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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 38 STAT. · March 3, 1915 · Chapter 75

Chapter 75. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 75.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes. March 3, 1915.[[H. R. 21318](/us/bill/63/hr/21318).][[Public, No. 263](/us/pl/63/263).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Sundry civil expenses appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, namely:
Treasury Department.TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Public buildings.public buildings, construction and sites. Sites, construction, etc.For sites, commencement, continuation, or completion of public buildings within the respective limits of cost authorized by law, rent and removal expenses in cities pending extension and remodeling of buildings, severally, as follows: Aberdeen, Wash.Aberdeen, Washington, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Albany. Oreg.Albany, Oregon, post office: For completion, $10,000.
Albion, Mich.Albion, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $40,000. Alexandria, La.Alexandria, Louisiana, post office and courthouse (extension): For commencement, $40,000. Rent.Alexandria, Louisiana, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $4,000. Alliance. Nebr.Alliance, Nebraska, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Alliance, Ohio.Alliance, Ohio, post office: For completion, $20,000.
Amarillo, Tex.Amarillo, Texas, post office and courthouse: For completion, $13.3,000. Anoko, Minn.Anoko, Minnesota, post office: For commencement, $10,000. Antigo, Wis.Antigo, Wisconsin, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Ardmore, Okla.Ardmore, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For completion, $95,000. Arkadelphia, Ark.Arkadelphia, Arkansas, post office: For completion, $55,000. Arkansas City, Kans.Arkansas City, Kansas, post office: For completion, $35,000. Ashland, Ky.Ashland, Kentucky, post office:
For commencement, $30,000. Attleboro, Mass.Attleboro, Massachusetts, post office: For commencement, $30,000. 823 Augusta, Georgia, post office and courthouse (new): For completion,Augusta, Ga. $50,000. Aurora, Nebraska, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Aurora, Nebr. Bainbridge, Georgia, post office: For completion, $15,000. Bainbridge, Ga. Bakersfield, California, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Bakersfield, Cal. Baltimore, Maryland, immigrant station: For continuation,Baltimore, Md., immigrant station. $300,000.
Bangor, Maine, post office: For completion, $40,000. Bangor, Me. Barnesville, Georgia, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Barnesville, Ga. Bartow, Florida, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Bartow, Fla. Batavia, New York, post office: For continuation, $40,000. Batavia, N. Y. Beardstown, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $27,000. Beardstown, Ill. Bedford, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $50,000. Bedford, Pa. Belton, Texas, post office: For commencement, $10,000.
Belton, Tex. Berkeley, California, post office: For completion, $20,000. Berkeley, Cal. Blackwell, Oklahoma, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Blackwell, Okla. Boise, Idaho, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters forBoise, Idaho, rent. the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $10,000. Boston, Massachusetts, appraisers’ stores: For completion,Boston, Mass., appraisers’ stores. $350,000. Bozeman, Montana, post office: For completion, $30,000.
Bozeman, Mont. Brattleboro, Vermont, post office and courthouse: For completion,Brattleboro, Vt. $50,000. Brenham, Texas, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Brenham, Tex. Bryan, Texas, post office: For completion, $4,000. Bryan, Tex. Buffalo, Wyoming, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Buffalo, Wyo. Burlington, North Carolina, post office: For commencement,Burlington, N. C. $1,000. Cadillac, Michigan, post office: For completion, $43,000. Cadillac, Mich. Camden, South Carolina, post office:
For completion, $6,500. Camden, S. C. Canton, Illinois, post office: For completion, $30,000 Canton, Ill. Canton, Mississippi, post office: For completion, $30,000. Canton, Miss. Caribou, Maine, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Caribou, Me. Carnegie, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $35,000. Carnegie, Pa. Cartersville, Georgia, post office: For completion, $5,000. Cartersville, Ga. Chadron, Nebraska, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Chadron, Nebr. Chanute, Kansas, post office:
For completion, $42,000. Chanute, Kans. Charles City, Iowa, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Charles City, Iowa. Charlotte, North Carolina, rent of buildings: Additional for rent ofCharlotte, N. C., rent. temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $4,000. Chattanooga, Tennessee, post office and courthouse (extension):Chattanooga, Tenn. For commencement, $30,000. Chico, California, post office: For completion, $35,000.
Chico, Cal. Chillicothe, Missouri, post office: For continuation, $80,000. Chillicothe, Mo. Cleveland, Ohio, public building: For the installation of mailCleveland, Ohio. chutes, $800. Coeur d’Alene, Idaho, post office and courthouse: For continuation,Coeur d’Alene, Idaho. $55,000. Collinsville, Illinois, post office: For completion, $36,000. Collinsville, Ill. Columbia, South Carolina, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Columbia, S. C. Concord, New Hampshire, post office (extension):
For completion,Concord, N. H. $18,000. Concord, New Hampshire, rent of buildings: Additional for rentRent. of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $5,000. Cookeville, Tennessee, post office and courthouse: For completion,Cookeville, Tenn. $40,000. Corpus Christi, Texas, post office and customhouse: For completion,Corpus Christi, Tex. $70,000. 824 Covington, Tenn.Covington, Tennessee, post office: For completion, $6,000.
Cuero, Tex.Cuero, Texas, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Danbury, Conn.Danbury, Connecticut, post office: For completion, $55,000. Danville, Va.Danville, Virginia, post office and courthouse: For completion of tower and installation of clock therein, $2,500. Delavan, Wis.Delavan, Wisconsin, post office: For completion, $10,000. Denver, Colo., post office.Denver, Colorado, post office: For completion, $200,000. De Soto, Mo.De Soto, Missouri, post office: For completion, $5,000.
Detroit, Mich.Detroit, Michigan, post office, and courthouse: For mail-handling devices, $25,000. East Orange, N. J.East Orange, New Jersey, post office: For commencement, $1,000. East Pittsburgh, Pa.East Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $40,000. East Saint Louis, Ill.East Saint Louis, Illinois, post office and courthouse (extension): For commencement, $95,000. Rent.East Saint Louis, Illinois, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $12,000.
Ellensburg, Wash.Ellensburg, Washington, post office: For commencement, $10,000. El Reno, Okla.Ell Reno, Oklahoma, post office: For completion, $75,000. Elyria, Ohio.Elyria, Ohio, post office: For commencement, $20,000. Ennis, Tex.Ennis, Texas, post office: For completion, $43,000. Eureka Springs. Ark.Eureka Springs, Arkansas, post office: For continuation, $16,000. Evansville, Ind.Evansville, Indiana, customhouse and post office (extension): For commencement, $75,000. Rent.Evansville, Indiana, rent of buildings:
For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $8,000. Everett, Wash.Everett, Washington, post office and customhouse: For completion, $85,000. Excelsior Springs, Mo.Excelsior Springs, Missouri, post office: For completion, $20,000. Falls City, Nebr.Falls City, Nebraska, post office: For commencement, $10,000. Fayetteville, Tenn.Fayetteville, Tennessee, post office: For completion, $15,000. Fort Atkinson, Wis.Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, post office:
For continuation, $30,000. Fulton, Ky.Fulton, Kentucky, post office: For completion, $35,000. Fulton, Mo.Fulton, Missouri, post office: For continuation, $30,000. Garden City, Kans.Garden City, Kansas, post office: For completion, $45,000. Gardiner, Me.Gardiner, Maine, post office: For continuation, $65,000. Gary, Ind.Gary, Indiana, post office: For completion, $50,000. Gastonia, N. C.Gastonia, North Carolina, post office: For completion, $15,000. Georgetown, Ky.Georgetown, Kentucky, post office:
For completion, $45,000. Glens Falls, N. Y.Glens Falls, New York, post office: For completion, $45,000. Globe, Ariz.Globe, Arizona, post office and courthouse: For commencement, $1,000. Goldfield, Nev.Goldfield, Nevada, post office: For completion, $60,000. Gouverneur, N. Y.Gouvemeur, New York, post office: For continuation, $35,000. Grass Valley, Cal.Grass Valley, California, post office: For completion, $10,000. Greeley, Colo.Greeley, Colorado, post office: For completion, $25,000.
Greenfield, Mass.Greenfield, Massachusetts, post office: For completion, $75,000. Greenwich, Conn.Greenwich, Connecticut, post office: For commencement, $50,000. Grenada, Miss.Grenada, Mississippi, post office: For completion, $25,000. Grinnell, Iowa.Grinnell, Iowa, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Hackensack, N. J.Hackensack, New Jersey, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Hagerstown, Md.Hagerstown, Maryland, post office (extension): For completion, $30,000. Rent.Hagerstown, Maryland, rent of buildings:
For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $2,000. Hampton, Va.Hampton, Virginia, post office: For completion, $20,000. Hanford, Cal.Hanford, California, post office: For completion, $15,000. 825 Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, post office and courthouse (extension):Harrisburg, Pa. For completion, $75,000. Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, rent of buildings: Additional for rentRent. of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $4,200.
Hilo, Hawaii, post office, customhouse, and courthouse: For completion,Hilo, Hawaii. $50,000. Holland, Michigan, post office: For completion, $55,000. Holland, Mich. Hornell, New York, post office: For commencement, $30,000. Hornell, N. Y. Humboldt, Tennessee, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Humboldt, Tenn. Huntingdon, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $15,000. Huntingdon, Pa. Huntington, Indiana, post office: For commencement, $10,000. Huntington, Ind. Huntington, West Virginia, post office and courthouse (extension):Huntington, W.
Va. For commencement, $100,000. Huntington, West Virginia, rent of buildings: For rent of temporaryRent. quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $6,000. Ishpeming, Michigan, post office: For completion, $30,000. Ishpeming, Mich. Jackson, Kentucky, post office and courthouse: For completion,Jackson, Ky. $35,000. Jasper, Alabama, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Jasper, Ala. Jellico, Tennessee, post office: For completion, $30,000.
Jellico, Tenn. Jennings, Louisiana, post office: For completion, $25,000. Jennings, La. Juneau, Alaska, post office and customhouse: For continuation,Juneau, Alaska. $75,000. Kalispell, Montana, post office: For commencement, $15,000. Kalispell, Mont. Kansas City, Missouri, post office and courthouse (extension): For commencement,Kansas City, Mo. $250,000. Kansas City, Missouri, rent of buildings: For rent of temporaryRent. quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $15,000.
Kinston, North Carolina, post office: For completion, $20,000.Kinston, N. C. Kirksville, Missouri, post office (extension): For commencement,Kirksville, Mo. $30,000. Kirksville, Missouri, rent of buildings: For rent of temporaryRent. quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $2,000. Lafayette, Louisiana, post office: For completion, $10,000. Lafayette, La. La Junta, Colorado, post office: For continuation, $10,000. La Junta, Colo.
