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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 38 STAT. · March 4, 1915 · Chapter 147

Chapter 147. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen and for prior years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 147.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen and for prior years, and for other purposes.March 4, 1915.[[H. R. 21546](/us/bill/63/hr/21546).][[Public No. 296](/us/pl/63/296).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Deficiencies appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen and for prior years, and for other purposes, namely:
Department of State.department of state. Emergencies.Emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service: To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, and to extend the commercial and other Neutrality Act expenses.[R. S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49).interests of the United States, and to meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the neutrality Act, to be expended pursuant to the requirement of section two hundred and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, $50,000.
Representing foreign Governments during European war.Reappropriation of balances.*Ante*, p. 778.Representation of interest of foreign Governments growing out of hostilities in Europe, and so forth: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $1,000,000 (Public Resolution, Numbered Forty-eight, September eleventh, nineteen hundred and fourteen) to enable the United States to fulfill the obligations devolving upon it in connection with or growing out of its representation of the interests of foreign Governments and their nationals, and to extend temporary assistance to other Governments and their nationals, made necessary by hostilities in Europe and elsewhere by transferring or advancing funds for diplomatic and consular expenses and for the care or benefit of citizens or subjects of foreign nations, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the same purposes during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Treasury Department.treasury department. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $3,000. Refunding internal revenue taxes.Refunds: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money covered into the Treasury as internal-revenue collections under the provisions of the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, $45,000. Revenue-Cutter Service.revenue-cutter service. Expenses.For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $7,398.58.
Coast Guard.coast guard. Expenses of organization.*Ante*, p. 800.For amounts required during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen to comply with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to create the Coast Guard by combining therein the existing Life-Saving Service and Revenue-Cutter Service, ” approved January twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, as follows: Chiefs of division.Office of the Coast Guard: For difference in compensation, from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, between two chiefs of division at $3,000 each per annum, and the Assistant Chief Division of Revenue-Cutter Service at $2,400, and the Assistant General Superintendent Life-Saving Service at $2,500, $366.67, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 1139 Revenue-Cutter Service:
For longevity pay of fifty-six warrant Revenue-Cutter Service.Longevity pay.officers, $2,705; longevity pay of eighty-eight petty officers, $2,591.60; additional pay of eighty-one other enlisted men, $645; pay of nine warrant officers (retired), $3,883.15; pay of nine enlisted men, $1,891.50; in all, $11,716.25; Life-Saving Service: For longevity pay of superintendents, as Life-saving service superintendents.Longevity pay.follows: Ten at $2,200 (over twenty years’ service), $3,740; one at $2,000 (over twenty years’ service), $340; one at $2,000 (over fifteen years’ service), $255; one at $1,900 (over twenty years’ service), $323; in all, $4,658;
For pay of five superintendents (retired), $4,812.50; For longevity pay of two hundred and seventy-four keepers, Keepers.$43,027; For pay of forty-four keepers (retired), $19,250; Pay of crews: For longevity pay as follows: Twenty number one Crews.surfmen, $1,615.75; one hundred and eighty-two number one surfmen from January twenty-eighth to May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $10,781.80; sixty number one surfmen from April first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $3,423; in all, $15,820.55;
For additional pay for one thousand two hundred and thirty-six Other surfmen, etc.other surfmen, $17,314.81; For pay of fifteen number one surfmen (retired), $5,512.50; For pay of thirty other surfmen (retired), $8,430; In all, Coast Guard, $130,908.28. mints and assay offices.Mints and assay offices. Denver, Colorado, Mint: For incidental and contingent expenses, Denver, Colo.Contingent expenses.including new machinery 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, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $7,395.97. independent treasury.Independent Treasury.
For contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, including the Contingent expenses.same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $20,000. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. Expenses of Tariff Board: To pay amounts due on account of Tariff Board, expenses.expenses incurred by the Tariff Board, for which bills were not rendered until after the appropriation was exhausted, fiscal years nineteen hundred and eleven and nineteen hundred and twelve, $84.50.
Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight gold coins Recoinage, gold coins.in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes, $4,000. Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury Recoinage, minor coins.to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coin of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coin and the amount the same will produce in new coin, $5,000.
War-risk insurance: To pay the United States Steel Products United States Steel Products Company.Company refund of a portion of premium on account of war-risk policy numbered eight, having ceased to cover on November twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $1,435.60. 1140 Public buildings.public buildings. Southbridge, Mass.Southbridge, Massachusetts, post office: For site and commencement within the present limit of cost, $18,000. P. F. Gormley Company.Payment to.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury in his discretion to pay the P.
F. Gormley Company for extra excavation work performed at the new Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $2,311.50. Uvalde, Tex.Construction.The limit of cost of a public building heretofore authorized at Uvalde, Texas, be and hereby is increased from $50,000 to $60,000, and $10,000 is hereby appropriated to complete the building. Quarantine stations.quarantine stations. Savannah, Ga.Repairs, etc.Savannah, Georgia, quarantine station: For dredging, repairs, and other improvements at the quarantine station near the city of Savannah, Georgia, at a total cost not to exceed the sum hereby appropriated, $28,500.
Honolulu, Hawaii.New wharf, etc.Honolulu, Hawaii, quarantine station: For the removal of the wharf of the quarantine station at Honolulu, Hawaii, and its reerection, including all necessary new material, at a new location within the new harbor lines established by the War Department, $22,000. The foregoing construction under quarantine stations shall be under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. Interstate Commerce Commission.INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.
Expenses.General expenses: For all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execution of laws to regulate commerce, including the same object specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $100,000. Physical valuation of railroads.Valuation of carriers: For valuation of property of carriers, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $400,000.
Statement of all employees to be made.A complete statement showing the employments under this and all other appropriations heretofore made for the valuation of carriers shall be made to Congress at its next regular session, and under similar appropriations for subsequent fiscal years at each succeeding regular Details required.session thereof. Said statements shall show, under each division or title of organization, the names of all persons employed under the Interstate Commerce Commission, alphabetically arranged, the State from which each is appointed, rate of compensation paid to each, together with a full itemized statement showing how the moneys appropriated for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and fourteen and nineteen hundred and fifteen have been expended under said commission.
