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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 38 STAT. · April 6, 1914 · Chapter 52

Chapter 52. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and for prior years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 52.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and for prior years, and for other purposes. April 6, 1914.[[H. R. 13612](/us/bill/63/hr/13612).][[Public, No. 82](/us/pl/63/82).] *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 are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and for prior years, and for other purposes, namely:
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.Civil Service Commission. Traveling expenses, etc.For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners acting under the direction of the commission, and for expenses of examination and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, and attendance at meetings of public officials when specifically directed by the commission, $7,500. Stationery.For stationery, $1,000. DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. Ambassador to Spain.Salary.Vol. 37, p. 688.To pay the difference in salary between that of an envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Spain at $12,000, provided by the Diplomatic and Consular Appropriation Act of February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for the fiscal year ending*Ante*, p. 110.
June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and the salary of an ambassador to Spain at $17,500, authorized by the Act of September fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to the close of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $4,430.56. 313 To pay the salary of the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiaryParaguay.Salary of minister to.*Ante*, p. 241. to Paraguay, at $10,000 per annum, from December sixth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, authorized by the Act of December sixth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $3,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the sura of $10,000 appropriated by the Diplomatic and ConsularUruguay.Salary of minister to.Vol. 37, p. 688.
Act of February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for salary of the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Paraguay and Uruguay for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, is made available for payment of the salary of the envoy extraordinary and minister plenipotentiary to Uruguay, authorized by the said Act of December sixth, nineteen*Ante*, p. 241. hundred and thirteen. To reimburse the appropriations for transportation, subsistence,Mexican disturbances.Reimbursement of expenditures for relief of destitute citizens. and medical supplies of the Army, amounts expended for relief of destitute American citizens in Mexico, including transportation to their homes in the United States, $40,152.47.
For the expenses of the arbitration of outstanding pecuniary claimsBritish-American pecuniary claims arbitration.Vol. 37, p. 1625. between the United States and Great Britain, in accordance with the special agreement concluded for that purpose August eighteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, and the schedule of claims thereunder, including office rent in the District of Columbia and the compensation of arbitrator, umpire, agent, counsel, clerical and other assistants, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $23,094.42.
Payment to Panama: To enable the Secretary of State to pay toPanama.Annual payment to.Vol. 33, p. 2238. the Government of Panama the second annual payment due on February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, from the Government of the United States to the Government of Panama under treaty of November eighteenth, nineteen hundred and three, $250,000. International commission on public and private international law:International Law Commission.Payment of quota, etc.Vol. 37, p. 1554.
For payment of compensation to, and the necessary expenses of, the representative or representatives of the United States on the International Commission of Jurists, organized under the convention signed at the Third International American Conference August twenty-third, nineteen hundred and six, approved by the Senate February third, nineteen hundred and eight, ratified by the President February eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, and proclaimed May first, nineteen hundred and twelve, for the purpose of preparing drafts of codes of public and private international law; and for the payment of the quota of the United States of the expenses incident to the preparation of such drafts, including the compensation of experts under Article IV of theVol. 37, p. 1556. convention, $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, and to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Contingent expenses: For freight, expressage, telegraph andContingent expenses. telephone service, $2,000. Office of Treasurer: For purchase of furniture, adding machines,Treasurer’s office.Mechanical appliances, etc. labor-saving machines, tabulating equipment, including exchange, repairs, miscellaneous expenses of installation, cards and filing devices, and for rental of tabulating and card-sorting machines, for use in the office of Treasurer of the United States, $7,000.
Office of Auditor for Post Office Department: The SecretaryAuditor for Post Office Department.Reduction in grades below chief of divisions. of the Treasury is authorized during the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen to diminish, as vacancies occur, the number of positions of the several grades below the grade of chief of divisions in the office of the Auditor for the Post Office Department 314Piece rates for mechanical devices.and use the unexpended balances of the appropriations for the positions so diminished as a fund to pay, on a piece-rate basis, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, the compensation of such number of employees as may be necessary to tabulate, by the use of mechanical devices, the accounts and vouchers of the Postal Service.
General Supply Committee.Additional clerks.General Supply Committee: For fifteen clerks, at the rate of $900 per annum, to be employed for service in connection with the General Supply Committee for not exceeding four months during the remainder of current fiscal year, $4,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Distinctive paper, securities.Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper for United States securities, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $49,455. public buildings, construction and sites.Public buildings.
Construction, sites, etc.For sites, commencement, continuation, or completion of public buildings within the respective limits of cost authorized by law, including rent and removal expenses in cities pending extension and remodeling of buildings, as follows: Birmingham, Ala.Birmingham, Alabama, post office and courthouse: For additional land, $185,000. Carrollton, Ga.Carrollton, Georgia, post office: For completion, $7,500. Dallas, Tex.Dallas, Texas, post office: For new site, $250,000.
Detroit, Mich.Detroit, Michigan, post office and courthouse: For completion, $70,000. Georgetown, Tex.Georgetown, Texas, post office: For site, $5,000. New York, N. Y.Barge office, piers, etc.Vol. 36, p. 1378.New York, New York, barge office: For additional amount necessary to provide landing piers and slips for the Ellis Island Ferry, the boarding vessels, and the revenue cutters, $50,000, together with the unexpended balance, amounting to $39,935, of the appropriation for rental and moving expenses of the barge office, which sum is reappropriated and made available for these purposes.
Old courthouse and post office.Alterations, etc.New York, New York, courthouse: For repairs of the old court-house and post-office building, including alterations, rearrangements, fittings, miscellaneous repairs and painting, changes in the mechanical equipment, lighting fixtures, and so forth, and the cleaning of the exterior walls of the building, in order to provide increased accommodations for the United States court, and, so far as practicable, for all Government officials now occupying rented quarters, including moving expenses incident thereto, $200,000.
