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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 38 STAT. · March 4, 1915 · 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 sixteen, 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 sixteen, and for other purposes. March 4, 1915.[[H. R. 19909](/us/bill/63/hr/19909).][[Public, No. 290](/us/pl/63/290).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums areLegislative, executive, and judicial appropriations. 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 sixteen, namely:
LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. For compensation of Senators, $720,000.Pay of Senators. For mileage of Senators, $51,000.Mileage. For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others:Officers, clerks, etc. Office of the Vice President: Secretary to the Vice President,Vice President’s office. $4,000; messenger, $1,440; telegraph operator, $1,500; telegraph page, $600; in all, $7,540. Chaplain: For Chaplain, $1,200.Chaplain. Office of Secretary: Secretary of the Senate, including compensation Secretary of the Senate, assistant, clerks, etc.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, file clerk, chief bookkeeper, assistant journal clerk, printing clerk, and three clerks, at $2,500 each; first assistant librarian, and keeper of stationery, at $2,400 each; 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; Document room.Superintendent, etc.assistants—two at $2,250 each, one $1,440; clerk, $1,440; skilled laborer, $1,200; in all, $11,580. Clerks and messengers to the following committees: Additional Clerks and messengers to committees.Accommodations for the Library of Congress—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, 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 $1,800, 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, assistant 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, messen998ger $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, assistant 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 $1,800, 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 Department of Commerce—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 Department of Labor—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; 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, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200;
Finance—clerk $3,000, assistant 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 $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Foreign Relations—clerk $3,000, 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, assistant 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; Industrial Expositions—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Interoceanic Canals—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,200; Interstate Commerce—clerk $2,500, two assistant 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; Post999 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, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; 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 Suffrageclerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; in all, $427,880. For additional amount for the clerk to the Committee on RulesSenate Manual. for revising and preparing for publication biennally, under the direction of the committee, the Senate Manual, to be immediately available, $1,000. For compiling the Navy Yearbook for the calendar year nineteenNavy Yearbook,1914. hundred and fourteen, under the direction of the chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, $500.
Office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper: Sergeant at ArmsSergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, assistant, etc. and Doorkeeper, $6,500; Assistant Sergeant at Arms, $2,500; Assistant Doorkeeper, $3,000; Acting Assistant Doorkeeper, $3,000; messengers—four (acting as assistant doorkeepers) at $1,800 each,Messengers, etc. thirty-two at $1,440 each, one $1,050, one $1,000, two on the floor of the Senate at $2,000 each, one at card door $1,600; clerk on Journal work for Congressional Record, to be selected by the official reporters, $2,400; storekeeper, $2,220; stenographer in charge of furniture accounts and records, $1,200; upholsterer and locksmith, $1,440; cabinetmaker, $1,200; three carpenters, at $1,080 each; janitor, $1,200; skilled laborers—four at $1,000 each; laborer inLaborers, etc. charge of private passage, $840; three female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring room, at $720 each; three attendants to women’s toilet rooms, Senate Office Building, at $720 each; telephone operators—chief $1,200, two at $900 each, night operator $720; telephone page, $720; press gallery—superintendent $1,800, assistant superintendent $1,400, messenger for service to press correspondents $900; laborers—one $840, three at $800 each, thirty-two at $720 each; sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate ofPages. $2. 50 per day each during the session, $8,320; in all, $141,130.
For police force for Senate Office Building under the Sergeant atPolice, Senate Office Building. Arms: Sixteen privates, at $1,050 each; special officer, $1,200; in all, $18,000. Post office: Postmaster, $2,250; chief clerk, $1,800; eight mail Postmaster, etc.carriers, and one wagon master, at $1,200 each; three riding pages, at $912. 50 each; in all, $17,587. 50. Folding room: Foreman, $l; 400; assistant, $1,400; clerk, $1,200;Folding room. folders—seven at $1,000 each, eight at $840 each; in all, $17,720.
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; labo1000rers—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. Elevator conductors, Senate Office Building.For the Senate Office Building, under the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, subject to the control and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules:
Fourteen elevator conductors, at $1,200 each; hi all, $16,800. Assistance to Senators.For assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of committees, as follows: Twenty-four clerks, at $2,000 each; twenty-four assistant clerks, at $1,200 each; and twenty-four messengers, at $1,200 each; in all, $105,600. Contingent expenses.Stationery.Contingent expenses: For stationery for Senators and the President of the Senate, including $6,000 for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $18,125.
Postage stamps.Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $200; office of Sergeant at Arms, $100; in all, $300. Mail vehicles.For maintaining and equipping motor vehicles for carrying the mails, $6,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Automobile, Vice President.For driving, maintenance, and care of automobile for the Vice President, $1,500. Folding.For materials for folding, $1,500. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $5,000. Fuel, etc.For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor, $1,500.
Furniture.For purchase of furniture, $5,000. 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. Document warehouse.For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents for the Senate, $1,800. 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, payable in equal monthly installments, $30,000. 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; 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.
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. 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; stenographer, $1,000; for expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexingCongressional Directory. 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. 1001 house of representatives.House of Representatives.
For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives,Pay of Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners. Delegates from Territories, the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, $3,304,500. For mileage of Representatives, Delegates, and expenses of ResidentMileage. Commissioners, $175,000. For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others:Officers, clerks, etc. Offices of the Speaker: Secretary to Speaker, $4,000; clerk to Speaker’s office.Speaker’s table, S3,600, 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.
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 of 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 to 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 session telephone operators, at $75 per month each from December first, nineteen hundred and fifteen to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen; substitute telephone operator when required, at $2. 50 per day, $500; two laborers in 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, $94,925.
Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds:Chief engineer, etc. Chief engineer, $1,900; assistant engineers—three at $1,300 each, one $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; throe 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, assist ant 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 10028720; Enrolled Bills—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Foreign Affairs— clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720;
Immigration and Naturalization—clerk 82,000, 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, j anitor $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, janitor $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 Moans—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, etc.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, $11,232. Sergeant at Arms, Deputy, etc.Office of 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. Police, House Office Building.For police force, House Office Building, under the Sergeant at Arms:
Lieutenant, $1,200; thirteen privates, at $1,050 each; m all, $14,850. 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’ gallery,Messengers. $1,400; janitor, $1,500; messengers—sixteen at $1,180 each, fourteen on 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 room, $800;
Folding room.Superintendent, etc.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, pressgallery 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, $23,920; superintendent of document room, $2,900; assistant superintendent, $2,100; clerk, $1,700; 1003assistant clerk, $1,600; assistants—seven at $1,280 each, one $1,100;Joel Grayson. janitor, $920; messenger to press room, $1,000; in all, $157,220.
For the employment of Joel Grayson in document room, $2,150. For minority employees authorized and named in the resolution ofMinority employees. April seventh, nineteen hundred and thirteen: Special employee, $1,800; special messenger and assistant pair clerk, $1,800; special messenger, $1,500; special chief page and pair clerk, $1,800; in all, $6,900. For assistant department messenger authorized and named in theSpecial designated employees. resolution of December seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, $2,000.
For special messenger authorized and named in the resolution of January fifteenth, nineteen hundred, $1,500. To continue employment of the assistant foreman of the folding room, authorized in the resolution of September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, at $3. 85 per day, $1,405. 25. To continue employment of the person named in the resolution of April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as a laborer, $840. To continue employment of the laborer authorized and named in the resolution of December nineteenth, nineteen hundred and one, $840.
To continue employment of the special messenger authorized and named in the resolution of April seventh, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $1,500. Successors to any of the employees provided for in the sevenAppointments. preceding 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 fifteen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $12,600; laborer, $720; in all, $35,420.
For hire of horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, $2,500,Horses and wagons. or so much thereof as may be necessary. Official Reporters: Six official reporters of the proceedingsOfficial Reporters. and debates of the House, at $5,000 each; assistant, $2,500; janitor, $720; in all, $33,220. Stenographers to committees: Four stenographers toStenographers to committees. committees, at $5,000 each; janitor, $720; in all, $20,720. Wherever the words “ during the session“ occur in the foregoing“During the session” to mean 208 days. paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the two hundred and eight days from December sixth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, 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[R.
S., sec. 31, p. 6](/us/rs/s31/p6). Statutes of the United States, shall be entitled to payment under 1004*Proviso*.To be placed on the roll of employees.this appropriation: *Provided*, That all clerks to Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners shall be placed on the roll of employees of the House and be subject to be removed at the will of the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner by whom they are appointed; and any Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may appoint one or more clerks, who shall be placed on the roll as the clerk of such Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner making such appointments..
Contingent expenses.Folding materials.Contingent expenses: For wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste, 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 Vol. 28, p. 624.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. Stationery.For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, 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: Postmaster, $250; Clerk, $450; Sergeant at Arms, $300; Doorkeeper, $150; in all, $1,150. Automobile for the Speaker.For driving, maintenance, and operation of automobile for the Speaker of the House of Representatives, $1, 500. 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; attendants—Senate reading room, $900, Representatives’ reading room—one $960, one $780; two in cloak-room at $720 each, one in Toner Library $900, one in Washingtonian 1005Library $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.
Periodical (including evening service): Chief of division, $2,000;Periodical. assistants—chief $1,500, two at $960 each, five at $780 each; stenographer and typewriter, $900; two junior messengers, at $420 each; m 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.Music. 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, two at $780 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, $7,480. Prints: Chief of division, $2,000; assistants—one $1,500, two atPrints. $960 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,840. Smithsonian 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—Congressional Reference Library. one $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 (evening service), $1,500; junior messenger, $420; in all, $9,220. 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. Legislative Reference:
To enable the Librarian of Congress to employLegislative Reference.Service designated. competent persons to gather, classify, and make available, in translations, indexes, digests, compilations, and bulletins, and otherwise, data for or bearing upon legislation, and to render such data serviceable to Congress and committees and Members thereof, $25,000. Distribution of card indexes: For service in connection withCard indexes. distribution of card indexes and other publications of the Library, including the following salaries now authorized and being paid:
Chief of division, $3,000: chief assistant, $1,800; assistants—one $1,600, three at $1,500 each, three at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, two at $1,100 each, three at $1,000 each; and for services of assistants at salaries less than $1,000 per annum and for piecework and work by the hour, $15,600, 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, $39,500.
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, 1006including the extra services of employees and the services of additional employees under the Librarian, $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Increase of Library.Increase of Library of Congress: For purchase of books for the Library, and for freight, commissions, and traveling expenses, and all Purchase of books, etc.other expenses incidental to the acquisition of books by purchase, gift, bequest, or exchange, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $90,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this object for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen;.
Law books.For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $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 marPeriodicals.shal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $2,000;. For purchase of miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, $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.Pay of superintendent.*Ante*, p. 798.*Ante*, p. 464.Library building and grounds:
Superintendent, $3,000, and the salary of the superintendent of the Library building and grounds shall, from and after the passage of this Act, be at the rate of $3,000 per annum, and the amount appropriated for the salary of said superintendent for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen shall be available for the payment of said salary at the rate of $3,000 per annum; clerks—one $2,000, 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-eight 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, $76,845.