Board of Mediation and Conciliation.UNITED STATES BOARD OF MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION. Expenses.For the United States Board of Mediation and Conciliation, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $10,000. Federal Trade Commission.FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. Salaries.For five commissioners at the rate of $10,000 each per annum and *Ante*, p. 717.secretary at the rate of $5,000 per annum from March first to June thirtieth, inclusive, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $18,333.37, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 1141 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia.
Contingent and miscellaneous: For judicial expenses, including Contingent expenses.Judicial expenses.procurement of chains of title, the printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the Supreme Court of said District, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $776.47. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteen hundred Advertising taxes in arrears.and fourteen, as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, $658.28, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised.
The appropriation for Benning Road Viaduct and Bridge, contained Benning Road via-duct.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 525.in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, is made available until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen. East Washington Heights Traction Railroad Company: That from East Washington Heights Traction Railroad Company.Payment for use of Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge, etc.and after January first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, the East Washington Heights Traction Railroad Company shall pay annually to the collector of taxes of the District of Columbia for its use of the Pennsylvania Avenue Bridge across the Eastern Branch the sum of $400 per annum, and in addition thereto shall at its own expense keep its rails and tracks on said bridge in good repair to the satisfaction of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia; and all Remission of amounts due.amounts due under the provisions of existing law by said railroad company up to and including December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, on account of repairs to said bridge, be, and the same are hereby, remitted.
Playgrounds: For maintenance, including the same objects specified Playgrounds.Maintenance, etc.under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $500; For two directors to be employed not exceeding four months each, at $65 per month each; one watchman to be employed not exceeding four months, at $50 per month, $720; In all, for playgrounds, $1,220, which sum shall be paid wholly out From District revenues.of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Sewers: For operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping Sewers.Pumping station.service, including repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics, laborers, and two watchmen, purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, and for maintenance of motor trucks, fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, 85 cents. Public schools: For longevity pay, including the same objects Public schools.Longevity pay.specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $10,500.
For allowance to principals, including the same objects specified Allowance to principals.under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $2,390. For kindergarten supplies, fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, Kindergarten.$5.50. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, fiscal year nineteen Fuel, light, etc.hundred and fourteen, $1,090.05. For instruction of indigent blind children of the District of Columbia, Indigent blind children.in Maryland or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $87.50.
Metropolitan police: For maintenance of motor vehicles, $2,100.Police. Washington Asylum and Jail: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness Washington Asylum and Jail.and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, $14,000. 1142 Jail prisoners.For maintenance of jail prisoners of the District of Columbia at the Washington Asylum and Jail, including pay of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, $2,000.
National Training School for Boys.National Training School for Boys: For care and maintenance of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Charities with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, $14,000. Columbia Hospital for Women.For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $399.60.
Board of Children’s Guardians.Care, etc., of children.Board of Children’s Guardians: For board and care of all children, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $17,000. Sectarian institutions.Authority is granted to pay, in addition to the sum of $1,500 heretofore authorized, a further sum not to exceed $4,700 to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.
Feeble-minded children.For maintenance of feeble-minded children (white and colored), $3,000. Industrial School for Colored Children.Industrial Home School for Colored Children: For maintenance, including care of horses, wagons, and harness, $2,500. Industrial Home School.Industrial Home School: For maintenance, including care of horse, wagon, and harness, $1,200. Militia.Pay, Naval Battalion.Militia: For pay of officers and enlisted men of the Naval Battalion, annual cruise, July fifth to twenty-first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $3,207.39.
J. Edward Chapman.The commanding general of the Militia is authorized to pay $20.55 to J. Edward Chapman for fuel furnished October twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and fourteen, without the inspection required by law. Erroneous collections refunded.Patients at insane asylum.Refund of erroneous collections: For refund of erroneous collections for charges for board and medical treatment of patients at the Government Hospital for the Insane, erroneously covered into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia and the United States in equal parts, $264.16.
Caroline Ranney.Payment to.Outstanding liabilities: The commissioners are authorized and directed to pay to Caroline Ranney the sum of $52 for amount due her for lost check, said payment to be made out of moneys to her credit in the appropriated fund, “Outstanding liabilities, District of Columbia. ” Interest on 3.65 bonds.Refund of money advanced by United States.Indebtedness to United States: The Secretary of the Treasury, through the accounting officers of the Treasury, is authorized and directed to charge to the District of Columbia the sum of $586,067.23, as a debt due the United States from the District of Columbia on account of money advanced by the United States to the District of Columbia with which to pay the interest on the 3.65 bonds of the District of Columbia for the fiscal years of eighteen hundred and seventy-seven and eighteen hundred and seventy-eight; and, in Statement of account.stating the account between the United States and the District of Columbia, the accounting officers of the Treasury and the accounting officers of the District of Columbia shall charge the District of Columbia Payment from District revenues.with said sum; and the said sum of $586,067.23 must be paid to the United States by the District of Columbia on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, out of the revenues of the District of Columbia derived from privileges and from taxation upon the taxable property in the District of Columbia. 1143 Washington Market Company rentals:
For amount due the Washington Market Company.Payment to United States from District revenues, amount due from rentals.United States from the District of Columbia for collections made on account of the franchise rental of the Washington Market Company, fiscal years eighteen hundred and seventy-nine to nineteen hundred and fourteen, inclusive, there shall be transferred from the revenues of the District of Columbia to the United States the sum of $158,437.50, such sum being in full settlement of the amount due the United States for said market rentals under the decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury, December second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and to be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.
Temporary services: Section two of the District of Columbia Temporary services.Increased allowance of expenditure.*Ante*, p. 551.appropriation Act approved July twenty-first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, placing a limitation on expenditures for purposes specified therein of $70,000 during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, is amended by increasing said limitation to $79,000. Judgments: For payment of judgments, including costs, against Judgments.Exception.the District of Columbia, except the judgment with interest and costs amounting to $2,495.35 in favor of Samuel T.
