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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 38 STAT. · June 23, 1913 · Chapter 3

Chapter 3. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 3.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes. June 23, 1913.[[H. R. 2441](/us/bill/63/hr/2441).][[Public, No. 3](/us/pl/63/3).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of th e United States of America in Congress assembled*, Sundry civil expenses appropriations. That the following sums be, and the same are hereby, appropriated, for the objects hereinafter expressed, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, namely:
UNDER THE TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. public buildings.Public buildings. Abbeville, S. C.Abbeville, South Carolina, post office: For completion of building under present Emit, $10,000. Abilene, Kans.Abilene, Kansas, post office: For completion of building under present Emit, $44,000. Alameda, Cal.Alameda, California, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $25,000. Amarillo, Tex.Amarillo, Texas, post office and courthouse: For continuation of building under present Emit, $12,000.
Ansonia, Conn.Ansonia, Connecticut, post office: For continuation of building under present Emit, $33,000. Arkansas City, Ark.Arkansas City, Kansas, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $5,000. Athol, Mass.Athol, Massachusetts, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $10.000. Auburn, N. Y.Auburn, New York, post office and courthouse: For completion of enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $10,000.
Rent.For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials at Auburn, New York, $7,500. Augusta, Ga.Augusta, Georgia, post office and courthouse: For completion of building under present limit, $150,000. Austin, Tex.Austin, Texas, post office: For completion of building under present Emit, $60,000. Bainbridge, Ga.Bainbridge, Georgia, post office: For commencement of budding under present limit, $35,000. Bardstown, Ky.Bardstown, Kentucky, post office: For commencement of building under present Emit, $45,000. 5 Bedford City, Virginia, post office:
For completion of building Bedford City, Va.under present limit, $40,000. Bellaire, Ohio, post office: For continuation of building under Bellaire, Ohio.present limit, $35,000. Bellefontaine, Ohio, post office: For completion of building under Bellefontaine, Ohio.present limit, $30,000. Bellingham, Washington, post office and courthouse: For completion Bellingham, Wash.of building under present limit, $40,000. Beloit, Kansas, post office: For completion of building under present Beloit, Kans.limit, $20,000.
Bennettsville, South Carolina, post office: For continuation of Bennettsville, S. C.building under present limit, $15,000. Bennington, Vermont, post office: For completion of building under Bennington, Vt.present limit, $55,000. Berkeley, California, post office: For continuation of building under Berkeley, Cal.present Emit, $75,000. Biddeford, Maine, post office: For completion of building under Biddeford, Me.present limit, $50,000. Big Rapids, Michigan, post office: For continuation of building Big Rapids, Mich.under present Emit, $20,000.
Billings, Montana, post office: For completion of building under Billings, Mont.present Emit, $50,000. Bismarck, North Dakota, post office and courthouse: For completion Bismarck, N. Dak.of building under present Emit, $35,000. Bloomington, Indiana, post office: For completion of building Bloomington, Ind.under present limit, $10,000. Blue Island, Illinois, post office: For continuation of building under Blue Island, Ill.present Emit, $30,000. Bonham, Texas, post office: For completion of building under Bonham, Tex.present Emit, $10,000.
Boonville, Missouri, post office: For completion of building under Boonville, Mo.present Emit, $25,000. Boston, Massachusetts, customhouse: For completion of the enlargement, Boston, Mass., customhouse.extension, remodeling, or improvement of the building under present limit, $450,000. For expenses incident to the temporary removal of the force Temporary removal of force.employed in the customhouse during the extension, remodeling, and so forth, of building at Boston, Massachusetts, $96,000.
Bowling Green, Ohio, post office: For completion of building Bowling Green, Ohio.under present limit, $30,000. Bozeman, Montana, post office: For continuation of building Bozeman, Mont.under present Emit, $10,000. Brigham City, Utah, post office: For continuation of building Brigham City, Utah.under present limit, $15,000. Bristol, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion of building under Bristol, Pa.present Emit, $20,000. Brookfield, Missouri, post office: For completion of building Brookfield, Mo.under present limit, $40,000.
Brookings, South Dakota, post office: For completion of building Brookings, S. Dak.under present limit, $40,000. Brownwood, Texas, post office: For completion of building under Brownwood, Tex.present Emit, $30,000. Bryan, Texas, post office: For continuation of building under Bryan, Tex.present Emit $16,000. Burlington, New Jersey, post office: For continuation of building Burlington, N. J.under present limit, $22,000. Butler, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion of building under Butler, Pa.present Emit, $25,000.
Cadillac, Michigan, post office: For continuation of building under Cadillac, Mich.present limit, $20,000. 6 Cambridge, Ohio.Cambridge, Ohio, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $35,000. Camden, Me.Camden, Maine, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $45,000. Camden, S. C.Camden, South Carolina, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $10,000. Canton, Ill.Canton, Illinois, post office: For continuation of building under present Emit, $15,000.
Canton, Ohio.*Post*, p. 209.Canton, Ohio, post office: For alterations, improvements, and repairs, $20,000. Carrollton, Ga.Carrollton, Georgia, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $15,000. Cartersville, Ga.Cartersville, Georgia, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $35,000. Casper, Wyo.Casper, Wyoming, post office: For completion of building under present Emit, $25,000. Cedartown, Ga.Cedartown, Georgia, post office: For completion of building under present Emit, $15,000.
Charleroi, Pa.Charleroi, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion of building under present Emit, $10,000. Charlotte, N. C.Charlotte, North Carolina, post office and courthouse: For completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present Emit, $120,000. Demolition of old and construction of new building.Vol. 36, p. 693.Section seven of the omnibus public building Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, authorizing the enlargement, extension, remodeling or improvement of the United States post office and courthouse at Charlotte, North Carolina, at a limit of cost of not to exceed $250,000, be, and the same is hereby, amended, so as to authorize, in lieu thereof, the demolition of the present building and the construction of a new building for the use and accommodation of the post office and United States courts, at Charlotte, North Carolina, including fireproof vaults and heating and ventilating apparatus and approaches, complete, within said limit of cost hereby fixed of not to exceed $250,000; the materials of which the old building is composed to be utilized, so far as they may be found suitable, in the construction of the new building.
And the Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to enter into contracts for the construction of said building within the said limit of cost hereinbefore fixed. Old assay office to be reconstructed, etc.That the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized and directed to cause the present assay office building in Charlotte, North Carolina, to be so altered, rearranged, improved, and equipped, including fireproof vaults and heating and ventilating apparatus, as to afford temporary quarters, pending the construction of said new post office and courthouse, for such of the Federal officials at Charlotte as can be accommodated therein, and so as to furnish suitable permanent quarters, for such Federal officials as can not be properly accommodated, upon its completion, in said new post office and court-house at a cost not exceeding $25,000.
Rent of temporary quarters.And the Secretary of the Treasury be, and he is hereby, authorized to rent temporary quarters for such Federal officials as can not be so accommodated in the permanently altered and rearranged assay office, and to pay the rent for such temporary quarters and all moving expenses out of the limit of cost hereinbefore fixed for permanently altering and rearranging said assay office building, said rent to be for such period as may be permitted by the balance remaining of the last-mentioned limit of cost after such permanent alteration and rearrangement of said assay office has been provided for, not exceeding an aggregate rental of $6,500 for the first year; estimates for any further rents to be submitted annually. 7 That all appropriations heretofore made for the enlargement, Use of former appropriations.Vol. 36, p. 1369;
Vol. 37, p. 419.extension, remodeling, or improvement of the post office and court house at Charlotte, North Carolina, be, and the same are hereby, reappropriated and made available for the construction of said new post office and court house, and for said permanent alterations, remodeling, and so forth, of the assay office, and for said rental of temporary quarters and moving expenses of the Federal officials to be quartered therein; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use the assay office building at Charlotte, North Carolina, for the occupancy Occupation of assay office.of certain Federal officials when the building has been placed in condition to accommodate them.
Chickasha, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For continuation Chickasha, Okla.of building under present limit, $105,000. Chicago, Illinois, appraisers stores: For repairs and alterations, Chicago, Ill., appraisers stores.including equipment and plumbing fixtures, $15,000. Chico, California, post office: For continuation of building under Chico, Cal.present limit, $25,000. Clarksdale, Mississippi, post office: For continuation of building Clarksdale, Miss.under present limit, $24,000.
Clarksville, Texas, post office: For completion of building under Clarksville, Tex.present limit, $15,000. Concordia, Kansas, post office: For completion of building under Concordia, Kans.present limit, $35,000. Concord, New Hampshire, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary Concord, N. H., rent.quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, to continue available until expended, $5,000. Cookeville; Tennessee, post office and courthouse:
For continuation Cookeville, Tenn.of building under present limit, $15,000. Corpus Christi, Texas, post office and customhouse: For completion Corpus Christi, Tex.of building under present limit, $10,000. Corry, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation of building under Corry, Pa.present limit, $45,000. Cortland, New York, post office: For continuation of building under Cortland, N. Y.present limit, $40,000. Covington, Tennessee, post office: For continuation of building under Covington, Tenn.present Emit, $10,000.
Covington, Virginia, post office: For completion of building under Covington, Va.present limit, $25,000. Crowley, Louisiana, post office: For completion of building under Crowley, La.present limit, $10,000. Cuero, Texas, post office: For commencement of building under Cuero, Tex.present limit. $35,000. Cullman, Alabama, post office: For completion of building under Cullman, Ala.present limit, $25,000. Cynthiana, Kentucky, post office: For continuation of building Cynthiana, Ky.under present limit, $40,000.
Dalles, The, Oregon, post office: For continuation of building The Dalles, Oreg.under present limit, $5,000. So much of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for constructionDanville, Ill., approaches.Vol. 36, p. 1370. of the Federal building at Danville, Illinois, as may be necessary may be expended on plans approved by the Supervising Architect of the Treasury in the improvement of the approaches to and grounds around said building. Darlington, South Carolina, post office:
For completion of building Darlington, S. C.under present limit, $10,000. Dayton, Ohio, post office and courthouse: For completion of building Dayton, Ohio.under present limit, $200,000. Defiance, Ohio, post office: For completion of building under Defiance, Ohio.present limit, $30,000. 8 Delavan, Wis.Delavan, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $25,000. Del Rio, Tex.Del Rio, Texas, post office and courthouse: For completion of building under present limit, $33,000.
Denison, Iowa.Denison, Iowa, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $25,000. Denver, Colo.Denver, Colorado, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $200,000. De Soto, Mo.De Soto, Missouri, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $15,000. Douglas, Wyo.Douglas, Wyoming, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $25,000. Duquota, Ill.Duquoin, Illinois, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $28,000.
Edwardsville, Ill.Edwardsville, Illinois, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $25,000. Elberton, Ga.Elberton, Georgia, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $15,000. Elkins, W. Va.Elkins. West Virginia, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $35,000. Elwood, Ind.Elwood, Indiana, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $10,000. Eufaula, Ala.Eufaula, Alabama, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $10,000.
Evanston, Ill.Evanston, Illinois, post office: For completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $10,000. Excelsior Springs, Mo.Excelsior Springs, Missouri, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $10,000. Fairmont, W. Va.Fairmont, West Virginia, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $40,000. Fayetteville, Tenn.Fayetteville, Tennessee, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $10,000.
Florence, Ala.Florence, Alabama, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $30,000. Fort Madison, Iowa.Fort Madison, Iowa, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $30,000. Frankfort, Ind.Frankfort, Indiana, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $35,000. Franklin, La.Franklin, Louisiana, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $10,000. Fulton, N. Y.Fulton, New York, post office: For continuation of building under present Emit, $50,000.
Gadsden, Ala.Gadsden, Alabama, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $20,000. Gaffney, S. C.Gaffney, South Carolina, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $10,000. Gary, Ind.Gary, Indiana, post office: For continuation of building under present Emit, $20,000. Gastonia, N. C.Gastonia, North Carolina, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $25,000. Georgetown, Ky.Georgetown, Kentucky, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $5,000.
Gettysburg, Pa.Gettysburg, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion of building under present Emit, $17,000. Glens Falls, N. Y.Glens Falls, New York, post office: For continuation of building under present Emit, $5,000. Goshen, Ind.Goshen, Indiana, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $20,000. Grafton, W. Va.Grafton, West Virginia, post office: For completion of building under present Emit, $60,000. 9 Grand Junction, Colorado, post office: For completion of building Grand Junction, Colo.under present limit, $50,000.
Grass Valley, California, post office: For continuation of buildingGrass Valley, Cal. under present limit, $25,000. Greeley, Colorado, post office: For commencement of building Greeley, Colo.under present limit, $25,000. Greenville, North Carolina, post office: For continuation of building Greenville, N. C.under present limit, $45,000. Guthrie, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For completion of Guthrie, Okla.the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $55,000.
Hampton, Virginia, post office: For continuation of building under Hampton, Va.present limit, $20,000. Hanford, California, post office: For continuation of building under Hanford, Cal.present limit, $12,000. Hanover, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation of building under Hanover, Pa.present limit, $30,000. Harrisburg, Illinois, post office: For completion of building under Harrisburg, Ill.present limit, $40,000. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, post office and courthouse: For completion Harrisburg, Pa.of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present Émit, $55,000.
For rent of temporary quarters at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for the Rent.accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $3,000. Hendersonville, North Carolina, post office: For continuation of Hendersonville. N. C.building under present limit, $27,000. Hickory, North Carolina, post office: For continuation of Hickory, N. C.building under present limit, $35,000. Hillsboro, Texas, post office: For completion of building Hillsboro, Tex.under present limit, $15,000.
Holland, Michigan, post office: For continuation of building under Holland, Mich.present limit, $5,000. Homestead, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion of building under Homestead, Pa.present limit, $10,000. Hopkinsville, Kentucky, post office: For continuation of building Hopkinsville, Ky.under present limit, $45,000. Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation of building Huntingdon, Pa.under present limit, $25,000. Huron, South Dakota, post office: For completion of building under Huron, S.
Dak.present limit, $20,000. Idaho Falls, Idaho, post office: For continuation of building under Idaho Falls, Idaho.present limit, $38,000. Iowa Falls, Iowa, post office: For continuation of building under Iowa Falls, Iowa.present limit, $33,000. Ishpeming, Michigan, post office: For continuation of building Ishpeming, Mich.under present limit, $10,000. Jackson, Kentucky, post office and courthouse: For continuation Jackson, Ky.of building under present limit, $20,000. Jennings, Louisiana, post office:
For continuation of building under Jennings, La.present limit, $5,000. Jersey City, New Jersey, post office: For completion of building under Jersey City, N. J.present limit, $300,000. Johnstown, New York, post office: For completion of building under Johnstown, N. Y.present limit, $25,000. Johnstown, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion of building Johnstown, Pa.under present limit, $50,000. Jonesboro, Arkansas, post office: For completion of building under Jonesboro, Ark.present limit, $10,000.
Juneau, Alaska, post office and customhouse: For continuation of building Juneau, Alaska.under present limit, $40,000. 10 Kingfisher, Okla.Kingfisher, Oklahoma, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $20,000. Lafayette, La.Lafayette, Louisiana, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $15,000. La Junta, Colo.La Junta, Colorado, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $25,000. Lake City, Minn.Lake City, Minnesota, post office:
For commencement of building under present limit, $15,000. Lansing, Mich.Lansing, Michigan, post office: For completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $20,000. Rent.For rent of temporary quarters, at Lansing, Michigan, for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $2,500. Laporte, Ind.Laporte, Indiana, post office: For site and completion of building under present limit, $10,000.
La Salle, Ill.La Salle, Illinois, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $10,000. Laurens, S. C.Laurens, South Carolina, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $10,000. Lawrenceburg, Ky.Lawrenceburg, Kentucky, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $20,000. Lebanon, Tenn.Lebanon, Tennessee, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $34,000. Le Mars, Iowa.Le Mars, Iowa, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $35,000.
Lewes, Del.Lewes, Delaware, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $20,000. Live Oak, Fla.Live Oak, Florida, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $29,000. Livingston, Mont.Livingston, Montana, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $35,000. Long Branch, N. J.Long Branch, New Jersey, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $50,000. Longview, Tex.Longview, Texas, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $5,000.
Lorain, Ohio.Lorain, Ohio, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $78,750. Lynchburg, Va.Lynchburg, Virginia, post office and courthouse: For completion of the extension and remodeling of building under present limit, $30.000. Rent.For rent of temporary quarters at Lynchburg, Virginia, for the accommodation of Government officials, $1,000. Macomb, Ill.Macomb, Illinois, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $30,000. Mandan. N. Dak.Mandan, North Dakota, post office:
For continuation of building under present limit, $25,000. Mansfield, Ohio.Mansfield, Ohio, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $20,000. Marlin, Tex.Marlin, Texas, post office: For completion of building under present Emit, $25,000. Marshall, Mo.Marshall, Missouri, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $15,000. Marshall, Tex.Marshall, Texas, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $40,000. Maryville, Mo.Maryville, Missouri, post office:
For completion of building under present Emit, $15,000. Mattoon, Ill.Mattoon, Illinois, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $20,000. McAlester, Okla.McAlester, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For completion of building under present Emit, $65,000. 11 McCook, Nebraska, post office and courthouse: For completion of McCook, Nebr.building under present limit, $50,000. McPherson, Kansas, post office: For continuation of building McPherson, Kans.under present limit, $5,000.