Sunday opening.For extra services of employees and additional employees under the superintendent to provide for the opening of the Library Building from two until ten o’clock postmeridian on Sundays and legal holidays, $2,800. General expenses.For fuel, fights, 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, $14,000.
Furniture, etc.For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical work pertaining thereto, including not exceeding $7,000 for the extension and completion of the steel stack for storage of catalogue cards in the card section, $17,000. BOTANIC GARDENBotanic Garden. Superintendent, assistants, etc.For superintendent, $1,800. For assistants and laborers, under the direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, $15,500. Repairs and improvements.For procuring manure, soil, tools, fuel, purchasing trees, shrubs, plants, and seeds; and for services, materials, and miscellaneous sup1007plies, and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Gardens, under direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, $8,000.
EXECUTIVE.Executive. For compensation of the President of the United States, $75,000.President. For compensation of the Vice President of the United StatesVice President., $12,000. Office of The President: Secretary, $7,500; executive clerk, $5,000;Executive Office.Secretary, executive clerk, etc. chief clerk, $4,000; appointment clerk, $3,500; record clerk, $2,500; two expert stenographers, at $2,500 each; accountant, $2,500; two correspondents, at $2,500 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*, That employees*Proviso. *Details of 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 stationery,Contingent expenses. record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, automobiles, expenses of garage, 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;Commissioner, 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 sixteen. 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 carrier examining board.
Expert examiners: For employment of expert examiners not inExpert examiners. 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. Division of efficiency: For establishment and maintenanceDivision of Efficiency.Scope of duties.Vol. 37, p. 413. of system of efficiency ratings, pursuant to section four of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, for investigation of the needs of the several executive departments and independent establishments with respect 1008to personnel; and for investigation of duplication of statistical and other work and methods of business in the various branches of the Government service; including not more than $2,500 for equipment, supplies, stationery, books, and printing; and not more than $50 for Chief of division.Appointment, etc.street car fare, $30,000; the chief of the Division of Efficiency herein provided for shall be appointed by the President and shall report to congress at the beginning of each regular session, through the President, the nature and progress of work undertaken by the division together with a detailed statement of expenditures showing the persons employed, their duties, and the compensation paid to each: *Proviso. *Pay restriction.*Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a compensation in excess of $4,000 per annum..
Traveling expenses, etc.For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners acting under the direction of the commission, and for expenses of exammations 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. 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 work as directed by the commission, $5,700.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. Secretary, Assistants.Director of Consular Service, Counselor, etc.For Secretary of State, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, $5,000; Second and Third Assistant Secretaries, at $4,500 each; Director of the Consular Service, $4,500; counselor for the department, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Officers on drafting work, etc.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, any one of whom may be employed as chief of division of far eastern, Latin American, near eastern, or European affairs, or upon other Assistant solicitors.work in connection with foreign relations; three assistant solicitors of the department, to be appointed by the Secretary, at $3,000 each;
Chief clerk, chiefs of bureaus, clerks, etc.chief clerk, who shall sign such official papers and documents as the Secretary may direct, $3,000; law clerk, $2,500; law clerk and assistant, to be selected and appointed by the Secretary, 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; clerics—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; six messengers; twenty-three assistant messengers; messenger boy, $420; packer, $720; four laborers, at $600 each; telephone switchboard operator; assistant telephone switchboard operator; driver, $840; hostler, $720; in all, $321,020.
Emergency clerks.For emergency clerical services, to be expended by the Secretary of State in his discretion, $30,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For stationery, furniture, fixtures, typewriters, including exchange of the same, repairs, and material for repairs, $10,500. Library.For books and maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, for the library, $2,000. Lithographing.For services of lithographer and necessary materials for lithographic press, $1,500.
Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenses, including purchase, care and subsistence of homes, to be used only for official purposes, repair and 1009maintenance of horse-drawn passenger carrying vehicles; automobile mail wagon, including exchange of same, harness equipment for drivers, street-car tickets not exceeding $100, and other items not included in the foregoing, $7,280. For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $11,200.Rent. 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, including $300Chief clerk, assistant superintendent, clerks, etc. as superintendent of Treasury Building, who shall be the chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries of the department, $4,000; assistant 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, $1,400; three assistantEngineers, etc. 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, $1,400; two lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; sixty-five watchmen; foreman of laborers,Watchmen, laborers, etc. $1,000; skilled laborers—two at $840 each, two at $720 each; electrician, $1,200; wireman, $900; thirty-five laborers (one transferred from Treasurer’s office); ten laborers, at $500 each; plumber, $1,100; painter, $1,100; plumber’s assistant, $780; eighty-five charwomen; carpenters—two at $1,000 each, one $720.
Winder Building: Engineer,Winder Building. $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, seventeen hundred and nine New YorkCox Building. Avenue: Two watchmen-firemen, at $720 each; laborer. Auditors’Auditors’ Building. Building: Forewoman of char force, $480; twenty-five Charwomen; elevator conductor, $720; five laborers, at $500 each (one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relievo the elevator conductor); two female laborers, at $480 each; skilled laborer, $840; in all, $185,980.
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 chiefCustoms Division. of division, $3,000; supervising tea examiner, $2,750; law clerks— five at $2,500 each, two at $2,000 each; clerks—five of class four, 1010three of class three, five of class two, eight of class one, six at $1,000 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; in all, $64,930. Appointments Division.Division of Appointments: Chief of division, $3,000; assistant chief of division, $2,250; executive clerk, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, four of class three, four of class two, two of class one, two at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger; assistant messenger; in all, $27,910.
Surety Bonds Section.Section of Surety Bonds: Chief of section, $2,000; clerks—two of class one, one $1,000; assistant messenger; 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, four at $900 each (one transferred from Register’s Office); assorter of bonds, $800; expert counter clerks—eighteen at $900 each, two at $800 each (transferred from Treasurer’s Office), fifteen at $720 each (three transferred from Treasurer’s Office); messenger; three assistant messengers; eleven laborers; machine operator, $840; in all, $87,350.
Printing and Stationery Division.Division of Printing and Stationery: Chief of division, $2,500; assistant chief of division, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, three of class three, three of class two, three of class one, one $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.*Ante*, p. 830.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; mechanical engineering division—superintendent $2,750, assistant superintendent $2,400; structural division—superintendent $2,750, assistant superintendent $2,400; superintendents—computing division $2,750, repairs division $2,400, accounts division $2,500, maintenance division $2,500; files and records division—chief $2,500, assistant chief $2,250; head draftsman, $2,500; administrative clerks—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, sate, 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.
Comptroller’s Office.Office of Comptroller of the Treasury: Comptroller, $6,000; assistant comptroller, $4,500; chief clerk, $2,500; chief law clerk, $2,500; law clerks revising accounts and briefing opinions—one 1011$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.
For law books, including their exchange, to be expended under the direction of the Comptroller of the Treasury, $250. 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, nine at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; three assistant messengers; three laborers; in all, $140,790.
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; 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—thirteen of class four, fifteen of class three, seventeen of class two, twenty-two of class one (three transferred from Treasurer’s office), twelve at $1,000 each (two transferred from Treasurer’s office), five at $900 each (one transferred from Treasurer’s office); two messengers; two assistant messengers; laborer; in all, $128,130.
For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury,Employees on mechanical devices. of such number of employees as may be necessary to audit by the use of mechanical devices the accounts and vouchers of the Interior Department: for the purchase, exchange, or rental of the necessaryTabulating equipment. mechanical devices, and for the purchase of such supplies, including tabulating cards printed in 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*Proviso.*Reduction in grades below $1,200. may, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, 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 Department and use the unexpended balances of the appropriationPayment to employees on mechanical devices. 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 audit by the use of mechanical devices the accounts and vouchers of the Interior Department.
Office of Auditor for State and Other Departments: Auditor,Office of Auditor for State, etc., Departments. $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:
Auditor,Office of Auditor for Post Office Department. $5,000; assistant and chief clerk, $3,000; law clerk, $3,000; expert 1012accountant, $3,000; four chiefs of division, at $2,250 each; four assistant chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; three principal bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty-live of class four, forty-three of class three, forty-nine of class two, seventy-five of class one, thirty-two 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, $385,740.
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 audit the accounts and vouchers of the Postal Service by the use of labor-saving *Proviso*.Employees on leave.devices, $215,130: *Provided*, That not exceeding $28,000 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 sixteen, diminish, 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 Payment to employees on mechanical devices.Auditor for the Post Office Department and use the unexpended 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 audit the accounts and vouchers of the Postal Service by the use of labor-saving devices.
Postal Savings System.Postal Savings System: Clerks—one of class three, five of class two, twelve of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each; seven skilled laborers, at $900 each; in all, $42,300. 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; two assistant chiefs of division, at $2,250 each; vault clerk, $2,500; principal bookkeeper, $2,500; two tollers, at $2,500 each; two assistant tellers, at $2,250 each; assistant bookkeepers— two at $2,100 each, two at $2,000 each; vault clerk, bond division, $2,000; clerk for Treasurer, $1,800; coin clerk, $1,400; clerks— twenty-eight of class four, twenty of class three, six at $1,500 each, eighteen of class two, three at $1,300 each, forty-six of class one (three transferred to Auditor for the Interior Department), one $1,100, eighteen at $1,000 each (two transferred to Auditor for Interior Department), twenty-three at $900 each (one transferred to Auditor for Interior Department); expert counters—six at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, thirty-nine at $900 each, twelve at $800 each (two transferred to Division of Loans and Currency and one to Auditor for Interior Department), thirty-five at $720 each (three transferred to Division of Loans and Currency), six at $700 each (one transferred to Auditor for Interior Department); two compositors and pressmen, at $1,600 each; two skilled laborers at $1,200 each; silver piler, $1,000; twenty money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; mail messenger, $840; eight messengers; eight assistant messengers; twenty-one laborers (one transferred to Chief Clerk’s Office, Treasury Department); seven messenger boys, at $360 each; in all, $425,900.
Redemption of national currency.For the force employed in redeeming the national currency (to be reimbursed by the national banks): Superintendent, $3,500; teller, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,400; assistant toller, $2,000; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; 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 messengers; four assistant messengers: four charwomen; in all, $222,520. 1013 Postal Savings System:
Accountant, $2,000; clerks—threePostal Savings System. of class two, two of class one, three at $1,000 each; expert counter, $900; in all, $12,500. 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 and filing devices, including exchange, Labor-saving devices, etc.repairs, miscellaneous expenses of installation, for use in the office of the Treasurer of the United States, $5,000.
Office of Register of the Treasury: Register, $4,000; Assistant Register’s O nice.Register, $2,500; chief of division, $2,000; clerics—two of class four, two of class three, two of class two, three of class one, three at $1,000 each, four at $900 each (one transferred to Loans and Currency Division); messenger; laborer; in all, $29,800. Office of Comptroller of the Currency: Comptroller, $5,000;Office of Comptroller of the Currency. deputy comptrollers—one $3,500, one $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chiefs of divisions—one $2,500, two at $2,200 each; general book-keeper, $2,000; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; clerks—ten of class four, additional to bond clerk $200, sixteen of class three, seventeen 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, $156,780.
