Chapter 32. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 32.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes. October 22, 1913.[[H. R. 7898](/us/bill/63/hr/7898).][[Public, No. 32](/us/63/pl/32).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Urgent deficiencies appropriations. That the following sums be, and are hereby, appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for other purposes, namely:
Botanic Garden.BOTANIC GARDEN. Assistants and laborers.For assistants and laborers, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $630.21. Repairs and improvements.For procuring manure, soil, tools, fuel, purchasing trees, shrubs, plants, and seeds; and for services, materials, and miscellaneous sup-plies, and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Gardens, under direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $276.44. General repairs.For general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, 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, $324.44.
Civil Service Commission.CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. Examination of fourth-class postmasters.Examination of fourth-class postmasters: For necessary additional office employees, printing, stationery, travel, contingent, and other necessary expenses of examinations, $30,000; field examiners at the rate of $1,500 per annum each, for work in connection with members of local boards and other necessary work as directed by the commission, $9,000; in all, S39,000, to be available during the fiscal year *Proviso*.Collectors of internal revenue and marshals may appoint bonded deputies without regard to civil service provisions.nineteen hundred and fourteen: *Provided*, That hereafter any deputy collector of internal revenue or deputy marshal who may be required by law or by authority or direction of the collector of internal revenue or the United States marshal to execute a bond to the collector of internal revenue or United States marshal to secure faithful performance of official duty may be appointed by the said collector or marshal, who may require such bond without regard to the provisions of Vol. 22. p. 403.an Act of Congress entitled “An Act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States,” approved January sixteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-three, and amendments thereto, or any Control of appointing officer.rule or regulation made in pursuance thereof, and the officer requiring said bond shall have power to revoke the appointment of any subordinate officer or employee and appoint his successor at his discretion without regard to the Act, amendments, rules, or regulations aforesaid.
Department of State.DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Suppressing opium evil.International investigation of the opium evil: To meet expenses incurred and incidental to and in continuity of efforts to stamp out the opium evil through the final international opium conference at The Hague, $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Mexican disturbances.Relief of destitute Americans from.*Post*, p. 239.Relief and transportation of destitute American citizens in Mexico: For relief of destitute American citizens in Mexico, including transportation to their homes in the United States, to be expended under the direction and within the discretion of the Secretary of State, to be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $100,000.
Authority is granted to reimburse from this Emergencies fund reimbursed.appropriation the appropriation for “Emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service” for such sums as shall have been expended for relief purposes in Mexico from said appropriation for “ Emergencies.” 209 TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. office of auditor for war department.Auditor for War Department. The money accounts of the Panama Canal, under the Panama CanalPanama Canal accounts to be audited by.
Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-seven, page five hundred and sixty), shallVol. 37, p. 660. continue to be audited by the Auditor for the War Department. public buildings.Public buildings. Boston, Massachusetts, immigrant, station: The authority toBoston, Mass., immigrant station.Construction transferred to Treasury Department.Vol. 35, pp. 643 , 982; Vol. 36, pp. 702, 800, 904, 1441. construct the immigration station at Boston, Massachusetts, is transferred to the Treasury Department together with the unexpended balances of appropriations heretofore made therefor to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury for the construction of said station within the existing limit of cost and under conditions of existing law.
Bronx, New York, New York, post office: For additional land forBronx, N. Y. site under present limit, $60,000. Canton, Ohio, post office: The appropriation of $20,000 containedCanton, Ohio.Enlargement authorized.*Ante*, p. 6. in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen for alterations, improvements, and repairs of the Canton, Ohio, post office is made available also for enlargement and extension of said building within the limit of said sum.
Charleston, West Virginia, rent of buildings: For rentCharleston, W. Va. of temporary quarters at Charleston, West Virginia, for the accommodation of Government officials, $5,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Corinth, Mississippi, post office: For completion of building underCorinth, Miss. present limit, $3,500. Dublin, Georgia, post office: For completion of building underDublin, Ga. present limit, $8,000. Elberton, Georgia, post office: For completion of building underElberton, Ga. present limit, $12,500.
Galveston, Texas, appraisers’ stores: The appropriations ofGalveston, Tex.Appraisers’ stores.Use of balances for new building. 840,000 (Act of Congress approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, Thirty-sixth Statutes, thirteen hundred and seventy-two) and $25,000 (Act of Congress approved August twenty-fourth, Vol. 36, p. 1372.nineteen hundred and twelve, Thirty-seventh Statutes, four hundredVol, 37, p. 420. and twenty) for the enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement of the appraisers’ stores building at Galveston, Texas, under the authorization contained in section two of the Act of CongressVol. 36, p. 680. approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes, six hundred and eighty) are hereby reappropriated and made available for carrying into effect so much of the revised authorization contained in section one of the Act of Congress approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, as provides for the purchase of a suitable building and site for an appraisers’ stores, warehouse, and other purposes, and providing suitable offices therein, at a limit of cost not exceeding $65,000.
Galveston, Texas, quarantine station: For placing riprap alongsideQuarantine station.Protecting riprap. the bulkhead at the quarantine station, Galveston, Texas, in order to prevent the same from being washed away due to its exposed position and the effect of storm and wave action and the scour of tidal currents, $50,000. Gadsden, Alabama, post office: For completion of building underGadsden, Ala. present limit, $8,000. Hanover, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion of buildingHanover, Pa. under present limit, $10,000. 210 Holly Springs, Miss.Holly Springs, Mississippi, post office:
For additional land for site under present Innit, $2,500. Honolulu, Hawaii.Honolulu, Hawaii, post office, courthouse, and customhouse: For additional land for site under present Emit, 8100,000. Lumberton, N. C.Lumberton, North Carolina, post office: For additional land for site under present limit, $5,000. Portland, Oreg.Post office.Reappropriation.Vol. 36, p. 1380.Portland, Oregon, post office: The unexpended balance (8160,000) of the appropriation for the acquisition of a site for a post-office building at Portland, Oregon, is hereby reappropriated and made available toward the construction of said building within the present Vol. 37, p. 879.limit and for the purposes stipulated in the public buildings Act of *Proviso*.Use for other offices.March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen: *Provided*, That section six of the public buildings Act, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, is hereby amended so that authority is given to construct said public building to accommodate any other governmental purposes in the city of Portland, Oregon, said additional accommodations herein authorized to be made within the limit of cost heretofore fixed.
Saint Louis, Mo.Post office.Saint Louis, Missouri, post office: For additional mail lift, elevator, and for additions to mail apparatus, and so forth, under present Limit, $47,550. Tampa Bay, Fla.Quarantine station, quarters, etc.Tampa Bay, Florida, quarantine station: For the construction of attendants’ quarters on shore, wharf, and causeway, including disinfecting house thereon, and a house on shore for the storage of inflammable materials, to replace the damage done by the fire of June eighteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $65,000.
Washington, D. C.Engraving and Printing Bureau.Washington, District of Columbia, building, Bureau of Engraving and Printing (new): For completion of building under present limit, $280,000. Waynesboro, Va.Waynesboro, Virginia, post office: For additional land for site under present limit, $2,500. Supervising Architect’s Office.Architectural designer.Washington, District of Columbia, Office of Supervising Architect: For architectural designer in the Office of the Supervising Architect, at the rate of $6,000 per annum, $4,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Harrisburg, Pa.Rent.For rent of temporary quarters at Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $5,000. Lynchburg, Va.Rent.Lynchburg, Virginia, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters at Lynchburg, Virginia, for the accommodation of Government officials, $1,500. Atlanta, Ga.For completing United States post office and courthouse at Atlanta, Georgia, $22,500. New York, N. Y.Alterations, etc., in appraisers’ stores, authorized.Vol. 37, p. 422.New York, New York, appraisers’ stores:
The appropriation of $75,000 contained in the sundry civil Act approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, for installing in the appraisers’ stores building, New York, New York, certain metal conduits and wiring, fire-alarm system, and so forth, be, and the same is hereby, made available in lieu thereof for the following purposes, namely: For completing the inclosing of the central elevator shaft, inclosing the lift in the northeast corner, new inclosed staircase on the south side, remodeling wiring system, installing a new fire-alarm system, and extending watchman’s clock system.