Kalbfus, set forth in House Document Numbered One thousand five hundred and seventy-five of this session, $2,161.15, together with a further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding four per centum on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment. Support of convicts: For support of convicts, including the same Support of convicts.objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow:
For nineteen hundred and fifteen, $47,000. For nineteen hundred and fourteen, $16,781.39. Supreme court: For fees of jurors, $5,000.Supreme Court.Jurors’ fees.Witness’ fees.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160). For fees of witnesses and payment of the actual expenses of witnesses in said court, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, $3,000. For miscellaneous expenses of the Supreme Court, including the Miscellaneous court expenses.same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow:
For nineteen hundred and fourteen, $842.70. for nineteen hundred and thirteen, $348.90. For nineteen hundred and twelve, $73. For nineteen hundred and eleven, $83.25. for nineteen hundred and ten, $3. For nineteen hundred and nine, 78 cents. For nineteen hundred and eight, $25. Pay of bailiffs: For payment of not exceeding one crier in each Pay of bailiffs, etc.court, of office deputy marshals who act as bailiffs or criers, and for expense of meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases and of bailiffs in attendance upon same when ordered by the court, $200.
Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts Part from District revenues.to meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. internal-revenue taxes, philippine islands.Philippine Islands. The internal-revenue taxes imposed by the Philippine Legislature Internal taxes imposed by legislature legalized.under the law enacted by that body on December twenty-third, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as amended by the law enacted by it on January sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, are hereby legalized and ratified, and the collection of all such taxes heretofore 1144or hereafter is hereby legalized, ratified and confirmed as fully to all intents and purposes as if the same had by prior Act of Congress been specifically authorized and directed. river and harbor work.
River and harbor damages claims.Vol. 36, p. 676.To pay the claims adjusted and settled under section four of the river and harbor appropriation Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, and certified to Congress in House Document Numbered One thousand five hundred and fifty-seven, at the present session, $184.15. credit in accounts. Sydney E. Smith.Credit in accounts.The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to allow and credit in the accounts of Sydney E.
Smith, disbursing clerk, War Department, the sum of $23.54, being the amount disallowed and charged against him on the books of the Treasury. Army.MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. Quartermaster Corps.quartermaster corps. Incidental expenses.Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps: For incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $121,313. Transportation, etc.Transportation of the Army and its supplies:
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $2,953,203.97. Water, sewers, etc.Water and sewers at military posts: For water and sewers at military posts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $56,000. Fort Wingate, N. Mex.Interned Mexican soldiers, etc.Interned Mexican soldiers:
For transporting and caring for interned Mexican soldiers and military refugees at Fort Wingate, New Mexico, and elsewhere, $71,253.13. Medical Department.medical department. Canal Zone.Hospital care, Canal Zone garrisons: For paying the Panama Canal Payment for hospital care of garrisons.such reasonable charges, exclusive of subsistence, as may be approved by the Secretary of War for caring in its hospitals for officers, enlisted men, military prisoners, and civilian employees of the Army admitted *Provisos*.Subsistence payments.thereto upon the request of proper military authority, $45,000; *Provided*, That the subsistence of the said patients, except commissioned officers and acting dental surgeons, shall be paid to said hospitals out of the appropriations for subsistence of the Army at the rates provided therein for commutation of rations for enlisted patients in For June, 1914.general hospitals: *Provided further*, That of this sum $2,000 shall be available to pay the canal for similar services rendered during the month of June, nineteen hundred and fourteen.
Volunteer Soldiers’ Home.NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS. Milwaukee, Wis.Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $4,500; 1145 Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For subsistence, including Santa Monica, Cal.the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $3,500;
Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For subsistence, including the Marion, Ind.same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $3,500; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $2,000; To reimburse the post fund of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers for money expended in rebuilding the quartermaster storehouse at the Marion Branch destroyed by fire June twentieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $7,273.89;
Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For subsistence, including the Danville, Ill.same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $9,000; Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: For subsistence, including Johnson City, Tenn.the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $4,500;
Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For Hot Springs, S. Dak.subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $3,800; In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $38,073.89. STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDING.State, War, and Navy Department Building. Navy Department Annex: For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous Navy Department Annex.items, $2,500.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. To pay the claims adjusted and determined by the Navy Department, Navy collision claims.Vol. 36, p. 607.under the provisions of the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page six hundred and seven), on account of damages occasioned to private property by collision with a vessel of the United States Navy and for which the naval vessel was responsible, certified to Congress at its present session in House Documents Numbered Thirteen hundred and fifty-two, Fourteen hundred and seventy-seven, and Fifteen hundred and seventy-eight, $1,209.
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Navy. general account of advances. To reimburse “General account of advances” created by the Act General account of advances.Vol. 20, p. 167.of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and sixty-seven), for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named hereunder in excess of the sums appropriated therefor or the fiscal year given, found to be due the “general account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, the accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to credit by transfer from unexpended balances of appropriations for the Naval Establishment, fiscal years nineteen hundred and thirteen and nineteen hundred and fourteen, amounts as follows: 1146 Bureau of Yards and Docks.For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $3,715.40;
Repairs and preservation.For repairs and preservation at navy yards, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $2,983.57: Bureau of Navigation.For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $846.32; Bureau of Steam Engineering.For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $620.46; Marine Corps.Provisions.For provisions, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $6,498.50; Forage.For forage, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $2,259.07;
Pay, miscellaneous.For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and twelve, $393.20; Military stores.For military stores, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and twelve, $3,051.64; In all, general account of advances, $20,368.16. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.bureau of supplies and accounts. Provisions.Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations for the seamen and marines, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $133,539.79.
Coal and transportation.Coal and transportation: For coal and other fuel for steamers’ and ships’ use and other equipment purposes, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $617,767.86. Freight.Freight: For freight, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: For nineteen hundred and fifteen, $75,000. For nineteen hundred and fourteen, $159,082.90.
Marine Corpsmarine corps. Military stores.Military stores: For military stores, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $190.90. Contingent.Contingent: For contingent, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: For nineteen hundred and twelve, $17.05; For nineteen hundred and eleven, $18.15. Interior Department,DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.
