clerk, $1,800; special messenger, $1,500; special chief page and pair clerk, $1,800; in all, $6,900. Special designated employees.For assistant department messenger authorized and named in the resolution adopted December seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, $2,000.
For special messenger authorized and named in the resolution adopted January fifteenth, nineteen hundred, $1,500. 461 To continue employment of the assistant foreman of the folding room, authorized in the resolution adopted September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, at $3.85 per day, $1,405.25. To continue employment of the person named in the resolution adopted April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as a laborer, $840. To continue employment of the laborer authorized and named in the resolution adopted December nineteenth, nineteen hundred and one, $840.
To continue employment of the special messenger authorized and named in the resolution adopted April seventh, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $1,500. To continue employment of the special employee authorized and named in House resolution adopted April twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $1,800. Successors to any of the employees provided for in the eight precedingAppointments. paragraphs may be named, by the House of Representatives at any time. Conference Minority: Clerk, $2,000; assistant clerk, $1,200; janitor,Conference minority.Clerks, etc. $1,000; in all, $4,200; the same to be appointed by the chairman. of the conference minority.
To continue the employment of messengers in the majority andConference messengers. minority caucus rooms, to be appointed by the majority and minority whips, respectively, at $1,200 each; in all, $2,400. Office of Postmaster: Postmaster, $4,000; assistant postmaster,Postmaster, assistant, etc. $2,200; registry and money-order clerk, $1,500; messengers—twelve (including one to superintend transportation of mails) at $1,200 each, eighteen at $100 per month each from December first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $5,600; laborer, $720; in all, $30,020.
For hire of horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, $2,500,Horses and wagons. or so much thereof as may be necessary. Official reporters: Six official reporters of the proceedings and Official reporters.debates of the House, at $5,000 each; assistant, $2,500; in all, $32,500. For janitor for rooms of official reporters of debates, $720. Stenographers to committees: Four stenographers to committees,Stenographers to committees. at $5,000 each; in all, $20,000. For janitor to rooms of stenographers to committees, $720.
Wherever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing“During the session” to mean 115 days. paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the one hundred and fifteen days from December seventh, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, both inclusive. Clerk hire, Members and Delegates: To pay each Member,Clerk hire, Members and Delegates. Delegate, and Resident Commissioner, for clerk hire, necessarily employed by him in the discharge of his official and representative duties, $1,500 per annum, in monthly installments, $660,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and Representatives and Delegates elect to Congress whose credentials in due form of law have been duly filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in accordance with the provisions of section thirty-one of the Revised Statutes[R.
S., sec. 31, p. 6](/us/rs/s31/p6). of the United States, shall be entitled to payment under this appropriation: *Provided*, That all clerks to Members, Delegates, andProviso.To be placed on rolls of employees. Resident Commissioners shall be placed on the roll of employees of the House and be subject to be removed at the will of the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner by whom they are appointed; and any Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may appoint one or more clerks, who shall be placed on the roll as the clerk of such Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner making such appointments. 462 Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses;
For wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste, Folding materials.twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding, for use of Members, the Clerk’s office, and folding room, not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk of the House, under provisions of the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $10,000. Furniture.For furniture, and materials for repairs of the same, $20,000.
Packing boxes.For packing boxes, $4,350, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Miscellaneous items.For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, $75,000. Payment for barbershop supplies forbidden.That hereafter it shall be unlawful for the Clerk of the House to pay out of any moneys of the House of Representatives any bills for sundry, furniture, supplies, or utensils used in the barber shops of the House Office Building or the House side of the Capitol.
Stationery.For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives, Delegates from Territories, and Resident Commissioners, including $5,000 for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, $60,000. Postage stamps.For postage stamps for the Postmaster, $250; for the Clerk, $450; for the Sergeant at Arms, $300; and for the Doorkeeper, $150; in all, $1,150. library of congress.Library of Congress. Librarian, etc.General administration: Librarian, $6,500; chief assistant librarian, $4,000; chief clerk, $2,500; librarian’s secretary, $1,800; clerks—one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; stenographers and typewriters—one $1,200, one $780; messenger, $840; messenger to chief assistant librarian, $540; junior messenger, $420; operator of photographic copying machine, $600; in all, $22,380.
Mail and delivery.Mail and delivery: Assistants—one in charge, $1,500, one $960, one $720; junior messenger, $420; in all, $3,600. Order and accession.Order and accession: Chief of division, $2,500; assistants—one $1,500, one $1,200, three at $960 each, two at $780 each, two at $600 each, one $580; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $12,260. Catalogue, classification, and shelf.Catalogue, classification, and shelf: Chief of division, $3,000; chief classifier, $2,000; assistants—four at $1,800 each, seven at $1,500 each, six at $1,400 each, twelve at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, fourteen at $960 each, four at $860 each, thirteen at $780 each, thirteen at $600 each, four at $540 each; six junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $91,000.
Binding.Binding: Assistants—one in charge $1,500, one $900; junior messenger, $420; in all, $2,820. Bibliography.Bibliography: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, two at $960 each, one $780; stenographer and typewriter, $900; junior messenger, $420; in all, $8,520. Reading rooms.Reading rooms (including evening service) and special collections: Superintendent, $3,000; assistants—two at $1,800 each, five at $1,200 each (including one in room for the blind), two at charging desk at $1,080 each, three at $900 each, ten at $780 each, two at $600 each; stenographer and typewriter, $960; attendant, Senate reading room, $900; attendants, Representatives’ reading room—one $960, one $780; attendants—two in cloakroom at $720 each, one in Toner Library $900, one in Washingtonian Library $900, two for gallery and alcoves at $540 each; telephone operator, $660; four junior messengers, at $420 each; two watchmen, at $720 each; evening service, assistants—five at $900 each, fifteen at $780 each, two at $600 each; in all, $55,560.
Periodicals.Periodical (including evening service): Chief of division, $2,000; assistants—chief $1,500, two at $960 each, five at $780 each; ste463nographer and typewriter, $900; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $11,060. Documents: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, oneDocuments. $780; stenographer and typewriter, $900; junior messenger, $420; in all, $6,600. Manuscript: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—chief $1,500, oneManuscript. $960; junior messenger, $420: in all, $5,880.
Maps and charts: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500,Maps and charts. two at $960 each, one $780; junior messenger, $420; in all, $7,620. Music: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, one $1,000,Music. two at $780 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, $7,4S0. Prints: Chief of division, $2,000; assistants—one $1,500, two atPrints. $960 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,840. Smithsoman deposit: Custodian, $1,500; assistant, $1,500; messenger,Smithsonian deposit. $720; junior messenger, $420; in all, $4,140.
Congressional Reference Library: Custodian, $1,500; assistants—oneCongressional Reference Library. $1,200, one $900, one $780; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $5,220. Law Library: Librarian, $3,000; assistants—two at $1,400 each,Law Library. one $960, one $540, one for evening service, $1,500; junior messenger, $420; in all, $9,220. Legislative reference: To enable the Librarian of Congress to employIndexes, etc., of laws. competent persons to prepare such indexes, digests, and compilations of law as may be required for Congress and other official use pursuant to the Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundredVol. 34, p. 753. and six, $25,000.
Semitic and Oriental Literature: Chief of Division, $3,000; assistant,Semitic and oriental literature. $1,500; junior messenger, $420; in all, $4,920. Copyright office: Register, $4,000; assistant register, $3,000;Copyright office. clerks—four at $2,000 each, four at $1,800 each, seven at $1,600 each, one $1,500, eight at $1,400 each, ten at $1,200 each, ten at $1,000 each, eighteen at $900 each, two at $800 each, ten at $720 each, four at $600 each, two at $480 each; four junior messengers, at $360 each.
Arrears, special service: Three clerks, at $1,200 each; porter, $720; junior messenger, $360; in all, $102,580. Distribution of card indexes: For service in connection withCard indexes. distribution of card indexes and other publications of the Library, including not exceeding $500 for freight charges, expressage, traveling expenses connected with such distribution, and expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $33,500.
Temporary services: For special and temporary service, includingTemporary services. extra special services of regular employees at the discretion of the Librarian, $2,000. Carrier service: For service in connection with the Senate andCarrier service. House Office Buildings, $960, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Sunday opening: To enable the Library of Congress to be keptSunday opening. open for reference use from two until ten o’clock postmeridian on Sundays and legal holidays, within the discretion of the Librarian, including the extra services of employees and the services of additional employees under the Librarian, $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Increase of Library of Congress: For purchase of books forIncrease of Library.Purchase of books, etc. the Library, including payment in advance for subscription books and society publications, and for freight, commissions, and traveling expenses incidental to the acquisition of books by purchase, gift, or exchange, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $90,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this object for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen. 464 Law books.For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, under the direction of the Chief Justice, including payment in advance for subscriptions to law periodicals, $3,000 .
Books for Supreme Court.For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the marshal of the Supremo Court , under the direction of the Chief Justice, $2,000. Periodicals.For purchase of miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, including payment in advance for subscriptions to the same, $5,000. In all, $100,000. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, stationery, supplies, stock and materials directly purchased, miscellaneous traveling expenses, postage, transportation, incidental expenses connected with the administration of the Library and the Copyright Office, including not exceeding $500 for expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $7,300.
Care of building and grounds.Superintendent, etc.Library building and grounds: Superintendent, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—one $1,600, one $1,400, one $1,000; messenger; assistant messenger; telephone switchboard operator; assistant telephone switchboard operator; captain of watch, $1,400; lieutenant of watch, $1,000; sixteen watchmen, at $900 each; carpenter, painter, and foreman of laborers, at $900 each; fourteen laborers, at $540 each; two attendants in ladies’ room, at $480 each; four check boys, at $360 each; mistress of charwomen, $425; assistant mistress of charwomen, $300; fifty-two charwomen; chief engineer, $1,500; assistant engineers—one $1,200, three at $900 each; electrician, $1,500; machinists—one $1,000, one $900; two wiremen, at $900 each; plumber, $900; three elevator conductors, and ten skilled laborers, at $720 each; in all, $77,405.
Sunday opening.For extra services of employees and additional employees under the superintendent of the Library Building and grounds to provide for the opening of the Library Building from two until ten o’clock post meridian on Sundays and legal holidays, $2,800. General expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous supplies, electric and steam apparatus, city directory, stationery, mail and delivery service, and all incidental expenses in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of said building and grounds, including $2,000 for minor repairs of the main roof, $16,000.
Furniture, etc.For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical work pertaining thereto, $10,000. BOTANIC GARDEN.Botanic Garden. Superintendent, assistants, etc.For superintendent, $1,800. For assistants and laborers, under the direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, $14,593.75. Repairs and improvements.For procuring manure, soil, tools, fuel, purchasing trees, shrubs, plants, and seeds; and for services, materials, and miscellaneous supplies, and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Gardens, under direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, $6,500.
EXECUTIVE.Executive. President.For compensation of the President of the United States, $75,000. Vice President.For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, $12,000. Executive Office.Secretary, executive clerk, etc.Office of the President: Secretary, $7,500; executive clerk, $5,000; chief clerk, $4,000; appointment clerk, $3,500; record clerk, $2,500; two expert stenographers, at $2,500 each: accountant, $2,500; two 465correspondents, at $2,500 each; disbursing clerk, $2,000; clerks— three at $2,000 each, six of class four, three of class three, four of class two, three of class one; messengers—two at $900 each, two at $840 each; three laborers, at $720 each; in all, $73,440: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Details of employees.
That employees of the executive departments and other establishments of the executive branch of the Government may be detailed from time to time to the office of the President of the United States for such temporary assistance as may be necessary. For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationeryContingent expenses. therefor, as well as record books, telegrams, telephones, nooks for library, furniture and carpets for offices, horses, carriages, harness, automobiles, expenses of stable, including labor, and miscellaneous items, to be expended in the discretion of the President, $25,000.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.Civil Service Commission. For commissioner, acting as president of the commission, $4,500;Commissioners, examiners, etc. two commissioners, at $4,000 each; chief examiner, $3,500; secretary, $2,500; assistant chief examiner, $2,250; chiefs of division— three at $2,000 each; examiners—one $2,400, three at $2,000 each, four at $1,800 each; clerks—six of class four, twenty-six of class three, thirty-four of class two, forty-four of class one, thirty-four at $1,000 each, twenty-two at $900 each; messenger; assistant messenger; skilled laborer, $720; four messenger boys, at $360 each.
Custodian force: Engineer, $840; general mechanic, $840; telephone-switchboard operator; two firemen; two watchmen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; three laborers; four charwomen; in all, $262,330. Field force: District secretaries—two at $2,400 each, one $2,200,Field force. four at $2,000 each, five at $1,800 each; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class one, seven at $1,000 each, six at $900 each, five at $840 each; messenger boy, $480; in all, $45,680.
No detail of clerks or other employees from the executive departmentsNo details from departments, etc. or other Government establishments in Washington, District of Columbia, to the Civil Service Commission, for the performance of duty in the District of Columbia, shall be made for or during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen. The Civil Service Commission shall, however, have power in case of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees herein provided for to or from its office force, field force, or rural earner examining board.
Expert examiners: For the employment of expert examinersExpert examiners. not in the Federal service to prepare questions and rate papers in examinations on special subjects for which examiners within the service are not available, $2,000. For the establishment and maintenance of system of efficiencyEfficiency ratings system.Report on administrative needs, personnel, of departments, etc. ratings, $.30,000. The Civil Service Commission shall investigate and report to the President, with its recommendations, as to th. administrative needs of the service relating to personnel in the several executive departments and independent establishments in the District of Columbia, and report to Congress details of expenditure and of progress of work hereunder at the beginning of each regular session: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a *Proviso.*Pay restriction.compensation in excess of $4,000 per annum.
For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examinersTraveling expenses, etc. acting under the direction of the commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, and including not exceeding $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings of public officials when specifically directed by the commission, $12,000. The operation of the Executive order of March twenty-eighth,Details for ratings, etc., suspended. nineteen hundred and twelve, for the annual submission to the Civil 466Service Commission of an outline of organization of the Government of the United States is suspended until otherwise provided by law.
Examination of fourth-class postmasters.Office, etc., expenses.Examination of fourth-class postmasters: For necessary additional office employees, printing, stationery, travel, contingent and other necessary expenses of examinations, $11,190, and the unexpended Balance available.*Ante*, p. 208.balance of the appropriation made for this purpose in the urgent deficiency Act approved October twenty-second, nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.
Field examiners.For field examiners at the rate of $1,500 per annum each, for work in connection with members of local boards and other necessary Balance available.work as directed by the commission, $5,700, and the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for this purpose in the urgent *Ante*, p. 208.deficiency Act approved October twenty-second, nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen. DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State.
Secretary, Assistants.For Secretary of State, $12,000.; Assistant Secretary, $5,000; Director of Consular Service, Counselor, etc.Second and Third Assistant Secretaries, at $4,500 each; Director of the Consular Service, $4,500; counselor for the Department of State, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent Officers on drafting work, etc.of the Senate, $7,500; officers to aid in important drafting work— four at $4,500 each, four at $3,000 each, to be appointed by the Secretary of State, any one of whom may be employed as chief of division of far eastern, Latin American, near eastern, or European affairs, or upon other work in connection with foreign relations;
Assistant solicitors.three assistant solicitors of the Department of State, to be appointed Chief clerk, chiefs of bureaus, clerks, etc.by the Secretary of State, at $3,000 each; chief clerk, who shall sign such official papers and documents as the Secretary of State may direct, $3,000; law clerk, $2,500; law clerk and assistant, to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of State, to edit the laws of Congress and perform such other duties as may be required of them, at $2,500 and $1,500, respectively; chiefs of bureaus—two at $2,250 each, five at $2,100 each; two translators, at $2,100 each; additional to chief of bureau of accounts as disbursing clerk, $200; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; clerks—seventeen of class four, nineteen of class three, twenty-five of class two, forty-three of class one, three of whom shall be telegraph operators, eighteen at $1,000 each; eighteen at $900 each; chief messenger, $1,000; five messengers; twenty-five assistant messengers; messenger boy $420; packer $720; four laborers at $600 each; telephone switchboard operator; assistant telephone switchboard operator; in all, $320,060.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For stationery, furniture, fixtures, typewriters, including exchange of the same, repairs, and materiaî for repairs, $10,500. Library.For books and maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, including the payment in advance for subscriptions to the same, for the library, $2,000. Lithographing.For services of lithographer and necessary materials for the lithographic press, $1,500. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenses, including the purchase, care, and subsistence of horses, to be used only for official purposes, repair and maintenance of vehicles and automobile mail wagon, including the exchange of the same, harness, equipment for drivers, street car tickets not exceeding $100, and other items not included in tho foregoing, $7,000.
Rent.For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $11,200. 467 TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of the Treasury, $12,000:Secretary, Assistants, clerks, etc. three Assistant Secretaries, at $5,000 each; clerk to the Secretary, $3,000; executive clerk, $2,400; stenographer, $1,800; three private secretaries, one to each Assistant Secretary, at $1,800 each; Government actuary, under control of the Treasury, $2,500: clerks—one of class four, four of class three, two of class two; chief messenger, $1,100; two assistant chief messengers, at $1,000 each; messengers— three at $900 each, three at $840 each; in all, $61,420.