San Juan, P. R.San Juan, Porto Rico, post office and courthouse: For completion of building under present limit, $32,000. Shreveport, La.Rent.Shreveport, Louisiana, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials at Shreveport, Louisiana, $800. Wytheville, Va.Use authorized.Wytheville, Virginia, post office: The post-office building heretofore authorized at Wytheville, Virginia, shall be so constructed as to211provide quarters for all governmental purposes in that city: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Within limit of cost.
That said post-office bunding, together with any additional accommodations herein authorized, shall be constructed within the limit of cost fixed for said building. Repairs and preservation of public buildings: Authority is grantedTreasury buildings.Payment for repairs, etc.Vol. 36, p. 1385. to make payment for materials and work supplied during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, in connection with the Treasury Building and its grounds, from the appropriation for “Repairs and preservation of public buildings, nineteen hundred and twelve,” in amount $769.05.
For necessary repairs and painting and for such interior alterationsEngraving and Printing Bureau.Fitting up old building for Auditors’ offices. and rearrangements and fittings as may be required to adapt the old building of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the accommodation of the offices of the Auditors for the Navy, Interior, State and Other Departments, now occupying rented quarters, and for the office of the Auditor for the Treasury Department, now occupying quarters in the main Treasury Building, including the necessary moving expenses, the work to be done by June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, in order that the rented quarters may be vacated on that date, $40,000.
To pay amount found due for architects for services performed inSpecial repairs. connection with special repairs of the Treasury Building, $540. For compensation (not exceeding in the aggregate $15,000 and atAgents to select sites. a monthly compensation not exceeding $300 each, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury), and traveling expenses of agents to select and recommend sites that have been authorized by law for public buildings, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $30,000. collecting internal revenue.Internal revenue.
For salaries and expenses of forty revenue agents provided for byAgents, gaugers, etc. law, and fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeeper-gaugers, fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $6,500. revenue-cutter service.Revenue-Cutter Service. To supply a deficiency in the appropriation for expenses of thePay, etc. Revenue-Cutter Service, including all objects of expenditure authorized in said appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $4,857. life-saving service.Life-Saving Service.
To reimburse the appropriation for expenses of the Life-SavingRelief of flood sufferers. Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, the amount expended therefrom in sending life-saving crews and boats, apparatus, and so forth, for the rescue and relief of the flood sufferers in the Middle West, $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. public health service.Public Health Service. Authority is granted to transfer the sum of $2,100 from the itemTransfer of appropriations.Vol. 36, p. 1394.
“For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment of all other persons entitled to relief, and miscellaneous expenses other than marine hospitals, which are not included under special heads,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, to the item “For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve. collecting the revenue from customs.Customs service. To defray the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs,Collecting revenues. being additional to the permanent appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $150,000. 212 Independent Treasury.contingent expenses, independent treasury.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $35,000. Interstate Commerce Commission.INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. Physical valuation of railroads.Vol. 37, p. 701.To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to carry out the objects of the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February fourth, eighteen hundred eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof, by providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers subject thereto and securing information concerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities,” approved March first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, of which sum not exceeding $15,000 may be expended for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $300,000, together with the unexpended Balance reappropriated.Vol. 37, p. 916.balance of the appropriation of $100,000 made for this purpose in the general deficiency appropriation Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, which is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and this appropriation shall be charged with all expenses necessarily incurred on and after July first, nineteen hundred and thirteen: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Restriction on classified service transfers.That no person in the classified service of the United States on March first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, or employed therein since that date, other than in the Interstate Commerce Commission, shall be employed hereunder, by certificate or otherwise of the Civil Service Commission or by transfer from other branches of the public service, at a rate of compensation exceeding that received from the United States on or since March first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, nor shall the rate of compensation of any person appointed hereunder be increased within twelve months after such appointment.
Block-signal systems, etc.Investigation and report to be made.To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission, at its discretion, to investigate and report in regard to the use and necessity for block-signal systems and appliances for the automatic control of railway trains’ and any appliances or systems intended to promote the safety of railway operation, including experimental tests of such systems and appliances as shall be furnished in completed shape, to such commission for such investigation and test, free of cost to the Vol. 34, p. 838.Vol. 35, p. 966.Government, in accordance with the provisions of the joint resolution approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and the sun-dry civil appropriation Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, $25,000.
Publicity expert.Restriction on paying.No money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used for the compensation of any publicity expert unless specifically appropriated for that purpose. Board of Mediation and Conciliation.UNITED STATES BOARD OF MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION. Expenses.*Ante*, p. 103.To enable the United States Board of Mediation and Conciliation to carry out the objects of an Act entitled “An Act providing for mediation, conciliation, and arbitration in controversies between certain employers and their employees,” approved July fifteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $10,000. 213 DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia.
Excise Board: For three members of the Excise Board, at theExcise Board.Vol. 37, p. 977. rate of $2,400 per annum each; clerk, at the rate of SI,500 per annum; inspector, at the rate of $1,500 per annum; in all, $8,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are hereby Payment of employees of old board.authorized and directed to use so much as may be necessary of the appropriation of $4,800 contained in the District of ColumbiaVol. 37, p. 940. appropriation Act for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, under the head of “General Expenses,” subhead “Excise Board,” to pay the salaries of the four employees of the old Excise Board for services actually rendered by them from July first, nine-teen hundred and thirteen, to August twenty-first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, both dates inclusive, at the rates of compensation set forth in the law granting said appropriation, and the said appropriation is hereby made available for this purpose.
Coroner’s office: For amount required to pay the deputyCoroner’s office.Deputy coroner. coroner for services during the absence of the coroner for the fiscal years that follow: For nineteen hundred and thirteen, $100. For nineteen hundred and twelve, $50. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses: For additionalContingent expenses.Coroner’s expenses. amount required for contingent expenses of the coroner’s office, $500. For additional amount required for advertising taxes in arrears,Advertising. $78.50.
For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in theJudicial expenses. appropriation for judicial expenses, $120. Streets: The appropriations for dust prevention, cleaning streets,Cleaning streets.Purchase of bicycles, etc. and snow removal, for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and thirteen and nineteen hundred and fourteen, are made available for purchase, maintenance, and repair of bicycles, and the action of the commissioners in heretofore authorizing expenditures for this purpose from the appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred ana thirteen is approved.
Writs of lunacy: For additional amount required to meet theLunacy writs. objects set forth in the appropriations for writs of lunacy for the fiscal years that follow: For nineteen hundred and thirteen, $650. For nineteen hundred and twelve, $4.75. Notice by publication in opening, extension, and so forth,Street extensions.Publication of notices modified.Vol. 34, p. 151. of streets, alleys, and so forth: *Provided*, That hereafter notice by publication in all condemnation cases for the opening, extension, widening, or straightening of any street, avenue, road, highway, alley, or minor street in the District of Columbia shall be by advertisement twice a week for two successive weeks in three daily newspapers published in the District of Columbia.
Industrial Home School: For additional amount required forIndustrial Home School. maintenance, including purchase and care of horses, wagons, and harness, $1,154.43. Board of Children’s Guardians: For additional amountBoard of Children’s Guardians.Care of children. required for board and care of children committed to the guardianship of the Board of Children’s Guardians by the courts of the District of Columbia for the fiscal years that follow: For nineteen hundred and thirteen, $19,820.09.
