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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 38 STAT. · August 1, 1914 · Chapter 223

Chapter 223. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 223.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and for other purposes. August 1, 1914.[[H. R. 17041](/us/bill/63/hr/17041).][[Public No. 161](/us/pl/63/161).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums be, Sundry civil expenses appropriations.and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, namely:
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. public buildings, construction and sites.Public buildings. For sites, commencement, continuation, or completion of public Sites, construction, etc.buildings within the respective limits of cost authorized by law, rent and removal expenses in cities pending extension and remodeling of buildings, severally, as follows: Akron, Ohio, post office: For site, $60,000.Akron, Ohio. Albany, Oregon, post office: For continuation, $10,000.Albany, Oreg.
Albertville, Alabama, post office: For site, $5,000.Albertville, Ala. Alliance, Ohio, post office: For completion, $25,000.Alliance, Ohio. Amarillo, Texas, post office and courthouse: For continuation, Amarillo, Tex.$15,000. Andalusia, Alabama, post office: For site, $5,000.Andalusia, Ala. Ansonia, Connecticut, post office: For completion, $22,000.Ansonia, Conn. Ardmore, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For continuation, Ardmore, Okla.$20,000. Arkansas City, Kansas, post office:
For continuation, $20,000.Arkansas City, Kans. Ashland, Ohio, post office: For additional land, $10,000.Ashland, Ohio. Attalla, Alabama, post office: For site, $5,000.Attalla, Ala. Augusta, Georgia, post office and courthouse (new): For continuation, Augusta, Ga.$25,000. Bakersfield, California, post office: For amount necessary for laying Bakersfield, Cal.one six-inch sewer to the property line of the site of the new post office, $25. Bangor, Maine, post office: For completion, $190,029.54.Bangor, Me.
Bardstown, Kentucky, post office: For completion, $15,000.Bardstown, Ky. Batavia, New York, post office: For commencement, $5,000.Batavia, N. Y. Bath, New York, post office: For site, $13,000.Bath, N. Y. Beardstown, Illinois, post office: For commencement, $5,000.Beardstown, Ill. Beaufort, South Carolina, post office and customhouse: For site, Beaufort, S. C.$5,000. Bedford, Pennsylvania, post office: For commencement, $10,000.Bedford, Pa. Bellaire, Ohio, post office: For completion, $31,000.Bellaire, Ohio.
Beloit, Kansas, post office: For completion, $8,000.Beloit, Kans. Bennettsville, South Carolina, post office: For completion, $25,000.Bennettsville, S. C. Berkeley, California, post office: For continuation, $40,000.Berkeley, Cal. Big Rapids, Michigan, post office: For completion, $36,000.Big Rapids, Mich. Blackwell, Oklahoma, post office: For commencement, $5,000.Blackwell, Okla. Blue Island, Illinois, post office: For completion, $24,000.Blue Island, Ill. Boston, Massachusetts, customhouse:
For reimbursement of the Boston, Mass., customhouse.Temporary removal of force.Reimbursement.Vol. 37, p. 191.extension appropriation for expenses incident to the temporary removal of the force employed in the customhouse during the enlargement, remodeling, or extension of said customhouse in compliance with the provisions of the Act approved July tenth, nineteen hundred and twelve, $270,324.60. For expenses incident to the temporary removal of the force Expenses.employed in the customhouse during the extension, remodeling, and so forth, of building at Boston, Massachusetts, $45,000.
Bozeman, Montana, post office: For continuation, $20,000.Bozeman, Mont. 610 Brenham, Tex.Brenham, Texas, post office: For commencement, $5,000. Brigham City, Utah.Brigham City, Utah, post office: For completion, $33,000. Brooklyn, N. Y., post office.Brooklyn, New York, post office: For additional land under present limit, including the alteration or remodeling and repair of buildings upon the land acquired, $350,000. Bryan, Tex.Bryan Texas, post office: For continuation, $20,000.
Buffalo, N. Y., post office.Buffalo, New York, post office: For fireproof and burglar-proof vault for the cashier’s room, $8,000. Burlington, N. J.Burlington. New Jersey, post office: For completion, $8,000. Cadillac, Mich.Cadillac, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Cambridge, Ohio.Cambridge, Ohio, post office: For completion, $32,000. Camden, Me.Camden, Maine, post office: For completion, $10,000. Camden, S. C.Camden, South Carolina, post office: For continuation, $20,000.
Cameron, Tex.Cameron, Texas, post office: For site, $2,000. Canton, Ill.Canton, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $19,000. Canton, Miss.Canton, Mississippi, post office: For commencement, $10,000. Carnegie, Pa.Carnegie, Pennsylvania, post office: For commencement, $7,281. Cartersville, Ga.Cartersville, Georgia, post office: For completion, $11,250. Cedartown, Ga.Cedartown, Georgia, post office: For completion, $5,000. Centralia, Mo.Centralia, Missouri, post office: For site, $6,000.
Chanute, Kans.Chanute, Kansas, post office: For commencement, $18,000. Chariton, Iowa.Chariton, Iowa, post office: For site, $5,800. Charlotte, N. C., rent.Charlotte, North Carolina, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials, and moving expenses incident thereto, $6,000. Charleston, W. Va., rent.Charleston, West Virginia, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials, and moving expenses incident thereto, $2,400.
Chickasha, Okla.Chickasha, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For completion, $10,000. Chico, Cal.Chico, California, post office: For continuation, Chillicothe, Mo.Chillicothe, Missouri, post office and courthouse: For commencement, $30,000. . Clarksdale, Miss.Clarksdale, Mississippi, post office and courthouse: For completion, $79 750. Coeurd ’ Alene, Idaho.Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $10,000. Coleman, Tex.Coleman, Texas, post office:
For site, $1. Collinsville, Ill.Collinsville, Illinois, post office: For commencement, $20,000. Cookeville, Tenn.Cookeville, Tennessee, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $25,000. Corpus Christi, Tex.Use extended.Vol. 35, p. 486; Vol. 36, p. 1369.*Ante*, p. 7.Corpus Christi, Texas: The appropriations for construction of a post-office and courthouse building at Corpus Christi, Texas, are made available for construction of a post-office, courthouse, and customhouse building at that place.
Corry, Pa.Corry, Pennsylvania., post office: For completion, $55,000. Cortland, N. Y.Cortland, New York, post office: For completion, $10,000. Covington, Tenn.Covington, Tennessee, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Cynthiana, Ky.Cynthiana, Kentucky, post office: For completion, $10,000. Dayton, Ohio.Dayton, Ohio, post office and courthouse: For completion, $50,000. Decatur, Ala.Decatur, Alabama, post office: For site, $6,500. Delavan, Wis.Delavan, Wisconsin, post office:
For completion, $14,500. Denver, Colo.Denver, Colorado, post office: The appropriations heretofore or Mail devices.that may hereafter be made for construction shall be available for installation of mail-handling devices in said building within the present limit of cost thereof. De Soto, Mo.De Soto, Missouri, post office: For continuation, $28,000. Dillon, B. C.Dillon, South Carolina, post office: For site, $7,500. Duluth, Minn.Mail devices.Vol. 35, p. 482; Vol. 36, p. 1370.Duluth, Minnesota, post office, courthouse, and customhouse:
The unexpended balances of the appropriations for additional land, 611extension and remodeling, and new site, not exceeding 88,420.74, are made available for the extension of the mailing platform at the post-office, courthouse, and customhouse building. Du Quoin, Illinois, post office: For completion, $7,000.Du Quoin, Ill. Edwardsville, Illinois, post office: For completion, $31,000.Edwardsville, Ill. El Reno, Oklahoma, post office: For commencement, $5,000.El Reno, Okla. Ennis, Texas, post office:
For commencement, $5,000.Ennis, Tex. Eureka Springs, Arkansas, post office: For commencement, Eureka Spings, Ark.$20,000. Excelsior Springs, Missouri, post office: For continuation, $18,000.Excelsior Springs, Mo. Fairbanks, Alaska: For the purchase, at a price not in excess of Fairbanks, Alaska.$15,000, of that portion of the block whereon the United States courthouse and jail now stand, in the city of Fairbanks, Alaska, not now owned by the United States, $15,000. Fairfield, Iowa, post office:
For site, $8,800.Fairfield, Iowa. Falmouth, Kentucky, post office: For site, $5,000.Falmouth, Ky. Fargo, North Dakota, post office and courthouse: For site, $23,500.Fargo, N. Dak Farmville, Virginia, post office: For site, $5,000.Farmville, Va. Fayetteville, Tennessee, post office: For continuation, $15,000.Fayetteville, Tenn. Fitzgerald, Georgia, post office: For site, $10,000.Fitzgerald, Ga. Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, post office: For commencement, $3,000.Fort Atkinson, Wis.
Fort Fairfield, Maine, post office and customhouse: For site, $18,000.Fort Fairfield, Me. Fort Stanton, New Mexico, sanatorium: For wire fencing materials Fort Stanton, N. Mex., sanatorium.for the construction of a wire fence about eight miles in length along the southeastern boundary lino of the reservation, $800. Front Royal, Virginia, post office: For site, $8,000.Front Royal, Va. Fulton, Kentucky, post office: For commencement, $5,000.Fulton, Ky. Fulton, Missouri, post office:
For commencement, $3,000.Fulton, Mo. Fulton, New York, post office: For completion, $24,000.Fulton, N. Y. Galveston, Texas, courthouse: For completion of remodeling and Galveston, Tex., courthouse.reconstruction, $50,000. Galveston, Texas, post office and customhouse: For completion of Post office and custom house.rearrangement and construction of offices in third story, including work incident thereto, $15,000. Garden City, Kansas, post office: For commencement, $3,000.Garden City, Kans.
Gardiner, Maine, post office: For commencement, $3,000.Gardiner, Me. Gary, Indiana, post office: For continuation, $30,000.Gary, Ind. Gastonia, North Carolina, post office: For continuation, $5,000.Gastonia, N. C. Georgetown, Kentucky, post office: For continuation, $25,000.Georgetown, Ky. Glens Falls, New York, post office: For continuation, $30,000.Glens Falls, N. Y. Glenwood, Iowa, post office: For site, $5,000.Glenwood, Iowa. Gouverneur, New York, post office: For commencement, $6,000.Gouverneur, N.
Y. Grand Rapids, Michigan: To make final settlement with A. G. Grand Rapids, Mich., rent.Dickinson for rent of temporary quarters for the use of Government officials pending the reconstruction of the Federal building, $1,161.22. Greeley, Colorado, post office: For continuation, $60,000.Greeley, Colo. Greenfield, Massachusetts, post office: For commencement, $5,000.Greenfield, Mass. Greenville, North Carolina, post office: For completion, $9,000.Greenville, N. C. Grenada, Mississippi, post office:
For commencement, $15,000.Grenada, Miss. Hampton, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $20,000.Hampton, Va. Hanford, California, post office: For continuation, $31,000.Hanford, Cal. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary Harrisburg, Pa,, rent.quarters for the accommodation of Government officials, $5,000. Hendersonville, North Carolina, post office: For completion, Hendersonville, N. C.$29,000. Hickory, North Carolina, post office: For completion, $10,000.Hickory, N.
C. Hillsboro, Texas, post office: For completion, $10,000.Hillsboro, Tex. Hilo, Hawaii, post office, customhouse and courthouse: For continuation, Hilo, Hawaii.$25,000. Hobart, Oklahoma, post office: For site, $10,000.Hobart, Okla. Holland, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $24,000.Holland, Mich. 612 Honey Grove, Tex.Honey Grove, Texas, post office; For site, $300. Hopkinsville, Ky.Hopkinsville, Kentucky, post office: For completion, $39,000. Huntingdon, Pa.Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, post office:
For continuation, $24,000. Idaho Falls, Idaho.Idaho Falls, Idaho, post office: For completion, $42,000. Indianapolis, Ind.Indianapolis, Indiana, post office and courthouse: For extension of mailing platform, $6,000. Iowa Falls, Iowa.Iowa Falls, Iowa, post office: For completion, $7,000. Ishpeming, Mich.Ishpeming, Michigan, post office; For continuation, $20,000. Jackson, Ky.Jackson, Kentucky, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $25,000. Jellico, Tenn.Jellico, Tennessee, post office:
For commencement, $40,000. Jennings, La.Jennings, Louisiana, post office: For continuation, $10,000. La Fayette, La.Lafayette, Louisiana, post office: For continuation, $25,000. La Junta, Colo.La Junta, Colorado, post office: For completion, $29,900. Lake City, Fla.Lake City, Florida, post office: For site, $6,000. Lamar, Mo.Lamar, Missouri, post office: For site, $7,000. Lancaster, Pa.Lancaster, Pennsylvania, post office: For site, $138,278.78. Lebanon, Tenn.Lebanon, Tennessee, post office:
For completion, $15,000. Lenoir, N. C.Lenoir, North Carolina, post office: For site, $7,000. Long Branch, N. J.Long Branch, New Jersey, post office: For completion, $50,000. Longview, Tex.Longview, Texas, post office: For continuation, $15,000. Macomb, Ill.Macomb, Illinois, post office: For completion, $26,000. Mandan, N. Dak.Mandan, North Dakota, post office: For completion, $18,000. Marion, Ky.Marion, Kentucky, post office: For site, $5,250. Marshall, Tex.Marshall, Texas, post office:
For completion, $24,000. McCook, Nebr.McCook, Nebraska, post office and courthouse: For completion, $25,000. McPherson, Kans.McPherson, Kansas, post office: For continuation, $15,000. Medford, Oreg.Medford, Oregon, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $24,000. Menomonie, Wis.Menomonie, Wisconsin, post office: For completion, $10,000. Middlesboro, Ky.Middlesboro, Kentucky, post office: For commencement, $8,000. Miles City, Mont.Miles City, Montana, post office: For site and commencement, $16,500.
Milford, Mass.Milford, Massachusetts, post office: For completion, $15,000. Millville, N. J.Millville, New Jersey, post office: For commencement, $5,000. Minneapolis, Minn.Minneapolis, Minnesota, post office: For completion, $175,000. Mail devices.For the purchase and installation of mechanical mail-handling devices, $25,000. Minot, N. Dak.Minot, North Dakota, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $60,000. Mishawaka, Ind.Mishawaka, Indiana, post office: For completion, $35,000.
Mobile, Ala.Mobile, Alabama, post office: For completion, $50,000. Monongahela, Pa.Monongahela, Pennsylvania, post office: For commencement, $25,000. Monroe, N. C.Monroe, North Carolina, post office: For completion, $5,000. Montclair, N. J.Montclair, New Jersey, post office: For site, $30,000. Moorhead, Minn.Moorhead, Minnesota, post office; For completion, $13,500. Morristown, Tenn.Morristown, Tennessee, post office: For completion, $20,000. Moultrie, Ga.Moultrie, Georgia, post office:
For site, $7,000. Moundsville, W. Va.Moundsville, West Virginia, post office: For continuation, $56,000. Mount Carmel, Ill.Mount Carmel, Illinois, post office: For site, $20,000. Mount Vernon, Ill.Mount Vernon, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $35,000. Muskegon, Mich.Muskegon, Michigan, post office and customhouse: For additional land, $10,000. Narragansett Pier, R. I.Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, post office: For commencement, $10,000. New Albany, Ind.New Albany, Indiana, post office:
For completion of the extension, remodeling, enlargement, or improvement, $38,000. 613 For rent of temporary quarters at New Albany, Indiana, for the Rent.accommodation of Government officials, and moving expenses incident thereto, $5,000. Newcastle, Indiana, post office: For completion, $28,000.Newcastle, Ind. New Haven, Connecticut, post office and courthouse: For continuation, New Haven, Conn.$150,000. New Haven, Connecticut, post office: The appropriations heretofore Mail devices.or that may hereafter be made for construction shall be available for installation of mail-handling devices in said building within the limit of cost thereof.
New Orleans, Louisiana, customhouse: Toward remodeling, repair, New Orleans, La., customhouse.or improvement of the old customhouse and post-office building, including new roof, at a total cost not exceeding $350,000, to provide quarters for customs officials and other Government officers, $100,000. Newport, Arkansas, post office: For completion, $30,500.Newport, Ark. Newport, Rhode Island, post office and customhouse: For additional Newport, R. I.land for the enlargement of the site, $100,000.
New Rochelle, New York, post office: For continuation, $30,000.New Rochelle, N. Y. New York, New York, post office: For additional mail-handling New York, N. Y., post office, mail devices.devices, including belt conveyors, for the more expeditious handling of the mail in the new post-office building, $150,000. North Attleboro, Massachusetts, post office: For commencement, North Attleboro, Mass.$6,000. Norton, Virginia, post office: For site and commencement, $50,000.Norton, Va.
Oakland, California, post office and customhouse: For additional Oakland, Cal.land, or so much thereof as may be necessary, $115,000. Olympia, Wash.Olympia, Washington, post office: For completion, $30,000. Oneonta, N. Y,Oneonta, New York, post office: For completion, $30,000. Orange, N. J.Orange, New Jersey, post office: For completion, $10,000. Osage City, Kans.Osage City, Kansas, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Owatonna, Minn.Owatonna, Minnesota, post office: For completion, $23,000.
Palatka, Fla.Palatka, Florida, post office: For commencement, $15,000. Park City, Utah.Park City, Utah, post office: For completion, $14,000. Pasadena, Cal.Pasadena, California, post office: For completion, $60,000. Perry, Iowa.Perry, Iowa, post office: For completion, $23,000. Phoenixville, Pa.Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, post office: For site, $16,000. Piqua, Ohio.Piqua, Ohio, post office: For completion, $110,000. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Bureau of Mines: For technical services Pittsburgh, Pa., Bureau of Mines.and for commencement of building, $150,000.
Plymouth, Mass.Plymouth, Massachusetts, post office: For completion, $35,000. Poplar Bluff, Mo.Poplar Bluff, Missouri, post office: For completion, $10,000. Port Jervis, N. Y.Port Jervis, New York, post office: For continuation, $29,000. Portland, Ind.Portland, Indiana, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Poughkeepsie, N. Y.Poughkeepsie, New, York, post office: For additional land, $28,000. Prescott, Ariz.Prescott, Arizona, post office: For site, $7,500. Princeton, Ill.Princeton, Illinois, post office:
For commencement, $6,000. Pulaski, Tenn.Pulaski, Tennessee, post office: For completion, $5,000. Putnam, Conn.Putnam, Connecticut, post office: For continuation, $22,000. Quitman, Ga.Quitman, Georgia, post office: For commencement, $5,000. Reading, Pa.Reading, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $40,000. Robinson, IIl.Robinson, Illinois, post office: For commencement, $5,000. Rocky Mount, N. C.Rocky Mount, North Carolina, post office: For continuation, $27,000.. Rossville, Ga.Rossville, Georgia, post office:
For site, $5,000. Salem, Ohio.Salem, Ohio, post office: For completion, $38,000. Salem, Va.Salem, Virginia, post office: For site, $10,250. Salina, Kansas, post office and courthouse: For completion, Salina, Kans.$10,000. San Francisco, California, post office, courthouse, and so forth: San Francisco, Cal., post office, etc.Mailing platform.Vol. 34, pp. 699, 1303.The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the construction of the post office, courthouse, and so forth, building at San Francisco, 614California, not exceeding $10,000, is made available for the extension of the mailing platform at said building, and for the widening of the driveway connected therewith, including all work necessary and incident to said extension of the mailing platform and the widening of said roadway.
Subtreasury.San Francisco, California, subtreasury: For completion, $50,000. Santa Barbara, Cal.Santa Barbara, California, post office: For completion, $20,000. Searcy, Ark.Searcy, Arkansas, post office: For completion, $10,000. Seymour, Ind.Seymour, Indiana, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Shelbyville, Tenn.Shelbyville, Tennessee, post office: For completion, $14,000. Sherman, Tex.Sherman, Texas, post office and courthouse: For additional land, $5,000. Sioux City, Iowa.Sioux City, Iowa, courthouse, post office, and customhouse:
For post office lookouts, $1,500. Sistersville, W. Va.Sistersville, West Virginia, post office: For completion, $30,000. Smyrna, Del.Smyrna, Delaware, post office: For completion, $15,000. Sparta, Wis.Sparta, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, $15,000. Springfield, Tenn.Springfield, Tennessee, post office: For completion, $10,000. Stamford, Conn.Stamford, Connecticut, post office: For commencement, $5,000. Steubenville, Ohio.Steubenville, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $20,000.
Sunbury, Fa.Sunbury, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $40,000. Sweetwater, Tex.Sweetwater, Texas, post office: For site, $6,500. Sycamore, Ill.Sycamore, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $23,000. Sylacauga, Ala.Sylacauga, Alabama, post office: For site, $5,000. Syracuse, N. Y.Syracuse, New York, post office: For commencement, $10,000. Tarboro, N. C.Tarboro, North Carolina, post office: For continuation, $23,000. The Dalles, Oreg.The Dalles, Oregon, post office:
For continuation, $23,000. Thomasville, Ga.Thomasville, Georgia, post office: For commencement, $10,000. Three Rivers, Mich.Three Rivers, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $23,000. Tiffin, Ohio.Tiffin, Ohio, post office: For commencement, $7,000. Toccoa, Ga.Toccoa, Georgia, post office: For site, $5,000. Tupelo, Miss.Tupelo, Mississippi, post office: For commencement, $10,000. Union Springs, Ala.Union Springs, Alabama, post office: For site, $4,500. Urbana, Ill.Urbana, Illinois, post office:
For continuation, $33,000. Utica, N. Y.Utica, New York, post office, customhouse, and courthouse: For additional land, $35,000. Uvalde, Tex.Uvalde, Texas, post office: For commencement, $14,000. Vernon, Tex.Vernon, Texas, post office: For site, $1. Wahpeton, N. Dak.Wahpeton, North Dakota, post office: For completion, $15,000. Walden, N. Y.Walden, New York, post office: For site, $7,500. Waltham, Mass.Waltham, Massachusetts, post office: For continuation, $28,948.80. Washington, D.
C.Butler Building.Washington, District of Columbia: For installing one electric passenger elevator, and constructing stairway from first floor to basement, Butler Building, $7,000. Interior Department offices.Washington, District of Columbia, Interior Department Offices: Not exceeding $40,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation Use of balance.Vol. 32, p. 1037.for the acquisition of square numbered one hundred and forty-three in Washington, District of Columbia, is reappropriated and Vol. 37, p. 880.made available toward the purposes and within the limit named in section nine of the public buildings Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, providing for a building for the Geological Survey and other offices of the Department of the Interior.