Medford, Oregon, post office and courthouse: For continuation of Medford, Oreg.building under present limit, $40,000. Menomonie, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation of building Menomonie, Wis.under present limit, $39,000. Mexico, Missouri, post office: For completion of building under Mexico, Mo.present limit, $10,000. Miami, Florida, post office, courthouse, and customhouse: For Miami, Fla.completion of building under present limit, $60,000. Milwaukee, Wisconsin, appraisers’ stores:
For completion Milwaukee, Wis., appraisers’ stores.of building under present limit, $30,000. Minneapolis, Minnesota, post office: For continuation of building Minneapolis, Minn.under present limit, $330,000. Minot, North Dakota, post office and courthouse: For continuation Minot, N. Dak.of building under present limit, $45,000. Mishawaka, Indiana, post office: For continuation of building Mishawaka, Ind.under present limit, $25,000. Mobile, Alabama, post office: For commencement of building Mobile, Ala.under present limit, $140,000.
Monroe, North Carolina, post office: For continuation of building Monroe, N. C.under present limit, $20,000. Moorhead, Minnesota, post office: For completion of building Moorhead, Minn.under present limit, $15,000. Morgantown, West Virginia, post office: For completion of building Morgan town, W. Va.under present limit, $39,000. Morristown, New Jersey, post office: For commencement of building Morristown, N. J.under present limit, $45,000. Morristown, Tennessee, post office: For continuation of building Morristown, Tenn.under present limit, $30,000.
Moundsville, West Virginia, post office: For continuation Moundsville, W. Va.of building under present limit, $10,000. Mount Vernon, Illinois, post office: For continuation of Mount Vernon, Ill.building under present limit, $30,000. Mount Vernon, New York, post office: For continuation of Mount Vernon, N. Y.building under present limit, $69,000. Muskogee, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For completion Muskogee, Okla.of building under present limit, $320,000. New Albany, Indiana, post office:
For completion of the enlargement, New Albany, Ind.extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $10,000. New Bedford, Massachusetts, post office: For completion of building New Bedford, Mass.under present limit, $175,000. Newberry, South Carolina, post office: For completion of building Newberry, S. C.under present limit, $10,000. Newcastle, Indiana, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $30,000. New Haven, Connecticut, post office:
For continuation of building Newcastle, Ind.under present limit, $125,000. New Orleans, Louisiana, post office and courthouse; For completion New Haven, Conn.of building under present limit, $157,000. Newport, Arkansas, post office: For continuation of building under New Orleans, La., post office and courthouse.Newport, Ark.present limit, $12,500. The unexpended balance of the appropriation for site at Searcy, Use of balance for Site at Searcy, Ark.Arkansas, $4,500, is hereby reappropriated and made available for site and building at Newport, Arkansas, in compliance with the provisions of the act of June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and ten Vol. 36, p. 684.(Thirty-sixth Statutes, page six hundred and eighty-four). 12 New Rochelle, N.
Y.New Rochelle, New York, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $25,000. New York, N. Y.Barge office.New York, New York, barge office: For completion of the annex and building pier in connection therewith under present limit, $25,000. Post office.New York, New York, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $500,000. North Tonawanda, N. Y.North Tonawanda, New York, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $30,000.
Oil City, Pa.Oil City, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of the building under present limit, $5,000. Oldtown, Me.Oldtown, Maine, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $32,000. Olympia, Wash.Olympia, Washington, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $30,000. Oneonta, N. Y.Oneonta, New York, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $30,000. Opelika, Ala.Opelika, Alabama, post office:
For continuation of building under present limit, $25,000. Orange, N. J.Orange, New Jersey, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $10,000. Orangeburg, S. C.Orangeburg, South Carolina, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $5,000. Osage City, Kans.Osage City, Kansas, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $15,000. Ottawa, Kans.Ottawa, Kansas, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $30,000.
Owatonna, Minn.Owatonna, Minnesota, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $23,000. Oxford, N. C.Oxford, North Carolina, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $25,000. Paragould, Ark.Paragould, Arkansas, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $5,000. Paris, Tex.Paris, Texas, post office: For completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $40,000. Pasadena, Cal.Pasadena, California, post office:
For continuation of building under present limit, $135,000. Penn Yan, N. Y.Penn Yan, New York, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $10,000. Pensacola, Fla.Pensacola, Florida, post office and courthouse: For completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $30,000. Rent.For rent of temporary quarters at Pensacola, Florida, for the accommodation of Government officials, $13,000. Perry, Iowa.Perry, Iowa, post office:
For continuation of building under present limit, $25,000. Petoskey, Mich.Petoskey, Michigan, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $40,000. Piqua, Ohio.Piqua, Ohio, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $30,000. Plainfield, N. J.Plainfield, New Jersey, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $30,000. Plymouth, Mass.Plymouth, Massachusetts, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $45,000.
Pocatello, Idaho.Pocatello, Idaho, post office and courthouse: For completion of building under present limit, $50,000. Point Pleasant, W. Va.Point Pleasant, West Virginia, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $10,000. 13 Pontiac, Illinois, post office: Fop completion of building under Pontiac, Ill.present limit, $15,000. Poplar Bluff, Missouri, post office: For continuation of building underPoplar Bluff, Mo. present limit, $35,000. Port Jervis, New York, post office:
For continuation of building under Port Jervis, N. Y.present limit, $25,000. Portland, Indiana, post office: For continuation of building under Portland, Ind.present limit, $10,000. Portland, Oregon: For moving, in the discretion and under the direction Portland, Oreg., moving weather ball.of the Secretary of the Navy, weather ball from customhouse to a point where it can be readily seen by the shipping, $500. Portsmouth, Ohio, post office and courthouse: For completion of the enlargement, Portsmouth, Ohio.extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $15,000.
Pulaski, Tennessee, post office: For continuation of building under present Pulaski, Tenn.limit, $25,000. Punxsutawney, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion of building under Punxsutawney, Pa.present limit, $20,000. Putnam, Connecticut, post office: For continuation of building under present Putnam, Conn.limit, $10,000. Raleigh, North Carolina, post office and courthouse: For completion of the Raleigh, N. C.enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $125,000.
For rent of temporary quarters at Raleigh, North Carolina, for the accommodation Rent.of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $5,000. Rapid City, South Dakota, post office: For completion of building under present Rapid City, S. Dak.limit, $50,000. For rent of temporary quarters at Reading, Pennsylvania, for the accommodation of Reading, Pa., rent.Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $10,000. Red Oak, Iowa, post office: For completion of building under present limit, Red Oak, Iowa.$25,000.
For rent of temporary quarters at Reidsville, North Carolina, for the accommodation Reidsville, N. c., rent.of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $1,500. Riverside, California, post office: For completion of building under present Riverside, Cal.limit, $25,000. Rochelle, Illinois, post office: For completion of building under present limit, Rochelle, Ill.$40,000. Rochester, New Hampshire, post office: For completion of building under present Rochester, N.
H.limit, $35,000. Rocky Mount, North Carolina, post office: For continuation of building underRocky Mount, N. C. present limit, $15,000. Rolla, Missouri, post office: For completion of building under present limit, Rolla, Mo.$25,000. Saint Louis, Missouri, customhouse: For completion of the enlargement, extension, Saint Louis, Mo., customhouse.remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $40,000. Saint Petersburg, Florida, post office: For completion of building under present Saint Petersburg, Fla.limit, $25,000.
Salem, Ohio, post office: For continuation of building under present limit,Salem, Ohio. $30,000. Salt Lake City, Utah, post office and courthouse: For completion of the enlargement, Salt Lake City, Utah.extension, remodeling, or improvement of the building under present limit, $20,000. San Diego, California, post office and courthouse: For completion of building under San Diego, Cal.present limit, $20,000. San Francisco, California, subtreasury: For continuation of building under present San Francisco, Cal., subtreasury.limit, $300,000. 14 Santa Barbara, Cal.Santa Barbara, California, post office:
For completion of building under present limit, $10,000. Schenectady, N. Y.Schenectady, New York, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $20,000. Searcy, Ark.Searcy, Arkansas, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $34,000. Seymour, Ind.Seymour, Indiana, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $10,000. Shelbyville, Tenn.Shelbyville, Tennessee, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $40,000.
Sistersville, W. Va.Sistersville, West Virginia, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, $40,000. Smyrna, Del.Smyrna, Delaware, post office: For continuation of building under present limit. $5,000. Somerset, Ky.Somerset, Kentucky, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $10,000. South Chicago, Ill.South Chicago, Illinois, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $75,000. Sparta, Wis.Sparta, Wisconsin, post office:
For continuation of building under present limit, $10,000. Springfield, Mo.Springfield, Missouri, post office and courthouse: For completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $30,000. Rent.For rent of temporary quarters at Springfield, Missouri, for the accommodation of Government officials, $13,500. Springfield, Tenn.Springfield, Tennessee, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $25,000. Steelton, Pa.Steelton, Pennsylvania, post office:
For completion of building under present limit, $10,000. Steubenville, Ohio.Steubenville, Ohio, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $10,000. Sycamore, Ill.Sycamore, Illinois, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $10,000. Talladega, Ala.Talladega, Alabama, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $15,000. Tarboro, N. C.Tarboro, North Carolina, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $15,000.
Three Rivers, Mich.Three Rivers, Michigan, post office: For continuation of building under present Emit, $15,000. Tifton, Ga.Tifton, Georgia, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $20,000. Topeka, Kans., rent.Topeka, Kansas, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, to continue available until expended, $10,000. Traverse City, Mich.Traverse City, Michigan, post office and customhouse:
For completion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $10,000. Tulsa, Okla.Tulsa, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For completion of building under present limit, $85,000. Union City, Tenn.Union City, Tennessee, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $7,000. Union, S. C.Union, South Carolina, post office: For completion of building under present limit, $15,000. Urbana, Ill.Urbana, Illinois, post office:
For continuation of building under present limit, $21,000. Vicksburg, Miss.Vicksburg, Mississippi, post office and courthouse: For complet ion of the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of building under present limit, $40,000. Wahpeton, N. Dak.Wahpeton, North Dakota, post office: For continuation of building under present limit, $25,000. 15 Walla Walla, Washington, post office and courthouse: For completion of Walla Walla, Wash.building under present limit, $35,000.
Waltham, Massachusetts, post office: For continuation of building Waltham, Mass.under present limit, $10,000. Washington, District of Columbia, Bureau of Engraving and Printing: Washington, D. C.Bureau of Engraving and Printing.Equipment, etc.For completion of building under present limit, $75,000. Equipping new building, Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For mechanical equipment, machinery, furniture, and fixtures for, and expenses of moving machinery, furniture and fixtures from old building to new building, authorized by Act of Congress, approved May Vol. 35, p. 319.twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, to be immediately available, $491,107.
Washington, District of Columbia, post office: For completion of Post office.building under present limit, exclusive of cost of boilers, $955,000. Waterville, Maine, post office: For completion of building under Waterville, Me.present limit, $10,400. Waukegan, Illinois, post office: For completion of building under Waukegan, Ill.present limit, $25,000. Waukesha, Wisconsin, post office: For completion of building under Waukesha, Wis.present limit, $40,000. Weatherford, Texas, post office:
For completion of building under Weatherford, Tex.present limit, $30,000. Westerly, Rhode Island, post office: For completion of building under Westerly, R. I.present limit, $30,000. Westfield, Massachusetts, post office: For completion of building under Westfield, Mass.present limit, $17,500. West Point, Mississippi, post office: For completion of building under West Point, Miss.present Emit, $10,000. Wilkesboro, North Carolina, post office and courthouse: For continuation Wilkesboro, N.
C.of building under present limit, $10,000. Williston, North Dakota, post office: For continuation of building under Williston, N. Dak.present Emit, $30,000. Winston-Salem, North Carolina, post office: For completion of building under Winston-Salem, N. C.present limit, $120,000. For rent of temporary quarters at Winston-Salem, North Carolina, for the Rent.accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $3,000. Wooster, Ohio, post office: For completion of building under present limit, Wooster, Ohio.$25,000.
Wytheville, Virginia, post office: For commencement of building under present Wytheville, Va.limit, $35,000. Xema, Ohio, post office: For commencement of building under present limit, Xenia, Ohio.$46,000. Repairs and preservation of public buildings: For repairs and preservation of all Repairs and preservation.completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, and for wire 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 of the Treasury may, in renting said wharf, require that the lessee shall make all necessary repairs thereto; 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 rentals of such buildings: *Provided*, That *Provisos.*Marine hospitals and quarantine stations.of the sum herein appropriated not exceeding $100,000 may be used for marine hospitals and quarantine stations, including wire screens for same, and not exceeding $12,000 for the Treasury, Treasury buildings, D.
C.16Butler, and Winder Buildings at Washington, District of Columbia: *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, $675,000. Mechanical equipment.Mechanical equipment of public buildings: 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 received 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 of the annual rentals of such buildings: *Provisos.*Marine hospitals and quarantine stations.Treasury buildings, D.
C. *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated for mechanical equipment of public buildings, not exceeding $40,000 may be used for marine hospitals and quarantine stations, and not exceeding $9,000 for the Treasury, Butler, and Winder Buildings at Washington, Pneumatic-tube system, New York City.District of Columbia, and not exceeding $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 Restriction on personal services.from such maintenance, changes, 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, $440,000.
Vaults, safes, and locks.Vaults and safes for public buildings: 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.
Electrical burglar alarms.Vol. 32, p. 1091.Electrical protection to vaults, public buildings: For installation and maintenance of electrical burglar-alarm devices authorized by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and three, including the post office and courthouse at Chicago, Illinois, and the post office and subtreasury at Boston, Massachusetts, $19.200. General expenses.Vol, 35, p. 537.General expenses of public buildings: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to execute and give effect to the provisions of section six of the Act of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, Additional salary, Supervising Architect.Vol. 37, p. 752.Technical services, etc.page five hundred and thirty-seven, part one):
For additional salary of $1,000 for the Supervising Architect of the Treasury for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen; for foremen drafts-men, 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 17$2,500 per annum, the expenditures under all the foregoing classes not to exceed $169,850; for supervising superintendents, superintendents, Superintendents, etc.and junior superintendents of construction, at rates of pay from $1,600 to $2,900 per annum, not to exceed $245,000; for expenses of superintendence, Expenses of maintenance.including expenses 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, including drafting materials, Supplies.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 Vol. 37, p. 757.$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 and shop inspections: *Provided*, That hereafter *Proviso.*Temporary details of Sela force.members of the field force of the public-building service, such as super-vising superintendents, superintendents, junior superintendents, and inspectors of the several classes, may he detailed to the District of Columbia, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, for temporary duty for periods not exceeding thirty days in any one case, in the Office of the Supervising Architect, but no subsistence or other expenses of like character shall be allowed such employees while on duty in Washington serving under such details, $525,000.
Architectural competitions, public buildings: To enable Commissions to architects.Vol. 27, p. 468,the Secretary of the Treasury 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, Hilo, Hawaii.building, specially selected under the provisions of the Act approved Vol. 36, p. 1373.March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for architectural competitions, public buildings, Vol. 37, p. 478.for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is hereby made available for said purpose during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen.
Marine Hospital, Wilmington, North Carolina: Medical officers’ Marine hospitals.Wilmington, N. C.quartern, $5,000. Marine hospital, Baltimore, Maryland: Surgical dressing room,Baltimore, Md. $2 500. Marine hospital, Detroit, Michigan: New coal shed, $1,000.Detroit, Mich. 18 quarantine stations.Quarantine stations. Reedy Island.Reedy Island Quarantine Station: Two barracks buildings and laboratory space, $30,000; crematory, $3,500; in all, $33,500. San Francisco.San Francisco Quarantine Station:
Steerage barracks building, $10,000; mess hall for steerage passengers, $5,000; rehabilitating Japanese and Chinese detention barracks, S5,000; in all, $20,000. San Diego.San Diego Quarantine Station: One new steam boiler, $1,500. Cape Charles.*Post*, p. 615.Cape Charles Quarantine Station: Residence for quarantine officer, $8,000. Supervision.The foregoing construction under marine hospitals and quarantine stations shall be done under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury and within the sums appropriated herein therefor. life-saving service.Life-Saving Service.