Pension Office.pension office. Labor-saving machinery, etc.For the purchase, rental, exchange, and remodeling of labor-saving machinery, equipment, and supplies necessary to demonstrate an improved method of paying pensions, $4,000. credit in accounts. George W. Evans.Credits in accounts.Credit in the accounts of George W. Evans: The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to credit the accounts of George W. Evans, chief disbursing clerk, with the payment of $150 made to C.
Clark Jones in the quarter ended September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for preparing plans and specifications for alterations and additions to boiler and pump rooms in the basement of the “Old Post Office Department Building, ” in connection with the reconstruction of the heating, lighting, and power plant, 1147Department of the Interior, nineteen hundred and fourteen, paid, by voucher three hundred and sixty-three, July seventh, nineteen hundred and thirteen, by the chief disbursing clerk and disallowed by the Comptroller of the Treasury for the reason that it was not a proper charge to the appropriation for nineteen hundred and fourteen.
The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to credit the accounts of George W. Evans, chief disbursing clerk, with the payment of $5.14, made to the Thomas Somerville Company, in the quarter ended June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (voucher two hundred and fifty-eight, April fifth, nineteen hundred and thirteen), for one thousand and twenty pounds of fire clay, furnished for use in the repairs of buildings, Department of the Interior, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and disallowed by the Comptroller for the reason that the item in question was not purchased from the right contractor. buildings.Buildings.
Patent Office Building: To pay J. H. de Sibour for preliminary Patent Office.J. H. de Sibour.plans for the building proposed to be erected in the courtyard of the Patent Office Building under the provisions of the sundry civil Act of June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $950. Capitol Building: For work at the Capitol and general repairs Capitol.Repairs, etc.thereof, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $5,000.
For metal shelving for the storage and document rooms of the Library, House of Representatives.library of the House of Representatives, $6,000. For painting interior and woodwork of rooms and corridors of the House Office Building.House Office Building, including labor and material, $25,983, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen. Court of Claims Budding: For repairing electric wiring, heating apparatus, Court of Claims Building.Repairs, etc.roof, and other parts of the Court of Claims building, including labor and material, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, and to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $5,950.
Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum: For obstetrical Columbia Hospital for Women.Equipment, etc.instruments and apparatus to complete the equipment of Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, Washington, District of Columbia, and for deficiencies due to, and in connection with, the construction of the new Columbia Hospital, and so forth, provided for in the Act approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, including labor and material, special and professional services, $7,500, to be paid one-half out of the revenues of the District Half from District revenues.of Columbia and one-half out of the Treasury of the United States: *Provided*, That hereafter all repairs or improvements made to said *Proviso*.Supervision of, repairs, etc.hospital buildings and grounds shall be made under the direction and supervision of the Superintendent United States Capitol Building and Grounds under estimates submitted to Congress through the Secretary of the Interior. territory of alaska.Alaska.
For mileage of members of the legislature incurred in attendance Legislative expenses.upon the first legislative assembly convened March third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $2,267.20. To pay the Daily Alaska Dispatch, Juneau, Alaska, for printing Daily Alaska Dispatch.and binding of the senate journal of the first session of the Alaska Territorial Legislature, $710.87. To pay the Alaskan Daily Empire, Juneau, Alaska, for printing Alaskan Daily Empire.and binding of the house journal of the first session of the Alaska Territorial Legislature, $771.05. 1148 Alaska Engineering Commission.Purchase of supplies for sale to employees.*Ante*, p. 305.Alaska Engineering Commission:
In the execution of the work called for under the Act of March twelfth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes, authority is hereby granted to purchase, until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, from the appropriations made therefor articles and supplies for sale to employees, the appropriation to be reimbursed by the proceeds of such sales.
Public lands.public lands service. New Mexico.Reimbursement to.To reimburse the State of New Mexico for moneys advanced by the governor of said State on April fourth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to the credit of the United States, to secure the survey of lands granted to said State with a view to satisfy the public land grant made by the act admitting the said State into the Union, $500. Oliver R. W. Robinson.Reimbursement to.To reimburse Oliver R. W. Robinson, late receiver of public moneys, United States land office at Los Angeles, California, for amount erroneously deposited by him in the Treasury of the United States in excess of public moneys received by and due from him to the United States on account of sales of public lands, as shown in the settlement of his final accounts by the Auditor for the Interior Department, $22.
Northern Pacific grant.Classifying lands within.*Ante*, p. 571.The unexpended balance on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, remaining to the credit of the appropriation of $3,125.95 authorized in the deficiency appropriation Act approved July twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, for the completion during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen of the examination and classification of lands within the limits of the Northern Pacific grant Vol. 13, p. 367.Vol. 28, p. 683.under the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four (Thirteenth Statutes, page three hundred and sixty-five), is continued and made available to meet the expenses pertaining to such examination and classification as may be incurred during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Deputy surveyors.Payment for services.For payment to certain United States deputy surveyors for surveys of public lands, executed by them and necessary to complete the lines of surveys embraced in their contracts and special instructions issued thereunder, being the balance of the amounts found due them by the Commissioner of the General Land Office in the settlement of their accounts in accordance with the rates as authorized in the Acts making appropriation for the survey and resurvey of public lands for the fiscal year in which the work was executed, namely:
William C. Perkins.Royston C. Durnford.William C. Perkins, $182.64. Royston C. Durnford, $213.63. national parks. For protection and improvement of Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado, $3,000. Department of Justice.DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For law books for the office of the Solicitor of the Treasury for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $1. For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $29.80. 1149 Enforcement of antitrust laws:
For the enforcement of antitrust Enforcing antitrust laws.laws, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $921.71. Copper River and Northwestern Railway Company: The District Copper River and Northwestern Rai1way Company.Refund of license tax.Court of the United States for the District of Alaska, third division, is authorized to direct its clerk to refund to Copper River and Northwestern Railway Company, out of any moneys now in the hands of said clerk, or which may hereafter be collected and turned over to him on account of licenses, the amount paid by said company for the fiscal year beginning July first, nineteen hunched and fourteen, under section four hundred and sixty of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine (Thirtieth Statutes at Large, pages twelve Vol. 30, pp. 1253. 1336, 1337.hundred and fifty-three, thirteen hundred and thirty-six, and thirteen hundred and thirty-seven), as a license tax of $100 per mile on each Vol. 37, p. 515.mile of road operated in Alaska; the law requiring such payment having been repealed by the Act of July eighteenth, nineteen hundred *Ante*, p. 517.and fourteen, entitled “An Act to levy and collect, an income tax on railroads in Alaska, and for other purposes” (Thirty-eighth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and seventeen): *Provided*, That said railway *Proviso*.Income tax to be deducted.company shall be required out of said sum to pay in full the income tax prescribed by said repealing Act of July eighteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.