Office of chief clerk and superintendent: Chief clerk, $4,000; Chief clerk, assistant superintendent, clerks, etc.assistant superintendent of Treasury Building, $2,500; clerks—one $2,000, four of class four, one of class three, two of class two, two of class one, one $1,000, one $900; operator of photographic copying machine, $800; two messengers; three assistant messengers; messenger boy, $360; storekeeper, $1,200; telegraph operator, $1,200; telephone operator and assistant telegraph operator, $1,200; chief engineer,Engineers, etc. $1,400; three assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; eight elevator conductors, at $720 each, and the use of laborers as relief elevator conductors during rush hours is authorized; eight firemen; coal passer, $500; locksmith and electrician, $1,400; captain of the watch,Watchmen, laborers, etc. $1,400; two lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; sixty-five watchmen; foreman of laborers, $1,000; skilled laborers—two at $840 each, two at $720 each; electrician, $1,200; wireman, $900; thirty-four laborers; ten laborers, at $500 each; plumber, $1,100; painter, $1,100; plumber’s assistant, $780; eighty-five charwomen; carpenters—twoWinder Building. at $1,000 each, one $720.
Winder Building: Engineer, $1,000; three firemen; elevator conductor, $720; four watchmen; three laborers, one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor; forewoman of char force, $480; eight charwomen.Cox Building. Cox Building, seventeen hundred and nine New York Avenue: Two watchmen-firemen, at $720 each; laborer. Old BureauOld Engraving and Printing Building. of Engraving and Printing Building: One forewoman of char force, $480; twenty-two charwomen; elevator conductor, $720; three laborers, at $500 each, one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor; two female laborers, at $480 each; in all, $182,760.
General Supply Committee: Superintendent of supplies, $2,250;General Supply Committee. clerks—one of class four, one of class three, three of class two, two of class one; twelve temporary clerks for four months, at $75 each per month; in all, $15,850. Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants: Chief of division, $4,000;Bookkeeping and Warrants Division. assistant chief of division, $3,000; estimate and digest clerk, $2,500; executive clerk, $2,500; two principal bookkeepers, at $2,100 each; eleven bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—fourteen of class four, six of class three, six of class two, two of class one; messenger; three assistant messengers; messenger boy, $480; in all, $87,280.
Division of Customs: Chief of division, $4,000; assistant chief ofCustoms Division. division, $3,000; supervising tea examiner, $2,750 (transferred from Customs Service); law clerks—five at $2,500 each, two at $2,000 each; clerks—five of class four (two transferred from Appointment Division), three of class three, five of class two (one transferred from Appointment Division and one from Treasurer’s office), eight of class one (one transferred from Appointment Division and one increase), six at $1,000 each (one transferred from Appointment Division); messenger; two assistant messengers (one transferred from Appointment Division); in all, $64,930.
Division of Appointments: Chief of division, $3,000; assistant chiefAppointments Division. of division, $2,250; executive clerk, $2,000; clerks—one of class four (two transferred to Customs Division), four of class three, four of class 468two (one transferred to Customs Division), two of class one (one transferred to Customs Division, two to Surety Bond Section, and one omitted), two at $1,000 each, (one transferred to Customs Division and one to Surety Bond Section), one $900; messenger; one assistant messenger (one transferred to Customs Division); in all, $27,910.
Surety Bonds Section.Section of Surety Bonds: Chief of section, $2,000 (in lieu of law and bond clerk, transferred from Division of Appointments); clerks—two of class one (transferred from Division of Appointments), one at $1,000 (transferred from Division of Appointments); one assistant messenger (transferred from office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue); in all, $6,120. Public Moneys Division.Division of Public Moneys: Chief of division, $3,000; assistant chief of division, $2,500; clerks—five of class four, four of class three, four of class two, one of class one, one $1,000; messenger; assistant messenger; in all, $30,260.
Loans and Currency Division.Division of Loans and Currency: Chief of division, $3,500; assistant chief of division, $2,700; custodian of paper, $2,250; bond and interest clerk, $2,000; clerks—six of class four, five of class three five of class two, five of class one, one $1,000, twenty-one at $900 each (three transferred from Register’s office); assorter of bonds, $800; twelve expert money counters, at $720 each; messenger; three assistant messengers; eleven laborers (one transferred from Treasurer’s office, one from Register’s office, and one from office of Auditor for War Department); machine operator, $840; in all, $82,690.
Revenue-Cutter Service Division.Division of Revenue-Cutter Service: Assistant chief of division, $2,400; chief clerk, $2,000; law and contract clerk, $1,800, and $200 additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; clerks— one of class four, four of class three, one of class two, three of class one, four at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; messenger; laborer; in all, $27,800. Skilled draftsmen, etc.The services of skilled draftsmen, and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary, may be employed only in the Division of Revenue-Cutter Service in connection with the construction and repair of revenue cutters, to be paid from *Proviso.*Limit, etc.the appropriation “Repairs to revenue cutters”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen shall not exceed $3,400.
A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Printing and Stationery Division.Division of Printing and Stationery: Chief of division, $2,500; assistant chief of division, $2,000; clerics—four of class four, three of class three, three of class two, three of class one, one $1,000, one $900; bookbinder, $1,400; three messengers; assistant messenger; two laborers; messenger boy, $360; in all, $32,520.
Mail and Files Division.Division of Mail and Files: Superintendent of Mail, $2,500: registry clerk, $1,800; distributing clerk, $1,400; clerks—one of class two, one of class one, one $1,000; mail messenger, $1,200; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $360; in all, $12,300. Special Agents’ Division.Division of Special Agents: Assistant chief of division, $2,400; clerks—one of class three, one of class two, four of class one, two at $900 each; messenger; in all, $12,840. Disbursing clerk, etc.Office of disbursing clerk:
Disbursing clerk, $3,000; deputy disbursing clerk, $2,750; clerks—three of class four, two of class three, three of class two, two of class one; messenger; in all, $21,790. Supervising Architect’s Office.*Post*, p. 616.Office of Supervising Architect: Supervising Architect, $5,000; executive officer, $3,250; technical officer, $3,000; drafting division— superintendent, $3,000, assistant superintendent, $2,750;. superintendent, computing division, $2,750; mechanical engineering division—superintendent, $2,750, assistant superintendent, $2,400; structural division—superintendent, $2,750, assistant superintendent, 469$2,400; superintendent, repairs division, $2,400; superintendent, accounts division, $2,500; superintendent, maintenance division, $2,500; files and records division—chief, $2,500, assistant chief, $2,250; head draftsman, $2,500; administrative clerk—eight at $2,000 each; technical clerks—four at $1,800 each; clerks—nine of class four, additional to one of class four as bookkeeper $100, four at $1,700 each, fourteen of class three, six at $1,500 each, thirteen of class two, eight at $1,300 each, twenty-one of class one, four at $1,100 each, seven at $1,000 each, three at $900 each, two at $840 each; photographer, $2,000; foreman, duplicating galley, $1,800; two duplicating paper chemists at $1,200 each; foreman, vault, safe, and lock shop, $1,100; five messengers; two assistant messengers; messenger boys—three at $480 each, two at $360 each; skilled laborers—four at $1,000 each, seven at $960 each, one $900, one $840; laborers—one $660, one $600; in all, $220,800.
Office of Comptroller of the Treasury: Comptroller, $6,000; Comptroller’s Office.assistant comptroller, $4,500; chief clerk, $2,500; chief law clerk, $2,500; law clerks revising accounts and briefing opinions—one $2,100, eight at $2,000 each; expert accountants—six at $2,000 each; private secretary, $1,800; clerks—eight of class four, three of class three, one of class two; stenographer and typewriter, $1,400; typewriter-copyist, $1,000; two messengers; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $73,460.
Office of Auditor for Treasury Department: Auditor, $4,000;Office of Auditor for Treasury Department. chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; two chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—eighteen of class four, fifteen of class three, thirteen of class two, thirty-one of class one, ten at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; three assistant messengers; three laborers; in all, $141,790. Office of Auditor for War Department: Auditor, $4,000;Office of Auditor for War Department. assistant and chief clerk, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chief of division of accounts, $2,500; chief of division, $2,000; two assistant chiefs of division, at $1,900 each; chief transportation clerk, $2,000; clerks— twenty-two of class four, forty-nine of class three, fifty-five of class two, forty-five of class one, nine at $1,000 each; three at $900 each; skilled laborer, $900; messenger; five assistant messengers; nine laborers (one transferred to Loans and Currency Division); messenger boy, $480; in all, $291,010.
Office of Auditor for Navy Department: Auditor, $4,000;Office of Auditor for Navy Department. chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chief of division, $2,000; assistant chief of division, $2,000; clerks—thirteen of class four, twenty-two of class three, twenty of class two, twenty-three of class one, six at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; messenger; assistant messenger; three laborers; in all, $141,390. Office of Auditor for Interior Department: Auditor, $4,000;Office of Auditor for Interior Department. chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250: law clerk, $2,000; chief of division, $2,000; clerks—twelve of class four, fourteen of class three, seventeen of class two, nineteen of class one, eight at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; two messengers; two assistant messengers; laborer; in all, $116,230.
For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, ofEmployees on mechanical devices. such number of employees as may be necessary to tabulate by the use of mechanical devices the accounts and vouchers of the InteriorTabulating equipment. Department; for the purchase, exchange, or rental of the necessary mechanical devices, and for the purchase of such supplies, including tabulating cards printed hi the course of manufacture, and the making of such repairs as may be necessary to their maintenance and operation, $14,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Treasury may,*Proviso.*Reduction in grades below $1,200. during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, in his discretion, diminish the number of positions in the grades below that of clerk at $1,200 per annum in the Office of the Auditor for the Interior Depart470Payment to employees on mechanical devices.ment and use the unexpended balances of the appropriation for the positions so diminished as a fund to pay the compensation, as fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, of such additional number of employees as may be necessary to tabulate by the use of mechanical devices the accounts and vouchers of the Interior Department.
Office of Auditor for State, etc., Departments.Office of Auditor for State and Other Departments: Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; two chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—sixteen of class four, one of class four (special examiner), seventeen of class three, thirteen of class two, eleven of class one, four at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, $111,750. Office of Auditor for Post Office Department.Office of Auditor for Post Office Department:
Auditor, $5,000; assistant and chief clerk, $3,000; law clerk, $3,000; expert accountant, $3,000; four chiefs of division, at $2,250 each; four assistant chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; three principal book-keepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty-five of class four, forty-eight of class three, fifty-eight of class two, eighty-five of class one, forty-seven at $1,000 each; twelve at $900 each; skilled laborers— five at $840 each, eleven at $720 each, six at $660 each; messenger boys—four at $480 each, five at $420 each, five at $360 each; ten male laborers, at $660 each; forewoman, $480; nineteen charwomen; in all, $433,340.
Employees on mechanical devices.For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, of such number of employees as may be necessary to tabulate by the use of mechanical devices the accounts and vouchers of the postal *Proviso.*Employees on leave.service, $191,130: *Provided*, That not exceeding $24,840 may be used for the payment of compensation to said employees absent on leave. Reduction In grades below chief of division.The Secretary of the Treasury may, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, dimmish, from time to time, as vacancies occur by death, resignation, or otherwise, the number of positions of the several grades below the grade of chief of division in the Office of the Auditor for the Post Office Department and use the unexpended Payment to employees on mechanical devices.balances of the appropriations for the positions so diminished as a fund to pay the compensation, as fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, of such number of employees as may be necessary to tabulate, by the use of mechanical devices, the accounts and vouchers of the Postal Service.
Postal Savings System.Salaries and expenses, Postal Savings System: Chief of division, $2,250; clerks—four of class three, eight of class two, twelve of class one, seven at $1,000 each; seven skilled laborers, at $900 each; in all, $47,550. Treasurer’s Office.Office of the Treasurer: Treasurer, $8,000; Assistant Treasurer, $3,600; Deputy Assistant Treasurer, $3,200; cashier, $3,600; assistant cashier, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; five chiefs of division, at $2,500 each; assistant chief of division, $2,250; vault clerk, $2,500; principal bookkeeper, $2,500; assistant bookkeeper, $2,100; two tellers, at $2,500 each; two assistant tellers, at $2,250 each; vault clerk, Bond Division, $2,000; clerk for Treasurer, $1,800; clerks—twenty-five of class four (one transferred from Register’s Office), eighteen of class three, twelve of class two (one transferred to Customs Division and two dropped), thirty-seven of class one (two transferred from postal savings roll and two from Register’s Office), nineteen at $1,000 each, (one transferred from Register’s Office), twenty at $900 each (one transferred from postal savings roll); coin clerk, $1,400; expert counters—thirty-nine at $900 each (ten transferred from Register’s Office), fifteen at $800 each, forty at $720 each, seventeen at $700 each; mail messenger, $840; eight messengers; eight assistant messengers (one transferred from Register’s Office); twenty-two laborers 471(one transferred to Loans and Currency Division); six messenger boys, at 8360 each; two compositors and pressmen, at 81,600 each; silver piler, 31,000; four money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at 8900 each; skilled laborer, 81,200; in all, $359,250.
For the force detailed to the Office of the Treasurer of the UnitedDetails from subtreasuries.Vol. 37, p. 755. States, under authority of Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, from the various Subtreasuries, as follows. Office of the assistant treasurer at Baltimore: Clerk, $1,200;Baltimore. two clerks, at $1,000 each; four money counters and handlers for laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $6,800. Office of the assistant treasurer at Boston: Two clerks, at $1,200Boston. each; clerk, $1,000; clerk, $900; in all, $4,300.
Office of the assistant treasurer at Chicago: Bookkeeper, $1,800;Chicago. eight clerks, at $1,200 each; clerk, $900; in all, $12,300. Office of the assistant treasurer at Cincinnati: Clerk, $1,800; clerk,Cincinnati. $1,200; four money counters and handlers for laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $6,600. Office of the assistant treasurer at New Orleans: Bookkeeper,New Orleans. $1,500; clerk, $1,200; clerk, $1,000; four money counters and handlers for laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $7,300.
Office of the assistant treasurer at New York: Assistant chiefNew York. of division, $2,250; clerk, $2,100; two bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; two clerks, at $1,600 each; two bookkeepers, at $1,500 each; two clerks, at $1,500 each; four clerks, at $1,400 each; three clerks, at $1,300 each; clerk, $1,200; clerk, $1,100; four clerks, at $1,000 each; in all, $33,350. Office of the assistant treasurer at Philadelphia: Clerk, $1,400;Philadelphia, clerk, $900; in all, $2,300. Office of the assistant treasurer at Saint Louis:
Assorting teller,Saint Louis. $1,800; two clerks, at $1,500 each: two clerks, at $1,200 each; four money counters and handlers for laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $10,800. Office of the assistant treasurer at San Francisco: Clerk, $1,800;San Francisco. clerk, $1,400; two clerks, at $900 each; in all, $5,000. Total from Subtreasuries, $88,750. And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to transferTransfers to regular roll of the. Treasurer’s Office.Vol. 37, p. 755. and appoint in the office of the Treasurer of the United States such of the employees, in his discretion, as are now employed in said office under details authorized by the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen.
For the force employed in redeeming the national currency (toRedemption of national currency. be reimbursed by the national banks): Superintendent, $3,500; teller, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,400; assistant teller, and assistant bookkeeper, at $2,000 each; clerks—five of class four, seven of class three, nine of class two; expert counters—thirty-five at $1,200 each, fifty-two at $1,000 each, forty-two at $900 each, fifty at $800.each; two messenger’s; four assistant messengers; four charwomen; in all, $222 520.
Salaries and expenses, Postal Savings System: Accountant, $2,000;Postal Savings System. clerks—three of class two, two of class one (two transferred to Treasurer’s office), four at $1,000 each; expert counter, $900; in all, $13,500. For repairs to canceling and cutting machines in the office of theCanceling, etc., machines. Treasurer of the United States, $200. For purchase of labor-saving machines and tabulating equipment,Purchase of mechanical appliances, etc. including exchange, repairs, miscellaneous expenses of installation, cards and filing devices, and for rental of tabulating and card-sorting machines, for use in the office of the Treasurer of the United States, $10,000.
Office of Register of the Treasury: Register, $4,000; Assistant Register’s Office.Register, $2,500; chief of division, $2,000; clerks—two of class 472four (one transferred to Treasurer’s office), two of class three, two of class two, three of class one (two transferred to Treasurer’s office), three at SI,000 each (one transferred to Treasurer’s office), five at $900 each (ten transferred to Treasurer’s office and three to Loans and Currency Division); messenger; one laborer (one transferred to Loans and Currency Division); in all, $30,700.
Office of Comptroller of the Currency.*Ante*, p. 260.Office of Comptroller of the Currency: Comptroller, $5,000; deputy comptrollers—one $3,500, one $3,000; chief clerk $2,500; chiefs of divisions—one $2,500, two at $2,200 each; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; clerks—eight of class four, additional to bond clerk $200, thirteen of class three, thirteen of class two, twenty-six of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each; stenographer, $1,600; six counters, at $840 each; messenger; five assistant messengers; three laborers; two messenger boys, at $360 each; in all, $142,780.
National currency expenses.For expenses of the national currency (to be reimbursed by the national banks): Superintendent, $2,500; teller, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, four of class two, five of class one, four at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; engineer, $1,000; twelve expert counters, at $840 each; three counters, at $700 each; assistant messenger; fireman; messenger boy, $360; two charwomen; in all, $43,460. Special examinations, etc.For expenses of special examinations of national banks and bank plates,, of keeping macerator in Treasury Building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerator, and for procuring information relative to banks other than national, $6,500.
Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue.Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue: Commissioner, $6,500; deputy commissioners—one $4,000, one $3,600; chemists— chief $3,000, one $2,500; assistant chemist—two at $1,800 each, one $1,600, one $1,400; heads of divisions—four at $2,500 each, five at $2,250 each; superintendent of stamp vault, $2,000; private secretary, $1,800; clerks—three at $2,000 each, thirty-one of class four, twenty-seven of class three, forty-one of class two, forty of class one, thirty-two at $1,000 each, forty-two at $900 each; four messengers; twenty assistant messengers (one transferred to surety-bond section); sixteen laborers; in all, $359,770.
Stamp agents.For stamp agents—one $1,600, one $900; counter, $900; in all, $3,400, the same to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturera. Life-Saving Service Office.Office of Life-Saving Service: General Superintendent, $4,000, and $500 additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; assistant general superintendent, $2,500; principal clerk, $2,000; title and contract clerk, $2,000; topographer and hydrographer, $1,800; civil engineer, $2,250; draftsman, $1,500; clerks—three of class four, five of class three, four of class two, five of class one, three at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $48,570.
Engraving and Printing Bureau.Bureau of Engraving and Printing: Director, $6,000; assistant director, $3,500; chief of Division of assignments and reviews, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; medical and sanitary officer’, $2,000; stenographer, $1,800; clerks—one of class four, six of class three, nine of class two, nine of class one, eight at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each, six at $840 each, fifteen at $780 each; disbursing agent, $2,400; storekeeper, $1,600; assistant storekeeper, $1,000; clerk in charge of purchases and supplies, $2,000; nine attendants, at $600 each; helpers—two at $900 each, two at $720 each, two at $600 each; three messengers; seven assistant messengers; captain of the watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; sixty watchmen; two forewomen of charwomen, at $540 each; twenty-five day charwomen, at $400 each; seventy-seven morning and evening char473women, at $300 each; foreman of laborers, $900; four laborers; eighty-five laborers, at $540 each; in all, $241,760; and no otherLimit on paying for services. fund appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used for services, in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, of the character specified in this paragraph, excepting cases of emergency arising after the passage of this Act, and then only on the written approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and in every such case of emergency a detailed statement of the expenditures on account thereof shall be reported to Congress at the beginning of each regular session.
Secret Service Division: Chief, $4,000; assistant chief, who shall Secret Service Di-vision.discharge the duties of chief clerk, $3,000; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, two of class two, one of class one, one $1,000; assistant messenger; in all, $16,120. Office of Director of the Mint: Director, 85,000; examiner,Office of Director of the Mint. $3,000; computer and adjuster of accounts, $2,500; assay er, $2,200; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, one of class one, private secretary, $1,400; messenger; assistant in laboratory, $1,200; assistant messenger; skilled laborer, $720; in all, $25,580.
For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise,Freight. between mints and assay offices, $20,000. For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expendedContingent expenses. under the direction of the director, namely: For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, pamphlets, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, $800. For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purposeExaminations, etc. of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations, and for the collection of statistics relative to the annual productionPrecious metals statistics. and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, $4,800.
Office of Surgeon General of Public Health Service: SurgeonPublic Health Service. General, S6,000; chief clerk, $2,250; private secretary to the Surgeon General, $1,800; assistant editor, 81,800; clerks—three of class four, three of class three, seven of class two (one of whom shall be translator), eight of class one, three at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; messenger; three assistant messengers; telephone operator, 720; two laborers, at $540 each; in all, $51,950. Contingent expenses:
For stationery for the Treasury DepartmentContingent expenses.Stationery.Additional, deducted from bureaus, offices, etc. and its several bureaus and offices, $50,000, and in addition thereto sums amounting to $83,000 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, as follows: Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, 86,000; contingent expenses, mint at Philadelphia, $350; contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco, $200; contingent expenses, mint at Denver, $200; contingent expenses, assay office at New York, $350 materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $4,200; suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, $200; expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, $1,600;
Public Health Service, $1,200; Quarantine Service, $500; preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $200; Life-Saving Service, $1,000; general expenses of public buildings, $6,000; collecting the revenue from customs, $37,000; miscellaneous expenses of collecting internal revenue, $14,000; expenses of collecting the income tax, $10,000; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $50,000, the total appropriation for stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.
For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal UnionPostage. countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, $1,000. 474 Binding.For materials for the use of the bookbinder located in the Treasury Department, $250. Reference books, etc.For newspaper clippings, financial journals, law books, city directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $1,000. Freight, etc.For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $7,000.
Rent.For rent of buildings, $11,350. Investigations to obtain better administrative methods.For investigation and experimentation and to secure better methods of administration, with a view to increased efficiency or to greater economy in the expenditure of public money, including necessary traveling expenses, m connection with special work, or obtaining of better administrative methods in any branch of the service within or under the Treasury Department, including the temporary employment of agents, stenographers, accountants, or other expert services either within or without the District of Columbia, $20,000.
Old Engraving and Printing Building.Offices in rented quarters to be removed to.In addition to the offices of the four auditors of the Treasury required to be removed to the old building of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the General Supply Committee and offices of the Treasury now occupying rented quarters, and such other offices or parts of offices of the Treasury Department as the Secretary of the Treasury Bureau to vacate.may determine, shall be removed thereto; and the Bureau of Engraving and Printing shall entirely vacate all of said building on or before June first, nineteen hundred and fourteen.
Vehicles, etc.For purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks, purchase, exchange, and maintenance of horses, including shoeing; and the purchase and repair of wagons, carriages, and harness, all to be used for official purposes only, $2,500. Files.For purchase of file holders and file cases, including $2,000 additional for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $6,000. Fuel, etc.For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate baskets and fixtures, blower’s, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $12,000.
Lighting.For purchase of gas, electric current for fighting and power purposes, gas and electric-light fixtures, electric-light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burner’s, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, $17,000. Miscellaneous.For washing and hemming towels, for the purchase of awnings and fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzene, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower-garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps and repairs of same, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, toilet paper, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, street car tickets not exceeding $250, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public auction in Washington, District oi Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other necessary articles, $13,500.
Labor-saving machines.For purchase of labor-saving machines and supplies for same, including the purchase and exchange of registering accountants, numbering machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, and the purchase of supplies for photographic copying machines, $8,000. Transferring files, etc.For shelving and transferring records and files from and to the Treasury Building and its annexes in Washington, $500.
For transferring records and files from nine hundred and twenty E Street northwest to the old Bureau of Engraving and Printing, and shelving for the same, $1,500. 475 For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats,Carpets, etc. Tugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and re-laying of the same, by contract, $3,000. F or purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair caning, chair covers,Furniture. desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, type-writers, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, wash-stands, water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $10,000.
For maintenance of the automatic fire-alarm systems in the TreasuryFire alarms. and Winder Buildings, $2,067. Electrical burglar-alarm devices: For installation and maintenanceBurglar alarms. of electrical burglar-alarm devices in the Treasury Building at Washington, $720. For supplying heat, light, and shelving for premises numberedPublic Health depot. fourteen hundred and fourteen Pennsylvania Avenue northwest, occupied by the purveying depot of the Public Health Service, $750.
For fight and power, old Bureau of Engraving and Printing Building:Electricity to old Engraving and Printing Building. For electric current for lighting and to operate elevator in old Bureau of Engraving and Printing Building, $4,500. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Office of AuditorAuditor for Post Office Department.Contingent expenses. for the Post Office Department, namely: For miscellaneous items, including purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriting machines, of which not exceeding $375 may be used for rental of telephones, and not exceeding $300 may be used for the purchase of law books, books of reference, and city directories, $3,500.
For furniture and repairs, $1,500. For purchase, exchange, and repair of adding machines, $1,000. In all, $6,000, to be expended under the direction of the Auditor forControl of expenditures. the Post Office Department under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and to operate as a specific exception of the said office from the appropriation for contingent expenses, Treasury Department, unless otherwise provided by Taw. For purchase of tabulating equipment for use in auditing accounts Tabulating equipment supplies, etc.and vouchers of the postal service, including exchange, repairs, miscellaneous expenses of installation, cards and filing devices, $86,350, to be expended under the direction of the Auditor for the Post Office Department under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That not exceeding $22,150 may be*Proviso.*Rental limits. expended for the rental of tabulating and card-sorting machines. collecting internal revenue.Collecting internal revenue.
For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, deputyCollectors, surveyors, etc. collectors, surveyors, clerks, messengers, and janitors in internal-revenue offices, $2,150,000: *Provided*, That no part of this amount be*Proviso.*Witness fees. used in defraying the expenses of any officer, designated above, subpoenaed by the United States court to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts.”.*Post*, p. 654.
On and after October first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, theCollection districts increased.Vol. 37, p. 381.[R. S., sec. 3141, p. 601](/us/rs/s3141/p601), amended. whole number of collection districts for the collection of internal revenue and the whole number of collectors of internal revenue shall not exceed sixty-four. For salaries and expenses of forty revenue agents provided for byAgents, gaugers, etc. law, and fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeeper gaugers, $2,625,000.
Collecting the income tax: For expenses of assessing and collectingCollecting income tax.*Ante*, p. 180, amended. the income tax as provided in paragraph N, section two, of an Act entitled “An Act to reduce tariff duties, and to provide revenue for 476the Government, and for other purposes,” approved October third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, which Act is hereby amended to Increased pay to chief of division.*Ante*, p. 473.authorize two chiefs of division at $3,500 and $2,500 per annum, respectively, in lieu of two chiefs of division at $2,500 each, including the employment in the District of Columbia of necessary clerical and other personal services, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia and the several collection districts, $1,500,000.
Miscellaneous.*Ante*, p. 473.For rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia, telephone service, and other miscellaneous expenses incident to the collection of internal revenue, and for the purchase of necessary books of reference and periodicals for the chemical laboratory and law library, at a cost Expenses of injuries, etc.not to exceed $500, and reasonable expenses for not exceeding sixty days immediately following the injury of field officers or employees in the Internal-Revenue Service while in line of duty, of medical attendance, surgeon’s and hospital bills made necessary by reason of such injury, and for horses crippled or killed while being used by officers in making raids, not exceeding $150 for any horse so crippled or killed, $90,000. independent treasury.Independent Treasury.
Assistant treasurers’ offices.Baltimore.Office of assistant treasurer at Baltimore: Assistant treasurer, $4,500; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,900; exchange teller, $1,800; vault clerk, $1,800; clerks—two at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; messenger, $840; three watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $31,500. Boston.Office of assistant treasurer at Boston: Assistant treasurer, $5,000; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,500; vault clerk, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,000; redemption teller, $1,800; clerks—one $2,200, five at $1,600 each, one $1,500, one $1,400, two at $1,200 each, three at $1,100 each, four at $1,000 each; chief guard, $1,100; three watch-men, at $850 each; laborer and guard, $720; four money counters and. handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $46,570.
Chicago.Office of assistant treasurer at Chicago: Assistant treasurer, $5,000; cashier, $3,000; assistant cashier, $2,000; vault clerk, $2,250; paying teller, $2,500; assorting teller, $2,000; redemption teller, $2,000; change teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,000; bookkeepers—two at $1,500 each; clerks—one $1,750, one $1,600, nine at $1,500 each, fourteen at $1,200 each; hall man, $1,100; messenger, $840; three watchmen, at $720 each: janitor, $720; eight money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $71,420.
Cincinnati.Office of assistant treasurer at Cincinnati: Assistant treasurer, $4,500; cashier, $2,250; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,800; vault clerk, $1,800; clerks—two at $1,300 each, four at 81,200 each; two at $1,000 each; clerk and stenographer, $1,000; chief watch-man, $840; two watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $25,030. New Orleans.Office of assistant treasurer at New Orleans: Assistant treasurer, $4,500; cashier, $2,250; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,000; vault clerk, $1,800; assorting teller, $1,200; clerks— one $1,500, five at $1,200 each, one $1,000; typewriter and stenographer, $1,000; day watchman, $720; nightwatchman, $720; messenger, $600; in all, $25,290.
New York.Office of assistant treasurer at New York: Assistant treasurer, $8,000; cashier, $4,200; assistant cashier, $3,600; chief clerk, $3,000; check pay, division—chief $3,000, assistant chief $2,000; bond clerk and assistant vault clerk, $2,800; paying teller, $3,000; assistant paying teller, $2,250; receiving teller, $2,800: assistant receiving teller, $1,800; redemption division—chief $2,700, assistant chief $2,250; vault and authorities clerk, $2.500; com division—. 477chief $2,700, assistant chief $2,000, paying teller $2,100; minor coin division—chief $2,000, paying teller $1,800; bookkeeper’s—chief $2,400, two at $2,000 each; clerks—one $2,300, two at $2,000 each, one $1,900, three at $1,800 each, one $1,700, four at $1,600 each, seven at $1,500 each, nine at $1,400 each, five at $1,300 each, thirteen at $1,200 each, four at $1,100 each, one $1,000; messengers— two at $1,200 each, five at $900 each, two at $800 each; guards— chief $1,500, one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; superintendent of building, $1,800; engineers—chief $1,200, two at $1,050 each; eight watchmen, at $720 each; sixteen money counters and handler’s for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $171,660.
Office of assistant treasurer at Philadelphia: AssistantPhiladelphia. treasurer, $5,000; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,250; coin teller, $2,000; vault clerk $1,900; bookkeeper, $1,800; assorting teller, $1,800; receiving teller, $1,700; redemption teller, $1,600; clerks— one $1,600, two at $1,500 each, two at $1,400 each, one $1,300, five at $1,200 each one $1,000; chief guard, $1,100; five counters, at $900 each; six watchmen, at $720 each; four money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $49,770.
Office of assistant treasurer at Saint Louis: AssistantSaint Louis. treasurer, $4,500; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,800; change teller, $1,600; coin teller, $1,200; clerks—two at $1,500 each, five at $1,200 each, two at $1,100 each, three at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; two watchmen, at $720 each; two janitors, at $600 each; guard, $720; in all, $33,860. Office of assistant treasurer at San Francisco: AssistantSan Francisco. treasurer, $4,500; cashier, who also acts as vault clerk, $3,000; bookkeeper, $2,000; paying teller, $2,400; receiving teller, $2,000; clerks— one $2,000, two at $1,800 each, one $1,500; messenger, $840; four watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $24,720.
MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICES.Mints and assay offices. Mint at Denver, Colorado: Superintendent, $4,500; assayer,Denver, Colo. $3,000; superintendent melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent coming department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $2,500; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant assayer, $2,200; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; assistant cashier, $1,800; clerks—two at $2,000 each, two at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, one $1,200; private secretary, $1,200; in all, $47,200.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $94,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery*Ante*, p. 473. and repairs, wastage in melting and refining department and coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $35,000. Mint at New Orleans, Louisiana: Assayer, who shall haveNew Orleans, La. general charge of the institution as under section thirty-five hundred and sixty, Revised Statutes, and who shall be a practical assayer, $2,500; assistant assayer, $1,500; chief clerk, who shall perform the duties of cashier, $1,500; in all, $5,500.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $5,350. For incidental and contingent expenses, $3,000. Mint at Philadelphia: Superintendent, $4,500; engraver,Philadelphia, Pa. $4,000; assayer, $3,000; melting and refining department—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,000; superintendent coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; assistant assayer, $2,200; cashier, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,500; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; assistant cashier, $1,800; curator, $1,800; clerks—one $2,000, two at $1,700 each, eight at $1,600 each, one $1,500, six at $1,400 each, one $1,300, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; in all, $70,300. 478 For wages of workmen, and other employees, $300,000. *Ante*, p. 173.For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, expenses of the annual assay commission, wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, and loss on side of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, and not exceeding $1,000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint, $65,000.
San Francisco, Cal.Mint at San Francisco, California: Superintendent, $4,500; assayer, $3,000; superintendent melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant assayer, $2,200; assistant cashier, $1,800; assistant bookkeeper, $1,800; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; clerics-—one $2,000, two at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, two at $1,000 each; private secretary, $1,400; in all, $48,000.
For wages of workmen, and other employees, $122,500. *Ante*, p. 473.For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department and in the coming department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $40,000. New York, N. Y.Assay office at New York: Superintendent, $5,000; assayer, $3,000; superintendent of melting and refining department, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, deposit weigh clerk, and assistant assayer, at $2,500 each; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; bookkeeper, $2,350; assist-ant cashier, $1,800; clerks—two at $2,000 each, four at $1,800 each, one $1,600, one $1,500, one $1,250, seven at $1,000 each; private secretary, $1,400; in all, $51,100.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $80,000. *Ante*, p. 473.For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion, $60,000. Seattle, Wash.Assay office at Seattle, Washington: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $2,750; assistant assayer, $2,000; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of cashier, $2,000; clerks—one $1,700, one $1,600, one $1,400; in all, $11,450.
For wages of workmen, and other employees, $17,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including rent of building, $6,000. Carson, Nev.Mint at Carson, Nevada: Assayer in charge, who shall also per-form the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; chief clerk, $1,200; in all, $4,200. For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,000. Boise, Idaho.Assay office at Boise, Idaho: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of cashier, $1,200; in all, $4,200.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,000. Deadwood, S. Dak.Assay office at Deadwood, South Dakota: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; clerk, $1,000; assistant assayer, $1,200; in all, $4,000. For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, new machinery, and so forth, $500. Helena, Mont.Assay office at Helena, Montana: Assayer in charge, $1,800; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of cashier, $1,400; assistant assayer, $1,200; in all, $4,400.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,500. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,000. 479 Salt Lake City, Utah.Assay office at Salt Lake City, Utah: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of cashier, $1,200; in all, $3,000. For wages of workmen and other employees, 82,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,000. government in the territories.Government in Territories. Territory of Alaska:
Governor, $7,000; four judges, at $7,500Alaska. each; four attorneys, at $5,000 each; four marshals, at $4,000 each; four clerics, at $3,500 each; in all, $87,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, clerk hire, not to exceed $2,250; janitor service for the executive mansion and office building, not to exceed $1,200; traveling expenses of the governor while absent from Juneau on official business; repair and preservation, of executive mansion, including 8700 for painting; stationery, lights, water, and fuel, to be expended under the direction of the governor, $8,150.