Superintendents.For district superintendents of life-saving stations, as follows: One for the coasts of Maine and New Hampshire, $2,200; One for the coast of Massachusetts, $2,200; One for the coasts of Rhode Island and Fishers Island, $2,000; One for the coast of Long Island, $2,200; One for the coast of New Jersey, $2,200; One for the coasts of Delaware, Maryland, and Virginia, $2,200; One for the coasts of Virginia and North Carolina, $2,200; One for the life-saving stations and for the houses of refuge on the coasts of South Carolina, Georgia, and Florida, $1,900;
One for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico, $2,000; One for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Ontario and Erie, $2,200; One for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of Lakes Huron and Superior, $2,200; One for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coast of Lake Michigan, $2,200; One for the life-saving and lifeboat stations on the coasts of California, Oregon. Washington, and Alaska, $2,200; thirteen in all, $27,900.
Keepers.For salaries of two hundred and ninety-one keepers of life-saving and lifeboat stations and of houses of refuge, $276,800. Crews of surfmen, etc.For pay of crews of surfmen employed at the life-saving and life-boat 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 Volunteers.surfmen; compensation of volunteers at life-saving and lifeboat 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 Clerks to superintendents.exercise; compensation of twelve clerks to district superintendents, one to each of the district superintendents except that of the eighth district, at such rate as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine, Fuel, repairs, etc.not to exceed $900 each; fuel for stations and houses of refuge; repairs 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;
Commutation of quarters, etc.Allowance for disabled keepers.Vol. 22, p. 57.traveling expenses of officers under orders from the Treasury Department; commutation of quarters and allowance for heat and light for officers of the Revenue-Cutter Service detailed for duty in the Life-Saving Service; for carrying out the provisions of sections seven and 19eight 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.Vol. 37, p. 757.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, $2,008,000.
For establishing new life-saving stations and lifeboat stations on New stations.the sea and lake coasts of the United States, authorized by law, $20,000, to be available until expended. revenue-cutter service.Revenue-Cutter Service. For expenses of the Revenue-Cutter Service: For pay and allowances Pay, etc.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 seven 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 Treasury Department; commutation of quarters; for maintenance of vessels in the protection of Seal fisheries, etc.the seal fisheries in Bering Sea and the other waters of Alaska, and the enforcement of the provisions of law in Alaska; for maintenance of vessels in enforcing the provisions of the Acts relating to the anchorage Anchorage, etc.Vol. 25, p. 151.Vol. 27, p. 431.Vol. 29, p. 54.Vol. 30, p. 1081.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 marksmanship; contingent expenses, Contingent expenses.Vol. 37, p. 757.including wharfage, towage, dockage, freight, advertising, surveys, labor, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses winch are not included under special heads, $2,300,000.
For repairs to revenue cutters, $175,000.Repairs to cutters. engraving and printing.Engraving and printing. For labor and expenses of engraving and printing: For salaries Salaries.of all necessary employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, including increase of grade rate of operators to SI.75 per day, SI,237,780, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended *Proviso.*Large notes.for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled 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 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 wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary Wages.of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, including increase of grade rate of printers’ assistants to $1.75 per day, $1,437,475, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary 20*Proviso.*Large notes.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 Vol. 31, p. 45.in so 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 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.
Materials, etc.Vol. 37, p. 757.For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except 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, $393,522, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Proceeds from work to be credited to Bureau.During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen all proceeds 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 Vol. 24, p. 227.year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as provided by the Act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six (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 fourteen. miscellaneous objects, treasury department.Miscellaneous.
Internal revenue.Paper for stamps.Paper for internal-revenue stamps: For paper for internal-revenue stamps, including, freight, $80,000. 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. Punishing violations of, laws.Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of viola ting the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, $150,000; and the 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 for which appropriation is made in this Act.
Enforcing laws relating lo the Treasury.Details permitted.The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use for, and in connection 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 Limit.other crimes, but not exceeding six persons so detailed shall be employed at any one time hereunder: *Provided*, That nothing *Proviso.*Other details.herein contained shall be construed to deprive the Secretary of the Treasury from making any detail now otherwise authorized by existing law.
Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury.[R. S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719).Vol. 37, p. 757.Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent expenses 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 21expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts, and Examinations, etc.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 [R.
S., sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3649/p718).of the United States, also including examinations of cash accounts at mints, $150,000. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight gold coins Recoinage of gold coins.[R. S., sec. 3512. p. 696](/us/rs/s3512/p696).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, $5,000. Recoinage of minor coins:
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury Recoinage of minor coins.to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coin of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coin and the amount the same will produce in new coin, $7,500. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive United States securities.Distinctive paper.paper for United States securities, including transportation, traveling, and 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, $367,425.
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to transfer to the Transfer of unused sheets.account for “Distinctive paper for United States securities” six million nine hundred and twenty-one thousand and twenty-four sheets of paper bought and paid for from the appropriation “Expenses of Treasury notes of eighteen hundred and ninety,” the said paper remaining on hand unused. Expenses of national currency: For distinctive paper, including Distinctive paper for national currency.transportation, traveling, mill, 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, $66,345.
Special witness of destruction of United States securities: For pay Witness of destruction.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: For pay of custodian of dies, Custody of dies, rolls, and plates.rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the printing of Government securities, namely: Two custodians, one at $2,000, and one at $1,800; three distributors of stock, one at $1,600, one at $1,400, and one at $1,200; in all, $8,000.
For operating force for public buildings: For such personal services Public buildings.Operating force.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, and of sites for public buildings, including assistant Assistant custodians, janitors, etc.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 such services are employed, $2,575,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation *Proviso.*Buildings for which available.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 22public 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 fighting 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, $900,000.
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 public buildings: 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 *Provisos.*Gas governors.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 sum of $100 at any one building, $1,600,000.
And the appropriation herein made for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors, 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: *Provided further*, Available for temporary quarters.That hereafter, unless otherwise specifically provided by law, whenever the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to secure temporary quarters for the use of the Government officials pending the alteration, improvement, or repairs to, or the remodeling, reconstruction, or enlargement of any public building under the control of the Treasury Department not hereinbefore excluded, appropriations for the foregoing purposes shall be available, if necessary, in connection with such portions of the premises as may be rented for or occupied by such officials in the same manner, for the same purpose, and to the same extent as if the title to such premises were vested in the United States.
Pneumatic tube service.Furnishing steam for, to postal service.During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen the Secretary 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 post al 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. 23 Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes:
For expenses incurred Suppressing counterfeiting, etc.,Vol. 37, p. 757.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 the person of the President and of the person Protection of President and President-elect, authorized.*Proviso.*Witnesses.chosen to be President of the United States, which protection is hereafter authorized, $135,000: *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 States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for *Post*, p. 54.“Fees of witnesses, United States courts.
” No part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used in Payment to persons detailed forbidden.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 fourteen have been employed by or under said Secret Service Division. Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, Lands, etc.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. customs service.Customs service.
To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs, Collecting revenue.Vol. 37. p. 757.Detection of frauds increased.Vol. 20, p. 386; Vol. 33, p. 396.$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 hereby further amended so as to increase the amount to be so expended for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen to $200,000.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to purchase one motor Motor boat, Corpus Christi, Tex.Vol. 37, p. 665.boat, as provided in the Act of Congress approved February tenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $6,000. Scales for customs service: For construction and installation of Automatic scales.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, of which $60,000 shall be immediately available, $125,000.
Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties Compensation in lieu of moieties.in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, $50,000. public health service.Public Health Service. Expenses of Public Health Service, as follows: For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissioned Pay, etc.Experts in mental disorders.medical officers and pharmacists, $547,640; at least six of the assistant surgeons provided for hereunder shall be required to have had a 24special training in the diagnosis of insanity and mental defect for duty in connection with the examination of arriving aliens with special reference to the detection of mental defection;
Assistant surgeons.Acting assistant surgeons.For additional assistant surgeons, $50,000; For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical officers), $200,000; Other employees.For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $477,606; Freight, etc.For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, $30,000;
Fuel, etc.For fuel, light, and water, $70,000; Furniture.For furniture and repairs to same, $8,000; Supplies.For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospital supplies, $45,000; Hygienic laboratory.For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $20,000; Maintenance of hospitals.Vol. 37, p. 757.*Proviso.*Admission of cases for study.For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and for all other necessary miscellaneous expenses, which are not included under special heads, $245,000: *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 manne hospitals, which are not included under special heads, *Proviso.*Treatment of officers, etc.$126,000: *Provided*, That hereafter commissioned officers and pharmacists, and those employees of the service devoting all their time to field work, shall be entitled to hospital relief when taken sick or injured in line of duty;
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, $1,819,746, which shall include the amount necessary for the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section seventeen of the Act of Congress approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven. Quarantine serviceMaintenance, etc.Vol. 37, p. 757.Quarantine Service:
For the maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclusive or may or officers and employees, or quarantine stations at Eastport and Portland, Maine; Providence, Rhode Island; Perth Amboy, New Jersey; Delaware Breakwater; Reedy Island; 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 supplemental 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.Vol. 37, p. 757.Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President of the United States, in case only of threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus 25fever, 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 then in force, $200,000: *Provided*, That a detailed report of *Proviso.*Report of expenditures.the expenditures hereunder shall annually hereafter be submitted to Congress.
Field investigations of public-health matters: For investigations Field investigations.Vol. 37, p. 309.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, of which the sum of $40,000 shall be immediately available. Hygienic Laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia: For additional Laboratory.Additional building.building for research work, disinfection, experiments, and housing animals, $25,000.
Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and Cooperating with State and local authorities.municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $15,000. central heating and power plant.Central heating and power plant, D. C. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to have Construction authorized.constructed, under the direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury, upon the land and wharf property of the United States hereinafter described, a central heating, lighting, and power plant, to furnish heat, light, and power for the buildings, old and new, of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, the buildings of the Department Buildings to be supplied therefrom.of Agriculture, the Treasury Building, the White House and the buildings on the grounds thereof, the State, War, and Navy Building, the Winder Building, the Mills Building, the Court of Claims Building, the buildings, old and new, of the National Museum, the Smithsonian Institution Building, the Army Medical Museum Building, the Fish Commission Building, the Washington Monument, the District Building, the Post Office Department Building, and the buildings, when constructed on the site Heretofore acquired, for each of the Departments of State, Justice, and Commerce and Labor.
The total limit of cost of such central heating, lighting, and power Limit of cost.plant, including all necessary buildings, boilers, engines, generators, pumps, machinery appliances and equipment, tunnels, ducts, and so forth, is fixed at not to exceed the sum of $1,494,104, and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to enter into contracts to the Contracts authorized.full limit of cost hereby fixed. Authority is given for making a cross connection between the central Connection with Capitol power plant.heating, lighting, and power plant aforesaid and the Capitol power plant, so that either plant may supply to the other electric energy in case of a breakdown or other emergency, such connection to be equipped with the necessary meters so that reimbursement may be made for the amount of current actually supplied by either of said plants to the other.
The lease dated April eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, between Lease of wharf property terminated.the Commissioners of the District of Columbia and John Miller for wharf property in the District of Columbia, situated on the Potomac River and described as structures numbered twenty-four, twenty-five, twenty-six, and twenty-seven, section three, as shown on the official map placed in evidence by the United States in the case of the United States against Martin F. Morris and others (One hundred and seventy-fourth United States, page one hundred and ninety-six), for a period of five years ending March fifteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and any interest thereunder, is terminated without compensation 26Designated as site for heating, etc., plant.under the covenant contained in said lease that it may be terminated at any time without compensation by Act of Congress, and the land and property covered by said lease, being land owned by the United States fronting on Water Street between Thirteenth and Thirteenth-and-a-half Streets southwest, together with land owned by the United States on the Potomac River, fronting on Water Street, between Thirteenth-and-a-half and Fourteenth Streets southwest, are hereby designated as the site for said heating, lighting, and power *Proviso.*Reservation for District asphalt plant.plant: *Provided*, That the building or buildings of said central heating, lighting, and power plant shall be so located upon said site as to reserve a sufficient area for an asphalt plant for the District of Columbia in the event of such asphalt plant being hereafter authorized.
Amount to commence construction.For the commencement of said plant the sum of $150,000 is appropriated. Employment of additional technical services.The Secretary of the Treasury is further authorized and empowered to employ, without reference to the civil-service laws and regulations, on a salary basis in the Office of the Supervising Architect such technical services as may be deemed necessary in connection with the plans, specifications, and construction of the power plant herein provided for and to pay for such services at such price or rates of compensation as he may consider just and reasonable from the appropriation *Provisos.*Amount available.hereinbefore made: *Provided*, That not to exceed $35,000 shall be available from said appropriation for such technical services:
Additional to force in Supervising Architect’s Office. *And provided further*, That the foregoing authorization for securing the services of specially qualified persons shall be in addition to and independent of the authorizations and appropriations for personal services in the Office of the Supervising Architect otherwise made. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. Columbia Hospital for Women.Construction of new building.Vol. 17, p. 360.Vol. 37, p. 172.*Post*, p. 838.For beginning the construction of a modern fireproof hospital building for the treatment of diseases peculiar to women and a lying-in asylum, in accordance with the prolusions of the Act approved June tenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-two (Seventeenth Statutes, page three hundred and sixty), 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, to cost not more than $300,000, including heating apparatus, elevators, lighting and ventilating apparatus, and approaches, S100,000, Supervision.the construction of said building, and the expenditure of the appropriation herein, to be under the direction and supervision of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds.
UNDER SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.Smithsonian Institution. International exchangesInternational exchanges: For expenses of the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $32,000. American ethnology.American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, including the excavation and preservation of archeologic 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.International Catalogue of Scientific Literature: For the cooperation 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 27International Catalogue, the expense of clerk hire, the purchase 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: For maintenance of Astrophysical Astrophysical Observatory.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. Bookstacks for Government bureau libraries: Toward replacing Replacing book-stacks.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 the necessary heating and lighting apparatus and repairs to the floor, columns, walls, and windows, $15,000.
National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances National Museum.Salaries, etc.required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of the collections, including salaries or compensation of all necessary employees, $50,000; For expense of heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic Heating, lighting, etc.service, $50,000; For continuing the preservation, exhibition, and increase of the Preserving collections, etc.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, $300,000, of which sum $5,500 may be used for necessary drawings and illustrations for publications;
For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference, Books, etc.including payment in advance for subscriptions, $2,000; For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, including all necessary Repairs.labor and material, $10,000; For postage stamps and foreign postal cards, $500;Postage. In all, for the National Museum, $412,500. National Zoological Park: For continuing the construction of National Zoological Park.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 in advance for subscriptions, and exclusive of architect’s fees or compensation, $100,000; one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of Half from District revenues.the District of Columbia and the other halt from the Treasury of the United States.
Readjustment of boundaries: For acquiring, by condemnation, Readjustment of boundaries.Purchase of additional lands.all the lots, pieces, or parcels of land, other than the one hereinafter excepted, that lie between the present western boundary of the National Zoological Park and Connecticut Avenue from Cathedral Avenue to Klingle Road, $107,200, or such portion thereof as may be necessary, said land when acquired, together with the included high-ways, to be added to and become a part of the National Zoological Park.
The proceeding for the condemnation of said land shall be Condemnation proceedings.instituted by the Secretary of the Treasury under and in accordance with the terms and provisions of subchapter one of chapter fifteen of Vol. 34, p. 151.the Code of Law for the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the *Provisos.*Tract excepted.tract of land hereinafter described, containing five thousand eight hundred and twenty square feet, shall be excepted from such condemnation, namely, the parcel recorded on the books of the assessor 28of the District of Columbia as and now assessed in the names of Thomas R. and Martha G.
Harney: *Provided further*, That Assessment of benefits.in determining the amounts to be assessed against the lots, pieces, or parcels of land in the neighborhood of the land to be condemned for the extension or enlargement of said park the jury shall take into consideration the respective situations and topographical conditions of said lots, pieces, or parcels of land and the benefits and advantages they may severally receive from the extension or enlargement of said park by the adding thereto of said land to be condemned, and shall assess such benefits against said lots, pieces, or parcels of land and against any and all other lots, pieces, or parcels of land the jury may find benefited by the said extension or enlargement of said park, as aforesaid, as the jury may find said lots, pieces, or parcels of land Collection of assessments.will be benefited: *And provided further*, That as the several assessments authorized to be made are made by the jury, they shall severally be a lien upon the land assessed and shall be collected as special improvement taxes in the District of Columbia, and shall be payable Vol. 34, p. 151.as provided in subchapter one of chapter fifteen of the Code of Law To be deposited to credit of United States.for the District of Columbia; such assessments, when collected, to be deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission. Salaries.For salaries of seven commissioners, at $10,000 each, S70,000. For salary of secretary, $5,000. Expenses.For all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execution of laws to regulate commerce, $950,000, of which sum there may be Amount for counsel, etc.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 $100 in the open market 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 or buildings in the District of Columbia.
Enforcing accounting by railroads.Vol. 34, p. 593; Vol. 36, p. 556.To further enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce 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. Arbitrating railway differences.Vol. 30, p. 424.*Post*, p. 103.To carry out the objects of the “Act concerning carriers engaged in interstate commerce and then’ employees,” approved June first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, $10,000.