Lake City, Minnesota, post office: For completion, $29,000. Lake City, Minn. La Salle, Illinois, post office: For completion, $35,000. La Salle, Ill. Laurel, Mississippi, post office: For continuation, $40,000. Laurel, Miss. Lawton, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For completion,Lawton, Okla. $152,300. Lincoln, Nebraska, post office and courthouse (extension): ForLincoln, Nebr. continuation, $135,000. Lincoln, Nebraska, rent of buildings: Additional for rent of temporaryRent. quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $5,000.
Linton, Indiana, post office: Additional for site, $1,000. Linton, Ind. Little Falls, Minnesota, post office: For commencement, $10,000. Little Falls, Minn. Live Oak, Florida, post office; For continuation, $20,000. Live Oak, Fla. Logan, Ohio, post office: For commencement, $20,000. Logan, Ohio. Longview, Texas, post office: For completion, $20,000. Longview, Tex. Lynchburg, Virginia, post office and courthouse (extension): ForLynchburg, Va. completion, $25,000. Madison, Wisconsin, post office and courthouse:
For commencement,Madison, Wis. $200,000. Madison, Wisconsin, rent of buildings: For rent of temporaryRent. quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $15,000. 826 Mandan, N. Dak.Mandan, North Dakota, post office: For completion, $11,000. Maquoketa, Iowa.Maquoketa, Iowa, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Marion, S. C.Marion, South Carolina, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Martinsburg, W. Va.Martinsburg, West Virginia, post office (extension):
For completion, $20,000. Maryville, Tenn.Maryville, Tennessee, post office: For commencement, $10,000. McComb, Miss.McComb, Mississippi, post office: For commencement, $1,000. McPherson, Kans.McPherson, Kansas, post office: For completion, $20,000. Medford, Oreg.Medford, Oregon, post office and courthouse: For completion, $20,000. Merrill, Wis.Merrill, Wisconsin, post office: For commencement, $35,000. Middlesboro, Ky.Middlesboro, Kentucky, post office: For completion, $65,000.
Middletown, Conn.Middletown, Connecticut, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Middletown, Ohio.Middletown, Ohio, post office: For commencement, $50,000. Miles City, Mont.Miles City, Montana, post office: For completion, $118,500. Millville, N. J.Millville, New Jersey, post office: For continuation, $25,000. Milwaukee, Wis., appraisers’ stores.Milwaukee, Wisconsin, appraisers’ stores: For completion, $40,000. Minden, La.Minden, Louisiana, post office: For commencement, $20,000.
Minot, N. Dak.Minot, North Dakota, post office and courthouse: For completion, $20,000. Missoula, Mont.Missoula, Montana, post office and courthouse (extension): For commencement, $50,000. Rent.Missoula, Montana, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $3,000. Moberly, Mo.Moberly, Missouri, post office (extension): For commencement, $20,000. Rent.Moberly, Missouri, rent of buildings:
For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $2,000. Mobile, Ala.Mobile, Alabama, post office: For completion, $70,000. Monongahela, Pa.Monongahela, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $23,000. Montevideo, Minn.Montevideo, Minnesota, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Morristown, N. J.Morristown, New Jersey, post office: For completion, $80,000. Moultrie, Ga.Moultrie, Georgia, post office: Additional for site and commencement, $1,200.
Moundsville, W. Va.Moundsville, West Virginia, post office: For completion, $10,000. Mount Vernon, Ill.Mount Vernon, Illinois, post office: For completion, $8,000. Mount Vernon, N. Y. Muskegon, Mich.Mount Vernon, New York, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Rent.Muskegon, Michigan, post office and customhouse (extension): For continuation, $30,000. Nacogdoches, Tex.Muskegon, Michigan, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $3,000.
Narragansett Pier, R. I.Nacogdoches, Texas, post office: For commencement, $20,000. Nashville, Tenn.Narragansett Pier, Rhode Island, post office: For completion, $39,000. Rent.Nashville, Tennessee, post office and customhouse (extension): For commencement, $200,000. Naugatuck, Conn.Nashville, Tennessee, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $20,000. Navasota, Tex.Naugatuck, Connecticut, post office:
For commencement, $25,000. Navasota, Texas, post office: For commencement, $15,000. Neenah, Wis.Neenah, Wisconsin, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Newark, Ohio.Newark, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $50,000. New Braunfels, Tex.New Braunfels, Texas, post office: For commencement, $20,000. Newcastle, Ind.Newcastle, Indiana, post office: For completion, $15,000. New Haven, Conn.New Haven, Connecticut, post office: For completion, $400,000. New Orleans, La., customhouse.New Orleans, Louisiana, customhouse (remodeling):
For completion, $250,000. 827 New Orleans, Louisiana, post office and courthouse: For mail-handlingPost office and courthouse. devices, $25,000. Newport, Rhode Island, post office and customhouse: For continuation,Newport, R. I. $150,000. Newport, Rhode Island, rent of buildings: For rent of temporaryRent. quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $12,000. New Rochelle, New York, post office: For completion, $15,000. New Rochelle, N.
Y. North Attleboro, Massachusetts, post office: For completion,North Attleboro, Mass. $50,000. Norton, Virginia, post office: For completion, $25,000. Norton, Va. Oakland, California, post office and customhouse: For site, inOakland, Cal. accordance with value ascertained in condemnation proceedings, $51,750. Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse (extension):Oklahoma City, Okla. For commencement, $111,000. Opelika, Alabama, post office: For continuation, $40,000.
Opelika, Ala. Orange, New Jersey, post office: For completion, $20,000. Orange, N. J. Osage City, Kansas, post office: For completion, $12,000. Osage City, Kans. Palatka, Florida, post office: For continuation, $18,000. Palatka, Fla. Pendleton, Oregon, post office: For completion, $73,000. Pendleton, Oreg. Pensacola, Florida, post office and courthouse (extension): ForPensacola, Fla. completion, $30,000. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, laboratories, Bureau of Mines: ForPittsburgh, Pa., Mines Bureau. completion, $350,000.
Plainfield, New Jersey, post office: For completion, $80,000. Plainfield, N. J. Port Huron, Michigan, post office: For lookout gallery, includingPort Huron, Mich. the incidental remodeling of the first floor by the addition of a storage room and toilet room, $3,500. Port Jervis, New York, post office: For completion, $10,000. Port Jervis, N. Y. Portland, Indiana, post office: For completion, $18,000. Portland, Ind. Portland, Oregon, post office: For continuation, $50,000: *Provided*,Portland, Oreg.*Proviso*.Changes authorised.
That the Secretary of the Treasury may, in his discretion, eliminate the installation of vacuum cleaning and air washing machinery, intercommunicating telephones and clock systems, and so forth, as set forth in section six of the public-buildings Act approved MarchVol. 37, p. 879. fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, but that the building shall, within the limit of cost as fixed, namely, $1,000,000, be completed with all the necessary and usual mechanical equipment and mail-conveying machinery, together with any other labor-saving devices, as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and desirable.
Poughkeepsie, New York, post office (extension): For completion,Poughkeepsie. N. Y. $40,000. Poughkeepsie, New York, rent of buildings: For rent of temporaryRent. quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $10,000. Princeton, Illinois, post office: For completion, $50,000. Princeton, Ill. Pulaski, Virginia, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Pulaski, Va. Putnam, Connecticut, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Putnam, Conn.
Quitman Georgia post office: For continuation, $20,000. Quitman, Ga. Reading, Pennsylvania, post office (extension): For completion,Reading, Pa. $40,000. Reading, Pennsylvania, rent of buildings: Additional for rent ofRent. temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $5,000. Redfield, South Dakota, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Redfield, S. Dak. Ridgway, Pennsylvania, post office: For commencement, $25,000. Ridgway, Pa.
Robinson, Illinois, post office: For completion, $45,000. Robinson, Ill. Rockville, Connecticut, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Rockville, Conn. Rocky Mount, North Carolina, post office: For completion, $30,000. Rocky Mount, N. C. 828 Roseburg, Oreg.Roseburg, Oregon, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Rumford, Me.Rumford, Maine, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Rutherfordton, N. C.Rutherfordton, North Carolina, post office: For site, $5,000. Saint Louis, Mo., post office.Saint Louis, Missouri, post office:
For mail-conveyer system con necting the new post-office building with the adjacent railroad station including any necessary extension of the system into the railroad building and the post-office building, together with all work incidental thereto, $25,000. Saint Petersburg, Fla.Saint Petersburg, Florida, post office: For completion, $25,000. Salamanca, N. Y.Salamanca, New York, post office: For commencement, $20,000. Sandusky, Ohio.Sandusky, Ohio, post office: For commencement, $80,000.
Rent.Sandusky, Ohio, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $12,000. Ban Luis Obispo, Cal.San Luis Obispo, California, post office: For completion, $71,000. Saranac Lake, N. Y.Saranac Lake, New York, post office: For site and commencement, $25,000. Savanna, Ill.Savanna, Illinois, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Seymour, Conn.Seymour, Connecticut, post office: For commencement, $10,000.
Seymour, Ind.Seymour, Indiana, post office: For completion, $28,000. Shelby, N. C.Shelby, North Carolina, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Shelbyville, Ky.Shelbyville, Kentucky, post office: For commencement, $10,000. Shelbyville, Tenn.Shelbyville, Tennessee, post office: For completion, $5,000. Sidney, Ohio.Sidney, Ohio, post office: For commencement, $10,000. Smyrna, Del.Smyrna, Delaware, post office: For completion, $10,000. South Bethlehem, Pa.South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, post office:
For commencement, $1,000. Spata, Wis.Sparta, Wisconsin, post office: For completion $23,000. Stamford, Conn.Stamford, Connecticut, post office: For completion, $100,000. Stamford, Tex.Stamford, Texas, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Steubenville, Ohio.Steubenville, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $40,000. Sunbury, Pa.Sunbury, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Sycamore, Ill.Sycamore, Illinois, post office: For completion, $15,000. Syracuse, N. Y.Syracuse, New York, post office:
For continuation, $180,000. Tamaqua, Pa.Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, post office: For site and commencement, $27,000. Tarboro, N. C.Tarboro, North Carolina, post office: For completion, $25,000. Tarentum, Pa.Tarentum, Pennsylvania, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Taylorville, Ill.Taylorville, Illinois, post office: For commencement, $10,000. The Dalles, Oreg.The Dalles, Oregon, post office: For completion, $60,000. Thomasville, Ga.Thomasville, Georgia, post office: For completion, $46,000.
Three Rivers, Mich.Three Rivers, Michigan, post office: For completion, $10,000. Tiffin, Ohio.Tiffin, Ohio, post office: For completion, $70,000. Titusville, Pa.Titusville, Pennsylvania, post office: For commencement, $15,000. Toledo, Ohio, rent.Toledo, Ohio, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $5,000. Tulsa, Okla.Tulsa, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $45,000.