For legislative expenses, namely: Salaries of members, $21,600; mileage of members, $9,178.20; salaries of employees, $5,160; printing of laws, $3,500; rent of legislative halls and committee rooms, $2,000; stationery, supplies, printing of bills, reports, and so forth, $3,500; in all, $44,938.20, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska. Hereafter the estimates for expenses of government in the TerritoriesEstimates to be submitted through Interior Department. shall be submitted through and be subject to revision by the Department of the Interior.
Territory of Hawaii: Governor, $7,000; secretary, $4,000; chiefHawaii. justice, $6,000; two associate justices, at $5,500 each; in all, $28,000. For judges of circuit courts, at $4,000 each, so much as may be necessary, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen. For contingent expenses, to be expended by the governor for stationery, postage, and incidentals, $1,000, and for private secretary to the governor, $2,000; in all, $3,000. For legislative expenses, namely: Furniture, light, telephone, stationery, record casings and files, printing and binding, indexing records, postage, ice, water, clerk hire, mileage of members, and incidentals, pay of chaplain, clerk, sergeant at arms, stenographers, typewriters, janitors, and messengers, $30,000: *Provided*, That the*Proviso.*Pay for extra session forbidden. members of the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii shall not draw their compensation of $200 or any mileage for an extra session, held in compliance with section fifty-four of an Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of War, $12,000; AssistantSecretary, Assistant, assistant and chief clerk, clerks, etc. Secretary, $5,000; assistant and chief clerk, $4,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary, $2,000; stenographer to the Secretary, $2,000; clerk to the Assistant Secretary, $2,400; assistant chief clerk, $2,400; disbursing clerk, $2,750; appointment clerk, $2,250; four chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; superintendent of buildings outside of State, War, and Navy Department Building, in addition to compensation as chief of division, $500; chief telegrapher, $1,800; clerks—five of class four, four of class three, fifteen of class two, nineteen of class one, six at $1,000 each, one 8900; foreman, $1,200; carpenters—one $1,200, one $1,080; chief messenger, $1,000; skilled laborer, $1,080; six messengers; seven assistant messengers; two assistant messengers, at $600 each; telephone switchboard operator; assistant telephone switchboard operator; engineer, $900; assistant engineer, $720; fireman; four watchmen; three 480watchmen, at $660 each; eight laborers; hostlers—one $600, one $540; four charwomen; in all, $146,440.
Adjutant General’s Office.Adjutant General’s Office: Chief clerk, $2,250; ten chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; clerks—forty-eight of class four, sixty-four of class three, ninety-four of class two, two hundred and thirty-one of class one, thirty-five at $1,000 each; engineer, $1,400; assistant engineer, $900; two firemen; skilled mechanic, $1,000; ten messengers; fifty-four assistant messengers; messenger boy, $360; eight watchmen; eighteen laborers; in all, $724,870; all employees provided for by this paragraph for the Adjutant General’s Office of the War Department shall be exclusively engaged on the work of this office for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.
Inspector General’s Office.Office of Inspector General: Clerks—one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, one of class one; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger. $600; in all, $12,560. Judge Advocate General’s Office.Office of Judge Advocate General: Chief clerk and solicitor, $2,500; law clerks—one $2,400, one $2,000; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, six of class one; copyist; two messengers; assistant messenger; in all, $26,600.
Signal Office.Signal Office: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, one of class two, four of class one, nine at $1,000 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; in al], $24,800. Skilled draftsmen, etc.The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the various appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and for the Signal Service of the Army, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the Signal Office: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Limit, etc.
That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, shall not exceed $25,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Radio engineers.The services of one radio engineer and one radio assistant, as the Secretary of W’ar may deem necessary, may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the appropriation for the Signal *Ante*, p. 353.Service of the Army, to be paid from such appropriation, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the Signal Office: *Proviso.*Limit, etc.*Provided*, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, shall not exceed $3,600, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Quartermaster General’s Office.Office of the Quartermaster General of the Army: Chief clerk, $2,750; five principal clerks at $2,250 each; clerks—fifteen of class four, twenty-five of class three, forty-four of class two, eighty-five of class one, fifty at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each; advisory architect, $4,000; inspector of supplies, $2,500; draftsmen—three at $1,800 each, seven at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each; supervising engineer, $2,750; hydraulic and sanitary engineer, $2,000; civil engineer, $1,800; electrical engineer at $2,000; electrical and mechanical engineer, $2,250; marine engineer, $3,500; assistant marine engineer, $1,800; sanitary and heating engineer, $1,800; blue-print operator, $900; six messengers; fourteen assistant messengers; twelve laborers; laborers—one $600, one $480; in all, $376,620.
Surgeon General’s Office.Office of Surgeon General: Chief clerk, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; clerks—thirteen of class four, eleven of class three, twenty-six of class two, thirty-two of class one, ten at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; anatomist, $1,600; engineer, $1,400; three firemen; skilled mechanic, $1,000; two messengers; ten assistant messengers; three 481watchmen; superintendent of building (Army Medical Museum and Library), $250; six laborers; chemist, $2,088; assistant chemist, $1,500; principal assistant librarian, $2,250; pathologist, $1,800; microscopist, $1,800; assistant librarian, $1,800; four charwomen; in all, $166,358.
Office of Chief of Ordnance: Chief clerk, $2,250; chief of division, Ordnance Office.$2,000; principal clerk, $2,000; clerks—five of class four, seven of class three, twelve of class two, twenty-six of class one, nine at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; messengers—one $780, one $720; laborer; in all, $91,610. The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services, notSkilled draftsmen, etc. clerical, as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed in the office of the Chief of Ordnance to carry into effect the various appropriations for the armament of fortifications and for the arming and equipping of the Organized Militia, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the amount specifically appropriated for draftsmen in the Army Ordnance Bureau: *Provided*, That the entire *Proviso.*Limit, etc.expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, shall not exceed $55,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Office of Chief of Engineers: Chief clerk, $2,250; two chiefs ofEngineer Office. divisions, at $2,000 each; clerks—eight of class four, eleven of class three, thirteen of class two, sixteen of class one, ten at $1,000 each, eleven at $900 each; six messengers; three assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, $104,070. The services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such otherSkilled draftsmen, etc. services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and surveys and preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and bills, to be paid from such appropriations: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Limit, etc.
That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen shall not exceed $50,400; the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Office of Bureau of Insular Affairs: Law officer, $4,500;Insular Affairs Bureau. chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—ten of class four, seven of class three, eleven of class two, fourteen of class one, twelve at $1,000 each; three messengers; two assistant messengers; four laborers; two charwomen; in all, $87,230.
Division of Militia Affairs, Office of Chief of Staff: For the Militia Affairs Division. Office of Chief of Staff.following now authorized by section twenty of the Act approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, as amended by the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight,Vol. 35, p. 403. and as restricted by the legislative, executive, and judicial ActVol. 37, p. 765. approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, namely: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, four of class two, ten of class one, eight at $1,000 each; messenger; assistant messenger; two laborers; one laborer $600 (transferred from Army appropriation Act); two charwomen; two watchmen (transferred from Army appropriation Act); in all, $39,800.
For rent of quarters, $2,500.Rent. For miscellaneous expenses, including stationery, fuel, light, furniture,Miscellaneous. telegraph and telephone service, and necessary printing and binding, $4,000, which sum, together with the foregoing amounts for salaries and rent, shall be paid from the permanent appropriation*Ante*, p. 359.[R. S., sec. 1661, p. 290](/us/rs/s1661/p290).Vol. 34, p. 449. for militia under the provisions of section sixteen hundred and sixty-one, Revised Statutes, as amended, and no other or further 482sums shall be expended from said appropriation for or on account of said Division of Militia Affairs during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses, War Department: For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, including their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers (subscriptions to periodicals may be paid for in advance), maps; typewriters and adding machines, including their exchange; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to the buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department Building) occupied by Adjutant General’s office, the Bureau of Insular Affairs, and the other offices of the War Department and its bureaus located in the Lemon Building; for the purchase, exchange, care, and subsistence of horses, and the purchase, maintenance, repair, and exchange of wagons and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and harness, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; street car tickets, not exceeding $300; and other absolutely necessary expenses, $47,000.
Stationery.For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices, $25,000. Postage stamps.For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, $250. Rent.For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia: Medical dispensary, Surgeon General’s Office, $1,000; War Department, $7,200; Adjutant General’s Office, $1,500; Bureau of Insular Affairs, $720; in all, $10,420. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.Public buildings and grounds.
Superintendent, assistant, clerks, etc.Office of public buildings and grounds: Superintendent, $3,000; assistant and chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class two and stenographer, one of class one; messenger; landscape architect, $2,400; surveyor and draftsman, $1,500; in all, $16,140. Foremen, etc.For foremen, gardeners, mechanics, and laborers employed in the public grounds, $31,200. Watchmen.For sergeant of park watchmen, $950. For second sergeant of park watchmen, $900.
Day force.For day watchmen, as follows: One in Franklin Park and adjacent reservations on New York Avenue one in Lafayette Park; two in Smithsonian Grounds and neighboring reservations; one in Judiciary Park; one in Lincoln Park and adjacent reservations; one in Iowa Circle and reservations to the northeast; one in Thomas and Scott Circles and neighboring reservations; one in Washington Circle and neighboring reservations; one in Dupont Circle and neighboring reservations; one in McPherson Park and Farragut Square; one in Stanton Park and neighboring reservations; two in Henry and Seaton Parks and neighboring reservations; one in Mount Vernon Park and reservations to the northeast; one in grounds south of the Executive Mansion; one in Garfield and Marion Parks and reservations to the east: one in Monument Park; three in Potomac Park; twenty-one in all, at $840 each, $17,640.
Night force.For night watchmen, as follows: Two in Smithsonian Grounds and neighboring reservations; one in Judiciary Park; two in Henry and Seaton Parks and adjacent reservations; one in grounds south of the Executive Mansion; one in Monument Park; one in Garfield Park and neighboring reservations; one in Iowa, Scott, and Thomas Circles and neighboring reservations; one in Stanton and Lincoln Parks and neighboring reservations; one in Lafayette and McPherson Squares 483and Franklin and Farragut Parks; one in Washington and Dupont Circles and neighboring reservations; one in Mount Vernon Park and neighboring reservations; two for greenhouses and nursery; four in Potomac Park; nineteen in all, at $840 each, $15,960.
For watchman for the care of the monument and dock at Wakefield,Wakefield, Va. Virginia, the birthplace of Washington, $300. For contingent and incidental expenses including purchase ofContingent expenses. professional and scientific books and scientific periodicals, books of reference, blank books, photographs, and maps, $700. For purchase and repair of bicycles and revolvers for park watch-men and for purchase of ammunition, $400. For purchasing and supplying uniforms to park, Monument, and bridge watchmen, $2,800.
Of the foregoing amounts appropriated under Public Buildings andPart from District revenues. Grounds, the sum of $35,275 shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. state, war, and navy department building.State, War, and Navy Departments Building. Office of superintendent: Clerk of class three; stenographer andClerks, engineers, watchmen, etc. typewriter, $900; chief engineer, $1,400; five assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; electrical machinist, $1,200; captain of the watch, $1,200; two lieu tenants of the watch, at $840 each; forty watchmen; carpenter, $1,000; electrician, $1,200; machinist, $1,000; painter, $1,000; plumber, $1,000; three dynamo tenders, at $900 each; seven skilled laborers or mechanics, at $840 each; messenger; foreman of laborers, $840; ten firemen; eleven conductors of elevators, at $720 each; seventeen laborers; three second-class firemen, at $660 each; four forewomen of charwomen, at $300 each; seventy-seven cha-women; gardener, $720; in all, $105,960.
For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, and city directories,Fuel, lights, etc. $32,000. For renovation of the plumbing system in the State, War, andPlumbing renovation. Navy Building, including the removal of all present unserviceable fixtures, piping, and so forth, the purchase and installation of modern and sanitary equipment, and the refinishing of the toilet rooms, $85,000; ami the superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Building is hereby authorized to employ day labor on the whole or any part of this work where advantageous to the Government.
For rewiring rooms in State, War, and Navy Building, includingRewiring rooms, etc. the removal of old gas and other fixtures and the purchase and installation of new metallic conduit, wire, and other material necessary to light all rooms by electricity, and for general repair work to walls and ceilings of rooms incidental to such installation, $32,000; and the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Building is hereby authorized to employ day labor on this work in like manner as prescribed in the case of reconstruction of toilet rooms.
Navy Department Annex, on New York Avenue near SeventeenthNavy Department Annex. Street northwest and to be occupied in lieu of the Mills Building: Engineer, $1,200; four firemen; two elevator conductors,. at $720 each; five watchmen; four laborers; forewoman, $300; nine charwomen; in all, $14,220. For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items, $4,000. State Department Annex: Laborer, $660.State Department Annex. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of the Navy, $12,000;Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.
Assistant Secretary, $5,000; chief clerk, $3,000; private secretary to Secretary, $2,500; clerk to Secretary, $2,250; clerk to Assistant Secretary, $2,000; disbursing clerk, $2,250; stenographer, $1,800; 484clerks—four of class four, two of class three, five of class two, five of class one, one $1,100, four at $1,000 each; stenographer, $1,200; telegraph operator, $1,100; two copyists; carpenter, $900; four messengers; four assistant messengers; three laborers; messenger boys—three at $600 each, one $420, one $400; telephone switchboard operator; assistant telephone switchboard operator; in all, $76,460.
Solicitor’s Office.Office of Solicitor: Solicitor, $4,000; law clerks—one $2,500, one $2,250, one $2,000; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class two, one $840; messenger, $600; in all, $16,990. Library.Library: Clerks—one of class two, one of class one; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $3,980. Naval Records Office.Office of Naval Records of the Rebellion: Chief clerk, $2,000; agent, to be selected by the Secretary of the Navy from the officers of the late Confederate Navy, $1,800; clerks—one of class four, three of class two, three of class one, two at $1,000 each; copyist; copyist, $720; assistant messenger; necessary traveling expenses for collection of records, $100; in all, $17,840.
AU employees provided for by this paragraph shall be. exclusively engaged on the work of this office during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen. Judge Advocate General’s Office.Judge Advocate General, United States Navy: Law clerk, $2,200; clerks—one of class four, one $1,300, two of class one, three at $1,000 each, one $900; assistant messenger; in all, $12,320. Bureau of Navigation: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—one $2,000, four of class four, five of class three, five of class two, eight of class one, three at $1,100 each, fourteen at $1,000 each; fourteen copyists; nine copyists, at $840 each; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $600; five laborers; in all, $78,850.
Naval Intelligence Office.Office of Naval Intelligence: Clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one $1,300, three at $1,000 each; two translators, at $1,400 each; assistant draftsman, $1,200; messenger boy, $600; in all, $12,300. Bureau of Equipment.*Ante*, p. 408.Bureau of Equipment: Chief clerk, $2,250; expert in wireless telegraphy, $3,000; draftsman, who shall be an expert in marine construction, $2,000; bookkeeper and accountant, $1,800; draftsman, $1,700; clerks—one of class four, three of class three, one of class two, one $1,300, two of class one, four at $1,000 each; draftsman for work in connection with depots for coal, $1,200; two copyists; assistant messenger; messenger boys—one $600, one $360; blue printer, $720; two laborers; in all, $33,170.
Technical services.The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Equipment, and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy” and “Equipment of vessels,” to be paid from the *Proviso.*Limit, etc.appropriation “Equipment of vessels”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen shall not exceed $9,500.
A statement of the persons employed here-under, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Hydrographic Office.Salaries.Hydrographic Office: Hydrographic engineer, $3,000; assist-ants—one $2,200, one $2,000; chief clerk, $1,800; nautical experts— one $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,400, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; clerks—one of class two, one of class one; custodian of archives, $1,200; copyists—three at $900 each, one $840, two at $720 each; compiler, $1,400; editor of Notice to Mariners, $1,800; computer, $1,400; draftsmen—four at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, tour at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, ten at $1,000 each, one $900; three apprentice draftsmen, at $700 each; engravers—chief $2,000, two at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, one $1,400, six at $1,200 485each, two at $1,000 each, one $720; apprentice engravers—one $800, one $700; plate printers—chief $1,400, one $1,200, one $1,000, two at $900 each, one $800; apprentice plate printers—one $700, one $600; lithographers—chief $1,800, two at $1,000 each, apprentice $700; process photographer, $1,600; lithographic transferer, $1,400; lithographic pressmen, $1,400; photographic printer, $1,200; two negative cutters, at $1,000 each; two feeders, at $480 each; electrotyper and chart plate maker, $1,400; assistant messenger; four laborers; helpers—two at $720 each, two at $660 each, one $600, one $500, one $480; in all, $123,660.
For purchase of copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packingMaterials. boxes, chart portfolios, electro typing copperplates, cleaning copper plates; tools, instruments, power, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; the preparation of Pilot Charts and theirPilot Charts. supplements, and the printing and mailing of the same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $26,000.
Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston, New York, Philadelphia,Branch offices.Contingent expenses. Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, Seattle, Panama, and Galveston, including furniture, fuel, lights, works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, stationery, miscellaneous articles, rent and care of offices, care of time balls, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and express charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for the Pilot Charts, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, $11,000.
For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $17,960.Employees.Monthly Pilot Chart, North Pacific Ocean. For a monthly Pilot Chart of the North Pacific Ocean showing graphically the matters of value and interest to the maritime community of the Pacific coast, and particularly the directions and forces of the winds to he expected during the month succeeding the date of issue; the set and strength of the currents; the feeding grounds of whales and seals; the regions of storm, fog, and ice; the positions of derelicts and floating obstructions to navigation; the best routes to be followed by steam and by sail; expenses of communicating and circulating information; lithographing and engraving; the purchase of materials for and printing and mailing the chart, $2,000.
No expenditure shall be incurred or authorized for personal servicesPersonal services, etc., in Washington restricted. or otherwise under the Hydrographic Office at Washington, District of Columbia, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen except as herein authorized by appropriations under the Navy Department or under appropriations that may be made for printing and binding. Naval Observatory: Assistant astronomers—one $2,400, one Naval Observatory.$2,000, one $1,800; assistant in department of nautical instruments, $ 1,600; clerks—one of class four, one of class two; instrument maker, $1,500; electrician, $1,500; librarian, $1,800; assistants—three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; stenographer and typewriter, $900; foreman and captain of the watch, $1,000; carpenter, $1,000; engineer, $1,000; three firemen; six watchmen; elevator conductor, $720; nine laborers; in all, $44,240. 486 Computations.For miscellaneous computations, $5,000.
Library.For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodicals (subscriptions to periodicals may be paid in advance), engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library, $750. Contingent expenses.For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, $2,000. For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences, furniture, gas, chemicals, and stationery, freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage, and expressage, plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses, $3,000.
For fuel, oil, grease, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power plant, and water-supply system; purchase and maintenance of teams; material for boxing nautical instruments for transportation; paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, $8,000. Nautical Almanac Office.Nautical Almanac Office: For assistants in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac—one $2,000, two at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; copyist and typewriter, $900; assistant messenger; messenger boy, $420; in all, $15,640.
Computations.For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, $7,000. Bureau of Steam Engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks— one of class four, two of class three, two of class two, one $1,300, three of class one, one $1,100, four at $1,000 each, one $900; assistant messenger; laborers—two at $660 each, two at $600 each; messenger boy, $600; draftsman, $1,400; assistant draftsman, $1,200; in all, $27,390.
Technical services.The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Steam Engineering and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy” and “Steam machinery,” to be paid from *Proviso.*Limit, etc.the appropriation “Steam machinery”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen shall not exceed $37,000.
A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each snail be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Bureau of Construction and Repair.Bureau of Construction and Repair: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—-two of class four, three of class three, three of class two, three at $1,300 each, three of class one, nine at $1,100 each, fourteen at $1,000 each; five copyists; two assistant messengers; laborer; messenger boys—nine at $600 each, one $400; in all, $58,650.
Technical services.The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Construction and Repair and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy” and “Construction and Repair,” to be paid from the appropriation “Construction and*Proviso.*Limit, etc.
Repair”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen shall not exceed $88,300. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Bureau of Ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance: Chief clerk, $2,250; ordnance engineer, mechanical draftsman, and computer, $3,000; draftsman, $1,800; assistant draftsman, $1,400; clerks—two of class three, two of class 487two, one $1,300, three of class one, one $1,100, five at $1,000 each; three copyists; two copyists, at $840 each; assistant messenger; messenger boys—two at $600 each, two at $400 each; laborer; in all, $33,210.
The services of clerks, draftsmen, and such other technical servicesTechnical, etc., services. as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Ordnance, and at rates of compensation hot exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy” and “Ordnance and ordnance stores” to be paid from the appropriation “Ordnance and ordnance stores”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year*Proviso.*Limit, etc. nineteen hundred and fifteen shall not exceed $13,083.76.
A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each, shall be made to Congress each year hi the annual estimates. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Civilian assistant, $2,500;Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. two chief bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—four of class four, eight of class three, seven of class two, fifteen of class one, ten at $1,100 each, twenty-eight at $1,000 each, twelve at $900 each; two copyists, at $840 each; five assistant messengers; messenger boys—three at $600 each, three at $400 each; laborer; in all, $113,040.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: Chief clerk, $2,250;Bureau of Medicine and Surgery. clerks— two of class four’, one of class three, two of class two, one of class one, two at $1,100 each, three at $1,000 each; copyist, $840; assistant messenger; laborer; naval dispensary—driver $600, laborer $480; in ail, $19,950. Bureau of Yards and Docks: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—oneBureau of Yards and Docks. and draftsman $1,800, one of class three, one of class two, two of class one, one $1,100, six at $1,000 each; assistant messenger; three messenger boys, at $600 each; two laborers; in all, $20,390.
The services of skilled draftsmen and such other technical servicesTechnical services. as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Yards and Docks to carry into effect the various appropriations and allotments thereunder and be paid from such appropriations and allotments: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this*Proviso.*Limit, etc. account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen shall not exceed $50,000. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each, shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates.
Division of Naval Militia Affairs: For the following now authorizedNaval Militia Division. by section seventeen of the Naval Militia Act approved February sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, namely: Chief clerk,Clerks.*Ante*, p. 288. $1,600; clerks—one of class two, two of class one, one at $1,100, one at $1,000; messenger boy, $600; in all, $8,100. For miscellaneous expenses of the Division of Naval Militia Affairs,Miscellaneous. including stationery, furniture, office equipment,. postage, typewriters and exchange of same, and necessary printing and binding,*Ante*, p. 399. $2,600, which sum, together with the foregoing amount for salaries, shall be paid from the appropriation for “Arming and equipping Naval Militia” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, and no other or further sums shall be expended from said appropriation for or on account of said Division of Naval Militia Affairs during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.
Contingent expenses: For professional and technical books andContingent expenses. periodicals, law books, and necessary reference books, including city directories, railway guides, freight, passenger, and express tariff books, for department library, $2,000. For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, drawing materials, horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes, 488street-car tickets not exceeding $250, freight, expressage, postage, typewriters and computing machines and exchange of same, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its Use of naval appropriations for Department supplies forbidden.various bureaus and offices, $40,000; it shall not be lawful to expend, for any of the offices or bureaus of the Navy Department at Washington, any sum out of appropriations made for the Naval Establishment for any of the purposes mentioned or authorized in this paragraph.
Rent of additional quarters.For the rental of additional quarters for the Navy Department for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, in Vol. 37, p. 771.accordance with the authority contained in the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-seven, page seven hundred and seventy-one), $30,000. Restriction on use of naval appropriations.No part of any appropriations made for the naval service shall be expended for any of the purposes herein provided for on account of the Navy Department at Washington, District of Columbia, except for personal services in certain bureaus, as herein expressly authorized.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. Secretary, Assistants, chief clerk.Office of the Secretary: Secretary of the Interior, $12,000- First Assistant Secretary, $5,000; Assistant Secretary, $4,500; chief clerk, including $500 as superintendent of buildings, who shall be chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries, $4,000;Assistants, inspectors, clerks, etc. assistant to the Secretary, $2,750; assistant attorney, $2,500; two special inspectors, whose employment shall be limited to the inspection of offices and the work in the several offices under the control of the department, at $2,500 each; six inspectors, at $2,500 each; chief disbursing clerk, $2,500; clerk in charge of supplies, $2,250; clerk in charge of mails, files, and archives, $2,250; clerk in charge of publications, $2,250; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerks—four at $2,000 each, thirteen of class four, eighteen of class three, twenty-one of class two, twenty-four of class one, three at $1,000 each; returns office clerk, $1,600; female clerk, to be designated by the President, to sign land patents, $1,200; eight copyists; multigraph operator, $900; assistant multigraph operator, $720;
Messengers, watchmen, etc.typewriter repairer, $900; two telephone switchboard operators; nine messengers; seven assistant messengers; twenty-one laborers; skilled mechanics—one $900, one $720; two carpenters, at $900 each; plumber, $900; electrician, $1,000; laborers—one $600, six at $480 each; packer, $660; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; eight charwomen; captain of the watch, $1,200; forty watchmen, additional to two watchmen acting as lieutenants of watchmen, at $120 each; engineer, $1,200; assistant engineer, $1,000; seven firemen;Clerk to sign tribal deeds. clerk to sign, under the direction of the Secretary, in his name and îor him, his approval of all tribal deeds to allottees and deeds for town lots made and executed according to law for any of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory, $1,200; in all, $275,820.
Employees old Post Office Department building.Old Post Office Department building: Engineer and electrician, $1,600; assistant engineer, $1,000; four firemen; three watchmen, acting as lieu tenants, at $840 each; twenty watchmen; elevator conductor, $720; fourteen laborers; nine laborers, at $480 each; three skilled mechanics (painter, carpenter, and plumber), at $900 each; in all, $39,380. Solicitor’s Office.Board of appeals, attorneys, etc.Office of the Solicitor for the Department of the Interior:
Three members of a board of appeals, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, at $4,000 each; assistant attorneys—one $3,000, 489two at $2,750 each, four at $2,500 each, seven at $2,250 each, eleven at $2,000 each; medical expert, $2,000; clerks—four of class three (one of whom shall act as stenographer and one of whom shall be a stenographer and typewriter), one of class one; in all, $77,850. For per diem in lieu of subsistence of two special inspectors, whilePer diem, etc., special inspectors. traveling on duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary, not exceeding $4 nor day, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation (including temporary employment of stenographers, typewriters, and other assistance outside of the District of Columbia, and for incidental expenditures necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations), to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $4,500.
For traveling expenses of six inspectors, at $4 per day, whenTraveling expenses, etc., Inspectors. actually employed on duty in the field, exclusive of transportation and sleeping-car fare, in lieu of all other expenses now authorized by law, and for incidental expenses of negotiation, inspection, and investigation, including telegraphing and expenses to and going from the seat of government and while remaining there under orders and direction of the Secretary, for a period not to exceed twenty days, $12,800.
General Land Office: Commissioner,General Land Office. $5,000; Assistant Commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk, $3,000; chief law clerk, $2,500; two law clerks, at $2,200 each; three law examiners of surveyors general and district land offices, at $2,000 each; recorder, $2,000; chiefs of divisions—one of surveys $2,750, one $2,400, ten at $2,000 each; assistant chief of division, $2,000; law examiners—thirteen at $2,000 each, ten at $1,800 each, eighteen at $1,600 each; clerks—twenty-seven of class four, fifty-one of class three, seventy-four of class two, seventy-seven of class one, sixty-five at $1,000 each; sixty-five copyists; twenty-six copyists, at $720 each; two messengers; ten assistant messengers; messenger boys—ten at $600 each, six at $480 each; six skilled laborers, who may act as assistant messengers when required, at $660 each; sixteen laborers; laborer, $480; packer, $720; depositary acting for the commissioner as receiver of public moneys, $2,000; clerk and librarian, $1,000; in all, $631,250.
For per diem in lieu of subsistence of examiners and of clerksPer diem, etc., investigations. detailed to inspect offices of United States surveyors general and other offices in surveying service, to investigate fraudulent land entries, trespasses on the public lands, and cases of official misconduct, while traveling on duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary, not exceeding $4 per day, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, and for employment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations, and when authorized by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, $8,500.
For law books for the law library, $400.Law books. For connected and separate United States and other maps, preparedMaps. in the General Land Office, $20,000: *Provided*, That of the*Proviso.*Distribution. United States maps procured hereunder seven thousand two hundred copies shall he delivered to the Senate and fourteen thousand four hundred copies shall be delivered to the House of Representatives, five hundred copies shall be delivered to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the residue shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Interior for distribution.
And all maps delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives hereunder shall be mounted with rollers ready for use. For separate State and Territorial maps, including maps showingState and Territorial maps. areas designated by the Secretary of the Interior under the enlarged homestead Acts, prepared in the General Land Office, $3,300. For appliances in connection with filing system, $3,000.Filing appliances. 490 Indian OfficeIndian Office: Commissioner, $5,000; assistant commissioner, $3,500; second assistant commissioner who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, $2,750; financial clerk, $2,250; chiefs of divisions—one $2,250, one $2,000; law clerk, $2,000; assistant chief of division, $2,000; private secretary, $1,800; clerks—twenty of class four, thirty-one of class three, thirty-eight of class two, two at $1,500 each, sixty-eight of class one, including one stenographer, thirty-two at $1,000 each, including one stenographer; thirty-four clerks at $900 each; messenger; four assistant messengers; four messenger boys, at $360 each; expert accountant, $2,000; forester, $3,600; draftsman, $1,400; irrigation engineer, $2,000; examiner of irrigation accounts, $1,800; draftsman, $1,200, two clerks, at $720 each; in all, $328,150.
Pension Office.Pension Office: Commissioner, $5,000; deputy commissioner, $3,600; chief clerk, $2,500; assistant chief clerk/$2,000: medical referee, $3,000; assistant medical referee, $2,250; two qualified surgeons, at $2,000 each; fifteen medical examiners, at $1,800 each; eight chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; law clerk, $2,250; chief oi board of review, $2,250; forty-seven principal examiners, at $2,000 each; private secretary, to be selected and appointed by the Commissioner of Pensions, $2,000; sixteen assistant chiefs of divisions, at $1,800 each; three stenographers, at $1,600 each; disbursing clerk for the payment of pensions, $4,000; deputy disbursing clerk, $2,750; three supervising clerks in the disbursing division, at $2,000 each; clerks—one hundrei and nine of class four, one hundred of class three, two hundred and eighty-five of class two, three hundred and sixty of class one, eighty-nine at $1,000 each; sixty-one copyists; thirty messengers; sixteen assistant messengers; seventeen skilled laborers, at $660 each; twenty messenger boys, at $400 each’ superintendent of building, $1,400; twenty-three laborer’s, ten female laborers, at $400 each; fifteen charwomen; painter, and cabinetmaker, skilled in their trades, at $900 each; captain of the watch, $840; three sergeants of the watch, at $750 each; twenty watchmen; engineer, $1,200; two firemen; in all, $1,645,350.
Restriction on filling vacancies.During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen not more than twenty-five per centum of the vacancies occurring in the classified service of the Bureau of Pensions herein above provided for shall be filled except by promotion or demotion from among those in the classified service in said bureau. And the salaries or compensation of all places which may not be filled as herein above provided for shall not be available for expenditure but shall lapse and shall be covered into the Treasury.
Additional special examiners.For an additional force of five special examiners for one year, at $1,300 each, $6,500, and no person so appointed shall be employed in the State from which he is appointed; and any of the additional force now employed in the Pension Office or as special examiners may be reappointed if they be found to be qualified. Per diem, etc., investigations.For per diem, when absent from home and traveling on duty outside the District of Columbia, for persons employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertaining to said bureau, in lieu of expenses for subsistence, not exceeding $3 per day, and for actual ami other necessary expenses, including telegrams, $125,000.
Labor-saving devices, etc.For the use of the Bureau of Pensions for the purchase, repair and exchange of adding machines, addressing machines, typewriters, check-signing machines, and other labor-saving devices, furniture, filing cabinets, and postage on foreign mail, $6,000. Patent Office.Patent Office: Commissioner, $5,000; first assistant commissioner, $4,500; assistant commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk, who shall be qualified to act as principal examiner, $3,000; two law examiners, 491at $2,750 each; three examiners in chief, at $3,500 each; examiner of interferences, $2,700; examiner of trade-marks and designs, $2,700; first assistant examiner of trade-marks and designs, $2,400; six assistant examiners of trade-marks and designs, at $1,500 each; examiner of classification, $3,600; forty-three principal examiners, at $2,700 each; examiners—sixty-three at $2,400 each, seventy-three at $2,100 each, eighty-eight at $1,800 each, one hundred and ten at $1,500 each; financial clerk, who shall give bonds in such amount as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, $2,250; librarian, 82,000; six chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; three assistant chiefs of divisions, at $1,800 each; private secretary, to be selected and appointed by the commissioner, $1,800; translator of languages, $1,800; clerks—nine of class four, nine of class three, seventeen of class two, one hundred and thirty of class one, ninety at $1,000 each, three skilled draftsmen, at $1,200 each; four draftsmen, at $1,000 each; messenger and property clerk, $1,000; ninety copyists; fifty copyists, at $720 each; four messengers; twenty-five assistant messengers; fourteen laborers, at $600 each; forty-two laborers, at $540 each; forty messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $1,316,890.
The First Assistant Commissioner of Patents and the AssistantDuties of First Assistant and Assistant Commissioner. Commissioner of Patents shall hereafter perform such duties pertaining to the office of Commissioner of Patents as may be assigned to them, respectively, from time to time, by the Commissioner of Patents. For purchase of professional and other reference books and publicationsBooks, etc. and scientific books and expense of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments, $2,500.
For purchase of law and other reference books, $500. For producing copies of the weekly issue of patents, designs, and Copies of weekly Issues of patents, etc.trade-marks; for the reproduction of copies of drawings and specifications of exhausted patents and other papers, $140,000. For investigating the question of the public use or sale of inventionsInvestigating use of inventions. for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and such other questions arising in connection with applications for patents as may be deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Patents; and for expense attending defense of suits instituted against th.