For expenses of the national currency (to be reimbursed by theNational currency expenses. 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; assist-ant messenger; fireman; messenger boy, $360; two charwomen; in all, $43,460. For special examinations of national banks and bank plates, ofSpecial examinations, etc. 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, $5,000.
Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue: Commissioner,Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue. $6,500; deputy commissioners—one $4,000, one $3,600; chemists— chief $3,000, one $2,500; assistant chemists—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; sixteen laborers; in all, $359,770.
For the following, formerly authorized and paid from the appropriationAdditional employees on income tax. for “Classifying, and so forth, returns of corporations,” and for others whose employment is necessary on account of the Act imposing income taxes on corporations and individuals, namely: Deputy commissioner, $4,000; heads of divisions—one $3,500, oneDeputy commissioner, heads of divisions, etc. $2,500; three assistant heads of divisions, at $2,000 each; attorney, $3,600; law clerk, $2,000; insurance expert, $2,000; railroad expert, $2,000; clerks—one $2,000, fifteen of class four, twenty-seven of class three, fifty of class two, thirty-six of class one, forty at $1,000 each, twenty-four at $900 each; seven messengers; four assistant messengers; in all, $281;360.
For the following employees in the Office of the Commissioner ofClerks on emergency taxes. Internal Revenue from July first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, both dates inclusive: Clerks—two of class four, two of class three, one of class two, one of class one, one $900; two counters, at $900 each; in all, $6,050. 1014 Stamp agents.For stamp agents—one $1,600, one $900; counter, $900; in all, $3,400, the same to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers.
Office of Coast Guard.*Ante*, p. 800.Office of the Coast Guard: Two chiefs of division, at $3,000 each; two assistant chiefs of division, at $2,200 each; title and contract clerk, $2,000; law and contract clerk, $1,800 and $200 additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; topographer and hydrographer, $1,800; civil engineer, $2,250; draftsman, $1,500; clerks—four of class four, nine of class three, five of class two, eight of class one, seven at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; two messengers; assistant messengers; two laborers: in all, $73,370.
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 office of the Coast Guard in connection with the construction and repair of Coast Guard cutters, to be paid from *Ante*, p. 833.*Proviso.*Limit, etc.the appropriation “Repairs to Coast Guard Cutters”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen 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. 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; disbursing agent, $2,400; medical and sanitary officer, $2,000; stenographer $1,800; storekeeper, $1,600; assistant storekeeper, $1,000; clerk in charge of purchases and supplies, $2,000; 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; 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 charwomen, at $300 each; foreman of laborers, $900; four laborers;
Limit on paying for services.eighty-five laborers, at $540 each; in all, $241,760; and no other fund appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used for services, in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, of the character specified in this paragraph, except in cases of emergency arising after the passage of this Act, and then only on the written approval of the secretary of the Treasury, 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.Secret Service Division: Chief, $4,000; assistant chief, who shall discharge the duties of chief clerk, $3,000; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, two of class two, one of class one, one $1,000; assistant messenger; in all, $16,120. Office of Director of the Mint.Office of Director of the Mint: Director, $5,000; examiner, $3,000; computer and adjuster of accounts, $2,500; assayer, $2,200; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, one of class one; private secretary, $1,400: assistant in laboratory, $1,200; messenger; assistant messenger; skilled laborer, $720; in all, $25,580.
Freight.For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, $25,000. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expended under the direction of the director: For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, pamphlets, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, $800. 1015 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 annualPrecious metals statistics.
Seduction and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, $4,800. Office of Surgeon General of Public Health Service: SurgeonPublic Health Service. General, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,250; private secretary to the Surgeon General, $1,800; assistant editor, $1,800; clerks—four of class four, four of class three, eight 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, $56,750.
Contingent expenses: For stationery for the Treasury DepartmentContingent expenses. Stationery. and its several bureaus and offices, $50,000, and in addition thereto sums amounting to $82,000 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six-teen, as follows: Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, $6,000;Additional deducted from bureaus, offices, etc. contingent expenses, mint at Philadelphia, $350; contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco, $200; contingent expenses, mint at Denver, $200; contingent expenses, assay office at hew York, $350; materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing. $4,200; suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, $200;
Public Health Service, $2,200; Quarantine Service, $500; preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $200; expenses of the Coast Guard, $2,600; general expenses of public buildings, $6,000; collecting the revenue from customs, $35,000; 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, with the exception of field officers located in foreign countries, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen.
For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal UnionPostage. countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, $1,000. For materials for the use of the bookbinder located in the TreasuryBinding. Department, $250. For newspaper clippings, financial journals, law books, city directories,Reference books, etc. and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $1,000. For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $9,000.Freight, etc.
For investigation and experimentation and to secure better methodsInvestigations to secure better administrative methods. of administration, with a view to increased efficiency or to greater economy in the expenditure of public money, including necessary traveling expenses, in connection with special work, or obtaining of better administrative methods in any branch of the service within or under the Treasury Department, including the temporary employment of agents, stenographers, accountants, or other expert services either within or without the District of Columbia, $15,000.
For rent of buildings, $11,350.Rent For purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks;Vehicles. purchase, exchange, and maintenance of horses, including shoeing; and the purchase and repair of wagons, horse-drawn passenger-carry-ing vehicles, and harness, all to be used for official purposes only, $2,500. For purchase of file holders and file cases, $4,000.Files. For the purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates,Fuel, etc. grate baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $12,000. 1016 Lighting.For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, gas and electric light fixtures, electric fight wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks,821,500.
Miscellaneous.For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings and fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower-garden, street, and engine hose: lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plante, 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 of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, $13,500.
Labor-saving machines, etc.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, $6,000. Carpets, etc.For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mate, rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, $2,000.
Furniture.For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair caning, chair covers, desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $10,000. Fire alarm.For maintenance of the automatic fire-alarm systems in the Treasury and Winder Buildings, $2,052.
Public Health depot.For heat, light, and shelving for premises numbered fourteen hundred and fourteen Pennsylvania Avenue northwest, occupied by the purveying depot of the Public Health Service, $750. Auditor for Post Office Department.Contingent expenses.Contingent and Miscellaneous expenses, Office of Auditor for Post Office Department: For miscellaneous items, including purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters and adding machines, of which not exceeding $500 may be used for furniture and repairs, 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 Control of expenditures.reference, and city directories, $6,000, 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 and to operate as a specific exception of the said office from the appropriation for contingent expenses, Treasury Department, unless otherwise provided bylaw.
Tabulating supplies, etc.For purchase of cards and tabulating equipment for use in auditing accounts and vouchers of the Postal Service, including exchange and repairs, $97,750, to be expended under the direction of the Auditor for the Post Office Department under rules and regulations to be *Proviso.*Rental limit.prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That not exceeding $24,550 may be expended for the rental of tabulating and card-sorting machines. 1017 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, $2,165,000: *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*Ante, p.* 867. for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts.”.
For additional amount required for salaries and expenses of collectorsAdditional for emergency taxes.*Ante*, p. 764. of internal revenue, deputy collectors, surveyors, clerks, messengers, and janitors in internal revenue offices until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $315,000. For salaries and expenses of forty revenue agents provided for byAgents, gaugers, etc. law, including per diem not to exceed $4, in lieu of subsistence pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeepergaugers, $2,200,000: *Provided*, That whenever any cask or package of distilled*Proviso.*Rectified spirits.Gauging, etc., by rectifier allowed.[R.
S., sec. 3320, p. 644](/us/rs/s3320/p644), amended.Vol. 28, p. 567. spirits containing five wine gallons or more is dumped by a rectifier for rectification or filled and received from rectification for sale, shipment, or delivery the same shall be gauged, marked, branded and stamped by a United States gauger; but the Commissioner of Internal Revenue may by regulations, approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, provide that the gauging, marking, stamping and branding of such packages so dumped for rectification, or received therefrom, be done by the rectifier instead of by a United States gauger.
Collecting the income tax: For expenses of assessing and collectingCollecting income tax.*Ante*, p. 180.*Ante*, p. 1015. 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 the Government, and for other purposes,” approved October third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, including the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary for use in the several collection districts, including not to exceed $4 per diem, in lieu of subsistence, pursuant to section thirteenPer diem subsistence.*Ante*, p. 680. of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $1,220,000.
Collecting the cotton-futures tax: The unexpended balance onCollecting cotton-futures tax.Balance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 698. June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, of the appropriation of $50,000 provided by section nineteen of the Act approved August eighteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to tax the privilege of dealing on exchanges, boards of trade, and similar places in contracts of sale of cotton for future delivery, and for other purposes,” is reappropriated and made available for like purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Restricting the sale of opium, and so forth: For expenses to enforceRestricting sale of opium, etc.Expenses.*Ante*, p. 785. the provisions of the Act approved December seventeenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or cocoa leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes,” including the employment of agents, deputy collectors, inspectors,Employees, etc. chemists, assistant chemists, clerks, and messengers in the field and in the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the District of Columbia, to be appointed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and for the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may 1018be necessary for use in the District of Columbia and the several collectionPer diem subsistence.*Ante*, p. 680. districts, including per diem in lieu of subsistence pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $292,000.
Miscellaneous.*Ante*, p. 1015.For rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia, telephone service, and other miscellaneous expenses incident to the collection of internal revenue, purchase of necessary books of reference and periodicals for the chemical laboratory and law library, 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, $100,000. independent treasury.Independent Treasury.
Assistant treasurers’ offices.Baltimore.Baltimore, office of assistant treasurer: 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.Boston, office of assistant treasurer: 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 watchmen, at $850 each; laborer and guard, $720; four money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $46,570.
Chicago.Chicago, office of assistant treasurer: 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.Cincinnati, office of assistant treasurer: 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 $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; clerk and stenographer, $1,000; chief watchman, $840; two watchmen, at $720 each; m all, $25,030. New Orleans.New Orleans, office of assistant treasurer: 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; night watchman, $720; messenger, $600; in all, $25,290.
New York.New York, office of assistant treasurer: 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; coin division—chief $2,700, assistant chief $2,000, paying teller $2,100; minor coin division— chief $2,000, paying teller $1,800; bookkeepers—chief $2,400, two at 1019$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; six-teen money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $171,660.
Philadelphia, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer,Philadelphia. $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 eacn, 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.