Tupelo, Miss.Tupelo, Mississippi, post office: For completion, $40,000. Urbana, Ill.Urbana, Illinois, post office: For completion, $10,000. Utica, N. Y.Utica, New York, post office, customhouse, and courthouse (extension): For continuation, $180,000. Rent.Utica, New York, rent of buildings: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $15,000. Uvalde, Tex.Uvalde, Texas, post office: For completion, $35,000.
Valley City, N. Dak.Valley City, North Dakota, post office: For commencement, $15,000. Valparaiso, Ind.Valparaiso, Indiana, post office: For additional site and commencement, $5,300. 829 Vancouver, Washington, post office: For commencement, $10,000. Vancouver, Wash. Van Wert, Ohio, post office: For commencement, $25,000. Van Wert, Ohio. Waltham, Massachusetts, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Waltham, Mass. Washington, District of Columbia, building, Interior DepartmentWashington, D.
C., Interior Department offices. offices: For continuation, $1,500,000. Washington, Georgia, post office: For site and commencement,Washington, Ga. $6,500. Washington, Indiana, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Washington, Ind. Washington, Iowa, post office: For commencement, $10,000. Washington, Iowa. Waterloo, New York, post office: For commencement, $20,000. Waterloo, N. Y. Waynesville, North Carolina, post office: For commencement,Waynesville, N. C. $21,000. Webb City, Missouri, post office:
For continuation, $20,000. Webb City, Mo. Wellsburg, West Virginia, post office: For continuation, $30,000. Wellsburg, W. Va. Wenatchee, Washington, post office: For commencement, $1,000. Wenatchee, Wash. Wilkesboro, North Carolina, post office and courthouse: ForWilkesboro, N. C. continuation, $30,000. Williston, North Dakota, post office: For completion, $5,000. Williston, N. Dak. Williamson, West Virginia, post office: For commencement,Williamson, W. Va. $1,000. Willow, California, post office:
For commencement, $20,000. Willow, Cal. Wilmington, North Carolina, customhouse and appraisers’ stores:Wilmington, N. C. For continuation, $200,000. Wilmington, North Carolina, rent of buildings: For rent of temporaryRent. quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $2,500. Wilson, North Carolina, post office: For completion, $15,000. Wilson, N. C. Winchester, Kentucky, post office, erecting second story, changes,Winchester, Ky. and so forth:
For commencement, $20,000. Winchester, Kentucky, rent of buildings: For rent of temporaryRent. quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $2,000. Winchester, Tennessee, post office: For completion, $15,000. Winchester, Tenn. Winfield, Kansas, post office: For completion, $44,000. Winfield, Kans. Wytheville, Virginia, post office: For completion, $25,000. Wytheville, Va. Yonkers, New York, post office: For completion, $250,000.
Yonkers, N. Y. Ypsilanti, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $35,000. Ypsilanti, Mich. Connecting parkway between Rock Creek and PotomacRock Creek and Potomac Parks, D. C.Survey, etc., of connecting parkway.Vol. 37 p. 885. Parks: To enable the commission, created by section twenty-two of the public buildings Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, to survey the exact boundaries of the lands now desired to be embraced in a connecting parkway between Potomac Park and Zoological Park and to submit a map showing in detail such survey and indicating the changes proposed thereby as compared with the map now on file in the office of the engineer commissioner of the District of Columbia dated May seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, $5,000. quarantine stations.Quarantine stations.
Portland, Maine, quarantine station: For completion, $23,620. Portland, Me. The foregoing construction under quarantine stations shall beSupervising construction etc. under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. public buildings, repairs, equipment, and general expenses. Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of all completedRepairs and preservation. and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for wire partitions and fly screens therefor, Government wharves and piers under the control of the Treasury Department, together with the necessary dredging830Sitka, Alaska. adjacent thereto, buildings and wharf at Sitka, Alaska, and the Secretary of the Treasury may, in renting said wharf, require that the lessee shall make all necessary repairs thereto; for care of vacant sites under the control of the Treasury Department, such as necessary fences, filling dangerous holes, cutting grass and weeds, but not for any permanent improvements thereon; for repairs and preservation of buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargement of public buildings, the expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed fifteen per centum of the annual rentals of*Provisos*.Marine hospitals and quarantine stations. such buildings: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated not exceeding $100,000 may be used for marine hospitals and quarantine stations, including wire partitions and fly screens for same, and notTreasury buildings, D.
C.Restriction on personal services. exceeding $14,000 for the Treasury, Butler, Winder, and Auditors Buildings at Washington, District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That this sum shall not be available for the payment of personal services except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $750,000. Mechanical equipment.Heating, lighting, etc.Mechanical equipment: For installation and repair of mechanical equipment in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including heating, hoisting, plumbing, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum cleaning, and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit, wiring, call-bell and signal systems, and for maintenance and repair of tower clocks; for installation and repair of mechanical equipment, for any of the fore-going items, in buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargements of public buildings, the total expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed ten per centum of the*Provisos*.Marine hospitals and quarantine stations. annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated for mechanical equipment of public buildings, not exceeding $40,000 may be used for marine hospitals and quarantineTreasury buildings. stations, and not exceeding$10,000 for the Treasury, Butler, Winder, and Auditors Buildings at Washington, District of Columbia, but not including the generating plant and its maintenance in the Auditors Building, and not exceeding $10,000 for the maintenance, changes in,Pneumatic tube service.
New York City. and repairs of pneumatic-tube system between the appraisers’ warehouse at Greenwich, Christopher, Washington, and Barrow Streets and the new customhouse in Bowling Green, Borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, including repairs to the street pavement and subsurface necessarily incident to or resulting from such maintenance,Restriction on personal services. changes, or repairs: *Provided further*, That this sum shall not be available or the payment of personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $450,000.
Vaults and safes.Vaults and safes: For vaults and lock-box equipments and repairs thereto in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and for the necessary safe equipments and repairs thereto in all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, whether completed and occupied or in course of construction, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $50 at any one building, $100,000.
General expenses.Vol. 35, p. 537.General expenses: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to execute and give effect to the provisions of section six of the Act of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page fiveAdditional pay, Supervising Architect.Technical services, etc. hundred and thirty-seven, part one): For additional salary of $1,000 for the Supervising Architect of the Treasury for the fiscal year nine-teen hundred and sixteen; for one architectural designer, at $6,000831 per annum: for foremen draftsmen, architectural draftsmen, and apprentice draftsmen, at rates of pay from $480 to $2,500 per annum; for structural engineers and draftsmen, at rates of pay from $840 to $2,200 per annum; for mechanical, sanitary, electrical, heating and ventilating, and illuminating engineers and draftsmen, at rates of pay from $1,200 to $2,400 per annum; for computers and estimators, at rates of pay from $1,600 to $2,500 per annum, the expenditures under all the foregoing classes for which a minimum and maximum rate of compensation is stated, not to exceed $168,450; for supervisingSuperintendents, etc. superintendents, superintendents, and junior superintendents of construction and inspectors, at rates of pay from $1,600 to $2,900 per annum, not to exceed $278,960; for expenses of superintendence,Expenses of maintenance. including expenses of all inspectors and other officers and employees, on duty or detailed in connection with work on public buildings and the furnishing and equipment thereof, under orders from the Treasury Department; office rent and expenses of superintendents, including temporary stenographic and other assistance in the preparation of reports and the care of public property, and so forth; advertising; office supplies, including drafting materials, specially prepared paper,Office supplies.*Post*, p. 1015. typewriting machines, adding machines, and other mechanical labor-saving devices, and exchange of same; furniture, carpets, electric-light fixtures and office equipment; telephone service; not to exceed $6,000 for stationery; not to exceed $1,000 for books of reference, law books, technical periodicals and journals; for contingencies of every kind and description, traveling expenses of site agents, recording deeds and other evidences of title, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates, and photographic materials, and such other articles and supplies and such minor and incidental expenses not enumerated, connected solely with work on public buildings, the acquisition of sites, and the administrative work connected with the annual appropriations under the Supervising Architect’s Office as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve, but not including heat, light, janitor service, awnings, curtains, or any expenses for the general maintenance of the Treasury Building, or surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test pit borings, or mill and shop inspections, $563,560.
Architectural competitions: To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryArchitectural competitions.Payment of commissions.Vol. 27, p. 468. to make payment for architectural services under contracts entered into prior to the repeal of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain plans and specifications for public buildings to be erected under the supervision of the Treasury Department, and providing for local supervision of the construction of the same,” approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, including additional commissions accruing under certain of said contracts due to increase in the limits of cost of certain buildings, except as otherwise specifically provided by law, and including payment for the services from July first, nineteenHilo, Hawaii.Vol. 36, p. 1373;
Vol. 37, p. 428. hundred and twelve, of the architect of the Hilo, Hawaii, building, specially selected under the provisions of the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, and of the sum herein appropriated not to exceed the amount of $2,075 is made available to pay the second group of architects invited to compete in submitting drawings for the post-office and courthouse building to be erected in Portland, Oregon, for such expenses as were incurred by them inPortland, Oreg.*Ante*, p.827.*Ante*, p. 210. preparing drawings, and so forth, prior to the receipt of the new program made necessary by the amendatory legislation contained in the Act approved October twenty-second, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $65,000, to be immediately available. 832 public buildings, operating expenses.
Operating force.Personal services.Operating force: For such personal services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department (except as hereinafter provided), together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein,Assistant custodians, janitors, etc. including assistant custodians, janitors, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen; engineers, firemen, elevator conductors, coal passers, electricians, dynamo tenders, lampists, and wiremen; mechanical labor force in connection with said buildings, including carpenters, plumbers, steam fitters, machinists, and painters, but in no case shall the rates of compensation for such mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services*Proviso*.Buildings for which available. are employed, $2,750,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation shall be available for use in connection with all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the customhouse at Washington, District of Columbia, but not including any other public budding within the District of Columbia, and exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices.
Furniture, etc.Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, gas and electric lighting fixtures and repairs of same, for all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, whether completed and occupied or in course of construction, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $900,000.
All furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings and in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not. Operating supplies.Fuel, light, water, etc.Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, light, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting and power purposes, telephone service for custodian forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice; cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodian forces in the care and maintenance of completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, and in the care and maintenance of the equipment and furnishing in such buildings; miscellaneous supplies, tools, and appliances required in the operation (not embracing repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, plumbing, hoisting, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum cleaning and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit wiring, call-bell and signal systems in such buildings (includingBuildings excluded. the customhouse at Washington, District of Columbia, but excluding any other public building under the control of the Treasury Department within the District of Columbia, and excluding also marine hospitals and quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time theGas governors. sum of $100 at any one building), $1,625,000.
The appropriation made herein for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors,*Proviso*.Rental. when ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury in writing: *Provided*, That rentals shall not be paid for such gas governors greater than thirty-five per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct. 833 During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen the SecretaryPneumatic tube service.Furnishing steam to Postal Sen ice for. of the Treasury is authorized, out of the appropriations “Operating supplies for public buildings” and “Operating force for public buildings,” to furnish steam for the operation of pneumatic tubes of the Postal Service, as heretofore, and to pay employees in the production of said steam, as heretofore, the proceeds derived from the sale of said steam to be credited to said appropriations in proportion to the amounts expended therefrom.