Commissioner of Patents, $500. For the share of the United States in the expense of conducting theInternational Bureau, Berne. International Bureau at Berne, Switzerland, $750. Bureau of Education: Commissioner, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,000;Bureau of Education. specialist in higher education, $3,000; editor, $2,000; statistician, $1,800; specialist in charge of land-grant college statistics, $1,800; two translator’s, $1,800 each; collector and compiler of statistics, $2,400; specialists r-one in foreign educational systems and one in educational systems, at $1,800 each: clerks—four of class four, four of class three, five of class two, eight of class one, seven at $1,000 each; six copyists; copyists—two at $800 each, one $720; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; messenger; assistant messenger; laborers— three at $480 each, one $400; in all, $75,200.
For the investigation of rural education and industrial education,Rural education, etc., investigations. including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and no salary shall be paid hereunder in excess of $3,500 per annum, $30,000. For the investigation of school and home gardening in citiesSchool and home gardening. and manufacturing towns, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $5,700. For necessary traveling expenses of the commissioner and employeesTraveling expenses. acting under his direction^ including attendance at meetings of educational associations, societies, and other organizations, $3,000. 492 Library.For books for library, current educational periodicals, other current publications, and completing valuable sets of periodicals, including payment in advance for subscriptions to publications, $500. .
Special reports.For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of information, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $3,600. Distributing documents, etc.For purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus and appliances, textbooks, and educational reference books, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and repairing the same, including personal services in the District of Columbia, for the purpose of bringing the cataloguing up to date, $2,500.
Superintendent of Capitol Building and Grounds.Office of Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds: Superintendent^ $6,000; chief clerk, $2,000; chief electrical engineer, $3,000; civil engineer, $2,400; two draftsmen, at $1,200 each; two clerks, at $1,200 each; compensation to disbursing clerk, $1,000; messenger; person in charge of the heating of the Supreme Court and central portion of the Capitol, $1,000; laborer in charge of water-closets in central portion of the Capitol, $660; seven laborers for cleaning Rotunda, corridors, Dome, and old library portion of Capitol, at $660 each; two laborers in charge of public closets of the House of Representatives and in the terrace, at $720 each; bookkeeper and accountant, $2,200; in all, $29,960.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior: The following sums, which shall be so apportioned as to prevent deficiencies therein, namely: For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus, offices, and buildings of the department, including $16,000 for the Civil Service Commission: Furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, street car tickets not exceeding $250, expressage, wagons and harness, motor trucks, motor cycles, and bicycles, maintenance, repair, and exchange of same, food, forage, and shoeing of horses, diagrams, awnings, filing and labor-saving devices, constructing model and other cases and furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for, including traveling expenses, fuel and lights, typewriting and adding machines and exchange of same, $135,000.
Stationery.For stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the department and its several bureaus and offices, including not to exceed $6,500 for the Civil Additional deducted from bureaus, offices, etc.Service Commission, $81,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $27,650 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, as follows:
Surveying public lands, $1,000; protecting public lands and timber, $2,000; contingent expenses of offices of surveyors general, $2,000; Capitol Building and repairs, $150; Geological Survey, $2,100; Bureau of Mines, $1,500; Indian warehouses, $500; Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, $1,000; Indian schools, $17,000; Freedmen’s Hospital, $400; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $81,000, the total appropriation for stationery for the department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.
Books, periodicals etc.For professional and scientific books, law books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $1,000, of which sum $250 may be used for the Civil Service Commission. 493 For rent of buildings: Geological Survey, $40,000; Civil Service Rent. Commission, $16,875; Bureau of Mines, $12,000; in all, $68,875. For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as requiredPostage. under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, and for the purchase of special-delivery stamps for use in the United States when it is necessary to secure the immediate delivery of mail, $3,500.
SURVEYORS GENERAL AND THEIR CLERKS.Surveyors General. offices of surveyors general. For salaries of surveyors general, clerks in their offices, and contingentSalaries and expenses. expenses, including office rent, pay of messengers, stationery, printing, binding, drafting instruments, typewriters, furniture,*Ante, p. 492.* fuel, lights, books of reference for office use, post-office box rent, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, as follows. Alaska:
Surveyor general and ex officio secretary of the Territory,Alaska. $4,000. Clerks, $9,000. Contingent expenses, $2,500; in all, $15,500. Arizona: Surveyor general, $3,000.Arizona. Clerks, $13,000. Contingent expenses, $1,800; in all, $17,800. California: Surveyor general, $3,000.California. Clerks, $12,000. Contingent expenses, $1,500; in all, $16,500. Colorado: Surveyor general, $3,000.Colorado. Clerks, $23,000. Contingent expenses, $4,000: in all, $30,000. Idaho: Surveyor general, $3,000.Idaho.
Clerks, $17,000. Contingent expenses, $1,500; in all, $21,500. Montana: Surveyor general, $3,000.Montana. Clerks, $20,000 . Contingent expenses, $1,500; in all, $24,500. Nevada: Surveyor general, $3,000.Nevada. Clerics, $10,000. Contingent expenses, $1,000; in all, $14,000. New Mexico: Surveyor general, $3,000.New Mexico. Clerks, $17,000. Contingent expenses, $1,500; in all, $21,500. Oregon: Surveyor general, $3,000.Oregon. Clerks, $12,900. Contingent expenses, $1,000; in all, $16,900.
South Dakota: Surveyor general, $2,000.South Dakota. Clerks, $4,500. Contingent expenses, $600; in all, $7,100. Utah: Surveyor general, $3,000.Utah. Clerks, $16,000. Contingent expenses, $1,000; in all, $20,000. Washington: Surveyor general, $3,000.Washington. Clerks, $11,000. Contingent expenses, $1,500; in all, $15,500. Wyoming: Surveyor general, $3,000.Wyoming. Clerks, $20,000. Contingent expenses, $1,200; in all, $24,200. That no expenses chargeable to the foregoing appropriations forRestriction on clerk hire. clerk hire and incidental expenses in the offices of the surveyors general shall be incurred by the respective surveyors general in the 494conduct of said offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Temporary details.The Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to detail temporarily clerks from the office of one surveyor general to another as the necessities of the service may require. Office work, surveys in railroad land grants.Vol. 13, p. 365.The use of the fund created by the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four (Thirteenth Statutes, page three hundred and sixty-five), and the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and Vol. 28, p. 937.ninety-five (Twenty-eighth Statutes, page nine hundred and thirty-seven), for office work in the surveyor generals’ offices and in the General Land Office is hereby extended for one year from June *Proviso.*Limit.thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen: *Provided*, That not to exceed $25,000 of this fund shall be used for the purposes above indicated.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post Office Department. Postmaster General, chief clerk, clerks, etc.Office Postmaster General: Postmaster General, $12,000; chief clerk, including $500 as superintendent of buildings, $4,000; private secretary, $2,500; disbursing clerk, $2,250; bookkeeper and accountant, $1,800; two stenographers, at $1,600 each; appointment clerk, $2,000; assistant to chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, seven of class three, eight of class two, five of class one, seven at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; telephone switchboard operator; assistant telephone switchboard operator; messenger in charge of Engineers watchmen, etc.mails, $900; messenger; two assistant messengers; page, $360; engineer, $1,400; eight assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; electrician, $1,400; two assistant electricians, at $1,200 each; three dynamo tenders, at $900 each; fireman, who shall be a blacksmith, and fireman, who shall be a steam fitter, at $900 each; ten elevator conductors, at $720 each; seventeen firemen; carpenters—one $1,200, one $1,000, two at $900 each; captain of the watch, $1,000; additional to two watchmen acting as lieutenant of watchmen, at $120 each; twenty-four watchmen; foreman of laborers, $800; forty-five laborers; plumber, $900; awning maker, $900; female laborers—one $540, three at $500 each, three at $480 each; forty-five charwomen; in all, $187,950.
Post-office inspectors’ division.Division of Post-office Inspectors: Chief Inspector, $4,000; chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—three of class four, eight of class three, twelve of class two, sixteen of class one, fourteen at $1,000 each, fifteen at $900 each; three assistant messengers; laborer; in all, $90,520. Purchasing agent’s division.Division of Purchasing Agent: Purchasing agent, $4,000; chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class two, two of class one, one $1,000; assistant messenger; actual and necessary expenses of the purchasing agent while traveling on business of the department, $500; m all, $15,420.
Solicitor’s division.Division of Solicitor for the Post Office Department: Assistant attorneys—one $2,750, one $2,500, two at $2,000 each; law clerk, $1,800; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, three of class two, one of class one, one $1,000, one $900; assistant messenger; in all, $24,270.. Washington, D. C., post office.Care, etc., of new building.Washington, District of Columbia, new post-office building: For three assistant engineers, at $900 each; three assistant electricians, at $900 each; ten elevator conductors, at $720 each; three oilers, at $720 each; twelve watchmen; additional to one watchman acting as lieutenant of the watch, $120; fifteen laborers; one assistant plumber, $720; two female laborers, at $480 each; fifteen charwomen; in all, $38,700.
First Assistant Postmaster General, etc.Office First Assistant Postmaster General: First Assistant Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; Division of Salaries Salaries and allowances division, etc.and Allowances—superintendent $4,000, assistant superintendent $2,250; Chief Division of Correspondence, $2,000; clerks—eight of 495class four, seven of class three, eleven of class two, eight of class one, four at $1,000 each, eight at $900 each; messenger; four assistant messengers; laborers; two pages, at $360 each; in all, $82,650.
Division of Postmasters’ Appointments: Superintendent, $3,000;Appointments division. two assistants, at $2,000 each; clerks—three of class four, fourteen of class three, ten of class two, six of class one, four at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; two messengers; in all, $63,480. Division of City Delivery: Superintendent, $3,000; assistant superintendent,City delivery division. $2,000; clerks—three of class three, two oi class two, seven of class one, four at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; laborer; in all, $28,300.
Office Second Assistant Postmaster General: Second AssistantSecond Assistant Postmaster General, etc.Railway adjustments division.Foreign mails division.Transportation division. Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of railway adjustments—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,250; division of foreign mails—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,000; superintendent, division of miscellaneous transportation, $2,000; clerks—thirteen of class four, twenty-three of class three (two transferred to office of Fourth Assistant), twenty of class two (three transferred to office of Fourth Assistant), fifteen of class one, twelve at $1,000 each, eight at $900 each; messenger in charge of mails, $900; four assistant messengers (one transferred to office of Fourth Assistant); page, $480; in all, $149,410.
Division of Railway Mail Service: General superintendent, $4,000;Railway Mail Service division. assistant general superintendent, $3,500; chief clerk, $2,000; clerks— two of class four, five of class three, six of class two, five of class one, three at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; in all, $40,300. Office Third Assistant Postmaster General: Third AssistantThird Assistant Postmaster General, etc.Stamps division.Finance division. Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of stamps— superintendent, $2,750; division of finance—superintendent (who shall give bond in such amount as the Postmaster General may determine for the faithful discharge of his duties) $2,250; division ofClassification division.Registered mails division.Money-orders division. classification—superintendent $2,750; division of registered mails— superintendent $2,500; division of money orders—superintendent $2,750, chief clerk $2,250, clerks—nineteen of class four, thirty-two of class three, fifty-one of class two, sixty-two of class one, forty-two at $1,000 each, twenty-four at $900 each; two messengers; four assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, $323,430.
Postal Savings System: Director, $4,800; assistant director,Postal Savings System. $3,000; bond examiner, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; clerk in charge of administrative section, $2,000; clerk in charge of audit section, $2,000; clerks—eight of class four, fifteen of class three, twenty-three of class two, forty-six of class one, forty-seven at $1,000 each, twenty-two at $900 each; two messengers; three assistant messengers; three pages, at $480 each; in all, $214,680. Office Fourth Assistant Postmaster General:
Fourth AssistantFourth Assistant Postmaster General, etc.Rural mails division. Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of rural mails—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,000, chief clerk $2,000; clerks—twelve of class four (three transferred from Dead Letters Division and two from Supplies Division), seventeen of class three (three transferred to Supplies Division), twenty-six of class two (one transferred from Supplies Division and three from Office of Second Assistant), forty-seven of class one (three transferred from Dead Letters Division), thirty-one at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each; stenographers—one $1,600, one $1,200; two messengers; five laborers (three transferred from Dead Letters Division); two pages, at $360 each; in all, $204,600.
Division of Dead Letters: Superintendent, $2,750; clerk of classDead letters division. four, who shall be chief clerk; clerics—two of class four (three transferred to mam office), three of class three (five transferred to Supplies Division), ten of class two, twenty-eight of class one (three transferred to main office and three to Supplies Division), twenty-five at 496$1,000 each, twenty at $900 each (six transferred to Supplies Division and thirteen dropped); messenger; six assistant messengers (three transferred from main office); eight laborers (three transferred to main office and four to Supplies Division); six female laborers, at $480 each; in all, $116,870.
Supplies division.Topography and equipment divisions included in.Division of Supplies (including Divisions of Topography and Equipment, the latter transferred from Office of Second Assistant Postmaster General): Superintendent (in lieu of topographer), $2,750; assistant superintendent, in charge of topography branch (in lieu of superintendent), $2,500; assistant superintendent, in charge of miscellaneous supplies (in lieu of assistant superintendent), $2,000; assistant superintendent, in charge of mail equipment (in lieu of superintendent, Division of Equipment, transferred from the Office of the Second Assistant Postmaster General), $2,000; assistant superintendent, in charge of inspection of supplies (in lieu of assistant topographer), $2,000; thirteen of class three (three transferred from main office, five from Division of Dead Letters, and two from Office of Second Assistant Postmaster General); eleven of class two (one transferred to main office); twenty-one of class one (three transferred from Division of Dead Letters); fourteen, at $1,000 each (decrease of two); fourteen, at $900 each (six transferred from Division of Dead Letters); messenger; thirteen assistant messengers, at $720 each (one transferred from Office of .Second Assistant Postmaster General); twenty-two laborers, at $660 each (four transferred from Division of Dead Letters); page, at $360; skilled draftsmen—four at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, seven at $1,400 each, five at $1,200 each; examiner of maps $1,200; map mounter $1,200; mechanic $1,000; copyists of maps—seven at $1,000 each, two at $900 each (decrease of two); two assistant map mounters, at $720 each; in all, $167,370.
Contingent expenses.Contingent Expenses, Post Office Department: For stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders, and binding devices, including amount necessary for purchase of free penalty envelopes, $25,000. Heating plant, etc.For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, and power plant, including repairs to elevators, purchase and exchange of tools, and electrical supplies, and removal of ashes, $44,000. For telegraphing, $4,000. For painting, $2,000. For purchase, exchange, hire, and keeping of horses and vehicles, and repair of vehicles, including motor truck, and harness, $2,500.
Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous items, including purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; street car tickets not exceeding $200; plumbing; floor coverings; postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad which is not exempt under article eleven of the Rome convention of the Universal Postal Union, $25,000, of which sum not exceeding $3,985 may be expended for telephone service, and not exceeding $1,500 may be expended for law books, boohs of reference, railway guides, city directories, books necessary to conduct the business of the department; and repairs to department building.
Furniture.For furniture and filing cabinets, $7,000. Rent.For rent of stables, $500. Official Postal Guide.For publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, including not exceeding three thousand copies for Use of the executive departments, $22,000. Restriction on postal service appropriations.Vol. 5, p. 80.No part of any appropriations made for the service of the Post Office Department in conformity with the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, shall be expended for any of the purposes herein provided for on account of the Post Office Department at Washington, District of Columbia. 497 DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice.
Office of the Attorney General: Attorney General, $12,000;Attorney General, Solicitor General, Assistants.Solicitors.Interior Department.*Provisos.*Change of office and title.[R. S., sec. 390, p. 65](/us/rs/s390/p65), amended. Solicitor General, $ 10,000; assistant to the Attorney General, $9,000; six Assistant Attorneys General, at $7,500 each; Solicitor for the Department of the Interior, $5,000: *Provided*, That the title of Assist-ant Attorney General is hereby changed to that of Solicitor for the Department of the Interior, but this shall not affect the status of the present incumbent of require his reappointment;
Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $5,000: *Provided*, That the title of Assistant Attorney General for the Post Office Department is hereby changedPost Office Department.Change of office and title. to that of Solicitor for the Post Office Department, but this shall not affect the status of the present incumbent or require his reappointment; Solicitor of Internal Revenue, $5,000; Solicitor for the Department of State, $5,000; four attorneys, at $5,000 each, one of whomAttorneys, assistants, etc. shall have charge of all condemnation proceedings in the District of Columbia and supervise the examination on of titles and matters arising from such condemnation proceedings in which the United States shall be a party or have an interest, and no special attorney or counsel, or services of persons other than of those provided for herein, shall be employed for such purposes; attorneys—one $3,750, five at $3,500 each, one $3,250, fourteen at $3,000 each, two at $2,500 each; assist-ant attorneys—one $3,500, two at $3,000 each, two at $2,750 each, five at $2,500 each, one $2,400, two at $2,000 each; assistant examiner of titles, $2,000; chief clerk and ex-officio superintendent of buildings,Chief clerk, clerks, etc. $3,000; superintendent of buildings, $500; private secretary and assistant to the Attorney General, $3,000; clerk to the Attorney General, $1,800; stenographer to the Solicitor General, $1,600; law clerks—three at $2,000 each, two of class four; clerk in office of Solicitor of Internal Revenue, $l,500; attorney in charge of pardons, $3,000; superintendent of prisons, $4,000; disbursing clerk, $2,750;Superintendent of prisons.Investigation division, etc. appointment clerk, $2,000; chief of division of investigation, $3,500; examiners—two at $2,500 each, four at $2,250 each; two at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each; librarian, $1,800; clerks—eight of class four, ten of class three, ten of class two, twenty of class one, seventeen at $1,000 each, fifteen at $900 each; chief messenger, $1,000;Messengers, watchmen, etc. packer, $900; messenger, $960; six messengers; thirteen assistant messengers; seven laborers; seven watchmen; engineer, $1,200; two assistant engineers, at $900 each; four firemen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; head charwoman, $480; twenty-four char-women.