Saint Louis, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, Saint Louis.$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. San Francisco, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, San Francisco.$4,500; cashier, who also acts as vault clerk, $3,000; book-keeper, $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 Carson, Nevada: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform Carson City, Nev.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. Mint at Denver, Colorado: Superintendent, $4,500; assayer,Denver, Colo. $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining 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, $92,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery*Ante*, p. 1015. 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 in charge, who shallNew Orleans. La. also perform the duties of melter, $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, $1,500. Mint at Philadelphia: Superintendent, $4,500; engraver, $4,000;Philadelphia, Pa. 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 1020$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.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $295,000. *Ante*, p. 1015.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 sale 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; clerks—one at $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, $120,000. *Ante*, p. 1015.For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department and in the coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $40,000. 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, $500. Helena, Mont.Assay office at Helena, Montana: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $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. New York, N. Y.Assay office at New York: Superintendent, $5,000; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, 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; assistant 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. 1015.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. Salt Lake City, Utah.Assay office at Salt Lake City, Utah; Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, chief clerk, and cashier, $1,800. For wages of workmen, and other employees, $1,500. For incidental and contingent expenses, $500.
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, $15,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including rent of building, $5,000. 1021 GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES.Government In the 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 clerks, 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; stationery, lights, water, and fuel; in all, to be expended under the direction of the governor, $7,500.
Hereafter the accounts and vouchers relating to the expenditureExamination of Territorial accounts be Interior Department, etc. of the appropriations for government in the Territories shall be transmitted to the Secretary of the Interior for administrative examination and by him passed to the Auditor for the Interior Department for settlement. Territory of Hawaii: Governor, $7,000; secretary, $4,000;Hawaii. chief 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 sixteen. 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. 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 $900; 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 watchmen, at $660 each; eight laborers; hostlers—one $600, one $540; four charwomen; in all, $146,440.
Adjutant General’s Office: Chief clerk, $2,250; ten chiefs of Adjutant General’s Office.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-live 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 Uiis 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 sixteen.
Office of Inspector General: Clerks—one of class four, twoInspector General’s Office. of class three, three of class two, one of class one; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger, $600; in all, $12,560. Office of Judge Advocate General: Chief clerk and solicitor,Judge Ad vocale General’s Office. $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. 1022 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 all, $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*Proviso*.Limit, etc. employees appropriated for in the Signal Office: *Provided*, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen 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, etc.The services of one radio engineer and one radio assistant, as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the appropriation for the Signal Service of the Army, to lie paid from such appropriation in addition *Post*, p. 1064.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 sixteen, 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.
Quartmaster General’s Office.Office of the Quartermaster General: 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, $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; principal assistant librarian, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chemist, $2,088; assistant chemist, $1,500; pathologist, $1,800; microscopist, $1,800; assistant librarian, $1,800; anatomist, $1,600; two translators, at $1,600 each; clerks—thirteen of class four, eleven of class three, twenty-four of class two, thirty-two of class one, ten at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; engineer, $1,400; skilled mechanic, $1,000; two messengers; ten assistant messengers; three firemen; three watchmen; superintendent of building (Army Medical Museum and Library), $250; six laborers; four charwomen; in all, $166,758.
Ordnance Office.Office of Chief of Ordnance: Chief clerk, $2,250; chief of division, $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. Skilled draftsmen, etc.The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services, not 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 *Proviso.*Limit, etc.for draftsmen in the Army Ordnance Bureau: *Provided*, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall not exceed $65,000, and 1023the 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 chiefsEngineer Office. of 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 sixteen 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 theMilitia Affairs Division, Office of Chief of Staff.Vol. 35, p. 403.*Ante*, p. 4SI. following 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, and as restricted by the legislative, executive, and judicial Act approved July sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen: 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; in all, $37,280.
For miscellaneous expenses, including stationery, furniture, telegraphMiscellaneous. and telephone service, and necessary printing and binding, $3,200, which sum, together with the foregoing amounts for salaries,*Post*, p. 1071. shall be paid from the permanent appropriation for militia under the provisions of section sixteen hundred and sixty-one, Revised Statutes,[R. S., sec. 1061, p. 290](/us/stat/rs/s1061/p290).Vol. 34, p. 449. as amended, and no other or further sums shall be expended from said appropriation for or on account of said Division of Militia Affairs during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Contingent expenses, War Department: For purchase ofContingent expenses. professional and scientific books, law books, including their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, 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, and the other offices of the War Department and its bureaus located in the Lemon Building; 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, including a per diem allowance not to exceed $4Per dlem subsistence.*Ante*, p. 680. in lieu of subsistence pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $46,500.
For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices,Stationery. $20,000. For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as requiredPostage. under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, $250. 1024 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; in all, $9,700. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.Public buildings and grounds.
Superintendent, assistant, clerk, 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 m 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 Paries 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 and Franklin and Farragut Parks; one in Washington and Dupont Circles and neighboring reservations; one in Mount Vernon Park and neighboring reservations; two for greenhouses and nursery; four in Potomac Park; nineteen in all, at $840 each, $15,960.
Wakefield, Va.For watchman for the care of the monument and dock at Wakefield, Virginia, the birthplace of Washington, $300. Contingent expenses.For contingent and incidental expenses, including purchase of 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 watchmen and for purchase of ammunition, $1,000. For purchasing and supplying uniforms to park, Monument, and bridge watchmen, $2,800.
Part from District revenues.Of the foregoing amounts appropriated under Public Buildings and 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 Department Building. Clerks, engineers, watchmen, etc.Office of superintendent: Clerk of class three; stenographer and typewriter, $900; chief engineer, $1,400; five assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; electrical machinist, $1,200; captain of the watch, $1,200; two lieutenants of the watch, at $840 each; forty watchmen; carpenter, $1,000; electrician, $1,200; machinist, $1,000; painter, $1,000: plumber, $1,000; three dynamo tenders, at $900 each; seven 1025skilled 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 char-women; gardener, $720; in all, $105,960.
For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, and cityFuel, lights, etc. directories, $32,000. Navy Department Annex, New York Avenue near SeventeenthNavy Department annex. Street northwest: 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 DEPARTMENTNavy 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; clerks—four of class four, three of class three (one transferred from Bureau of Equipment), five of class two, five of class one, two (one of whom shall be a telegraph operator) at $1,100 each, seven at $1,000 each (three transferred from Bureau of Equipment); stenographer, $1,200; telegraph operator, $1,100; three copyists (one transferred from Bureau of Equipment); carpenter, $900; four messengers; four assistant messengers; four laborers (one transferred from Bureau of Equipment); messenger boys—four at $600 each (one transferred from Bureau of Equipment), one $420, one $400, one $360 (transferred from Bureau of Equipment); telephone switchboard operator; assistant telephone switchboard operator; in all, $84,680.
Office of Solicitor: Solicitor, $4,000; law clerks—one $2,500,Solicitor’s office. 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. Office of Naval Records and Library: Chief clerk, $2,000; Office of Naval Records and Library.clerks—two of class four, one to be selected from officers of the Confederate Navy (agent for collection of Confederate records); four of class two, four of class one, two at $1,000 each; copyist; copyist, $720; assistant messenger; laborer; necessary traveling expenses for collection of records, $100; in all, $21,100.
All employees provided for by this paragraph shall be exclusively engaged on the work of this office during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen. The unexpended balances of the appropriations for the continuation Naval Records of the Rebellion.Balances for publication reappropriated.Vol. 37, pp. 390,767.for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and thirteen and nineteen hundred and fourteen of the publication of an edition of eleven thousand copies of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies m the War of the Rebellion, not exceeding $30,210.42 are reappropriated and made available for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and fifteen and nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Office of Judge Advocate Générai.: Law clerk, $2,200; clerks—Judge Advocate General’s Office. 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, Bureau of Navigation.five of class four (one transferred from Bureau of Equipment), 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, $80,650. 1026 Naval Intelligence Office.Office of Natal Intelligence:
Clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one SI,300, three at $1,000 each; two translators, at $1,400 each; assistant draftsman, SI ,200; messenger boy, $600; in all, $12,300. Hydrographic Office. Salaries.Hydrographic Office: Hydrographic engineer, $3,000; assistants—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, four 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 each, two at $1,000 each, one $720; apprentice engravers—one $800, one $700; plate printers—chief $1,400, one $1,200. one $1,000, twro 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 transferor, $1,400; lithographic pressman, $1,400; photographic printer, $1,200; two negative cutters, at $1,000 each; two feeders, at $480 each; electro typer 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.
Materials.For copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning copperplates; 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 Pilot charts.business; preparation of Pilot Charts and their supplements, and Srinting and mailing same; purchase of data for charts and sailing irections 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.
Branch offices.Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, 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 aad 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, $10,000.
Employees.For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $17,960. Personal services, etc., in Washington restricted.No expenditure shall be incurred or authorized for personal services or otherwise under the Hydrographic Office at Washington, District of Columbia, during the fiscal year nineteen hundrea and sixteen except as herein authorized by appropriations under the Navy Department or under appropriations that may be made for printing and binding. Naval Observatory.Naval Observatory:
Assistant astronomers—one $2,400, one $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 1027$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.
For miscellaneous computations, $5,000.Computations. For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodicals,Library. engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library, $750. For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, $2,000. For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences; furniture, gas,Contingent expenses. 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; maintenance, repair, or operation of horsedrawn passenger-carrying vehicles; material for boxing nautical instruments for transportation; paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, $8,000. For cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads, $5,000.Grounds and roads.
Nautical Almanac Office: For assistants in preparing for publication Nautical Almanac Office.the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac—one $2,000, two at $1,800 each, 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, $19,240. For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publicationComputers. the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, $3,000.
Bureau of Steam Engineering: Chief clerk, $2,250; bookkeeperBureau of Steam Engineering. and accountant, $1,800 (transferred from Bureau of Equipment); clerks—one of class four, four of class three (two transferred from Bureau of Equipment), three of class two (one transferred from Bureau of Equipment), two at $1,300 each (one transferred from Bureau of Equipment), five of class one (two transferred from Bureau of Equipment), one $1,100, four at $1,000 each, one $900; copyist (transferred from Bureau of Equipment); expert in wireless telegraphy, $3,000 (transferred from Bureau of Equipment); drafts-men—one (who shall be an expert in marine construction) $2,000 (transferred from Bureau of Equipment), one $1,400, assistant $1,200; blueprinter, $720 (transferred from Bureau of Equipment); two assistant messengers (one transferred from Bureau of Equipment); laborers—three at $660 each (one transferred from Bureau of Equipment), two at $600 each; messenger boy, $600; in all, $45,490.
The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as theTechnical services. Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Steam Engineering and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy” and “Engineering,” to be paid from the appropriation “Engineering”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on *Proviso.*Limit, etc.this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen shall not exceed $48,300.
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 Construction and Repair: Chief clerk, $2,250; Bureau of Construction and Repair.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, fifteen at $1,000 each (one transferred from Bureau of Equipment); five copyists; two assistant messengers; laborer; messenger boys—nine at $600 each, one $400; in all, $59,650. 1028 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 fourteen, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy” and “Construction and Repair,” to be paid from the appropriation “Construction and Repair”: *Proviso*.Limit.*Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen shall not exceed S88,300.
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,82,250; ordnance engineer, mechanical draftsman, and computer,83,000; draftsman,81,800; assistant draftsman, $1,400; clerks—two of class three, two of class two, one $1,300, throe 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.