Salamanca, New York, ground rent: For annual ground rent ofSalamanca, N. Y.Ground rent. the Federal building site at Salamanca, New York, on account of Indian leases, due and payable on February nineteenth of each year, in advance, to the treasurer of the Seneca Nation of Indians, beginning February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and expiring February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and ninety-one, 87.50. coast guard.Coast Guard. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized*Ante*, p. 800. work of the Coast Guard, as follows:
For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers,Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men. warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, not exceeding twenty-one cadets and cadet engineers whoCadets. are hereby authorized, and one civilian instructor, $3,759,000; For rations or commutation thereof for warrant officers, pettyRations, etc. officers, and other enlisted men, $423,600; For twelve clerks to district superintendents, at such rate as theClerks to superintendents.
Secretary of the Treasury may determine, not to exceed $900 each, $10,800: For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge,Fuel and water. $277,000; For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same,Ships’ stores. $308,600; For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporaryStations and houses of refuge. leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $157,400;
For actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of theTraveling expenses. Secretary of the Treasury, for officers, and actual traveling expenses for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, $36,500; For carrying out the provisions of sections seven and eight of theDeath allowances.*Ante*, p. 802. act approved May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, $50,000; For draft animals and their maintenance, $18,500; Draft animals. For telephone lines and care of the same, $12,500;
Telephones. For compensation for special services, $64,000; Special services. For contingent expenses, including supplies and provisions forContingent expenses.*Post*, p. 1015. houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored by the Coast Guard, wharfage, towage, freight, storage, repairs to station apparatus, advertising, surveys, medals, stationery, labor, newspapers and periodicals for statistical purposes, and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading, $50,000;
In all, for the Coast Guard, $5,167,900. For repairs to Coast Guard cutters, $175,000. Repairs to cutters. For the completion of two revenue (Coast Guard) cutters, authorizedNew cutters.*Ante*, p. 387. by the act approved June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and within their respective limits of cost, to be immediately available, $310,000. engraving and printing.Engraving and printing. For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work,Work authorized. during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen of not exceeding eighty-two million delivered sheets of United States currency, thirteen834 million five hundred thousand delivered sheets of*Ante*, p. 745. national-bank notes and Federal reserve currency, ninety million delivered sheets of internal-revenue stamps, eight million delivered sheets of emergency-revenue stamps, two hundred and thirty-nine thousand delivered sheets of customs stamps, four million two hundred and twenty-five thousand delivered sheets of opium orders and special tax stamps*Ante*, p. 786. required under act of December seventeenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and one million six hundred thousand five hundred delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows:
Salaries.For salaries of all necessary employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, $1,483,000, to be expended under the direction*Proviso*.large notes. of the Secretary of the Treasury; *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executingVol. 31, p. 45, the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
Wages.For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, $1,698,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the*Proviso*.Large notes. Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as suchVol 31, p. 45. printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
Materials.Paper for internal-revenue stamps.*Post*, p. 1015.For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except distinctive paper, miscellaneous expenses, including paper for internal-revenue stamps, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger carrying vehicles, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, $631,500, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Proceeds from work to be credited to Bureau.During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen all proceeds derived from work performed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for said bureau for the said fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts,Vol. 24, p. 237. as provided by the Act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page two hundred and twenty-seven), shall be credited when received to the appropriation for said bureau for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Miscellaneous.miscellaneous objects, treasury department. Internal revenue.Refund of taxes.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money covered into Treasury as internal-revenue collections, under the provisions ofVol. 35, p. 325. the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, $50,000. Punishing violation of, laws.Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, $175,000.
Enforcing laws relating to Treasury.The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use for, and in connection with, the enforcement of the laws relating to the Treasury835 Department and the several branches of the public service under itsDetails permitted. control, not exceeding at any one time four persons paid from the appropriation for the collection of customs, four persons paid from the appropriation for salaries and expenses of internal-revenue agents or from the appropriation for the foregoing purpose, and four persons paid from the appropriation for suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, but not exceeding six persons so detailed shall be employed atLimit. any one time hereunder: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained*Proviso*.Other details. shall be construed to deprive the Secretary of the Treasury from making any detail now otherwise authorized by existing law.
Expenses of refunding United States bonds under section eighteenRefunding two percent bonds.*Ante*, p. 269. of the Federal reserve act: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to prepare for there funding provided by section eighteen of the Federal reserve act of two per centum bonds of the United States into one-year three per centum Treasury notes or thirty-year three per centum United States bonds, and to make such conversions as may be authorized during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $25,000.
Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent expensesContingent expenses, Independent Treasury.[R. S. sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/s3653/p719).*Post*, p. 1015. under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes, collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, salaries of special agents, actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books,Examination, etc. accounts, and money on hand at the several subtreasuries and depositories, including national banks acting as depositories under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and forty-nine of the[R.
S., sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3649/p718). Revised Statutes, also including examinations of cash accounts at mints, $185,000. Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of light-weight gold coinsRecoinage of gold coins.[R. S., sec. 3512, p, 695](/us/rs/s3512/p695). in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes, $5,000. Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryRecoinage of minor coin. to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coin of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coin and the amount the same will produce in new coin, $10,000.
Money laundry machines: For all miscellaneous expenses in connectionMoney laundry machines. with the installation and maintenance of money laundry machines, including repairs and purchase of supplies, for machines at Washington, District of Columbia, and in the various subtreasury offices, $9,000. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctiveDistinctive paper.Securities and currency. paper for United States currency, not less than seventy-three million five hundred thousand sheets, and for national-bank currency and Federal reserve bank currency, not less than thirteen million five hundred thousand sheets, including transportation, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, salaries of not exceeding one register, two assistant registers, five counters, five watchmen, and one skilled laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury, $415,000.
Custody of dies, rolls, and plates: For custody of dies, rolls, andCustody of dies, rolls, and plates. plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for printing Government securities: Custodians—two at $2,000 each; distributors of stock—one $1,600, two at $1,400 each; in all, $8,400. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurredSuppressing counterfeiting, etc.*Post*, p. 1015. under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other836 securities of the United States and of foreign governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, hire and operation of motor-propelled orPer diem subsistence.*Ante*, p. 680. horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary, per diem in lieu of subsistence, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for no other purpose whatever, except inProtecting person of President.*Proviso*.Witnesses. the protection of the person of the President and of the person chosen to be President of the United States, $145,000: *Provided*, That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United*Post*, p. 867.
States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses. United States courts.” Payment of persons detailed forbidden.Appropriations in this Act shall not be used in payment of compensation or expenses of any person detailed or transferred from the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department, or who may at any time during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen nave been employed by or under said Secret Service Division. Lands, etc.Lands and other property of the United States:
For custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the[R. S., secs. 3749, 3750, p. 739](/us/rs/s3749/3750/p739). United States, acquired and held under sections thirty-seven hundred and forty-nine and thirty-seven hundred and fifty of the Revised Statutes, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneer’s fees in connection therewith, $300. Customs service.customs service. Collecting revenue.For collecting the revenue from customs, $10,150,000.
The provisionsDetection of frauds increased.Vol. 20, p. 386; Vol. 33, p. 396.*Post*, p. 1015. of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine (Twentieth Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-six), as amended by the Act of April twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and four (Thirty-third Statutes, page three hundred and ninety-six), authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to expend out of the appropriation for defraying the expenses of collecting the revenue from customs such amount as he may deem necessary, not exceeding $150,000 per annum, for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, are further amended so as to increase the amount to $200,000 to be so expended for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Panama-Pacific Exposition.Balances continued.*Ante*, p. 623.The unexpended balance of the appropriation made by the sundry civil Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen for the necessary expenses and salaries of the customs service at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, is continued and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen. Automatic scales.Use of balances.*Ante*, p. 623.Scales for customs service:
The unexpended balances of the appropriations heretofore made for construction and installation of special automatic and recording scales for weighing merchandise, and so forth, in connection with imports at the various ports of entry under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, are continued and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen. Compensation in lieu of moieties.Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, $30,000.
Public Health Service.public health service. Pay, etc., officers.For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissioned medical officers and pharmacists, $695,000; 837 For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medicalActing assistant surgeons. officers), $200,000; For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $502,606; Other employees. For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including theFreight, etc. expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, $30,000;
For fuel, light, and water, $75,000; Fuel, etc. For furniture and repairs to same, $8,000; Furniture. For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospitalSupplies. supplies, $45,000; For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $20,000; Hygienic Laboratory.Marine hospitals.*Post*, p. 1015. For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, $256,000: *Provided*, That there may be admitted*Proviso*.Cases for study. into said hospitals for study persons with infectious or other diseases affecting the public health, and not to exceed ten cases in any one hospital at one time;
For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment ofOutside treatment, etc. all other persons entitled to relief, and miscellaneous expenses other than marine hospitals, which are not included under special heads, $126,000; For journals and scientific books, $500; Books, etc.Inspecting aliens.Vol. 34, p. 903. In all, $1,958,106, which shall include the amount necessary for the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section seventeen of the Act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven.
Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclusiveQuarantine service.Maintenance, etc., of stations.*Post*, p. 1015. of pay of officers and employees, of quarantine stations at East port and Portland, Maine; Providence, Rhode Island; Perth Amboy, New Jersey; Delaware Breakwater; Reedy Island, and the Delaware Bay and River; Alexandria, Virginia; Cape Charles and supplemental station thereto; Cape Fear, Newbern, and Washington, North Carolina; Georgetown, Charleston, Beaufort, and Port Royal, South Carolina;
Savannah; South Atlantic; Brunswick; Cumberland Sound; Saint Johns River; Biscayne Bay; Key West; Boca Grande; Tampa Bay; Port Inglis; Cedar Key; Puntarasa; Saint Georges Sound (East and West Pass); Saint Joseph; Saint Andrews and Pensacola, Florida; Mobile; New Orleans and supplemental stations thereto; Pascagoula; Gulf; Gulfport, Galveston, Laredo, Eagle Pass, and El Paso, Texas; San Diego, San Pedro and adjoining ports, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Monterey, and Port Harford, California;
Fort Bragg, Eureka, Columbia River, Florence, Newport, Coos Bay, and Gardner, Oregon; Port Townsend and supplemental stations thereto; quarantine systems of Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands including the leprosy hospital, and Port Rico; and including and not exceeding $500 for printing on account of the quarantine service at times when the exigencies of that service require immediate action, $155,000. Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only ofPrevention of epidemics.*Post*, p. 1015. threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague or black death, or trachoma, to aid State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency m the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $500,900: *Provided*, That a detailed report of the expenditures*Proviso*.Report of expenditures. hereunder shall annually hereafter be submitted to Congress.
Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man and conditionsField investigations.Vol. 37, p. 309. influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage, and the pollution of navigable streams and lakes of the United States, including personal service, $200,000. Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and municipalInterstate quarantine service. health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $15,000. 838 Study of pellagra.*Ante*, p. 315.Study of pellagra:
For rental, equipment, and maintenance of a temporary field hospital and laboratory, including pay of personnel, for special studies of pellagra, $40,000. District of Columbia.DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Columbia Hospital for Women.Equipment, etc.For special equipment and furnishing to complete Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, including labor and material and the necessary incidental expenses connected therewith, to beHalf from District revenues. immediately available, $75,725, one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of the Treasury of the United States.
Refund from District revenues for building, etc.*Ante*, p. 26.*Ante*, p. 625.One-half of the sum of $300,000 heretofore appropriated, or so much thereof as shall be expended or obligated, for the construction of a modern fireproof hospital building to replace the building of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum shall be reimbursed to the United States Treasury on or before the close of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Smithsonian Institution.SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. International exchanges.International exchanges: For the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $32,000. American ethnology.American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, including the excavation and preservation of archæologic remains, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $42,000.
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature.International Catalogue of Scientific Literature: For the cooperation of the United States in the work of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, including the preparation of a classified index catalogue of American scientific publications for incorporation in the International Catalogue, clerk hire, purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and other necessary incidental expenses, $7,500. Astrophysical Observatory.Astrophysical Observatory:
For maintenance of Astrophysical Obesrvatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including assistants, purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, repairs and alterations of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, $13,000. Fireproof bookstacks, etc.Bookstacks for Government bureau libraries; For completing the replacing of wooden shelving and galleries with fireproof bookstacks in the main hall of the Smithsonian Building for the libraries of the Government bureaus under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including heating and lighting apparatus, repairs to the floors, columns, walls, and windows, and all other necessary expenses, to be immediately available, $6,500.
National Museum.Salaries, fixtures, etc.National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of collections, including necessary employees, $25,000; Heating, lighting, etc.For heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service, $46,000; Preserving collections, etc.For preservation, exhibition, and increase of collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including necessary employees, all other necessary expenses, and not exceeding $5,500 for drawings and illustrations for publications, $300,000; 839 For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference,Books, etc. $2,000;
For repairs to buildings, shops, and sheds, including all necessaryRepairs. labor and material, $15,000; For postage stamps and foreign postal cards, $500; Postage. In all, National Museum, $388,500. National Zoological Park: For roads, walks, bridges, water supply,National Zoological Park. sewerage, and drainage; grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; necessary employees; incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles required for official purposes, not exceeding $100 for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and exclusive of architect’s fees or compensation, $100,000; one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenuesHalf from District revenues. of the District of Columbia and the other halt from the Treasury of the United States.
Hereafter the Government branches under the direction of theExchange of typewriters, etc. Smithsonian Institution may exchange typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices in part payment for like articles. George Washington Memorial Building: The limit of time for beginningGeorge Washington Memorial Building.Time extended for erecting.Vol. 37, p. 881. the erection of the George Washington Memorial Building, provided in the Act entitled “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings,” and so forth, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Thirty-seventh Statutes, page eight hundred and eighty-one), is hereby extended to March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission. For seven commissioners at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; in all,Salaries. $75,000. For all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execution ofExpenses.Per diem subsistence.*Ante*, p. 680. laws to regulate commerce, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $925,000, of which sum there may be expended not exceeding $50,000Amount for counsel. in the employment of counsel, not exceeding $3,000 for the purchase of necessary books, reports, and periodicals, not exceeding $1,500 for printing other than that done at the Government Printing Office, not exceeding $100 in the open market for the purchase of office furniture similar in class or kind to that listed in the general supply schedule, and not exceeding $65,000 may be expended for rent of buildings inRent. the District of Columbia.
To further enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforceEnforcing accounting by railroads.Vol. 34, p. 593; Vol. 36, p. 556. compliance with section twenty of the Act to regulate commerce as amended by the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, including the employment of necessary special agents or examiners, $300,000. To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informedRailway safety appliances.Vol. 27, p. 531; Vol. 29, p. 85; Vol. 32, p. 943;
Vol. 36, p. 298.Accidents.Vol. 31, p. 446; Vol. 36, p. 350.Block signals, etc.Vol. 34, p. 838; Vol. 35. p. 324. regarding and to enforce compliance with Acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads; the act requiring common carriers to make reports of accidents and authorizing investigations thereof; and to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate and test block-signal and train-control systems and appliances intended to promote the safety of railway operation, as authorized by the joint resolution approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and the provision of the sundry civil Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, including the employment of inspectors, and per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section fourteen of the sundry civil appropriationPer diem subsistence.*Ante*, p, 680.
Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $245,000. 840 Physical valuation of railroads.Vol. 37, p. 701.Valuation of property of carriers: 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 and 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 MarchPer diem subsistence.*Ante*, p. 680. first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred andRent. fourteen, and including not exceeding $15,000 for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $3,000,000.
Safe locomotive boilers, etc.Vol. 36, p. 913.*Post*, p. 1192.For all authorized expenditures under the provisions of the Act of February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, “To promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,” including such stenographic and clerical help to the chief inspector and his two assistants as the Interstate Commerce Commission mayPer diem subsistence.*Ante*, p. 680. deem necessary, and for per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $220,000.
Board of Mediation and Conciliation.UNITED STATES BOARD OF MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION. Salaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 108.For commissioner, $7,500; assistant commissioner, $5,000; necessary and proper expenses incurred in connection with any arbitration or with the carrying on of the work of mediation and conciliation, including traveling and other necessary expenses of members or employees of boards of arbitration, furniture, office fixtures and supplies, books, salaries, traveling expenses, and other necessary expenses of members or employees of the Board of Mediation and Conciliation, to be approved by the chairman of said board, $34,680; rent in the District of Columbia, $2,820; in all, $50,000.
Industrial Relations Commission.COMMISSION ON INDUSTRIAL RELATIONS. Expenses of inquiries, etc.Vol. 37, p. 415.For completing 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, and for all necessary printing, including the final report of the commission, $100,000, to be immediately available.
Federal Trade Commission.FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. Salaries.For five commissioners, at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; in all, $55,000. Continuing employees, etc., Bureau of Corporations, during fiscal year.*Ante*, p. 717.To continue all of such services and employments provided for the Bureau of Corporations during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, except the offices of commissioner and deputy commissioner, as in the discretion of the Federal Trade Commission may be required for its purposes and at the rates of compensation specified or authorizedAdditional clerks, etc.R.
S., sec. 167, p. 27. therefor, and for such additional clerks and others as are authorized in and at the rates of compensation fixed by section one hundred and sixty-seven of the Revised Statutes of the United States; forPer diem subsistence.*Ante*, p. 680. necessary contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $300,000. 841 The space now occupied by the Bureau of Corporations in the buildingQuarters in Commerce Building. rented for use of the Department of Commerce is transferred to and for the accommodation of the Federal Trade Commission, and the Secretary of Commerce is directed to transfer to said commission any additional rooms or space in said building that may be required for its use.
Estimates in detail for all expenditures under the Federal TradeDetailed estimates to be submitted. Commission for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, and annually thereafter, shall be submitted to Congress in the annual Book of Estimates. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenals. Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: For increasing facilities forBenicia, Cal. fire protection, $10,000. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
Frankford, Pa. Extension of double-action press shop building, $6,000; Improving facilities of the boiler plant, $15,000; For one tin shop, $72,000. Extension of lumber shed, $22,500. In all, $115,500. Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois: Rock Island, Ill. For increasing facilities for fire protection, $5,000; For road repairs, $6,000; For a storehouse for the storage of oils, and so forth, and its equipment, $15,000; For repairs to arsenal building, $2,400; The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $5,500 for replacingSidewalks, etc.Balance available.*Ante*, p. 628. sidewalks and repainting all metal work of the bridge between Rock Island Arsenal and the city of Rock Island, Illinois, made in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen shall continue available during the fiscal year nine-teen hundred and sixteen;
For repairs to wagon bridge and viaduct, $12,500; The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $3,600 for a systemSemaphore signals.Balance available.*Ante*, p. 628. of semaphore signals for the protection of the draw span of the bridge at the Rock Island Arsenal, made in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, snail continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $65,000 for repairing the foundations and walls of shop H at the Rock Island ArsenalShop H.Balance available.*Ante*, p. 628. made in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen shall continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen;
For maintenance and operation of power plant, $12,500; For operating, care, and preservation of Rock Island bridges andBridge expenses. viaduct; and for maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $18,000; In all, $71,400. Proving ground, Sandy Hook, New Jersey: For permanently fillingSandy Hook proving ground, N. J. a portion of the railroad trestle connecting Sandy Hook Reservation with Highland Beach, including necessary concrete culverts, $25,000.
Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For the erectionSpringfield, Mass. of new coal bins, including conveyors and hoppers for transferring coal from cars to bins, $14,500; For repairing streets, $7,200; in all $21,700. 842 Watertown, Mass.Testing machines.Watertown Arsenal, testing machines: For necessary professional and skilled labor, purchase of materials, tools, and appliances for operating the testing machines, for investigative test and tests of material in connection with the manufacturing work of the Ordnance Department, and for instruments and materials for operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, $15,000.
Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York: For increasing capacity of power plant, $7,000; For lights in large gun shop, $3,000; For one one-hundred-inch boring and turning lathe, $95,000; in all, $105,000. Watervliet, N. Y.Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvement at arsenals, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including $125,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $290,000.
Repairs.The appropriations under the titles “Repairs of arsenals” and “Testing machines” herein made shall be available for the payment of a per diem in lieu of subsistence, when allowed, pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to civilian employees of the Ordnance Department. Per diem subsistence.*Ante*, p. 680.quartermaster corps. Quartermaster Corps.Schofield Barracks, HawaiiToward the construction of barrack accommodations for one regiment of Infantry at Schofield Barracks, Hawaii, including the necessary water, sewer, and lighting systems, roads, walks, and so forth, $163,000.
Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses.Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses: For construction and enlargement of barracks and quarters for the Coast Artillery and other buildings in connection with the adopted project for seacoast defenses, including the installation therein of plumbing and of heating and lighting apparatus, to be expended as in the judgment*Proviso*.Officers’ quarters.Vol. 35, p. 363. of the Secretary of War may be necessary, $25,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be used for the construction of officers’ quarters to cost in excess of the limits established in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight.
Fort Monroe, Va.Fort Monroe, Virginia, wharf, roads, and sewer: Wharf.For repair and maintenance of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms, and water, brooms, and shovels, $1,400; repairs to apron of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, $4,155; wharfinger, $900; four laborers, $1,920; in all, $8,375; for one-third of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $2,791.66. Repairs to roads, etc.For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, macadam and asphalt block; repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains, $2,170; six laborers cleaning roads, at $480 each; in all, $5, 050; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $3,366.66.