Division of Accounts: Chief, $2,500; administrative accountant,Division of accounts. $2,500; chief bookkeeper and record clerk, $2,000; clerks— three of class four, six of class three, six of class two, five of class one, three at $900 each; in all, $463,630. Contingent expenses: For furniture and repairs, including carpets,Contingent expenses. file holders, and cases, $4,500. For books for law library of the department, $3,000. For purchase of session laws and statutes of the States and Territories for library of department, $500.
For books for office of Solicitor of the Department of Commerce, $300. For books for office of Solicitor of the Department of Labor, $500. For stationery for department and its several bureaus, $6,500. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel,Miscellaneous. lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and adding machines and exchange of same, street car tickets not exceeding $200, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney General, $27,000.
For official transportation, including purchase and exchange, keep and shoeing of animals, and purchase, exchange, and repairs of vehicles and harness, and purchase and repair of bicycles, $2,500. 498 Rent.For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia, $36,000. Solicitor of the Treasury, assistant, etc.Office of Solicitor of the Treasury: Solicitor, $5,000; Assistant Solicitor, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,000; two law clerks, at $2,000 each; two docket clerks, at $2,000 each; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, two of class two; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $28,980.
For law books for office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, $300. Solicitor of Department of Commerce, etc.Office of Solicitor of the Department of Commerce: Solicitor, $5,000; Assistant Solicitor, $3,000; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, one of class one; messenger; in all, $21,040. Solicitor of Department of Labor, etc.Office of Solicitor of the Department of Labor: Solicitor, $5,000; law clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four (one transferred from office Solicitor of Department of Commerce and increase of one), two of class one (transferred from office Solicitor of Department of Commerce); messenger; in all, $13,840.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Department of Commerce. Secretary, Assistant, chiefs of divisions, clerks, etc.Office of the Secretary: Secretary of Commerce, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, $5,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; confidential clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; private secretary to Assistant Secretary, $2,100; chief clerk and superintendent, $3,000; disbursing clerk, $3,000; Chief of Appointment Division, $2,500; Chief Division of Publications, $2,500; Chief Division of Supplies, $2,100; clerks—ten of class four, nine of class three (three transferred to Department of Labor), eight of class two (five transferred to Department of Labor and one transferred from Census Office), twelve of class one (one transferred from Census Office and two transferred to Department of Labor), eight at $1,000 each (two transferred to Department of Labor), six at $900 each (one transferred to Department of Labor and one transferred from Census Office); two telephone operators, at $720 each; messenger to the Secretary, $1,000; five messengers; seven assistant messengers (two transferred to Department of Labor); six messengers boys, at $480 each (two transferred to Department of Labor and one transferred from Lighthouse Bureau); engineer, $1,000; two skilled laborers, at $840 each (one transferred to Department of Labor); skilled laborer, $720; three elevator conductors, at $720 each; two firemen, at $660 each; thirteen laborers (four transferred to Department of Labor); two laborers, at $480 each; cabinetmaker, $1,000; carpenter, $900; chief watchman, $900; eight watchmen (three transferred to Department of Labor); twenty charwomen (five transferred to Department of Labor and increase of seven); in all, $152,240.
Bureau of Corporations.*Post*, p. 718.Bureau of Corporations: Commissioner, $5,000; deputy commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk, $2,500; clerk to commissioner, $1,800; clerks—-four of class four, four of class three, six of class two, ten of class one, fifteen at $1,000 each; fifteen copyists; messenger; assistant messenger; three messenger boys, at $480 each; in all, $78,300. Special attorneys, etc,For compensation and per them, to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce, of special attorneys, special examiners, and special agents, Vol. 32, p. 827.for the purpose of carrying on the work of said bureau, as provided by the Act approved February fourteenth, nineteen hundred and three, entitled, “An Act to establish the Department of Commerce and Labor,” the per them to be, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Commerce may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding $4 per day to each of said special attorneys, special examiners, and special agents, and also of other officers and employees in the Bureau of Corporations while absent from their 499homes on duty outside of the District of Columbia, and for their actual necessary traveling expenses, including necessary sleeping-car fares; in all, $173,000.
Bureau of Lighthouses: Commissioner,Lighthouses Bureau. $5,000; deputy commissioner, $4,000; chief constructing engineer, $4,000; superintendent of naval construction, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one $2,000, two of class four, two of class three, two of class two, five of class one, seven at $1,000 each, two at $900 each, one $S40; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger boy, $480 (one transferred to Secretary’s office); assistant engineers—one $3,000, one $2,400, one $2,250; draftsmen—one SI,800, one $1,560, one $1,500, one $1,440, two at $1,200 each; in all, $64,030.
Census Office: Director, $6,000; four chief statisticians, at $3,000 Census Office.each; chief clerk, $2,500; geographer, $2,000; stenographer, $1,500; eight expert chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; clerks—eleven of class four, twenty of class three, thirty-eight of class two (one transferred to Secretary’s office), three hundred and three of class one (one transferred to Secretary’s office and one omitted), eighty-three at $1,000 each, eighty-five at $900 each (one transferred to Secretary’s office); engineer, $1,000; skilled laborers—one at $1,000, three at $900 each, five at $720 each; two watchmen; three messengers; one fireman; five assistant messengers; three unskilled laborers, at $720 each; four messenger boys, at $480 each; five charwomen; in all, $689,960.
For securing information for census reports, provided for by law,Special reports, etc. semimonthly reports of cotton production, periodical reports of stocks of baled cotton in the United States and of domestic and foreign consumption of cotton; per diem compensation of special agents and expenses of same and of detailed employees, whether employed in Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere; cost of transcribing State, municipal, or other records; temporary rental of quarters outside of the District of Columbia; for supervising agents, and employment by them of such temporary service as may be necessary in collecting statistics required by law, including $15,000 for collecting tobacco statistics authorized by law in addition to any other fund available therefor: *Provided*, That the compensation of not to *Proviso.*Pay of special agents.exceed five special agents provided for in this paragraph may be fixed at an amount not to exceed $8 per day, $835,000.
For books of reference and periodicals, including payment inBooks, etc.*Post*, p. 504. advance of annual subscriptions, $500. For experimental work in developing tabulating machines andTabulating machines. repairs to such machinery and other mechanical appliances, including technical and mechanical service in connection therewith, whether performed in Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere, and purchase of necessary machinery and supplies, $12,000. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce:
Chief, $6,000; assistantForeign and Domestic Commerce Bureau. chiefs—one $3,500, one $3,000; chief of division, $2,500; assistant chief of division, $2,250 (now paid $2,500 from appropriation “Collating tariffs of foreign countries”); chief of division, $2,000 (now paid from appropriation “Collating tariffs of foreign countries”); chief clerk, $2,250; translator, $2,000; stenographer to chief of bureau, $1,600; clerks—nine of class four, six of class three, one $1,500, fifteen of class two (increase of one, and two at $1,400, and one tariff assistant, at $1,440, now paid from appropriation “Collating tariffs of foreign countries”), fourteen of class one (one omitted and one now paid from appropriation “Collating tariffs of foreign countries”), fifteen at $1,000 each, fifteen at $900 each; three assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, $122,180.
To further promote and develop the foreign and domestic commercePromoting foreign and domestic commerce.*Provisos.* of the United States, $75,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce: *Provided*, That not exceeding 500Purchase of documents, etc.$3,000 out of the sum hereby appropriated may be expended for the purchase of documents, manuscripts, plans, specifications, and other publications necessary for the promotion of our commercial interests: Editorial assistance.*Provided*, That out of the sum hereby appropriated there may be expended $2,000 for the employment of an editorial assistant, and $1,600 for an editorial clerk, m Washington, District of Columbia, to edit the reports of the field agents employed under this appropriation.
Investigating cost of production.Vol. 25, p. 183.Vol. 37, p. 407.Investigating cost of production: For salaries and all other actual necessary expenses, including field investigations at home and abroad, compensation of experts and special agents, to be employed in Washington, District of Columbia, or in the field, rental of quarters outside of the District of Columbia when required, purchase of books of reference and manuscripts, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce to ascertain at as early a date as possible, and whenever industrial changes shall make it essential, the cost of producing articles at the time dutiable in the United States, in leading countries where such articles are produced, by fully specified units of production, and under a classification showing the different elements of cost, of such articles of production, including the wages paid in such industries per day, week, month, or year, or by the piece; and hours employed per day; and the profits of manufacturers and producers of such articles; and the comparative cost of living and the kind of living; what articles are controlled by trusts or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor, and what effect said trusts or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor have on production and prices, $50,000.
Promoting commerce with South and Central America.Promoting Commerce, South and Central America: To further promote and develop the commerce of the United States with South and Central America, including the employment of experts and special agents in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference, reports, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other necessary incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, $50,000.
Commercial attachés.Appointment, etc.Commercial attachés, Department of Commerce: For commercial attachés, to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce, after examination to be held under his direction to determine their competency, Duties.and to be accredited through the State Department, whose duties shall be to investigate and report upon such conditions in the manufacturing industries and trade of foreign countries as may be of Clerks, traveling expenses, etc.interest to the United States; and for one clerk to each of said commercial attachés to be paid a salary not to exceed $1,500 each; and for necessary traveling and subsistence expenses, rent, purchase of reports, travel to and worn the United States, and all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing; such commercial attachés shall serve directly under the Secretary of Commerce and shall report directly to him, $100,000.
Steamboat - Inspection Service.Steamboat-Inspection Service: Supervising Inspector General, $4,000; chief clerk and Acting Supervising Inspector General in the absence of that officer, $2,000; clerks—two of class three, one of class two, one of class one, two at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger; in all, $15,540. Supervising inspectors.[R. S., sec. 4404, p. 853](/us/rs/s4404/p853).Steamboat Inspectors: For ten supervising inspectors, at $3,000 each, as authorized by section forty-four hundred and four, Revised Statutes, $30,000; inspectors of hulls and inspectors of boilers, as Inspectors.Vol 34, p. 106;
Vol. 35, p. 428; Vol. 37, p. 785.authorized by Acts approved April ninth, nineteen hundred and six, May twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, and March fourth, Assistant Inspectors.Vol. 34, p. 106.nineteen hundred and thirteen, $171,100; assistant inspectors, as authorized by Act of April ninth, nineteen hundred and six, for the following ports: New York, twenty-seven, at $2,000 each; New 501Orleans, four at $1,800 each; Baltimore, six at $1,800 each; Boston, six at $1,800 each;
Philadelphia, eight at $1,800 each; San Francisco, eight at $1,800 each; Buffalo, four at $1,600 each; Milwaukee, eight at $1,600 each; Norfolk, four at $1,600 each; Seattle, eight at $1,600 each; one traveling inspector $2,500; $152,500; in all, $353,600. Clerk hire, service at large: For compensation, not exceedingClerk hire, at large. $1,500 a year to each person, of clerks to boards of steamboat inspectors, to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce in accordance[R. S., sec. 4414, p. 854](/us/rs/s4414/p854). with the provisions of section forty-four hundred and fourteen,Vol. 34, p. 106.
Revised Statutes, the Act of April ninth, nineteen hundred and six,Vol. 36, p. 1229. and the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, $84,000. Contingent expenses: For fees to witnesses; traveling and otherContingent expenses.*Post*, p. 504. expenses when on official business of the Supervising Inspector General, supervising inspectors, traveling inspector, local and assistant inspectors, and clerics; instruments, furniture, stationery, janitor service, and every other thing necessary to carry into effect the provisions[R.
S., Title LII. pp. 852–869](/us/rs/tLII/852–869).Vol. 25, p. 80.Vol. 24, p. 80.Vol. 28, p. 699; Vol. 29, p. 930; Vol. 33, p. 1026; Vol. 34, p. 106; Vol. 35, p. 428. of Title fifty-two. Revised Statutes, of the Act of April fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, amending the Act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, as amended by Acts of March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, March third, nineteen hundred and five, April ninth, nineteen hundred and six, and May twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, $80,000.
Bureau of Navigation: Commissioner, $4,000; deputy commissioner,Navigation Bureau. $2,400; chief clerk, $2,000; clerk to commissioner, $1,600; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, three of class two, four of class one, two at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; two messengers; i. all, $33,280. Shipping service: For shipping commissioners in amounts notShipping commissioners.Vol. 23, p. 59.exceeding the following: Baltimore, $1,200; Bath, $1,000; Boston, $3,000; Gloucester, $600;
New Bedford, $1,200; NewOrleans, $1,500; New York, $5,000; Norfolk, $1,500; Pascagoula, $300; Philadelphia, $2,400; Portland, Maine, $1,300; Seattle, $3,500; Providence, $1,800; Rockland, $1,200; San Francisco, $4,000; in all, $29,500. Clerk hire: For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce,Clerk hire. not to exceed $1,600 per annum to each person, of clerks in the offices of shipping commissioners, $35,000. Contingent expenses: For rent, stationery, and other requisitesContingent expenses.*Post*, p. 504. for transaction of the business of shipping commissioners’ offices, and for janitor in the commissioners’ office at New York, $840; in all, $6,000.
To enable the Commissioner of Navigation to secure uniformity inAdmeasurement of vessels.*Post*, p. 504. the admeasurement of vessels, including the employment of an adjuster of admeasurements at not to exceed $2,100, purchase and exchange of admeasuring instruments, traveling and incidental expenses, $3,000. Instruments for counting passengers: For the purchase and repairCounting passengers. of instruments for counting passengers, $250. Enforcement of navigation laws: To enable the Secretary of CommerceMotor boats, etc., to enforce navigation laws. to provide and operate such motor boats and employ thereon such persons as may be necessary for the enforcement, under his direction by customs officers, of laws relating to navigation and inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, and counting of passengers o. excursion boats, $20,000.
Enforcement of wireless-communication laws: To enable theWireless apparatus on steamers.Vol. 30, p. 629; Vol. 37, p. 199.Vol. 37, p. 1565.*Post*, p. 504. Secretary of Commerce to enforce the Acts of Congress “to require apparatus and operators for radio communication on certain ocean steamers” and “to regulate radio communication” and carry out the International Radio-telegraphic Convention, and to employ such persons and means as may be necessary, this employment to include 502salaries of employees in Washington not exceeding $7,150, traveling and subsistence expenses, purchase and exchange of instruments, technical books, rent, and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $45,000.
Standards Bureau.Bureau of Standards: Director, $6,000; physicists—chief $4,800, one qualified in optics $3,600, two at $3,600 each, one $3,000; associate physicists—three at $2,700 each, four at $2,500 each, four at $2,200 each, five at $2,000 each; assistant physicists—nine at $1,800 each, eleven at $1,600 each, fourteen at 81,400 each; chemists—chief $4,800, one $3,500; associate chemists—one $2,700, two at $2,500 each, one $2,200, one $2,000; assistant chemists—two at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each; laboratory assistants—sixteen at $1,200 each, thirteen at $1,000 each, thirteen at $900 each; laboratory helpers—one $840, three at $720 each; aids—ten at $720 each, seven at $600 each; laboratory apprentices— six at $540 each, six at $480 each; secretary, $2,200; storekeeper, $1,000; librarian, $1,600; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, two of class two, four of class one, four at $1,000 each, four at $900 each, two at $720 each; telephone operator, $720; office apprentices— two at $540 each, two at $480 each, three at $360 each; two elevator boys, at $360 each; mechanicians—chief $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,500, one $1,400, three at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each, one $900; shop apprentices—one $540, two at $480 each; four watchmen; skilled woodworkers—two at $1,000 each, one $840; .five skilled laborers, at $720 each; draftsman, $1,200; photographer, $1,200; packer, $840; messenger; superintendent of mechanical plant, $2,500; assistant engineers—one $1,500, two at $1,200 each, one $1,000, one $900; pipefitter, $1,000; four firemen; glass blower, $1,400; glassworker, $1,400; electricians—one $1,200, one $900; six laborers; janitors—two at $660 each, one $600; two female laborers, at $360 each; in all, $293,500.
Promotion of apprentices.Apprentices in the Bureau of Standards may be promoted after satisfactory apprenticeship, with the approval of the Civil Service Commission, to positions corresponding to the journeyman grades for which their duties logically prepare them without regard to apportionment:*Proviso.*Status limited. *Provided*, That they thus acquire no rights to transfer to other lines of work. Apparatus, etc.*Post*. p. 504.For apparatus, machinery, tools, and appliances used in connection with buildings or work of the bureau, laboratory supplies, materials and supplies used in the construction of apparatus, machinery, or other appliances, including their exchange; piping, wiring, and construction incident to the installation of apparatus, machinery, or appliances; furniture for laboratories and offices, cases for apparatus, $50,000.
Repairs, etc.For repairs and necessary alterations to buildings, $2,000. Miscellaneous.*Post*, p. 504.For fuel for heat, light, and power; office expenses, stationery, books and periodicals (subscriptions to periodicals may be paid In advance); traveling expenses (including expenses of attendance upon meetings of technical and professional societies when required in connection with standardization, testing, or other official work of the bureau); street-car tickets not exceeding $100; expenses of the visitingInternational Committee on Weights and Measures. committee; expenses of attendance of American member at the meeting of the International Committee of Weights and Measures; and contingencies of all kinds, $27,000.