For nineteen hundred and twelve, $16.70. Refund of erroneous collections: For amount required to refundErroneous collections refunded. certain erroneous collections on account of special assessments,214charges, fees, and so forth, covered into the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the United States and the District of Columbia in equal parts, $709.62. Charles W. Shiles.Refund.Extension of Q Street northwest: The Commissioners are authorized and directed to pay to Charles W.
Shiles the sum of $75 from the appropriation for the extension of Q Street northwest, District of Columbia, for amount of erroneous assessment for benefits. Judgments.Judgments: For payment of judgments, including costs, against the District of Columbia, set forth in House Document Numbered eighty-eight of this session, $531, together with a further sum to pay the interest on same at not exceeding four per cent on said judgments, as provided by law from the date the same became due until the date of payment.
Supreme court.Miscellaneous expenses.Miscellaneous expenses, supreme court: For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, and its officers, including the furnishing and collecting of evidence where the United States is or may be a party in interest, including also such expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the Court of Appeals, District of Columbia, fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $21.86.
Militia.Naval battalion.Militia: For pay of officers and enlisted men of the naval battalion for the annual cruise, June twenty-eighth to July tenth, inclusive, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $2,774.11. Part from District revenues.Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
War Department.WAR DEPARTMENT. International Water-ways Commission.Incurred obligations to be paid.*Ante*, p. 38.International Waterways Commission: Not exceeding $5,100 of the sum appropriated in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen for the work of the International Waterways Commission shall be available for the payment of obligations incurred subsequent to January first, nineteen hundred and thirteen. New York Harbor.Preventing deposits, etc.Prevention of deposits, harbor of New York:
For prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For purchase and installation of a boiler on the patrol boat Nimrod, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $5,000. Gettysburg Park.Gettysburg National Park. Replacing monuments, etc.For replacing and restoring to their original condition nine monuments erected on the battle field of Gettysburg, and damaged by a vandal, $7,032.
Rivers and harbors.River and Harbor Work. Tennessee River.Use of balances.Vol. 37, p. 814.The sum of $150,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, of the unexpended balance of the appropriation heretofore made for the improvement of the Tennessee River between Chattanooga, Tennessee, and Browns Island, Alabama, be made available for expenditure in the section of the Tennessee River between Florence and Riverton, Alabama, for the purpose of allowing immediate and continuous work of improvement in said latter section of the river. 215 National Home fob Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.Volunteer Soldiers’ Home.
To pay the interest on the principal sum of the judgment of theJ. E. Parrish.Interest on judgment.Vol. 37, p. 602. Circuit Court of the United States, Eastern District of Tennessee, against the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers and in favor of J. E. Parrish, being interest on $21,139.12 from February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and four, to September twenty-first, nineteen hundred and twelve, when the said principal sum of the judgment was paid into the hands of the clerk of the court, $10,907.81.
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Army. Arming and equipping the militia, allotment State of Ohio: ForOhio militia.Replacing stores lost by floods. replacing military stores, supplies, and equipments lost by the National Guard of the State of Ohio during the recent floods in Ohio during March and April, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $78,670.87. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department. Regular supplies: Regular supplies of the Quartermaster’sRegular supplies. Department, including all objects mentioned under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $250,000. relief of sufferers from floods, and so forth.Relief of flood sufferers, etc.
For the reimbursement of appropriations of the War DepartmentReimbursement of appropriations. from which expenditures have been made in connection with, or as an incident to, the relief of sufferers from floods, tornadoes, and conflagrations in the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys, Peach Tree, Alabama, and in Nebraska during the year nineteen hundred and thirteen, as follows: Clothing and equipage, fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen,Clothing and equipage. $216,748.97; Regular supplies, fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen,Regular supplies. $23,643.05;
Incidental expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen,Incidental expenses. $2,444.56; Mileage, fiscal years nineteen hundred and thirteenMileage. and nineteen hundred and fourteen, $4,486.96; Army transportation, fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen,Transportation. $177,055.94; Subsistence of the Army, fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen,Subsistence. $229,625.16; Water and sewers, fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen,Water and sewers. $443.85; In all’ $654,448.49.
The amount above appropriated shall also be available for theTravel expenses of officers and enlisted men. reimbursement of officers of the Army detailed by direction of the Secretary of War on duty in connection with the relief work hereinbefore mentioned of all such necessary actual expenses of travel as may be approved by the Secretary of War as having been incurred by them in connection with such duty, over and above the allowances made for the same by law, and also for the reimbursement of enlisted men of the Army while detailed on similar duty of their living expenses over and above the commutation of subsistence receivable by them.
The action of the Executive in authorizing or directing Action of President approved and ratified.expenditures from appropriations under the War, Navy, and Treasury Departments for the relief of sufferers from floods, tornadoes, and216conflagrations in the Mississippi and Ohio Valleys, Peach Tree, Alabama, and in Nebraska during the year nineteen hundred and thirteen for which payment or reimbursement is herein provided, is approved and ratified. Use of medical reserve supplies approved.The action of the Executive in directing the issue, and the issuance by the Surgeon General of the Army, of medical supplies out of the reserve supply for the field service of the Army, of the value not exceeding $8,239.40, for the relief of sufferers from floods in the Mississippi Valley in nineteen hundred and thirteen, is approved, and credit for all such supplies so issued shall be allowed in the settlement of the accounts of the Medical Department of the Army.
Credits to river and harbor appropriations.The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to credit certain appropriations under control of the Engineer Department of the Army with expenditures for the relief of sufferers from floods in the Mississippi Valley in nineteen hundred and thirteen, as follows: Mississippi River.Improving Mississippi River (from Head of Passes to the mouth of the Ohio River), $10,125.98; Improving Mississippi River from mouth of Ohio River to Minneapolis, Minnesota (for between mouths of Ohio and Missouri Rivers), $14,172.15;
Operating and care of canals and other works of navigation (indefinite), $186.82; Ohio River.Improving Ohio River, general improvement, $4,482.02; Operating and care of canals and other works of navigation (indefinite), $1,834.54; Improving Ohio River below Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: Locks and dams, $379.34; Operating and care of canals and other works of navigation (indefinite), $1,340; Yazoo, etc., rivers, Miss.Improving Yazoo River and tributaries, Mississippi, allotment Yazoo River, general improvements, $1,671.50; in all, $34,192.35.
Navy Department.NAVY DEPARTMENT. Relief of flood sufferers.Reimbursement of naval appropriations.Relief of flood sufferers in Ohio and Indiana and on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and their tributaries: For reimbursement of naval appropriations for expenditures on account of relief of flood sufferers in the States of Ohio and Indiana and on the Ohio and Mississippi Rivers and their tributaries, $130,940.38. Paying claims for collisions with naval vessels.Vol. 36, p. 607.To pay the claims adjusted and determined by the Navy Department, Under the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page six hundred and seven), on account of damages occasioned to private property by collisions with vessels of the United States Navy and for which the naval vessels were responsible, certified to Congress at its present session in House Documents Numbered One hundred and fifty-one and One hundred and eighty-five, and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-four,$1,781.39.
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. Mare Island, Cal.Modified plan for improving hydraulics, Maro Island Straits.Vol. 36, p. 1275.The “Improvement of hydraulics, Mare Island Straits, and so forth, in accordance with the report submitted in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and three, Sixtieth Congress, second session,” authorized by the naval appropriation Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, may be effected by the Secretary of the Navy in accordance with such modifications of the plan recommended in said report as he may approve, subject, however, to the limitation of cost fixed by said Act. 217 INTERIOR DEPARTMENT.Interior Department. general land office.General Land Office.