Post office.Fixtures, etc.New York, New York, post office: For wire grilles, partitions, gates and rails, metal shelving for vaults, files and record rooms, and so forth, desks and bulletin boards, and other special fixtures, $50,000. Toledo, Ohio.Toledo, Ohio, customhouse and courthouse: For completion of enlargement, extension, remodeling, or improvement, $25,000. Taylor, Tex.Taylor, Texas, post office: For site, $5,000. S. R. Jacobs.Credit in accounts.The accounting officers of the Treasury Department are authorized and directed to allow in the settlement of the accounts of S.
R. Jacobs, disbursing clerk, the sum of $100 under the appropriation “Post office and customhouse, Eagle Pass, Texas.” public buildings, repairs, equipment, and general expenses. Repairs and preservation.Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of public buildings, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $50,000. 315 General expenses; The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized toArchitectural Record Company. pay the Architectural Record Company, of New York City, the sum of $27.50, for fifty-five copies of The Great American Architect Series, furnished in the month of March, nineteen hundred and eight, from the unexpended balance of the appropriation for “General expenses of public buildings, nineteen hundred and thirteen. ” engraving and printing.Engraving and printing.
For salaries of all necessary employees, other than plate printersSalaries. and plate printers’ assistants, $64,048, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion*Proviso.*Large notes. of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standardVol. 31, p. 45. of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by theWages. Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, $187,150, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended*Proviso.*Large notes. for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act to define and fix the standard of value, to maintainVol. 31, p. 45. the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials exceptMaterials, etc. distinctive paper, and for miscellaneous expenses, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary homes and vehicles, and of horse and vehicle for official use of the director when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, $33,952, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. For mechanical equipment, machinery, furniture, and fixturesFixtures, etc., for new building.Vol. 35, p. 319. for the new building authorized by Act of Congress approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury in connection with the sum heretofore appropriated for these purposes and in such manner as to complete in every detail the equipment and furnishing of said building, $190,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. public health service.Public Health Service.
For fuel, light, and water, $4,000.Fuel, etc. For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence,Marine hospitals, maintenance. and for all other necessary miscellaneous expenses, which are not included under special heads, $11,000. Study of pellagra: For rental, equipment, and maintenance of aStudy of pellagra. temporary field hospital and laboratory, including pay of personnel, for special studies of pellagra, $47,000, to continue available during the fiscal year 1915. life-saving service.Life-Saving Service.
For an additional amount to reimburse the appropriation of theExtraordinary expenses.Reimbursement for. Life-Saving Service on account of expenditures therefrom for construction and repair work made necessary by reason of extraordinary 316storms, encroachment of the sea, unusually high tides, and “ military necessity,” and for the completion of said construction and repair work, if necessary, $38,240. mints and assay offices.Mints and assay offices. New York assay office.Assay office at New York:
For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department, and loss on the sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $3,862.24. internal revenue.Internal revenue. Paper for stamps.For paper for internal-revenue stamps, including freight, $15,000. independent treasury.Independent Treasury. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $35,000.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. Public Utilities Commission.Valuation expenses.Vol. 37, p. 974.Public Utilities Commission: For necessary personal and other services and expenses in making valuations of public utilities as provided by section eight of the District of Columbia Appropriation Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and *Proviso.*None for legal services.fifteen, $100,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be used to pay for legal services.
Judicial expenses.Contingent expenses: For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for judicial expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $73.65. Improvements and repairs.Improvements and repairs: For additional amount required to meet the objects set forth in the appropriation for connecting Belmont and Fifteenth Streets northwest, fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $1.40. Sewers.Sewers: For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $76.65.
Schools.Longevity pay.Public schools: For longevity pay, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $32,910. Juvenile court.Juvenile court: For compensation of jurors, fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $360. Indigent insane.Hospital for the Insane: For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane, as provided by law, fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $3,144.57.
Militia.Naval Battalion.Militia: For subsistence furnished Naval Battalion by Navy Department for annual cruise, July eleventh to twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, inclusive, $379.99; Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company.To pay the Baltimore and Ohio Railroad Company, transportation and freight service furnished in connection with annual encampment, August fourteenth to twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and twelve, inclusive, $3,074.07; William Phillip’s Sons.To pay William Phillip’s Sons, cordwood furnished for use at annual encampment of nineteen hundred and twelve, $509; 317 For pay of members of brigade rifle team on duty at Camp Perry,Pay of rifle team.
Ohio, August thirteenth to September second, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $1,487.34; In all, $5,450.40. Board of Children’s Guardians: For board and care of allBoard of Children’s Guardians. children committed to the guardianship of said board by the courts of the District, $10,000. Authority is granted to pay, in addition to the sum of $1,500Additional allotment to sectarian institutions. heretofore authorized, a further sum not to exceed $4,500 to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen.
Employment of females: To carry out the provisions of theEmployment of females.Pay of inspectors.*Ante*, p. 291. Act approved February twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to regulate the hours of employment and safeguard the health of females employed in the District of Columbia,” as follows: For three inspectors, two of whom shall be women, at the rate of $1,200 per annum, from April first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $900. Refund of erroneous collections:
For amount required toRefund of erroneous collections. refund erroneous collections, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $520.79. Judgments: For payment of judgments, including costs, againstJudgments. the District of Columbia, set forth in House Document Numbered Five hundred and ninety-five of this session, $6,615.45, together with a further sum to pay the interest on same at not exceeding four per centum on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment.
Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportationSupport of convicts. of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, for the fiscal years that follow: For nineteen hundred and thirteen, $19,322.95. For nineteen hundred and fourteen, $40,000. Miscellaneous expenses, courts: For payment of such miscellaneousMiscellaneous court expenses. 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, for the fiscal years that follow:
For nineteen hundred and seven, $30.60. For nineteen hundred and eleven, $5.70. For nineteen hundred and twelve, $44.95. For nineteen hundred and thirteen, $3,903.33. For nineteen hundred and fourteen, $4,545. Miscellaneous: To refund amount of deposit of William LeftwichWilliam Leftwich.Refund to. in police court November seventh, nineteen hundred and ten, in a case subsequently dismissed by the Government, said sum having been deposited in the Treasury to the credit of the District of Columbia and the United States in equal parts, as unclaimed collateral, Juno thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $10.