Care of grounds.For grading, construction of roads and walks, piping grounds for water supply, lamps, wiring for lighting purposes, and other expenses incident to the improvement and care of grounds, $6,000. High-power electric currents, etc.To investigate the dangers to life and property due to the transmission of electric currents at high potentials, and the precautions to be taken and the beat methods of construction, installation, and opera.503tion to be followed in the distribution and return of such currents, in order to reduce to a minimum such dangers; also to investigate theProtection from lightning. best means of protecting life and property from lightning, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000.
For investigations incident to the establishment of units and standardsRefrigeration investigations, etc. of refrigeration, and the determination of the physical constants of materials used in the refrigeration industries, such as ammonia, 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. For continuation of the investigation of structural materials, suchStructural materials investigations. as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $100,000.
For maintenance and operation of testing machines, including personalTesting machines for physical constants. services in connection therewith in the District of Columbia and in the field, for the determination by the Bureau of Standards of the physical constants and the properties of materials as authorized by law, $30,000. For investigation of fire-resisting properties of building materialsFire-resisting building materials. and conditions under which they may be most efficiently used, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $25,000.
For the investigation of the standards and methods of measurements Measurement of public utilities, etc.of public utilities, such as gas, electric light, electric power, water, telephone, and electric railway service, ami the solution of the problems which arise in connection with standards in such service, $25,000. For the investigation of the materials used in the construction ofRailway equipment investigations. rails, wheels, axles, and other railway equipment, and the cause of their failure, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000.
For the testing of miscellaneous materials, including the suppliesMiscellaneous testings. for the Government departments and independent establishments, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, as authorized by law, $20,000. Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce: For contingentContingent expenses. and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $2,500), stationery, furniture and repairs to same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, fighting and heating; for the purchase, exchange, and care of horses and vehicles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters and adding machines, including their exchange; repairs to building occupied by offices of the Secretary of Commerce; storage of documents belonging to the Bureau of Lighthouses, not to exceed $1,500; street car tickets, not exceeding $300; removal of the Census Office to another building not to exceed $1,500, and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $57,000, and in addition thereto sums amounting to $33,500 shall beAdditional deducted from other bureaus, etc., for purchase through special committee.Vol. 36, p. 531. deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen and added to the appropriation ’“Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce,” in order to facilitate the purchase through the central purchasing office as provided in the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-six, page five hundred and thirty-one), of certain 504supplies for bureaus and offices for which contingent and miscellaneous appropriations are specifically made as follows:
General expenses. Lighthouse Service, $10,000; books and periodicals, Bureau of the Census, $500; contingent expenses, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $3,500; contingent expenses, shipping service, $500; instruments for measuring vessels and counting passengers, $500; enforcement of wireless communication laws, $2,000; equipment, Bureau of Standards, $1,500; general expenses, Bureau of Standards, $2,000; general expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $4,500; miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $8,500; and the said total sum of $90,500 shall be and constitute the appropriation for contingent To be expended through Division of Supplies.expenses, Department of Commerce, to be expended through the central purchasing office (Division of Supplies), Department of Commerce, and shall also be available for objects and purposes of the several appropriations mentioned under the title “Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce,” in this Act.
Rent.For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia, $49,800. Census Office.For rent of quarters for the accommodation of the Census Office, $17,500, and the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to enter intoFive-year lease authorized. a contract for the lease, for a period not to exceed five years, of a modern fireproof office building or modern fireproof addition to the g resent Department of Commerce Building, containing no less than fty thousand square feet of available floor space for use of the Census Office, at an annual rental at a rate per square foot of available floor space not to exceed 35 cents.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.Office of the Secretary: Secretary of Labor, $12,000; Assist. ant Secretary, $5,000: chief clerk, $3,000; disbursing clerk, $3,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; private secretary to the Assistant Secretary, $2,100; chief of division, $2,500; appointment clerk, $1,800; clerks—two of class four, four of class three (three transferred from Office Secretary of Commerce and increase of one), seven of class two (five transferred from Office Secretary of Commerce and increase of one), four of class one (two transferred from Office Secretary of Commerce and increase of two), five at $1,000 each (two transferred from Office Secretary of Commerce and increase of one), two at $900 each (one transferred from Office Secretary of Commerce and increase of one); two telephone switchboard operators; two messengers; four assistant messengers (two transferred from Office Secretary of Commerce and increase of two); three messenger boys, at $480 each (two transferred from Office Secretary of Commerce and increase of one) engineer, $1,000; two skilled laborers, at $840 each (one transferred from Office Secretary of Commerce and increase of one); eight laborers (four transferred from Office Secretary of Commerce and increase of three); four watchmen (three transferred from Office Secretary of Commerce and increase of one); eight charwomen (five transferred from Office Secretary of Commerce and increase of three); two elevator conductors, at $720 each; in all, $86,740.
Commissioners of conciliation.Vol. 37, p. 738.Commissioners of conciliation: To enable the Secretary of Labor to exercise the authority vested in him by section eight of the Act creating the Department of Labor, and to appoint commissioners of conciliation, including an executive clerk at $2,000 £er annum which is hereby authorized, and for their services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and for their traveling expenses and subsistence while so employed, $50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 505 Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Commissioner, $5,000; chief statistician,Labor Statistics Bureau. who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, $3,000; statistical experts—four at $2,000 each; clerks—five of class four, five of class three, six of class two, twelve of class one, nine at $1,000 each; two copyists; two assistant messengers; two laborers; special agents— four at $1,800 each, six at $1,600 each, eight at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; in all, $102,160. For the following employees now being paid from a general appropriation:Transfers from general appropriation.
Ono at $2,760; one at $2,520; three at $2,280 each; one at $1,800: six at $1,600 each; seven at $1,400 each; and two at $1,200 each; in all, $35,720. For per diem, in lieu of subsistence, of special agents and employeesSpecial agents, etc. while traveling on duty away from their homes and outside of the District of Columbia, at a rate not to exceed $4 per day, and for their transportation, for experts and temporary assistance and for field service outside of the District of Columbia, to be paid at the rate of not exceeding $8 per day, and for traveling expenses of officers and employees, and for the purchase of reports and materials for the reports and bulletins of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and for subvention to “International Association for Labour Legislation,” andInternational Association for Labour Legislation. necessary expenses connected with representation of the United States Government therein, $64,090.
For books, periodicals, and newspapers for the library the sum ofPeriodicals, etc. $100 may be expended for newspapers for the purpose of procuring strike data, and the annual subscriptions for newspapers and periodicals for the bureau may be paid in advance, $1,000. To enable the Secretary of Labor to provide and pay for the medicalMedical examination of injured employees. examination of employees of the United States receiving compensation for injuries under the provisions of the Act of May thirtieth,Vol. 35, p. 557. nineteen hundred and eight, as directed by section five of said Act, and for clerical assistance in its administration, and for subsistence, transportation, and traveling expenses of officers and employees of the Bureau of Labor Statistics while traveling on duty away from their homes and outside of the District of Columbia while engaged in the investigation of claims arising under the provisions of said Act, $3X100.
Bureau of Immigration: Commissioner General, $5,000; Assistant Immigration Bureau.Commissioner General, who shall also act as chief clerk and actuary, $3,500; private secretary, $1,800; chief statistician, $2,000; clerks—three of class four, four of class three, seven of class two, nine of class one, nine at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; in all, $62,400. Division of Information: Chief, $3,500; assistant chief, $2,500; Information Division.clerks—two of class four, one of class three, two of class two, three of class one, one at $900; messenger; in all, $19,340.
Bureau of Naturalization: Commissioner of Naturalization,Naturalization Bureau. $4,000; deputy commissioner, $3,250; clerks—five of class four, nine of class three, twelve of class two, fifteen of class one, ten at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $480; in all, $80,010. Children’s Bureau: Chief, $5,000; assistant chief, $2,400; statisticalChildren’s Bureau. expert, $2,000; private secretary to chief of bureau, $1,500; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, one of class two, one of class one, one $1,000; special agents—one $1,400, one $1,200; copyist; messenger; in all, $25,640.
For the following additional employees for the Children’s Bureau,Additional employees. namely: Expert on sanitation, $2,800; industrial expert, $2,000; social-service expert, $2,000; librarian expert, $2,000; two clerks of class three; four clerks of class two; seventeen clerks of class one; nine clerks, at $1,000 each; special agent, $1,800; four special agents, 506at $1,600 each; nine special agents, at $1,400 each; and eleven special agents, at $1,200 each; in all, $81,000.
Subsistence, etc., of special agents, etc.For the subsistence and traveling expenses of officers, special agents, and other employees of the Children’s Bureau while traveling on official business, away from their homes and outside of the District of Columbia, with the provision that in the discretion of the Secretary of Labor a per diem in lieu of subsistence may be paid special agents and other employees when so traveling at a rate not to exceed $4 a day, the exact rate to be fixed in each case in accordance with the reasonable cost of such subsistence by the Chief of the Children’s Employing experts.Bureau, with the approval of the Secretary of Labor; for the employment of experts and temporary assistants, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $8 a day, and of Interpreters, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $4 a day when actually employed; and for the purchase Materials for publication, etc.of reports and material for the publications of the Children’s Bureau, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals, including the advance payment of subscriptions for the same, for newspaper clippings to enable the Children’s Bureau to secure data regarding the progress of legislation affecting children and the activities of public and private organizations dealing with children, and for reprints from State, city, and private publications for distribution when said reprints can be procured more cheaply than they can be printed by the Government, $58,000.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses, Department of Labor: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including the purchase of stationery, furniture and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, laundry, street car tickets not exceeding $100, lighting and heating; for the purchase, exchange, and care of horses and vehicles to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters and adding machines, including their exchange; repairs to the building occupied by the office of the Additional from Immigration Service for purchase of supplies.Vol. 36, p. 531.Secretary of Labor, $36,100; and in addition thereto such sum as may be necessary, not in excess of $13,500, to facilitate the purchase, through the central purchasing office as provided in the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and thirty-one), of certain supplies for the Immigration Service, shall be deducted from the appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration” made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen and added to the appropriation “ContingentTo be expended through central purchasing office. expenses, Department of Labor,” for that year; and the total sum thereof shall be and constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses for the Department of Labor, to be expended through the central purchasing office (Division of Publications and Supplies), Department of Labor.
Rent.Kent: For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Department of Labor, $16,500. JUDICIAL.Judicial. Supreme Court.Supreme Court: Chief Justice, $15,000; eight associate justices, at $14,500 each; marshal, $4,500; nine stenographic clerks, one for the Chief Justice and one for each associate justice, at not exceeding $2,000 each; in all, $153,500. Circuit courts of appeals.Circuit Courts of Appeals: Thirty-four circuit judges, at $7,000 each; nine clerks of circuit courts of appeals, at $3,500 each; messenger, to act as librarian and crier circuit court of appeals, eighth circuit, $3,000; in all, $272,500. 507 District Courts:
Ninety-three district judges, at $6,000 each,District judges. $558,000. District court, Territory of Hawaii: Two judges, at $6,000Hawaii district court. each; clerk, $3,000; reporter, $1,200; $16,200. Retired judges: To pay the salaries of judges retired underRetired judges.[R. S., sec. 714, p. 135](/us/rs/s714/p135). section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia:
Chief Justice, $7,500;District of Columbia court of appeals. two associate justices, at $7,000 each; clerk, $3,250, and $250 additional as custodian of the Court of Appeals Building; assistant or deputy clerk, $2,250; reporter, $1,500: *Provided*, That the reports*Proviso.*Reports. issued by him shall not be sold for more than $5 per volume; crier, who shall also act as stenographer and typewriter hi the clerk’s office when not engaged in court room, $1,200; three messengers, at $720 each; necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s office, $1,000; three stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at $1,200 each; in all, $36,710, one-half ofHalf from District revenues. which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Supreme Court, District of Columbia: Chief justice and fiveDistrict of Columbia supreme court. associate judges, at $6,000 each; six stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at $900 each; in all, $41,400, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District ofHalf from District revenues. Columbia. Commissioner, Yellowstone Park: Commissioner in Yellow-stoneYellowstone Park.Commissioner.Vol. 29, p. 184. National Park, $1,500. The provisions of section twenty-one of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall not be construed as impairing the right of said commissioner to receive said salary as herein provided.
Books for judicial officers: For purchase and rebinding of lawBooks for judicial officers. books and books of reference for United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the nine libraries of the United States circuit courts of appeals, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General: *Provided*, That such books shall*Proviso.*Transmittal to successors. in all cases be transmitted to their successors in office; all books purchased thereunder to be plainly marked, “The property of the United States,” $16,000.
Court of Customs Appeals: Presiding judge and four associateCourt of Customs Appeals. judges, at $7,000 each; marshal, $3,000; clerk, $3,500; assistant clerk, $2,000; five stenographic clerks, at $1,600 each; stenographic reporter, $2,500; messenger, $840; in all, $54,840. For rent of necessary quarters in Washington, District of Columbia,Miscellaneous expenses. and elsewhere, $7,000; necessary traveling expenses of members of the court and clerk, $150; books, periodicals, stationery, supplies, freight, telephone and telegraph, heat, light, and power service, drugs, chemicals, cleansers, furniture, and printing; pay of bailiffs and all other necessary employees not otherwise specifically provided for; and such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $6,500; in all $13,650.
Court of Claims: Chief justice, $6,500; four judges, at $6,000Court of Claims. each; chief clerk, $3,500; assistant clerk, $2,500; bailiff, $1,500; clerks—one $1,600, three at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; stenographer, $1,200; chief messenger, $1,000; three firemen; three watch-men; elevator conductor, $720; two assistant messengers; two laborers; two charwomen; in all $56,680. For auditors and additional stenographers, when deemed necessary,Auditors, etc. in the Court of Claims, and a stenographer, at $1,600, for the chief justice, to be disbursed under the direction of the court, $7,000.
For stationery, court library, repairs, including repairs to bicycles,Contingent expenses. fuel, electric light, electric elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, $3,900. 508 Reporting decisions.For reporting the decisions of the court and superintending the printing of the forty-ninth volume of the reports of the Court of Claims, $1,000, to be paid on the order of the court, notwithstanding [R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314).Vol. 18, p. 109.section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes or section three of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.
Custodian.For pay of a custodian of the building occupied by the Court of Claims, $500, to be paid on the order of the court, notwithstanding [R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314).Vol. 18, p. 109.section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes or section three of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. Sec. 2. Pay of switchboard operators, assistant messengers, laborers, etc., rated. That the pay of telephone-switchboard operators, assistant messengers, firemen, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen provided for in this Act, except those employed in mints and assay offices, unless otherwise specially stated, shall be as follows:
For telephone-switchboard operators, assistant messengers, firemen, and watchmen, at the rate of $720 per annum each; for laborers, at the rate of $660 per annum each; assistant telephone-switchboard operators, at the rate of $600 each, and for charwomen, at the rate of $240 per annum each. Sec. 3. No pay for permanently incapacitated persons. That the appropriations herein made for the officers, clerks, and persons employed in the public service shall not be available for the compensation of any persons incapacitated otherwise than temporarily for performing such service.
Sec. 4. Typewriting machines.Restriction on prices to be paid for. That no part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen for the purchase of any typewriting machine, at a price in excess of the lowest price paid by the Government of the United States for the same make and model of machine during the period of the fiscal years nineteen hundred and thirteen and nineteen hundred and fourteen; such price shall include the value of any typewriting machine or machines given in Exceptions.exchange, but shall not apply to special prices granted on typewriting machines used in schools of the District of Columbia or of the Indian Service, the lowest of which special prices paid for typewriting machines shall not be exceeded in future purchases for such schools.
Statement of purchases in first quarter of the fiscal year.The head of every executive department and other Government establishment shall transmit to Congress, on the first day of its next session, a statement showing, for the first three months of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, the following relative to typewritingDetails. machines purchased during that period: The model, character, contract price, and make of each machine purchased; the relative cost of repairs and supplies for such makes of typewriters;, the model, character, amount allowed, and make of each machine given in exchange; total number purchased and total number given in exchange; aggregate cost, aggregate allowance on exchanges, and aggregate net For the whole year.cost of all machines.
And there shall be submitted to Congress, on the first day of the session following the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, statements of all of the foregoing facts for the entire period of that fiscal year. Sec. 5. Purchases of passenger-carrying vehicles, restricted to specific authorization. No appropriation made in this or any other Act shall be available for the purchase of any motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle for the service of any of the executive departments or other Government establishments, or any branch of the Government service, unless specific authority is given therefor, and after the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen there shall not be expended out of any appropriation made by CongressMaintenance, etc., estimates required. any sum for purchase, maintenance, repair, or operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for any branch of the public service of the United States unless the same is specifically authorized by law, and in the estimates for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen and subsequent fiscal years there shall be submitted in detail estimates for such necessary appropriations as are 509intended to be used for purchase, maintenance, repair, or operation of all motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, specifying the sums required, the public purposes for which said vehicles are intended, and the officials or employees by whom the same are to be used.
Sec. 6. That all laws or parts of laws to the extent they are inconsistentInconsistent laws repealed.with rates of salaries or compensation appropriated by this Act are repealed, and the rates of salaries or compensation of officers orSalaries rated as herein provided for. employees herein appropriated shall constitute the rate of salary or compensation of such officers or employees, respectively, until otherwise fixed by annual rate of appropriation or other law. Approved, July 16, 1914.
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