Railway safety appliances.Vol. 27, p. 531; Vol. 29. n. 85; Vol. 32, p. 943; Vol. 30, pp. 298, 350.To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed regarding and to enforce compliance with Acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads, including the employment of inspectors, $150,000. Safe locomotive engine boilers, etc.Vol. 36, p. 913.For the payment of all authorized expenditures under the provisions 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. 29 UNDER THE WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenals.
Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For increasing the facilities Benicia, Cal.for fire protection, $6,000; For reconstructing one storehouse and its equipment, $15,000; In all, $21,000. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:Frankford, Pa. For the construction of a concrete sewer, $4,000. Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois:Rock Island, Ill. For increasing the capacity of the plant at the Rock Island Arsenal for the production of field artillery matériel, $250,000;
For maintenance and operation of power plant, $12,500; For operating and care and preservation of Rock Island bridges Bridge expenses.and viaduct: and for maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $18,000; In ah, $280,500. Proving ground, Sandy Hook, New Jersey:Sandy Hook proving ground, N. J. For one warehouse, $24,000; Repairs to wharf, $8,500; in all, $32,500. Testing machines, Watertown Arsenal: For the 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 improvements at arsenals, Repairs.and 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: For the construction and enlargement at military Military posts.posts of such buildings as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be necessary, including the installation therein of plumbing and of heating and lighting apparatus; but no part of this sum shall be Restriction.used for the purchase of land, for construction of buildings at Coast Artillery posts, nor for the establishment of any military prison, $140,000.
Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses: For the construction Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses.and 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, $115,078: *Provided*, That no *Proviso.*Officers’ quarters.Vol. 35, p. 363.part 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 Fort Monroe. Va.Wharf, roads, and sewer.maintenance of wharf, including all necessary labor 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. 30 Repairs to roads, etc.Repairs and operation of roads, pavements, streets, lights, and general police:
For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, 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. Sewer system maintenance.Maintenance of sewer system: For waste, oil, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, $1,900; two engineers, at $900 each; two laborers, at $500 each; in all, $4,700; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $3,133.34.
Fort Washington, Md.Swamp lands, Fort Washington, Maryland: For the purchase of about six and six-tenths acres of swamp land adjoining the military reservation of Fort Washington, Maryland, $350. Philippines.Seacoast defenses.For continuing the construction of the necessary accommodations for the Seacoast Artillery in the Philippine Islands, $200,000. Hawaii.Cavalry post.Cavalry post, Hawaii Territory: For completing the construction of officers’ quarters, barracks, storehouses, and so forth, necessary for the accommodations of headquarters and two squadrons of Cavalry, $350,000, to be immediately available.
Mexican Northwestern Railway Company.Transporting citizens from Mexico.Vol. 37, p. 641.Out of the money appropriated by Senate joint resolution one hundred and twenty-nine (Public Resolution Numbered Forty-nine), providing for transportation for American citizens fleeing from threatened danger in the Republic of Mexico, there shall be paid by the Secretary of War to the Mexican Northwestern Railway Company the sum of $7,245, in full settlement of the statement rendered to A. W.
Ivins and E. E. Bowman, dated August twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve, for the transportation of American refugees *Proviso*.Audit, etc.from points in Mexico to the American border: *Provided*, That the statement shall be audited and approved by the Auditor for the War Department. under the chief signal officer.Signal Service. Seward. Alaska.Cable office site.Purchase of site for cable office, Seward, Alaska: For the purchase of two lots of block eight, in the city of Seward, Alaska, in connection with the operation of the Washington-Alaska military cable and telegraph system, S400.
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, $120,000. Superintendents.For pay of seventy-six superintendents of national cemeteries, $63,120. Headstones for soldiers’ graves.Headstones for graves of soldiers: 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, Vol. 17, p. 345.Vol. 20, p. 281.Vol. 34, p. 56.at navy yards and stations 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, Civilians.nineteen hundred and six, also for continuing the work of furnishing Vol.
S3, p. 496; Vol. 34, p. 741.headstones for unmarked graves of civilians interred in post cemeteries under the Acts of April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, also for furnishing Confederates.headstones for the unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national cemeteries, $30,000. Repairing roadways.Repairing roadways to national cemeteries: For repairs to road-ways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special *Proviso.*Encroachments by railroads forbidden.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 by the United 31States: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used for Restriction.repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village.
No part of any appropriation herein for national cemeteries or Limited to one approach.the repair of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance of more than a single approach to any national cemetery. Roadway conveyance to city of Springfield, Missouri: The Secretary Springfield, Mo.Roadway from cemetery conveyed to.of War is authorized and directed to convey to the city of Spring-field, Missouri, all the right and title of the United States in and to those portions of the Government approach roadway to the national cemetery near that city which lie within the present limits of said city, upon the condition that the portion of the roadway so conveyed shall be kept open and maintained without expense to the United States as a public street of the city of Springfield and be available for the use of the public as an approach to said cemetery, and that all expense incident to the conveyance herein authorized be borne by the said city of Springfield.
Burial of indigent soldiers: For expenses of burying in the Arlington Burial of indigent soldiers, D. C.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, exclusive of cost of grave, $3,000, one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District Half from District revenues.of Columbia.
Antietam battle field: For repair and preservation of monuments, Antietam battle field.Preservation, etc.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. For pay of superintendent of Antietam battle field, said superintendent Superintendent.to perform his duties under the direction or the Quarter-master 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 the 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, or on Army transports; for the expenses of removal of remains from abandoned posts Removal from abandoned posts, etc.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 Reimbursement to individuals.expenses of burial or 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 the first day of July, 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. 32 Confederate burial plats, care, etc.Confederate burial plats: For the care, protection, and maintenance of 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, etc., in Cuba and China.Monuments or tablets in Cuba and China: For repairs and preservation 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, SI,000. Little Rock Ark.Burial of indigent soldiers dying at Hot Springs Hospital.Use of balance.Vol. 36, p. 724.Burial of deceased indigent patients:
The unexpended balance of the appropriation made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven for expenses of burying in 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, is reappropriated and continued available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen. national military.Military parks.
Chickamauga and Chattanooga.Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuing the establishment of the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park; for the compensation and expenses of three civilian commissioners, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, including S300 for necessary clericalTabor 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; for roads and their maintenance; the purchase of small tracts of lands heretofore authorized by law; in all, 857,060.
Shiloh.Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the work of establishing a national military park on the battlefield of Shiloh, Tennessee; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners; and the secretary; clerical and other services; labor; historical tablets; maps and surveys; roads; purchase and transportation of supplies and mate-rials; office and other necessary expenses, $27,000. Gettysburg.Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the work of establishing the national park at Gettysburg, Pennsylvania; for the 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 acts, 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 in Gettysburg; compensation of three civilian commissioners, clerical and other services, expenses, and labor; the purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position; and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, $54,000.
Vicksburg.Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the work of establishing the Vicksburg National Military Park; for the compensation of three civilian commissioners; for clerical and other services, labor, iron gun carriages, the mounting of siege guns, 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, $44,000. 33 under engineer department.Engineer Department.
Yellowstone National Park: For maintenance and repair of Yellowstone.improvements, $125,000, of which sum $75,000 shall be immediately available, including not to exceed $15,000 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the east boundary, and not to exceed $5,000 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: *Provided*, That no portion of this appropriation shall be expended *Proviso.*Restriction on removal of snow.for the removal of snow from any or the roads for the purpose of opening them in advance of the time when they will be cleared by seasonal changes.
For widening and improving surface of roads, and for building Roads, bridges, etc.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, $75,000, of which sum $35,000 shall be immediately available. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For continuation of the construction Crater Lake.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, $75,000, to be available until expended.
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, $2,000.
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 high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; repairing and extending water pines, and purchase of apparatus for cleaning them; hose; manure, and naming 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, $18,550.
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. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, $3,000. 34 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, S15,000. For grading, soiling, seeding, and planting that portion of Potomac Park west of the railroad embankment, S35,000. Restriction on lagoons and speedways.No part of any money appropriated in this 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.
For oiling or otherwise treating macadam roads, $4,000. River front of Potomac Park.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, S25,000. For continuing the improvement of Montrose Park, and for its care and maintenance, S5,000. For care and improvement of the portion of Potomac Park east of the railroad embankment, S10,000. For preparation of plans looking to the improvement of Meridian Hill Park, 82,500.
For laying cement pavement on the sidewalks on East and West Executive Avenues and south of the Treasury Department Building, $6,000. New lodges.For replacing the park lodge in Lafayette Park with a new lodge, $3,500. For replacing the park lodge in Franklin Park with a new lodge, $3,500. For replacing the park lodge in Judiciary Park with a new lodge, $3,500. For replacing the park lodge in Lincoln Park with a new lodge, $3,500. 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., pavement.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. Department grounds, etc.For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of executive departments, 81,000.
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.
Engineer.For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public 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.Care, etc.Executive Mansion: For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishing of 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, 835,000. 35 For installing an independent water supply in the Executive Mansion Water supply.grounds (within iron fence) for fire protection, $1,500.
For extraordinary repairs and refurnishing of the Executive Mansion, Extraordinary repairs.to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine, and to be immediately available, $15,000. For making alterations in the attic of the Executive Mansion to Alterations, etc.provide additional rooms, and for additional furniture, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine, and to be immediately available, $9,500. For replacing the cement roofs on the east and west terraces with New roots for terraces.new roofs, $7,500.
For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, $6,000.Fuel. For care and maintenance of greenhouses, Executive Mansion, Greenhouses.$9,000. For repairs to greenhouses, Executive Mansion, $3,000. For traveling expenses of the President of the United States, to be Traveling expense of the 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 lighting the Lighting and heating public grounds.public grounds, watchmen’s lodges, offices, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, including ah necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $15,000; For heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $3,820; In all, $18,820, or so much thereof as may be necessary, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half iron the Treasury of the United States.
Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the departments and Government Printing Office: Government telegraph.For care and repair of existing lines, $500. Washington Monument: For the care and maintenance of the Washington Monument.Maintenance.Washing ton Monument, namely: For custodian, $1,200; steam engineer, $960; assistant steam engineer, $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, lights, 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. Repairs of building where Abraham Lincoln died:
For painting Building where Abraham Lincoln died.and miscellaneous repairs, $200. Improvements, birthplace of Washington, Wakefield, Virginia: Wakefield, Va.For repairs 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 continuing work Grant Memorial.for the erection of the memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant and for 36each and every purpose connected therewith, to be available until expended, $25,000. Statue to Commodore John Barry.Vol. 34, p. 223.Unveiling statue of Commodore John Barry: For unveiling and dedicating the statue of Commodore John Barry and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including erecting and tailing down viewing stands and putting the grounds in sightly condition, $2,500.
Lincoln Memorial.Vol. 36, p. 898; Vol. 37, p. 1022.Lincoln Memorial Commission: For commencing 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, $300,000. Rivers and harbors, contract work.Construction.Rivers and harbors, contract work: Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers, under contract and otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, namely:
Vol. 30, p. 1132; Vol. 36, p. 662.For work authorized by the river and harbor Acts of eighteen hundred and ninety-nine and nineteen hundred and ten, as follows: San Francisco, Cal.Improving harbor at San Francisco, California: For continuing improvement by the removal of Centissima Rock, $110,000. Vol. 34, p. 1073.For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and seven, as follows: Boston, Mass.Improving harbor at Boston, Massachusetts: For continuing improvement of thirty-five foot channel, $150,000.
Cleveland, Ohio.Improving harbor at Cleveland, Ohio: For continuing improvement in accordance with plan for new harbor entrance and breakwater extension, in completion of contract authorization, $51,000. Passaic River, N. J.Improving Passaic River, New Jersey: For continuing improvement of channel in Newark Bay and Passaic River, $50,000. San Luis Obispo, Cal.Improving harbor at San Luis Obispo, California: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, $46,000.
Saint Marya River, Mich.New lock.Improving Saint Man’s River, Michigan: For continuing improvement at the falls by the construction of a new lock, with a separate canal, $1,475,000. Vol. 36, p. 630.For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and ten, as follows: Cape Fear River, N. C.Above Wilmington.Improving Cape Fear River, North Carolina: For continuing improvement by the construction of locks and dams above Wilmington, in completion of contract authorization, $315,000.
Cumberland River, Tenn.Improving Cumberland River below Nashville, Tennessee: For continuing improvement by the construction of locks and dams, in completion of contract authorization, $200,000. Houston Ship Channel, Tex.Improving Houston Ship Channel, Texas: For continuing improvement of the channel formerly designated as Galveston Ship Channel and Buffalo Bayou, in completion of contract authorization, $950,000. Ohio River.Specified locks and dams.Improving Ohio River below Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:
For continuing improvement by the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered Seven, Nine, Ten, Twelve, Nineteen, Twenty, Twenty-nine, Forty-one, and Forty-eight, in completion of contract authorization, $649,000. Providence River and Harbor, R. I.Improving Providence River and Harbor, Rhode Island: For continuing improvement between Kettle Point and Gaspee Point and on the western side of the harbor at and above Fields Point, in completion of contract authorization, $30,000. 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, $1,100,000. Saginaw River, Mich.Improving Saginaw River, Michigan: For continuing improvement, in completion of contract authorization, $236,000. Sluslaw River, Oreg.Improving Siuslaw River, Oregon: For continuing improvement by jetty construction at the mouth, in completion of contract authorization, $80,500. 37 For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen Vol. 36, p. 933.hundred and eleven, as follows:
Improving harbor at Ashtabula, Ohio: For continuing improvement, Ashtabula, Ohio.in completion of contract authorization, $274,675. Improving Black Warrior, Warrior, and Tombigbee Rivers, Alabama: Black Warrior, etc., Rivers, Ala.For continuing improvement by the construction of locks and dams, in completion of contract authorization, $485,000. Improving Columbia and Lower Willamette Rivers below Portland, Columbia and Willamette Rivers, Oreg.Oregon: For continuing improvement, in completion of contract authorization, $120,000.
Improving harbor at Conneaut, Ohio: For continuing improvement, Conneaut, Ohio.in completion of contract authorization, $20,738. Improving Connecticut River, Connecticut: For continuing improvement Connecticut River, Conn.below Hartford in completion of contract authorization, $60,000. Improving Delaware River, Pennsylvania and New Jersey: For Delaware River.Philadelphia to the sea.continuing; improvement of thirty-five foot channel from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, to the sea, in completion of contract authorization, $250,000.
Harbor of refuge, Duck Island Harbor, Connecticut: For continuingDuck Island Harbor, Conn. improvement, $82,000. Improving Hillsboro Bay, Florida: For continuing improvement, in Hillsboro Bay, Fla.completion of contract authorization, $100,000. Improving harbor at Hilo, Hawaii: For continuing improvement, in Hilo, Hawaii.completion of contract authorization, $150,000. Improving Humboldt Harbor and Bay, California: For continuing improvement, Humboldt Harbor and Bay, Cal.in completion of contract authorization, $467,400.
Improving Kentucky River, Kentucky: For continuing improvement by the construction Kentucky River, Ky.of Locks and Dams Numbered Thirteen and Fourteen, in completion of contract authorization, $82,650. Improving Mackinac Harbor, Michigan: For continuing improvement, Mackinac Harbor, Mich.in completion of contract authorization, $20,000. Breakwater from Mount Desert to Porcupine Island, Maine: For continuing Bar Harbor, Me., breakwater.construction of breakwater at Bar Harbor, in completion of contract authorization, $70,200.
Improving harbor at Norfolk, Virginia: For continuing improvement, Norfolk, Va.including approaches thereto and channels to Newport News and up the Southern Branch of Elizabeth River, in completion of contract authorization, $197,500. Improving Ouachita River, Arkansas and Louisiana: For continuing improvement Ouachita River, Ark. and La.by the construction of Locks and Dams Numbered Two, Four, Six, and Eight, in completion of contract authorization, $150,000. For improving Ohio River below Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania:
For Ohio River.Locks and dams.continuing improvement by the construction of locks and dams, $1,024,000. Harbor of refuge at Point Judith, Rhode Island: For continuing Point Judith, R. I.improvement, in completion of contract authorization, $290,000. Improving Sabine-Neches Canal, Texas: For continuing improvement Sabine-Neches Canal, Tex.of sections “a” and “c” from Port Arthur Canal to mouth of Neches River and from mouth of Neches River to Beaumont, $150,000. 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, $50,000.
Improving Saint Johns River, Florida: For continuing improvement Saint Johns River, Fla.from Jacksonville to the ocean, in completion of contract authorization, $150,000. Improving San Pablo Bay, California: For continuing improvement San Pablo Bay, Cal.of channel through Pinole Shoal, in completion of contract authorization, $238,000. 38 Snohomish River, Wash.Improving Snohomish River, Washington: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, $105,000. South Haven, Mich.Improving South Haven Harbor, Michigan:
For continuing improvement, $43,000. Willapa River and Harbor, Wash.Improving Willapa River and Harbor, Washington: For continuing improvement, $23,132. Maps.Maps, War Department: For publication of engineer maps for use of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, $7,500. Survey of northern and northwestern lakes.Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For survey of northern and northwestern lakes, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, binding, and issue charts and bulletins, and of investigating lake levels, with a view to their *Proviso.*New York canal system included.regulation, $125,000: *Provided*, That the survey of said northern and northwestern lakes be extended so as to include the lakes and other natural navigable waters embraced in the navigation system of the “New York canals,” including Lake Champlain.