Technical services.The services of clerks, draftsmen, and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Ordnance^ and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, 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”: *Proviso*.Limit, etc.*Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen shall not exceed $13,283.76.
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 Supplies and Accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Civilian assistant, $2,500; chief accountant, $2,250 (formerly chief clerk, Bureau of Equipment); 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, $115,290.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: Chief clerk, $2,250; 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 all, $19,950. Bureau of Yards and Docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—one and draftsman $1,800, one of class three, one of class two, two of class one, one $1,100, six at $1,000 each; draftsmen—one $1,700 (transferred from Bureau of Equipment); one for work in connection with depots for coal, $1,200 (transferred from Bureau of Equipment); assistant messenger; three messenger boys, at $600 each; two laborers; in all, $23,290.
Technical services.The services of skilled draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Yards and Docks to carry into effect the various appropriations and allotments thereunder and be paid from *Proviso.*Limit, etc.such appropriations and allotments: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen 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. 1029 Division of Naval Militia Affairs:
For the following, authorizedNaval Militia Division.*Ante*, p. 288. by section seventeen of the Naval Militia Act approved. February sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen: Chief clerk, $1,600; clerks— one of class two, two of class one, one SI,100, three at SI,000 each; messenger boy, $600; in all, $10,100. For miscellaneous expenses, including stationery, furniture, officeMiscellaneous. equipment, postage, typewriters and exchange of same, and necessary printing and binding, $2,600, which sum, together with the foregoing amount for salaries, shall be paid from the appropriation for “Arming”*Ante*, p. 930. and equipping Naval Militia” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, 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 sixteen.
Contingent expenses: For professional and technical books and Contingent 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, drawingStationery, etc. materials, horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes, purchase, maintenance, repair, or operation of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, street car tickets not exceeding$250, freight, expressage, postage, typewriters and computing machines and exchange of same, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, $40,000; it shall not be lawful Use of naval appropriations for Department supplies forbidden.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.
For the rental of additional quarters for the Navy Department,Rent. $30.000. No part of any appropriations made for the naval service shallRestriction on use of naval appropriations. 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. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of the Interior, $12,000;Secretary, Assistants, chief clerk.
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; assistant to the Secretary, $2,750; assistant attorney, $2,500;Assistants, inspectors, clerks, etc. 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; typewriter repairer, $900; two telephone switchboard operators; nine messengers; seven assistant messengers; twenty-one laborers;Messengers, watchmen, etc. 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 1030charwomen; 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 for him, his approval of all tribal deeds to allottees and deeds for town lots made and executed according to law for any of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory, $1,200; in all, $275,820. General Land Office Building.Engineers, etc.General Land Office Building: Engineer and electrician, $1,600; assistant engineer, $1,000; four firemen; three watchmen, acting as lieutenants, 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 Solicitor: 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, two 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. Per diem, Special inspectors.*Ante*, p. 080.For per diem in lieu of subsistence of two special inspectors, while traveling on duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary, not exceeding $4 pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, 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.
Inspectors.*Ante*, p. 680.For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence to six inspector’s pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and while remaining at the seat of government under orders of the Secretary not to exceed twenty days, transportation and sleeping-car fare, incidental expenses of negotiation, inspection, and investigation, including telegraphing, $12,800. General Land Office.General Land Office:
Commissioner, $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, who may, with the approval of the commissioner, designate a clerk of the General Land Office to act as such depositary in his absence; clerk and librarian, $1,000.; in all, $631,250.
Per diem, etc., investigations.Ante, p. 680.For per diem in lieu of subsistence, at not exceeding $4, pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, of examiners and of clerks detailed to inspect offices of United States surveyors general and other offices in public land service, to investigate fraudulent land entries, tres1031passes on the public lands, and cases of official misconduct, 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, $6,000.
For law books for the law library, $400.Law books. For connected and separate United States and other maps, preparedMaps.Proviso.Distribution. in the General Land Office, $20,000: *Provided*, That of the United States maps procured hereunder seven thousand two hundred copies shall be delivered to the Senate and fourteen thousand four hundred copies shall be delivered to the House of Representatives, five hundred copies shall be delivered to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the residue shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Interior for distribution.
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. Indian Office: Commissioner, $5,000; assistant commissioner,Indian Office. $3,500; chief clerk, $2,750; forester, $3,000: financial clerk, $2,250; chiefs of divisions—one $2,250, one $2,000; law clerk, $2,000; assistant chief of division, $2,000; expert accountant, $2,000; private secretary, $1,800; examiner of irrigation accounts, $1,800; draftsmen— one $1,400, one $1,200; clerks—twenty of class four, thirty-one of class three, thirty-eight of class two, two at SI,500 each, sixty-eight of class one (including one stenographer), thirty-two at $1,000 each (including one stenographer), thirty-four at $900 each, two at $720 each; messenger; four assistant messengers; four messenger boys, at $360 each; in all, $325,550.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; twelve medical examiners, at $1,800 each; eight chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; law clerk, $2,250; chief of board of review, $2,250; forty principal examiners, at $2,000 each; private secretary, to be selected and appointed by the Commissioner of Pensions, $2,000; twelve 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 hundred of class four, ninety of class three, two hundred and sixty-five of class two, three hundred and thirty-five of class one, eighty at $1,000 each; sixty 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 laborers; 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, $1,518,650.
During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen not more thanRestriction on filling vacancies. twenty-five per centum of the vacancies occurring in the classified service of the Bureau of Pensions hereinabove provided for shall be filled except by promotion or demotion from among those in the classified service in said bureau. The salaries or compensation of all places which may not be filled as hereinabove provided for shall not be available for expenditure but shall lapse and shall be covered into the Treasury. 1032 Per diem, etc., Investigations.*Ante*, p. 680.For per diem at not exceeding S3 in lieu of subsistence pursuant to lection thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, for persons employed in the Bureau of tensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations j er tabling to said bureau and for actual and other necessary expenses, ncl tiding telegrams, $85,000.
Labor-saving devices, ere.For purchase, repair, and exchange of adding machines, addressing machines, typewriters, check-signing machines, and other laborsaving devices, furniture, filing cabinets, and postage on foreign mail, £6,000. Vault for disbursing officer.*Ante*, p. 490.The sum of $750, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the £6,000 appropriated for miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Pensions, n the legislative, executive, and judicial Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, is made available for constructing a fireproof ind waterproof vault for the use of the disbursing office, Bureau of Pensions.
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; four law sxaminers, at $2,750 each; three examiners in chief, at $3,500 each’ examiner of interferences, $2,700; examiners of trade-marks and designs—one $2,700, first assistant $2,400, six assistants at $1,500 each; exammers—one of classification $3,600, forty-three principals at $2,700 each, sixty-three first assistants at $2,400 each, seventy-three second assistants at $2,100 each, eighty-eight third assistants at $1,800 each, one humbled and ten fourth assistants at $1,500 each; financial clerk, who shall give bonds in such amount as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, $2,250; librarian, $2,000; six chiefs of 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; laborers—fourteen at $600 each, forty-two at $540 each; forty messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $1,322,390.
Books, etc.For purchase of professional and other reference books and publications and scientific books and expense of transporting publication of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign Governments $3,000. Copies of weekly issue of patents, etc.For producing copies of weekly issue of patents, designs, and trademarks; production of copies of drawings and specifications ol exhausted patents and other papers, $140,000. Investigating use of inventions.For investigating the question of public use or sale of inventions for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and such other questions arising in connection with applications foi patents as may be deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Patents and expense attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents, $500.
International Bureau, Berne.For the share of the United States in the expense of conducting the International Bureau at Berne, Switzerland, $750. Bureau of Education.Bureau of Education: Commissioner, $5,000; chief clerk $2,000; specialist in higher education, $3,000; editor, $2,000; statistician, $1,800; specialist in charge of land-grant college statistics $1,800; two translators, at $1,800 each; collector and compiler o statistics, $2,400; specialists—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 103381,000 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 investigation of rural education and industrial education,Rural and industrial education 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 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. For books for library, current educational periodicals, other currentLibrary. publications, and “completing valuable sets of periodicals, $500.
For investigation of school and home gardening in cities and manufacturingSchool and home gardening. towns, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $5,700. For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of information,Special reports. including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $3,600. For purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents,Distributing documents, etc. 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, iwd repairing the same, including personal services in the District of Columbia for the purpose of bringing the cataloguing up to date, $2,500.
Office of Superintendent of the Capitol Building andSuperintendent, Capitol Building and Grounds. Grounds: Su perm tendent, $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, Department of the Interior: The followingContingent expenses. 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, horses, purchase, maintenance, and repair of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, 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 machmes and exchange of same, $135,000.
For stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-linedStationery. wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the department and its several bureaus and offices, including not to exceed $6,500 for the Civil Service Commission, $81,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting toAdditional deducted from bureaus, offices, etc. $30,950 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, as follows:
Surveying public 1034lands, $1,000: protecting public lands and timber, $2,000; contingent expenses of offices of surveyors general,32,000; Capitol Building and repaire, $150; Geological Survey,32,100; Bureau of Mines, $1,800; Indian warehouses, $500; Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, $1,000; Indian schools, $20,000; 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 sixteen.
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. Rent.For rent of buildings: Geological Survey, $40,000; Civil Service Commission, $16,875; Bureau of Mines, $12,000; in all, $68,875. Postage stamps.For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, and for special-delivery stamps for use in the United States when it is necessary to secure immediate delivery of mail, $2,000.
OFFICES OF SURVEYORS GENERAL.Surveyors general. Salaries and expenses of offices.*Ante*, p. 1033.For salaries of surveyors general, clerks in their offices, and contingent expenses, including office rent, pay of messengers, stationery, printing, binding, drafting instruments, typewriters, furniture, fuel, lights, books of reference for office use, post-office box rent, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, as follows. Alaska.Alaska: Surveyor general and ex officio secretary of the Territory, $4,000; clerks, $9,000; contingent expenses, $2,500; in all, $15,500.
Arizona.Arizona: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $10,000; contingent expenses, $1,500; in all, $14,500. California.California: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $10,000; contingent expenses, $1,400; in all, $14,400. Colorado.Colorado: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $21,000; contingent expenses, $3,250; in all, $27,250. Idaho.Idaho: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $16,000; contingent expenses,31,200; in all, $20,200. Montana.Montana: Surveyor general,83,000; clerks, $18,500; contingent expenses, $600; in all, $22,100.
Nevada. Nevada: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $9,000; contingent expenses, $400; in all, $12,400. New Mexico.New Mexico: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $17,000; contingent expenses, $1,400; in all, $21,400. Oregon.Oregon: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $12,500; contingent expenses, $600; in all, $16,100. South Dakota.South Dakota: Surveyor general, $2,000; clerks, $3,100; contingent expenses, $500; in all, $5,600. Utah.Utah: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $16,000; contingent expenses, $1,000; in all, $20,000.
