Chapter 16. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen and prior years, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 16.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen and prior years, and for other purposes.January 25, 1915.[[H. R. 29241](/us/bill/63/hr/29241).][[Public, No. 236](/us/pl/63/236).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums Urgent deficiencies appropriations.are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen and prior years, and for other purposes, namely:
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.Civil Service Commission. For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners Traveling, etc., expenses. acting under the direction of the commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington $6,000. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Department of State. Payment to Panama: To enable the Secretary of State to pay to Panama. Annual payment to. Vol, 33, p. 2238.the Government of Panama the third annual payment, due on February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, from the Government of the United States to the Government of Panama under article fourteen of the treaty of November eighteenth, nineteen hundred and three, $250,000.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Raleigh, North Carolina, rent of buildings: For rent Raleigh, N. C. Rent of quarters.of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials, and moving expenses incident thereto, $1,200. 796 Contingent expenses. Stationery.Contingent expenses: The transfer of an additional sum of $12,000 from the appropriation Collecting the income tax to the *Ante*, p. 475.appropriation for “Stationery” for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen is authorized.
Freight, etc.For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $5,000. Internal revenue.collecting internal revenue. Collectors, etc.For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $100,000. Miscellaneous expenses.For miscellaneous 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.
Public Health.public health service. Prevention of epidemics.For prevention of epidemics, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $220,000. District of Columbia.DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Sewers. Rock Creek interceptor. Half from District revenues.Sewage disposal system: For completing and maintaining connections between sections five and six of the Rock Creek main interceptor sewer, $9,600, one-half of which shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of the Treasury of the United States.
Army.MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. Transportation.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 fourteen, $554,371.24. Surveyors general.OFFICES OF SURVEYORS GENERAL. Alaska.Alaska: For 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, $687.50.
Post Office Department.POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For miscellaneous items, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $6,004. For furniture and filing cabinets, $3,000. Postal Service.POSTAL SERVICE. out of the postal revenues. Freight, postal cards, etc.For freight or expressage on postal cards, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, and empty mail bags, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $50,000.
Stationery.For stationery, including all money-order offices, $10,000. City delivery supplies.For supplies for the City Delivery Service, including letter boxes, letter-box fasteners, package boxes, posts, furniture, satchels, straps, baskets, time cards, time-card frames, time-recorder supplies, maps, transfer designs, and stencils, $10,000. Twine, etc.For wrapping twine and tying devices, $25,000. 797 For facing slips, plain and printed, including the furnishing Facing slips, etc.of paper for same; and for card slide labels, blanks, and books of an urgent nature, $5,000.
DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. bureau of animal industry.Animal Industry Bureau. For the arrest and eradication of the foot-and-mouth disease, the Foot-and-mouth disease.Expenses of eradicating, etc.payment of claims arising out of past and future purchases and destruction of animals affected by or exposed to. the foot-and-mouth disease, and for a deficiency in the objects specified under the head “General expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry,” in the Agricultural appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $2,500,000, to be expended by the Secretary of Agriculture. bureau of plant industry.
Plant Industry Bureau. For the emergency caused by the infectious nature and continued Citrus canker. Investigating, eradicating, etc.spread of the destructive disease of citrous trees known as citrus canker, by conducting such investigations of the nature and means of communication of the disease, and by applying such methods of eradication or control of the disease as in the judgment of the Secretary of Cooperation with States, etc.Agriculture may be necessary, $35,000; and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to pay such expense and employ such persons and means, and to cooperate with such authorities of the States concerned, organizations of growers, or individuals as he may deem necessary to accomplish such purpose. forest service.
Forest Service. For “General expenses. Forest Service,” including the same objects General expenses.specified under this head in the Agricultural appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $349,243. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. Department of Commerce. bureau of lighthouses. Lighthouses Bureau. Lighthouse tender, general service: For constructing and equipping Lighthouse tender. Vol. 37, p. 1017.a lighthouse tender for general service, authorized by the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $250,000. bureau of fisheries.Fisheries Bureau.
The sum of $3,500, appropriated in the sundry civil appropriation Sponge fisheries. Payment of expenses. *Ante*, p. 664. Vol. 34, p. 313.Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen to carry out the provisions of the Act of June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, to regulate the sponge fisheries, is made available for all of the purposes specified in said appropriation in the execution of the provisions of the Act of August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to *Ante*, p. 692.regulate the taking or catching of sponges.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. immigration service. Immigration. The Secretary of Labor is authorized to charge against the appropriation Execution of contracts. *Ante*, p. 666.“Expenses of regulating immigration, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, not exceeding $41,000, for contracts approved during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen. 798 Legislative.LEGISLATIVE. Library of Congress.library of congress. Building placed in charge of. *Post*. p. 1006,Library Building and Grounds:
During the present vacancy in the office of the Superintendent of the Library Building and Grounds, the Librarian of Congress is authorized to exercise the powers and per-form the duties of the said office, except those of disbursing officer. House of Representatives.house of representatives. Mileage.For mileage of Members of the House of Representatives, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $1,420. Stationery.For stationery for Members of the House of Representatives, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $332.35.
Folding.For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $2,000. Panama CanalPANAMA CANAL. Fortifications.Consolidation of balances.The balances of the appropriations heretofore made under the heading “Fortifications, Panama Canal,” are hereby consolidated so as to constitute one fund in the Treasury, to be disbursed and accounted for under the appropriation title of “Panama fortifications” for the object specified in the several appropriation Acts and in accordance with such allotments as may be authorized by the Secretary of War.
Approved, January 25, 1915.