Sewer maintenance.For waste, oil, boiler repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, $1,900; two engineers, at $1,000 each; two laborers, at $500 each; in all, $4,900; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $3,266.67. Seacoast defenses.Philippines and Hawaii.For continuing construction of the necessary accommodations for the Seacoast Artillery in the Philippine Islands and Hawaii, $358,000. Enlargement of Governors Island, New York: Governors Island, N.
Y.Repairs to seawall.For repairs to sea wall at Governors Island, New York, to be immediately available, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $8,000. 843 National cemeteries: For maintaining and improving nationalNational cemeteries.Maintenance. cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools, and materials, $120,000.
For pay of seventy-six superintendents of national cemeteries,Superintendents. $63,120. For continuing the work of furnishing headstones of durable stoneHeadstones to soldiers’ graves.Vol. 17, p. 345; Vol 20, p. 281; Vol. 34, p. 56. or other durable material for unmarked graves of Union and Con-federate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and March ninth, nineteen hundred and six; also for continuing the work of furnishing headstonesCivilians.Vol. 33, p. 396;
Vol. 34, p. 741. for unmarked graves of civilians interred in post cemeteries under the Acts of April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six; also for furnishing headstonesConfederates. for the unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national cemeteries, $50,000. For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructedRepairs to road ways. by special authority of Congress, $12,000: *Provided*, That*Provisos*.Encroachments by railroads forbidden. no railroad shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shallRestriction. be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village.
No part of any appropriation for national cemeteries or the repairLimited to one approach. of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance of more than a single approach to any national cemetery. For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or inBurial of indigent soldiers, D. C. the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either regular or volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding $45 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $2,000, one-half of which sum shallHalf from District revenues. be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Antietam battle field: For repair and preservation of monuments,Antietam battle field. tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Antietam battle field, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, $3,000. For pay of superintendent of Antietam battle field, said superintendentSuperintendent. to perform his duties under the direction of the Quarter-master Corps and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, $1,500.
Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, civilian employees, andInterment of remains of officers, soldiers, etc. so forth: For interment, or preparation and transportation to their homes or to such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper authority, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of the remains of officers, including acting assistant surgeons, and enlisted men of the Army active fist; interment, or preparation and transportation to their homes, of the remains of civil employees of the Army in the employ of the War Department who die abroad, in Alaska, in the Canal Zone, or on Army transports, or who die while on duty in the field or at military posts within the limits of the United States; interment of military prisoners who die at military posts; removalRemoval from abandoned posts, etc. of remains from abandoned posts to permanent military posts or national cemeteries, including the remains of Federal soldiers, sailors, or marines, interred in fields or abandoned private and city cemeteries; and in any case where the expenses of burial or shipment ofReimbursement to individuals.844 the remains of officers or enlisted men of the Army who die on the active list are borne by individuals, where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement to such individuals may be made of the amount allowed by the Government for such services out of this sum, but no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to July first, nineteen hundred and ten, $57,500.
Confederate Mound, Chicago, Ill.Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago: For care, protection, and maintenance of the plat of ground known as ‘‘Confederate Mound” in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, $250. Confederate Stockade, Ohio.For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate Stockade Cemetery, Johnstons Island in Sandusky Bay, $250. Confederate burial plats.Care, etc.Confederate burial plats: For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate burial plats, owned by the United States, located and known by the following designations:
Confederate cemetery, North Alton, Illinois; Confederate cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio; Confederate section, Greenlawn Cemetery, Indianapolis. Indiana; Confederate cemetery, Point Lookout, Maryland; and Confederate cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, $1,250. Monuments, etc., in Cuba and China.Monuments or tablets in Cuba and China: For repairs and preservation of monuments, tablets, roads, fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell, $1,000.
Little Hock, Ark.Burial of indigent soldiers dying at Hot Springs Hospital.Burial of deceased indigent patients: For burying in the Little Rock (Arkansas) National Cemetery, including transportation thereto, indigent ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably dis-charged or retired and who die while patients at the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, to be disbursed at a cost not exceeding $35 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $200.
Military parks.national military parks. Chickamauga and Chattanooga.Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation and expenses of civilian commissioners, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, including $300 for necessary clerical labor under direction of the chairman of the commission; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled and one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle; office and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; roads and their maintenance; purchase of small tracts of lands heretofore authorized by law; in all, $55,260.
Shiloh.Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation of civilian commissioners; secretary and superintendent; clerical and other services; labor; historical tablets; maps and surveys; roads; purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; office and other necessary expenses, including maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $25,800. Gettysburg.Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the establishment of the park; acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet bearing a brief legend giving historic facts and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battle field and the monuments thereon; compensation of civilian commissioners, clerical and other services, expenses, and labor; purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position; and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, $45,000. 845 Vicksburg National Military Park:
For continuing the establishmentVicksburg. of the park; compensation of civilian commissioners; engineer and clerk, labor, iron gun carriages, mounting of siege guns, memorials, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving Historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps, surveys, roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of lands, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; and other necessary expenses, $36,000. engineer department.Engineer Department.
Yellowstone National Park: For maintenance and repair of improvements,Yellowstone Park. $125,000, including not to exceed $7,500 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the east boundary, and not to exceed $2,500 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserves leading out of the park from the south boundary, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of War, to be immediately available: *Provided*, That no portion*Proviso*.Snow restriction. of this appropriation shall be expended for the removal of snow from any of the roads for the purpose of opening them in advance of the time when they will be cleared by seasonal changes.
For widening to not exceeding eighteen feet of roadway and improvingRoads, bridges, etc.In Park. surface of roads and for building bridges and culverts from the belt-line road to the western border from the Thumb Station to the southern border, and from the Lake Hotel Station to the eastern border, all within Yellowstone National Park, to make such roads suitable and safe for animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles, to be immediately available, $50,000. For completing the widening to not exceeding eighteen feet ofIn forest reserve. roadway and improving the surface of roads and for building bridges and culverts in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the east boundary, to make such roads suitable and safe for animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles, to be immediately available, $20.000.
Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For continuation of a wagonCrater Lake Park. road and the necessary bridges through the park, together with a system of tanks and water-supply pipes for sprinkling, in accordance with the recommendations in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-eight, Sixty-second Congress, second session, maintenance, repair, and operation of two horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, to be immediately available, $50,000.
Buildings and grounds in and around Washington: For improvementBuildings and grounds, D.C. and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of ExecutiveImprovement and care. Mansion, $4,000. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, $2,000. For repair and reconstruction of the greenhouses at the nursery, $3,000. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, $2,000. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, $1,500. For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, $2,000.
For care and improvement of Monument Grounds and annex,Monument grounds, etc. $7,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Garfield Park, $2,500. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of highGeneral repairs, etc. iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; re-pairing and extending water pipes, and purchase of apparatus for cleaning them; hose; manure, and hauling the same; removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, and stock for nursery, flower-pots,846 twine, baskets, wire, splints, and moss, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances; cleaning statues and repairing pedestals, $18,550.
Reservations.For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, including maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of one horse-drawn and two motor propelled passenger carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes, $30,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, $3,000. For improvement and maintenance of Judiciary Park, $2,500. For laying cement and other walks in various reservations, $2,000. For broken-stone road covering for parks, $3,500.
For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, $2,000. For care and maintenance of Potomac Park, $15,000. Potomac Park.For grading, soiling, seeding, and planting that portion of Potomac Park west of the railroad embankment, and constructing roads and paths, $25,000. For oiling or otherwise treating macadam roads, $4,000. For completing a permanent road around the entire river and harbor front of the portion of Potomac Park east of the railroad embankment, $15,000.
For care and improvement of the portion of Potomac Park east of the railroad embankment, $10,000. For continuing the improvement of Montrose Park, and for its care and maintenance, $5,000. Outdoor sports.For placing and maintaining special portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports, $10,000. Meridian Hill Park.To continue construction of necessary retaining walls in Meridian Hill Park, and grading incident thereto, $25,000. For new lodge in Garfield Park, $3,500. For care and maintenance of Willow Tree Park, $1,500.
National Museum.Additional water supply.For furnishing an additional water supply for the two buildings in the Smithsonian grounds occupied by the National Museum, by ex-tending the present twelve-inch water main in those grounds out to the comer of Ninth and B Streets northwest, $1,500. Half from District revenues.One half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in and around Washington” shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
Limit for concrete, etc., pavements.Under appropriations herein contained no contract shall be made for making or repairing concrete or asphalt pavements in Washington City at a higher price than $1.80 per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia prior to July first, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, and with a base of not less than six inches in thickness. Grounds of executive departments, etc.For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of executive departments, $ 1,000.
For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be requested by the superintendent of the Library Building, $1,000. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol and the Senate and House Office Buildings as may be requested by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building, $4,000. Executive Mansion grounds,For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), $5,000.
Engineer, etc.For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, $2,400. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouse, $1,000. 847 Executive Mansion: For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishing ofExecutive Mansion.Care, etc. Executive Mansion, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official purposes, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine, $35,000.
For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, $6,000. Fuel. For care and maintenance of greenhouses, Executive Mansion,Greenhouses. $9,000. For repair to greenhouses, Executive Mansion, $3,000. For traveling expenses of the President of the United States, to beTraveling expenses of the President. expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, $25,000. For lighting the Executive Mansion, grounds, and greenhouses,Lighting. including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $8,600, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Lighting and heating for the public grounds: For lighting the publicLighting and heating public grounds. grounds, watchmen’s lodges, offices, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $18,500; For heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $3,820; In all, $22,320, or so much thereof as may be necessary, one half ofHalf from District revenues. which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the departments and GovernmentGovernment telegraph. Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, $500. Washington Monument: For custodian, $1,200; steam engineer,Washington Monument.Maintenance. $960; assistant steam engineer, $840; fireman, $660; assistant fire-man, $660; conductor of elevator car, $900; attendants—one on floor $720, one on top floor $720; three night and day watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $8,820. For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes,Expenses. brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors; repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery; and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric plant in good order, $3,000.
For extra services of employees and additional employees, and forSunday opening. additional supplies and materials, for opening the Washington Monument to the public on Sundays and legal holidays, $2,500. Building where Abraham Lincoln died: For painting and miscellaneousBuilding where Abraham Lincoln died.Wakefield, Va. repairs, $200. Birthplace of George Washington, Wakefield, Virginia: For repairs to fences and cleaning up and maintaining grounds about the monument, $100. Commission of Fine Arts:
To meet the expenses made necessaryCommission of Fine Arts.Expenses.Vol. 36, p. 371. by the Act approved May seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act establishing a Commission of Fine Arts,” including the purchase of periodicals, maps, and books of reference, to be disbursed, on vouchers approved by the commission, by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, who shall be the secretary and shall act as the executive officer of said commission, $6,000.