JUDICIAL.Judicial. Commissioner of Glacier National Park: For the commissioner of Glacier National Park.Commissioner.Glacier National Park for the period from September seventeenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $1,183.33. The provisions of section twenty-one of the Vol. 29, p. 184.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.
For salary of the judge of United States district court for the Georgia, southern district.District judge.*Ante*, p. 959.southern district of Georgia, from April first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $7,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. united states courts.United States courts. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of District attorneys.United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $3,900.
For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace Commissioners’ fees.acting under section one thousand and fourteen, Revised Statutes of [R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189).the United States, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $7,000. For fees of jurors, $25,000.Jurors’ fees. Fees of witnesses: For fees of witnesses and for payment of the Witness fees.actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section eight hundred [R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160).and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, $100,000.
For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Miscellaneous.Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, including so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney General for such expenses in the District of Alaska, for the fiscal years that follow: For nineteen hundred and eleven, $78.83. For nineteen hundred and ten, $50. 1150 For nineteen hundred and nine, $45.66. For nineteen hundred and eight, $25. For nineteen hundred and seven, $25.
For nineteen hundred and six, $9.23. Special assistant attorneys, etc.For assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, for the fiscal years that follow: For nineteen hundred and twelve, $50. For nineteen hundred and eleven, $100. Withdrawn oil lands.Expenses of suits.To enable the Attorney General to represent and protect the interests of the United States in matters and suits affecting withdrawn oil lands and for expenses in connection therewith, including salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, $50,000.
Support of prisoners.For support of United States prisoners, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: For nineteen hundred and fifteen, $100,000. For nineteen hundred and fourteen, $17,000. Post Office Department.POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: 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, $22,000.
Postal service.POSTAL SERVICE. out of the postal revenues. Rewards, etc.For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers for the fiscal years that follow: For nineteen hundred and fourteen, $16,502.59. For nineteen hundred and thirteen, $5,755.32. Injured, etc., employees.For postal employees injured or killed while on duty, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $85,000.
Assistant postmasters, etc.For compensation to assistant postmasters and clerks in post offices, fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $36. Steamboat, etc., routes.For inland transportation by steamboat or other power-boat routes, $18,871. Messenger service.For mail messenger service, $123,442. Wagon service.For regulation screen or other wagon service, $44,118. Freight on postal cards, etc.For freight or expressage on postal cards, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, and empty mail bags, $97,450.
Electric and cable car service.For inland transportation of mail by electric and cable cars, $15,888: Limited indemnity.Lost insured, and collect on delivery mail.For limited indemnity for the loss of domestic registered insured, and collect-on-delivery mail, fiscal year nineteen hunched and fourteen, $10,000. For the payment of limited indemnity for the loss of domestic registered, insured, and collect on delivery mail, $60,000. Twine, etc.For wrapping twine and tying devices, $25,000.
Facing slips, etc.For facing slips, plain and printed, including the furnishing of paper for same; and for card-slide labels, blanks, and books of an urgent nature, $2,000. Star routes.For inland transportation by star routes, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office appropriation Acts for the fiscal year that follows: Nineteen hundred and fourteen, $250,000. 1151 audited settlements submitted by the auditor for the post office department.Audited settlements.
Special Delivery Service, fees to messengers: To reimburse the Special delivery.Fees.postal revenues, for the fiscal years that follow, the amounts retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriations for those years, namely: For nineteen hundred and twelve, 96 cents. For nineteen hundred and thirteen, $42.80. For nineteen hundred and fourteen, $26,864.72. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. To pay Albert H. Cousins, district fiscal agent, Forest Service, at Albert H.
Cousins.Payment to.Portland, Oregon, for amounts deposited by him to the credit of the appropriation “General expenses, Forest Service, nineteen hundred and twelve, ” $6.10, which sum represents disallowances made by the Auditor for the State and Other Departments. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Department of Commerce. lighthouse service. To pay the claims for damages which have been considered, adjusted, Damages from collisions.Vol. 36, p. 537.and determined to be due to the claimants by the Commissioner of Lighthouses, under authority of the provisions of section four of the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page five hundred and thirty-seven), on account of damages occasioned by collision for which vessels of the Lighthouse Service have been found responsible, certified to Congress at its present session in House Documents Numbered Twelve hundred and eighty-one and Sixteen hundred and eleven, $1,091.41. bureau of fisheries.Fisheries Bureau.
The sum of $10,000 of the appropriation of $60,000 for maintenance Maintenance of vessels.Amount immediately available.of vessels and launches, including purchase and repairs of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, made in the sundry civil Act for the fiscal year *Ante*, p. 876.nineteen hundred and sixteen, is hereby made immediately available. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor.
Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Contingent expenses.including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $5,000. immigration service.Immigration service. Section four of the Act of August fifth, eighteen hundred and Details authorized.Vol. 22, p. 225.eighty-two (Twenty-second Statutes, page two hundred and twenty-five), shall not be construed to prevent the Secretary of Labor from hereafter detailing one officer and one clerk employed for the special duty of enforcing the alien contract labor provisions of the immigration Act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven Vol. 34, pp. 898, 900.(Thirty-fourth Statutes, page eight hundred and ninety-eight), in pursuance of section twenty-four of said immigration Act, for duty at the Department of Labor at Washington. 1152 Legislative.LEGISLATIVE.