Washington.Washington: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $8,000; contingent expenses, $1,500; in all, $12,500. Wyoming.Wyoming: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $15,000; contingent expenses, $500; in all, $18,500. Restriction on clerk hire, etc.Expenses chargeable to the foregoing appropriations for clerk hire and incidental expenses in the offices of the surveyors general shall not be incurred by the respective surveyors general in the conduct of said offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office. 1035 The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to detail temporarilyTemporary details authorized. clerks from the office of one surveyor general to another as the necessities of the service may require and to pay their actual necessary traveling expenses in going to and returning from such office out of the appropriation for surveying the public lands.
A detailed statement of traveling expenses incurred hereunder shall be made to Congress at the beguming of each regular session thereof. The use of the fund created by the Act of July second, eighteenOffice work surveys in railroad land grants.Vol. 13, p. 365.Vol. 28, p. 937. hundred and sixty-four (Thirteenth Statutes, page three hundred and sixty-five), and the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five (Twenty-eighth Statutes, page nine hundred and thirty-seven), for office work in the surveyor general’s offices and in the General Land Office is extended for one year from June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen: *Provided*, That not to exceed $25,000*Proviso.*Limit. of this fund shall be used for the purposes above indicated.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post Office Department. Office Postmaster General: Postmaster General, $12,000;Postmaster General, chief clerk, clerks, etc. 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; confidential clerk to Postmaster General, $2,000 (formerly assistant superintendent in charge of mail equipment, Fourth Assistant’s Office); chairman board of inspection, $2,000 (formerly assistant superintendent in charge of inspection of supplies, Fourth Assistant’s Office); printing clerk, $1,800 (formerly clerk of class four, Fourth Assistant’s Office); clerks—four of class four (one transferred from Fourth Assistant’s Office, one from Division of Post Office Inspectors, and two to First Assistant’s Office), six of class three (two transferred from First Assistant’s Office, one from Fourth Assistant’s Office, two to Third Assistant’s Office, one to Division of Post Office Inspectors, and one to Division of Purchasing Agent), ten of class two (one transferred from First Assistant’s Office, two from Second Assistant’s Office, one from Third Assistant’s Office, one to Division of Purchasing Agent, and one to Division of Solicitor), six of class one (one transferred from Division of Post Office Inspectors), three at $1,000 each (three transferred to Division of Post Office Inspectors and one to First Assistant’s Office), eight at $900 each (one transferred from Second Assistant’s Office and two from Fourth Assistant’s Office); telephone switchboard operator; assistant telephone switchboard operator; messengerMessengers. etc. in charge of mails, $900; three messengers (one transferred from First Assistant’s Office and one from Third Assistant’s Office); three assistant messengers (one transferred from Division of Post Office Inspectors); pages—two at $480 each (one transferred from Second Assistant’s Office and one from Third Assistant’s Office), three at $360 each (one transferred from First Assistant’s Office and one from Fourth Assistant’s Office); engineer, $1,400; eight assistant engineers,Engineers, etc. 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,Watchmen, laborers, etc. $1,000; additional to two watchmen acting as lieutenant of watchmen, at $120 each; twenty-four watchmen; foreman of laborers $800; forty-seven laborers (two transferred from Fourth Assistant’s Office); plumber, $900; awning maker’, $900; female laborers—one $540, three at S500 each, five at $480 each (two transferred from Fourth Assistant’s Office); forty-five charwomen; in all, $201,210. 1036 Post-office Inspectors’ Division.Division of Post-office Inspectors:
Chief Inspector, $4,000; chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—-two of class four (one transferred to Postmaster General’s office), eleven of class three (one transferred from Postmaster General’s office, one from Fourth Assistant’s office, and one from division of Solicitor), thirteen of class two (one transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office), fifteen of class one (one transferred to Postmaster General’s office), seventeen at $1,000 each (three transferred from Postmaster General’s office), twelve at $900 each; messenger (transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office); two assistant messengers (one transferred to Postmaster General’s office); laborer, in all, $94,140.
Purchasing agent’s division.Division of Purchasing Agent: Purchasing agent, $4,000; chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, three of class three, (one transferred from Postmaster General’s office and one from Fourth Assistant’s office), two of class two (one transferred from Postmaster General’s office), two of class one, two at $1,000 each (one transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office), one $900 (transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office); two assistant messengers (one formerly map mounter, Fourth Assistant’s office); actual and necessary expenses of the purchasing agent while traveling on business of the department, $500; in all, $22,640.
Solicitor’s division.Division of Solicitor: Assistant attorneys—one $2,750, one $2,500, two at $2,000 each; bond examiner, $2,500 (transferred from Third Assistant’s office); law clerk, $1,800; clerks—three of class four (one transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office), two of class three (two transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office and one to division of post-office inspectors), four of class two (one transferred from Postmaster General’s office), four of class one (two transferred from Third Assistant’s office and one from Fourth Assistant’s office), one $1,000, one $900; assistant messenger; in all, $35,170.
Washington, D. C., post office.Care, etc., of new building.Washington, District of Columbia, new post-office building: 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 watch, $120; fifteen laborers; assistant plumber, $720; two female laborers, at $480 each; fifteen charwomen; in all, $38,700. First Assistant Postmaster General, etc.Salaries and allowances division, etc.Office First Assistant Postmaster General:
First Assistant Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of salaries and allowances—superintendent $4,000, assistant superintendent $2,250; chief, division of correspondence, $2,000; clerks—nine of class four (one transferred from Postmaster General’s office), six of class three (one transferred to Postmaster General’s office), eleven of class two (one transferred to Postmaster General’s office and one from Fourth Assistant’s office), eight of class one, six at $1,000 each (one transferred from Postmaster General’s office and one from Fourth Assistant’s office), ten at $900 each (two transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office); assistant messenger; in all, $82,270.
Appointments division.Division of Postmasters’ Appointments: Superintendent, $3,000; two assistants, at $2,000 each; clerks—four of class four (one transferred from Postmaster General’s office), twelve of class three (one transferred to Postmaster General’s office and one to Fourth Assist-ant’s office), ten of class two, six of class one, four at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; two messengers; in all, $62,080. City delivery division.Division of City Delivery: Superintendent, $3,000; assistant superintendent, $2,000; clerks—three of class three, two of class two, eight of class one (one transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office), four at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; in all, $28,840.
Second Assistant Postmaster General, etc.Railway adjustments division.Office Second Assistant Postmaster General: Second Assist-ant Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of railway adjustments—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintend1037ent $2,250; division of foreign mails—superintendent $3,000,Foreign mails division.Miscellaneous transportation division. assistant superintendent $2,000; superintendent, division of miscellaneous transportation, $2,000; clerks—thirteen of class four, twenty-three of class three, eighteen of class two (two transferred to Postmaster General’s office), fifteen of class one, twelve at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each (one transferred to Postmaster General’s office); messenger in charge of mails, $900; four assistant messengers; page, $360 (transferred from First Assistant’s office); in all, $145,590.
Division of Railway Mail Service: General superintendent, $4,000;Railway Mall Service division. assistant general superintendent, $3,500; chief clerk, $2,000; clerks— two of class four, five of class three, six of class two, six of class one (one transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office), three at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; in all, $41,500. Office of Third Assistant Postmaster General: Third AssistantThird Assistant Postmaster General, etc.Stamps division.Finance division.Classification division.Registered mails division.Money orders 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 of 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-one of class three (two transferred from Postmaster General’s office), forty-seven of class two (one transferred to Postmaster General’s office), fifty-nine of class one (two transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office, one to Postmaster General’s office), forty-two at $1,000 each (two transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office); twenty-three at $900 each (one transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office); two messengers; four assistant messengers; in all, $310,410.
Postal Savings System: Director, $4,800; assistant director, $3,000;Postal Savings System. 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-five of class one (one transferred to Postmaster General’s Office), forty-seven at $1,000 each, twenty-two at $900 each; messenger (one transferred to Postmaster General’s Office); four assistant messengers (one transferred from Fourth Assistant’s Office); pages—two at $480 each (one transferred to Postmaster General’s Office), one $360 (transferred from Fourth Assistant’s Office); in all, $210,740.
Office Fourth Assistant Postmaster General: Fourth AssistantFourth Assistant Postmaster General, etc.Rural mails division.Supplies division. Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; Division of Rural Mails—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,000, chief clerk $2,000: Division of Supplies—superintendent $2,750, assistant superintendent $2,500; Division of Equipment—superintendentEquipment division. $2,750, chief clerk $2,000 (transferred from appropriation “Labor, mail-bag repair shop, Postal Service”);
Division of Dead Letters—Dead letters division. superintendent $2,500; clerks—fourteen of class four (two transferred to Postmaster General’s office, one to division of solicitor), twenty-eight of class three (two transferred to division of solicitor, one to Postmaster General’s office, one to division of post-office inspectors, one to division of purchasing agent, and one transferred from First Assistant’s office), forty-seven of class two (one transferred to First Assistant’s office, one to division of post-office inspectors), seventy-seven of class one (two transferred to Third Assistant’s office, one to First Assistant’s office, one to Second Assistant’s office, one to division of solicitor), fifty-three at $1,000 each (two transferred to Third Assistant’s office, one to First Assistant’s office, one to division of purchasing agent), twenty-three at $900 each (two transferred to Postmaster General’s office, two to First Assistant’s office, one to Third Assistant’s office, one to division of purchasing agent); skilled draftsmen—three at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, six at $1,400 1038each, five at $1,200; map mounter, $1,200; assistant map mounter, $720 (one transferred to division of purchasing agent); mechanic, $1,000; map copyists—six at $1,000, one $900; four messengers (one transferred to division of post-office inspectors); thirteen assistant messengers (one transferred to Third Assistant’s office); twenty-eight laborers (two transferred to Postmaster General’s office); three female laborers, at $480 each (two transferred to Postmaster General’s office); in all, $397,560.
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, $38,500. Telegraphing, etc.For telegraphing, $5,000. For painting, $2,000.
For purchase, exchange, hire, and maintenance of horses and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and repair of vehicles, including motor trucks and harness, $3,425. 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, $30,000, of which sum not exceeding $3,985 may be expended for telephone service, and not exceeding $1,500 may be expended for law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, books necessary to conduct the business of the department; and repairs to department building.