National Archives Building.Washington, District of Columbia, National Archives Building: For employment of technical and engineering services in the Office of the Supervising Architect, for the preparation of designs and estimates Vol. 37, p. 884.for the National Archives Building, as authorized in the public buildings Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $5,000. Webb City, Mo.Webb City, Missouri, post office: For commencement, $20,000. Wellsburg, W. Va.Wellsburg, West Virginia, post office:
For commencement, $1,000. 615 Westplains, Missouri, post office: For site, $5,000.Westplains, Mo. West Point, Virginia, post office: For site, $5,000.West Point, Va. Williston, North Dakota, post office: For continuation, $45,000.Williston, N. Dak. Winchester, Tennessee, post office: For commencement, $31,300.Winchester, Tenn. Winfield, Kansas, post office: For commencement, $16,000.Winfield, Kans. Xenia, Ohio, post office: For completion, $19,000.Xenia, Ohio. Yonkers, New York, post office:
For additional amount for Yonkers, N. Y.acquisition of site, $100,000. Ypsilanti, Michigan, post office: For commencement, $5,000.Ypsilanti, Mich. marine hospital.Marine hospitals. New Orleans, Louisiana, marine hospital: For addition to surgeons’ New Orleans, La.quarters, $1,500. San Francisco, California, marine hospital: For extending the San Francisco, Cal.Extending street through grounds.Fourteenth Avenue Boulevard through the grounds of the United States marine hospital at San Francisco, California, passing directly to the edge of Mountain Lake and making connection with the present driveway on the Presidio, S5,000. quarantine stations.Quarantine stations.
The provision in the sundry civil Act approved June twenty-third, Cape Charles, Va.Change of location.*Ante*, p. 18, amended.nineteen hundred and thirteen, which reads as follows: “Cape Charles Quarantine Station: Residence for quarantine officer, $8,000,” is amended so as to authorize the Secretary of the Treasury, in his discretion, to cause such residence to be erected upon land now owned by the United States at Fort Monroe, Virginia. Honolulu, Hawaii, quarantine station: For kitchen for oriental and Honolulu, Hawaii.European compounds, $1,200; for dining room for European compounds, $2,000; in all, $3,200.
San Francisco, California, quarantine station: Reconstructing San Francisco, Cal.wharf, $35,000. San Juan, Porto Rico, quarantine station: The provisions of the San Juan, P. R.Use of appropriations.Vol. 33, p. 458; Vol. 35, p. 961; Vol. 36, p. 710.sundry civil acts approved April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four; March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, and June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, are hereby amended so as to authorize the construction of a lazaretto, executive building, attendants’ quarters, laundry, and disinfecting building, within the total limit of cost heretofore appropriated of not to exceed $49,700.
New Orleans, Louisiana, quarantine station: For constructing a New Orleans, La.new wharf at the New Orleans, Louisiana, quarantine station, $12,000. Cape Fear, North Carolina, quarantine station: For construction Cape Fear, N. C.of new wharf, $25,000. The foregoing construction Under marine hospitals and quarantine Supervision of construction.stations shall be done under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury and within the sums appropriated herein therefor. public buildings, repairs, equipment, and general expenses.
Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of all completed Repairs and preservation.and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for wire partitions and fly screens therefor, Government wharves and piers under the control of the Treasury Department, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto, buildings and wharf at Sitka, Alaska, and the Secretary Sitka, Alaska.of the Treasury may, in renting said wharf, require that the lessee Disposal of wharf and warehouse.shall make all necessary repairs thereto, and the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in his discretion, to dispose of said wharf and warehouse Upon such terms and conditions as may be for 616the best interests of the United States; for care of vacant sites under the control of the Treasury Department, such as necessary fences, filling dangerous holes, cutting grass and weeds, but not for any permanent improvements thereon; for repairs and preservation of buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargement of public buildings, the expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed fifteen per centum of the annual *Provisos*.Marine hospitals and quarantine stations.rentals of such buildings: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated not exceeding $100,000 may be used for marine hospitals and quarantine stations, including wire partitions and fly screens for Treasury buildings.same, and not exceeding $14,000 for the Treasury, Butler, and Winder Buildings at Washington, District of Columbia, including the old building of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing: *Provided further*, Restriction on personal services.That this sum shall not be available for the payment of personal services except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor Under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $725,000.
Mechanical equipment.Heating, lighting, etc.Mechanical equipment: For installation and repair of mechanical equipment in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including heating, hoisting, plumbing, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum cleaning, and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit, wiring, call-bell and signal systems, and for maintenance and repair of tower clocks; for installation and repair of mechanical equipment, for any of the foregoing items, in buildings not reserved by vendors on sites Under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargements of public buildings, the expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed ten per centum *Provisos*.Marine hospitals and Quarantine stations.of the annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided further*, That of the sum herein appropriated for mechanical equipment of public buildings, not exceeding $40,000 may be used for marine hospitals, and Treasury buildings.quarantine stations, and not exceeding $10,000 for the Treasury, Butler, and Winder Buildings at Washington, District of Columbia, including the old building of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing excepting the generating plant and its maintenance, and not exceeding Pneumatic tube system, New York City.$10,000 for the maintenance, changes in, and repairs of pneumatic-tube system between the appraisers’ warehouse at Greenwich, Christopher, Washington, and Barrow Streets and the new customhouse in Bowling Green, Borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, including repairs to the street pavement and subsurface necessarily incident to or resulting from such maintenance, changes, Restriction on personal services.or repairs: *Provided, further*, That this sum shall not be available for the payment of personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $445,000.
Vaults and safes.Vaults and safes: For vaults and lock-box equipments and repairs thereto in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and for the necessary safe equipments and repairs thereto in all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, whether completed and occupied or in course of construction, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $50 at any one building, $100,000.
General expenses.General expenses: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to execute Vol. 35, p. 537.and give effect to the provisions of section six of the Act of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page five Additional salary, Supervising Architect.*Ante*, p. 468.hundred and thirty-seven, part one): For additional salary of $1,000 for the Supervising Architect of the Treasury for the fiscal year nine617teen hundred and fifteen; for one architectural designer, at $6,000 per Technical services, etc.annum; for foremen draftsmen, architectural draftsmen, and apprentice draftsmen, at rates of pay from $480 to $2,500 per annum; for structural engineers and draftsmen, at rates of pay from $840 to $2,200 per annum; for mechanical, sanitary, electrical, heating and ventilating, and illuminating engineers and draftsmen, at rates of pay from $1,200 to $2,400 per annum; for computers and estimators, at rates of pay from $1,600 to $2,500 per annum, the expenditures under all the foregoing classes for which a minimum and maximum rate of compensation is stated, not to exceed $168,450; for supervising superintendents, Superintendents, etc.superintendents, and junior superintendents of construction and inspectors, at rates of pay from $1,600 to $2,900 per annum, not to exceed $278,960; for expenses of superintendence, including expenses Expenses of maintenance.of all inspectors and other officers and employees, on duty or detailed in connection with work on public buildings and the furnishing and equipment thereof, under orders from the Treasury Department; office rent and expenses of superintendents, including temporary stenographic and other assistance in the preparation of reports and the care of public property, and so forth; advertising; office supplies, Supplies.*Ante*, p. 473.including drafting materials, specially prepared paper, typewriting machines, adding machines, and other mechanical labor-saving devices, and exchange of same; furniture, carpets, electric-light fixtures and office equipment; telephone service; not to exceed $6,000 for stationery; not to exceed $1,000 for books of reference, law books, technical periodicals and journals, subscriptions to which may be paid in advance; for contingencies of every kind and description, traveling expenses of. site agents, recording deeds and other evidences of title, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates, and photographic materials, and such other articles and supplies and such minor and incidental expenses not enumerated, connected solely with work on public buildings, the acquisition of sites, and the administrative work connected with the annual appropriations under the Supervising Architect’s Office as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve, but not including heat, light, janitor service, awnings, curtains, or any expenses for the general maintenance of the Treasury Building, or surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test pit borings, or mill mid shop inspections, $563,560: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Agents to select sites.*Ante*, p. 211.That the unexpended balance of the appropriation for expenses of site agents contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October twenty-second, nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen for the compensation and expenses of site agents detailed for such service, in addition to the foregoing.
Architectural competitions: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury Commissions to architects.Vol. 29, p. 468.to make payment for architectural services under contracts entered into prior to the repeal of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain plans and specifications for public buildings to be erected under the supervision of the Treasury Department, and providing for local supervision of the construction of the same,’’ approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, including payment for the services from July first, nineteen hundred and twelve, of the architect of the Hilo, Hawaii, building, Hilo, Hawaii.Vol. 36, p. 1373.Vol. 37, p. 428.specially selected under the provisions of the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for architectural competitions, public buildings, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, or so much, thereof as may be necessary, is continued and made available for said purpose during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen. 618 public buildings, operating expenses.
Operating force.Personal services.Operating force: For such personal services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department (except as hereinafter provided), together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including Assistant custodians, janitors, etc.assistant custodians, janitors, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen; engineers, firemen, elevator conductors, coal passers, electricians, dynamo tenders, lampists, and wiremen; and for the mechanical labor force in connection with said buildings, including carpenters, plumbers, steam fitters, machinists, and painters, but in no case shall the rates of compensation for such mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where *Proviso*.Buildings for which available.such services are employed, $2,650,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation shall be available for use in connection with all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the customhouse at Washington, District of Columbia, but not including any other public building within the District of Columbia, and exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices.
Furniture, etc.Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, and gas and electric lighting fixtures and repairs of same, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, whether completed and occupied or in course of construction, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $850,000.
And all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings and in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Operating supplies.Fuel, light, water, etc.Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, light, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting and power purposes, telephone service for custodian forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice: cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and for miscellaneous items for the use of the custodian forces in the care and maintenance of completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department; and in the care and maintenance of the equipment and furnishing in such buildings; and for miscellaneous supplies, tools and appliances required in the operation ( not embracing repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, plumbing, hoisting, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum cleaning and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit wiring, call-bell and signal systems in such buildings (including the customhouse at Washington, District of Columbia, but excluding any other public building under the control of the Treasury Department within the District of Columbia, and excluding also marine hospitals and quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the Gas governors.sum of $100 at any one building), $1,625,000.
And the appropriation herein made for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors, *Proviso*.Rental.when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided*, That no sum shall be paid as rental for such gas governors greater than thirty-five per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct. 619 During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen the Secretary Pneumatic-tube service.Furnishing steam, etc., to Postal Service.of the Treasury is authorized, out of the appropriations “Operating supplies for public buildings” and “Operating force for public buildings,” to furnish steam for the operation of pneumatic tubes of the Postal Service, as heretofore, and to pay employees in the production of said steam, as heretofore, the proceeds derived from the sale of said steam to be credited to said appropriations in proportion to the amounts expended therefrom.
Salamanca, New York, ground rent: For annual ground rent of the Salamanca, N. Y.Ground rent.Federal building site at Salamanca, New York, on account of Indian leases, due and payable on February nineteenth of each year, in advance, to the treasurer of the Seneca Nation of Indians, beginning February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and expiring February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and ninety-one, $7.50. life-saving service.Life-Saving Service. For district superintendents of life-saving and lifeboat stations and Superintendents.houses of refuge, as follows:
Maine and New Hampshire, one 82,200; Massachusetts, one 82,200; Rhode Island and Fishers Island, one $2,000; Long Island, one $2,200; New Jersey, one $2,200; Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, one $2,200; Virginia and North Carolina, one $2,200; South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, one $1,900; Gulf of Mexico, one $2,000; Lakes Ontario and Erie, one $2,200; Lakes Huron and Superior, one $2,200; Lake Michigan, one $2,200; California, Oregon, Washington, and Alaska, one $2,200; thirteen in all, $27,900.
For salaries of two hundred and ninety-three keepers of life-saving Keepers.and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, $278,800. For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and life-boat Crews of surfmen, etc.stations, including the old Chicago station, at the rate of $70 per month each for the number one surfman in each station, and at the rate of $65 per month for each of the other surfmen during the period of actual employment, and $3 per day for each occasion of service at other times; rations or commutation thereof for keepers and surfmen; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboat Volunteers.stations for actual and deserving service rendered upon any occasion of disaster or in any effort to save persons from drowning, at such rate, not to exceed $10 for each volunteer, as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine; pay of volunteer crews for drill and exercise; compensation of twelve clerks to district superintendents, one Clerks.to each of the district superintendents, except that of the eighth district, at such rate as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine, not to exceed $900 each; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs Fuel, repairs, etc.and outfits for same; rebuilding and improvement of same, including use of additional land where necessary; supplies and provisions for houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored at stations; traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters and allowance for heat and light for Commutation of quarters, etc.Allowance to disabled keepers.Vol. 22, p. 57.officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service detailed for duty in the Life-Saving Service: for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of the Act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two; for draft animals and their maintenance; for telephone lines and care of same; and contingent expenses, including freight, storage, Contingent expenses.*Ante*, p. 473.rent, repairs to apparatus, labor, medals, stationery, newspapers for statistical purposes, advertising, and all other necessary expenses not included under any other head of life-saving stations on the coasts of the United States, $2,100,000.
For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on New stations.the sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, $25,000, to be available until expended. 620 Revenue-Cutter Service.revenue-gutter service. Pay, etc.For pay and allowances of captain commandant and officers of that rank, senior captains, captains, lieutenants, engineer in chief and officers of that rank, captains of engineers, lieutenants of engineers, two constructors, not exceeding fourteen cadets and cadet engineers, who are hereby authorized, two civilian instructors, and pilots employed, and rations for pilots; for pay of warrant and petty officers, ships’ writers, buglers, seamen, oilers, firemen, coal heavers, water tenders, stewards, cooks, and boys, and for rations for the same; for allowance for clothing for enlisted men; for fuel for vessels, and outfits for the same; ship chandlery and engineers’ stores for the same; actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, for officers traveling on duty under orders from the Seal fisheries, etc.Treasury Department; commutation of quarters; for maintenance of vessels in the protection of the seal fisheries in Bering Sea and the other waters of Alaska, and the enforcement of the provisions of law Anchorage, etc.Vol. 25, p. 151;
Vol. 27, p. 431.Vol. 29, p. 54.Vol. 30, p. 1081.in Alaska; for maintenance of vessels in enforcing the previsions of the Acts relating to the anchorage of vessels in the ports of New York and Chicago, and in the Kennebec River, and the movements and anchorage of vessels in Saint Marys River; for temporary leases and improvement of property for revenue-cutter purposes; not exceeding $5,000 for the improvement of the depot for the service at Arundel Cove, Maryland; not exceeding $150 for medals for excellence in Contingent expenses.*Ante*, p. 473.marksmanship; contingent expenses, including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, *Proviso*.Sales of ration supplies.$2,350,000: *Provided*, That hereafter ration supplies may be purchased by the cabin, wardroom, and warrant officers’ messes and payment therefor made in cash to the commissary officer; the prices to be charged for such supplies shall not be less than the invoice prices, and the cash received from such sales shall be accounted for on the ration return and may be expended for the general mess.
Repairs to cutters.For repairs to revenue cutters, $175,000. New cutters.Toward the construction of two revenue cutters authorized by the *Ante*, p.387.Act approved June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of two revenue Contracts.cutters,” $165,000; and authority is hereby given to contract for the construction of said revenue cutters within the limit of cost heretofore fixed for each of them. Engraving and printing.engraving and printing.
Salaries.For salaries of all necessary employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, $1,300,000, to be expended under the *Proviso*.Large notes.direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled Vol. 31, p. 45.or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
Wages.For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, *Proviso*.Large notes.$1,625,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than those that may be canceled or retired, except in 621so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the Vol. 31, p. 45.parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except Materials, etc.*Ante*, p. 473.distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary horses and vehicles, and of horse and vehicle for official use of the director when in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, $470,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen all proceeds Proceeds from work to be credited to Bureau.derived from work performed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for said bureau for the said fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as provided by the Act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six Vol. 24, p. 227.(Twenty-fourth Statutes, page two hundred and twenty-seven), be credited when received to the appropriation for said bureau for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen. miscellaneous objects, treasury department.Miscellaneous.
For paper for internal-revenue stamps, including freight, $90,000.Internal revenue.Paper for stamps.Refund of taxes.Vol. 35, p. 325. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money covered into Treasury as internal-revenue collections, under the provisions of the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, $50,000. Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: For detecting Punishing violations of, laws.and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, $175,000; and the Statement required.Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall make a detailed statement to Congress once in each year as to how he has expended this sum, and also a detailed statement of all miscellaneous expenditures in the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use for, and in connection Enforcing laws relating to the Treasury.Details permitted.with, the enforcement of the laws relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its control, not exceeding at any one time four persons paid from the appropriation for the collection of customs, four persons paid from the appropriation for salaries and expenses of internal-revenue agents or from the appropriation for the foregoing purpose, and four persons paid from the appropriation for suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, but not exceeding six persons so detailed shall be employed Limit.at any one time hereunder: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained Proviso.Other duties.shall be construed to deprive the Secretary of the Treasury from making any detail now otherwise authorized by existing law.
Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent expenses Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury.[R. S., sec. 3053, p. 719](/us/rs/s3053/p719).*Ante*, p. 473.under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes of the United States, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, for transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, for salaries of special agents, and for actual expenses of examiners Examinations, etc.[R.
S., sec. 3049, p. 718](/us/rs/s3049/p718).detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several subtreasuries and depositories, including national banks acting as depositories under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, also including examinations of cash accounts at mints, $185,000. 622 Recoinage of gold coins.[R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696](/us/rs/s3512/p696).Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight 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 of the United States, $3,000.
Recoinage of minor coins.Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury 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, $10,000. Money laundry machines.Money laundry machines: For all miscellaneous expenses in connection with the installation and maintenance of money laundry machines, including repairs and purchase of supplies, for machines at Washington, District of Columbia, and in the various subtreasury offices, $9,000.
United States securities.Distinctive paper.Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper for United States securities, including transportation, traveling, laundry, and other necessary expenses, salaries for not more than ten months of not exceeding one register, two assistant registers, five counters, five watchmen, and one skilled laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury, $400,000. Distinctive paper, national currency.Expenses of national currency:
For distinctive paper, including transportation, traveling, laundry, and other necessary expenses, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury, salaries for not more than two months of not exceeding one register, two assistant registers, five counters, five watchmen, and one skilled laborer; in all, $70,000. Witness of destruction.For pay of the representative of the public on the committee to witness the destruction by maceration of Government securities, at $5 per day while actually employed, .$1,565.
Custody of dies, rolls, and plates.Custody of dies, rolls, and plates: For custody of dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for printing Government securities: Custodians—two at $2,000 each; distributors of stock—one $1,600, two at $1,400 each; in all, $8,400. Suppressing counterfeiting, etc.*Ante*, p. 473.Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurred under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, and for no other purpose whatever, except in the Protection of President.*Proviso*.Witnesses.protection of the person of the President and of the person chosen to be President of the United States, $145,000: *Provided*, That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United *Post*, p. 654.States commissioner, winch expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts.
” Payment of persons detailed forbidden.No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used in payment of compensation or expenses of any person detailed or transferred from the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department, or who may at any time during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen have been employed by or under said Secret Service Division. Lands, etc.Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneer’s fees, $300. 623 customs service.Customs service.
To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, Collecting revenue.Detection of frauds increased.Vol. 20, p. 386; Vol. 33, p. 396.*Ante*, p. 473.$10,150,000. And the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine (Twentieth Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-six), as amended by the Act of April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four (Thirty-third Statutes, page three hundred and ninety-six), authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to expend out of the appropriation for defraying the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs such amount as he may deem necessary, not exceeding $150,000 per annum, for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, are further amended so as to increase the amount to be so expended for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen to $200,000.
For the necessary expenses and salaries of the customs service at Panama-Pacific Exposition.Salaries and expanses.*Ante*, p. 112.*Post*, p. 836.the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, $200,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Scales for customs service: The unexpended balance of the appropriation Automatic scales.Use of balance, etc.*Ante*, p. 23.made by the sundry civil Act approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for construction and installation of special automatic and recording scales for weighing merchandise, and so forth, in connection with imports, at the various ports of entry under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, is continued and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, together with the further sum of $50,000, for the same purpose.
Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of Compensation in lieu of moieties.moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, $50,000. The President is authorized from time to time, as the exigencies of Customs districts.Consolidation, etc., authorized.Vol. 37, p. 434.the service may require, to rearrange, by consolidation or otherwise, the several customs-collection districts and to discontinue ports of entry by abolishing the same or establishing others in their stead: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Maximum.That the whole number of customs-collection districts, ports of entry, or either of them, shall at no time be made to exceed those now established and authorized except as the same may hereafter be provided by law: *Provided further*, That, hereafter, the collector of Official designation by numbers hereafter.customs of each customs-collection district shall be officially designated by the number of the district for which he is appointed and not by the name of the port where the headquarters are situated and the Changes of headquarters.President is authorized from time to time to change the location of the headquarters in any customs-collection district, as the needs of the service may require: *And provided further*, That the President Statement to be made.shall, at the beginning of each regular session, submit to Congress a statement of all acts, if any, done hereunder and the reasons therefor. public health service.Public Health Service.
For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissioned Pay, etc., of officers.medical officers and pharmacists, $679,858; For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical Acting assistant surgeons.officers), $200,000. For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $502,606.Other employees. For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the Freight, etc.expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, $30,000;
For fuel, light, and water, $75,000;Fuel, etc. For furniture and repairs to same, $8,000;Furniture. For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospital Supplies.supplies, $45,000; 624 Hygienic Laboratory.Marine hospitals.*Ante*, p. 473.For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $20,000; For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and for all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included *Proviso*.Cases for study.under special heads, $256,000: *Provided*, That there may be admitted into said hospitals for study, persons with infectious or other diseases affecting the public health, and not to exceed ten cases in any one hospital at one time;
Outside treatment.For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment of all other persons entitled to relief, and miscellaneous expenses other than marine hospitals, which are not included under special heads, $126,000; Books, etc.For journals and scientific books, for use of the Public Health Service; subscriptions for journals for use of the service may be paid for in advance, $500; Inspecting aliens.Vol. 34, p. 903.In all, $1,942,964, which shall include the amount necessary for the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section seventeen of the Act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven.