The appropriation of $5,000 made in the sundry civil Act approvedGrant Memorial.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 636. August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, for unveiling and dedicating the memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including erecting and taking down viewing stands and putting the grounds in sightly condition, is hereby made available for said purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen. Lincoln Memorial Commission:
For continuing the erection of theLincoln Memorial.Construction. Lincoln Memorial in accordance with the plans and design and on848Vol. 36, p. 898; Vol. 37, p. 1022. the location approved by Congress and for each and every purpose connected therewith, to be immediately available, $600,000. Arlington Memorial Amphitheater.Construction.Vol. 35, p. 540; Vol. 37, p. 882.Arlington Memorial Amphitheater: For continuing the construction, under the direction of a commission consisting of the Secretary of War, the Secretary of the Navy, and Superintendent of the United States Capitol Building and Grounds, Ivory G.
Kimball, representing the Grand Army of the Republic, the commander of Camp OneRepresentative of Confederate Veterans added. hundred and seventy-one, United Confederate Veterans of the District of Columbia, and Charles W. Newton, representing the United Spanish War Veterans, of a memorial amphitheater, including a chapel, at the National Cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, and in accordance with the plans of Carrere and Hastings, architects, of New York City, adopted by the commission heretofore appointed, to be immediately available and to remain available until expended, $400,000.
Rivers and harbors contract work.Harbors and rivers, contract work: Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers, under contract and otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, including horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles required and to be used only or official business, namely: For work authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and eleven, as follows: Marquette, Mich.Vol. 36, p. 946.Improving harbor at Marquette, Michigan:
For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, $100,000. For work authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and thirteen, as follows: Hudson River, N. Y.Vol. 37, p. 804.Improving Hudson River, New York: For continuing improvement in completion of contract authorization, $410,000. New York Harbor, N. Y.Improving New York Harbor, New York: For continuing improvement of the Hudson (North) River Channel, in completion of contract authorization, $100,000.
Ohio River.Locks and dams.Vol 37, p. 814.Improving Ohio River below Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania: For continuing improvement by the construction of locks and dams, in completion of contract authorization, $3,200,000. Tillamook Bay and Bar, Oreg.Vol. 37, p. 819.Improving Tillamook Bay and Bar, Oregon: For improvement, subject to the conditions specified in the river and harbor Act of March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $172,000. Maps.Maps, War Department: For publication of engineer maps for use of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, $7,500.
Survey of northern and northwestern lakes.Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For survey of northern and northwestern lakes, Lake of the Woods, and other boundary and connecting waters between said lake and Lake Superior, Lake Champlain, and the natural navigable waters embraced in the navigation system of the New York canals, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, binding, and issuing charts and bulletins, and of investigating lake levels with a view to their regulation, $125,000.
California Débris Commission.Vol. 27, p. 507.California Débris Commission: For defraying the expenses of the commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, $15,000. New York Harbor.Preventing injurious deposits in.Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, and office force, and expenses of office, $10,260;
For pay of crews and maintenance of patrol fleet, six steam tugs and one launch, $75,000; In all, $85,260. 849 medical department.Medical Department. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, orArtificial limbs. commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, $95,000. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliancesSurgical appliances. to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, 51,500.
Trusses for disabled soldiers: For trusses for persons entitledTrusses. thereto under section eleven hundred and seventy-six, Revised[R. S., sec. 1176, p. 211](/us/rs/s1176/p211). Statutes of the United States, and the Act of Congress amendatoryVol. 20, p. 353. thereof approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, $3,000. Support and medical treatment of destitute patients: For the supportProvidence Hospital, D. C.Destitute patients. and medical treatment of medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon General of the Army, $19,000, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues ofHalf from District revenues. the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it to provideGarfield Hospital, D. C.Destitute patients. medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, under a contract to be made with the Board of Charities of the District of Columbia, $19,000, one half of which sum shall be paidHalf from District revenues. from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
For support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers,Dayton, Ohio. as follows: Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: Current expenses; For pay ofCurrent expenses. officers and noncommissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks, weighmasters, and orderlies: chaplains, religious instruction, and entertainment for the members of the home, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, janitors, watchmen, fire company, and property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the home; articles of amusement, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and repairs not done by the home; stationery, advertising, legal advice, payments due heirs of deceased members: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Effects of deceased members. all receipts on account of the effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall also be available for such payments; and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditures, $61,000;
Subsistence: For pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks,Subsistence. porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; food supplies, except articles of special diet for the sick, purchased for the subsistence of the members of the home and civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the branch, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; tobacco; dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers and butchers’ tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the home, $250,000;
Household: For furniture for officers’ quarters; bedsteads, bedding,Household. bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and of civilian employees permanently employed and residing at the branch, and their repair, if not repaired by the home; fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; engineers and firemen, bathhouse keepers, janitors, laundry employees, and for all labor,850 materials, and appliances required for household use, and repairs, if not repaired by the home, $105,000;
Hospital.Hospital: For pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, hospitals clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, drivers, funeral escort, janitors, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; burial of the dead; surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not purchased under subsistence; bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other special articles necessary for the wards; hospital furniture, including special articles and appliances for hospital kitchen and dining room; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the home, $72,000;
Transportation.Transportation: For transportation of members of the home, $1,200; Repairs.Repairs: For pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, painters, gas fitters, electrical workers, plumbers, tinsmiths, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; and repairs of roads*Proviso*.Restriction on new buildings. and other improvements of a permanent character, $54,000: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriation for repairs for any of the branch homes shall be used for the construction of any new building;
Farm.Farm: For pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers; tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; grain, and grain products, hay, straw, fertilizers, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; animals purchased for stock or work (including animals in the park); materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, park, and cemetery; and construction of roads and walks, and repairs not done by the home, $23,000;
In all, $566,200. Milwaukee, Wis.Current expenses.Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $140,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $58,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000;
Transportation.For transportation or members of the home, $800; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $34,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $9,000; In all, $331,800. Togus, Me.Current expenses.Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $44,000; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $ 112,500;
Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $70,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $38,000; Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $800; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $30,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $16,500;
In all, $311,800. 851 Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses,Hampton, Va.Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $46,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, $155,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, $63,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, $43,000;
For transportation of members of the home, $1,200; Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headRepairs. for the Central Branch, $44,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, $10,000; In all, $362,200. Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses,Leavenworth, Kans.Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $48,500; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, $187,000;
For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, $90,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum*Proviso*.Fuel oil restriction. shall be used for fuel oil if it shall appear to the board of managers that coal as a fuel can be procured and used more economically; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, $52,000; For transportation of members of the home, $2,000; Transportation.
For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headRepairs. for the Central Branch, $40,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, $17,000; In all, $436,500. Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For current expenses,Santa Monica, Cal.Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $46,500; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, $204,000;
For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, $55,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, $52,000; For transportation of members of the home, $2,500; Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headRepairs. for the Central Branch, $48,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, $12,000;
The appropriation of $16,000 made in the sundry civil appropriationEquipping dining all.*Ante*, p. 640. Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen for combination dining hall and kitchen is made available for the equipment of the building; In all, $420,000. Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For current expenses, includingMarlon, Ind.Current expenses. the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $42,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, $120,000;
For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, $47,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, $40,000; For transportation of members of the home, $800;Transportation. 852 Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $35,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $12,000;
In all, $296,800. Danville, Ill.Current expenses.Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $46,000; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $178,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $68,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $42,000;
Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $1,000; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $28,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $10,000; In all, $373,000. Johnson City, Tenn.Current expenses.Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $41,000; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $120,000;
Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $44,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $33,000; Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $2,500; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $28,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $18,000;
In all, $286,500. Hot Springs, S. Dak.Current expenses.Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $24,000; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $42,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $38,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $36,000;
Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $4,000; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $13,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $5,000; Steps to entrance.For the construction of permanent steps at the front entrance of the Battle Mountain Sanitarium grounds, $5,509.50; In all, $167,509.50. Clothing for all branches.Clothing for all branches:
For clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; also all sums expended for labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed, and for use in the tailor shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, $225,000. Board of managers.Salaries, etc.Board of managers: President, $4,000; secretary, $500; general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the board of managers $4,500; inspector general and chief surgeon, $4,000; assistant general853 treasurer and assistant inspector general, $3,000: assistant inspector general, $3,000; clerical services for the offices of the president, general treasurer, and inspector general and chief surgeon, $14,500; clerical services for managers, $2,700; for traveling expenses of the board of managers, their officers, and employees, including officers of branch homes when detailed on inspection work, $10,000; for outside relief, $500; for rent, legal services, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, $7,000; in all, $53,700.
In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $3,831,009.50. *Provided*, That no part of the foregoing appropriations shall be*Proviso*.Intoxicants. expended for any purpose at any branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers that maintains or permits to be maintained on its premises a bar, canteen, or other place where beer, wine, or other intoxicating liquors are sold. The following persons only shall hereafter be entitled to the benefitsBenefits extended to regulars and volunteers of other wars, etc. of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and may be admitted thereto upon the order of a member of the board of managers,[R.
S., sec. 4832, p. 937](/us/rs/s4832/p937). amended. namely: All honorably discharged officers, soldiers, and sailors who served in the regular or volunteer forces of the United States in any war in which the country has been engaged, including the Spanish-American War, the provisional army (authorized by ActVol. 30, p. 977. of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine), in any of the campaigns against hostile Indians, or who have served in the Philippines, in China, or in Alaska, who are disabled by disease, wounds, or otherwise, and who have no adequate means of support, and who are not otherwise provided for by law, and by reason of such disability are incapable of earning their living.
State or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: ForState or Territorial homes. continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved AugustVol. 25, p. 450. twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $1,100,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation*Provisos*.Intoxicants. shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold: *Provided further*, That for any sum or sums collected in any manner fromCollections from inmates. inmates of such State or Territorial homes to be used for the support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained. back pay and bounty.Back pay and bounty.
For payment of amounts for arrears of pay of two and three yearPayment of.Vol. 14, p. 322. volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for amounts for commutation of rationsCommutation of rations. to prisoners of war in States of the so-called Confederacy, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $50,000.
For payment of amounts for arrears of pay and allowances onWar with Spain, etc. account of service of officers and men of the Army during the War with Spain and in the Philippine Islands that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, $5,000. 854 Interior Department.DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR Public buildings.public buildings.
Repairs to Department buildings.Repairs of buildings, Interior Department: For repairs of Interior Department and Pension Buildings, and of the General Land Office Building, occupied by the Interior Department, including preservation and repair of steam-heating and electric-lighting plants and elevators, $40,000, of which sum not exceeding $7,500 may be expended for day labor, except for work done by contract. Capitol.Repairs, etc.*Post*, p. 1034.Capitol Building: For work at Capitol and for general repairs thereof, including flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Capitol and for Senate and House Office Buildings; flagstaffs, halyards, and tackle; wages of mechanics and laborers; purchase’ maintenance, and driving of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying office vehicle; and not exceeding $100 for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books and city directory, $30,000.