California Debris Commission.Vol. 27, p. 507.California Debris Commission: For defraying the expenses of the commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, $15,000. New York Harbor.Preventing injurious deposits.Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injurious 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; In all, $85,260. International Waterways Commission.Continuing investigation, etc.Vol. 32, p. 373.*Post*, p. 214.International Waterways Commission: For continuing the work of investigation and report by the International Waterways Commission, authorized by section four of the rivers and harbors Act approved June thirteenth, nineteen hundred and two, $15,000, to be immediately available. medical department.Medical Department.
Artificial limbs.Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, $85,000. Surgical appliances.Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing 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, $2,000. Trusses.[R. S., sec. 1176, p. 211](/us/rs/s1176/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, $4,000. 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, 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.Destitute patients.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 of Columbia, $19,000, one half of which sum shall be g aid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half om the Treasury of the United States. Repairs to contagious wards.For repairs and improvements of wards for contagious diseases at Garfield Memorial Hospital, $1,500, and at Providence Hospital, 39$1,000, respectively, to be disbursed by the authorities of said hospitals, and to be paid one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of the Treasury of the United States; in all, $2,500. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
For the support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: For current expenses, namely: Dayton, Ohio.Current expenses.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, for payments due heirs of deceased members: *Provided*, *Proviso.*Effects of deceased members.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 expenditure, $62,000.
For subsistence, namely: Pay of commissary Subsistence.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, $260,000;
For household, namely: Expenditures for furniture for officers’ Household.quarters; for 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 “Care not repaired by the home; for fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; for 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, $115,000;
For hospital, namely: Pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, Hospital.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, fruits, 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;
For transportation, namely: For transportation of members of Transportation.the home, $1,500; For repairs, namely: Pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, Repairs.carpenters, painters, gas fitters, electrical workers, plumbers, tinsmiths, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, whitewashers, and 40laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; also for repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent *Proviso.*Restriction on new buildings.character, $57,000: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriation for repairs for any of the branch homes shall be used for the construction of any new building;
Farm.For farm, namely: Pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, 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, $24,000;
In all, $589,500. Milwaukee, Wis.Current expenses.Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the central Branch, $46,000; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $137,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $67,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $44,000;
Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $1,200; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $34,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $9,000; In all, $338,200. Togus, Me.Current expenses.Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $48,000; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $121,000;
Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $80,000; 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; FarmFor farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $17,000;
In all, $352,000. Hampton, Va.Current expenses.Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $47,000; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $169,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $70,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $44,000;
Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $1,800; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $46,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $10,000; In all, $387,800. 41 Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses, Leavenworth, Kans.Current expenses.including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $49,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.head for the Central Branch, $190,000;
For household, including the same objects specified under this Household.*Proviso.*Restriction on fuel oil.head for the Central Branch, $100,000: *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; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.for the Central Branch, $50,000; For transportation of members of the home, $2,500;Transportation.
For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs.for the Central Branch, $45,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head Farm.for the Central Branch, $17,000; In all, $453,500. Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, Santa Monica, Cal.Current expenses.including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $47,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.head for the Central Branch, $180,000;
For household, including the same objects specified under this Household.head for the Central Branch, $61,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this Hospital.head for the Central Branch, S51,000; For transportation of members of the home, $3,000;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under thisRepairs. head for the Central Branch, $48,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head Farm.for the Central Branch, $12,000;
For one new boiler, $6,750;New equipment. For ammonia compressor, $3,515; In all, $412,265. Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For current expenses, including Marion, Ind.Current expenses.the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $43,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.head for the Central Branch, $123,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this Household.head for the Central Branch, and for necessary expenses for the procurement, piping, and preservation of natural gas, oil, and water, $45,000;
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.for the Central Branch, S38,000; For transportation of members of the home, $1,000;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for Repairs.the Central Branch, $30,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.the Central Branch, $12,000; In all, $292,000. Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses, including Danville, Ill.Current expenses.the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $47,000;
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.head for the Central Branch, $170,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.for the Central Branch, $72,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.for the Central Branch, $44,000; 42 Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $1,500; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $30,000;
Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $11,000. In all, $375,500. Johnson City, Tenn.Current expenses.Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: 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 this head for the Central Branch, $122,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $47,000;
Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $33,000; 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, $28,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $18,000; In all, $292,500. Hot Springs, S. Dak.Current expenses.Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota:
For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $24,000; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $38,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $42,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $35,000; Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $6,000;
Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $14,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $5,000; New building.For combined chapel and amusement hall, $37,500. In all, $201,500. Clothing for all branches.For clothing for all of the branches, namely: Expenditures for clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, 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, $225,000.
Board of managers.Salaries, etc.Board of managers: President, $4,000; secretary, $500; general 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, general treasurer, and inspector general and chief surgeon, $15,500; clerical services for managers, $4,500; for traveling expenses of the board of managers, their officers, and employees, including officers of branch homes when detailed on inspection work, $15,000; for outside relief, $500; for rent, legal services, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, $7,000; in all, $61,500.
In all, for National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $3,981,265. *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 Soldier’s that maintains or permits to be main43tained on its premises a bar, canteen, or other place where beer, wine, or other intoxicating liquors are sold. Hereafter vacancies occurring in the membership of the Board of Board to be reduced to as vacancies occur.[R.
S. sec. 4826, p. 936, amended](/us/rs/s4826/p936).Managers of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers shall not be filled until the whole number of members of such board is reduced to five, and thereafter the number of members constituting said board shall not exceed five. State or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For State or Territorial homes.Vol. 25, p. 450.continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled 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 Volunteer Soldiers, SI ,200,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation *Provisos.*Intoxicants.shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold: *Provided further*, That for any sum or sums collected in any manner Collections from inmates.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.
For payment of amounts for arrears of pay of two and three Payment of.year volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal hen’s, for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred Vol. 14, p. 322.and sixty-six, and for amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners Commutation of rations.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 fourteen, $25,000.
For payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances on War with Spain, etc.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 fourteen and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, $5,000. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. public buildings.Public buildings.
Repairs of buildings, Interior Department: For repairs of Interior Repairs to Department buildings.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. For the installation of an electric elevator in the southeast corner Elevators.Old Post Office Department Building.of the old Post Office Department Building, occupied by the Interior Department, and the changes in the building incident thereto, to be immediately available, $7,500.
For the installation of an electric elevator in the east wing of the Patent Office Building.Patent Office Building, occupied by the Interior Department, to be immediately available, $7,500. For repairs and improvements to the Patent Office Building, as set Repairs, Patent Office Building.forth in Senate Document Numbered Five hundred and forty-three of the Sixty-first Congress, all of the work to be done under the supervision and direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, and to be immediately available, $220,000. 44 File room.For re-enforcing the floor of room numbered four hundred, Patent Office Building, for necessary shelving, skylights, painting, plastering, heating and lighting fixtures, including all other expenses necessary to the placing of said room in a satisfactory condition as a file room for the Secretary’s office, to be immediately available, $6,500.
Special repairs.For special repairs to the Patent Office Building, including new sewers, toilet rooms, and lavatories, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, $12,550. Fire protection, Pension Office.For labor, material, apparatus, hydrants or fire plugs, and other fire-protection appliances, including extending eight-inch water main from Fourth to Fifth Street through the park on the south side of the Pension Office Building, to be immediately available, $21,500.
Repairs, Old Post Office Building.For repairing and renewing plumbing and rearranging toilet rooms in the Old Post Office Department Building, and the renewal and repair of the sewerage system therefor, to be immediately available, $14,000. Tools, etc., for shop.For necessary tools and equipment required in the installation of a consolidated carpenter and cabinet shop, and for purchase of machinery for machine shop, to be immediately available, $4,850. Lighting and power plant.For necessary boiler, engine, and generator, cables and changes therein, conduits, manholes, connections, and switchboard, steam piping, and reconstruction of boiler room, additions to coal and ash conveyor for increasing the efficiency of the light and power system of the Department of the Interior, to be immediately available, $27,500.
Capitol.Repairs, etc.Vol. 37, p. 770.Capitol Building: For work at Capitol and for general repairs 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 office vehicle, and not exceeding $100 for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books and city directory, $30,000. Works of art.For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art in the Capitol, including repairs to frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $1,500.
Improving grounds.Improving the Capitol Grounds: For the care and improvement of the grounds surrounding the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, pay of one clerk, mechanics, gardeners, for fertilizers, repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways, $30,000. Repairs to stable, etc.For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house, and Purchases not restricted to supply committee.Vol. 36, p. 531.Senate and House stables, and for repairs to and paving of floors and courtyards of same, including personal services, $1,500; this and the three foregoing sums may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be expended for purchases of articles without reference to section four of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, concerning purchases for executive departments.
Resurfacing terraces.For resurfacing the terraces of the Capitol with waterproofing mate-rial and all work and materials incident thereto, $83,500, to be immediately available. Dome, etc.For painting the Dome and central portion of the Capitol, $16,970, to be immediately available. Enlarging grounds.Completing purchase.Enlarging the Capitol Grounds: To complete the acquisition of squares numbered six hundred and thirty-two, six hundred and eighty, six hundred and eighty-one, six hundred and eighty-two, six hundred and eighty-three, six hundred and eighty-four, seven hundred and twenty-one, seven hundred and twenty-two, seven hundred Vol. 36, p. 738.and twenty-three, and all that part of square numbered six hundred and thirty-three lying east of Arthur Place, provided for by the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and for other purposes,” the sum necessary, in addition to sums already appropriated, to pay the amounts awarded by court commission under the statute, $2,823,972.35. 45 public lands service.Public lands.
Salaries and commissions of registers and receivers: For salaries Registers and receivers.and commissions of registers of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding $3,000 per annum each, $560,000. 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 $320,000: *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 of said clerks, including necessary sleeping-car fares: *Provided further*, That no expenses chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by Restriction on expenditures.registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Expenses of depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing Depositing moneys.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. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement Timber depredations, protecting, and swamp-land claims.Vol. 37, p. 776.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 $25,000 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, $500,000: *Provided*, That agents *Proviso.*Per diem.and others employed under tins 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 for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, except when agents are employed Alaska service.in the District of Alaska they may be allowed not exceeding 6 per day each, in lieu of subsistence.
Expenses of hearings in land entries: For expenses of hearings or Hearings in land entries.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: To enable the Commissioner of the Reproducing plats of surveys.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.
Restoration of lands in forest reserves: To enable the Secretary of National forests.Advertising restoration of lands, etc.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, $16,000. Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable): To meet the expenses Opening Indian reservations to entry.pertaining to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian 46reservation lands as may be opened during the fiscal year nineteen *Proviso.*Reimbursement.hundred and fourteen: *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, 820,000.
California.Examining lieu land selections.Use of balance.Vol. 37, p. 456.Examination of selected lieu lands, California: To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to make field examinations of selected lieu lands in the State of California and to adjudicate the same in the General Land Office under the terms of the appropriation of 828,000 by the Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, the unexpended balance of said appropriation remaining upon the books of the Treasury on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen. surveying the public lands.Surveying.
Expenses.Vol. 37, p. 776.For surveys and resurveys of public lands, under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the *Provisos.*Preferences.Secretary of the Interior, 8700,000: *Provided*, That in expending this appropriation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied, in whole or in part, by actual settlers and of Vol. 25, p. 616.lands granted to the States by the Act approved February twenty-second, Vol. 26, pp. 215, 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 Compensation to surveyors.irrigation or dry farming, lines of reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations.
The surveys and resurveys 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 Supervisors of surveys.appoint not to exceed two supervisors of surveys, whose compensation shall not 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 Clerks, etc., inspecting.employed 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 defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber Mineral, coal and timber lands.districts, and for making, by such competent surveyors, fragmentary surveys, examination of unaccepted contract surveys heretofore Resurveys.made, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding Monuments for section corners.in behalf of the United States: *Provided further*, That the sum or not exceeding 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 corners wherever practicable. 47 Completing field notes of surveys in Minnesota and North Dakota:
Minnesota and North Dakota.Completing field notes.To complete the drafting and field-note writing pertaining to the surveys in the States of Minnesota and North Dakota caused by the discontinuance of the offices of the surveyors general in those States, $2,920. For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned Abandoned military reservations.Vol. 23. p. 103.military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hunched and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande, $10,000.Casa Grande. united states geological survey.Geological Survey.
Office of the director: Director, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chief Salaries.Director, etc.disbursing clerk, $2,500; librarian, $2,000; photographer, $2,000; assistant photographers—one $900, one $720; clerks—one of 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; Scientific assistants: Geologists—two at $4,000 each, one $3,000, Scientific assistants.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: For every expenditure requisite for and incident Expenses.Vol. 37, p. 776.to the authorized work of the Geological Survey, including 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, namely: For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, Skilled laborers.$20,000; For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, Topographic surveys.$350,000, one-half to be immediately available;
For geologic surveys in the various portions of the United States, Geologic surveys.$300,000, one-half to be immediately available; For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska mineral resources.Alaska, $100,000, to be immediately available; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the Chemical and physical researches.United States, including researches with a view of determining geological conditions favorable to the presence of deposits of potash salts, $40,000;
For the preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, Illustrations.$18,280; For the preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the Mineral resources report.United States, $75,000; For gauging the streams and determining the water supply of the United States, Water supply.and for the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, $150,000; For the purchase of necessary books for the library, including directories Books.and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, including payment in advance for subscriptions to publications, $2,000;
For engraving and printing the geologic maps, $110,000;Maps. For continuation or the topographic surveys of the public lands National forests surveys.that have been or may hereafter be designated as national forests, $75,000, one-half to be immediately available; In all, for the United States Geological Survey, $1,305,520. 48 bureau of mines.Bureau of Mines. Salaries and general expenses.Vol. 37, p. 776.For the general expenses of the Bureau of Mines, including the pay of the director and the necessary assistants, clerks, and other employees in the office at Washington, District of Columbia, and in the field, and for every other expense requisite for and incident to the general work of the Bureau of Mines 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 the 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; Testing fuels.For the analyzing and testing of the coals, lignites, ores, and other mineral fuel substances belonging to or for the use of the United States, including personal services in the Bureau of Mines 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 twelve, $135,000;
Inquiries relating to safety, etc.For inquiries and investigations into the mining and treatment of ores and other mineral substances, with special reference to safety *Proviso*.Restrictions.and waste, $100,000: *Provided*, That no 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; Mine inspector, Alaska.Per diem, etc.For one mine inspector for duty in Alaska, $3,000;
For 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 $5 per day when absent on official business from his designated headquarters, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said inspector, $3,500; Books, etc.For technical and scientific books and publications and books of reference, including payment in advance for subscriptions to publications, $1,500; Headquarters for mine-rescue cars.For the purchase or lease of the necessary land, where and under such conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, for the headquarters of five mine-rescue cars and for the construction of the *Proviso*.Acceptance of lands.necessary railway sidings on the same, $2,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized to accept any suitable land, or lands that may be donated for said purpose;
In all, for the Bureau of Mines, $662,000. miscellaneous objects, department of the interior.Miscellaneous. Disbarment proceedings expenses.Expenses of testimony in 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 of the Interior, its bureaus and offices, $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Alaska.Care of insane.Care and custody of the insane of Alaska: For the care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in the District of Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, $57,000. 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; for text49books and industrial apparatus; for 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 shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That no person *Provisos.*Limit of pay, etc.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*, Service in District of Columbia.That of the sum hereby appropriated not exceeding $7,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
All expenditures of money appropriated herein for school purposes in Supervision of expenditures.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 for Alaska: For the support of reindeer stations in Alaska, Reindeer.and for the instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of the reindeer, $5,000. Protection of game in Alaska: For carrying out the provisions of Protection of game.an Act approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled Vol. 35, p. 102.“ 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, $15,000, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska.
For the suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors among the Suppressing liquor traffic.natives of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $12,000. Yellowstone National Park: For administration and protection, Yellowstone Park.$5,500. For procuring feed for buffalo, salaries of buffalo keepers, $3,000.Care of buffalo. Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration and improvement, Glacier Park.construction and repair of roads, bridges, and telephone lines, $100,000.
Yosemite National Park, California: For protection and improvement, Yosemite Park.construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads other than toll roads: *Provided, however*, That *Proviso.*Lease for hotel authorized.the Secretary of the Interior is hereby authorized and empowered to grant a lease for the construction and maintenance of a substantial hotel and buildings in connection therewith in accordance with and under the provisions of the Act of June fourth, nineteen hundred and Vol. 34, p. 207.six (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page two hundred and seven), relating to concessions in Yellowstone National Park, and the Act of Vol. 34, p. 1219.March second, nineteen hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes at Large, page twelve hundred and nineteen) amendatory thereof, and any part of section two of the Act of October first, eighteen hundred Restrictions removed.Vol. 26, p. 651.and ninety, concerning the Yosemite National Park in conflict herewith is hereby repealed, $125,000.