Quarantine service.Maintenance, etc.*Ante*, p. 473.Quarantine Service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of quarantine stations at Eastport and Portland, Maine; Providence, Rhode Island; Perth Amboy, New Jersey: Delaware Breakwater; Reedy Island, and the Delaware Bay and River; Alexandria, Virginia; Cape Charles and supplemental station thereto; Cape Fear, Newbern, and Washington, North Carolina; Georgetown, Charleston, Beaufort, and Port Royal, South Carolina;
Savannah; South Atlantic-Brunswick; Cumberland Sound; Saint Johns River; Biscayne Bay: Key West; Boca Grande; Tampa Bay; Port Inglis; Cedar Key: Puntarasa; Saint Georges Sound (East and West Pass); Saint Joseph; Saint Andrews and Pensacola, Florida; Mobile; New Orleans and supplemental stations thereto; Pascagoula; Gulf; Gulfport, Galveston, Laredo, Eagle Pass, and El Paso, Texas; San Diego, San Pedro and adjoining ports, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Monterey, and Port Harford, California;
Fort Bragg, Eureka, Columbia River, Florence, Newport, Coos Bay, and Gardner, Oregon; Port Townsend and supplement al stations thereto; quarantine system of Alaska; quarantine system of the Hawaiian Islands, including the leprosy hospital; and the quarantine system of Porto Rico, and including not exceeding $500 for printing on account of the quarantine service at times when the exigencies of that service require immediate action, $155,000. Prevention of epidemics.*Ante, p. 473*.Prevention of epidemics:
To enable the President, in case only of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague or black death, or trachoma, to aid State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be *Proviso*.Report of expenditures.then in force, $200,000: *Provided*, That a detailed report of the expenditures hereunder shall annually hereafter be submitted to Congress.
Field Investigations.Vol. 37, p. 309.Field investigations of public health matters: For investigations of diseases of man and conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage, and the pollution of navigable streams and lakes of the United States, including personal service, $200,000. Interstate quarantine service.Cooperation with.Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $15,000. 625 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia.
For completion of the construction of a modem fireproof hospital Columbia Hospital for Women.Constructing now building.Vol. 17, p. 360.*Ante*, p. 26.*Post*, p. 838.building for the treatment of diseases peculiar to women and a lying-in asylum, in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two (Seventeenth Statutes, page three hundred and sixty), and the Act approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page twenty-six); the said building to be erected on the site belonging to the United States, to replace the present building of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, $200,000; the construction of said building and the expenditure of the appropriation therefor to be under the direction and supervision of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds.
That portion of the Act of Congress approved March fourth, nineteen Small parks.Vol. 37, p. 971, amended.hundred and thirteen, making appropriation to provide for the expenses of the government of the District of Columbia for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, relating to small parks, is hereby amended to read as follows: " “small parks. “For the condemnation of small park areas at the intersections Condemnation of areas surrounded by streets outside city limits.of streets outside the limits of the original city of Washington, to be acquired from such areas shown on the map on file showing areas surrounded by streets in the office of the engineer commissioner, in the discretion of the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, $25,000: *Provided*, That such condemnation shall be under and in *Provisos*.Proceedings.Vol. 34, p. 151.accordance with the provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia: *Provided, further*, One-half of damages to be assessed as benefits.That of the amount found to be due and awarded by the jury in any such proceeding as damages for and in respect of the land to be condemned for said parks, plus the costs and expenses of the proceeding thereunder, not less than one-half thereof shall be assessed by the jury as benefits, which, when collected, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States, one-half to the credit of the United States and one-half to the credit of the District of Columbia.
The Placed under Chief Of Engineers.public parks so acquired shall become a part of the park system of the District of Columbia and be under the control of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army.” " UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.Smithsonian Institution. International exchanges: For expenses of the system of international International exchanges.exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $32,000.
American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among American ethnology.the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, including. the excavation and preservation of archaeologic remains, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, including payment in advance for subscriptions, $42,000. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature: For the cooperation International Catalogue of Scientific Literature.of the United States in the work of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, including the preparation of a classified index catalogue of American scientific publications for incorporation in the International Catalogue, the expense of clerk hire, the pur626chase of necessary books and periodicals, and other necessary incidental expenses, $7,500, the same to be expended under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution.
Astrophysical Observatory.Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries of assistants, the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, including payment in advance for subscriptions,, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, repairs and alterations of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, $13,000. Telescope, Mount Wilson, Cal.For equipping the tower telescope of the Astrophysical.
Observatory on Mount Wilson, California, including the necessary incidental expenses, to be immediately available, $2,000. Fireproof bookstacks, etc.Bookstacks for Government bureau libraries: Toward replacing wooden shelving and galleries with fireproof bookstacks in the main hall of the Smithsonian Building for the libraries of. the Government bureaus under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including heating and lighting apparatus, and repairs to the floor, columns, walls, and windows, and exclusive of carrier, $10,000.
Repairs.Repairs, Smithsonian Building: For pointing up masonry and other necessary repairs to the exterior of the Smithsonian Building, $16,000. National Museum.Salaries, etc.National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of collections, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, $25,000; Heating, lighting, etc.For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service, 346,000;
Preserving collections.For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and all other necessary expenses, 3300,000, of which sum $5,500 may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications; Books, etc.For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference, including payment in advance for subscriptions, $2,000;
Repairs.For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, including all necessary labor and material, $10,000; Postage stamps.For postage stamps and foreign postal cards, $500; In all, for the National Museum, $383,500. National Zoological Park.National Zoological Park: For continuing the construction of roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; and for grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees; and general incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles required for official purposes, not exceeding $100 for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, payment m advance for subscriptions, and exclusive of architect’s fees or compensation, Half from District revenues.$100,000; one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
Interstate Commerce Commission.INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. Salaries.For seven commissioners at $10,000 each; secretary, 35,000; in all, $75,000. Expenses.For all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execution of laws to regulate commerce, $910,000, of which sum there may be Amount for counsel.expended not exceeding $50,000 in the employment of counsel, not exceeding $3,000 for the purchase of necessary books, reports, and periodicals, not exceeding $1,500 for printing other than that done at the Government Printing Office, not exceeding 3100 in the open 627market for the purchase of office furniture similar in class or kind to that listed in the general supply schedule, and not exceeding $65,000 Rent.may be expended for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia.
Hereafter the Interstate Commerce Commission may exchange Exchange of typewriters, etc.typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices in part payment for like articles. To further enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce Enforcing accounting by railroads.Vol. 34, p. 593; Vol. 36, p. 556.compliance with section twenty of the Act to regulate commerce as amended by the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, including the employment of necessary special agents or examiners, $300,000.
To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed Railway safety appliances.Vol. 27, p. 531; Vol. 29, p. 85; Vol. 32, p. 943; Vol. 36, p. 298.regarding and to enforce compliance with the Acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads; the Act requiring common carriers to make reports of accidents and authorizing investigations thereof; and to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission Vol. 31, p. 446; Vol. 36, p. 350.to investigate and test block-signal and train-control systems and appliances intended to promote the safety of railway operation, as authorized by the joint resolution approved June thirtieth, nineteen Vol. 34, p. 838.hundred and six, and the provision of the sundry civil Act Vol. 35, p. 324.approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, including the employment of inspectors, $245,000.
Valuation of property of carriers: To enable the Interstate Commerce Physical valuation of railroads.Vol. 37, p. 701.*Post*, pp. 773, 775.Commission to carry out the objects of the Act providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers subject to the Act to regulate commerce and amendments thereto and to secure information concerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities, of which sum not exceeding $20,000 may be expended for rent of buildings Rent.in the District of Columbia, $1,900,000.
It shall be the duty of every common carrier by railroad whose Transportation of employees.property is being valued under the Act of March first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to transport the engineers, field parties, and other employees of the United States who are actually engaged in making surveys and other examination of the physical property of said carrier necessary to execute said Act from point to point on said railroad as may be reasonably required by them in the actual discharge of their duties; and, also, to move from point to point and store at such points as may be reasonably required the cars of the United States which Cars, supplies, etc.are being used to house and maintain said employees; and, also, to carry the supplies necessary to maintain said employees and the other property of the United States actually used on said railroad in said work of valuation.
The service above required shall be regarded Compensation, etc., for service.as a special service and shall be rendered under such forms and regulations and for such reasonable compensation as may be prescribed by the Interstate Commerce Commission and as will insure an accurate record and account of the service rendered by the railroad, and such evidence of transportation, bills of lading, and so forth, shall be furnished to the commission as may from time to time be required by the commission.
For payment of all authorized expenditures under the provisions Safe locomotive engine boilers, etc.Vol. 36, p. 913.of the Act of February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, “To promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,” including such stenographic and clerical help to the chief inspector and his two assistants as the Interstate Commerce Commission may deem necessary and allowances in lieu of subsistence while away from official headquarters to persons whose traveling expenses are authorized by said Act to be paid at not to exceed $4 per day, $220,000. 628 Board of Mediation and Conciliation.UNITED STATES BOARD OF MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION.
Salaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 103.For commissioner, $7,500; assistant commissioner, $5,000; for necessary and proper expenses incurred in connection with any arbitration or with the carrying on of the work of mediation and conciliation, including traveling and other necessary expenses of members or employees of boards of arbitration, rent in the District of Columbia, not exceeding $2,280, furniture, office fixtures and supplies, books, salaries, traveling expenses, and other necessary expenses of members or employees of the Board of Mediation and Conciliation, to be approved by the chairman of said board, $37,500; in all, $50,000.
Industrial Relations Commission.COMMISSION ON INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. Expenses of inquiries, etc.Vol. 37, p. 415.For continuing the inquiries and investigations authorized by the Act of August twenty-third, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled “An Act to create a Commission on Industrial Relations,’’ and to provide the expenses of such inquiries and investigations as are enumerated in section two of said Act, $200,000. War Department.UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT. Armories and arsenals.armories and arsenals.
Augusta Arsenal, Augusta, Georgia: For increasing facilities for Augusta, Ga.fire protection, $8,100. Benicia, Cal.Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For placing the electric wiring on the arsenal reservation underground, $8,000. Frankford, Pa.Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For one high-explosive loading shop and its equipment, $32,000; For magazine protection, $6,000; For increasing facilities for fire protection, including the installation of a motor-driven pump and the construction of a building to contain the same, $19,000;
For extension of metal storehouse, $13,500; For additional facilities for storing Artillery ammunition either by an extension of the present storehouse or by the construction of a new building, $17,500. In all, $88,000. Governors Island N. Y.New York Arsenal, Governors Island, New York: For rebuilding and repairing wharf, $20,000. Rock Island, Ill.Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois: Balance available.*Ante*, p. 29.The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $250.000 for increasing the capacity of the plant at the Rock Island Arsenal for the production of field artillery matériel, made in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.
For increasing facilities for fire protection, $8,222; For road repairs, $6,000; For a system of semaphore signals for the protection of the draw span of the bridge, $3,600; For painting the Rock Island Bridge, $8,500; For replacing sidewalks and repainting all metal work of the bridge between the Rock Island Arsenal and the city of Rock Island, Illinois, $5,500; For repairing the foundations and walls of shop H, $65,000; For maintenance and operation of power plant, $12,500; 629 For operating, care, and preservation of Rock Island bridges and Bridge expenses.viaduct; and for maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, .$18,000;
In all, $127,322. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For repairing and Springfield, Mass.improving Pearl Street on land belonging to the United States, $9,000. Watertown Arsenal, testing machines: For necessary professional Watertown, Mass.Testing machines.and skilled labor, purchase of materials, tools, and appliances for operating the testing machines, for investigative test and tests of material in connection with the manufacturing work of the Ordnance Department, and for instruments and materials for operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, $15,000.
Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvement at arsenals, and Repairs.to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including $125,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $290,000. under quartermaster corps.Quartermaster Corps. Military posts: Toward the construction of barrack accommodations Military posts.Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.for one regiment of Infantry at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, including the necessary water, sewer, and fighting systems, roads, walks, and so forth, $250,000.
Hereafter, at all military posts where post offices have been established, Rooms for post offices.the Secretary of War shall assign proper and suitable room or rooms for post-office purposes. Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses: For construction and Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses.enlargement of barracks and quarters for the Coast Artillery and of other buildings in connection with the adopted project for seacoast defenses, including the installation therein of plumbing and of heating and lighting apparatus, to be expended as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, $25,641: *Provided*, That no part *Proviso*.Officers’ quarters.Vol. 35, p. 363.of this sum shall be used for the construction of officers’ quarters to cost in excess of the limits established in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight.
Fort Monroe, Virginia, wharf, roads, and sewer: For repair and maintenance of wharf, including all necessary labor Fort Monroe, Va.Wharf.and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms, and water, brooms, and shovels, $1,400; repairs to apron of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, $4,155; wharfinger, $900; four laborers, $1,920; in all, $8,375; for one-third of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $2,791.66. For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, Repairs to roads, etc.macadam and asphalt block; repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains, $2,170; six laborers cleaning roads, at $480 each: in all, $5,050; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $3,366.66.
For waste, oil, boiler repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, Sewer, maintenance.$1,900; two engineer’s, at $1,000 each; two laborers, at $500 each; in all, $4,900; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $3,266.67. For continuing construction of the necessary accommodations for Seacoast defenses.Philippines and Hawaii.the Seacost Artillery in the Philippine Islands and Hawaii, $750,000. Remount depot, Front Royal, Virginia: For acquisition by purchase Remount depot, Front Royal, Va.Additional lands.or condemnation of the church lot lying within the limits of the Front Royal remount depot, Front Royal, Virginia, containing three-fourths of an acre, more or less, and upon which is located an old 630church, $150; and for the purchase from G.
C. Jenkins and wife of seven-tenths of an acre of land, $1; in all, $151. Southern Express Company.Payment to.Payment to Southern Express Company. For payment to the Southern Express Company for express charges on twenty-five conical tents, complete, weighing four thousand two hundred and fifty-six pounds, shipped by the Quartermaster’s Department May seventh, nineteen hundred and nine, from Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to Pulaski, Tennessee, for use of sufferers from the floods in that State in April, nineteen hundred and nine, $148.96.
Fort Washington, Md.Balance available.*Ante*, p. 30.Swamp lands, Fort Washington, Maryland: The appropriation of $350 for the purchase of six and six-tenths acres of swamp lands adjoining the military reservation at Fort Washington, Maryland, made in the sundry civil Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen is hereby made available for said purposes for the fiscal year *Proviso*.Right of way granted.nineteen hundred and fifteen: *Provided*, That authority is hereby given the present owners of said land to reserve a right of way over and through the tract along the existing roadway thereon.
National cemeteries.Maintenance.National cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools, and materials, including $26,000 for extraordinary repairs, $146,000. Superintendents.For pay of seventy-six superintendents of national cemeteries, $63,120. Headstones for soldiers’ graves.For continuing the work of furnishing headstones of durable stone or other durable material for unmarked graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy yards and stations Vol. 17, p. 345;
Vol. 20, p. 281; Vol. 34, p. 56.of the United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and March ninth, nineteen hundred and Civilians.Vol. 33, p. 396; Vol. 34, p. 741.six; also for continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of civilians interred in post cemeteries under the Acts of April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, and June thirtieth, Confederates.nineteen hundred and six; also for furnishing headstones for the unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national cemeteries, $50,0*00.
Repairs to roadways.For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been *Provisos*.Encroachments by railroads forbidden.constructed by special authority of Congress, $12,000: *Provided*, That no railroad shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained Restriction.by the United States: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village.
Limited to one approach .No part of any appropriation for national cemeteries or the repair of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance of more than a single approach to any national cemetery. Burial of indigent Soldiers, D. C.For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either regular or volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding $45 for such burial expenses in each case, Half from District revenues.exclusive of cost of grave, $3,000, one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Antietam battlefield, Md.Antietam battle field: For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Antietam battle field, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, $3,000. 631 For purchase of the Dunkard Church property on the Antietam Additional land.battle field, Maryland, $1.500. For pay of superintendent of Antietam battle field, said superintendent Superintendent.to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, $1,500.
Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, civilian employees, and Interment of remains of officers, soldiers, etc.so forth: For expenses of interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes or to such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper authority, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of the remains of officers, including acting assistant surgeons, and enlisted men of the Army active list; for the expenses of interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes, of the remains of civil employees of the Army in the employ of the War Department who die abroad, inclusive of Alaska and the Canal Zone, Panama, or on Army transports, or who die while on duty in the field or at military posts within the limits of the United States; for the expenses of interment of military prisoners who die at military posts; for the Removal from abandoned posts, etc.expenses of removal of remains from abandoned posts to permanent military posts or national cemeteries, including the remains of Federal soldiers, sailors, or marines, interred in fields or abandoned private and city cemeteries; and in any case where the expenses of burial or Reimbursement to individuals.shipment of the remains of officers or enlisted men of the Army who die on the active list are borne by individuals, where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement to such individuals may be made of the amount allowed by the Government for such services, to be paid out of the funds appropriated by this Act, but no reimbursement shall be made under this Act of such expenses incurred prior to July first, nineteen hundred and ten, $57,500.
Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago: For care, protection, Confederate Mound, Chicago, Ill.and maintenance of the plat of ground known as “Confederate Mound” in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, $250. For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate Stockade Confederate Stockade, Ohio.Cemetery, Johnston’s Island in Sandusky Bay, $250. Confederate burial plats: For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate burial plats.Care, etc.Confederate burial plats, owned by the United States, located and known by the following designations:
Confederate cemetery, North Alton, Illinois; Confederate cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio; Confederate section, Greenlawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana; Confederate cemetery, Point Lookout, Maryland; and Confederate cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, $1,250. Monuments or tablets in Cuba and China: For repairs and preservation Monuments, etc., in Cuba and China.of monuments, tablets, roads, fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell, $1,000.
Burial of deceased indigent patients: For expenses of burying in Little Rock, Ark.Burial of indigent soldiers dying at Hot Springs Hospital.the Little Rock (Arkansas) National Cemetery, including transportation thereto, indigent ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either regular or volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die while patients at the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding $35 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $200.
Road from Highway Bridge to the Arlington National Cemetery: Arlington, Va.Construction of roads to cemetery.For completing the construction of a public road from the southern end of the new Highway Bridge, across the Potomac River, to the Arlington National Cemetery, and for completing the resurfacing of the roadway between the United States Government experimental farm and the Arlington National Cemetery, $11,000. 632 Military parks.national military parks. Chickamauga an Chattanooga.Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park:
For continuing the establishment of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park; compensation and expenses of civilian commissioners, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, including $300 for necessary clerical labor under direction of the chairman of the commission, office expenses, and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; roads and their maintenance; purchase of small tracts of lands heretofore authorized by law; in all, $57,060.
Shiloh.Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the work of establishing a national military park on the battle field of Shiloh, Tennessee; compensation of civilian commissioners; secretary; clerical and other services; labor; historical tablets; maps and surveys; roads; purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; office and other necessary expenses, $25,800. Gettysburg.Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the work of establishing the national park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania: acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; making fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts, and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battle field and the monuments thereon; providing for a suitable office for the commissioners m Gettysburg; compensation of civilian commissioners, clerical and other services, expenses, and labor; purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position; and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, $50,000.
Vicksburg.Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the work of establishing the Vicksburg National Military Park; compensation of civilian commissioners; engineer and clerk, labor, iron gun carriages, mounting of siege guns, memorials, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps, surveys; roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of lands, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; and other necessary expenses, $42,200.
Engineer Department.under engineer department. Philippines, military structures.Military Structures, Philippine Islands: For continuing the construction and installation of the necessary accommodations and equipment for storage, electric power, and water supply for the Army in the Philippine Islands, $154,000. Yellowstone Park.Yellowstone National Park: For maintenance and repair of improvements, $125,000, including not to exceed $7,500 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the east boundary, and not to exceed $2,500 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserves leading out of the park from the south boundary, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War: *Proviso*.Restriction on removal of snow.*Provided*, That no portion of this appropriation shall be expended for the removal of snow from any of the roads for the purpose of opening them in advance of the time when they will be cleared by seasonal changes.
Roads, bridges, etc.For widening to not exceeding eighteen feet and improving surface of roads and for building bridges and culverts, from the belt-line road to the western border; from the Thumb Station to the southern border; and from the Lake Hotel Station to the eastern border, all within Yellowstone National Park, to make such roads suitable and safe for animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles, $100,000. 633 For widening to not exceeding eighteen feet and improving the In forest reserve.surface of roads and for building bridges and culverts, in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the east boundary, to make such roads suitable and safe for animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles, $30,000.
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For continuation of the construction Crater Lake Park.of a wagon road and the necessary bridges through Crater Lake National Park, Oregon, together with a system of tanks and water-supply pipes to provide for sprinkling, in accordance with the recommendations contained in the report of the War Department published as House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-eight, Sixty-second Congress, second session, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $85,000.
Hingham, Massachusetts, Bridge: For reconstruction of a bridge Hingham, Mass., bridge.Reconstructing.Vol. 37, p. 62.across Weymouth Back River, on Lincoln Street, in Hingham, Massachusetts, as provided by the Act of Congress approved February-ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve, $15,000: *Provided*, That the *Proviso*.Repayment to contributors.Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to pay the said sum to the treasurer of the State of Massachusetts, for distribution to those who have borne the expense of the reconstruction of said bridge, as authorized by the act of the Legislature of the State of Massachusetts, approved July twentieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and amended March ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve, upon the certificate of the Secretary of War that the bridge has been reconstructed as contemplated in said Act of February ninth, nineteen hundred and twelve, and that the amount herein appropriated is justly due and payable as contemplated thereby.
Buildings and grounds in and around Washington: For improvement Buildings and grounds, D. C.Improvement and care.and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, $4,000. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, $2,000. For repair and reconstruction of the greenhouses at the nursery, $3,000. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, $2,000. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, $1,500. For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, 82,000.
For care and improvement of Monument Grounds and annex, Monument grounds.$7,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Garfield Park, $2,500. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of General repairs, etc.high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; repairing and extending water pipes, and purchase of apparatus for cleaning them; hose; manure, and hauling the same; removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, flowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, and moss, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances; cleaning statues and repairing pedestals, S18,550.