To reimburse James F. Oyster, late president of the Board of EducationJames F. Oyster.Reimbursement. of the District of Columbia, for amount paid in settlement of judgment for costs in the case of Mary E. Nalle versus James F. Oyster and others, at law numbered fifty thousand five hundred and sixty-nine, $183.20. The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized andWilliam Herman.Refund to. directed to pay to William Herman the sum of $87.50, refund of liquor license tax, from the appropriation for “ Refunding taxes, and so forth, District of Columbia.” 318 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.
UNITED STATES BOARD OF MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION.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, $40,000. COMMISSION ON INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS.Industrial Relations Commission.
Continuing work of.Vol. 37, p. 415.For continuing the inquiries and investigations authorized by the Act of August twenty-third, nineteen hundred and twelve, entitled, “An Act to create a Commission on Industrial Relations,” and to provide the expenses of such inquiries and investigations as are enumerated in section two of said Act, $50,000. Subsistence expenses of officials.Allowance for, outside of District of Columbia, limited.*Post*, p. 680.On and after July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, unless otherwise expressly provided by law, no officer or employee of the United States shall be allowed or paid any sum in excess of expenses actually incurred for subsistence while traveling on duty outside of the District of Columbia and away from his designated post of duty, nor any sum for such expenses actually incurred in excess of $5 per Restricted to actual absence, etc.day; nor shall any allowance or reimbursement for subsistence be paid to any officer or employee in any branch of the public service of the United States in the District of Columbia unless absent from his designated post-of duty outside of the District of Columbia, and then only for the period of time actually engaged in the discharge of official duties.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. river and harbor work.River and harbor work. Payment of damage claims.Vol. 36, p. 676.To pay claims adjusted and settled under section four of the river and harbor appropriation Act, approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, and certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Four hundred and thirty-one, at the present session, $251.65. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.Volunteer Soldiers’ Home. Santa Monica, Cal.Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California:
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $9,000. Marion, Ind.Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $8,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $1,000.
J. E. Parrish.Judgment and interest.Vol. 37, p. 602.To pay the balance of judgment and interest thereon rendered in the Circuit Court of the United States for the Eastern District of Tennessee against the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers 319and in favor of J. E. Parrish, being the balance remaining due December twenty-first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, of $1,921.89 and the interest thereon to March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and four-teen ($28.83), making a total of $1,950.72, or so much thereof as may be necessary to fully discharge the principal and interest if payment is made prior to said March twenty-first, nineteen hundred and fourteen. back pay and bounty.Back pay and bounty.
For payment of amounts for arrears of pay of two and three yearPayment of. volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs,Vol. 14, p. 322. for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners ofCommutation of rations. war in States of the so-called Confederacy, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $35,000. military establishment.Army.
The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directedCapt J. R. McAndrews.Credit in accounts. to allow and credit in the accounts of Captain J. R. McAndrews, Sixth United States Cavalry, the sum of $460 disallowed against him on the books of the Treasury. To reimburse the various appropriations for the support of theMexican disturbances.Expenses of interned soldiers, etc. Army for sums expended, or necessary to be expended, prior to July first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, in transporting and caring for interned Mexican soldiers and military refugees, $500,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, and the expenditures heretofore made for the above-named purposes are hereby ratified and affirmed.
STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS.State, War, and Navy Department Buildings. New Navy Department Annex (located between New York AvenueNavy Department Annex.Use of appropriations for care of Mills Building.Vol. 37, p. 767. and E Street northwest): The salaries of employees for care of the “Navy Department Annex, Mills Building,” provided in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, are made available for the care of the new Navy Department Annex, after removal thereto, during the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen.
For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items for the new NavyExpenses of new building. Department Annex, after removal thereto, during the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $1,500. For purchase and installation of awnings and awning frames, $1,700. For call bells, buzzers, batteries, wire, and all other appurtenances necessary for the installation of a call-bell system, $650. NAVY DEPARAIENT.Navy Department. Contingent expenses: For additional amount for expensesExpenses of removal of offices. of removal of offices and bureaus of the Navy Department to a new office building on New York Avenue west of Seventeenth Street, $2,000.
Payment to Port Graham Coal Company: For payment to thePort Graham Coal Company.Payment to. Port Graham Coal Company, Seldovia, Alaska, for a scow rented of that company and lost by the Navy Alaskan coal expedition in Cook Inlet, Alaska, November sixteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $5,000. Hydrographic Office: Contingent and miscellaneous expenses,Hydrographic Office.Contingent, etc., expenses. including all objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $12,500. 320 Paying claims for collisions with naval vessels.Vol. 36, p. 607.To pay the claims adjusted and determined by the Navy Department, under the provisions of 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 Document Numbered Seven hundred and fifty-two, $401.90.
Naval Militia Office.Clerks, etc.Naval Militia Office: For the following, from April first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, in addition to those now authorized and being paid from the appropriation “Arming and Equipping Naval Militia,” namely: Clerks—one of class two, one of class one, one at $1,100, one at $1,000; in all, $1,175, which sum shall Vol. 37, p. 897.be paid from the appropriation “Arming and Equipping Naval Militia, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen.
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Navy. pay of the navy. Pay.For pay of the Navy, including all objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $414,789.94. Clarence Dewitt.Payment to beneficiary.For payment to designated beneficiary of the late Clarence Dewitt, coal passer, United States Navy, the amount deducted for expenses of interment, less $12.25 expenses incurred by the Government, in Vol. 35, p. 128.accordance with the Act of May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, $22.75.
Johan Albin Nelsson.Payment to beneficiary.For payment to designated beneficiary of the late Johan Albin Nelsson, coxswain, United States Navy, the amount deducted for expenses of interment, less $12.06 expenses incurred by the Government,Vol. 35, p. 128. in accordance with the Act of May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, $22.94. William H. Cook.Payment to beneficiary.Vol. 35, p. 128.For payment to designated beneficiary of the late William H.