Senate.senate. William P. Jackson.Expenses.To pay Honorable William P. Jackson for expenses incurred by him in the proceedings involving the validity of his credentials and His right to a seat in the United States Senate, $1,000. For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: Assistance to Senators.For assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of committees, as follows: Three clerks, at $2,000 each per annum, from March fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen; three assistant clerks, at $1,200 per annum, from March fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen; three messengers, at $1,200 per annum, from March fourth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to be paid from the appropriation for assistance to Senators provided for in fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.
For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: For assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of committees, as follows: Three clerks, at $2,000 each per annum, from July first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $3,000; three assistant clerks, at $1,200 each per annum, from July first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $1,800; three messengers, at $1,200 each per annum, from July first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $1,800.
Myrtle White.Services.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriation for nineteen hundred and fifteen for compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others to Myrtle White for services as clerk to Thomas W. Hardwick, Senator from the State of Georgia, from November fourth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to December seventh, nineteen hundred and fourteen, at the rate of $2,000 per annum. Official reporters.Reimbursement.To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the Senate for expenses incurred from June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, $4,200.
Dennis M. Kerr.Services.To pay Dennis M. Kerr for extra and expert services rendered to the Committee on Pensions during the third session of the Sixty-third Congress as assistant clerk to said committee, by detail from the Bureau of Pensions, $1,200. Atwell J. Clopton.Extra services.To pay Atwell J. Clopton, as additional compensation for extra services rendered the subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary engaged in the investigation of the maintenance of a lobby, pursuant to Senate resolution Numbered Ninety-two, during the first and second sessions of the Sixty-third Congress, $500.
Fay N. Seaton.Extra services.To pay Fay N. Seaton for extra services rendered to the Committee to Investigate the General Parcel Post, $225. L. W. Jones.Services.To pay L. W. Jones for services rendered as assistant clerk to the Committee on Naval Affairs, $72. Howard M. Kay.Services.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay Howard M. Kay, messenger to Senator T. P. Gore, salary from July sixteenth to August twentieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, at $100 per month, $116.67.
Merchants Transfer and Storage Company.Hauling.To pay the Merchants Transfer and Storage Company (or to enable the Superintendent United States Capitol Building and Grounds to pay the Merchants Transfer and Storage Company) for the removal of Patent Office models stored in the Senate and House Office Buildings, $943. 1153 Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and Senate Office Building.Maintenance.supplies, and for all necessary personal and other services for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building, under the direction and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, $13,300. house of representatives.House of Representatives.
To pay the sisters of Sereno E. Payne, late a Representative from Sereno E. Payne.Pay to sisters of.the State of New York, $7,500. To pay the widow of Edwin A. Merritt, junior, late a Representative Edwin A. Merritt, jr.Pay to widow of.from the State of New York, $7,500. For allowance to A. S. Kreider, contestee, for expenses incurred Contested-election expenses.A. S. Kreider.by him in the contested-election case, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered One, $2,000.
To continue the employment of nine messengers, at $100 per Post office.month each, in the post office of the House of Representatives, from April first to November thirtieth, inclusive, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $7,200. For four laborers and two janitors, at $60 each per month, and Laborers, etc.one telephone operator, at $900 per annum, from March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, inclusive, $6,916.50. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, Miscellaneous Items.exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, for the fiscal years that follow:
For nineteen hundred and fifteen, $40,000. For nineteen hundred and twelve, $431.54. For nineteen hundred and eleven, $99.87. To reimburse the official reporters of debates $700 each and the Official reporters and stenographers.Reimbursement.official stenographers to committees $600 each for moneys actually and necessarily expended by them from July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, inclusive, $6,600. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per Folding.thousand, $2,000. botanic garden.Botanic Garden.
For procuring manure, soil, tools, fuel, purchasing trees, shrubs, Repairs and improvements.plants, and seeds; and for services, materials, and miscellaneous supplies, and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Gardens, under direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, $2,009. For general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, painting, General repairs.glazing, repairs to footwalks and roadways, general repairs to packing sheds, storerooms, and stables, including purchase of power lawn mower, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $1,315.35.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.Government Printing Office. Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the Leaves of absence.provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $66,656.30, or so much thereof as may be necessary. To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes, Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes.messengers on night duty during the present session of Congress, for extra services, $700 each; in all, $2,100. 1154 Public printing and binding.public printing and binding.
For Congress.For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing and binding, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $36,000. Treasury Department.General Supply Committee.Allotment of printing charges.For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, $25,000. The cost of printing and binding done for the General Supply Committee during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen shall be borne proportionately out of the allotments for printing and binding of the several executive departments and other Government establishments, based as nearly as may be on the services rendered them respectively by said committee.
War Department.For printing and binding for the War Department, $50,000. Civil Service Commission.Patent Office.For printing and binding for the Civil Service Commission, $7,000. Patent Office: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indices, $125,000. Post Office Department.For printing and binding for the Post Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, $65,000.
Thirteenth Census.Reprinting.The cost of reprinting publications of the Thirteenth Census may, during the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, be charged against the regular printing allotment of the Department of Commerce. Judgments, United States Courts.JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS. Payment.Vol. 24, p. 505.For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States, ” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney General in House Document Numbered Fifteen hundred and eighty-five, and which have not been appealed, namely:
Classification.Under the War Department, $1,283.46. In all, $1,283.46; together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. Judgments, Court of Claims.JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. Payment.For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Fifteen hundred and seventy-seven and Senate Document Classification.Numbered Nine hundred and fifty-eight, namely:
Under the Treasury Department, $4,306.77; Under the War Department, $53,858.49; Under the Navy Department, $9,978.68; Under the Post Office Department, $86.24; Under the Department of Justice, $75.86; Under the Department of Agriculture, $700; In all, $69,006.04. Judgments, Indian depredation claims.JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS. Payments.For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered One thousand five hundred and eighty-one and Senate 1155Document Numbered Nine hundred and fifty-nine at its present session, $14,640; said judgments to be paid after the deductions Deductions.Vol. 26, p. 853.required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations, ”shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed Reimbursement.to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: *Provided*, That no one of said judgments provided *Proviso*.Appeal.in this paragraph shall be paid until the Attorney General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.