The unexpended balance on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred andNorthern Pacific grant.Classifying lands within.Vol. 37, p. 609.Vol. 13, p. 367.Vol. 28, p. 683. thirteen, remaining to the credit of the appropriation of $4,500 contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved August twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and twelve, for the completion during the fiscal year of nineteen hundred and thirteen, of the examination and classification of lands within the limits of the Northern Pacific grant under the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four (Thirteenth Statutes, three hundred and sixty-five), is continued and made available to meet the expenses pertaining to such examinations and classifications as may be incurred during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen. surveying the public lands.Surveying public lands.
To pay William T. Evans, UnitedStates deputy surveyor, forWilliam T. Evans.Payment to. surveys and resurveys of public lands in Oregon, under contract numbered seven hundred and eighty-four, dated January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and nine, the sum of $1,428.16, as found due him by the Auditor for the Interior Department by certificate numbered thirty-two thousand one hundred of September sixteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and payable from the appropriation “Surveying the public lands,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine. geological survey.Geological Survey.
For the purchase of instruments, equipment, apparatus, supplies,Replacing instruments, etc., destroyed by fire. file cases and other furniture, and lumber, and the reprinting of maps and folios, to replace certain ones destroyed by the fire of May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, in the building occupied by the United States Geological Survey, including the repairs to instruments and equipment made necessary by said fire, these emergency purchases to be made under such rules as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe, to continue available during the fiscal year 1914, $50,000.
For reimbursement of carpenters and other laborers for the loss ofPersonal losses. personal property, tools and work clothes, $80.16. indian office.Indian Office. The unexpended balance remaining upon the books of the Fort Bidwell School, Cal.Use of balances.Vol. 37, p. 520.Treasury on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, of the appropriation of “$15,000 for improvements at Fort Bidwell School, in California, as follows: $7,000 for the erection and construction of a water and electric-light system; $3,000 for sewerage system; $3,000 for a steam laundry; and $2,000 for a complete heating system of the school and accessory buildings,” under the Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled “An Act making appropriations for current and contingent expenses of the Bureau of Indian Affairs, for fulfilling treaty stipulations with the various Indian tribes, and for other purposes,” for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Thirty-seventh United States Statutes, pages five hundred and eighteen to five hundred and twenty), and under the terms of said appropriation of $15,000, is hereby reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.
Government Hospital for the Insane: For completing theGovernment Hospital for Insane.Power, etc., plant. power, heating, and lighting plant, remodeling the electric layout218and substituting electrically driven for steam-driven machinery, and Exchanges authorized.for other purposes incident thereto, $18,150; or in lieu thereof authority to exchange or sell discarded machinery, copper, and material, and use the proceeds therefrom to complete this work. Platt National Park.Platt National Park:
For maintenance, bridging, roads, and trails, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $8,000. repairs of buildings, interior department. Pension Office Build.Repairs.Capitol.Repairs, etc.For new roof covering on Pension Office Building and for new rain spouts, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $18,000. Capitol Building: For work at Capitol and for general repairs thereof, including flags for the east amt 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, $1,650.
Department of Justice.DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Assistant to Attorney General.Salary increased.Office of the Attorney General: For salary of the Assistant to the Attorney General, which is hereby fixed at the rate of $9,000 per annum; in addition to the $7,000 heretofore appropriated, for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $1,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Charwomen.For two charwomen, at the rate of $240 each per annum, for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $360, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Contingent expenses.Solicitor for Department of Labor.Contingent expenses: For books for law library in the office of the Solicitor for the Department of Labor, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $500. Furniture.For furniture and repairs, including carpets, file holders, and cases, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $1,000. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and adding machines and exchange of same, street car tickets not exceeding $200, and other necessaries directly ordered by the Attorney General, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $1,200.
Rent.For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $3,000. Prosecution of crimes, etc.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, clerics, and referees of the United States courts and the Territorial courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time; 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 for fiscal years that follow:
For nineteen hundred and thirteen, $20,000. For nineteen hundred and twelve, $866.62. Digest of Federal Reporter.Federal Court Reports and Digests: For purchase of one hundred and eighty copies of volume nine of the Digest to the Federal Reporter, to complete sets now furnished to various judicial officers, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $900. 219 Enforcement of antitrust laws: For the enforcement ofEnforcing antitrust laws. anti-trust laws, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $8,540.26.
For the enforcement of antitrust laws, for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and ten and nineteen hundred and eleven, $947.98. JUDICIAL.Judicial. The disbursing clerk of the Department of Justice is authorized toPayment to de facto judges and attorneys. pay, from the regular appropriations provided for such items, after audit in the Division of Accounts, the salaries of the following officers for the period during which duties were actually performed, notwithstanding the fact that the appointments were not confirmed by the Senate:
Richard E. Sloan as United States district judge for the district ofRichard E. Sloan. Arizona. Clinton W. Howard as United States district judge for the westernClinton W. Howard. district of Washington. James B. Sloan as United States district attorney for the southernJames B. Sloan. district of Alabama. Lester G. Fant as United States district attorney for the northernLester G. Fant. district of Mississippi. Beverley W. Comer as United States district attorney for theBeverley W.
Coiner. western district of Washington. Commerce Court: For expenses of the Commerce Court duringCommerce Court.Salaries and expenses. first half of fiscal year. the first half of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, namely: clerk, at the rate of $4,000 per annum; deputy clerk, at the rate of $2,500 per annum; marshal, at the rate of $3,000 per annum; deputy marshal, at the rate of $2,500 per annum; for rent of necessary quarters in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, and furnishing same for the Commerce Court; for books, periodicals, stationery, printing, and binding; for pay of bailiffs and all other necessary employees at the seat of government and elsewhere, not otherwise specifically provided for, and for such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $17,500; in all, $23,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
The Commerce Court, created and established by the Act entitledAbolished after December 31, 1913.Vol. 36, pp. 539, 1146. “An Act to create a Commerce Court and to amend the Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as heretofore amended, and for other purposes,” approved June eighteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, is shed from and after December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and the jurisdiction vested in said Commerce Court byJurisdiction to vest in district courts. said Act is transferred to and vested in the several district courts of the United States, and all Acts or parts of Acts in so far as they relate to the establishment of the Commerce Court are repealed.
NothingTenure and service of present judges continued. herein contained shall be deemed to affect the tenure of any of the judges now acting as circuit judges by appointment under the terms of said Act, but such judges shall continue to act under assignment, as in the said Act provided, as judges of the district courts and circuit courts of appeals; and in the event of and on the death, resignation,No successors to be appointed. or removal from office of any of such judges, his office is hereby abolished and no successor to him shall be appointed.
The venue of any suit hereafter brought to enforce, suspend, orVenue of suits on orders of Interstate Commerce Commission. set aside, in whole or in part, any order of the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be in the judicial district wherein is the residence of the party or any of the parties upon whose petition the order was made, except that where the order does not relate to transportation or is not made upon the petition of any party the venue shall be in the district where the matter complained of in the petition before the commission arises, and except that where the order does not relate220either to transportation or to a matter so complained of before the commission the matter covered by the order shall be deemed to arise in the district where one of the petitioners in court has either its principal office or its principal operating office.
In case such transportation relates to a through shipment the term “destination” shall be construed as meaning final destination of such shipment. Procedure in district courts.The procedure in the district courts in respect to cases of which jurisdiction is conferred upon them by this Act shall be the same as Service, etc.that heretofore prevailing in the Commerce Court. The orders, writs, and processes of the district courts may in these cases run, be served, and be returnable anywhere in the United States; and the right of appeal from the district courts in such cases shall be the same as the right of appeal heretofore prevailing under existing law Interlocutory injunctions.Applications for, to suspend, etc., orders of Commission.from the Commerce Court.
No interlocutory injunction suspending or restraining the enforcement, operation, or execution of, or setting aside, in whole or in part, any order made or entered by the Interstate Commerce Commission shall be issued or granted by any district court of the United States, or by any judge thereof, or by Hearing by three judges, etc.any circuit judge acting as district judge, unless the application for the same shall be presented to a circuit or district judge, and shall be heard and determined by three judges, of whom at least one shall be a circuit judge, and unless a majority of said three judges shall concur in granting such application.