Cook, boatswain’s mate, first class, United States Navy, the six months’ pay allowed in accordance with the Act of May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, being for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, $355.26. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation. Transportation.Transportation: For transportation, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $57,931.53. Recruiting.Recruiting:
For recruiting, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $4,319.60. Campaign badges and ribbons.Campaign badges and ribbons: For badges and ribbons, to be distributed by the Secretary of the Navy to officers and men, now or formerly of the Volunteer and Regular Navy and Marine Corps, who have participated in engagements and campaigns deemed worthy of such commemoration, $1,000. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance.
Ordnance and ordnance stores.Ordnance and ordnance stores: For ordnance and ordnance stores, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, $12,345.60. 321 bureau of equipment.Bureau of Equipment. Equipment of vessels: For cleaning, rating, and repairing nineRepairing, etc., chronometers. chronometers, the contract for which was made during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, $457. Ocean and Lake Surveys:
For reproducing and printing extra copiesOcean and lake surveys. of hydrographic charts, the contract for which was made during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, $233.75. Coal and transportation: For coal and other fuel for steamers’ andCoal, etc. ships’ use and other equipment purposes, including the same objects specified under this head m the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, $202.54. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Maintenance: For general maintenance, including the same objectsMaintenance. specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, $4,498.95. Navy yard, League Island, Pennsylvania: To pay the Citizens’League Island, Pa.Payment to dozens’ Trust and Guaranty Company. Trust and Guaranty Company of West Virginia, when it shall have furnished a satisfactory indemnity bond, the balance, withheld by the Navy Department in making settlement under contract numbered eleven hundred and six, dated November first, nineteen hundred and two, with the Penn Erecting Company, for the construction of an extension to building numbered four (storehouse for naval supplies), navy yard, League Island (Philadelphia), Pennsylvania, $1.491.99. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, including theContingent. same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and ten, $5.59. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Provisions: To pay the Autographic Register Company for orderProvisions.Autographic Register Company. books purchased under requisition approved January eighteenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, $129.60. To pay John Rothschild and Company for provisions purchasedJohn Rothschild and Company. under contract dated June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eleven, $75.36.
To pay John Rothschild and Company for reservation withheld under contract dated June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eleven, $38.18. Contingent: To pay the Autographic Register Company for oneAutographic Register Company. automatic register and supplies for same, purchased under requisition approved February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and ten, $33.10. Freight: For freight, including the same objects specified underFreight. this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $200,000.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directedGeorge W. Evans.Credit in accounts. to credit in the accounts of George W. Evans, chief disbursing clerk, Department of the Interior, the sum of $20, being the amount that ho was directed by the department to refund to L. C. Norman, on permit approved by the Interior Department, February fifth, nineteen hundred and twelve, for procuring and shipping water from springs in the Platt National Park to parties outside of Sulphur, Oklahoma, the same being for the portion of the year nineteen hundred and twelve during which the permit was not used, namely, subsequent to March eighth, nineteen hundred and twelve. 322 geological survey.Geological survey.
Alaska mineral re-sources.For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, $100,000, to continue available until the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen. public land service.Public lands. Contingent expenses.Balance continued.Vol. 37, p. 454.Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, $20,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen is continued and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, and said unexpended balance shall be transferred upon the books of the Treasury and placed to the credit of the appropriation now available for contingent expenses of land offices for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen. columbia institution for the deaf.Columbia Institution for the Deaf.
Support, etc.For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, $3,000. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Office of Solicitor of Labor.Office of Solicitor of Labor: For one clerk of class one during the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $400, or so much thereof as may be necessary. miscellaneous objects, department of justice. Incidental expenses, Alaska.Incidental expenses, District of Alaska:
For furniture, fuel, books, stationery, and other incidental expenses for the offices of the marshals and attorneys for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $25. Harry Watson.Payment of $66.30 is authorized from the appropriation “Fees of witnesses, United States courts, nineteen hundred and thirteen,” covering the difference between the actual expense of $70.50 incurred and paid by Harry Watson, of Knik, Alaska, in endeavoring to obey a subpoena commanding his attendance at Chicago, Illinois; and the amount of $4.20 paid to him under the fee bill for mileage.
Enforcing antitrust laws.Enforcement of antitrust laws: For the enforcement of antitrust laws, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: For nineteen hundred and twelve, $42.50. For nineteen hundred and thirteen, $4,674.32. Prosecution of crimes.Detection and prosecution of crimes: The Attorney General is authorized to expend for necessary employees at the seat of government, from the appropriation “Detection and prosecution of crimes,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, not to exceed $2,000 in addition to the amount heretofore authorized for this purpose.
Assistant attorneys in naturalization cases.Assistant attorneys in naturalization cases: For payment of assistants to the Attorney General and of assistants to United States district attorneys, employed by the Attorney General to represent the United States m naturalization and other proceedings, and for other necessary expenses in connection with such proceedings and cases for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seven and nineteen hundred and eight, $10.36. 323 UNITED STATES COURTS.United States courts.
Marshals: For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals,Marshals. including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $60,000. Fees of witnesses: For fees of witnesses and for payment of theWitness fees, etc.[R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160). actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, $200,000.
Miscellaneous expenses: For payment of such miscellaneousMiscellaneous expenses. 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*Proviso.*Alaska. deemed necessary by the Attorney General, these appropriations shall be available for such expenses in the District of Alaska for the fiscal years that follow: For nineteen hundred and fourteen, $60,000. For nineteen hundred and eleven, $542.76.
For nineteen hundred and ten, $475. For nineteen hundred and nine, $198.70. For nineteen hundred and seven, $62.50. For nineteen hundred and four, $13.70. Supplies: For supplies, including exchange of typewriting andSupplies. adding machines for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eight, $3.13. Support of prisoners: For support of United States prisoners,Support of prisoners. including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, $11.
Rent of rooms: For rent of rooms for the United States courts andRent of rooms, etc. judicial officers, $3,668.75, for the balance of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for the purchase of necessary furniture and other like equipment for court rooms in the city of New York,New York.Equipment of rooms. $10,000; in all, $13,668.75, or so much thereof as may be necessary. The Attorney General is authorized to enter into a lease for rentLease authorized. of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers in the city of New York at an annual rental, not exceeding $14,675, for a period of five years.