Sequoia National Park, California: For the protection and improvement, Sequoia Park.construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads other than toll roads, $15,550. General Grant National Park, California: For protection and General Grant Park.improvement, construction of fences and trails, and repairing and extension of roads, $2,000. 50 Mount Rainier Park.Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For protection and improvement, construction of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads, $13,400.
Survey of roads, etc.For a survey for the extension of the present road from a point at or about Longmire Springs eastward to the eastern boundary line of the forest reserve surrounding the Mount Rainier National Park, and for the survey of the necessary trails in said park, $10,000. Mesa Verde Park.Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For protection and improvement, Vol. 34, p. 616.*Post*, p. 84.including the lands within five miles of the boundaries of said reservation, which, under the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, are to be administered by the same service established for the custodianship of the park, $10,000.
Crater Lake Park.Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For protection and improvement, and repairing and extension of roads, $7,540. Wind Cave Park.Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For improvement and protection, $2,500. government hospital for the insane.Government Hospital for Insane. Maintenance, etc.For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government Hospital 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, $302,400; 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.
Buildings and grounds.For the buildings and grounds of the Government Hospital for the Insane, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, $55,000. For provision for criminal insane, $30,454. For roadways, grading, and walks, $5,000. For barns and piggeries, $25,000. Fire pumps.Fire pumps: For the provision of two Underwriter fire pumps, to be used for fire protection, with the necessary pump house and foundation; for the erection of the same, and for laying of the required piping, $11,500. columbia institution for the deaf.Columbia Institution for the Deaf.
Support, etc.For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, for books and illustrative apparatus, and for general repairs and improvements, $66,500. For repairs to the buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, $5,000. howard university.Howard University. Maintenance, etc.For maintenance of the 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 51which 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: To meet in part cost of needed equipment, Medical department.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;
For fuel and light: In part payment for fuel and light, Freedmen’s Fuel and light.Hospital and Howard University, including necessary labor to care for and operate the same, $3,500; In all, $101,000. 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, $32,040. A detailed statement of the expenditure of this sum shall be submitted to Congress;
For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $26,000; For installation of ash conveyor, $3,000; In all, $61,040. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. public building.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, $5,000.
For reconstruction of the steam heating and plumbing system, Reconstructing heating and plumbing system., etc.including apparatus, material, and labor, and for reconstruction and rewiring-Of the electric light and power system, Extension of Interior Department system.courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia, for labor, cables, conduits, connections, and so forth, necessary in extending the lighting and power system for the Department of the Interior to the courthouse and court of appeals buildings, Washington, District of Columbia, and the providing of conduits along E Street Northwest, the laying and construction of which under or over said streets is hereby authorized, and for each and every purpose connected with the work on said buildings, all to be expended r the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds: *Provided*, That the proportional share of the cost of supplying *Proviso.*Share of expense.light, heat, and power to said courthouse buildings shall be paid to the Secretary of the Interior from the proper appropriation for the care, maintenance, fuel, lights, and so forth, of said courthouse buildings, disbursed through the Department of Justice, $40,900.
One half of each of the two foregoing sums shall be paid out of the Half from District revenues.revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half out of the Treasury of the United States. Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas: For continuing construction, Leavenworth, Kans.Penitentiary.$100,000, to be available immediately and 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. 52 Atlanta, Ga.Penitentiary.Penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia:
For continuing construction, $75,000, to be available immediately and 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. New buildings forbidden.No part of any money appropriated in this act under the Department of Justice shall be used for beginning the construction of any new or additional building at any Federal penitentiary. National Training School for Boys, D. C.National Training School for Boys:
For acquisition by purchase or condemnation of additional land adjoining the present site, to be immediately available, $41,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. miscellaneous objects, department of justice.Miscellaneous. Conduct of customs cases.Assistant Attorney General attorneys, etc.Vol. 36, p. 108.Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General, $8,000; assistant attorneys—one $5,000, 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 nine, $35,000; necessary clerical assistance and other employees at the seat of government and elsewhere, to be employed and Supplies.their compensation fixed by the Attorney General; supplies, printing, traveling, and other miscellaneous and incidental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $27,000; in all, $82,500.
Witnesses, Board of General Appraisers.For traveling expenses, fees, and mileage allowance of witnesses before the Board of United States General Appraisers, $3,000. 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, $15,000.
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 Protecting the President.time; 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 $10,000 for necessary employees at the seat of government, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $475,000.
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, $21,000.
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 [R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of the first 53paragraph, of section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, $7,500. Enforcement of antitrust laws:
For the enforcement of antitrust Enforcing antitrust laws.laws, including not exceeding S10,000 for salaries of necessary employees at the seat of government, $300,000: *Provided, however*, That no *Provisos.*Use for prosecuting labor organizations, etc., prohibited.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, not in itself unlawful: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation Organizations of farmers, etc.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.
Suits to set aside conveyances of allotted lands, Five Civilized Conveyances, Five Civilized Tribes.Expenses of suits to set aside allotments.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, $35,000 together with the unexpended balance of the appropriations heretofore made for this purpose. Enforcement of Acts to regulate commerce:
For expenses of representing Enforcing laws to regulate commerce.Vol. 24, p. 379; Vol. 36, p. 539.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, S10,000. Suits affecting title to Seminole allotted lands in Oklahoma: For Seminole allotments.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, $12,000.
Federal Court Reports and Digests: To pay the publishers of the Federal Court Reports and Digests.Federal Reporter for the estimated continuations for the fiscal year commencing July first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $3,600. For fifteen copies of volume fifty-seven of the Lawyers’ Cooperative Lawyers’ Cooperative Edition.Volume 57.Supreme Court Reports.Purchase of.Edition, Reports of the Supreme Court of the United States, $90. To pay the publishers of the decisions of the Supreme Court for two hundred and seventy-four copies of volumes two hundred and twenty-eight to two hundred and thirty-one, inclusive, official edition, at $1.75 per volume, $1,890.
For defraying the necessary expenses incurred and to be incurred Admiralty Rules.Expenses, revising, etc., by Supreme Court.for stenographic services, printing, and expert assistance for the Supreme Court of the United States in revising the Admiralty Rules, $1,200, to be disbursed by the marshal of the Supreme Court of the United States on the order of the Chief Justice of the United States, notwithstanding section seventeen hundred and sixty-five [R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314).of the Revised Statutes, or section three of the Act of June twentieth, Vol. 18, p. 109.eighteen hundred and seventy-four.
Protecting interests of the United States in suits affecting Pacific Pacific rail roads 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, $50,000. Opinions and briefs of Solicitor of Treasury: To enable the Attorney Opinions, Solicitor of Treasury.Preparation of digest.[R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314).Vol. 18, p. 109.General to employ at his discretion, and irrespective of the provisions of sections seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes or other law, such competent person or persons as will, in his judgment, best perform the service to edit and prepare for publication and super54intend the printing of a digest of the opinions and briefs of the Solicitor of the Treasury covering the period from January first, nineteen hundred and eleven, to and including December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and twelve, $500.
JUDICIAL.Judicial. united states courts.United States courts. Marshals.Salaries, etc.For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including the office expenses of United States marshals in the District of Alaska, $1,480,000, 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.Advances to United States marshals, in accordance with existing law, may be made from the proper appropriations, as herein provided, Restriction.immediately upon the passage of this Act; but no disbursement shall be made prior to July first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, 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 thirteen or prior years. 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.$600,000: *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.
Arkansas western district.Pay of attorney and marshal reduced.Vol. 29, pp. 180, 181.District of Columbia.Fees, district attorney.Regular assistants.The salaries of the United States district attorney and the United States marshal for the western district of Arkansas shall hereafter be $4,000 per annum each. For fees of United States district attorney for the District of Columbia, $28,940. For payment of regular assistants to United States district attorneys who are appointed by the Attorney General at a fixed annual compensation, $325,000.
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, $200,000. This appropriation shall be available also Foreign counsel.Oath.[R. S., sec. 366, p. 62](/us/rs/s366/p62).for the payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General in special cases, and such counsel shall not be required to 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, $300,000. 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, $115,000. Jurors’ fees.Witness fees, etc.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160).For fees of jurors, $1,125,000. 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, $1,000,000.
Rent of courtrooms.For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, $50,000. 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 55employed during vacation; for the payment of the expenses of circuit Travel, etc., expenses of Judges.Vol. 36, p. 1161.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, nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws relating to the judiciary; of meals and lodgings Jury expenses.for jurors in United States eases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, when ordered by the court, and of meals and lodging for jurors in Alaska, as provided by section one hundred and ninety-three, In Alaska.Vol. 31, p. 362.Title II, of the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred; and of compensation for jury commissioners, So per day, not exceeding Jury commissioners.three days for any one term of court, $275,000.
For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorizedMiscellaneous expenses. by the Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, $490,000: *Provided*, That in so far as it may be deemed *Proviso.*In 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, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, and including support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, as well before as after conviction, and continuing 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 homes in the United States; for the expense of care and medical treatment of guards employed by the United States who may be injured by prisoners while said guards are endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppressing 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 for prisoners, warden, deputy Subsistence.warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining-room furniture and utensils, and for farm and garden seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, $50,000; For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including Clothing, transportation, etc.such clothing as can be made at the penitentiary; for the usual gratuities as provided by law to prisoners at release, provided that such gratuities shall be furnished to prisoners sentenced for terms of imprisonment of not less than six months, and including 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 the prisoner may elect, subject to the approval of 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 duty; for expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing 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 56for repairing steam-heating plant, electric plant and water circulation, and drainage; for hour and materials for construction and repair of buildings; for general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and 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 who may be injured by prisoners while said guards are endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppressing mutiny, $45,000;
Hospital supplies.For hospital supplies, including purchase of 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, $3,000; Salaries.For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplain, $1,500; chaplain, $600; physician, $1,600; assistant physician, $1,200; chief clerk, $1,800; bookkeeper and record clerk, $1,200; stenographer, $900; four clerks, at $900 each; head cook, $1,000; steward and store-keeper, $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, $81,680;
For foremen, laundryman, tailor, and printer, when necessary, $3,300; In all, for penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $207,980. 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 at Leavenworth, Kansas, $35,000; Clothing, transportation, etc.For clothing and transportation, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $20,000;
Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the Attorney General, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $40,000; Hospital supplies.For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $2,500; Salaries.For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplain, $1,500; chaplain, $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 $1,200 each; three captains of watch, at $1,000 each; steward and storekeeper, $1,200; superintendent of farm and transportation, $900; two teamsters, at $600 each; head cook, $1,000; guards, at $70 per month each, $43,000; in all, $74,280;
For foremen, tailor, blacksmith, shoemaker, laundryman, and carpenter, when necessary, $4,000; In all, for penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia, $175,780. 57 For support of the United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, McNeil Island, Wash.Subsistence.Washington, as follows: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and for supplies for guards, $13,000; For clothing and transportation, including the same objects specified Clothing, transportation, etc.under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, S7,000;
For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified Miscellaneous.under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and for such other purposes as may be directly ordered and approved by the Attorney General, $12,000; For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under Hospital supplies.this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $1,000; For salaries, including pay of officials and employees, as follows:
Salaries.For warden, $2,000; deputy warden, $1,200; physician, $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, $51,100. 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; store-keeper 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, engineer, and shoemaker, at $540 each; baker, and tailor, at $600 each; 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 to board of trustees, $900; in all, $34,276.
For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, Maintenance.dry 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, $1,000; In all, for National Training School for Boys, $45,776. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE AND LABOR.Department of Commerce and Labor. lighthouse service.Lighthouse service. General expenses, Lighthouse Service: For supplies, repairs, maintenance, General expenses.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 of oil or carbide houses, not to exceed $10,000: *Provided*, *Proviso.*Limit for carbide and oil houses.That no oil or carbide house erected hereunder shall exceed $550 58in cost; the construction of necessary outbuildings at a cost not exceeding $200 at any one fight 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 Rations, etc.depots; 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 and Labor of keepers of light stations and masters of light vessels and of lighthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothing furnished ship wrecked persons who may be temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all $5,000 in any fiscal year, fuel and rent of quarters Purchase of land, etc.where necessary 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 Contingent expenses.Vol. 37, p. 788.which in consequence can not be made permanent, the rent of offices, depots, and wharves, traveling expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor not to exceed $4 per day, and mileage, library books for light stations and vessels, and technical books and periodicals not exceeding $l,00o, 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, $2,750,000.
Salaries.Keepers.Salaries of keepers of lighthouses: For salaries of not exceeding one thousand seven bundled and fifty lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights exclusive of post lights, $930,000. Lighthouse vessels.Salaries, lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crews of fight vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $967,420. Inspectors, clerks, etc.Salaries, Lighthouse Service: 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 office of the Bureau of Lighthouses, Washington, District of Columbia, $360,000. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Expenses.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, and including compensation, not other-wise 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 Labor, and under *Proviso.*Advances.the following heads: *Provided*, That advances of money under this appropriation 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 and Labor 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.Atlantic and Gulf coasts.*Proviso.*Field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States: *Provided*, 59That not more than $25,000 of this amount shall be expended on Islands, etc., restriction.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 Points to State surveys.levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; for furnishing points to State surveys, to tie applied as far as practicable in States where points have not been furnished; for determinations of geographical positions, and 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, and the actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the superintendent, and for the expenses ofInternational Geodetic Association. the attendance of the American delegates at the meetings of the International Geodetic Association, not to exceed $550, $3,000;
In all, for field expenses, $320,400. Repairs and maintenance of vessels: For repairs and maintenance Vessels.Repairs, etc.of the complement of vessels used in the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including the traveling expenses of the person inspecting the repairs, but excluding engineer’s supplies and other ship chandlery, $40,000. Officers and men, vessels: For all necessary employees to man Pay of officers, etc.and equip the vessels of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including professional seamen serving as executive officers and mates on vessels of the survey, to execute the work of the survey herein provided for and authorized by law, $252,200.
Salaries: Superintendent, $6,000; assistants, to be employed inSalaries.Superintendents, assistants, etc. the field or office, as the superintendent may direct, one of whom may be designated by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor 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: Disbursing agent, $2,500; chief of division of library Office force.Clerks.and archives, $1,800; clerks—two 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; For topographic and hydrographic draftsmen, namely: Two at Draftsmen.$2,400 each, three at $2,200 each, three at $2,000 each, three at 60$1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each;
Computers.For astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers, namely: 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; For copperplate engravers, namely: 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, two at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; Engravers.For engravers and apprentices, at not exceeding $1,000 each, $3/600;
Electrotypers, etc.For electrotypers and photographers, plate printers and their helpers, instrument makers, carpenters, engineer, and other skilled laborers, namely: One $2,400, one $2,000, two at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, eleven at $1,200 each, five at $1,000 each, three at $900 each, five at $700 each; Watchmen, etc.For watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers, namely: Three at $880 each, four at $S20 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, $199,120.
Office expenses.Vol. 37, p. 788.Office expenses: For the purchase of new instruments including their exchange, for materials and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, and for books, scientific and technical books and journals and books of reference, maps, charts, and subscriptions; for copperplates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; and for photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use, and for the employment of expert lithographers in the office at an expenditure not exceeding $3,500; for stationery for the 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 the operation of switch-board, 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.
Allowances restricted.That no part of the money herein appropriated for the Coast and 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. Freight elevator.For new freight elevator in Richards Building, $2,500. bureau of fisheries.Bureau of Fisheries.
Salaries.Commissioner, etc.Office of commissioner: Commissioner, $6,000; deputy commissioner, $3,500; assistant in charge of office, to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce, $2,500; accountant, $2,100; librarian, $1,500; clerks—one of class four, three of class three, one to commissioner $1,600, one of class one, one $1,000, ten at $900 each; 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, $45,080.
Architect and engineer, etc.Office of architect and engineer: Architect and engineer, $2,200; assistant architect, $1,600; draftsman, $1,200; in all, $5,000. Division of Fish Culture.Office.Division of Fish Culture—Office: Assistant in charge, $2,700; superintendent of car and messenger service, $1,600; clerks—one of class three, two of class two, two of class one, one $900; in all, $12,000. 61 Division of Fish Culture—Station employees: Central Station and Station employees.Central station, D.
C.Aquaria, Washington, District of Columbia: Superintendent of station and aquaria, $1,500; skilled laborers, two at $720 each; laborer, $600; in all, $3,540. Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, Green Lake. Mo.$900; fishculturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Craig Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, Craig Brook. Mo.$900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station and Holden (Vermont) Auxiliary Saint Johnsbury and Holden, Vt.Station:
Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; fishculturist, $900; skilled laborer, $720; four laborers, at $600 each; in all, $6,720. Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishculturist, Gloucester, Mass.$900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; Woods Hole, Mass.machinist, $960; fishculturist, $900; pilot and collector, $720; three firemen, at $600 each; four laborers, at $600 each; in all, $8,280.