When such application as aforesaid is presented to a judge, he shall immediately call to his assistance Notice to be given.to hear and determine the application two other judges. Said application shall not be heard or determined before at least five days’ notice of the hearing has been given to the Interstate Commerce Commission, to the Attorney General of the United States, and to *Proviso*.Temporary restraining order to prevent irreparable loss.such other persons as may be defendants in the suit: *Provided*, That in cases where irreparable damage would otherwise ensue to the petitioner, a majority of said three judges concurring, may, on hearing, after not less than three days’ notice to the Interstate Commerce Commission and the Attorney General, allow a temporary stay or suspension, in whole or in part, of the operation of the order of the Interstate Commerce Commission for not more than sixty days from the date of the order of said judges pending the application for the order or injunction, in which case the said order shall Finding.contain a specific finding, based upon evidence submitted to the judges making the order and identified by reference thereto, that such irreparable damage would result to the petitioner and specifying the nature of the damage.
The said judges may, at the time of hearing such application, upon a like finding, continue the temporary stay or suspension in whole or in part until decision upon Precedence and expediting.the application. The hearing upon such application for an interlocutory injunction shall be given precedence and shall be in every way expedited and be assigned for a hearing at the earliest practicable day after the expiration of the notice hereinbefore provided for. Direct appeal to Supreme Court.An appeal may be taken direct to the Supreme Court of the United States from the order granting or denying, after notice and hearing, an interlocutory injunction, in such case if such appeal be taken within thirty days after the order, in respect to which complaint is Final bearings.made, is granted or refused; and upon the final hearing of any suit brought to suspend or set aside, in whole or in part, any order of said commission the same requirement as to judges and the same procedure Review of final judgment by Supreme Court.as to expedition and appeal shall apply.
A final judgment or decree of the district court may be reviewed by the Supreme Court of the United States if appeal to the Supreme Court be taken by an aggrieved party within sixty days after the entry of such final judgment or decree, and such appeals may be taken in like manner as Vol 36, p. 557.appeals are taken under existing law in equity cases. And in such221case the notice required shall be served upon the defendants in the case and upon the attorney general of the State.
All cases pendingTransfer of pending casts. in the Commerce Court at the date of the passage of this Act shall be deemed pending in and be transferred forthwith to said district courts except cases which may previously have been submitted to that court for final decree and the latter to be transferred to the district courts if not decided by the Commerce Court before December first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and all cases wherein injunctions or other orders or decrees, mandatory or otherwise, have been directed or entered prior to the abolition of the said court shall be transferred forthwith to said district courts, which shall have jurisdiction to proceed therewith and to enforce said injunctions’, orders, or decrees.
Each of said cases and all the records, papers, andTransfer of records, etc. proceedings shall be transferred to the district court wherein it might have been filed at the time it was filed in the Commerce Court if this Act had then been in effect; and if it might have been filed in any one of two or more district courts it shall be transferred to that one of said district courts which may be designated by the petitioner or petitioners in said case, or, upon failure of said petitioners to act in the premises within thirty days after the passage of this Act, to such one of said district courts as may be designated by the judges of the Commerce Court.
The judges of the Commerce Court shallAuthority of Commerce Court to make transfers, etc. have authority, and are hereby directed, to make any and all orders and to take any other action necessary to transfer as aforesaid the cases and all the records, papers, and proceedings then pending in the Commerce Court to said district courts. All administrativeBooks, dockets, etc. books, dockets, files, and all papers of the Commerce Court not transferred as part of the record of any particular case shall be lodged in the Department of Justice.
All furniture, carpets, andFurniture, etc. other property of the Commerce Court is turned over to the Department of Justice and the Attorney General is authorized to supplyUse by Board of Mediation and Conciliation. such portion thereof as in his judgment may be proper and necessary to the United States Board of Mediation and Conciliation. Any case hereafter remanded from the Supreme Court which, butVenue of cases remanded from Supreme Court. for the passage of this Act, would have been remanded to the Commerce Court, shall be remanded to a district court, designated by the Supreme Court, wherein it might have been instituted at the time it was instituted in the Commerce Court if this Act had then been in effect, and thereafter such district court shall take all necessary and proper proceedings in such case in accordance with law and such man-date, order, or decree therein as may be made by said Supreme Court.
All laws or parts of laws inconsistent with the foregoing provisionsInconsistent laws repealed.Vol. 36, pp. 1146-1151. relating to the Commerce Court, are repealed. UNITED STATES COURTS.United States courts. For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United StatesMarshals. marshals and their deputies, including the office expenses of United States marshals in the District of Alaska; 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 especially directed by the Attorney General, $4,500.
The accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized toConnecticut district. allow in the accounts of the United States marshal for the district of Payments to Selah G. Blakeman and Timothy E. Hawley allowed.Connecticut amounts paid by him from the appropriation pay of bailiff’s, and so forth. United States courts, nineteen hundred and twelve, to Selah G. Blakeman, $192, and from the appropriation pay of bailiffs, United States courts, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to Selah G.
Blakeman, $363, and to Timothy E. Hawley, $513, notwithstanding the fact that said payees also served and received compensation as field deputy United States marshals. 222 Special assistant attorneys.For payment of assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and thirteen and nineteen hundred and fourteen, $20,000. District attorney, D. C.For fees of the United States district attorney for the District of Columbia for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, $57.05.
Support of prisoners.For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing 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 ship-ping remains of deceased prisoners to then 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, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, $12.50.
Miscellaneous expenses.For payment of such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General for the United States courts and their officers, provided that in so far as it may be deemed necessary by the Attorney General this appropriation shall be available for such expenses in the District of Alaska, for the fiscal years that follow: For nineteen hunched and nine, $548.85. For nineteen hundred and ten, $294.25. For nineteen hunched and eleven, $64.20. Penitentiary.Leavenworth, Kans.For the support of the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, as follows:
Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for this institution in the sundry civil appropriation Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hunched and twelve, $4,492.10. Clothing, etc.For clothing and transportation, including the same objects specified under this head for this institution in the sundry civil appropriation Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, $998.89. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney General, including the same objects specified under this head for this institution in the sundry civil appropriation Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, $8,004.01.
Post Office Department.POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. C. F. Macdonald.Acceptance, etc., of bequest by.The bequest of the late C. F. Macdonald of $2,000 to the Secretary of the Treasury for the service of the Post Office Department, to be used by the Postmaster General for the improvement of the postal money-order system of the United States, is accepted, and an appropriation of said amount is hereby made, to be expended under the authority and direction of a commission of three persons, who shall be appointed by the Postmaster General and serve without compensation.
Postal service.POSTAL SERVICE. out of the postal revenues. Indemnity for lost insured mall.For payment of limited indemnity for lost insured mail for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $65,000. Parcel post.Balance reappropriated.Vol. 37, p. 928.The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $750,000 made by the general deficiency appropriation Act, approved March fourth, nine-teen hundred and thirteen, not exceeding $15,000, for the Parcel Post223Service for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen is reappropriated and made available for the same purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen except for such purposes as theException. appropriations under the Supervising Architect may be available.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Deportment of Commerce. The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to enter into a contractWater-cooling plant. for the rental of a water-cooling plant in the building in course of erection at the northeast corner of Nineteenth and H streets northwest, for the period covered by the department’s lease of that building, and to pay for the same out of the appropriation for contingent expenses of the department. bureau of foreign and domestic commerce.Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.