For the support of the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth,Penitentiaries.Leavenworth, Kans. Kansas, as follows: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for this institution in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $13,000. For clothing and transportation, including the same objects specified under this head for this institution in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $74.94.
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 for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $2,000. For support of the United States penitentiary at Atlanta, Georgia,Atlanta, Ga. as follows: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $10,000.
For clothing and transportation, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leaven-worth, Kansas in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $5,000. 324 For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney General, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $1,848.61.
McNeil Island, Wash.For support of the United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington, as follows: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the United States penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for supplies for guards, $2,000. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post Office Department. Washington, D. C.Furnishing new city post office.Washington, District of Columbia, new post office:
For the purchase of awnings, window shades, screens, furniture, lockers, shelving, vault equipment, and other miscellaneous equipment necessary to equip and furnish completely the new Washington, District of Columbia,Removal of divisions. etc., to. post-office building; and for the expense of removal of such divisions, offices, or parts of divisions and offices of the Post Office Department as the Postmaster General shall direct (including the Washington City post office) to the new Washington, District of Columbia, post-office building, the main Post Office Department building, and the Post Office Department annex, $60,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
POSTAL SERVICE.Postal service. out of the postal revenues. Temporary and auxiliary clerks.For temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at first and second class post offices and temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter resort post offices, $500,000.. Horse hire, etc.For horse-hire allowance, the hiring of drivers, and the rental of vehicles, $400,000. Carfare and bicycles.For car fare and bicycle allowance, $25,000. Substitute carriers, etc.For pay of substitutes for letter carriers absent with pay, and of auxiliary and temporary letter carriers at offices where city delivery is already established, $700,000.
Carriers, new offices.For pay of letter carriers, substitute and auxiliary letter carriers at offices where City Delivery Service is established during the year, $15,000. Special delivery.For Special Delivery Service, fees to messengers, fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $6.80. For special delivery fees, fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $64,925.09. Star routes.For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service in Alaska), $800,000. Indemnity lost registered mail.For payment of limited indemnity for the loss of pieces of domestic registered matter, fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $7,000.
Rewards, etc.For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, fiscal years nineteen hundred and nine and nineteen hundred and twelve, $7,350. Postal cards.For manufacture of postal cards, $40,000. Mail bags.For mail bags, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office Appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $100,000. Stationery.For stationery (including tags for insured parcel-post matter), $10,000. 325 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Department of Commerce.
For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District ofRent. Columbia, $6,059.73. bureau of lighthouses.Lighthouses Bureau. To pay the claims for damages which have been considered, adjusted, andPaying damages from collisions. determined to be due to the claimants by the Commissions of Lighthouses, under authority of the provisions of section four of the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixthVol. 36, p. 537. Statutes, page five hundred and thirty-seven), on account of damages occasioned by collision for which vessels of the Lighthouse Service have been found responsible, certified to Congress at its present session in House Documents Numbered Four hundred and eighty-six and Seven hundred and fifty-six, $75.38. bureau of the census.Census Office.
For experimental work in developing tabulating machines andTabulating machines, etc. repairs to such machinery and other mechanical appliances, including technical and mechanical service in connection therewith, whether performed in Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere, and purchase of necessary machinery and supplies, $2,500. BUREAU OF STANDARDS.Bureau of Standards. For fuel for heat, light, and power, $2,000.Fuel. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. Commissioners of conciliation:
To enable the Secretary of LaborCommissioners of conciliation.Expenses.Vol. 37, p. 738. to exercise the authority vested in him by section eight of the Act creating the Department of Labor, and to appoint commissioners of conciliation at not exceeding $10 per day while, actually employed in any case of labor dispute, and for their traveling expenses and subsistence while so employed, $20,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. immigration service.Immigration Service. Ellis Island Immigrant Station, New York Harbor:
For completionEllis Island, N. Y., Station.Addition to building. of additional story on baggage and dormitory building and metal and masonry projection on northern side of said building, $200,000. For furnishings and equipment for additional story on baggage andFurnishings, etc. dormitory building, including beds, benches, and miscellaneous furniture, $30,000. To meet a deficiency in the appropriation “Expenses of regulatingEnforcing laws regulating immigration of aliens. immigration’ for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to wit:
For all expenses of the enforcement of the laws regulating the immigration of aliens into the United States, including the contract-labor laws: for the costs of the reports of decisions of the Federal courts, and digests thereof, for the use of the Commissioner General of Immigration; for salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees appointed to enforce said law; for the enforcement of the provisions of the Act of February twentieth, nineteenVol. 34, p. 898. hundred and seven, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States,” and Acts amendatory thereof;Vol. 36, p. 263. for expenses of necessary supplies, including exchange of typewriting machines, alterations, and repairs, and for all other expenses author326Chinese exclusion.ized by said Act; also for preventing the unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto, and the expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expense of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation, Refunding head tax.and for the refunding of head tax upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that collection was made through error of Government officers; all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary *Ante*, p. 65.of Labor (Act June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, volume thirty-eight, page sixty-five, section one), $95,000. bureau of labor statistics.Labor Statistics Bureau.
Per diem, etc., officers and employees.For per diem, in lieu of subsistence of special agents and employees while traveling on duty away from their homes and outside of the District of Columbia, at a rate not to exceed $3 per day, and for their transportation, and for employment of experts and temporary assistance, to be paid at the rate of not exceeding $8 per day, and for traveling expenses of officers and employees, $5,000, LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. monument to commemorate the women of the civil war.Women of the Civil War.
Personnel of commission on Memorial to, modified.*Ante*, p. 233.The commission under whose direction the expenditures are to be made for the site and memorial authorized by the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved October twenty-second, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to commemorate the service and sacrifices of the women of the United States, North and South, for the sick and wounded in war, shall consist of the Secretary of War, the chairman of the Senate Committee on the Library, the chairman of the House Committee on the Library, and the president of the American Red Cross. senate.Senate.