Cape Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; Cape Vincent. N. Y.skilled laborer, $720; machinist, $960; two firemen, at $720 each; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $5,820. Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, $360.Bryans Point, Md. Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; Wytheville, Va.foreman, $900; fishculturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. 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. Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; Northville, Mich.foreman, $960; fishculturist, $000; four laborers, at $600 each; in all, $5,760. Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, $1,200; fishculturist, Alpena, Mich.$900; in all, $2,100. Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, Duluth, Minn.$900; fishculturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman,Neosho, Mo. $900; skilled laborer, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,320. Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; Leadville, Colo.foreman, $1,200; two fishculturists, at $900 each; skilled laborer, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; cook, $480; in all, $6,900. San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman,San Marcos, Tex. $1,200; fishculturist, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $5,400. Baird (California) and Battle Creek (California) Stations: Baird and Battle Creek. Cal.Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,080; foreman, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $5,280. Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishculturist,Clackamas, Oreg. $900; skilled laborer, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,320. Manchester
(Iowa)Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishculturist, Manchester, Iowa.$900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishculturist,Bozeman. Mont. $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishculturist, Erwin, Tenn.$900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; Nashua, N. H.fishculturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500;Edenton, N. C. fishculturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Baker Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishculturist, Baker Lake, Wash.$900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Puget Sound (Washington) Stations: Three foremen, at $1,200 Puget Sound, Wash.each; nine laborers, at $600 each; in all, $9,000. Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish Cold Springs, Ga.culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. 62 Spearfish, S, Dak.Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishculturist, $900; two laborers, at 3600 each; in all, $3,600. White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishculturist, $900; three laborers, at 3600 each; in all, $4,200. Tupelo, Miss.Tupelo (Mississippi) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishculturist, $900; three laborers, at $000 each; in all, $4,200. Boothbay Harbor, Me.Boothbay Harbor (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishculturist, $900; engineer, $1,100; skilled laborer, $780; three fire-men, at $600 each; custodian of lobster pounds, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $8,000. Mammoth Springs, Ark.Mammoth Spring (Arkansas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishculturist, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Yes Bay, Alaska.Yes Bay (Alaska) Hatchery: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; two skilled laborers, at $960 each; three laborers, at $900 each; cook, $900; in all, $8,220. Afognak, Alaska.Afognak (Alaska) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; two skilled laborers, at $960 each; three laborers, at $900 each; cook, $900; in all, $8,220. Homer, Minn.Homer (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; scientific assistant, $1,400; scientific assistant, $1,200; foreman, $1,200; engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at $600 each; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $8,700. Louisville, Ky.Louisville (Kentucky) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishculturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Orangeburg, S. C.Orangeburg (South Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishculturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Saratoga. Wyo.Saratoga (Wyoming) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishculturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Biological stations.Fairport, Iowa.Biological station, Fairport, Iowa: Director, $1,800; superintendent of fish culture, $1,500; scientific assistant, $1,400; scientific assistant, $1,200; foreman, $1,200; shell expert, $1,200; engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at S600 each; two laborers, at $600 each; in ah, $11,700. Beaufort, N. C.Biological station, Beaufort, North Carolina: Superintendent and director, $1,500; fish culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Employees at large.Employees at large: Two field station superintendents, at $1,800 each; two fishculturists, at $960 each; two fishculturists, at $900 each; five machinists, at $960 each; two coxswains, at $720 each; in all, $13,560. Distribution employees.Distribution employees: Five car captains, at $1,200 each; six car 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. Division of inquiry.Division of inquiry respecting food fishes: Assistant in charge, $2,700; assistants—one $2,500, one $1,600, two at $1,200 each, two at $900 each; clerks—one of class one, two at $900 each; in all, $14,000. Division of statistics, etc.Division of statistics and methods of the fisheries: Assistant in charge, $2,500; clerks—two of class four, one of class two, two at $1,000 each, one $900; statistical agents—one $1,400, two at $1,000 each (one transferred to office of Secretary of Commerce and Labor); local agents—one at Boston, Massachusetts, $300; one at Gloucester, Massachusetts, 8600; one at Seattle, Washington, $600; in all, $15,300. Vessel service.“Albatross.”Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: Naturalist, $1,800; general assistant, $1,200; fishery expert, $1,200; clerk, $1,000; in all, $5,200. “Fish Hawk.”Steamer Fish Hawk: Cabin boy, $480. “Osprey.”Steamer Osprey: Master, $1,500; engineer, $1,100; cook, $600; two firemen, at $720 each: seaman, $600; in all, $5,240. 63 Schooner Grampus: Master, $1,500; first mate, $1,080; second “Grampus.”mate, $840; engineer, $840; cook, $600; three seamen, at $600 each; cabin boy, $420, in all, $7,080. Steamer Phalarope: Master, $1,200; engineer, $1,100; fireman, “Phalarope.”$720; two seamen, at $600 each; cook, $600; in all, $4,820. Steamer Curlew: Pilot, $1,100; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; “Curlew.”cook, $600; in all, $3,520. Steamer Gannet: Master, $1,200; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; “ Gannet.”two seamen, at $600 each; in all, $4,220. Division of Alaska Fisheries: Chief of division, $3,500; assistant, Division of Alaska fisheries.$1,800; clerks—one of class two, one of class one, one $900; two agents and caretakers, at $2,000 each; naturalist, fur-seal fisheries, $3,000; Fur seals.janitor service, fur-seal fisheries, $480; two physicians, Pribilof Islands, at $1,500 each; two school-teachers, Pribilof Islands, at $1,200 each; storekeeper, Pribilof Islands, $1,800; for the following Salmon.to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor—agent, Alaska salmon fisheries, $2,500; inspector, Alaska salmon fisheries, $1,800; assistant agent, Alaska salmon fisheries, $2,000; assistant agent, Alaska salmon fisheries, $1,800; warden, Alaska service, $1,200; four deputy wardens, Wardens.Alaska service, $900 each; in all, $36,380. Expenses of administration: For expenses of the office of the commissioner, Administrative expenses.Vol. 37, p. 788.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 Propagation expenses.operations 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, and temporary labor, $335,000. Maintenance or vessels: For maintenance of the vessels and launches, Maintenance of vessels.including the 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: For expenses of the inquiry into Inquiry respecting food fishes.Field expenses.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 for all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $40,000. Statistical inquiry: For expenses in the collection and compilation Statistical inquiry.of the 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. Protecting the sponge fisheries: For expenses in protecting the Sponge fisheries.Protection.Vol. 34, p. 313.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 out the provisions of the Act of June twentieth, nineteen hundred and six, to regulate the sponge fisheries, $3,500. To complete the investigation of the method of fishing known as Beam or otter trawling investigation.beam or otter trawling and to report to Congress whether or not this method of fishing is destructive to the fish species or is otherwise harmful or undesirable, $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. 64 Alaska fisheries.Protecting seal fisheries.Food to natives, etc.Alaska fur-seal fisheries protection and support: 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, traveling expenses and subsistence for caretakers while on said Expenses under treaty obligations.Vol. 37, p. 499.islands, and for all other expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled “An Act to give effect to the convention between the Governments of the United States, Great Britain, Japan, and Russia for the preservation and protection of the fur seals and sea otter which frequent the waters or the north Pacific Ocean, concluded at Washington July seventh, nineteen hundred and eleven,” and for Salmon fisheries.the protection of the salmon fisheries of Alaska, including travel, hire of boats, employment of temporary labor, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $75,000, one-half to be immediately available. Distribution cars.For the construction of two steel cars for the distribution of useful food fishes to take the place of cars numbered two and five, obsolete and unsafe, S30,000. “Albatross.”Overhauling, etc.For overhauling and making necessary repairs to the steamer Albatross, including new work where necessary, and equipment, $40,000. Great Britain and Japan.Payment under joint convention.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 seasons of nineteen hundred and twelve and nineteen Vol. 37, p. 499.hundred and thirteen, and in accordance with the Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, to give effect to the above-named convention, of which amount the sum of $20,000 shall be immediately available, S40,000. Utah.Establishing fish-cultural station in.For the establishment of a fish-cultural station in the State of Utah, including purchase of site, construction of buildings and ponds, and equipment, at some suitable point to be selected by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, $25,000. Rhode Island.Establishing fish-cultural station in.For the establishment of a fish-cultural station, including purchase of site, construction of buildings and ponds, and equipment, at some suitable point in the State of Rhode Island, to be selected by the *Provisos.*Subject to State legislation.Secretary of Commerce and Labor, $25,000: *Provided*, That before any final steps shall have been taken for the construction of a fish-cultural station in accordance with this Act, the State of Rhode Island, through appropriate legislative action, shall accord to the United States Commissioner of Fisheries and his duly authorized agents the right to conduct fish hatching and all operations connected therewith in any manner and at any time that may by them be considered necessary and proper, any fishery laws of the State to the contrary Suspension.not-withstanding: *And, provided further*, That the operations of said hatchery may be suspended by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor whenever, in his judgment, the laws and regulations affecting the fishes cultivated are allowed to remain so inadequate as to impair the efficiency of said hatchery. miscellaneous objects, department of commerce and labor.Miscellaneous. immigration stations.Immigrant stations. Ellis Island, N. Y.Immigration station, Ellis Island, New York Harbor: Buildings, etc.For construction of a fireproof building on number one island for carpenter shop, bakery, and storage, $50,000; For construction of new story on southeast wing of main building, $65,000; For renovating interior of old hospital on number two island, including new plumbing and sanitary fittings and new floors, $25,000; 65 For inclosing in glass the two-story corridor of contagious-disease hospital, together with incidental work, $28,000; To complete the sea wall on the northeast side of the basin, $16,000; In all, $184,000. For rent, including heat, and furnishing and equipment for the Chicago. Ill.Rent, equipment, etc.Galveston. Tex.Electric cable, etc.Vol. 36, p. 764; Vol. 37, p. 614.immigrant station at Chicago, Illinois, $20,000. Immigration station, Galveston, Texas: The Secretary of War is hereby authorized to use for replacing and repairing the electric-light and telephone cables and the water main between the city of Galveston, Texas, and the immigration station on Pelican Spit, the unexpended balances of the appropriations for construction of water main to supply water to the immigration station at Galveston, Texas, and for locating and correcting leak in said water main; and said unexpended balances are hereby made available for said purposes. immigration service.Immigration Service. Expenses of regulating immigration: For all expenses of the enforcement Enforcing laws regulating Immigration of aliens.Vol. 37, p. 788.of the laws regulating the immigration of aliens into the United States, including the contract-labor laws; for the costs 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 to enforce said laws; for the enforcement of the provisions of the Act of February Vol. 34, p. 898.Vol. 36, p. 263.twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States, ” and Acts amendatory thereof; for expenses of necessary supplies, including exchange of typewriting machines, alterations, and repairs, and for all other expenses authorized by said Act; also for preventing the Chinese exclusion.unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and 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, and for the refunding of head tax upon Refunding head tax.presentation of evidence showing conclusively that collection was made through error of Government officers; all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, $2,550,000: *Provided*, That from and after July first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, *Proviso.*Deported aliens to be delivered to immigration officers.all Chinese persons ordered deported under judicial writs shall be delivered by the marshal of the district or his deputy into the custody of any officer designated for that purpose by the’ Secretary of Commerce and Labor, for conveyance to the frontier or seaboard for deportation in the same manner as aliens deported under the immigration laws. Miscellaneous expenses, Division of Naturalization: For compensation, Naturalization Bureau.Special examiners, etc.Vol. 37, p. 737.to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce and Labor, of examiners, interpreters, clerks, and stenographers, for the purpose of carrying on the work of the Division of Naturalization, Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization, provided for by the Act of Congress Vol. 34, p. 596.approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, entitled “An Traveling expenses, etc.Act to establish a Bureau of Immigration and Naturalization and to provide for a uniform rule for the naturalization of aliens throughout the United States” and for their actual necessary traveling 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 Commerce and Labor may prescribe; and for the actual necessary traveling expenses of the officers and employees of the Division of Naturalization in Washington while absent on official duty outside of the District of Columbia; for telegrams, 66verifications to legal papers, telephone service in offices outside of the District of Columbia; not to exceed S3,800 for rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia where suitable quarters can not be obtained Assistance to clerks of courts.Vol. 34, p. 600.in public buildings; and for the purpose of carrying into effect section thirteen of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page six hundred), as amended by Vol. 36, p. 830.the Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, and that the expenditures from this appropriation shall be in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Commerce and Labor may prescribe, $225,000. Barbara Kauffels.Informer’s fee.To pay to Barbara Kauffels for information that led to the collection of S3,000 in penalties from the Bloomsburg Silk Mills, of Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, for importing aliens under contract, in violation of the immigration laws, $1,000. bureau of standards.Bureau of Standards. Workshop, etc.For the construction of a suitable fireproof workshop and store-house, $45,000. UNDER THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. Canadian Boundary Waters Commission.Salaries and expenses. International Joint Commission, United States and Great Britain: For salaries and expenses, including salaries of commissioners, salaries of clerks, and other employees appointed by the commissioners on the part of the United States with the approval solely of the Secretary of State, including rental of offices at Washington, District of Columbia, expense of printing, purchase of books, periodicals, and papers, and all necessary traveling and other expenses, and Vol. 36, p. 2448.for the one-half of all reasonable and necessary joint expenses of the International Joint Commission incurred under the terms of the treaty between the United States and Great Britain concerning the use of boundary waters between the United States and Canada and other purposes, signed January eleventh, nineteen hundred and nine, $100,000, to be disbursed under the direction of the Secretary of State. UNDER LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. Statement of appropriations.Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the direction of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements 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 appropriation bills passed during the third session of the Sixty-second Congress, Vol. 25, p. 587.as required by the Act approved October nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, $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, one new boiler for greenhouse number seven, south side Maryland Avenue painting, glazing, repairs to footwalks and roadways, general repairs to packing sheds, storerooms, and stables, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $6,000. Removal offence, etc.Vol. 36, p. 1403.The appropriation in the sundry civil Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, for removing fence and wall around the Botanic Garden, and for such grading, soiling, seeding, and sodding as may be incident thereto, is hereby made available for said purposes for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen. Senate.Indexing committee reports, etc.Senate: For indexing, when necessary, reports and hearings of Senate committees and joint committees of the Senate and House of 67Representatives, under the direction of the Committee on Appropriations of the Senate, $2,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and Senate Office Building.Maintenance.supplies, and for all necessary personal and other services for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building, under the direction and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, $46,000. House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous House Office Building.Maintenance.Capitol power plant.Maintenance, etc.items, and for all necessary services, $43,092. 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. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the power plant Fuel, oil, etc.which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and Congressional buildings, $83,000. This and the foregoing appropriations shall be Purchases not restricted to supply committee.expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds under the supervision and direction of the commission in control of the House Office Building, appointed under the Act approved March Vol. 34, p. 1365.fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, and without reference to section four of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and Vol. 36, p. 531.ten, concerning purchases for executive departments. Congressional Directory: For expenses of compiling, preparing, and Congressional Directory.Edition for 1st session 63d Congress.indexing an edition of the Congressional Directory for the first session of the Sixty-third Congress, to be immediately available, and to be expended under the direction of the Joint Committee on Printing, $800. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.Government Printing Office. public printing and binding. Office of the Public Printer: Public Printer, $5,500; purchasing Public Printer, purchasing agent, etc.agent, $3,600; chief clerk, $2,500; accountant, $2,500; assistant purchasing agent, $2,500; cashier and paymaster, S2,500; clerk in charge of the Congressional Record at the Capitol, $2,500; assistant accountant, $2,250; chief timekeeper, $2,000; paying teller, $2,000; telegrapher and clerk, $1,800; clerks—two at $2,000 each, nine of class four, eleven of class three, six of class two, six of class one, nine at $1,000 each, five at S900 each, sixteen at $840 each; paymaster’s guard, $1,000; chief doorkeeper, SI,200; doorkeeper, SI,200; six assistant doorkeepers, at $1,000 each; messengers, two at $840 each; chief delivery man, $1,200; five delivery men, at S950 each; telephone switchboard operator, $720; three assistant telephone switchboard operators, at $600 each; six messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $132,060. Office of the Deputy Public Printer: Deputy Public Printer, $4,500; Deputy Public Printer, etc.clerks—two of class one, one at $900; chemist, $1,600; messenger, $840; in all, $10,240. Watch force: Captain, SI,200; two lieutenants, at $900 each; Watch force.sixtyfour watchmen, at S720 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. 68 Leaves of absence.Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $320,000. Public printing and binding.Aggregate amount.For the public printing, for the public binding, and for paper for the public printing and binding, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings 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 Office expenses.Executive Office, and the departments; for salaries, compensation, or wages, of all necessary 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, and ice; bicycles, horses, wagons, harness, electrical vehicles, 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 S500; adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; machinery (not exceeding $100,000); equipment, and for repairs 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 Miscellaneous Items, etc.on duty; other necessary contingent and miscellaneous items authorized by the Public Printer; and for all the necessary materials and equipment needed in the prosecution and delivery and mailing of the work, $4,463,820: Total.In all, for public printing and binding, including salaries of office force, payments for holidays and leaves of absence, and the last-named sum, 85,160,200; and from the said sum printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: Allotments.Congress.For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings and debates, $1,750,000. And printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the 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, S35,000. For the Treasury Department, 8340,000. *Proviso.