None of the judgments contained in this Act shall be paid until the Right of appeal.right of appeal shall have expired. AUDITED CLAIMS.Audited claims. Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to Claims certified by accounting officers.be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Vol. 18, p. 110.Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve and other years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, Vol. 23, p. 254.as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Fifteen hundred and seventy-nine, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
For collecting revenue from customs, $9.68.Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, $3.40. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, $80.70. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $33,927.95. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $50,056.59. For redemption of stamps, $10,457.88. For refund for stamps used on export manifests, $396. For contingent expenses, mint at Philadelphia, $2.32.
For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, $342.50. For Life-Saving Service, $2,095.14. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, $4.90. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, $57.60. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $121.50. For vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings, $982. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, 75 cents. For general expenses of public buildings, $1.69. For post office, Jonesboro, Arkansas, $12.76. For post office and courthouse, Elmira, New York, $21. 1156 claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.For pay, and so forth, of the Army, including settlements made under the Act of July sixth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, public number one hundred and twenty-five, Sixty-third Congress, second session, $402,481.03. For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $908.45. For subsistence of the Army, $8.45. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, $816.12. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $35.33.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $12,356.16. For roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $209.43. For water and sewers at military posts, $7.48. For construction and repair of hospitals, $1,009.59. For encampment and maneuvers, Organized Militia, $983.43. For national cemeteries, $39.12. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $127.95. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, $877. For expenses of recruiting, $75.29. For dragoon horses, $127.72. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department,For pay of the Navy, $9,438.78. For pay Marine Corps, $32,989.39. For pay, miscellaneous, $204.99. For contingent, Marine Corps, $7.33. For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, $91.03. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $791.75. For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $22.85. For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, $20. For outfits for naval apprentices, Bureau of Navigation, $28.91. For maintenance of naval auxiliaries, Bureau of Navigation, $31.
For Naval Training Station, California, Bureau of Navigation, $554.14. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $4,498.26. For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, $24.07. For coal and transportation, Bureau of Equipment, $822.25. For ocean and lake surveys, Bureau of Equipment, $41.25. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $30.64. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $836.66. For Medical Department, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $10.90.
For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $6.32. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $834.80. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $4,033.44. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $106. For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $104.40. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, $3. Vol. 28, p. 962.For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $72.90.
Vol. 18, p. 481.For interest on judgment rendered against the United States, arising under the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five, $851.82. 1157 claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, $25.65.Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. For repairs of buildings, Department of the Interior, nineteen . hundred and fourteen, $614.37. For contingent expenses of land offices, $2.48. For expenses of hearings in land entries, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $16.13.
For surveying the public lands, $5,439.15. For contingent expenses, office of surveyor general of Oregon, 57 cents. For contingent expenses, office of surveyor general of California, $3.54. For contingent expenses, office of surveyor general of Alaska, $2.01. For contingent expenses, office of surveyor general of Arizona, 25 cents. For re-marking boundary line between Texas and New Mexico, 75 cents. For testing fuel, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Saint Louis, Missouri, $3. For Geological Survey, $796.55.
For return of funds of patients, Government Hospital for the Insane, $11. For Yosemite National Park, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $196.80. For Indian schools, support, $64.70. For Indian school transportation, 90 cents. For industrial work and care of timber, $34. For contingencies, Indian Department, $21.95. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $1,429.90. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $70.78. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $2,203.90.
For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $28.69. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, $7.16. For telegraphing, transportation, and so forth, Indian supplies, $42.34. For Ganado irrigation project, Navajo Reservation, Arizona, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $235.83. For maintenance, irrigation system, Pima Indian lands, Arizona, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $2,129.08. For support of Indians in California, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $652.34.
For maintenance and operation, Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $6.01. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $498.44. For administration of affairs, Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $545.24. For Army pensions, $670. For Navy pensions, $61.20. For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, $15. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $397.30.Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments.
For contingent expenses, foreign missions, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $8,191.75. 1158 For salaries, Consular Service, $256.91. For relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $20,107.22. For relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $609.04. For relief and protection of American seamen, $50. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $531.44. For books, National Museum, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $7. For books, National Museum, $5.35.
For Interstate Commerce Commission, $3.88. For contingent expenses, Department of Agriculture, $1.30. For library, Department of Agriculture, $15.31. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $2.88. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $64.73. For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, $7.82. For general expenses, Forest Service, $123.95. For administration, and so forth, of forest reserves, $638.29. For improvement of the national forests, $10.45. For acquisition of lands for protection of watersheds of navigable streams, $16.80.
For enforcement of the food and drugs Act, 40 cents. For general expenses, Bureau of Entomology, $44.92. For entomological investigations, $1.17. For general expenses, Bureau of Statistics, 20 cents. For general expenses, Office of Public Roads, $25. For expenses of the Thirteenth Census, $246.50. For contingent expenses, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $22.66. For equipment, Bureau of Standards, $28.55. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $5.42. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $220.96.
For expenses of light vessels, $68.98. For expenses of buoyage, $481.80. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $2.70. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, $8.72. For expenses of regulating immigration, $17.29. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $904.67. For fees of clerks, United States courts, $1,083.66. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $17,604.42. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $1,214.40.
For fees of commissioners. United States courts, $285.80. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $5. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $29.70. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $274.50. For support of prisoners, United States courts, $33. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department.For indemnities, international registered mail, $1,332.28. For indemnities, domestic registered mail, $67.96.
For shipment of supplies, $30.93. For mail transportation, star, $1,565.84. For mail transportation, railroad, $189.26. For Rural Delivery Service; letter carriers and clerks; regular and temporary clerks; tolls, $73.43. For freight on mail bags, $1,012.15. 1159 For City Delivery Service; letter carriers; horse hire; carriers, $597.79. For rent, light, and fuel, $85.93. For compensation to postmasters, $71.74. For separating mails, third and fourth class post offices, $61. For compensation to clerks in post offices, $378.02.