For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, Reservations, etc.including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horse and vehicle for official use of the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, and of other necessary vehicles, for official use, $30,000. All public spaces resulting from the filling of canals in the original Filled canal spaces.Added to park system, etc.city of Washington not now under the jurisdiction of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, except such portions as are included in the navy yard or in actual use as roadways and sidewalks, and except the portions assigned by law to the District of Columbia 634for use as a property yard and the location of a sewage pumping station, respectively, are placed under the jurisdiction of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army and shall be laid out as reservations as a part of the park system of the District of Columbia.
For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, $3,000. For improvement and maintenance of Judiciary Park, $2,500. For laying cement and other walks in various reservations, $2,000. For broken-stone road covering for parks, $3,500. For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, $2,000. Potomac Park.For care and maintenance of Potomac Park, $15,000. Made part of park System.Vol. 30, p. 570.Potomac Park is made a part of the park system of the District of Columbia under the exclusive charge and control of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, and subject to the provisions of section six of the Act approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight (Statutes at Large, volume thirty, page five hundred and seventy).
For grading, soiling, seeding, and planting that portion of Potomac Park west of the railroad embankment, and constructing roads and paths, $35,000. Restriction on lagoons, speedways, etc.No part of any money appropriated in this or any other Act shall be expended for or toward the construction of any lagoon, or other artificial body of water, or speedway, on any portion of Potomac Park in the District of Columbia unless specifically authorized by Congress. For oiling or otherwise treating macadam roads, $4,000.
River-front road.Toward the construction of a permanent road around the entire river and harbor front of the portion of Potomac Park east of the railroad embankment, $25,000. For care and improvement of the portion of Potomac Park east of the railroad embankment, $10,000. For continuing the improvement of Montrose Park, and for its care and maintenance, $5,000. For placing and maintaining special portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports, $10,000. For laying water mains for the water supply of that portion of Potomac Park east of the railroad embankment, $10,000.
Meridian Rill Park.Toward the construction of necessary retaining walls in Meridian Hill Park, $25,000. Half from District revenues.One half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in and around Washington” shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Limit for concrete, etc., pavements.Under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be. made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than $1.85 per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness.
Grounds of departments, etc.For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of executive departments, $1,000. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be requested by the superintendent of the Library Building, $1,000. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol and the Senate and House Office Buildings, as may be requested by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building, $4,000.
Executive Mansion grounds.For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), $5,000. 635 For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public Engineer, etc.buildings and grounds, $2,400. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouse, $1,000. Executive Mansion: For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive Mansion, care, etc.Executive Mansion, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official purposes, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine, $35,000.
For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, $6,000.Fuel. For care and maintenance of greenhouses, Executive Mansion, Greenhouses.$9,000. For repair to greenhouses, Executive Mansion, $3,000. For traveling expenses of the President of the United States, to be Traveling expenses of President.expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, $25,000. For lighting the Executive Mansion, grounds, and greenhouses, Lighting.including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $8,600, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Lighting and heating for the public grounds: For fighting the Lighting and heating public grounds.public grounds, watchmen’s lodges, offices, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $16,500; For heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $3,820; In all, $20,320, or so much thereof as may be necessary, one half Half from District revenues.of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the departments and Government Government telegraph.Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, $500. Washington Monument: For custodian, $1,200; steam engineer, $960; assistant steam engineer, Washington Monument.Maintenance.$840; fireman, $660; assistant fireman, $660; conductor of elevator car; $900; attendant on floor, $720; attendant on top floor, $720; three night and day watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $8,820. For fuel, fights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, Expenses.brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors; repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery; and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric plant in good order, $3,000.
For extra services of employees and additional employees, and for Sunday, etc., openings.additional supplies and materials, to provide for the opening of the Washington Monument to the public on Sundays and legal holidays, $2,500. Building where Abraham Lincoln died: For painting and miscellaneous Building where Abraham Lincoln died.repairs, $200. Birthplace of George Washington, Wakefield, Virginia: For repairs Wakefield, Va.to fences and cleaning up and maintaining grounds about the monument, $100.
Commission of Fine Arts: To meet the expenses made necessary Commission of Fine Arts.Expenses.Vol. 36, p. 371.by the Act approved May seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act establishing a Commission of Fine Arts,” including the purchase of periodicals, maps, and books of reference, to be disbursed, on vouchers approved by the commission, by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, who shall be the secretary and shall act as the executive officer of said commission, $5,000.
Memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant: For completing the erection Grant Memorial.Erecting.of the memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant and for each and every purpose connected therewith, to be available until expended, $23,000. 636 Unveiling expenses.*Post*, p. 847.For unveiling and dedicating the memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including erecting and taking down viewing stands and putting the grounds in sightly condition, $5,000.
Lincoln Memorial.Construction.Vol. 36, p. 898; Vol. 37, p. 1022.Lincoln Memorial Commission: For continuing work for the erection of the Lincoln Memorial in accordance with the plans and design and on the location approved by Congress and for each and every purpose connected therewith, to be immediately available, $400,000. Arlington Memorial Amphitheater.Construction.Vol. 35, p. 640; Vol. 37, p. 882.*Post*, p. 848.Arlington Memorial Amphitheater: For beginning the construction, under the direction of a commission consisting of the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and Superintendent of the United States Capitol Building and Grounds, Ivory G.
Kimball, representing the Grand Army of the Republic, and Charles W. Newton, representing the United Spanish War Veterans, of a memorial amphitheater, including a chapel, at the National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, and in accordance with the plans of Carrere and Hastings, architects, of New York City, adopted by the commission heretofore appointed, 8250,000. Horse Shoe Battle Ground, Ala.Erecting memorial.Horse Shoe Battle Ground, Alabama: For the erection of the memorial to the men who fought under General Andrew Jackson in *Ante*, p. 311.the battle at the Horse Shoe on the Tallapoosa River, in Alabama, authorized by the Act approved April second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $5,000.
Rivers and harbors, contract work.Harbor and rivers, contract work: Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers, under contract and otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, namely: Vol. 34, p. 1079.For work authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and seven, as follows: Passaic River, N. J.Improving Passaic River, New Jersey: For continuing improvement of channel in Newark Bay and Passaic River, in completion of contract authorization, $92,000.
Vol. 36, p. 665.For work authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and ten, as follows: Puget Sound-Lake Washington waterway.Puget Sound-Lake Washington Waterway: For continuing improvement by the construction of a double lock, with the necessary accessory works, in completion of contract authorization, $375,000. Vol. 36, p. 933.For work authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and eleven, as follows: Chicago River, Ill.Improving Chicago River, Illinois:
For continuing improvement, $40,000. Duck Island, Conn.Harbor of refuge, Duck Island Harbor, Connecticut: For completing improvement, $7,000. Marquette, Mich.Improving harbor at Marquette, Michigan: For continuing improvement, $211,000. Ohio River.Locks and dams.For improving Ohio River below Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For continuing improvement by the construction of locks and dams, in completion of contract authorization, $1,976,000. Sabine-Neches Canal, Tex.Improving Sabine-Neches Canal, Texas:
For continuing improvement of sections “a” and “c” from Port Arthur Canal to mouth of Neches River and from mouth of Neches River to Beaumont, in completion of contract authorization, $93,000. For continuing improvement of section “b” from the mouth of Neches River to the mouth of Sabine River and up Sabine River to the town of Orange, in completion of contract authorization, $43,500. Vol. 37, p. 201.For work authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and twelve, as follows:
Ohio River.Locks and dams.Improving Ohio River below Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For continuing improvement by the construction of locks and dams, $2,200,000. Vol. 37, p. 801.For work authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and thirteen, as follows: 637 Improving channel from Galveston Harbor to Texas City, Texas: Galveston to Texas City, Tex.For completing improvement, $900,000. Improving Houston Ship Channel, Texas: For the purchase or construction Houston Ship Channel, Tex.Dredging plants.of two suitable dredging plants, in completion of contract authorization and subject to the conditions specified in the river and harbor Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $200,000.
Improving Hudson River, New York: For continuing improvement, Hudson River, N. Y.$150,000. Improving New York Harbor, New York: For continuing improvement New York Harbor, N. Y.of the Hudson (North) River Channel, $150,000. Improving Providence River and Harbor, Rhode Island: For continuing Providence River and Harbor, R. I.improvement of thirty-foot channel, $500,000. Improving channel between Saint Johns River and Cumberland Saint Johns River to Cumberland Sound, Fla. and Ga.Sound, Georgia and Florida:
For completing improvement, $51,000. The Secretary of War is authorized, upon finding that the flood Muskingum River, Ohio.Relief of lessees on.conditions which prevailed in the Ohio Valley in March, nineteen hundred and thirteen, destroyed the property of any lessee from the United States of land or water power, or both, on the Muskingum River, or so damaged the same as to prevent the beneficial use of the premises so leased, upon application of the lessee, to terminate the ease as of the date of the destruction or damage of such property of the lessee, or to abate the rental for such time and in such amount as may represent the loss of the beneficial use of the premises so leased because of such flood conditions.
Any lessee who shall have paid Refund.to the United States any such rental in respect of which relief is hereby authorized shall have the amount so paid refunded by the accounting officers of the Treasury upon a finding by the Secretary of War that he is entitled to the same. The amount necessary to make all such reimbursements, not exceeding $500, is appropriated. Maps, War Department: For publication of engineer maps for use Maps.of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, $7,500.
Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For survey of northern Survey of northern and northwestern lakes.Extension of.and northwestern lakes, Lake of the Woods and other boundary and connecting waters between said lake and Lake Superior, Lake Champlain, and the natural navigable waters embraced in the navigation system of the New York canals, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, binding, and issuing charts and bulletins, and of investigating lake levels with a view to their regulation, $125,000.
California Débris Commission: For defraying the expenses of the California Debris Commission.Vol. 27, p. 507.commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, $15,000. Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injurious New York Harbor.Preventing injurious deposits in.deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, office force, and expenses of office, $10,260;
For pay of crews and maintenance of patrol fleet, six steam tugs and one launch, $75,000; For purchase and installation of a boiler on the patrol boat Scout, Boiler for “Scout.”to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War, and to be immediately available, $9,000; In all, $94,260. medical department.Medical Department. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or Artificial limbs.commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, $275,000.
Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliances Surgical appliances.to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, $1,500. 638 Trusses.[R. S., sec. 1170, p. 211](/us/rs/s1170/p211).Vol. 20, p. 353.Trusses for disabled soldiers: For trusses for persons entitled thereto under section eleven hundred and seventy-six, Revised Statutes of the United States, and the Act of Congress amendatory thereof approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, $3,500.
Providence Hospital, D.C.Destitute patients.Support and medical treatment of destitute patients: For the support and medical treatment of medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon General of the Army, $19,000, Half from District revenues.one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
Garfield Hospital, D. C.Maintenance, etc.Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it to provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, under a contract to be made with the Board of Charities of the District Half from District revenues.of Columbia, $19,000, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.
For support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: Dayton, Ohio.Current expenses.Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: Current expenses: For pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks, weighmasters, and orderlies; also payments for chaplains, religious instruction, and entertainment for the members of the home, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, janitors, watchmen, and fire company; for all property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the home; for necessary expenditures for articles of amusement, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and for repairs not done by the home; and for stationery, advertising, legal advice, *Proviso*.Effects of deceased members.for payments due heirs of deceased members: *Provided*, That all receipts on account of the effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall also be available for such payments: and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditures, $61,000;
Subsistence.Subsistence: For pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; the cost of all articles purchased for the regular ration, and the subsistence of civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the branch, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees: of tobacco; of all dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers’ tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the home, $250,000;
Household.Household: For furniture for officers’ quarters; bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and of civilian employees permanently employed and residing at the branch, and for their repair, if they are not repaired by the home; fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; engineers and firemen, bathhouse keepers, janitors, laundry employees, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and for their repairs, unless the repairs are made by the home, $110,000;
Hospital.Hospital: For pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, drivers, funeral escort, janitors, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; burial of the dead; for surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, 639fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not on the regular ration; for bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other special articles necessary for the wards; for hospital furniture, including special articles and appliances for hospital kitchen and dining room; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the home, $70,000;
Transportation: For transportation of members of the home, Transportation.$1,000; Repairs: For pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, Repairs.painters, gas fitters, electrical workers, plumbers, tinsmiths, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, whitewashers, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; also for repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent character, $57,000: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriation for repairs for *Proviso*.Restriction on new buildings.any of the branch homes shall be used for the construction of any new building;
Farm: For pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm Farm.hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers, and for all tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; for grain, hay, and straw, dressing, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; for all animals purchased for stock or for work (including animals in the park); for all materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn and park, including cemetery; and for construction of roads and walks, and for repairs not done by the home, $23,000;
In all, $572,000. Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, Milwaukee, Wis.Current expenses.including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,500; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.head for the Central Branch, $135,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this Household.head for the Central Branch, $63,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this Hospital.head for the Central Branch, $43,000;
For transportation of members of the home, $800;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs.for the Central Branch, $34,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head Farm.for the Central Branch, $9,000; In all, $330,300. Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: For current expenses, including Togus, Me.Current expenses.the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $44,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.head for the Central Branch, $110,000;
For household, including the same objects specified under this Household.head for the Central Branch, $78,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.for the Central Branch, $38,000; For transportation of members of the home, $800;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs.for the Central Branch, $35,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head Farm.for the Central Branch, $17,000;
In all, $322,800. Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, including Hampton, Va.Current expenses.the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $46,000; 640 Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $155,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $05,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $41,000;
Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $1,000; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $44,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $10,000; For sewage purification plant, $3,000; In all, $365,000. Leavenworth, Kans.Current expenses.Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $48,500;
Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $185,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head *Proviso*.Restriction on oil fuel.for the Central Branch, $95,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be used for fuel oil if it shall appear to the board of managers that coal as a fuel can be procured and used more economically; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $50,000;
Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $2,000; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $40,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $17,000; In all, $437,500. Santa Monica, Cal.Current expenses.Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $46,500; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $200,000;
Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $59,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $51,000; Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $2,500; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $54,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $12,000;
New buildings, etc.For combination dining hall and kitchen, $16,000; For repairs to hospital, $8,000; In all, $449,000. Marion, Ind.Current expenses.Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $42,000; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under the head of the Central Branch, $114,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, oil, and water, $45,000;
Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $38,000; Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $800; 641 For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs.for the Central Branch, $35,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.the Central Branch, $12,000; In all, $286,800. Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses, including Danville, Ill.Current expenses.the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $46,500;
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.head for the Central Branch, $167,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.for the Central Branch, $70,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.for the Central Branch, $43,000; For transportation of members of the home, $1,000;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs.for the Central Branch, $28,500;
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.the Central Branch, $11,000; In all, $367,000. Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: For current expenses, Johnson City, Tenn.Current expenses.including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $41,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.head for the Central Branch, $112,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.for the Central Branch, $44,000;
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.for the Central Branch, $33,000; For transportation of members of the home, $2,000;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs.for the Central Branch, $28,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.the Central Branch, $18,000; In all, $278,000. Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For current Hot Springs, S.
Dak.Current expenses.expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $24,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.head for the Central Branch, $38,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.for the Central Branch, $38,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.for the Central Branch, $35,000; For transportation of members of the home, $4,000;Transportation.
For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs.for the Central Branch, $13,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.the Central Branch, $5,000; In all, $157,000. Clothing for all branches: For clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, Clothing for all branches.boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; also all sums expended for labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed, and for use in the tailor shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, $200,000.
Board of managers: President, $4,000; secretary, $500; general Board of managers.Salaries, etc.treasurer, who shall not be a member of the board of managers, $4,500; inspector general and chief surgeon, $4,000; assistant general treasurer and assistant inspector general, $3,000; assistant inspector general, $3,000; clerical services for the offices of the president, 642general treasurer, and inspector general and chief surgeon, $15,000; clerical services for managers, $2,700; for traveling expenses of the board of managers, their officers, and employees, including officers of branch homes when detailed on inspection work, $12,000; for outside relief, $500; for rent, legal services, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, $7,000; in all, $56,200.
In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $3,821,600. *Proviso*.Intoxicants.*Provided*, That no part of the foregoing appropriations shall be expended for any purpose at any branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers that maintains or permits to be maintained on its premises a bar, canteen, or other place where beer, wine, or other intoxicating liquors are sold. State or Territorial homes.State or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors:
For continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled Vol. 25, p. 450.volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled *Provisos*.Intoxicants.Volunteer Soldiers, $1,100,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial home that Collections from inmates.maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold: *Provided further*.
That for any sum or sums collected in any manner from inmates of such State or Territorial homes to be used for the support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained. Back pay and bounty.back pay and bounty. Payment of.For payment of amounts for arrears of pay of two and three year volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal Vol. 14, p. 322.heirs, for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred Commutation of rations.and sixty-six, and for amounts for commutation or rations to prisoners of war in States of the so-called Confederacy, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $50,000.
War with Spain, etc.For payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances on account of service of officers and men of the Army during the War with Spain and in the Philippine Islands that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, $10,000. Interior Department.UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Public buildings.public buildings.
Repairs to Department buildings.Repairs of buildings, Interior Department: For repairs of Interior Department and Pension Buildings, and of the old Post Office Department Building, occupied by the Interior Department, including preservation and repair of steam-heating and electric-lighting plants and elevators, $30,000, of which sum not exceeding $7,500 may be expended for day labor, except for work done by contract. Patent Office.Special repairs.Patent Office Building: For labor and material for special repairs and improvements to the Patent Office Building, $43,090.
Pension Office.Connecting, with central plant.For labor and material, including electric cables, insulating hanger blocks, and switchboard instruments, necessary to the renewal of cables and other material required in connecting the Pension Office Building with the central heating, lighting, and power plant in the 643courtyard of the old Post Office Department Building, together with a new conduit on F Street northwest, with necessary manholes and sewer connections, authority being hereby granted to open such street for the above-mentioned purpose, $12,500.
Capitol Building: For work at Capitol and for general repairs Capitol.Repairs, etc.*Ante*, p. 492.thereof, including flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Capitol and for Senate and House Office Buildings; flagstaffs, halyards, and tackle; wages of mechanics and laborers; purchase, maintenance, and driving of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying office vehicle; and not exceeding $100 for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books and city directory, $30,000.
For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art in Works of art.the Capitol, including repairs to frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $1,500. Capitol Grounds: For the care and improvement of the grounds Improving grounds.surrounding the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, pay of one clerk, mechanics, gardeners, fertilizers, repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways, $30,000. Toward reconstructing the sewerage, drainage, and water supply Reconstructing sewerage, etc.system within the Capitol Grounds, and resurfacing the plaza and for other work adjacent thereto, $50,000.
For reconstructing the steps and approaches of the central entrance Central entrance steps, etc.to the Capitol Building, $11,000. For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house, and Repairs to stable, etc.Senate and House stables, and repairs to and paving of floors and courtyards of same, including personal services, $1,500; this and the Purchases.three foregoing sums may, in the discretion or the Secretary of the Interior, be expended for purchases of articles without reference to section four of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred Vol. 36, p. 531.and ten, concerning purchases for executive departments.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $83,500, made in Resurfacing terraces.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 44.the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for resurfacing the terraces of the Capitol with waterproofing material and all work and materials incident thereto, is reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $35,000, made in Enlarging grounds.Reappropriation for removing buildings, etc.Vol. 37, p. 924.the general deficiency appropriation Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for expenses or removal of the buildings or other structures upon the land acquired for the enlargement of the Capitol Grounds, for grading, seeding, and soiling, and preparation of plans for permanently improving the same, is reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen. public lands service.Public lands.
Registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registers Registers and receivers.of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding $3,000 per annum each, $540,000. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other Contingent expenses.incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the exchange of typewriters, $340,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be *Provisos*.Per diem.available for the payment of per diem, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $4 per day, of clerks detailed to examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in the operation of said offices, and in the opening of new land offices and reservations, while on such duty, and for actual necessary traveling expenses or said clerks, including necessary sleeping-car fares: *Provided further*, Expenditures restricted.That no expenses chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices except upon 644previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General and Office.
Depositing moneys.Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing money received from the disposal of public lands, by registered mail, bank exchange, or otherwise, as may be directed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under rules to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, $1,000. Timber depredations, protecting, and swamp-land claims.*Ante*, p. 492.Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity:
To meet the expenses of protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, including not exceeding $15,000 for clerical services in bringing up and making current the work of the General Land Office, and not exceeding $10,000 additional for expenses of hearings held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office, to determine whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law, $475,000: *Proviso*.Per diem.*Provided*, That agents and others employed under this appropriation shall be allowed per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding $3 per day each and actual necessary expenses Alaska service.for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, except when agents are employed in the District of Alaska they may be allowed not exceeding $6 per day each, in lieu of subsistence.
Oregon and California Railroad lands.Protection, etc.For the protection of lands involved in Oregon and California Railroad forfeiture suit: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, with the cooperation of the Secretary of Agriculture or otherwise, as in his judgment may be most advisable, to establish and maintain a patrol to prevent trespass and to guard against and check fires upon the lands involved in the case of the United States versus Oregon and California Railroad Company and others, suit numbered thirty-three hundred and forty, in the district court for the District of Oregon, now pending on appeal in the Circuit Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit, $25,000.
Hearings in land entries.Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearings or other proceedings held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine the character of lands; whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law; and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, $35,000. Reproducing plats of surveys.Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, to furnish local land offices with the same, and for reproducing by photolithography original plats of surveys prepared in the offices of surveyors general, $5,000.
National forests.Advertising restoration of lands, etc.Restoration of lands in forest reserves: To enable the Secretary of the Interior to meet the expenses of advertising the restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves, or of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest reserve purposes, $15,000. Opening Indian reservations to entry.Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable): To meet the expenses pertaining to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reservation lands as may be opened during the fiscal year nineteen hundred *Proviso*.Reimbursement.and fifteen: *Provided*, That the expenses pertaining to the opening of each of said reservations and paid for out of this appropriation shall be reimbursed to the United States from the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively, $15,000. 645 surveying the public lands.Surveying.
For surveys and resurveys of public lands, under the supervision Expenses.*Ante*, p. 492.of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $700,000: *Provided*, That in expending this *Provisos*.Preferences.appropriation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied in whole or in part by actual settlers and of lands granted to the States by the Act approved February twenty-second, Vol. 25, p. 616.Vol. 26, pp. 216, 222.eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and to surveying under such other Acts as provide for land grants to the several States and Territories, and such indemnity lands as the several States and Territories may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, except railroad land grants, and other surveys shall include lands adapted to agriculture and lands deemed advisable to survey on account of availability for irrigation or dry farming, lines of reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations.