Investigating cost of production: For salaries and all other actualInvestigating cost of production.Vol. 25, p. 183.Vol. 37, p. 407. necessary expenses, including field investigations at home and abroad, compensation of special agents, clerk hire, and rental of quarters in Washington, District of Columbia, purchase of books of reference and manuscripts, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce of the Department of Commerce to ascertain at as early a date as possible, and whenever industrial changes shall make it essential, the cost of producing articles at the time dutiable in the United States, in leading countries where such articles are produced, by fully specified units of production, and under a classification snowing the different elements of cost of such articles of production, including the wages paid in such industries per day, week, month, or year, or by the piece; and hours employed per day; and the profits of manufacturers and producers of such articles; and the comparative cost of living, and the kind of living; what articles are controlled by trusts or other combinations of capital, business operations; or labor, and what effect said trusts or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor have on production and prices, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $50,000. bureau of fisheries.Fisheries Bureau.
There may be paid during the fiscal year nineteen hundred andAlaska fur-seal fisheries.Travel, etc., expenses allowed.*Ante*, p. 64. fourteen, from the appropriation for miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries (Alaska fur-seal fisheries), the traveling and subsistence expenses to and from the islands, and subsistence while on the islands, not to exceed $5,000 per annum, of the naturalist, school-teachers, physicians, and other persons detailed to the fur-seal islands by law, or by direction of the Secretary of Commerce, and traveling and subsistence expenses, hire of boats, and employment of temporary labor in connection with the work of the fur wardens in Alaska underVol. 36, p. 326. the Act of April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and ten, not to exceed $6,000. steamboat-inspection service.Steamboat-Inspection Service.
For two local inspectors, clerk hire, and contingent expenses of theLos Angeles, Cal.Local inspectors, etc.Vol. 37, p. 1013. local board of steamboat inspectors, Los Angeles, California, authorized to be established by the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, all expenditures to be made in accordance with existing law, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $8,000. Hereafter inspectors and other employees in theTravel expenses restricted. Steamboat-Inspection Service shall be allowed, in lieu of mileage, only their actual necessary traveling expenses while traveling on official business assigned them by competent authority. 224 Census Office.bureau of the census.
Collecting statistics.Balance reappropriated.Vol. 37, p. 406.The unexpended balance, not exceeding $50,000, of the appropriation for collecting statistics for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen is hereby reappropriated and made available for disbursement during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen. Official Register.official register of the united states. Postal service to be omitted from.Vol. 34, p. 219.[R. S., sec. 510, p. 84, amended](/us/rs/s510/p84).Hereafter the Official Register of the United States shall not contain the names of those persons heretofore published in Volume II relating to the postal service, namely, postmasters, assistant postmasters, clerks in post offices, city and rural carriers, employees of the sea-post service, employees of the Railway Mail Service, employees of the mail messenger service, and mail contractors; nor shall it contain the statement of allowances made to contractors for carrying the mails or the list of ships and vessels belonging to the United States, as heretofore published in the said Official Register; and all Acts or parts of Acts inconsistent with the foregoing provision are hereby repealed.
Lighthouses Bureau.bureau of lighthouses. Paying damages from collisions.Vol. 36, p. 537.To pay the claim for damages which has been considered, adjusted, and determined to be due the claimant by the Commissioner of Light-houses, under authority of the provisions of section four of the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page five hundred and thirty-seven), on account of damages occasioned by collision for which a vessel of the Lighthouse Service has been found responsible, certified to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-four, $22.50.
Lighthouse Establishment.Atchafalaya Entrance Channel, La.lighthouse establishment. Aids to navigation, Atchafalaya Entrance Channel, Louisiana: For aids to navigation in Atchafalaya Entrance Channel, Louisiana, $50,000. Southwest Pass Entrance, La.Light vessel.Light vessel for Southwest Pass Entrance to Mississippi River, Louisiana: To construct and equip a light vessel for the Southwest Pass Entrance to the Mississippi River, Louisiana, $125,000. Navassa Island, W. I.Light station on Navassa Island, West Indies:
For a light station on Navassa Island, in the West Indies, $125,000. Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio.Improvement of aids to navigation, Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio: For rearrangement, rebuilding, and improvement of the aids to navigation at Ashtabula Harbor, Ohio, $45,000. Sixth district.Depot site, etc.Site, and so forth, for depot for sixth lighthouse district: For purchase of a site and construction of a wharf and buildings, and purchase of the necessary equipment, so far as funds may permit, for a depot for the sixth lighthouse district, $125,000.
Cleveland, Ohio.Removal, and so forth, of fog-signal station, Cleveland, Ohio: For removal, reconstruction, and improvement of the fog-signal station at Cleveland, Ohio, $17,600. Lorain, Ohio.Improvement of aids to navigation, Lorain Harbor, Ohio: For light and fog-signal station and improvement of aids to navigation at Lorain Harbor, Ohio, $35,000. Ashland, Wis.Additional aids to navigation, Ashland, Wisconsin: For additional aids to navigation at Ashland, Wisconsin, $25,000.
Manistique, Mich.Aids to navigation, Manistique, Michigan: For establishment of aids to navigation in the harbor of Manistique, Michigan, $20,000. Cape Saint Elias Alaska.Light and fog signal at or near Cape Saint Elias, Alaska: For light and fog signal at or near Cape Saint Elias, Alaska, $115,000. 225 Improvements of existing aids in Puget Sound, and so forth,Puget Sound., etc., Wash. Washington: For aids to navigation and improvements of existing aids in Puget Sound and adjacent waters, Washington, $30,000.
Improvement of Warrior Rock Light Station, Columbia River,Warrior Bock, Columbia Hiver, Oreg. Oregon: For improvement of Warrior Rock Light Station, Columbia River, Oregon, including the purchase of additional land, $2,000. Pierhead lights, and so forth, Oconto Harbor, Wisconsin: For aOconto, Wis. pier-head light and lighted buoy at Oconto Harbor, Wisconsin, $5,000. Point Arena Light Station, California: For the completionPoint Arena, Cal. of the unfinished portion of the Government road from Rollerville to the Point Arena Lighthouse, Mendocino County, California, $3,000.
Necessary additional land for light stations and depots authorizedLands for stations, etc.Purchases authorized from general expenses.Vol. 37, p. 1017. to be acquired under the Act of Congress approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, may hereafter be purchased from the appropriation “General expenses, Lighthouse Service,” no single acquisition of such additional land to cost in excess of $500, the total sum to be expended for this service not to exceed $3,000 in any one fiscal year.
Beacon lights, Newark Bay, New Jersey: The Secretary of Newark Bay, N. J.Beacon lights for channel.Vol. 34, p. 1318.Commerce is authorized and directed to use the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $15,000, made by the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page thirteen hundred and eighteen), “For light and fog-signal station at or near the west end of the draw near the Lehigh Valley Railroad bridge at Passaic, New Jersey,” for establishing beacon lights to mark the channel in Newark Bay, New Jersey.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. Office of the Secretary: For the following additional employees forOffice of Secretary.Additional employees.Vol. 37, p. 736. the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen: Chief of division, at the rate of $2,500 per annum; clerk, at the rate of $1,800 per annum; clerks—one of class four, one of class two, two at the rate of SI ,000 each per annum; two messengers at the rate of $840 each per annum; telephone switchboard operator at the rate of $720 per annum; laborer at the rate of $660 per annum; in all, $9,420, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Contingent expenses: For additional amounts for contingent andContingent expenses.Vol. 37, p. 788. miscellaneous expenses for the offices and bureaus of the Department of Labor, to be available for the objects named in the appropriation for contingent expenses for the Department of Commerce and Labor, contained in the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and for all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included therein, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $10,000.
For rent for balance of fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, forRent. the office of the Secretary of Labor, $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Commissioners of conciliation: To pay the expenses ofCommissioners of conciliation.Expenses.Vol. 37, p. 738. commissioners of conciliation in labor disputes, whenever appointed in pursuance to section eight of the Act creating the Department of Labor, $5,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Any unexpended balance on July first, nineteen hundred andIndustrial Relations Commission.Balance available.Vol. 37, p. 416. thirteen, of the $100,000 appropriated for the Commission on Industrial Relations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, is made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen. immigration service.Immigration Service.