*Army medical bulletins.For the War Department, $190,000: *Provided*, That the sum of 83,000, 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, 8153,000, including not exceeding 833,000 for the Hydrographic Office, of which latter sum not exceeding $8,000 is for the use exclusively in printing and binding a revised American Practical Navigator.edition of two thousand five hundred copies of the American Practical Navigator, Bowditch. 69 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, as follows: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; for printing and binding the monthly volumes of patents, and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indexes, $440,000. For the United States Geological Survey, as follows: 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 Annum 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 of 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, $100; the National Zoological Park, $200; for miscellaneous printing and binding for the Astrophysical Observatory, $200: *Provided*, That any unexpended *Proviso.*Astrophysical Observatory Annals.Vol. 37, p. 481.balance of the allotment for nineteen hundred and thirteen of $2,000 for one thousand five hundred copies of volume three of the Animals of the Astrophysical Observatory is hereby made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, 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 $47,000 for the Weather Bureau, and including the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January Vol. 26, p. 612.Vol. 34, p. 825.twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and in pursuance of the provisions of Public Resolution Numbered Thirteen of the first session Fifty-ninth Congress, and also including not to exceed $137,500 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 Senator’s, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as they shall direct, $490,000. For the Department of Commerce and Labor, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Census Office, and Children’s Bureau, $525,000. 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, 70and 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, $100,000, 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. Restriction.That no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriated for the public printing and for the public binding shall be expended in the first two quarters of tire 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. Apportionment of expenditures to work executed.All expenditures from appropriations made herein under Government 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. office of the superintendent of documents.Office of Superintendent of Documents. Superintendent, assistant etc.Superintendent, $3,500; assistant superintendent, $2,500; clerks— two of class four, three of class three, four of class two, eight of class one, eight at $1,000 each, six at $900 each, ten at $720 each: cataloguer in charge, $1,800; cataloguers—two at $1,500 each, three at $1,200 each, one $1,100, seven at $1,000 each, three 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, two at $720 each; two assistant messengers, at $720 each; three mailers, at $840 each; janitress, $626; two folders, at $626 each; eleven laborers, at $626 each; five messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $98,764. 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, $94,000; in all, $140,000. Distribution of public documents.Vol. 37. p. 414.Distribution of public documents: For the work of addressing, wrapping, mailing, or otherwise dispatching Government publications for public distribution and for the equipment, materials, and supplies used in the work, as provided in chapter three hundred and fifty, section eight of the Act of August twenty-third, nineteen hundred and twelve: Employees.For the following now authorized and being paid from appropriations for printing and binding: Order clerk, $1,000; clerks—two at $900 each, seven at $720 each; helpers—one $870, three at $750 each; forty-one skilled laborers, at $626 each; ten unskilled laborers, at 71$626 each; messenger boys—eleven at $500 each, eleven at $375 each; for labor necessary to handle the current periodicals, $16,000; in all, $68,511. For equipment, materials, and supplies, $15,000.Equipment, etc.Enlarging power plant to serve new post office building. For necessary enlargement of the heating, lighting, and power plant of the Government Printing Office to a capacity sufficient to heat, light, and furnish power for the new post office building in Washington, District of Columbia, including the cost of construction of necessary tunnels, conduits, and for each and every other purpose necessary hereunder, $120,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. THE PANAMA CANAL.Panama Canal. To continue the construction of the Panama Canal, to be expended Construction.Vol. 32. p. 442.Vol. 37, p. 560.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. For salaries of officers and employees of the Isthmian Canal Canal Commission.Salaries in United States.Commission, including assistant purchasing and shipping agents, and all other employees in the United States, $153,393; Second. For incidental expenses, including rents, cable and telegraph Incidental Expenses in United States.service, supplies, stationery and printing, and actual necessary traveling expenses in the United States (including rent of the Panama Canal building in the District of Columbia, $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 of the Panama Canal, $1 000), $63,000; Third. For pay of members or the commission and officers andConstruction, etc., departments.Commissioners and employees on the Isthmus. employees on the Isthmus, other than skilled and unskilled labor, including civil engineers, superintendents, instrument men, transit-men, Icy-men, rodmen, draftsmen, timekeepers, mechanical and electrical engineers, quartermasters, clerks, accountants, stenographers, storekeepers, messengers, office boys, foremen and subforemen, wagon masters, watchmen, and stewards, including those temporarily detailed for du y 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, $2,725,000: *Provided*, That not more than $5,000 of this appropriation shall be *Proviso.*Pay of Secretary.paid as compensation to the secretary of the commission; 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, $6,125,000; Fifth. For the purchase and delivery of material, supplies, and Purchase of materials, etc.equipment, including cost of inspecting material and of paying traveling expenses incident thereto, whether on the Isthmus or elsewhere, and such other expenses not in the United States as the commission deems necessary to best promote the construction of the Panama Canal, including the construction in the United States in Government Construction of two colliers.or private yards, in accordance with plans and specifications to be prepared by the Navy Department, and to have a cargo capacity of twelve thousand tons of coal and a speed of at least fourteen knots per hour, two colliers to cost not exceeding $1,000,000 each, and including the payment of damages caused to the owners of private lands, or Paying damages to private property.Vol. 33, p. 2234.private property of any kind, by reason of the grants contained in the 72treaty 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 Payment for land.Vol. 37, p. 561.commission or allowed by a joint commission, and the payment for land and land under 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, $5,000,000; Sixth. Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous expenditures, cable and telegraph service, 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. Civil administration department.Commissioner, officers, etc. For pay of the member of the commission in charge of the department of civil administration, of officers and employees, other than skilled and unskilled labor, including foremen, subforemen, watchmen, messengers, and storekeepers, of the departments of civil administration and law, including those necessarily and temporarily Additional from water revenues, etc.detailed for duty away from the Isthmus, together with the necessary portion of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for the maintenance of waterworts, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, $500,000; Eighth. Labor.From water revenues, etc. For skilled and unskilled labor for the department of civil administration, the necessary portion of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for the maintenance of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon; Ninth. Materials, 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, Additional from water revenues, etc.together with the necessary portion of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for the maintenance of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, $74,000; Tenth. Sanitation department.Commissioner, officers, etc. For pay of the member of the commission in charge of 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, $450,000; Eleventh. Labor. For skilled and unskilled labor of every grade and kind, for the department of sanitation on the Isthmus, $150,000; 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 the line of duty and in the employ of the Isthmian Canal Commission, from earning a livelihood, and contingent expenses of the department of sanitation on the Quarantine station.Isthmus, including not exceeding $100,000 for the construction of a quarantine station, $300,000; 73 The foregoing sinus, so far as necessary, shall be available for the Use for operation, organization, docks, terminal, etc., facilities, authorized.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, 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; In all, $16,265,393, the same to be immediately available and to Amount available until expended.*Proviso.*Expenditures to be reimbursed from proceeds of bonds.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 buildings, exclusive of fortifications, and exclusive of the amount Exceptions.used for operating the canal and for the permanent organization after the canal is opened for use and operation, shall be paid from or reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States out of the proceeds Vol. 32, p. 484.of the sale of bonds authorized in section eight of the said Act approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, and Vol. 36, p. 117.section thirty-nine of the tariff Act approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine. Except in cases of emergency, or conditions arising subsequent to Number of employees limited to estimates.and unforeseen at the time of the passage of this Act, and except for those employed in connection with the construction 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 Permanent organization excepted.Vol. 37, p. 661.the permanent operating organization under which 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 fourteen 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 of suchCompensation restricted. 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 twelve; 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 chairman of the commission in his report for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen. In cases of emergencies arising subsequent to and unforeseen at the Interchangeable appropriations.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. No part of the foregoing appropriations for the Panama Canal shall Longevity allowances restricted.be applied to the payment of allowances for longevity service, or lay-over days other than such as may have accumulated under existing orders of the commission, prior to July first, nineteen hundred and nine. 74 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: Surveys.Surveys: For detailed surveys of the areas on the Canal Zone required for military purposes, including the cost of marking permanently the boundaries of such areas, $12,000; Purchase of land.Purchase of land: For the purchase of land on the Canal Zone required for military purposes, $50,000; Seacoast batteries.Seacoast batteries: For the construction of seacoast batteries on the Canal Zone, $2,365,000; Electric plants.Electric fight and power plants: For the purchase and installation of electric light and power plants for the seacoast fortifications on the Canal Zone, $173,000; Searchlights.Searchlights: For the purchase and installation of searchlights for the seacoast fortifications on the Canal Zone, $285,000; Sanitary clearing at posts.Sanitary clearing: For sanitary clearing, filling, and drainage in vicinity of camps, posts, and defensive works on the Canal Zone, as follows: Margarita Island.Margarita Island— For filling swamp in rear defensive works, $180,000; Miraflores.For clearing and improving permanent post site and drill ground at Miraflores, $30,000; Armament.Seacoast cannon.Armament of fortifications: For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, to cost ultimately not to exceed *Proviso.*Transfer of 16-inch gun.$2,506,000, $1,000,000: *Provided*, That the Chief of Ordnance is authorized to transfer to and use in the fortifications of the Panama Canal one sixteen-inch gun and carriage, procured, or to be procured, out of appropriations heretofore made under armament of fortifications for continental United States; Ammunition.For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, $575,000; Fire-control stations.Fire control: For the construction of fire-control stations and the purchase and installation of accessories therefor, $200,000; In all, specifically for fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, $4,870,000. Barracks and quarters.Plans to be submitted for, on Canal Zone and in Hawaii.The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to cause to be prepared and submit to Congress on or before December fifteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, complete plans for, and detailed estimates of, barracks and quarters for the mobile army and seacoast artillery on the Canal Zone and in the Hawaiian Islands. Sec. 2. Distribution of Canal Zone revenues.*Ante*, p. 2. 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 fourteen, 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 of not exceeding ten thousand dollars, to the maintenance of the public-school system in the zone; to the construction and maintenance of public improvements within the zone; to the maintenance 75of the administrative districts; and for the expenses of the subdivisions Expenses of subdivisions.Vol. 37, p. 504.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 Isthmian Canal Commission, and to the maintenance of administrative district prisoners. A Statement to Congress.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 fourteen. Sec. 3. That hereafter the head of each executive department Estimate of appropriations.Official to be designated to supervise and prepare, for each department, etc.and other Government establishment shall, on or before July just in every fiscal year, designate from among the officials employed therein one person whose duty it shall be to supervise the classification and compilation of all estimates of appropriations, including supplemental and deficiency estimates to be submitted by such department or establishment. In the performance of their dutiesDuties. persons so designated shall have due regard for the requirements of all laws respecting the preparation of estimates, including the manner and time of their submission through the Treasury Department to Congress; they shall also, as nearly as may be practicable, eliminate from all such estimates unnecessary words and make uniform the language commonly used in expressing purposes or conditions of appropriations. Sec. 4. That all of the records relating to naturalization or declarations Naturalization.Status of papers, etc., Davidson County, Tenn., county court.Vol. 34, p. 630.of intention to become citizens of the United States and all certificates of naturalization filed, recorded, or issued prior to an Act to validate certain certificates of naturalization approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, in or from the county court of Davidson County, Tennessee, shall for all purposes be deemed to be and to have been made, filed, recorded, or issued by a court with jurisdiction to naturalize aliens, but shall not be by this Act further validated or legalized. Sec. 5. That libraries heretofore designated by law as depositaries Public library depositaries.To receive publications. etc.New designations.to receive books and other Government publications shall hereafter, during their existence, continue such receipt; and new designations may be made when libraries heretofore chosen shall cease to exist or other designations shall hereafter be authorized by law. Sec. 6. That all sums appropriated by this Act for Salaries of officers Sums for salaries to be in full.and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, and all laws or parts of laws in conflict with the provisions of this Act are repealed. Sec. 7. That section eight of the District of Columbia appropriation Attendance at meetings, etc.Restriction on payments, limited to fees and dues.Vol. 37, p. 184.*Proviso.*Written authority required for Incurring attendance expenses.Act, approved June twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, shall not take effect or be operative during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen except to the extent that it prohibits the payment of membership fees or dues in societies or associations: *Provided*, That during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen expenses of attendance of officers or employees of the Government at any meeting or convention of members of any society or association shall be incurred only on the written authority and direction of the heads of executive departments or other Government establishments or the Government of the District of Columbia; and a detailed statement Statement to Congress.of all such expenses incurred from June thirtieth until December first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, shall be submitted to Congress on or before January first, nineteen hundred and fourteen. 76 TO PROVIDE FOR THE PARTICIPATION OF THE UNITED STATES IN THE PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION.Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Government participation authorized.There shall be exhibited at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, to be held at San Francisco in nineteen hundred and fifteen, such articles and materials as illustrate the function and administrative faculty of the Government of the United States tending to demonstrate the nature and growth of our institutions, their adaptation to the wants of the people, and the progress of the Nation in theCreation of Government Exhibit Board. arts of peace and war; and the President is authorized to provide for the collection and exhibition of such articles and materials under the direction of a board, which is hereby created, to be known as the Government Composition.Exhibit Board, which shall be composed of three members to be named by the President from persons in the executive departments, Duties.*Post*, p. 669.who after consultation 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, shall determine, the nature, character, and extent of the exhibits to be made, 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 Scope, etc.exhibited. Before any obligations are incurred or any nature, said board shall have arranged the scope of such exhibits so as to provide for the collection, exhibition, and return of such articles and materials at a cost, which together with all other expenses herein authorized, Officers.shall not exceed the amount hereinafter appropriated. The President shall designate one member of said board as chairman, and from persons in the employ of the United States Government may designate a secretary and a disbursing officer for said board, and may also detail such other persons, including officers of the Army and Navy, Allowance for expenses.as he may deem necessary to assist said board. All officers and employees of the Government who may be detailed as aforesaid shall receive no compensation in addition to their regular salaries, but shall be allowed their actual and necessary traveling expenses, together with a per diem in lieu of subsistence, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, but in no case to exceed $5 per day while necessarily absent from their homes engaged upon the business of the board. Army and Navy officers.Any officer of the Army or Navy so detailed shall receive this allowance in lieu of the transportation and mileage now allowed him by Details permitted.law. Any provision of law which may prohibit the detail of persons, in the employ of the United States to other service than that which they customarily perform shall not apply to persons detailed to duty in connection with said Panama-Pacific International Exposition. Pay of employees.Employees of the board not otherwise employed by the Government shall be entitled to such compensation as the board may determine: *Provided*, *Proviso.*Limit.Disbursing officer, bond, etc.That compensation shall not be paid to any such employee at a rate in excess of $3,000 per annum. The disbursing officer shall give bond in the sum of $30,000 for the faithful performance of his duties, said bond to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury. Advances.The Secretary of the Treasury shall advance to said officer from time to time, under such regulations as the Secretary of the Treasury may prescribe, a sum of money from the appropriation herein made for the governmental participation in the exposition, not exceeding at any one time the penalty of his bond, to enable him to pay the expenses of exhibition as authorized by the exhibit board. 77 Suitable buildings for the housing of all said exhibits shall be Buildings.provided by the Panama Pacific International Exposition Company without expense of any kind to the Government of the United States. For the purpose of inaugurating, installing, maintaining, and Appropriation for exhibits, etc.returning said Government exhibits, together with all other expenses of every Kind connected therewith, $500,000. Said sum shall be paid by the Secretary of the Treasury from time to time under such regulations as he may prescribe. The President of the United States is authorized to detail three National Exposition Commission.Detail of members.*Post*, p. 668.civilian 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 maimer as original appointments. Each commissioner shall receive Allowances.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, Secretary, etc.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. Said commission shall be authorized and empowered to act as a Authorized to arbitrate disputes between foreign commissioners and Exposition Company.board of arbitration to settle and determine any and all disputes arising between the commissioners of foreign Governments and the directors of said Panama-Pacific International Exposition, whenever a formal request for such action is made by any foreign commissioner; and said National Exposition Commission shall represent the Additional duty.Government of the United States at said exposition in the reception and care of persons officially representing foreign Governments. Said National Exposition Commissioners shall be detailed not Term of service.earlier than July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and their term of service as said commissioners shall not extend beyond July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and the President may terminate said commission at any time after January first, nineteen hundred and sixteen. Approved, June 23, 1913.
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