The surveys and resurveys Compensation to surveyors.provided for in this appropriation to be made by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, at such compensation, not exceeding $200 per month each, as he may prescribe except that the Secretary of the Interior may appoint not to exceed two supervisors of surveys, whose compensation shall not Supervisors of surveys.exceed $250 per month each, and except in the District of Alaska, where a compensation not exceeding $10 per day may be allowed such surveyors and such per diem allowance, in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $3, as he may prescribe, and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, said per diem and traveling expenses to be allowed to all surveyors employed Clerks, etc., Inspecting.hereunder and to such clerks who are competent surveyors who may be detailed to make surveys, resurveys, or examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be detective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for Mineral, coal, and timber lands.making, by such competent surveyors, fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States: *Provided further*, That the sum of not exceeding Monuments for section comers.ten per centum of the amount hereby appropriated may be expended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal or other equally durable monuments to be used for public-land survey comers wherever practicable: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $25,000 Work in arrears.of the above amount may be used to bring up the arrears of office work in Surveyor Generals’ offices upon returns of surveys filed therein prior to the passage of this Act.
Abandoned reservations: For necessary expenses of survey, Abandoned military reservations.appraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, Vol. 23, p. 103.and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the rum of Casa Casa Grande.Grande, $10,000. united states geological survey.Geological Survey. Office of Director:
Director, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chief disbursing Salaries.Director, etc.clerk, $2,500; librarian, $2,000; photographer, $2 000; assistant photographers—one $900, one $720; clerks—one or class two, three of class one, one $1,000, four at $900 each; four copyists, at $720 each; watchmen—one $840, four at $720 each; janitor, $600; four messenger boys, at $480 each; in all, $35,340; 646 Scientific assistants.Scientific assistants: Geologists—two at $4,000 each, one $3,000, one $2,700; two paleontologists, at $2,000 each; chemist, $3,000; geographers—one $2,700, one $2,500; two topographers, at $2,000 each; in all, $29,900;
General expenses.*Ante*, p. 492.General expenses: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Geological Survey, including the purchase Motor vehicles.for field use only of not exceeding four motor-propelled vehicles at a total cost not exceeding $2,800, and not exceeding sixteen horse-drawn vehicles at a total cost not exceeding $2,400, and personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, to be expended under the regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under the following heads:
Skilled laborers.For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, $20,000; Topographic surveys.For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, $350,000; Geologic surveys.For geologic surveys in the various portions of the United States, $400,000; Chemical and physical researches.For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the United States, including researches with a view of determining geological conditions favorable to the presence of deposits of potash salts, $40,000;
Illustrations.For preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, $18,280; Mineral resources report.For preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the United States, $75,000; Water supply.For gauging streams and determining the water supply of the United States, the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, $150,000; Library.For purchase of necessary books for the library, including directories and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, including payment in advance for subscriptions to publications, $2,000;
Maps.For engraving and printing geologic maps, $110,000; National forests surveys.For continuation of topographic surveys of the public lands that have been or may hereafter be designated as national forests, $75,000; In all, United States Geological Survey, $1,305,520. Bureau of Mines.bureau of mines. General expenses, salaries, etc.*Ante*, p. 492.For general expenses, including pay of the director and necessary assistants, clerks, and other employees in the office at Washington, District of Columbia, and in the field, and every other expense requisite for and incident to the general work of the bureau in Washington, District of Columbia, and in the field, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $70,000;
Investigating mine explosions, etc.For investigation as to the causes of mine explosions, methods of mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, the appliances best adapted to prevent accidents, the possible improvement of conditions under which mining operations are carried on, the use of explosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents, and other inquiries and technologic investigations pertinent to the mining industry, $347,000; Mine-rescue equipment, etc.For purchase of mine-rescue, first-aid, and fire-fighting equipment and supplies for use in the operation of mine-rescue cars and stations, $30,000;
Testing plant equipment.For purchase of steam and electric equipment for supplying light and power to the testing plant of the Bureau of Mines at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, $10,000. 647 For investigation of mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products Testing fuels, etc.belonging to or for the use of the United States, with a view to their most efficient mining, preparation, treatment, and use, including personal services in the bureau at Washington, District of Columbia, not in excess of the number and total compensation of those so employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $135,000;
For inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning Inquiries of economic conditions, etc.the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances, with a view to improving health conditions and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries: *Provided*, That no *Proviso*.Restrictions.part thereof may be used for investigation in behalf of any private party, nor shall any part thereof be used for work authorized or required by law to be done by any other branch of the public service, $100,000.
Not exceeding twenty per centum of the foregoing sum and not Amount for personal services.exceeding ten per centum of the sum for investigation as to causes of mine explosions may be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen for personal services in the District of Columbia; and for Estimates in detail required hereafter.the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, and annually thereafter estimates shall be submitted specifically for all personal services required permanently and entirely in the Bureau of Mines at Washington, District of Columbia, and previously paid from lump sum or general appropriations.
For inquiries and investigations concerning the mining, preparation, Petroleum and natural gas Investigations, etc.treatment, and utilization of petroleum and natural gas, with a view to economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting the industry, $25,000; For one mine inspector for duty in Alaska, $3,000; Mine inspector, Alaska. For per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary Per diem.of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence at a rate not exceeding $5 per day when absent on official business from his designated headquarters, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said inspector, $2,500;
For technical and scientific books and publications and books of Books, etc.reference, including payment in advance for subscriptions to publications, $1,500; For purchase or lease of the necessary land, where and under such Headquarters for mine-rescue cars.conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, for the headquarters of five mine rescue cars and for the construction of the necessary railway sidings on the same, $1,000: *Provided*, That the *Proviso*.Acceptance of lands.Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept any suitable land or lands that may be donated for said purpose;
In all, for the Bureau of Mines, $725,000. Persons employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and Temporary details of field employees.fifteen in field work, outside of the District of Columbia, under the Bureau of Mines, may be detailed temporarily for service at Washington, District of Columbia, for purposes only of consultation or in connection with the preparation of results of their field work; all persons Traveling expenses.so detailed shall be paid in addition to their regular compensation only their actual traveling expenses in going to and returning therefrom; and all details made hereunder, and the purposes of each, during Report of details.the fiscal year shall be reported, in the annual estimates of appropriations, to the Sixty-fourth Congress at its first regular session. 648 Miscellaneous.testimony in disbarment proceedings.
Disbarment proceedings.For actual and necessary expenses to enable the Secretary of the Interior to take testimony, and prepare the same, in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the department, its bureaus and offices, $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Alaska expenses.alaska, expenses in. Care of insane.Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, $70,000.
Education.Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; for erection, repair, and rental of school buildings; textbooks and industrial apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of general agent, assistant agent, superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, $200,000; so much of which sum as may be necessary for the purchase of supplies *Provisos*.Limit of pay, etc.shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That no person employed hereunder as special agent or inspector, or to perform any special or unusual duty in connection herewith, shall receive as compensation exceeding $200 per month, in addition to actual traveling expenses and per diem not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence, when absent on duty from his designated and actual post of duty: *Provided*, That of Services in District of Columbia.said sum not exceeding $7,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Supervision of school expenditures.All expenditures of money appropriated herein for school purposes in Alaska for schools other than those for the education of white children under the jurisdiction of the governor thereof shall be under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Education and in conformity with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to conduct and methods of instruction and expenditure of money as may from time to time be recommended by him and approved by the Secretary of the Interior.
Reindeer.Reindeer for Alaska: For support of reindeer stations in Alaska, and for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of the reindeer, $5,000. Protection of game.Vol. 35, p. 102.Protection of game in Alaska: For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act for the protection of game in Alaska, and for other purposes,” including salaries, traveling expenses of game wardens, and all other necessary expenses, $20,000, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska.
Suppressing traffic.Traffic in intoxicating liquors: For suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors among the natives of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $15,000. National parks.national parks. Yellowstone.Yellowstone National Park: For administration and protection, $5,500. Care of buffalo.For procuring feed for buffalo, salaries of buffalo keepers, $3,000. Glacier.For the administration and improvement of Glacier National Park, Montana, the construction of roads, trails, bridges, and telephone lines Road.and the repair thereof, including the construction of a road together with the necessary bridges and culverts, from the old town of Saint Mary, thence in a general northerly and westerly direction through 649that part of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation east of lower Saint Mary Lake to a point in or near section thirty-five, township thirty-six north, range fifteen west, on the boundary fine between the Glacier National Park and the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, $75,000.
The Acceptance of lands, etc.Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to accept patented lands or rights of way over patented lands in the Glacier National Park that may be donated for park purposes (Acts May eleventh, Vol. 36, p. 354.nineteen hundred and ten, volume thirty-six, page three hundred and fifty-four, sections one, two; June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and *Ante*, p. 49.thirteen, volume thirty-eight, page forty-nine, section seventeen). Yosemite National Park, California:
For protection and improvement, Yosemite.construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads other than toll roads, $100,000. Sequoia National Park, California: For protection and improvement, Sequois.construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads other than toll roads, including the purchase of necessary land where and under such conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, for ranger station at a cost not exceeding $500; and the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to Acceptance of lands, etc.accept patented lands or rights of way whether over patented or other lands in the Sequoia National Park that may be donated for park purposes, $15,550.
General Grant National Park, California: For protection and Genera] Grant.improvement, construction of fences and trails, and repairing and extension of roads, $2,000. Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For protection and Mount Rainier.improvement, construction of roads, bridges, fences, and trails, and improvements of roads, $51,000. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For protection and improvement, Mesa Verde.$10,000. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For protection and improvement, Crater Lake.and repairing and extension of roads, $8,040.
Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For improvement and Wind Cave.protection, $2,500. Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For maintenance, bridging, roads, Platt.and trails, $8,000. government hospital for the insane.Government Hospital for Insane. For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital Maintenance, etc.for the Insane of the insane from the Army and Navy, Marine Corps, Revenue-Cutter Service, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the United States who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary horses and vehicles and of horses and vehicles for official use of the superintendent, $284,943; and not exceeding $1,500 of this sum may be expended in defraying the expense of the removal of patients to their friends; not exceeding $1,000 may be expended in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital and for the medical library, and not exceeding $1,500 for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients.
Authority is granted to sell or exchange condemned typewriting Disposal of condemned equipment, etc.machines, laundry machinery, and other equipment, applying the proceeds therefrom to replacing new equipment for the Government Hospital for the Insane. For the buildings and grounds, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, $55,000.Buildings and grounds. For roadways, grading, and walks, $5,000. 650 Barns and piggeries.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 50.Barns and piggeries:
The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $25,000 made by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for erecting new barns and piggeries, is reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen. Criminal insane.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 50.For provision for criminal insane: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $30,454 made by the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for erecting wall around the building containing the criminal insane and for other purposes, is reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.
Power plant, etc.Reappropriation.Vol. 36, p. 1422.The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $60,000 made by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, for completing the power, heating, and lighting plant, remodeling the electric layout, substituting electrically driven or steam driven machinery, and for other purposes incident thereto, payable from money in the Treasury which has accrued to the Government Use of pension fund.Vol. 33, p. 731.Hospital for the Insane from pensions under the Act of February twentieth, nineteen hundred and five, is reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.
Columbia Institution for the Deaf.columbia institution for the deaf. Support, etc.For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, $70,000. For repairs to buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, $6,000. Special repairs, etc.For special repairs and improvements, lighting, heating, and power system, $21,000.
Howard University.howard university. Maintenance, etc.For maintenance of Howard University, to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, and for ice and stationery, the balance of which shall be paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than $1,500 shall be used for normal instruction, $65,000; For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the department of manual arts, $12,000;
For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures for the libraries, $1,500; For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, to be immediately available, $10,000; Medical department.Medical department: To meet in part cost of needed equipment, laboratory supplies, and apparatus, and repair of laboratories and buildings, $7,000; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, and natural-history studies, and use in laboratories of the new science hall, including cases and shelving, $2,000;
Fuel and light.For fuel and light: In part payment for fuel and light, Freedmen’s Hospital and Howard University, including necessary labor to care for and operate the same, $3,500; In all, $101,000. 651 freedmen’s hospital.Freedmen’s Hospital For salaries and compensation of the surgeon in chief, not to Salaries, etc.exceed $3,000, and for all other professional and other services that may be required and expressly approved by the Secretary of the Interior; in all, $32,640. A detailed statement of the expenditure of this sum shall be submitted to Congress;
For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine, *Ante*, p. 492.medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, motor-propelled ambulance, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $28,000; For painting, special repairs, and improvements to the hospital building and grounds, $6,000; In all, $66,640. To reimburse the United States the amount due on account of Reimbursement from District revenues for excess indigent patients.one-half of the per capita cost of maintenance of indigent patients in Freedmen’s Hospital from the District of Columbia in excess of the number charged to and paid for by said District during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and six to nineteen hundred and thirteen, inclusive, there shall be transferred from the revenues of the District of Columbia to the United States, beginning with the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, the sum of $37,996.70, which amounts so transferred shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts.
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. public buildings.Public buildings. Courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia: For construction Courthouse, D. C.work at the courthouse and repairs thereof, as per estimate of the Superintendent of the Capitol, one-half to be paid out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District Half from District revenues.of Columbia, $5,000. Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: For continuing construction, Leavenworth, Kans.Penitentiary.$100,000, to remain available until expended, all of which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary.
Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia: For continuing construction, Atlanta, Ga.Penitentiary.$75,000, to remain available until expended, all of which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary. No part of any money appropriated in this Act under the Department New buildings forbidden.of Justice shall be used for beginning the construction of any new or additional building at any Federal penitentiary. National Training School for Boys:
For completion of the central National Training School for Boys.school building with gymnasium and baths, $20,000. miscellaneous objects, department of justice.Miscellaneous. Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General, $8,000; Conduct of Customs cases.Assistant Attorney General, attorneys, etc.assistant attorneys—one $4,500, one $3,000; special attorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs cases, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General, as authorized by section thirty of the Act of August fifth, nineteen hundred and Vol. 36, p. 108.nine, $35,000; necessary clerical assistance and other employees at the seat of government and elsewhere, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General; supplies, printing, Supplies, etc.traveling, and other miscellaneous and incidental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $27,000; in all, $77,500. 652 Witnesses, Board of General Appraisers.For traveling expenses, fees, and mileage allowance of witnesses before the Board of United States General Appraisers, 33,000.
Defending suits in claims.Defending suits in claims against the United States: For defraying the necessary expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and such other expenditures as may be necessary in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including defense for the United States French spoliation claims.in the matter of French spoliation claims, not exceeding $500 of which may be expended for law books, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $17,000.
Detection and prosecution of crimes.Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States; the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks, and referees of the United States courts and the Territorial courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time;
Protecting the President.for the protection of the person of the President of the United States; for such other investigations regarding official matters under the control of the Department of Justice as may be directed by the Attorney General, including not to exceed $18,500 for necessary employees at the seat of government, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $485,000. Inspection of prisons, etc.Inspection of prisons and prisoners and parole: For the inspection of United States prisons and prisoners, and for the collection, classification, and preservation of criminal identification records, and their exchange with the officials of State and other institutions, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $10,000.
Defense in Indian depredation claims.Defense in Indian depredation claims; For salaries and expenses in defense of the Indian depredation claims, including not exceeding $6,000 for salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $19,000. Traveling, etc., expenses.Advances permitted.Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, including advances made by the disbursing clerk, authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of the first paragraph [R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).of section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, $7,500. Enforcing antitrust laws.Enforcement of antitrust laws: For the enforcement of antitrust laws, including not exceeding $15,000 for salaries of necessary employees *Provisos*.Use for prosecuting labor organizations, etc., forbidden.at the seat of government, $300,000: *Provided, however*, That no part of this money shall be spent in the prosecution of any organization or individual for entering into any combination or agreement having in view the increasing of wages, shortening of hours or bettering the conditions of labor, or for any act done in furtherance thereof, Organizations of farmers, etc.not in itself unlawful: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the prosecution of producers of farm products and associations of farmers who cooperate and organize in an effort to and for the purpose to obtain and maintain a fair and reasonable price for their products.
Conveyances, Five Civilized Tribes.Expenses of suits to set aside allotments.Suits to set aside conveyances of allotted lands, Five Civilized Tribes: For the payment of necessary expenses incident to any suits brought at the request of the Secretary of the Interior in the eastern judicial district of Oklahoma, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, the unexpended balance of the appropriations heretofore made for this purpose is reappropriated and continued available for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen. 653 Enforcement of Acts to regulate commerce:
For expenses of representing Enforcing interstate commerce laws.Vol. 24, p. 379; Vol. 36, p. 539; Vol. 37, p. 701.the Government in all matters arising under the Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended, including traveling expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, including salaries of employees at Washington, $15,000. Suits affecting title to Seminole allotted lands in Oklahoma:
For Seminole allotments, Okla.Expenses of suits affecting.the payment of necessary expense incident to any suits brought, including the salaries of attorneys specially employed to set aside illegal conveyances of Seminole allotments, to protect the possession of Seminole allottees in their allotted lands, or in the prosecution of any criminal proceedings based on frauds perpetrated upon Seminole allottees with respect to their allotted lands, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $15,000.
Federal Court Reports and Digests: For one hundred and eighty Federal Court Reports and Digests.copies of continuations of the Federal Reporter, as issued, estimated at ten volumes per year, to continue sets now furnished various officials, at $2 per volume, 33,600. For fifteen copies of volume fifty-eight of the Lawyers’ Cooperative Lawyers’ Cooperative Edition.Volume 58.Edition of the United States Reports, to continue sets now in the hands of certain officers, at $6 per volume, $90.
For two hundred and seventy copies of each of four volumes—Supreme Court Reports.Purchase of.namely, two hundred and thirty-two to two hundred and thirty-five of the United States Reports—to continue the sets now in the hands of certain officials, at $1.75 per volume, $1,890. Protecting interests of the United States in suits affecting Pacific Pacific railroads suits.Expenses.railroads: To enable the Attorney General to represent and protect the interests of the United States in matters and suits affecting the Pacific railroads, and for expenses in connection therewith, $75,000.
JUDICIAL.Judicial. united states courts.United States courts. For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals Marshals.Salaries, etc.and their deputies, including the office expenses of United States marshals in the District of Alaska, 31,530,000, to include payment for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, and including services in Alaska and Oklahoma in collecting evidence for the United States when so specially directed by the Attorney General.
Advances to United States marshals, in accordance with Advances.existing law, may be made from the proper appropriations, as herein provided, immediately upon the passage of this Act; but no disbursements Restriction.shall be made prior to July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, by said disbursing officers from the funds thus advanced, and no disbursements shall be made therefrom to liquidate expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen or prior years. From and after October first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, it Salaries of judicial officers.Salaries of judicial officers.Marshals to pay, after October 1, 1914.shall be the duty of the United States marshals to pay, under regulations prescribed by the Attorney General, the salaries of all judges of the United States courts, except the justices, of the Supreme Exceptions.Court of the United States, the salaries of judges retired under section seven hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes, and the judges, officials and employees of all courts whose sessions are held in the District of Columbia, whose salaries shall be paid through the disbursing officer of the Department of Justice as hitherto provided, United States district attorneys, their regular assistants, clerks, and messengers, and United States marshals and their deputies: *Provided*, *Proviso*.New bond required.That every United States marshal operating under a bond executed prior to the passage of this Act shall give bond effective thereafter for the faithful performance of the duties of his office, including the payment of the salaries above mentioned. 654 District attorneys.Salaries and expenses.For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, *Proviso*.Services during vacancies.$615,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of the salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney.
District of Columbia.Fees, district attorney.For fees of United States district attorney for the District of Columbia, $28,940. Regular assistants.For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys who are appointed by the Attorney General at a fixed annual compensation, $350,000. Assistants in special cases.For payment of assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, $220,000.
This appropriation shall be available Foreign counsel.also for the payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General in special cases, and such counsel shall not be required to Oath.[R. S., sec. 366, p. 62](/us/rs/s366/p62).take oath of office in accordance with section three hundred and sixty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States. Clerks’ fees.For fees of clerks, $250,000. Oregon, Montana, and Washington.Oregon, Montana, and Washington.Double fees to clerks and marshals, abolished January 1, 1915.[R.
S., secs. 828, 829, p. 155](/us/rs/s828/829/p155).[R. S., sec. 840, p. 159, amended](/us/rs/s840/p159).Vol. 33, p. 824.All Acts and parts of Acts authorizing the clerks of the United States district courts in and for the States of Oregon, Montana, and Washington, respectively, to charge and collect double the fees provided in section eight hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes of the United States, and all Acts authorizing United States marshals in and for said States, respectively, to receive and collect double the fees provided by section eight hundred and twenty-nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States, are hereby repealed, to take effect from and after January first, nineteen hundred and *Provisos*.Pay allowed clerks.fifteen: *Provided*, That no clerk of the United States district courts in and for said States shall be allowed by the Attorney General to retain of the fees and emoluments of his office, for his personal compensation, over and above his necessary office expenses, including the necessary clerk hire, to be audited and allowed by the proper accounting officers of the Treasury, a sum exceeding $3,500 per year, Other States not affected.to take effect from and after January first, nineteen hundred and fifteen: *Provided further*, That nothing herein shall operate to reduce the fees that the clerks of the United States district courts and United States marshals in any States other than those mentioned herein have heretofore been authorized to charge and collect.
Commissioners’, etc., fees.[R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189).For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section one thousand and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, $120,000. Jurors’ fees.For fees of jurors, $1,125,000. Witnesses’ fees, etc.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160).Fees of witnesses, United States courts: For fees of witnesses and for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, $1,100,000.
Rent of courtrooms.For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, $64,000. Bailiffs, etc.For pay of bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York and *Provisos*.Actual attendance.[R. S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/s715/p136).the northern district of Illinois: *Provided*, That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts: *Provided further*, That no such persons shall be Travel, etc., expenses of judges.Vol. 36, p. 1161.employed during vacation; for the payment of the expenses of circuit and district judges of the United States and the judges of the district courts of the United States in Alaska and Hawaii, as provided by section two hundred and fifty-nine of the Act approved March third, 655nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and Jury expenses.amend the laws relating to the judiciary:” of meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court, and of meals and lodging for jurors In Alaska.Vol. 31, p. 363.in Alaska, as provided by section one hundred and ninety-three, Title II, of the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred; and of compensation Jury commissioners.for jury commissioners, $5 per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, $275,000.