Immigrant station, Ellis Island, New York Harbor: For newEllie Island. N. Y., station.New water main. water main and installation thereof between Ellis Island, New York,226and Jersey City, New Jersey, including connections with present main and incidental work, $14,000. Temporary detention of aliens.Expenses to be paid by transportation linesVol. 34, p.903.Whenever aliens arriving at any port of the United States are temporarily removed from a vessel in accordance with the provisions of section sixteen of the immigration Act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, the transportation lines which brought them and the masters, owners, agents, and consignees of the vessel on which they arrive shall pay all expenses of such removal and all expenses arising during subsequent detention pending decision of the eligibility of such aliens to enter the United States and until they are either allowed to land or returned to the care of the line or to the vessel which brought them, and such expenses shall include those of maintenance, medical treatment in hospital or elsewhere, burial in the event of death, and charges for transfer to the vessel in the event Exception.Vol. 34, p. 904.of deportation, excepting only where such expenses arise under the terms of any of the provisos of section nineteen of the said immigration Restriction on removal.Act; and aliens shall not be temporarily removed from any vessel unless the master, owner, agent, or consignee thereof shall guarantee in a maimer prescribed by and to the satisfaction of the Secretary of Labor that said expenses will be paid.
Legislative.LEGISLATIVE. House Office Building.House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous items and for all necessary services to be 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, $9,982.29. Demurrage on coal shipments.The Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds is authorized to pay, out of the appropriation for Capitol power plant, fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, the sum of $438, amount of demurrage on shipments of coal for Capitol power plant between the dates February seventeenth and April fourteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen.
Statement of appropriations, 1913.Sundry civil and Indian appropriations Acts to be Included in.The statement of appropriations, and so forth, for the last session of the Sixty-second Congress shall include the sundry civil and Indian appropriation Acts as passed at the extraordinary session of the Sixty-third Congress, and all other appropriations made at the latter session shall be compiled and published with the statement to be prepared of the appropriation bills for the second session of the Sixty-third Congress.
Capitol police.Additional force.For additional members of the Capitol police force for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, as follows: One lieutenant, at the rate of $1,200 per annum; and fourteen privates, at the rate of $1,050 each per annum; one-half of said privates to be selected by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and one-half by the Sergeant at Arms of the House of Representatives; in all, $11,925, or Division of disbursements for.so much thereof as may be necessary, one half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House of Representatives.
Senate.senate. Vice President JamesS. Sherman, Pay to widow.To pay Mrs. Carrie B. Sherman, widow of Honorable James S. Sherman, late Vice President, United States, $12,000, being a sum equal to one year’s salary as Vice President of the United States. Joseph F. Johnston.Pay to widow.To pay Therese Hooper Johnston, widow of the late Senator Joseph F. Johnston, from the State of Alabama, $7,500. Stenographers to Senators.For twenty-three stenographers to Senators, from December first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, both dates inclusive, at the rate of $1,200 per annum227each, for Senators having less than three employees in connection with their official work, $16,100.
For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $19,500.Miscellaneous items. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate,Inquiries, etc. including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding $1.25 per printed page, $1,000. To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debatesOfficial reporters.Extra services. of the Senate for expenses incurred from March fourth to September fifteenth, nineteen Hundred and thirteen, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, $3,150.
To pay David L. Frawley, as additional compensation for extraDavid L. Frawley.Extra services. services rendered the subcommittee of the Committee on the Judiciary, engaged in the investigation of the maintenance of a lobby, pursuant to Senate resolution numbered ninety-two, during the first session of the Sixty-third Congress, $465. For the following, on account of additional services to theJoseph S. McCoy and Thomas M. Robertson.Additional services. Committee on Finance, namely, to pay Joseph S.
McCoy, $1,000; Thomas M. Robertson, $500; in all, $1,500. For purchase and maintenance of motor vehicles for carrying theMotor mail vehicles. mails, $4,000, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation for*Proviso*.Use of balance for maintenance.Vol. 37, p. 742. expenses of maintaining and equipping horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen is hereby made available for maintaining and equipping motor vehicles.
For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents for theStorage warehouse. Senate for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $2,700. Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous itemsSenate Office Building.Maintenance. and supplies, and for all necessary personal and other services for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building, under the direction and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, $1,750. Pay L. J. Hennessy, for twenty days’ extra labor, at $5 per day,L.
J. Hennessy.Payment to. rendered as special clerk for the Judiciary Committee lobby investigation, $100. Pay F. M. Brosius, for thirty days’ extra labor, at $5 per day,F. M. Brosius.Payment to. rendered as special clerk for the Judiciary Committee lobby investigation, $150. house of representatives.House of Representatives. To pay the widow of L. J. Martin, late a Representative from theL. I. Martin.Pay to widow. State of New Jersey, $7,500. To pay the widow of Forrest Goodwin, late a Representative fromForrest Goodwin.Pay to widow. the State of Maine, $7,500.
To pay the widow of George Konig, late a Representative from theGeorge Konig.Pay to widow. State of Maryland, $7,500. To pay the widow of S. A. Roddenbery, late a Representative fromS. A. Roddenbery.Pay to widow. the State of Georgia, $7,500. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and selectMiscellaneous items., etc. committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, $60,175. For stationery for the use of the committees and officers of theStationary.
House, $1,000. For furniture, and materials for repairs of the same, fiscal yearFurniture. nineteen hundred and fourteen, $10,000. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 perFolding. thousand, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $5,000. To reimburse the official reporters of debates $490 each andOfficial reporters and Stenographers.Clerical assistance. the official stenographers to committees, M. R. Blumenberg, Frank H.228Barto, and R. J. Speir, $205 each for moneys actually expended by them for clerical assistance to August thirty-first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $3,555.
Telephone operators.For services of substitute telephone operators when required, at $2.50 per day each, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $250. Government Printing Office.GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. Holidays.Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $809.89. Leaves of absence.Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting leave to employees of the Government Printing Office, $2,388.30, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the Public Printer is authorized to pay to employees receiving annual salaries fixed by law the full amount of earned and accrued leave due them and not taken and paid during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen.
Waste paper expenses.To enable the Public Printer to meet the additional operating expense made necessary by reason of handling and disposing of the waste paper from the various departments of the Government in Washington, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $9,000. Samuel Robinson. William Madden, and Joseph Do Fontes.Extra services.To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes, messengers on night duty during the first session of the present Congress, for extra services, $400 each; in all, $1,200.
Public printing and binding.printing and binding. Supreme Court.For printing and binding for the Supreme Court of the United States, $2,103.46; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ unless it shall otherwise order. Judgments, Court of Claims.JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. Payment of.For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-six, and Senate Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-five, namely:
Classification.Under War Department, $89,114.52; Under Navy Department, $3,488.33; In all, $92,602.85. Judgments, Indian depredation claims.JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS. Payment of.For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-five, at its present session, except the judgment in favor of Manuel de Herrera, administrator of Carpio de Herrera, deceased, $8,795; said judgments to be paid after the Deductions.deductions required to be made under the provisions of section six of Vol. 26, p. 853.the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” snail have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the Reimbursement.tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secre229tary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian service: *Provided*, That no one of said judgments provided in this*Proviso*.Not appealed. paragraph shall be paid until the Attorney General shall have certified to the Secretary or the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.