Augustus O. Bacon.Pay to widow.To pay to Mrs. Virginia Lamar Bacon, widow of Honorable Augustus O. Bacon, late a Senator of the United States from the State of Georgia, $7,500. Compensation, etc.For compensation and mileage of Senators, $1,707.12. Joseph R. Sullivan and Harry H. Buck.Services.The Secretary of the Senate is hereby authorized and directed to pay to Joseph R. Sullivan, $116.67, for clerical services rendered the Honorable James Hamilton Lewis, of Illinois, from March twenty-sixth to April sixteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and to Harry H.
Buck, $466.67, for clerical services rendered the Honorable Blair Lee, of Maryland, from November fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to January twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and fourteen, from the appropriation of “Salaries of officers, clerks, messengers and others in the service of the Senate,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen. Paul R. Krueger.Payment to sisters.The Secretary of the Senate be, and he hereby is, authorized and directed to pay to Hattie A.
Krueger and Lizzie Krueger, sisters of Paul R. Krueger, late Clerk to the Committee on Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands of the Senate, $74, being the amount due him on account of salary. Miscellaneous Items.For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $50,000; Folding.For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $5,000. 327 To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates ofOfficial reporters.Extra services. the Senate for expenses incurred from September fifteenth to December first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for clerk hire and other extra clerical services, $1,155.
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, $10,260. house of representatives.House of Representatives. To pay the widow of William H. Wilder, late a RepresentativeWilliam H. Wilder.Pay to widow, from the State of Massachusetts, $7,500.
To pay the widow of R. G. Bremner, late a Representative from theR. G. Bremner.Pay to widow. State of New Jersey, $7,500. To pay to John Peppers, father of Irvin S. Pepper, late a RepresentativeIrvin S. Pepper.Pay to father. from the State of Iowa, $7,500. For allowance to the following contestants and contestees forContested-election expenses. expenses incurred by them in contested-election cases, audited and recommended by the Committee on Elections Numbered One, namely: H.
Olin Young, $2,000;H. Olin Young. William J. MacDonald, $2,000;William J. MacDonald. John M. C. Smith, $2,000John M. C. Smith.; Claude S. Carney, $2,000;Claude S. Carney. Walter M. Chandler, $500;Walter M. Chandler. In all, $8,500. To reimburse the Official Reporters of debates $400 each and theOfficial Reporters and stenographers.Clerical assistance. official stenographers to committees $250 each for moneys actually expended by them for clerical assistance from September first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to January thirty-first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, inclusive, $3,400.
For packing boxes, $852.50, or so much thereof as may be necessary.Packing boxes. The unexpended balance, not exceeding $30,000, of the appropriationMiscellaneous items, etc.Balance reappropriated. for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen for miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, is reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen.
For stationery for the use of the committees and officers of theStationery. House, $1,000. House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneousHouse Office Building Maintenance. items, and for all necessary services, $8,850.60. botanic garden.Botanic Garden. For procuring manure, soil, tools, fuel, purchasing trees, shrubs,Repairs and Improvements. plants, and seeds; and for services, materials, and miscellaneous supplies, and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Gardens, under direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, $3,321.35. government printing office.Government Printing Office. printing and binding.
Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply withLeaves of absence. the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $13,995.35. Printing and binding, Congress: For the public printing, for thePublic printing and binding.Congress. public binding, and for paper for the public printing and binding, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Con328gress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving, for both Houses of Congress; for salaries, compensation, or wages, of all necessary employees additional to those specifically appropriated for; rents, fuel, gas, electric current, gas and electric fixtures; freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; furniture, typewriters; traveling expenses; stationery, postage, and advertising; adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; equipment, and for repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor alterations to buildings; necessary equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees m the Government Printing Office who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty; other necessary contingent and miscellaneous items authorized by the Public Printer; and for all the necessary materials and equipment needed in the prosecution and delivery and mailing of the work, $175,000.
Use of paper owned by departments, etc.Paper now owned by any executive department or other Government establishment at Washington, District of Columbia, may be used by the Government Printing Office in executing work for such department or establishment. Civil Service Commission.For printing and binding for the Civil Service Commission, $8,000. Treasury Department.For printing and binding for the Treasury Department, $20,000. Department of Labor.For printing and binding for the Department of Labor, $30,000.
Interstate Commerce Commission.For printing and binding for the interstate Commerce Commission, $25,000; of which sum $4,500 shall be available to print and furnish to the States, at cost, report-form blanks. JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.Judgments, United States courts. Payment.Vol. 24, p. 505.For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suit, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney General in House Document Numbered Six hundred and fourteen, and which have not been appealed, namely:
Under War Department.Under War Department, $11,251.45; In all, $11,251.45; together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.Judgments, Court of Claims. Payment.For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Six hundred and sixteen, and Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and forty-one, namely:
Classification.Under War Department, $28,187.55; Under Navy Department, $8,250.56; Under Department of Justice, $31.80; Under Department of Commerce, $500; In all, $36,969.91. William Stewart MacLeod.To pay the judgment rendered by the Court of Claims October thirteenth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, on mandate of the Supreme Court of the United States, in cause. Numbered Twenty-seven thousand one hundred and ninety-six, William Stewart MacLeod, as sole surviving partner of the partnership of MacLeod and Company, against The United States, $5,578.89. 329 JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.Judgments, Indian depredation claims.
For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims inPayment. Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Six hundred and fifteen, and Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and forty-two, at its present session, $13,350; said judgments to be paid after the deductions required to be made underDeductions.Vol. 26, p. 853. the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United States atReimbursements. such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: *Provided*,*Proviso.*Not appealed.