For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized Miscellaneous expenses.by the Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, $550,000: *Provided*, That in so far as it may be deemed *Proviso*.Alaska.necessary by the Attorney General, this appropriation shall be available for such expenses in the District of Alaska. For supplies, including exchange of typewriting and adding Supplies.machines for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $35,000.
For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing Support of prisoners, etc.and medical aid, discharge gratuities provided by law and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States or such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General, for support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, and who continue insane after expiration of sentence who have no friends to whom they can be sent; for expenses of shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their friends or relatives in the United States and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners whose remains are unclaimed; for expenses of care and treatment of guards employed by the United States who may be injured by prisoners while said guards are endeavoring to prevent escape or suppress mutiny; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and for rewards for their recapture, and not exceeding $2,500 for repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, $500,000.
For the support of the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Penitentiaries.Leavenworth, Kans.Kansas, as follows: For subsistence, including supplies from the prison stores for warden, Subsistence.deputy warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining-room furniture and utensils, seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, $60,000; For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including materials Clothing, transportation, etc.for making clothing at the penitentiary; gratuities for prisoners at release, provided such gratuities shall be furnished to prisoners sentenced for terms of imprisonment of not less than six months, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, or to such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; for expenses of shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their homes in the United States; for expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on official duty; for expenses incurred in pursuing and identifying escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, $25,000.
For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney Miscellaneous.General, for fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, purchase of fuel for generating steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and lime; forage for issue to public animals, and hay and straw for bedding; blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; for labor and materials, for repaying steam-heating plant, electric plant and water circulation, and drainage; for labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings; for general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm 656and in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds; for the purchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; for payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; for advertising in newspapers; for fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental conditions of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; for pay of extra guards or employees when deemed necessary by the Attorney General, and for expense of care and medical treatment of guards or employees who may be injured while endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppress mutiny, $50,000;
Hospital supplies.For hospital supplies, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, and all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners on the penitentiary reservation, $3,000; Salaries.For salaries: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains—one $1,500, one $600; physician, $1,600; pharmacist and physician’s assistant, $1,000; chief clerk, $1,800; bookkeeper and record clerk, $1,200; stenographer, $900; four clerks, at S900 each; head cook, $1,000; steward and storekeeper, $1,200; superintendent of farm and transportation, $900; three captains of watch, at $1,000 each; guards, at $70 per month each, $52,080; two teamsters, at $600 each; engineer and electrician, $1,500; two assistants, at $1,200 each; in all, $81.480:
For foremen, laundrymen, tailor, and printer, when necessary, $3,300; In all, for penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $222,780. Atlanta, Ga.For support of the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, as follows: Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, $37,500; Clothing, transportation, etc.For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, $17,500;
Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the Attorney General, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, $40,000; Hospital supplies.For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, $2,100; Salaries.For salaries: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains—one $1,500, one $1,200; chief clerk, $1,800; physician, $1,600; bookkeeper and record clerk, $1,200; stenographer, $900; six clerks, at $900 each; telephone operator, $480; engineer and electrician, $1,500; two assistants, at 81,200 each; steward and storekeeper, $1,200; superintendent of farm and transportation, $1,200; two teamsters, at $600 each; head cook, $1,000; three captains of watch, at $1,000 each; guards, at $70 per month each, $43,000; in all, $74,580.
For foremen, tailor, blacksmith, shoemaker, laundryman, and carpenter, when necessary, $4,000; In all, for penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, $175,680. McNeil Island, Wash.For support of the United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Subsistence.Washington, as follows: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitientiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, and for supplies for guards, $13,000; Clothing, transportation, etc.For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, $7,000; 657 For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects Miscellaneous.specified under this head for the United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, $10,000.
For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under Hospital supplies.this head for the United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, $1,000. For salaries: For warden, $2,000; deputy warden, $1,200; physician, Salaries.$1,200; chief clerk and bookkeeper, $1,000; steward and cook, $1,000, superintendent of boats, $1,200; guards, at $70 per month each, $10,500; in all, $18,100. In all, for penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, $49,100. For support of the National Training School for Boys, District of National Training School for Boys, D.
C.Salaries.Columbia: Superintendent, $2,500; assistant superintendent, $1,500; teachers and assistant teachers, $9,120; chief clerk, $1,000; storekeeper and steward, $600; matron of school, $600; parole officer, $900; office clerk, $720; assistant office clerk, $480; six matrons of families, at $240 each; foremen of, and skilled. helpers in industries, $3,800; farmer, $600; assistant farmer, $420; teamster, $360; florist and engineer, at $540 each; shoemaker, $540; baker, $600; tailor, $600; cook, $480: assistant engineer, $420; laundress, $360; dining-room attendant, boys’, $300; dining-room attendant, officers’, $240; housemaid, $216; seamstress, $240; assistant cook, $300; nurse, $600; watchmen, not to exceed eight in number, $3,360; secretary and treasurer, $900; in all, $34,276.
For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dry Maintenance, etc.goods, leather, shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, furniture, tableware, farm implements, seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books and periodicals, printing, and entertainments, stationery, plumbing, painting, glazing, medicines and medical attendance, stock, vehicles, fencing, repairs to buildings, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding $1,500, for additional labor or services, for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates, and for rewards for their recapture, and not exceeding $500 for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, $10,500.
For extraordinary repairs to buildings, fences, and roadways, and Repairs, etc.for purchase of equipment, $3,050; New equipment: For purchase and installation of a two-hundred-horsepower water-tube boiler, $3,000; In all, for National Training School for Boys, $50,826. On and after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, the Per capita cost of Inmates rated.per capita cost of persons committed from the District of Columbia and maintained in the National Training School for Boys shall be fixed at a rate not less than $4.50 per week for each person.
UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Department of Commerce. lighthouses, beacons, fog signals, light vessels, and other works under the lighthouse service.Lighthouse Service. Staten Island, New York, Lighthouse Depot: To erect a carpenter Staten Island depot, N. Y.shop at the general lighthouse depot, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, $23,000. Kauai Island Light Station, Hawaii: For completing the establishment Kauai Island, Hawaii, station.of a light and fog-signal station at some point on the northerly or westerly coast of Kauai Island, Hawaii, $3,000.
Alaska, aids to navigation: For the establishment of aids to Alaska.Aids to navigation.navigation and improvement of existing aids in Alaska, $60,000. For changing existing lights and providing additional lights for Cape Cod Canal.Lights at entrances.the aid of navigation at eastern and western entrances to the Cape Cod Canal, $50,000. 658 lighthouse service. General expenses.General expenses: For supplies, repairs, maintenance, and incidental expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoyage, fog signals, lighting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted, light vessels, other aids to navigation, and lighthouse tenders, including the establishment, repair, and improvement of beacons and day marks and purchase of land for same, the establishment of post lights, buoys, submarine signals, and fog signals, the establishment *Proviso*.Limit for carbide and oil houses.of oil or carbide houses, not to exceed $10,000: *Provided*, That no oil or carbide house erected hereunder shall exceed $550 in cost; construction of necessary outbuildings at a cost not exceeding $200 at any one light station in any fiscal year, the improvements of grounds and buildings connected with light stations and depots, wages of laborers attending post lights, pay of temporary employees and field force while engaged on works of general repair and maintenance, and pay of laborers and mechanics at lighthouse depots;
Rations, etc.rations and provisions or commutation thereof for keepers of lighthouses, officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials and other authorized persons of the Lighthouse Service on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, and money accruing from commutation for rations and provisions for the above-named persons on board of tenders and light vessels may be paid on proper vouchers to the person having charge of the mess of such vessels, reimbursement under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce of keepers of light stations and masters of light vessels and of lighthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothing furnished shipwrecked persons who may be temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all $5,000 in any fiscal year, fuel and rent of quarters where necessary Purchase of land, etc.for keepers of lighthouses, the purchase of land sites for fog signals, the rent of necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or to mark changeable channels and which in consequence can not be made permanent, the rent of offices, Contingent expenses.depots, and wharves, traveling expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce not to exceed $4 per day, and mileage, library books for fight stations *Ante*, p. 504.and vessels, and technical books and periodicals not exceeding $1,000, and for all other contingent expenses of district offices and depots and for contingent expenses of the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses in Washington, $2,775,000.
Keepers.Keepers of lighthouses: For salaries of not exceeding one thousand eight hundred lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights exclusive of post lights, $940,000. Lighthouse vessels.Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crews of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $997,600, Inspectors, clerks, etc.Inspectors, clerks, and so forth: For salaries of seventeen lighthouse inspectors, and of clerks and other authorized permanent employees in the district offices and depots of the Lighthouse Service, exclusive of those regularly employed in the Bureau of Lighthouses, Washington, District of Columbia, $375,000.
Leaves of absence.Hereafter employees of the Lighthouse Service, who are not now entitled to leave of absence with pay and who have served twelve consecutive months, shall be given fifteen days’ leave of absence with *Provisos*.Pro rata leave.pay each year: *Provided*, That pro rata leave shall be allowed those serving fractional parts of a year: *Provided further*, That heads of Discretion in granting.divisions shall have discretion as to the time when the leave shall be granted. 659 coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey.
For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Expenses.Coast and Geodetic Survey, and including compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, and commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate not exceeding $2.50 per day each, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, and under the following heads: *Provided*, That advances of money under this appropriation *Proviso*.Advances.may be made to the Coast and Geodetic Survey and by authority of the superintendent thereof to chiefs of parties, who shall give bond under such rules and regulations and in such sum as the Secretary of Commerce may direct, and accounts arising under such advances shall be rendered through and by the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the Treasury Department as under advances heretofore made to chiefs of parties.
Field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic Field expenses.Atlantic and Gulf coasts.*Proviso*.Islands, etc., restriction.and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States: *Provided*, That not more than $25,000 of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of said outlying islands, and the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal, $65,000; For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts on the Pacific Ocean Pacific coasts.under the jurisdiction of the United States, $165,000;
For continuing researches in physical hydrography, relating to Physical hydrography.harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, $6,400; For offshore soundings and examination of reported dangers on the Offshore soundings, Coast Pilot, etc.coasts of the United States, and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations, and including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, $15,000;
For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian Magnetic observations, etc.lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States, and for making magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the purchase of additional magnetic instruments, and the lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic buildings: for continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; for furnishing Points to State surveys.points to State surveys, to be applied as far as practicable in States where pointe have not been furnished; for determinations of geographical positions, for continuing gravity observations, and for determining trans-Atlantic longitude, including instrumental equipment, $56,000;
For any special surveys that may be required by the Bureau of Special surveys.Lighthouses or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, $10,000; For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, Miscellaneous.including the preparation or purchase of preliminary plans and specifications of vessels; actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the superintendent, $3,000.
In all, for field expenses, $320,400. Vessels: For repairs and maintenance of the complement of Vessels.Repairs, etc.vessels, including traveling expenses of the person inspecting the repairs, but excluding engineer’s supplies and other ship chandlery, $40,000. 660 Pay of officers, etc.For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels, including professional seamen serving as mates on vessels of the survey, to execute the work of the survey herein provided for and authorized by law, $252,200.
Salaries.Superintendent, assistants, etc.Salaries: Superintendent, $6,000; assistants, to be employed in the field or office, as the superintendent may direct, one of whom may be designated by the Secretary of Commerce to act as assistant superintendent—two at $4,000 each, one $3,200, five at $3,000 each, five at $2,500 each, one $2,400, eight at $2,200 each, eight at $2,000 each, eight at $1,800 each, eight at $1,600 each, eight at $1,400 each, ten at $1,200 each; aids—six at $1,100 each, eighteen at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; in all, $160,200.
Office force.Clerks, etc.Office force: Disbursing agent, $2,500; chief of division of library and archives, $1,800; clerks—three at $1,800 each, three at $1,650 each, four at $1,400 each, eight at $1,200 each, five at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each, six at $720 each; Draftsmen.Topographic and hydrographic draftsmen: Two at $2,400 each, three at $2,200 each, three at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each;
Computers.Astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers: One $2,500, one $2,200, two at $2,100 each, three at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, four at $1,400 each, five at $1,200 each; Engravers, etc.Copperplate engravers: One $2,400, two at $2,200 each, three at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, one $1,200 (one transferred as lithographer), two at $1,000 each; Engravers and apprentices at not exceeding $1,000 each, $3,600;
Instrument makers, etc.Instrument makers: One $2,400, one $1,600, two at $1,400 each, one $1,200, three at $1,000 each; Carpenters: Three at $1,200 each, carpenter and painter $900; Electrotypers, etc.Electrotypers and photographers, lithographers, plate printers and their helpers, engineer, and other skilled laborers: One $2,000, one $1,800 (in lieu of position now paid from “General expenses”), one $1,700 (in lieu of position now paid from “General expenses”), one $1,600, one $1,400, eight at $1,200 each (including one transferred from copperplate engravers), two at $1,000 each, two at $900 each, five at $700 each;
Watchmen, etc.Watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers: Three at $880 each, four at $820 each, three at $720 each, four at $700 each, two at $640 each, three at $630 each, four at $550 each; In all, pay of office force, $204,420. Office expenses.*Ante*, p. 504.Office expenses: For purchase of new instruments, including their exchange, materials and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and books, scientific and technical books and journals and books of reference, maps, charts, and subscriptions; copperplates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use, stationery for office and field parties, transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses, office wagon and horses, heating, lighting, and power, telephones, including operation of switchboard, telegrams, ice, and washing, office furniture, repairs, traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, and not exceeding for extra labor, $3,400; in all, $50,000. 661 The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to transfer to the Smithsonian Transfer of discarded instruments.Institution such instruments of the Coast and Geodetic Survey as in his judgment are of historic value but of no further use in the survey’s work.
Rebuilding lithographic and aluminum printing rooms, Coast and Rebuilding printing rooms.Geodetic Survey: For rebuilding and extending the present lithographic building, $7,500. One-story building, Coast and Geodetic Survey: For the erection New building.of a one-story building, between the Butler and Richards Buildings, $5,000. That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast and Allowances restricted.Geodetic Survey shall be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the superintendent), except as now provided by law. bureau of fisheries.Bureau of Fisheries.
Commissioner’s office: Commissioner, $6,000; deputy commissioner, Commissioner, deputy, etc.$3,500; assistants in charge of divisions—fish culture $2,700, inquiry respecting food fishes $2,700, statistics and methods of fisheries $2,500; assistants—one in charge of office $2,500, one $2,500, one $1,800 (transferred from Alaska service), one $1,600, two at $1,200 each, two at $900 each; architect and engineer, $2,200; assistant architect, $1,600; draftsman, $1,200; accountant, $2,100; librarian, $1,500: superintendent of car and messenger service, $1,600; clerks—three of class four, four of class three, one to commissionerClerks, etc. $1,600, four of class two (one transferred from Alaska service), five of class one (one transferred from Alaska service), three at $1,000 each, fifteen at $900 each (one transferred from Alaska service); statistical agents—one $1,400, two at $1,000 each; local agents—one at Boston $300, one at Gloucester $600, one at Seattle $600; engineer, $1,080; three firemen at $720 each; two watchmen at $720 each; five janitors and messengers at $720 each; janitress, $480; messenger boy, $360; four charwomen at $240 each; in all, $96,680.
Alaska Service: Pribilof Islands—two agents and caretakers at Alaska service.Agents, physician, etc.$2,000 each, janitor service $480, two physicians at $1,500 each, three school teachers at $1,200 each (one formerly paid from the appropriation “Protecting sea and salmon fisheries of Alaska”), storekeeper $1,800; agent $2,500; assistant agents—one $2,000, one $1,800; inspector, $1,800; wardens—one $1,200, six at $900 each; in all, $27,580. Employees at large: Two field station superintendents, at $1,800 Employees at large.each; fish culturists—two at $960 each, two at $900 each; six machinists, at $960 each (including one transferred from Cape Vincent, New York, station); two coxswains, at $720 each; in all, $14,520.
Distribution employees: Five car captains, at $1,200 each; six car Distribution employees.messengers, at $1,000 each; five assistant car messengers, at $900 each; five car laborers, at $720 each; five car cooks, at $600 each; in all, $23,100. Afognak (Alaska) Station; Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, Station employees.Afognak, Alaska.$1,200; two skilled laborers, at $960 each; three laborers, at $900 each; cook, $900; in all, $8,220. Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900;
Alpena, Mich.in all, $2,100. Baird (California) and Battle Creek (California) Stations: Superintendent, Baird and Battle Creek, Cal.$1,500: foreman, $1,080; foreman, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $5,280. 662 Baker Lake, Wash.Baker Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Beaufort, N. C.Beaufort (North Carolina) Biological Station: Superintendent and director, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600.
Boothbay Harbor, Me.Boothbay Harbor (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; engineer, $1,100; skilled laborer, $780; three firemen, at $600 each; custodian of lobster pounds, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $8,000. Bozeman, Mont.Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Bryans Point, Md.Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, $360. Capo Vincent, N. Y.Cape Vincent. (New York) Station:
Superintendent, $1,500; skilled laborer, $720; fireman, $720 (one transferred to Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station); two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,140. Clackamas, Oreg.Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; skilled laborer, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,320. Cold Springs, Ga.Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Craig Brook, Mo.Craig Brook (Maine) Station:
Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Duluth, Minn.Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $900; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Edenton, N. C.Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Erwin, Tenn.Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200.