None of the judgments contained in this Act shall be paid untilRight to appeal. the right of appeal shall have expired. Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toClaims certified by accounting officers. be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of theVol. 18, p. 110. Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven and other years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress underVol. 23, p. 254. section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, its fully set forth in House Document Numbered One hundred and fifty-seven, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
For collecting revenue from customs, $57.81.Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For repairs to canceling and cutting machines, office of Treasurer of the United States, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $10.46. For Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, $247.22. For miscellaneous expenses, Internal-Revenue Service, $1.30. For allowance or drawback, internal revenue, $134.65. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $17,785.30. For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, $1,458.36.
For Life-Saving Service, $324.22. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, $42.72. For general inspector of supplies for public buildings, $9.65. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $30.25. For fuel, lights, and water for public buddings, $7.90. For repairs and preservation oi public buildings, $112.93. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $76.07. For general expenses of public buildings, $746.26. For post office, Austin, Minnesota, $1.96. For Treasury Building, Washington, District of Columbia:
Repairs and alterations, $2,000. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $29,985.57.Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $49.38. For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $1,700.62. For subsistence of the Army, $1,211.06. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, $2,767.43. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $17.50.
For barracks and quarters, $618.03. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $1,209.47. For water and sewers at military posts, $349.15. For engineer equipment of troops, $3. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $6.15. For burial of indigent soldiers, $45. For pay of volunteers, Cayuse Indian war in eighteen hundred and forty-seven and eighteen hundred and forty-eight, in Oregon, $613.50. 230 claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and twelve, $12,561.21.
For pay of the Navy, $21,555.10. For pay Marine Corps, $291.76. For barracks and quarters, Marine Corps, $140. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $143.96. For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $24.68. For outfits on first enlistments, Bureau of Navigation $14.79. For maintenance naval auxiliaries, Bureau of Navigation, $49.90. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $83.84. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $69. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $668.43.
For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $230.88. Vol. 28, p. 962.For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $711.24. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, $23.78. For enlistment bounties to seamen, $312.25. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.For international protection of industrial property, Patent Office, $4.32.
For expenses of depositing public moneys, $4.70. For expenses of hearings in land entries, nineteen hundred and twelve, $288.93. For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, $15.45. For opening Indian reservations, reimbursable, $117.60. For surveying the public lands, $13,379.01. For Geological Survey, $24.36. For investigating mine accidents, $7.02. For testing field, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Saint Louis, Missouri, $94.94. For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, nineteen hundred and twelve, $93.59.
For Indian schools, support, $153.36. For Indian school buildings, $291.53. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $2,036.38. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and twelve, $3,108.41. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian service, nineteen hundred and twelve, $414.27. For telegraphing, transportation, and so forth, Indian supplies, $50.55. For irrigation system, Papago Reservation, Arizona, $1. For water supply, nomadic Papago Indians, Arizona, $120.18.
For support of Mission Indians m California, $293.48. For support of Northern Cheyennes and Arapahoes, employees, Montana, nineteen hundred and twelve, $118.23. For irrigation system, Milk River, Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana (reimbursable), 68 cents. For support of Chippewas, Turtle Mountain, North Dakota, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $95.98. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $60.20. For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, $9.30. 231 claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments.
For public printing and binding, $6,792.76.Claims allowed by Auditor for Slate, etc., Departments. For Immigration Commission, 45 cents. For administration of the customs laws, nineteen hundred and twelve, $7.34. For allowance for clerks at consulates, $47.45. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, nineteen hundred and twelve, $1,238.17. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $212.31. For preservation of collections, National Museum, $1.59. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $6.95.
For general expenses, Forest Service, $33.46. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $15.71. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, $1.70. For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, 37 cents. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $2.44. For repairs and incident al expenses of lighthouses, $718.26. For supplies of lighthouses, $10.41. For expenses of fog signals, $286.74. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Labor, $300. For expenses of regulating immigration, $25.
For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $15.67. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and twelve, $953.63. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $21.75. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $6.40. For supplies for United States courts, $33.85. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $50. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toAdditional claims. be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of theVol. 18, p. 110.
Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven and other years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred andVol. 23, p. 254. eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered One hundred and ninety-three, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, $100.Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For punishment for violation of internal-revenue laws, $4.60. For redemption of stamps, $22.92. For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, 45 cents. For Life-Saving Service, $1. For Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, $9.26. For general expenses of public buildings, $82.10. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $4,794.96.Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.
For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $84.08. For extra-duty pay to-enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $1,426.90. 232 For subsistence of the Army, $627.72. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $4.97. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $3,901.70. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $30.80. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Southern Branch, $14.65. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington volunteers in eighteen hundred ana fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, $67.28. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and twelve, $5,343.05. For pay of the Navy, $14,156.40. For pay, miscellaneous, $97.74. For pay, Marine Corps, $401.81. For pay, Naval Academy, $39.76. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $238.75. For ordnance and ordnance stores. Bureau of Ordnance, $83.36. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $249.33. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $32.56. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $69.12. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.For expenses of hearings in land entries, nineteen hundred and twelve, 85 cents. For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, $11.91. For surveying the public lands, $4,461.95. For Geological Survey, $5.88. For Indian schools, support, $20.45. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $5,036.82. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian service, nineteen hundred and twelve, $14.63.
For telegraphing, transportation, and so forth, Indian supplies, 16 cents. For water supply, nomadic Papago Indians, Arizona, $1.63. For Army pensions, $141. For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, $6. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments.For salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim, $367.25. For allowance for clerks at consulates, 82 cents. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, nineteen hundred and twelve, $138.03.
For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $48.92. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $1.49. For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, $2,93. For rent, Department of Commerce and Labor, $1.25. For expenses of light vessels, $700. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, 90 cents. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, $78.85. For naturalization of aliens, $3.90. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $10.50. 233 For fees of clerks, United States courts, $330.
For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and twelve, $5. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $27. monument to commemorate the women of the civil war.Women of the Civil War. To make payment of a part contribution to the acquisition of a siteMemorial monument to.Contribution for site and building. and the erection thereon of a memorial in the District of Columbia to commemorate the service and the sacrifices of the women of the United States, North and South, for the sick and wounded in war, $400,000: *Provided*, That said memorial shall be a building monumental in *Provisos*.Use as American Red Cross headquarters.design and character and shall be used as the permanent headquarters of the American Red Cross and shall cost, with the site, not less than $700,000: *Provided further*, That theSubject to approval of plans. sum hereby appropriated shall not be payable until there shall have been assured by private subscription an additional sum of $300,000: *Provided further*, That the money hereby appropriated shallCondition of payment. not be paid for any site nor toward the construction of any memorial unless the site and plan for the proposed building shall have been approved by a commission consistingCommission. of the Secretary of War of the United States, the chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress, the chairman of the House Committee on the Library, and the president of the American Red Cross.
The plans of said memorial shall likewise be approved by the Commission of Fine Arts. The expenditure for said site andExpenditures.*Post*, p. 326. memorial shall be made under the direction of the commission consisting of the Secretary of War, the chairman of the Joint Committee on the Library of Congress, and the president of the American Red Cross, and the said memorial shall be constructed under the supervision of an officer of the Corps of Engineers appointed by the Secretary of War, who shall act as the executive disbursing officer of the commission: *Provided further*, That the title to the site procured shall be taken byTitle, maintenance, etc. and the building erected thereon shall be the property of the United States, but the American Red Cross shall at all tunes be charged with and be responsible for the care, keeping, and maintenance of the said memorial and grounds without expense to the United States, subject to such further direction and control as may be provided by law: *And provided further*, That should the commission hereby created beCondemnation of site. unable to acquire a suitable site at a price deemed by the commission to be fair, it is authorized to institute condemnation proceedings inVol. 26, p. 412. accordance with the provisions of the Act of Congress approved August thirtieth, eighteen hundred and ninety, providing a site for the enlargement of the Government Printing Office (United States Statutes at Large, volume twenty-six, chapter eight hundred and thirty-seven).
Approved, October 22, 1913.