That no one of said judgments provided in this paragraph shall be paid until the Attorney General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause. None of the judgments contained in this Act shall be paid untilRight to appeal. the right of appeal shall have expired. PANAMA CANAL.Panama Canal. To continue the construction of the Panama Canal, to be expendedContinuing construction.Vol. 32, p. 481.Vol. 37, p. 560. under the direction of the President, in accordance with an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the construction of a canal connecting the waters of the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans,” approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, and Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, and to continue available until expended:
For skilled and unskilled labor on the Isthmus, including engineers,Labor, construction, etc., departments. conductors, firemen, brakemen, electricians, teamsters, cranesmen, machinists, blacksmiths, and other artisans, and their helpers; janitors, sailors, cooks, waiters, and dairymen, for the departments of construction and engineering, quartermaster’s, subsistence, disbursements and examination of accounts, $2,250,000. For material, supplies, equipment, construction and repairs ofMaterials, etc., sanitation department. buildings, medical aid and support of the insane, and of indigent persons permanently disabled, while in the line of duty and in the employ of the Isthmian Canal Commission, from earning a livelihood, and contingent expenses of the department of sanitation on the Isthmus, $200,000.
For the following for fortifications and armament thereof for theFortifications, etc. Panama Canal, to continue available until expended, namely: Submarine-mine structures: For the construction of mining casemates,Submarine-mine structures. cable galleries, torpedo structures, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories on the Canal Zone, $55,000. For the construction of field fortifications, $194,350.Field fortifications.
Such portion of the appropriaton of $180,000, made in the sundryToro Point.Filling swamp lands.*Ante*, p. 74. civil appropriation Act approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for filling swamp in rear of defensive works at Margarita Island as may not be required for that purpose may be applied to filling swamp land in the vicinity of the defensive works at Toro Point. 330 Formal opening of Canal.Payment of expenses.Vol. 37, p. 561.For the purpose of paying the expenses of formally and officially opening the Panama Canal as provided in section four of the Panama Canal Act, including the compensation of such persons as may be appointed by the President to provide for such opening under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal, the President is authorized to use out of the moneys heretofore or hereafter appropriated for the construction, completion, operation, or maintenance of the Panama Canal the sum of $25,000, or so much thereof as may be Army and Navy appointments.*Proviso.*Additional salary allowed.necessary.
The appointment of persons in the military and naval service of the United States is hereby expressly authorized: *Provided, *That, if any person so appointed shall be employed in either the military or naval service of the United States, the amount of compensation fixed by the President under this resolution shall be in addition to the official salary paid to such person. Wage scale continued during construction.The wage scale of the persons employed in the construction of the Panama Canal in effect prior to April first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, shall continue unchanged during the period of actual construction, but not later than June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and Longevity service, etc., claims.sixteen; and no claim of any person employed in connection with the construction of the Panama Canal shall be recognized or paid by the United States for longevity service or lay-over days accruing subsequently to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nine.
Special attorney.Employment authorized.Authority is hereby given to employ and pay, from appropriations heretofore or hereafter made, an attorney versed in the Spanish law, and familiar with the conditions on the Isthmus in connection with the acquisition of privately owned lands in the Canal Zone, and in connection with the codification of the Canal Zone laws, at a salary not to exceed $7,200 per annum. Sec. 2. Claims certified by accounting officers. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department Vol. 18, p. 110.under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven and other years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under Vol. 23, p. 254.section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Five hundred and ninety-four, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.For collecting the revenue from customs, $64. For refunding internal-revenue collections, $150. For punishment for violation of internal-revenue laws, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $600. For punishment for violation of internal-revenue laws, $52.51. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $61,022.44. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $45,875.71. For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, $1,222.06. For Life-Saving Service, $2,503.80.
For contingent expenses, office of Director of the Mint, $2.12. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, $26.42. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, $99.45. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $11.15. For general expenses of public buildings, $16.92. For post office, Keene, New Hampshire, $2. 331 claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. For salaries, Adjutant General’s Office, $40.Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department. For salaries, office of Chief of Ordnance, $32.50.
For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $6,119.83. For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $655.55. For subsistence of the Army, $50. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, $45.50. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $199.86. For barracks and quarters, $3,093.67. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $2,850.40. For water and sewers at military posts, S135.93. For clothing, and camp and garrison equipage, $2,246.94.
For headstones for graves of soldiers, $1.94. $6.25. For improving Upper For National Home For bringing home remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $6.25. For improving Upper White River, Arkansas, $5.83. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Northwestern Branch, $2.67. For horses and other property lost in the military service, $120. For pay of volunteers, Cayuse Indian War in eighteen hundred and forty-seven and eighteen hundred and forty-eight in Oregon, $47.50. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.
For pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and twelve, $6,990.57.Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. For pay of the Navy, $12,937.41. For pay, miscellaneous, $29.79. For pay, Marine Corps, $316.38. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $214.26. For gunner exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $40. For maintenance of naval auxiliaries, Bureau of Navigation, $27.60. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $63.36. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1,497.28.
For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1,816.96. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, $24.35. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, nineteenClaims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. hundred and thirteen, $381.25. For law library, Patent Office, nineteen hundred and twelve, $5. For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, $4. For surveying the public lands, $10,192.45.
For Geological Survey, $82.97. For investigating mine accidents, $1.10. For relieving distress, and prevention, and so forth, of distress among Indians, $1.88. For Indian school buildings, $10. For Indian school transportation, $40.64. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $79,792.56. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and twelve, $520.53. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $353.32.
For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, nineteen hundred and twelve, $24.78. 332 For telegraphing, transportation, and so forth, Indian supplies, $8.07. For pay of Indian police, $20. For pay of judges, Indian courts, $134.05. For water supply, Nomadic Papago Indians, Arizona, $500. For support of Indians in California, $12. For incidentals in California, including support and civilization, $29.50. For irrigation system, Milk River, Fort Belknap Reservation (reimbursable), $58.78.
For surveying Fort Belknap Reservation, Montana, $154.18. For surveying, and so forth, Blackfeet Reservation, Montana (reimbursable), $140.91. For surveying and allotting Flathead Reservation, Montana (reimbursable), $402.92. For Indian school, Albuquerque, New Mexico, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $20.89. For Indian school, Carson, Nevada, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $33.45. For Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $565.50. For Indian schools, Five Civilized Tribes, $3.27.
For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $9.68. For Army pensions, $161.33. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. Claims allowed by Auditor fort State, etc., Departments.For salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $500. For salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim, $31.57. For salaries, secretaries of embassies and legations, $7.29. For transporting remains of diplomatic officers, consuls, and consular assistants, nineteen hundred and twelve, $508.03.
For relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $1,417.56. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, nineteen hundred and twelve, $757.11. For preservation of collections, National Museum, $1.34. For Interstate Commerce Commission, 20 cents. For meat inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry, $1.24. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $130.80. For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, $68.05. For botanical investigations and experiments, $1.98.
For cotton boll weevil investigations, $1.69. For general expenses, Forest Service, $103.63. For laboratory, Department of Agriculture, $17.42. For public-road inquiries, $72. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, 64 cents. For contingent expenses, Steamboat-Inspection Service, 20 cents. For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, 37 cents. For repairs and incidental expenses of lighthouses, $36. For supplies of lighthouses, $3.10. For expenses of light vessels, 80 cents. For expenses of fog signals, $532.50.
For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, $11.37. For miscellaneous expenses, Division of Naturalization, 78 cents. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $13.14. 333 For fees of clerks, United States courts, $832.47. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $2,442.06. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and twelve, $166.65. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $48.05.
For fees of witnesses. United States courts, $1.60. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department. For indemnities for loss by registered mail, $287.37.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department. For inland mail transportation, star, $666.87. For mail transportation, boat, $5,713.33. For mail-messenger service, $210. For miscellaneous items, first and second class offices, $24.36. For Railway Mail Service, office expenses, 20 cents. For manufacture of postal cards, $39.07.
For travel expenses of post-office inspectors not covered by per diem, $4.37. For payment of rewards, information, $53.60. For shipment of supplies, $41.88. For freight on mail bags, postal cards, and so forth, $760.51. For Special Delivery Service, $10. For Rural Delivery Service, $320.65. For compensation to postmasters, $34.28. For assistant postmasters and clerks in post offices, $106.94. For rent, light, and fuel, $80.49. For Railway Mail Service, $34.95. For freight and expressage on mail bags, $4.07.
For assistant postmasters and clerks in post offices, $183.24. For City Delivery Service, $258.34. For contingent expenses, Post Office Department, miscellaneous items, $546.10. Sec. 3. For the payment of the following claims, certified to beAdditional claims. 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 and eighty-four,Vol. 23, p. 254. as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Four hundred and forty-three, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
For miscellaneous expenses, Internal-Revenue Service, $4.Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $12,521.97. For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, $1,204.24. For Lite-Saving Service, $599,17. For contingent expenses, office of Director of the Mint, $128.75. For contingent expenses, mint at Denver, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $74,40. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, $9.50. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, $3.30.
For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $1.68. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $2. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $48.21. For vaults, safes, and locks for public buildings, $4. For heating apparatus for public buildings, $68.95. 334 claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $2,322.09. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $32.20.
For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $1,097.20. For subsistence of the Army, $122.70. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, $15,338.89. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $407.84. For water and sewers at military posts, $145.41. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $12.09. 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, $1,349.07.
For pay of the Navy, $3,360.20. For pay, miscellaneous, $50.54. For pay, Marine Corps, $964.23. For transportation and recruiting Marine Corps, $38.34. For contingent, Marine Corps, $17.18. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $143.07. For maintenance of naval auxiliaries, Bureau of Navigation, $8.70. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $3,249.48. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $8,022.73. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $797.94.
For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $31.36. Vol. 28, p. 962.For indemnity for lost property, Naval Service, Act March two, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $34.65. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, $28.30. For enlistment bounties to seamen, $100. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $669.79.
For collecting statistics, Bureau of Education, $2. For painting dome and central portion of the Capitol, nineteen hundred and thirteen and nineteen hundred and fourteen, 95 cents. For salaries and commissions of registers and receivers, $4. For contingent expenses of land offices, $9.15. For surveying the public lands, $1,829.28. For Geological Survey, $65.45. For investigating mine accidents, $1.75. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $47,345.04.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and twelve, $221.13. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $12.58. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, nineteen hundred and twelve, $4.59. For telegraphing, transportation, and so forth, Indian supplies, $101.73. For irrigation, San Carlos Reservation, Arizona, $395.14. For administration of affairs of Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $69.38.
For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $3.63. Vol. 11, p. 611.For indemnity to certain Chickasaw Indians for losses, treaty June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, $14,050. For Army pensions, $136. 335 claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. For public printing and binding, $134.40.Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $114.25.
For relief and protection of American seamen, $425.19. For general expenses, Bureau of Chemistry, $44.45. For laboratory, Department of Agriculture, $20.50. For general expenses, Bureau of Entomology, $4.45. For contingent expenses, Weather Bureau, $2.88. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, 20 cents. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, 54 cents. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $100. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $819.55.
For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and twelve, $61. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $15.15. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department. For mail transportation, star, $11.71.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department. For shipment of supplies, $99.84. For electric and cable car service, $29.80. For miscellaneous items, first and second class offices, $16. For Rural Delivery Service, $530.43. For indemnities, domestic registered mail, $30.
For compensation to postmasters, $121.33. Sec. 4. That the appropriation of $10,000, made in the IndianFive Civilized Tribes.Preparation of fiscal history revoked.*Ante*, p. 82. Appropriation Act approved Juno thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for the preparation of a complete separate fiscal and financial history and statement of the affairs of each of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians, is repealed. Sec. 5. That no part of any money appropriated in this or anyBusiness methods.Restriction on paying experts to inaugurate new, etc. other Act shall be used for compensation or payment of expenses of accountants or other experts in inaugurating new or changing old methods of transacting the business of the United States or the District of Columbia unless authority for employment of such services or payment of such expenses is stated in specific terms in the Act making provision therefor and the rate of compensation for such servicesSpecific authority for employing assistance required. or expenses is specifically fixed therein, or be used for compensation of or expenses for persons, aiding or assisting such accountants or other experts, unless the rate of compensation of or expenses for such assistants is fixed by officers or employees of the United States or District of Columbia having authority to do so, and such rates of compensation or expenses so fixed shall be paid only to the person so employed.
Approved, April 6, 1914.
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