Furniture.For furniture and fifing 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. Postal Service appropriations, not. to be used for Department.Vol. 5, p. 80.Appropriations made for the service of the Post Office Department in conformity with the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, shall not be expended for any of the purposes herein provided for on account of the Post Office Department at Washington, District of Columbia.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Attorney General, Solicitor General, assistants.Office of the Attorney General: Attorney General, $12,000; Solicitor General, $10,000; assistant to the Attorney General, $9,000; six Assistant Attorneys General, at $7,500 each; Solicitor for the Solicitors for Departments, etc.Department of the Interior, $5,000; Solicitor for the Post Office Attorneys, assistants, etc.Department, $5,000; Solicitor of Internal Revenue, $5,000; Solicitor for the Department of State, $5,000; four attorneys, at $5,000 each, one of whom shall have charge of all condemnation proceedings in the District of Columbia and supervise the examination of titles and matters arising from such condemnation proceedings in which the United States shall be a party or have an interest, and no special attorney or counsel, or services of persons other than of those provided for 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; assistant attorneys—one $3,500, two at $3,000 each, two at $2,750 each, five at $2,500 each, one $2,400, two at Chief clerk, clerks, etc.$2,000 each: assistant examiner of titles, $2,000; chief clerk and ex officio superintendent of buildings, $3,000; superintendent of build1039ings, $500; private secretary and assistant to the Attorney General, $3,000; clerk to the Attorney General, $1,800; stenographer to the Solicitor General,81,600; law clerks—three at $2,000 each, two of class four; clerk in office of Solicitor of Internal Revenue, $1,800, attorney in charge of pardons, $3,000; superintendent of prisons,Superintendent of prisons, etc.Investigation division, etc. $4,000; disbursing clerk, $2,750; 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; packer, $900; messenger, $960;Messengers, watchmen, etc. 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 charwomen.
Division of Accounts: Chief, $2,500;Division of Accounts. administrative accountant, $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 eases, $4,500. For books for law library of the department, including then exchange, $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, lights,Miscellaneous. 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 wagons, carriages, and harness, including those used for carrying passengers, and purchase and repair of bicycles, $2,500. For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District ofRent. Columbia, $36,000. Office of Solicitor of the Treasury: Solicitor, $5,000; Assistant Solicitor of the Treasury, assistant, etc.Solicitor, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,000; two law clerks, at $2,000 each; two docket clerks, at $2,000 each; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, two of class two; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $28,980.
For law books for office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, $300. Office of Solicitor of the Department of Commerce: Solicitor,Solicitor of the Department of Commerce. $5,000; Assistant Solicitor, $3,000; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, one of class one; messenger; m all, $21,040. Office of Solicitor of the Department of Labor: Solicitor,Solicitor of the Department of Labor. $5,000; law clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, two of class one; messenger; in all, $13,840.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Department of Commerce. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of Commerce, $12,000;Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc. 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; 1040clerks—ten of class four, nine of class three, nine of class two (one transferred from Census Office), fifteen of class one (three transferred from Census Office), ten at SI,000 each (two transferred from Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce), ten at S900 each (three transferred from Census Office and one from Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce); two telephone operators, at $720 each; messenger to the Secretary, $1,000; five messengers; seven assistant messengers; six messenger boys, at $480 each; engineer, $1,000; assistant engineer, SI,000 (transferred from Census Office); skilled laborers—one at $1,000 (transferred from Census Office), two at $840 each; four at $720 each (three transferred from Census Office); three elevator conductors, at $720 each; three firemen (one transferred from Census Office); thirteen laborers; two laborers, at $480 each; cabinetmaker, $1,000; carpenter, $900; chief watchman, $900; ten watchmen (two transferred from Census Office); twenty-five charwomen (five transferred from Census Office); in all, $170,480.
Lighthouses Bureau.Bureau of Lighthouses: Commissioner, $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 $840; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger boy, $480; assistant engineers—one $3,000, one $2,400, one $2,250; draftsmen—one $1,800, one $1,560, one $1,500, one $1,440, two at $1,200 each; in all, $64,030.
Census Office.Census Office: Director, $6,000; four chief statisticians, at $3,000 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-seven of class two (one transferred to Secretary’s office), three hundred of class one (three transferred to Secretary’s office), eighty-three at $1,000 each, eighty-two at $900 each (three transferred to Secretary’s office); skilled laborers—three at $900 each, two at $720 each (three transferred to Secretary’s office); three messengers; five assistant messengers; three unskilled laborers, at $720 each; four messenger boys, at $480 each; in all, $674,740.
Special reports, etc.For securing information for census reports, provided for by law, semimonthly reports of cotton production, periodical report 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 *Proviso*.Special agents.in collecting statistics required by law: *Provided*, That the compensation of not to exceed five special agents provided for in this paragraph may be fixed at an amount not to exceed $8 per day, $512,000, Canvass of manufacturing, establishments.$150,000 of said sum to be immediatelv available lor the completion of the canvass of manufacturing establishments.
Tabulating machines, etc.For experimental work in developing tabulating machines and 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. Agricultural census abolished.Vol. 36, p. 10, repealed.Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau.That section thirty-one of the Act approved July second, nineteen hundred and nine, is hereby repealed.
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce: Chief, $6,000; assistant chiefs—one $3,500, one $3,000; chiefs of divisions—one $2,500, one $2,000; assistant chief of division, $2,250; 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 1041class two, fourteen of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each (two transferred to Secretary’s office), fourteen at $900 each (one transferred to Secretary’s office); three assistant messengers; two laborers; in all $119,280.
To further promote and develop the foreign and domestic commercePromoting commerce. of the United States, $75,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce: *Provided*, That not exceeding*Proviso.*Purchase of documents, etc. $3,000 of this sum may be expended for the purchase of documents, manuscripts, plans, specifications, and other publications necessary for the promotion of om commercial interests: *Provided further*, That out of this sum there may be expended $2,000 for the employmentEditorial assistants. of an editorial assistant, and $1,600 for an editorial clerk, in Washington, District of Columbia, to edit the reports of the field agents employed under this appropriation.
Investigating cost of production: For salaries and all other actualInvestigating cost of production.Vol. 25, p. 183.Vol. 27, p. 407. necessary expenses, including field investigations at homo 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, manuscripts, and periodicals, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic 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 tune 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, South and Central America: To furtherPromoting commerce with South and Central America. promote and develop the commerce of the United States with South and Conti al America, including the employment of experts and special agents in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, reports, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other necessary incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to be ex-pended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, $75,000.
Commercial attachés: For commercial attachés, to be appointedCommercial attachés.Appointment, duties, etc. by the Secretary of Commerce, after examination to be held under his direction to determine their competency, 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 interest to the UnitedClerks, traveling expenses, etc. 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, books of reference and periodicals, travel to and from the United States, and all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing; such commercial attachés snail serve directly under the Secretary of Commerce and shall report directly to him, $100,000.
Steamboat-Inspection Service: Supervising Inspector General,Steamboat-Inspection Service. $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. 1042 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.Vol. 34, p. 106; Vol. 35, p. 428; Vol. 37, p. 785.Inspectors of hulls and inspectors of boilers, as authorized by Acts approved April ninth, nineteen hundred and six, May twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, and March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $171,100. Assistant inspectors.Vol. 34, p. 106.Assistant inspectors, as authorized by Act of April ninth, nineteen hundred and six, for the following ports: New York, thirty, at $2,000 each; New Orleans, 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; traveling inspector, $2,500; $158,500. In all, steamboat inspection service, $359,600. Clerk hire, at large.Clerk hire, service at large: For compensation, not exceeding $1,500 a year to each person, of clerks to boards of steamboat inspectors, to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce in accordance with the[R.
S., sec. 4414, p. 854](/us/rs/s4414/p854). provisions of section forty-tour hundred and fourteen, Revised Vol. 34, p. 106; Vol. 36, p. 1229.Statutes, the Act of April ninth, nineteen hundred and six, and the Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, $84,000. Contingent ex penses.*Post*, p. 104.Contingent expenses: For fees to witnesses; traveling and other expenses when on official busmess of the Supervising Inspector General, supervising inspectors, traveling inspector, local and assistant inspectors, and clerks; instruments, furniture, stationery, janitor service, and every other thing necessary to cany into effect the [R.
S., Title LII, pp. 852–869](/us/rs/tLII/p852–869).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.provisions of Title fifty-two, Revised Statutes, of the Act of April fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, amending the Act of Juno 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.
Navigation Bureau.Bureau of Navigation: Commissioner, $4,000; deputy commissioner, $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; in all, $33,280. Shipping commissioners.Vol. 23, p. 59.Shipping Service: For shipping commissioners in amounts not exceeding the following: Baltimore, $1,200; Boston, $3,000; New Bedford, $1,200; New Orleans, $1,500;
New York, $5,000; Norfolk, $1,500; Philadelphia, $2,400; Portland, Maine, $1,300; Seattle, $3,500; Providence, $1,800; Rockland, $1,200; San Francisco, $4,000; in all, $27,600. Clerk hire.Clerk hire: For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce, not to exceed $1,600 per annum to each person, of clerks in the offices of shipping commissioners, $35,000. Contingent expenses.*Post*, p. 1045.Contingent expenses: For rent, stationery, and other requisites for transaction of the busmess of shipping commissioners’ offices, and for janitor in the commissioner’s office at New York, $840; in all, $6,000.
Admeasurement of vessels.To enable the Commissioner of Navigation to secure uniformity in 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. Counting passengers.Instruments for counting passengers: For the purchase and repair of instruments for counting passengers, $250. Motor boats, etc., to enforce navigation laws.Enforcement of navigation laws:
To enable the Secretary of Commerce to provide and operate such motor boats and employ thereon such persons as may be necessary for the enforcement, under his 1043direction by customs officers, of laws relating to navigation and inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, and counting of passengers on excursion boats, $22,000. To enable the Secretary of Commerce to employ temporarily, inTemporary employees to prevent overcrowding of excursion, etc., vessels. addition to those now provided for by law, such other persons as may be necessary, of whom not more than two at any one time may be employed in the District of Columbia, to enforce the laws to prevent overcrowding of passenger and excursion vessels, and all necessary expenses in connection therewith, $ 15,000.
Enforcement of wireless-communication laws: To enable theWireless apparatus on steamers.Vol. 36, p. 629; Vol. 37, p. 199.Vol. 37, p. 1565.*Post*, p. 1045. 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 salaries 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.
Bureau of Standards: Director, $6,000; physicists—chief $4,800,Standards Bureau. 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 $1,400 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, six 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; pipe fitter, $1,000; five firemen; glass blower, $1,400; glassworker, $1,400; electricians— one $1,200, one $900; foremen—one of janitors and laborers $840; eight laborers; janitors—two at $660 each, one $600; two female laborers, at $360 each; in all, $298,780.
For apparatus, machinery, tools, and appliances used in connectionApparatus, etc.*Post*, p. 1045. 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. For repairs and necessary alterations to buildings, $2,000.Repairs, etc.
For fuel for heat, light, and power; office expenses, stationery,Miscellaneous. 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 visiting committee; expenses of attendance of American member at the1044 International Committee of Weights and Measures.meeting of the International Committee of Weights and Measures; one gasoline motor truck for carrying express and mail; supplies for operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger automobile and motor trucks for official use; 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 or 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 best methods of construction, installation, and operation to be followed in the distribution and return of such currents, in order to reduce to a minimum such dangers; also to investigate Protection from lightning.the best means of protecting life and property from lightning, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the held, $15,000.
Refrigeration Investigations.For continuing investigations incident to the establishment of units and standards of refrigeration, and the determination of the physical constants of materials used in the refrigeration industries, such as 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. Structural materials investigations.For continuation of the investigation of structural materials, such as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $100,000.