Fairport, Iowa.Fairport
(Iowa)Biological Station: Director, $1,800; superintendent of fish culture, $1,500; scientific assistants—one $1,400, one $1,200; foreman, $1,200; shell expert, $1,200; engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at $600 each; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $11,700. Gloucester, Mass.Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; fireman (transferred from Cape Vincent, New York, Station), $720; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,920. Green Lake, Mo.Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $900; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Homer, Minu.Homer (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; scientific assistants—one $1,400, one $1,200; foreman, $1,200; engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at $600 each; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $8,700. Leadville, Colo.Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; two fish-culturists, at $900 each; skilled laborer, $720: two laborers, at $600 each; cook, $480; in all, $6,900. Louisville, Ky.Louisville (Kentucky) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Mammoth Spring, Ark.Mammoth Spring (Arkansas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Manchester, Iowa.Manchester
(Iowa)Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Nashua, N. H.Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Neosho, Mo.Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $900; skilled laborer, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,320. Northville, Mich.Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $960; fish-culturist, $900; four laborers, at $600 each; in all, $5,760. Orangeburg, S. C.Orangeburg (South Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Puget Sound, Wash.Puget Sound (Washington) Stations: Three foremen, at $1,200 each; nine laborers, at $600 each; in all, $9,000. 663 Put in Bay
(Ohio)Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, Put in Bay, Ohio.$1,000; machinist, $960; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,660. Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station and Holden (Vermont) Auxiliary Saint Johnsbury and Holden, Vt,Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; skilled laborer, $720; four laborers, at $600 each; in all, $6,720. San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, San Marcos, Tex.$1,200; fish-culturist, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $5,400. Saratoga (Wyoming) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Saratoga, Wyo.$900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Spearfish, S, Dak.$900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Tupelo (Mississippi) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Tupelo, Miss.$900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Washington (District of Columbia) Central Station and Aquaria: Washington, D.C.Central station, etc.Superintendent, $1,500; two skilled laborers, at $720 each; laborer, $600; in all, $3,540. White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia) Station: Superintendent, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.$1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; Woods Hole, Mass,machinist, $960; fish-culturist, $900; pilot and collector, $720; three firemen, at $600 each; four laborers, at $600 each; in all, $8,280. Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, Wytheville, Va.$900; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Yes Bay (Alaska) Hatchery: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, Yes Bay, Alaska.$1,200; two skilled laborers, at $960 each; three laborers, at $900 each; cook, $900; in all, $8,220. Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: Naturalist, $1,800; general Vessel service.assistant, $1,200; fishery expert, $1,200; clerk, $1,000; in all, $5,200. Steamer Fish Hawk: Cabin boy, $480. Steamer Osprey: Master, $1,500; engineer, $1,100; cook, $600; two firemen, at $720 each; seaman, $600; in all, $5,240. Schooner Grampus: Master, $1,500; first mate, $1,080; second mate, $840; engineer, $S40; cook, $600; three seamen, at $600 each; cabin boy, $420; in all, $7,080. Steamer Phalarope: Master, $1,200; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; two seamen, at $600 each; cook, $600; in all, $4,820. Steamer Curlew: Pilot, $1,100; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; cook, $600; in all, $3,520. Steamer Gannet: Master, $1,200; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; two seamen, at $600 each; in all, $4,220. Expenses of administration: For expenses of the office of the commissioner, Administration expenses.*Ante*, p. 504.including stationery, scientific and reference books and periodicals, and newspapers, for library, furniture, telegraph and telephone service, repairs to and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, and compensation of temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $10,000. Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, equipment, and operations Propagation expenses.of the fish-cultural stations of the bureau, the general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including the movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, temporary labor, and for the propagation and distribution of freshwater mussels, and the necessary expenses connected therewith, not to exceed $10,000, $350,000. No part of the foregoing amount shall be expended for hatching or Restriction on expenses in States.planting fish or eggs in any State in which, in the judgment of the Secretary of Commerce, there are not adequate laws for the protection of the fishes, nor in any State in which the United States Commissioner of Fisheries and his duly authorized agents are not accorded 664full and free right to conduct fish-cultural operations, and all fishing and other operations necessary therefor, in such manner and at such times as is considered necessary and proper by the said commissioner or his agents. Maintenance of vessels.Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of vessels and launches, including purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $60,000. Inquiry respecting food fishes.Inquiry respecting food fishes: For expenses of the inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food fishes in the waters of the United States, and for investigations and experiments in respect to the aquatic animals, plants, and waters, in the interests of fish culture and the fishery industries, including expenses of travel and preparation of reports, and not to exceed $5,000 for oyster survey in the State of Florida, and for all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $45,000. Statistical inquiry.Statistical inquiry: For expenses in the collection and compilation of statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, including travel and preparation of reports and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $7,500. Sponge fisheries.Protection, etc.*Post*, p. 797.Sponge fisheries: For expenses in protecting the sponge fisheries, including employment of inspectors, watchmen, and temporary assistants, hire of boats, rental of office and storage, care of seized sponges and other property, travel, and all other expenses necessary to carry Vol. 34, p. 313.*Post*, p. 692.out the provisions of the Act of June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, to regulate the sponge fisheries, $3,500. Alaska general service.Seal fisheries protection, food to natives, etc.Alaska General Service: For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska, including the furnishing of food, fuel, clothing, and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands of Alaska, transportation of supplies to and from the islands, expenses of travel of agents and other employees and subsistence while on said islands, hire and maintenance of vessels, and for all expenses necessary to carry out the Vol. 36, p. 326.provisions of the Act approved April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act to protect the seal fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes,” and for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, including travel, hire of boats, employment of temporary labor, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $60,000. Vessels and boats for Alaska.Alaska Fishery Service, vessels and boats: For construction or purchase of vessels and boats in connection with the enforcement or the laws and regulations for the protection of the fisheries and fur-bearing animals of Alaska, $50,000. Payments under treaty obligations.Vol. 37, p. 1544.For payments to be made to Great Britain and Japan under the terms of article eleven of the convention for protection and preservation of the fur seal and sea otters in lieu of their share of sealskins for the yearly season of nineteen hundred and fourteen, and in accordance Vol. 37, p. 499.with the Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, to give effect to the above-named convention, $20,000. Utah.Establishing fish-cultural station.For the continuation of the appropriation for the establishment of a fish-cultural station in the State of Utah, including the purchase of land, construction of buildings and ponds, and for equipment, $25,000, to be available until expended; and the initial appropriation Former appropriation continued.*Ante*, p. 64.of $25,000 for the above-named purpose, included in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, is hereby continued and made available until expended. Cold Spring, Ga.Establishing station.Cold Spring (Georgia) Station: For purchase of land and construction of ponds, to be available until expended, $6,000. Louisville, Ky.Right of way through hatchery.Louisville (Kentucky) fish hatchery: The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to convey to the board of park commissioners of the city of Louisville, Kentucky, a right of way one hundred and twenty 665feet wide through the property of the United States in Jefferson County, Kentucky, used as a fish-cultural station and hatchery: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Conditions.That such conveyance of right of way shall not be construed as affecting the right or title of the United States in said property or as in violation of any stipulation or condition in the conveyance of the same to the United States, and on the further condition that the land or right of way to be conveyed hereunder shall be constructed and maintained as a parkway free of any expense to the United States, and that all work thereon shall be such as not to interfere with the operations and efficiency of said fish-cultural station and in a manner satisfactory to the Secretary of Commerce. Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station: For repairs to wharfs and Woods Hole, Mass.Repairs.for retaining bulkheads, $40,000. Marine biological station, Florida: The provision of the Act to Florida.Biological station on Gulf coast.Vol. 36, p. 1443.authorize the establishment of a marine biological station on the Gulf coast of the State of Florida, approved March first, nineteen hundred and eleven, requiring the State of Florida to donate and transfer free of cost the necessary land and water rights for such station, is hereby amended and modified to read as follows: *Provided*, That the State *Proviso*.Transfer of land and water rights.of Florida, a corporation, a firm, or an individual donates and transfers free of cost to the Government of the United States the necessary land and water rights. Clackamas, Oregon, station: For construction of buildings and Clackamas, Oreg.Construction of buildings, etc.improvements to water supply, to be available until used, $15,000, and the Secretary of Commerce is authorized and directed to sell at public sale to the highest responsible bidder, after due advertising, the old fish-hatchery site belonging to the United States on the Sale of old hatchery.Clackamas River, near Clackamas, Oregon, consisting of fifteen and eighty-seven one-hundredths acres, the proceeds of said sale (after the payment of the expenses incidental thereto) to be covered into the Treasury as “Miscellaneous receipts, proceeds of Government property.” Beaufort, North Carolina, biological station: For repairs and additions Beaufort, N. C.Repairs, etc.to buildings and improvements to grounds, $5,000. Edenton, North Carolina, station: For construction and repair of Edenton, N. C.Repairs, etc.buildings, $3,500. bureau of standards.Bureau of Standards. Testing of large scales: For the investigation and testing of railroad Testing large scales.track scales, elevator scales, and other scales used in weighing commodities for interstate shipments and to secure equipment and assistance for testing the scales used by the Government in its transactions with the public, such as post office, navy yard, and customhouse scales, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $40,000. Chemical laboratory: Toward the construction of a suitable fire-proof Chemical laboratory.Contracts.chemical laboratory, to provide additional space, to cost not exceeding $200,000 under a contract which is hereby authorized therefor, $25,000. MISCELLANEOUS OBJECTS, DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. immigration stations.Immigrant stations. Ellis Island, New York: Toward construction of another section Ellis Island, N. Y.Sea wall, dredging, etc.of concrete granite-faced sea wall under original limit of cost, $100,000; For dredging, $25,000; For extension of fire-alarm system to hospital islands, $4,000; For salt-water service lines to contagious-disease hospital, $4,500; In all, $133,500. 666 Philadelphia, Pa.Buildings, etc.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For completion of inspection house on pier, according to plans prepared for that purpose, $15,000; for installation of elevator in detention building, including structural changes incident thereto, 34,000; for construction of sea wall on river front and dirt fill behind same, $5,500; for boring artesian well and installing necessary piping and fittings to connect with station buildings, $3,100; for disinfecting apparatus and installation thereof, $5,400; for installing laundry facilities and remodeling of plumbing and heating apparatus connected therewith, $2,700; in all, $35,700. Immigration service.immigration service. Enforcing laws regulating immigration of aliens.For all expenses of the enforcement of the laws regulating immigration of aliens into the United States, including the contract-labor laws; cost of the reports of decisions of the Federal courts, and digests thereof, for the use of the Commissioner General of Immigration; for salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees appointed Vol. 34, p. 898.Vol. 36, p. 263.to enforce said laws; enforcement of the provisions of the Act of February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States,” and *Ante*, p. 506.Acts amendatory thereof; necessary supplies, including exchange of typewriting machines, alterations, and repairs, and for all other expenses Chinese exclusion.authorized by said Act; also for preventing the unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, the expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation, Refunding head tax.and for the refunding of head tax upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that collection was made through error of Government officers; all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary *Provisos*.Commissioner at New Orleans, La.Status defined.of Labor, $2,649,500: *Provided, however*, That the Commissioner of Immigration to discharge at New Orleans, Louisiana, the duties now required of other commissioners of immigration at the respective ports of the United States shall be appointed in the same manner and for the same term as the said other commissioners, and shall have the same official status as they; and that section thirty-four of the immigration Vol. 34, p. 908.Act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, is hereby repealed in so far as it conflicts with the foregoing Salary reduced.provision: *Provided further, however*, That the salary of the said commissioner of immigration at New Orleans, Louisiana, shall be reduced to the sum of $2,900 per annum. Montreal, Canada.Lease of office rooms.The Secretary of Labor is authorized to execute a lease for office quarters for the United States Immigration Service at Montreal, Canada, for a period of four years from July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, at a rate of rental not exceeding $4,500 per annum. George Sutherland.Informer’s fee.To pay to George Sutherland for information that led to the collection of $20,000 in penalties from the Barre Wool Combing Company, of South Barre, Massachusetts, for importing aliens under contract, in violation of the immigration laws, $1,000. Walter Morneau.Informer’s fee.To pay to Walter Morneau for information that led to the collection of $1,000 in penalties from Wilson Brothers, of Wausau, Wisconsin, for importing aliens under contract, in violation of the immigration laws, $200. Oriental Steamship Company.Refund to.For refund to the Toyo Kisen Kaisha (Oriental Steamship Company) of amount overpaid to the United States for hospital treatment of two aliens in the Angel Island immigration hospital for the period from July tenth to twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, $35. 667 naturalization service.Naturalization Bureau. For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Labor, of examiners, Special examiners, etc.interpreters, clerks, and stenographers, for the purpose of carrying on the work of the Bureau of Naturalization, provided Vol. 34, p. 506.Vol. 37, p. 736.for by the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, as amended by the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-seven, page seven hundred and thirty-six), and for their actual necessary traveling Traveling expenses, etc.expenses while absent from their official stations, including street-car fare on official business at official stations, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe; actual necessary traveling expenses of the officers and employees of the Bureau of Naturalization in Washington while absent on official duty outside of the District of Columbia; telegrams, verifications to legal papers, telephone service in offices outside of the District of Columbia; not to exceed $3,800 for rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia where suitable quarters can not be obtained in public buildings; carrying into effect section thirteen of the Act Assistance to clerks of courts.Vol. 34, p. 600.Vol. 36, pp. 764, 830.of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page six hundred), as amended by the Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, including an allowance to the clerk of the Supreme Court for Bronx County, New York, for clerical assistance, to be made in the discretion of the Secretary of Labor for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen; the expenditures from this appropriation shall be made in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe, $250,000. PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION.Panama-Pacific Exposition. Building to install the Government exhibit at the Panama-Pacific Building for Government exhibit.Construction on Presidio of San Francisco, Cal.*Ante*, p. 76.International Exposition: For the construction of a suitable building in that part of the reservation of the United States known as the Presidio of San Francisco, State of California, in which the Government Exhibit Board, created by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall install, display, and safeguard the exhibit of the Government of the United States at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, $500,000: *Provided*, That the said building shall be so located and *Provisos*.Use at close of exposition.planned and shall be of such a permanent character as will make it available and useful for military purposes of the United States after the close of the said exposition, and shall be on such general plan and design and in such location as shall be approved by the Secretary of War: *Provided further*, That the said building shall be Contracts, etc.erected under the authority of the Secretary of War, by contract or otherwise, as he may direct: *Provided further*, That not exceeding Entertaining foreign officials, etc.$50,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended from the appropriation made herein, on the approval and authority of the Secretary of War, for entertaining the officers and representatives of foreign governments who may attend and participate in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition in consequence of the invitation of the President of the United States, extended in pursuance of the authority of Congress. The provisions contained in the Act entitled “An act making National Exposition Commission.appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen,” *Ante*, p. 77, amended.which provides for the participation of the United States in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, be amended as follows: Under the head of “To provide for the participation of the 668United States in the Panama-Pacific International Exposition,” Formation of commission.the paragraph on page eighty-one, which reads as follows: “The President or the United States is authorized to detail three civilian *Ante*, p. 77, amended.officers or employees from the executive departments as members of a commission which is hereby constituted as the National Exposition Commission, one of said commissioners, who shall be the chairman of said commission shall be detailed from the Department of State. Vacancies in said commission shall be filled in the same manner as original appointments. Each commissioner shall receive in addition to his original compensation his actual necessary, traveling expenses and an allowance of $10 per day in lieu of subsistence. Said commissioners may appoint a secretary at $2,500 per annum, and the sum of $15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended for clerical, office, and other necessary and actual expenses of said commission,” and insert in lieu thereof the Membership.Two officials and one from civil life.following: “The President of the United States is authorized to detail two civilian officers or employees from the executive departments, also one to be appointed from civil life, as members of the commission which is hereby constituted as the National Exposition Commission; one of said commissioners, who shall be the chairman of said commission, shall be detailed from the Department of State, the commissioner Fay of civilian.appointed from civil life to receive a salary at the rate of $5,000 per annum until the exposition closes. Vacancies in said commission shall be filled in the same manner as original Allowances.appointments. Each commissioner detailed as aforesaid shall receive, in addition to his original compensation, necessary traveling expenses and an allowance of $10 per day in lieu of subsistence while on duty Secretary, etc.in San Francisco. Said commissioners may appoint a secretary at $2,500 per annum, and the sum of $15,000, or so. much thereof as may be necessary, may be expended for clerk hire and actual expenses of said commission.” Copyright and patent branch office.Expenses.Copyright and patent branch office, Panama-Pacific International Exposition: To defray all the expenses connected with the establishment, equipment, and maintenance (including necessary printing) of the branch office at San Francisco, California, provided for in section *Ante*, p. 112.*Post*, p. 879.two of the Act approved September eighteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Public, Numbered Fourteen), $30,000, of which sum $15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, and Supervision of expenditures.$15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, shall be expended under the direction of the Librarian of Congress, each of whom is authorized to pay to the Public Printer the cost of any portion of such printing and binding required for the said branch office which Designation of employees.may be ordered by him from the Government Printing Office; to designate from among the employees of the Patent Office and Copyright Office, respectively, such employees as may be actually necessary for the service of the respective divisions of the said branch office, one of the employees so designated from each of said bureaus Additional.to act as his disbursing officer; and to select and employ from time to time at San Francisco such additional persons as the exigencies Allowance to detailed employees.of the work there may require. All persons from the Patent Office and Copyright Office thus designated for service at San Francisco shall receive no compensation other than their regular salaries, but while absent from Washington, District of Columbia, and engaged upon the business of the aforesaid branch office shall be allowed their actual and necessary traveling expenses, together with a per diem allowance in lieu of the cost or subsistence to be fixed by the Secretary of the Interior or Librarian of Congress designating such persons, not to exceed $3 per day. 669 The Government Exhibit Board, for which provision was made in Government Exhibit Board.*Ante*, p. 76, amended.the sundry civil Act approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall, after consultation by correspondence or otherwise Scope of duties extended.with the heads of the executive departments and the Regents of the Smithsonian Institution, the Isthmian Canal Commission, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Civil Service Commission, the Commissioners of the District of Columbia, the American National Red Cross, the Commission of Fine Arts, the Librarian of Congress, the Public Printer, the Governor of Porto Rico, the Governor of Alaska, the Governor of Hawaii, and the United States Geographic Board, determine the nature, character, and extent of the exhibits of the United States Government to be made at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, to be held at San Francisco, California, in nineteen hundred and fifteen, and shall be charged with the selection, purchase, preparation, safe-keeping, exhibition, and return of such articles and materials as said board may decide shall be exhibited; and the said board is empowered to select, purchase, and Purchases, etc., for exhibit authorized.exhibit articles or materials’ representing the activities of any department, office, commission, or organization named in this paragraph. EXPOSITION TO CELEBRATE THE FIFTIETH ANNIVERSARY OF THE EMANCIPATION OF THE NEGRO, AND HIS ACHIEVEMENTS SINCE EMANCIPATION.Fiftieth Anniversary of Negro Emancipation. For expenses of an exposition to be held at or near Richmond, Expenses of exposition at Richmond, Va., to celebrate, etc.Virginia, in the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, to celebrate the Fiftieth Anniversary of the Emancipation of the Negro and to show the progress, advancement, and achievements of the Negro race in education, and in the industrial work of the country, $55,000. *Provided*, That the expenditures hereunder shall be made by the *Proviso*.Control of expenditures.Negro Historical and Industrial Association of Richmond, Virginia, under the direction and supervision of the Governor of the State of Virginia. MACDONOUGH MEMORIAL.Macdonough Memorials. For the erection of memorials at or near Plattsburg, New York, Erection of, to commemorate victory on Lake Champlain.in commemoration of the victory of Commodore Thomas Macdonough on Lake Champlain, in September, eighteen hundred and fourteen, in accordance with plans to be approved by the Secretary of War and commissions to be appointed by the States of Vermont and New York, respectively, to be expended by the Secretary of War, $15,000 toward the memorial of the State of Vermont and $125,000 toward the memorial of the State of New York; in all, $140,000: *Provided*, That no part of the said appropriation shall be *Proviso*.Subject to contribution by New York.paid out of the Treasury until after the State of New York shall have appropriated a sum not less than $125,000 for its said memorial and celebration. UNDER DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. permanent international council for the exploration of the sea.International Council.Exploration of the Sea. For the pro rata share of the United States in the administrative Share of expenses.expenses of the Permanent International Council for the Exploration of the Sea, in the interest of the commercial fisheries, $5,956. UNDER LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the direction Statement of appropriations.of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of 670Representatives, of the statements for the first and second sessions of the Sixty-third Congress, showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular Vol. 25, p. 587.appropriation bills, as required by law, $4,000, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work. Botanic Garden.Repairs, etc.Botanic Garden: For general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, painting, 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, $6,000. Removing fence, etc.Vol. 36, p. 1403; Vol. 37, p. 478.*Ante*, p. 66.The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $2,500 made in the sundry civil Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve and subsequently made available for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and thirteen and nineteen hundred and fourteen, for removing fence and wall around the Botanic Garden and such grading, soiling, seeding, and sodding as may be incident thereto, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen. Senate Office Building.Maintenance.Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and 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, $55,000. Furniture.For furniture for Senate Office Building and labor and material incident thereto, including carpets, window shades, awnings, and so forth, $5,000. Senate kitchens and restaurants.For the Capitol: For repairs, improvements, and equipment for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, $17,500. House Office Building.Maintenance.House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $45,712. Capitol power plant.Maintenance.Capitol power plant: For lighting the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, and Congressional Library Building, and the grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, Senate stables and engine house, House stables, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the Senate; pay of superintendent of meters, at the rate of $1,600 per annum, who shall inspect all gas and electric meters of the Government in the District of Columbia without additional compensation; for necessary personal and other services; and for materials and labor in connection with the maintenance and operation of the heating, lighting, and power plant, and substations connected therewith, $90.000. Fuel, oil, etc.For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the power plant which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and congressional buildings, Purchases not restricted to supply committee.$85,300. This and the foregoing appropriations shall be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds under the supervision and direction of the commission in control of Vol. 34, p. 1365.the House Office Building, appointed under the Act approved March Vol. 36, p. 531.fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, and without reference to section four of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, concerning purchases for executive departments. Government Printing Office.GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. public printing and binding. Public Printer, purchasing agent, etc.Office of Public Printer: Public Printer, $5,500; purchasing agent, $3,600; chief clerk, $2,500; accountant, $2,500; assistant purchasing 671agent, $2.500; cashier and paymaster, $2,500; clerk in charge of Congressional Record at the Capitol, $2,500; assistant accountant, $2,250; chief timekeeper, $2,000; paying teller, $2,000; clerks—two at $2,000 each, nine of class four, eleven of class three, seven of class two, six of class one, nine at $1,000 each, five at $900 each, sixteen at $840 each; paymaster’s guard, $1,000; doorkeepers—chief $1,200, one $1,200, six assistants at $1,000 each; messengers—two, at $840 each; delivery men—chief $1,200, five at $950 each; telephone switchboard operator, $720; three assistant telephone switchboard operators, at $600 each; six messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $131,660. Office of Deputy Public Printer: Deputy Public Printer, $4,500; Deputy Public Printer, etc.two clerks of class one; chemist, $1,600; messenger, $840; in all, $9,340. Watch force: Captain, $1,200; two lieutenants, at $900 each; sixty-four Watch force.watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $49,080. Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions Holidays.of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $185,000. 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, $330,000. For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the Public printing and binding.Aggregate amount.public printing and binding, including the cost of printing the debates and proceeding of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving, for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the International Bureau of American Republics, the Executive Office, and the departments; for salaries, compensation, or wages, of all necessary Office expenses.employees additional to those herein specifically appropriated for, including the compensation of the foreman of binding, and the foreman of printing; rents, fuel, gas, electric current, gas and electric fixtures; bicycles, horses, wagons, harness, electrical vehicles for the carriage Vehicles, etc.of printing and printing supplies only, and the care, driving, and subsistence of the same, to be used only for official purposes, including the purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official use of the officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing ordered by the Public Printer; freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; furniture, typewriters, and carpets; traveling expenses, stationery, postage, and advertising; directories, technical books, and books of reference, not exceeding $500; adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; machinery (not exceeding $100,000); equipment, and for repairs Machinery and equipment.to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor alterations to buildings; necessary equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Government Printing Office who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty; other necessary contingent and miscellaneous items authorized Miscellaneous items, etc.by the Public Printer; and for all the necessary materials and equipment needed in the prosecution and delivery and mailing of the work, $4 463820; In all, for public printing and binding, including salaries of office Total.force, payments for holidays and leaves of absence, and the last-named sum, $5,168,900; and from the said sum printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings Allotments.Congress.and debates, $1,696,700. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by 672the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. Departments, etc.For the State Department, $40,000. For the Treasury Department, $380,000. *Proviso*.For the War Department, $190,000: *Provided*, That the sum of Army medical bulletins.$3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the publication, from time to time, of bulletins prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General of the Army, for the instruction of medical officers, when approved by the Secretary of War. For the Navy Department, $145,000, including not exceeding $25,000 for the Hydrographic Office. For the Interior Department, including not exceeding $45,000 for the Civil Service Commission, and not exceeding $25,000 for the publication of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, $295,000. For the 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, $440,000. For the United States Geological Survey: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the Annual Report of the Director, and for the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, and for printing and binding the same publications, of which sum not more than $45,000 may be used for engraving, $175,000. For the Smithsonian Institution: For printing and binding the Annual Reports of the Board of Regents, with general appendixes, $10,000; under the Smithsonian Institution: For the Annual Reports of the National Museum, with general appendixes, and for printing labels and blanks, and for the Bulletins and Proceedings of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not exceed four thousand copies, and binding, in half morocco or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to or acquired by the National Museum Library, $37,500; for the Annual Reports and Bulletins of the Bureau American Ethnology, and for miscellaneous printing and binding for the bureau, $21,000; for miscellaneous printing and binding for the International Exchanges, $200; the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, 3100; the National Zoological Park, $200: the Astrophysical Observatory, $200; and for the Annual Report of the American Historical Association, $7,000; in all, $76,200. For the Department of Justice, $35,000. For the United States Court of Customs Appeals, $1,500. For the Post Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, $290,000. For the Department of Agriculture, including not to exceed Agricultural Report.$47,000 for the Weather Bureau, and including the Annual Report of Vol. 26, p. 612.the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and in pursuance of the Vol. 34, p. 826.joint resolution numbered thirteen, approved March thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and also including not to exceed $137,500 Farmers’ bulletins.for farmers’ bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of four-fifths of which shall be delivered to or sent out under the addressed franks furnished by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as they shall direct, $500,000. 673 For the Department of Commerce, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Bureau of the Census: *Provided*, That no part *Proviso*.Census reports excluded.of this allotment shall be expended for printing and binding reports of the Thirteenth Census, $400,000. For the Department of Labor, $115,000. For the Supreme Court of the United States, $15,000; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ unless it shall otherwise order. For the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, $1,500. For the Court of Claims, $25,000. For the Library of Congress, including the copyright office, and the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the copyright office, and binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for building and grounds, Library of Congress, $200,000. For the Executive Office, $3,000. For the Interstate Commerce Commission, $125,000, of which sum $4,500 shall be available to print and furnish to the States report-form blanks. For the International Union of American Republics, $20,000. That no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby Restriction.appropriated for the public printing and for the public binding shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended; and no department or Government establishment shall consume in any such period a greater percentage of its allotment than can be lawfully expended during the same period of the whole appropriation. Money appropriated under the foregoing allotments shall not be Certificate of necessity required.expended for printing or binding for any of the executive departments or other Government establishments except such as shall be certified in writing to the Public Printer by the respective heads or chiefs thereof to be necessary to conduct the ordinary and routine business required by law of such executive departments or Government establishments, and except such reports, monographs, bulletins, or other publications as are authorized by law or specifically provided for in appropriations herein; all other printing required or Congressional authorization.deemed necessary or desirable by heads of executive departments or other Government establishments or offices or bureaus thereof shall be done only as Congress shall from time to time authorize. No part of any money appropriated in this Act shall be paid to any Restriction on payment for details of employees.person employed in the Government Printing Office while detailed for or performing service in any other executive branch of the public service of the United States unless such detail be authorized by law. No money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used for Branch offices limited.maintaining more than one branch of the Government Printing Office in any one building occupied by any executive department or departments of the Government, nor shall any branch of the Government Printing Office be established hereafter unless specifically authorized by law. All expenditures from appropriations made herein under Government Apportionment of expenditures to work executed.Printing Office, except appropriations for salaries and for stores and general expenses in and for the office of superintendent of documents, shall be equitably apportioned and charged by the Public Printer to each publication or work executed under any of the foregoing allotments, so that the total charges for work done from the appropriations aforesaid shall not be less than the total amount actually expended from all of said appropriations. 674 Office of Superintendent of Documents.office of superintendent of documents. Superintendent, assistant, etc.Superintendent, S3,500; assistant superintendent, $2,500; clerks—two of class four, three of class three, five of class two, eight of class one, nine at $1,000 each, eight at $900 each, four at $840 each, twenty at $720 each; cataloguers—one in charge $1,800, two at $1,500 each, three at $1,200 each, one at $1,100, seven at $1,000 each, four at $900 each: cashier, $1,600; librarian, $1,500; shipper in charge, $1,400; stock keepers—one $1,100, three at $1,000 each, five at $900 each, three at $720 each; helpers—one $870, three at $750 each; five assistant messengers; three mailers, at $840 each; forty-one skilled laborers, at $626 each; ten unskilled laborers at $626 each; janitress, $626; two folders, at $626 each; eleven laborers, at $626 each; messenger boys—eleven at $500 each, six at $420 each, eleven at $375 each; labor necessary to handle current periodicals, $16,000; in all, $178,395. Contingent expenses.For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving machines and accessories, time stamps, adding and numbering machines, awnings, curtains, books of reference, directories, books, miscellaneous office and desk supplies; paper; twine, glue, envelopes, postage, car tickets, soap, toilet paper, towels, disinfectants, and ice; drayage, express, freight, telephone and telegraph service; repairs to building, elevators, and machinery; preserving sanitary condition of building, light, heat, and power: stationery and office printing, including blanks, price lists, and bibliographies, $30,000; for catalogues and indexes, not exceeding $16,000; for binding reserve remainders, and for supplying books to depository libraries, $90,000; equipment, material, and supplies for distribution of public documents, $17,000; in all, $153,000. Mail-carrying system.Installing, to new city post office.Mail-carrying system: To enable the Public Printer to install mechanical mail-conveying apparatus for conveying mail from the mailing section within the Government Printing Office to and through a tunnel from the Government Printing Office to the new city post-office building and to connect with the mail-conveying system of that building, including all necessary appliances and tunneling in the street. $30.000. Panama Canal.THE PANAMA CANAL. Construction.Vol. 32, p. 482; Vol. 33, p. 429; Vol. 37, p. 560.To continue the construction of the Panama Canal, to be expended under the direction of the President, in accordance with an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans,” approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto: First. Salaries in United States. For salaries of officers and employees of the Panama Canal, including assistant purchasing and shipping agents, and all other employees in the United States, $150,000; Second. Incidental expenses in United States. For incidental expenses, including rents, cable and telegraph service, supplies, stationery and printing, and actual necessary traveling expenses in the United States (including rent of offices in the District of Columbia not exceeding $7,500, textbooks and books of reference, $1,000, and additional compensation to the Auditor for the War Department for extra services in auditing accounts for the Panama Canal, $1,000), $62,000; Third. Governor, and employees in construction, etc., departments on the Isthmus. For pay of the Governor of the Panama Canal and officers and employees on the Isthmus, other than skilled and unskilled labor, including civil engineers, superintendents, instrumentmen, transitmen, levelmen, rodmen, draftsmen, timekeepers, mechanical and electrical engineers, quartermasters, clerks, accountants, stenographers, storekeepers, messengers, office boys, foremen and subforemen, 675wagon masters, watchmen, and stewards, including those temporarily detailed for duty away from the Isthmus, in the departments of construction and engineering, quartermaster’s, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, and for those employed in connection with the preservation of plans, drawings, and other records, $2,414,000. Fourth. For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus, including Labor.engineers, conductors, firemen, brakemen, electricians, teamsters, cranesmen, machinists, blacksmiths, and other artisans, and their helpers; janitors, sailors, cooks, waiters, and dairymen, for the departments of construction and engineering, quartermaster’s, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, $7,000,000; Fifth. For the purchase and delivery of material, supplies, and Purchase of materials, equipment, etc.equipment, including cost of inspecting material and of paying traveling expenses incident thereto, whether on the Isthmus or elsewhere; purchase, maintenance, and repair of motor cars, fire-fighting apparatus, towing locomotives, and other motor-propelled vehicles, and such other expenses not in the United States as the governor deems necessary to best promote the construction of the Panama Canal, and Disposition of unserviceable materials etc.such expenses as are incurred in assembling, sorting, storing, repairing, and selling material, supplies, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal, which are unserviceable or no longer needed, including the amount Constructing two colliers.*Ante*, p. 71.necessary to continue the construction of the two coiners provided for under the Act approved June twenty-third, nineteen Hundred and thirteen, subject to the limit of cost therein fixed, and including the payment of damages caused to the owners of private lands, or Damages to private property.private property of any kind, by reason of the grants contained in the Vol. 33, p. 2234.treaty between the United States and the Republic of Panama proclaimed February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and four, or by reason of the operations of the United States, its agents or employees, or by reason of the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and protection of the said canal or of the works of sanitation and protection therein provided for, whether compromised by agreement between the claimant and the chairman of the commission or allowed by a joint commission, and the payment for land and land under Payment for land, etc.Vol. 37, p. 561.water as authorized in section three of the Panama Canal Act, for the departments of construction and engineering, quartermaster’s, subsistence, disbursements, and examination of accounts, and including also payment to the Wheeling Mold and Foundry Company, of Wheeling Mold and Foundry Company.Wheeling, West Virginia, of the sum of $9,076.21, to carry into effect an equitable settlement with that company which could not be. made by reason of the ruling of the Comptroller of the Treasury, this sum having been deducted as liquidated damages on the various contracts and being in excess of the actual damages to the commission, $9,000,000; Sixth. For miscellaneous expenditures, cable and telegraph service, Miscellaneous.stationery and printing, local railway transportation, special trains, including pay-train service; transportation of currency to the Isthmus, recruiting and transporting laborers, transporting employees from the United States, repatriating laborers and employees, actual necessary traveling expenses while on the Isthmus on official business; expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus, and all other incidental and contingent expenses not otherwise provided for, for the departments of construction and engineering, quartermaster’s, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, $725,000; Seventh. For pay of officers and employees of the department of Civil administration department.Officers, employees, etc.civil administration, including foremen, subforemen, skilled and unskilled labor, watchmen, messengers, and storekeepers, of the departments of civil administration and law, including those neces676sarily and temporarily detailed for duty away from the Isthmus and Formal opening expenses.for expenses of the official representation of Congress attending the formal opening of the canal, $500,000; Eighth. Operating waterworks, etc., in Panama and Colon. For the operation, maintenance, and extension of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, the necessary portion of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses; Ninth. Materials, supplies, etc. For material, supplies, equipment, construction and repairs of buildings, and contingent expenses of the departments of civil administration and law, including not exceeding $500 for law books $72,000; Tenth. Sanitation department.Officers, employees, etc. For pay of the officers and employees other than skilled and unskilled labor, including hospital dispensers, internes, nurses, attendants, messengers, office boys, foremen and subforemen, watchmen, and stewards, of the department of sanitation on the Isthmus, including those temporarily detailed for duty away from the Isthmus $300,000; Eleventh. Labor. For skilled and unskilled labor of every grade and kind, for the department of sanitation on the Isthmus, $120,000; Twelfth. Materials, construction, etc. For material, supplies, equipment, construction and repairs of buildings, medical aid and support of the insane and of indigent persons permanently disabled while in line of duty and in the employ of the Panama Canal from earning a livelihood, and contingent expenses of the department of sanitation on the Isthmus, Quarantine stations.including not exceeding $75,000 for removal of quarantine station from. Culebra Island to the vicinity of Balboa and for converting the hospital at Colon into a quarantine station and for new equipment for both, $375,000. Use for operation, organisation, docks, terminal facilities, etc.The foregoing sums, so far as necessary, shall be available for the operation of the canal, for the permanent organization authorized to be established under the Panama Canal Act, for dry docks, repair shops, yards, docks, wharves, warehouses, storehouses, and other necessary facilities and appurtenances, including the collection of tolls, for the purpose of providing coal and other materials, labor, repairs, and supplies, for office buildings, quarters, and other necessary buildings, for the payment of claims arising out of injuries or deaths of employees; and for the consolidation and preservation of the files of papers and other records which have accumulated or may accumulate during the construction of the canal and needed or useful or having a permanent value or historical interest; Available until expended.*Proviso*.Expenditures may be reimbursed from proceeds of bonds.In all, $20,718,000, the same to be immediately available and to continue available until expended: *Provided*, That all expenditures from the appropriations heretofore, herein, and hereafter made for the construction of the Panama Canal, including any portion of such appropriations which may be used for the construction of dry docks, repair shops, yards, docks, wharves, warehouses, storehouses, and other necessary facilities and appurtenances, for the purpose of providing coal and other materials, labor, repairs, and supplies, for the construction of office buildings and quarters, and other necessary Exceptions.buildings, exclusive of fortifications and colliers, and exclusive of the amount used for operating and maintaining the canal, and for the permanent organization after the canal is opened for use and operation, may be paid from or reimbursed to the Treasury of the United Vol. 32, p. 434.States out of the proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized in section eight of the said Act approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred Vol. 36, p. 117.and two, and section thirty-nine of the tariff Act approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine. Number of employees limited to estimates.Except in cases of emergency, or conditions arising subsequent to and unforeseen at the time of submitting the annual estimates to Congress, and except for those employed in connection with the con677struction of permanent quarters, offices and other necessary buildings, dry docks, repair shops, yards, docks, wharves, warehouses, storehouses, and other necessary facilities and appurtenances for the purpose of providing coal and other materials, labor, repairs, and supplies, and except for the permanent operating organization under which Permanent organization excepted.Vol. 37, p. 117.the compensation of the various positions is limited by section four of the Panama Canal Act, there shall not be employed at any time during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen under any of the foregoing appropriations for the Panama Canal, any greater number of persons than are specified in the notes submitted respectively in connection with the estimates for each of said appropriations in the annual Book of Estimates for said year, nor shall there be paid to any Compensation restricted.of such persons during that fiscal year any greater rate of compensation than was authorized to be paid to persons occupying the same or like positions on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and thirteen: and all employments made or compensation increased because of emergencies or conditions so arising shall be specifically set forth, with the reasons therefor, by the governor in his report for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen. In cases of emergencies arising subsequent to and unforeseen Interchangeable appropriations.at the time of submitting the annual estimates to Congress, ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably for expenditure on objects named: but not more than ten per centum shall be added to any one item of the appropriation. fortifications, panama canal.Fortifications. For the following for fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, to be immediately available and to continue available until expended, namely: Electric light and power plants: For the purchase and installation Electric plants.of electric light and power plants for the seacoast fortifications on the Canal Zone, $33,550; For buildings and material:Buildings and material. Toro Point— One concrete storehouse, $5,000; Ten buildings, at $900 each, $9,000; Miraflores or Gatun— One storehouse, $5,000; Obstacles— Two thousand five hundred coils of barbed wire, at $3 each, $7,500; Two thousand five hundred pounds of staples, at $0.03, $75; Telephone line— Twenty-two miles, at $1,400 per mile, $30,800; In all, $57,375. For maintenance of clearings and trails:Clearings and trails. Clearings, four thousand three hundred and seventy acres, $21,000; Trails, seventy miles, $900; In all, $21,900. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast Ammunition.and land defense cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, $233,000: *Provided*, That the Chief of Ordnance, *Proviso*.Contracts authorized.United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $500,000, in addition to the appropriation herein made; For the alteration, maintenance, and installation of the seacoast Installing, etc., sea-coast artillery.artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics, and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $26,000; 678 Submarine mines.For alteration, maintenance, and repair of submarine mine matériel, $2,700; Fire-control stations.Fire control: For the construction of fire-control stations and the purchase and installation of accessories therefor, $50,000; Barracks and quarters.For construction on the Panama Canal Zone of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and other buildings necessary for accommodating the mobile army and Coast Artillery troops to be stationed there, including water, sewer, and lighting systems., roads, walks, and so forth, and for repairing and remodeling existing buildings to render them suitable for sheltering troops, $700,000. In all, specifically for fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, $1,124,475. Sec. 2. Distribution of Canal Zone revenues. That all funds collected by the government of the Canal Zone from rentals of public lands and buildings in the Canal Zone and the cities of Panama and Colon, and from the zone postal service, and from court fees and fines, and collected or raised by taxation in whatever form under the laws of the government of the Canal Zone, are hereby appropriated until and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, as follows: The revenues derived from the postal service to the maintenance of that service; the remaining revenues, including any balances unexpended in prior years, after setting aside a miscellaneous and contingent fund or not exceeding $10,000, to the maintenance of the public-school system in the zone; to the construction and Expenses of subdivisions.Vol. 37, p. 564.maintenance of public improvements within the zone; to the maintenance of the administrative districts; and for the expenses of the subdivisions of the Canal Zone after they are established under section seven of the Panama Canal Act; to the maintenance of Canal Zone charity patients in the hospitals of the Panama Canal; and to the *Proviso*.Supplying deficiencies.maintenance of administrative district prisoners: *Provided*, That, if the revenues of the Canal Zone government are not sufficient for the purposes herein specified, the necessary part of the amounts appropriated for the departments of civil administration and law, under Statement to Congress.items seven and nine, may be used therefor. A detailed and classified statement of all receipts and expenditures without the duplication of items under this paragraph shall be submitted to Congress after the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen. Sec. 3. Moneys received from services, supplies, etc., to be credited to original appropriations. That during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen all moneys received by the governor of the Panama Canal, from any services rendered or materials and supplies furnished to employees of the United States or of the Panama Railroad Company, to the Panama Railroad Company, to the Canal Zone government, to the Panama Government, and to other departments of the United States Government, from hotel and hospital supplies and services; from rentals, wharfage, and so forth; from labor, materials, and supplies and other services furnished to vessels and to those unable to obtain similar labor, materials, supplies, and services elsewhere; from the sale of scrap and other by-products of manufacturing and shop operations; from the sale of obsolete and unserviceable material, supplies, and equipment purchased or acquired for the operation, maintenance, protection, sanitation, and government of the canal and Canal Zone; and from exchanges of typewriting, adding, and other machines, shall be credited to the appropriation from which payments for the materials, Receipts from sales of construction material, etc., to be covered into the Treasury.supplies, labor, or other services were originally made. Moneys heretofore or hereafter received from the sale of material, supplies, and equipment purchased or acquired for the construction or the Panama Canal, after deducting all expenses of assembling, sorting, storing, repairing, and selling such material, supplies, and equipment, which deductions shall be credited to the appropriations from which such expenses are paid, and the moneys received as a reimbursement for the expenditures incurred in constructing waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, including interest 679on such expenditures, excluding payments on account of the expenses for maintenance of such waterworks, sewers, and pavements incurred under agreement with the Panama Government, and otherwise herein disposed of, shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. After the canal is opened for use and operation the net Profits from Canal revenues.Vol. 37, p. 564.profits accruing during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen from the operations herein authorized shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States, as provided for the profits accruing from the business authorized in section six of the Panama Canal Act. Sec. 4. That the consolidation of the functions of receiving, disbursing, Consolidation of Zone Government.Railroad, and Canal funds.and accounting for the funds of the Canal Zone government and the Panama Railroad operations on the Isthmus with the functions of receiving, disbursing, and accounting for the funds appropriated for the Panama Canal shall be and is hereby authorized in so far as may be practicable: *Provided*, That separate accounts shall be *Proviso*.Separate accounting.kept of the transactions under each fund. Sec. 5. That the collecting officers of the Panama Canal shall render Accounts of collections.Settlements, etc.their accounts in such detail, and shall transmit with their accounts to the accounting officers of the Treasury charged with the *Post*, p. 886.settlement thereof all such papers, records, and copies relating to their transactions as collectors as shall be prescribed in regulations approved by the President, and, in his judgment, not incompatible with the methods of accounting prescribed m the so-called Dockery Vol. 28, p. 205.Act, approved July thirty-first, eighteen hundred and ninety-four. Sec. 6. That for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen and Submission of detailed estimates hereafter.annually thereafter the estimates of appropriations for the Panama Canal shall be submitted in detail, showing the amounts required for personal services and the amounts required for material including all supplies, under the heads of construction, maintenance, operation, Explanatory notes.sanitation, and civil government, and following each there shall be submitted notes giving in parallel columns information which will show the number, by grade or classes, of officers, employees, and skilled and unskilled laborers proposed to be paid under each of said appropriations for the ensuing fiscal year and those paid at the close of the seal year next preceding the period when said estimates are prepared and submitted; also, in connection with each item for material Expenditures of previous year.and miscellaneous purposes other than salaries or pay for personal services, the amounts actually expended or obligated, quantities purchased, and prices paid for material or supplies during the entire fiscal year next preceding the preparation and submission of said estimates. There shall also be submitted in connection with the foregoing Unit cost of construction work.information, statements of actual unit cost of all construction work done, and of estimated unit cost of work proposed to be done, for the fiscal years included in the notes so required to be submitted with the annual estimates. Sec. 7. That the appropriations herein made for the Panama Canal, Classification, etc., of appropriations for last half of fiscal year.other than those for fortifications, or balances thereof, may be available, during the last half of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, for expenditure for the purposes indicated by the several titles enumerated in the foregoing section, namely, construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and civil government, and be accounted for at the end of that year in such detail or classification, respectively, thereunder as may be determined by the Governor of the Panama Canal, or hereafter required by Congress; and such Use of balances, January 1, 1915.balances may, on and after January first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, constitute one fund for expenditure under said respective titles. Sec. 8. That until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and Unserviceable equipment, etc., may be sold without advertising.fifteen, when any material, supplies, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama 680Canal is no longer needed, or is no longer serviceable, it may be sold in such manner as the President may direct, and without advertising in such classes of cases as may be authorized by him. Sec. 9. Annual reports of departments, etc.Time for furnishing copy to Public Printer, etc.[R. S., sec. 196, p. 31, amended](/us/rs/s196/p31).*Post*, p. 886. Appropriations herein for printing and binding shall not be used for any annual report or the accompanying documents unless the head of each executive department, or other branch of the public service, or the Commissioners of the District of Columbia making such a report shall furnish copy to the Public Printer in the following manner: Copies of the documents accompanying such annual reports on or before the fifteenth day of October of each year; copies of the annual reports on or before the fifteenth day of November of each year; and complete revised proofs of the accompanying documents and the annual reports on the tenth and twentieth days of November Smithsonian reports excepted.of each year, respectively. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the annual reports of the Smithsonian Institution. Sec. 10. Submission of estimates.Vol. 37, p. 487, amended. That section six of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, is amended to read as follows: " “Sec. 6. Estimates for lump-sum appropriations. That there shall be submitted hereafter, in the annual Book of Estimates following every estimate for a general or lump-sum appropriation, except public buildings or other public works Statements required.Expenditures contemplated.constructed under contract, a statement showing in parallel columns: “First, the number of persons, if any, intended to be employed and the rates of compensation to each, and the amounts contemplated to be expended for each of any other objects or classes of expenditures Unit of construction cost.specified or contemplated in the estimate, including a statement of estimated unit cost of any construction work proposed to be done; and Expenditures of preceding year, including unit cost of construction work.“Second, the number of persons, if any, employed and the rate of compensation paid each, and the amounts expended for each other object or class of expenditure, and the actual unit cost of any construction work done, out of the appropriation corresponding to the estimate so submitted, during the completed fiscal year next preceding the period for which the estimate is submitted. Limitation on other notes.“Other notes shall not be submitted following any estimate embraced in the annual Book of Estimates other than such as shall suggest changes in form or order of arrangement of estimates and appropriations and reasons for such changes.”" Sec. 11. Typewriting machines.Prices restricted. That no part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen for the purchase of any typewriting machine at a price in excess of the lowest price paid by the Government of the United States for the same make and substantially the same 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 typewriting machines used in schools of the District of Columbia or of the Indian Service. Sec. 12. Lump-sum appropriations.Payment of additional salaries to employees from, forbidden. That it shall not be lawful hereafter to pay to any person, employed in the service of the United States under any general or lump sum appropriation, any sum additional to the regular compensation received for or attached to any employment held prior to an appointment or designation as acting for or instead of an Promotions not affected.occupant of any other office or employment. This provision shall not be construed as prohibiting regular and permanent appointments by promotion from lower to higher grades of employments. Sec. 13. Subsistence allowances outside of District of Columbia limited. That the heads of executive departments and other Government establishments are authorized to prescribe per diem rates of allowance not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence to persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia and away from their designated posts of duty 681when not otherwise fixed by law. For the fiscal year nineteen Estimates for allowances.hundred and sixteen and annually thereafter estimates of appropriations from which per diem allowances are to be paid shall specifically state the rates of such allowances. For the relief of the sufferers from the recent conflagration in Salem, Mass.Relief of fire sufferers.*Proviso*.Under Secretary of War.Salem, Massachusetts, $200,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That all expenditures under this provision shall be made under the direction or the Secretary of War. Sec. 14. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of Sums for salaries to be in full.officers and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, and all laws or parts of laws to the extent they are in conflict with the provisions of this Act are repealed Approved, August 1, 1914.
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