For clerk hire, third-class office; compensation of postmaster, $1,500 or less, $30. For post-office inspectors, traveling expenses, $10. For facing slips, and so forth, $4.95. For electric and cable car service, 88 cents. For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $77.78. For payment of rewards, $50. For amount deposited in the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts August nineteenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, being value of mail equipment alleged to have been lost in transit between Albuquerque, New Mexico, and Saint Louis, Missouri, and subsequently found in the Saint Louis post office, $157.56.
AUDITED CLAIMS.Audited claims. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to Additional claims certified by accounting officers.Vol. 18, p. 110.be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve and other years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred Vol. 23, p. 254.and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Nine hundred and sixty, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
For refunding taxes illegally collected, $3,207.91.Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $30,742.90. For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, 94 cents. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $154.97. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $5. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $50.38. For heating apparatus for public buddings, $10. For general expenses of public buildings, $2.74. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.
For pay, and so forth, of the Army, including settlements made Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.under the Act of July sixth, nineteen hundred and fourteen (Public, Numbered One hundred and twenty-five, Sixty-third Congress, second session), $90,831.83. For Signal Service of the Army, 70 cents. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, $24. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $96. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $745.06. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $20.01.
For improving San Pablo Bay, California, $22,422.40. 1160 claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.For pay of the Navy, $1,041.72. For pay Marine Corps, $10,200.82. For pay, miscellaneous, $132.16. For contingent, Marine Corps, $683.19. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $181.90. For Naval Training Station, California, Bureau of Navigation, $93.48. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $10.40. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $43.36.
For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $116.20. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1,723.22. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $147.84. For enlistment bounties to seamen, $21. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.For surveying the public lands, $2,037.30. For investigating mine accidents, $4.23. For Indian school and agency buildings, $116.38. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $21,351.05.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $280.30. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 70 cents. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, nineteen hundred and fourteen, 88 cents. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, 20 cents. For telegraphing, transportation, and so forth, Indian supplies, 96 cents. For expenses of Indian commissioners, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $32.06. For maintenance, irrigation system, Pima Indian lands, Arizona, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $214.92.
For indemnity to certain Chickasaw Indians for losses, treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, $2,470. For Army pensions, $117. For Navy pensions, $36. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments.For administration of the customs laws, $36.45. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $4,078.17. For relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $3,551.20.
For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, $2.97 For general expenses, Forest Service, $3.75. For expenses of the Thirteenth Census, 37 cents. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, 23 cents. For miscellaneous expenses. Bureau of Fisheries, $47.39. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, $11.48. For expenses of regulating immigration, $2.51. For naturalization of aliens, 8 cents. For miscellaneous expenses, Division of Naturalization, $17.05. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $281.20. 1161 For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $93.95.
For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $17.80. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $16.40. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department. For Rural Delivery Service, carriers, $82.01.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department. For indemnities, international registered mail, $38.78. For assistant postmasters and clerks in post offices; assistant postmasters and clerks in first and second class offices, $386.11. For rent, light, and fuel, $75.
For shipment of supplies, $1.10. For freight on mail bags, postal cards, and so forth, $841.44. For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $70.28. Sec. 4. That the reappropriation and diversion of the unexpended Unexpended balances.Diversion of, construed as a new appropriation.balance of any appropriation to a purpose other than that for which it was originally made shall be construed and accounted hereafter as a new appropriation and the unexpended balance shall be reduced by the sum proposed to be so diverted.
Sec. 5. That the executive departments and other Government Typewriters, etc.General authority for exchanging.establishments and all branches of the public service may hereafter exchange typewriters, adding machines, and other similar labor saving devices in part payment for new machines used for the same purpose as those proposed to be exchanged. There shall be submitted Report to be made.to Congress, on the first day of the session following the close of each fiscal year, a report showing, as to each exchange hereunder, the make of the article, the period of its use, the allowance therefor, and the article, make thereof, and price, including exchange value, paid or to be paid for each article procured through such exchange.
That the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, extend Desert-land entries.Extension of time for final proof on pending claims.the time within which final proof is required to be submitted upon any lawful pending desert-land entry made prior to July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, such extension not to exceed three years from the date of allowance thereof: *Provided*, That the entryman *Provisos*.Conditions.or his duly qualified assignee has, in good faith, complied with the requirements of law as to yearly expenditures and proof thereof, and shall show, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, that there is a reasonable prospect that, if the extension is granted, he will be able to make the final proof of reclamation, irrigation, and cultivation required by law: *Provided further*, That the foregoing shall apply only to cases wherein an extension Application.or further extension of time may not properly be allowed under existing law.
That where it shall be made to appear to the satisfaction of the Time for completing entry extended to five years.Vol. 19, p. 377.Vol. 26, p. 1096.Vol. 28, pp. 123, 226.Secretary of the Interior, under rules and regulations to be prescribed by him, “with reference to any lawful pending desert-land entry made prior to July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, under which the entryman or his duly qualified assignee under an assignment made prior to the date of this Act, has, in good faith, expended the sum of $3 per acre in the attempt to effect reclamation of the land, that there is no reasonable prospect that, if the extension allowed by this Act or any existing law were granted, he would be able to secure water sufficient to effect reclamation of the irrigable land in his entry or any legal subdivision thereof, the Secretary of the Interior may, in his discretion, allow such entryman or assignee five years from notice within which to perfect the entry in the manner required of a homestead entryman. 1162 Perfection of entry.That any desert-land entryman or his assignee entitled to the benefit of the last preceding paragraph may, if he shall so elect within sixty days from the notice therein provided, pay to the receiver of the local land office the sum of 50 cents per acre for each acre embraced in the entry, and thereafter perfect such entry upon proof that he has upon the tract permanent improvements conducive to the agricultural development thereof of the value of not less than $1.25 per acre, and that he has, in good faith, used the land for agricultural purposes for three years and the payment to the receiver, at the time of final proof, of the sum of 75 cents per acre: *Proviso*.Cancellation on failure to perfect entry.*Provided*, That in such case final proof may be submitted at any time within five years from the date of the entryman’s election to proceed as provided in this section, and in the event of failure to perfect the entry as herein provided, all moneys theretofore paid shall be forfeited and the entry canceled.
Approved, March 4, 1915.
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