Testing machines for physical constants.For maintenance and operation of testing machines, including personal services in connection therewith in the District of Columbia and in the field, for the determination by the Bureau of Standards of the physical constants and the properties of materials as authorized by law, $30,000. Fire-resisting building materials.For investigation of fire-resisting properties of building materials and conditions under which thev may be most efficiently used, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $25,000.
Measurement of public utilities.For the investigation of the standards and methods of measurements 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, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $25,000. Railway equipment investigations.For investigation of materials used in the construction of 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.
Miscellaneous testing.For testing miscellaneous materials, including supplies 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. Water current meter.For construction of a suitable covering for water current meter-testing tank, to be constructed under contract, $3,000. Heating system Changes.For change in heating system in north laboratory from indirect to direct radiation, work to be done under contract, $3,000.
Radio communication standardization.For investigation and standardization of methods and instruments employed in radio communication, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce: 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 purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, peri1045odicals, 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, lighting and heating; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and care of horses, horse-drawn passenger carrying vehicles, and motor-propelled trucks, and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and 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; streetcar tickets, not exceeding $300; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $57,000, and in addition thereto sums amounting to $48,650 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and Additional deducted from bureaus, etc., for purchases through supply committee.Vol. 36, p. 531.sixteen 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 supplies for bureaus and offices for which contingent and miscellaneous appropriations are specifically made as follows:
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce—Investigating cost of production, $3,700, promoting commerce, $4,500, promoting commerce (South and Central America), $1,200, commercial attachés, $4,500; general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $10,000; contingent expenses, SteamboatInspection Service, $5,000; contingent expenses? shipping service, $500; instruments for measuring vessels, $500; instruments for counting passengers, $250; enforcement of wireless communication laws, $2,000;
Bureau of Standards—equipment $1,500, general expenses $2,000; general expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $4,500; miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $8,500; and the said total sum of $105,650 shall be and constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses, Department of Commerce, to be expended throughTo be expended through division of supplies. 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.
For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $66,500Rent. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of Labor, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.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 tnree, seven of class two, four of class one, five at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; two telephone switchboard operators; two messengers; four assistant messengers; three messenger boys, at $480 each; engineer, $1,000; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; ten laborers; four watchmen; nine charwomen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; in all, $88,300.
Commissioners of Conciliation: To enable the Secretary ofCommissioners of Conciliation.Vol. 37, p. 738. 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, for per diem in lieu of subsistence at notPer diem subsistence.*Ante*, p. 680. exceeding $4 pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and traveling expenses, including an executive clerk at $2,000 in the District of Columbia, $50,000. 1046 Labor Statistics Bureau.Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Commissioner, $5,000; chief statistician, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, $3,000; statistical experts—four at $2,000 each; employees—one $2,760, one $2,520, tnree at $2,280 each, one $1,800, six at $1,600 each, seven at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; special agents—four at $1,800 each, six at $1,600 each, eight at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 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; in all, $137,880.
Per diem, etc., special agents, etc.*Ante*, p. 680.For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence, pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, of special agents and employees and for their transportation; for experts and temporary assistance for field service outside of the District of Columbia, to be paid at Temporary statistical assistants.the rate of not exceeding $8 per day; and for temporary statistical clerks and stenographers in the District of Columbia, to be selected from civil-service registers and to be paid at the rate of not exceeding $100 per month, the same person to be employed for not more than six consecutive months, the total expenditure for such temporary clerical assistance in the District of Columbia not to exceed $6,00(1; 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 ‘‘InternationalAssociation for Labour legislation.
Association for Labour Legislation,” and necessary expenses connected with representation of the United States Government therein, $64,090. Periodicals, etc.For Books, periodicals and newspapers for the library the sum of $100 may be expended for newspapers for the purpose of procuring strike data, $1,000. Medical examination of injured employees.Vol. 35, p. 557.To enable the Secretary of Labor to provide and pay for the medical examination of employees of the United States receiving compensation for injuries under the provisions of the Act of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, as directed by section five of said Act, 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, $3,000.
Immigration Bureau.Bureau of Immigration: Commissioner General, $5,000; Assistant Commissioner General, who shall also act as chief clerk and actuary, $3,500; private secretary, $1,800; chief statistician, $2,000; clerks— three of class four, 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. Information Division.Division of Information: Chief, $3,500; assistant chief, $2,500; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, two of class two, three of class one, one $900; messenger; in all, $19,340.
Naturalization Bureau.Bureau of Naturalization: Commissioner, $4,000; deputy commissioner, $3,250; clerks—six of class four, ten of class three, fourteen of class two, fifteen of class one, ten at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; messenger bov, $480; in all, $86,210. Children’s Bureau.Children’s Bureau: Chief, $5,000; assistant chief, $2,400; experts—one on sanitation, $2,800; industrial $2,000, social service $2,000, librarian $2,000, statistical $2,000; special agents—one $1,800, four at $1,600 each, ten at $1,400 each, twelve at $1,200 aach; private secretary to chief of bureau, $1,500; clerks—two of class four, four of class three, five of class two, eighteen of class one, ten at $1,000 each; copyist; messenger; in all, $106,640. 1047 For traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence at notPer diem subsistence.*Ante*, p.
(580. exceeding $4, pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, of officers, special agents, and other employees of the Children’s Bureau; employment of experts and temporary assistants, to be paid at a rateExperts, etc. 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 ofMaterial for publications. reports ami 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 Srivate organizations dealing with children, and for reprints fronitate, 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, Department of Labor: 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 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; the purchase, maintenance, and repair of a motor truck, not to exceed $2,500: maintenance and repair of passenger automobile used by the Secretary and such other officials as exigency may require 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 Secretary of Labor, $36,100; and in addition thereto such sum as may be necessary, not in excess ofAdditional from Immigration expenses.*Ante*, p. 877. $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 beVol. 36, p. 531. deducted from the appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration” made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen and added to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of Labor,” for that year; and the total sum thereof shall be and constituteTo be expended through central purchasing office. 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: For rent of buildings and parts ol buildings in the DistrictRent.*Proviso.*Five-year lease. of Columbia for the use of the Department of Labor, $20,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of Labor is authorized, in his discretion, to enter into a contract for the lease for a period of not to exceed five years of a modern fireproof office building, at an annual rental not to exceed $20,000. JUDICIAL.Judicial. Supreme Court: Chief Justice, $15,000; eight associate justices,Supreme Court. at $14,500 each; marshal, $4,500; nine stenographic clerks, one for the Chief Justice and one for each associate justice, at not exceeding $2,000 each; in all, $153,500.
Circuit Courts of Appeals: Thirty-four circuit judges, at $7,000 Circuit courts of appeals.each; nine clerks of circuit courts of appeals, at $3,500 each; messenger, to act as librarian and crier circuit court of appeals, eighth circuit, $3,000; in all, $272,500. District courts: Ninety-four district judges, at $6,000 each,District judges. $564,000. 1048 Hawaii district court.District court, Territory of Hawaii; Two judges, at 86,000 each; clerk,83,000; reporter, $1,200; $16,200.
Retired judges.[R. S., sec. 714, p. 135](/us/rs/s714/p135).Retired judges: Salaries of judges retired under section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia.Court of Appeals, District of Columbia: Chief justice, $7,500; two associate justices, at $7,000 each; clerk, $3,250, and $250 additional as custodian of the Court of Appeals Building; assistant or *Proviso.*Reports.deputy clerk, $2,250; reporter, $1,500: *Provided*, That the reports issued by him shall not be sold for more than $5 per volume; crier, who shall also act as stenographer and typewriter in the clerk’s office when not engaged in court room, $1,200; three messengers, at $720 each; necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s office, $1,000 (see note); three stenographers, one for the chief justice and Half from District revenues.one for each associate justice, at $1,200 each: in all, $36,710, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Supreme Court, District of Columbia.Supreme Court, District of Columbia: Chief justice and five associate justices, at $6,000 each; six stenographers, one for the chief Half from District revenues.justice and one for each associate justice, at $900 each; in all, $41,400, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia. Yellowstone Park.Commissioner.Vol. 29, p. 184.Commissioner, Yellowstone Park: Commissioner in Yellowstone 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.Books for judicial officers: For purchase and rebinding of law books, including the exchange thereof, 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 *Proviso.*Transmittal to successors.under the direction of the Attorney General: *Provided*, That such books shall in all cases be transmitted to their successors in office; all books purchased thereunder to be plainly marked, “The property of the United States,” $16,000.
Court of Customs Appeals.Court of Customs Appeals: Presiding judge and four associate judges, at $7,000 each; marshal, $3,000; clerk, $3,500; assistant clerk, $2,000; five stenographic clerks, at $1,600 each; stenographic reporter, $2,500; messenger, $840; in all, $54,840. Miscellaneous expenses.For rent of necessary quarters in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, $7,000; books, periodicals, stationery, supplies, traveling expenses, 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, $6,350; in all, $13,350.
Court of Claims.Court of Claims: Chief justice, $6,500; four judges, at $6,000 each; chief clerk, $3,500; assistant clerk, $2,500; bailiff, $1,500; clerks—one $1,600, three at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; stenographer, $1,200; chief messenger, $1,000; two assistant messengers; three firemen; three watchmen; elevator conductor, $720; two laborers; two charwomen; in all, $56,680. Auditors, etc.For auditors and additional stenographci’s, when deemed necessary, 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.
Contingent expenses.For stationery, court library, repairs, including repairs to bicycles, fuel, electric light, electric elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, $3,900. Reporting decisions.[R. S..soc,1765. p.314](/us/rs//).Vol. 18, p. 109.For reporting the decisions of the court and superintending the printing of the fiftieth volume of the reports of the Court of Claims, 1049$1,000, to be paid on the order of the court, notwithstanding section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes or section three of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.
For pay of a custodian of the building occupied by the Court ofCustodian. [R. S., sec. l765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314).Vol. 18, p. 109. Claims, $500, to be paid on the order of the court, notwithstanding 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. That the pay of telephone switchboard operators, assistantPay of switchboard operators, assistant messengers, laborers, etc., rated. 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. That the appropriations herein made for the officers, clerks,No pay for permanently incapacitated persons. 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. That no part of any money appropriated by this Act shallTypewriting machines.Restriction on prices to be paid for. be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen 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 exchange, but shall not apply to special prices granted on typewritingExceptions. machines used in schools of the District of Columbia or of the Inchan Service, the lowest of which special prices paid for typewriting machines shall not be exceeded in future purchases for such schools.
Sec. 5. That hereafter subscriptions to periodicals, which haveSubscriptions to periodicals in advance allowed. been certified in writing by the respective heads of the executive departments or other Government establishments to be required for official use, may be paid in advance from appropriations available therefor. Sec. 6. The officers and employees of the United States whoseSalaries rated as herein provided for. salaries are herein appropriated for are established and shall continue from year to year to the extent they shall be appropriated for by Congress.
Approved, March 4, 1915.
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