Pediment of House wing.Vol. 35, p. 63.For completing the pediment of the House wing of the Capitol, as authorized by the Act approved April sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, $60,000. Works of art.For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art in the Capitol, including repairs to frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $1,500. Improving grounds.Capitol Grounds: For the care and improvement of the grounds surrounding the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, pay of one clerk, mechanics, gardeners; fertilizers; repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways, $30,000.
Reconstructing sewerage, etc.To complete reconstructing the sewerage, drainage, and water-supply system within the Capitol Grounds, and resurfacing the plaza, and for other work adjacent thereto, $60,000, to be immediately available. Repairs to stables, etc.For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house, and Senate and House stables, and repairs to and paving of floors and courtyards of same, including personal services, $1,500; this and the four foregoing sums may, in the discretion of the Secretary of theRepairs to stables, etc.
Interior, be expended for purchases of articles without reference to section four of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, concerning purchases for executive departments. Resurfacing terraces.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 643.The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $83,500, made in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for resurfacing the terraces of the Capitol with waterproofing material and all work and materials incident thereto, is reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Enlarging grounds.Reappropriation for removing buildings, etc.Vol. 37, p. 924.*Ante*, p. 643.The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $35,000, made in the general deficiency appropriation Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for expenses of removal of the buildings or other structures upon the land acquired for the enlargement of the Capitol Grounds, for grading, seeding, and soiling, and preparation of plans for permanently improving the same, is reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Public lands.public lands service. Registers and receivers.Registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding $3,000 per annum each, $540,000. Contingent expenses.Per diem subsistence.*Ante*, p. 680.Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the exchange of typewriters; per diem, in lieu of subsistence, of clerks detailed to855 examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in the operation of said offices, and in the opening of new land offices and reservations, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act approved August first, nine-teen hundred and fourteen, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks, including necessary sleeping-car fares: *Provided*, That no expenses chargeable to the Government shall be*Proviso*.Expenditures restricted. incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, $340,000.
Purchases.Vol. 36, p. 531. Depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing moneyDepositing moneys. received from the disposal of public lands, by registered mail, bank exchange, or otherwise, as may be directed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under rules to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, $1,000. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlementTimber depredations, protecting, and swamp-land claims. of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity:
For protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting*Post*, p. 1034. public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, including not exceeding $15,000 for clerical services in bringing up and making current the work of the General Land Office, $475,000: *Provided*, That agents and others employed under this appropriation*Proviso*.Per diem subsistence*Ante*, p. 680. may be allowed per diem in lieu of subsistence, pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, at a rate not exceeding $3 each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, except when agents are employed in the District ofAlaska surveys.
Alaska they may be allowed not exceeding $5 per day each in lieu of subsistence. For the protection of lands involved in Oregon and California RailroadOregon and California Railroad lands.Protection, etc. forfeiture suit: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, with the cooperation of the Secretary of Agriculture or otherwise, as in his judgment may be most advisable, to establish and maintain a patrol to prevent trespass and to guard against and check fires upon the lands involved in the case of the United States versus Oregon and California Railroad Company and others, suit numbered thirty-three hundred and forty, in the district court for the District of Oregon, now pending on appeal in the Supreme Court of the United States, $25,000.
Hearings in land entries: For hearings or other proceedings heldHearings In land entries. by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine the character of lands; whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law; and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, $35,000: *Provided*, That where depositions*Proviso*.Fees for depositions. are taken for use in such hearings the fees of the officer taking them shall be 20 cents per folio for taking and certifying same and 10 cents per folio for each copy furnished to a party on request.
Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of theReproducing plats of surveys. General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, to furnish local land offices with the same, and for reproducing by photolithography original plats of surveys prepared in the offices of surveyors general, $5,000. Restoration of lands in forest reserves: To enable the Secretary ofNational forests.Advertising restoration of land, etc. the Interior to advertise the restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves or of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest reserve purposes, $15,000.
Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable): For expenses pertainingOpening Indian reservations to entry. to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reser856 vation lands as may be opened during the fiscal year nineteen hundred*Proviso.*Reimbursement. and sixteen: *Provided*, That the expenses pertaining to the opening of each of said reservations and paid for out of this appropriation shall be reimbursed to the United States from the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively, $15,000.
Surveying.surveying the public lands. Expenses.*Post*, p. 1034.For surveys and resurveys of public lands, under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the*Provisos*.Preferences. Secretary of the Interior, $700,000: *Provided*, That in expending this appropriation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied in whole or in part by actual settlers and of landsVol. 25, p. 616.Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222. granted to the States by the Act approved February twenty-second, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and to survey under such other Acts as provide for land grants to the several States and Territories, and such indemnity lands as the several States and Territories may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, except railroad land grants, and other surveys shall include lands adapted to agriculture and lands deemed advisable to survey on account of availability for irrigation or dry farming, lines of reservations, and lands within boundaries ofCompensation to surveyors. forest reservations.
The surveys and resurveys provided for in this appropriation to be made by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, at such compensation, not exceeding $200 per month each, as he may prescribe, except that the SecretarySupervisors of surveys. of the Interior may appoint not to exceed two supervisors of surveys, whose compensation shall not exceed $250 per month each, and except in the District of Alaska, where a compensation not exceeding $10Per diem subsistence.*Ante*, p. 680. per day may be allowed such surveyors and such per diem in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $3, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundredClerks, etc., investigating. and fourteen, and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, said per diem and traveling expenses to be allowed to all surveyors employed hereunder and to such clerks who are competent surveyors who may be detailed to make surveys, resurveys, or examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making, by such competent surveyors, fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the UnitedMonuments for section corners.
States: *Provided further*, That the sum of not exceeding ten per centum of the amount hereby appropriated may be expended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal or other equally durable monuments to be used for public-land survey corners wherever practicable:Work in arrears. *Provided further*, That not to exceed $25,000 of the above amount may be used to bring up the arrears of office work in surveyors generals’ offices upon returns of surveys filed therein prior to the passage of this Act.
Abandoned military reservations.Vol. 23, p. 103.Abandoned reservations: For necessary expenses of survey, appraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin ofCasa Grande. Casa Grande, $10,000. 857 united states geological survey.Geological Survey. Office of Director:
Director, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chief disbursingSalaries, Director, etc. clerk, $2,500; librarian, $2,000; photographer, $2 000; assistant photographers—one $900, one $720; clerks—one of class two, three of class one, one $1,000, four at $900 each; four copyists, at $720 each; watchmen—one $840, four at $720 each; janitor, $600; four messenger boys, at $480 each; in all, $35,340; Scientific assistants: Geologists—two at $4,000 each, one $3,000,Scientific assistants. one $2,700; two paleontologists, at $2,000 each; chemist, $3,000; geographers—one $2,700, one $2,500; two topographers, at $2,000 each; in all, $29,900;
General expenses: For every expenditure requisite for and incidentGeneral expenses.*Post*, p. 1034. to the authorized work of the Geological Survey, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the held, per diem in lieuPer diem subsistence.*Ante*, p. 680. of subsistence for employees engaged in field work or traveling on official business, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen; purchase for field use only of geologists, topographers, and engineers, of not exceeding four motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles at a total cost not exceeding $2,800, and notVehicles. exceeding twenty horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles at a total cost not exceeding $3,000, and maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles not exceeding $5,300; to be expended under the regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under the fol-lowing heads:
For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees,Skilled laborers. $20.000; For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States,Topographic surveys. $350,000; For geologic surveys in the various portions of the United States,Geologic surveys. $350,000; For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources ofAlaska mineral resources. Alaska, $100,000, to be immediately available; For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of theChemical and physical researches.
United States, including researches with a view of determining geological conditions favorable to the presence of deposits of potash salts, $40,000; For preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey,Illustrations. $18,280; For preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the UnitedMineral resources report. States, $75,000; For gauging streams and determining the water supply of theWater supply. United States, the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, $150,000;
For purchase of necessary books for the library, including directoriesLibrary. and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, $2,000; For engraving and printing geologic maps, $110,000; Maps. For continuation of topographic surveys of the public lands thatNational forests surveys. have been or may hereafter be designated as national forests, $75,000; In all, United States Geological Survey, $1,355,520. bureau of mines.Bureau of Mines. For general expenses, including pay of the director and necessaryGeneral expenses, salaries, etc.*Post*, p. 1034. assistants, clerks, and other employees in the office at Washington, District of Columbia, and in the field, and every other expense requisite for and incident to the general work of the bureau in Wash858 ington, District of Columbia, and in the field, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $70,000;
Investigating mine explosions, etc.For investigation as to the causes of mine explosions, methods of mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, the appliances best adapted to prevent accidents, the possible improvement of conditions under which mining operations are carried on, the use of explosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents, and other inquiries and technologic investigations pertinent to the mining industry, $347,000; Testing mineral fuels, etc.Economic use in departments.For investigation of mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products belonging to or for the use of the United States, with a view to their most efficient mining, preparation, treatment, and use, and to recommend to various departments such changes in selection and use of fuel as may result in greater economy, including personal services in the bureau at Washington, District of Columbia, not in excess of the number and total compensation of those so employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $135,000;
Inquiries of economic conditions, etc., of mining.For inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances, with a view to improving health conditions and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire*Proviso*.Restrictions. into the economic conditions affecting these industries: *Provided*, That no part thereof may be used for investigation in behalf of any private party, nor shall any part thereof be used for work authorized or required by law to be done and that is being done by any other branch of the public service, $100,000;
Allowance for personal services in District of Columbia.Not exceeding twenty per centum of the foregoing sum and not exceeding ten per centum of the sum for investigation as to causes of mine explosions may be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundredEstimates in detail to be submitted. and sixteen for personal services in the District of Columbia: and for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, and annually thereafter, estimates shall be submitted specifically for all personal services required permanently and entirely in the Bureau of Mines at Washington, District of Columbia, and previously paid from lump-sum or general appropriations;
Petroleum and natural gas investigations.For inquiries and investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of petroleum and natural gas, with a view to economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting the industry, $35,000; Mine rescue stations.Birmingham, Ala.For equipment and extension of mine rescue station at Birmingham, Alabama, $3,000; McAlester, Okla.For repairs to mine rescue Station at McAlester, Oklahoma, $500;
Pittsburgh, Pa.Equipping, etc., experimental station.Vol. 37, p. 886.Toward dismantling and removal of the plant of the Pittsburgh Mining Experiment Station and installation in the new buildings m Pittsburgh constructed under the authority contained in section twenty-six of the public buildings act, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, including the employment of necessary labor; machinery, appliances, materials and supplies, furniture and office equipment, cases for apparatus, shades, awnings, and all other articles made necessary by such removal to fully equip and furnish these new buildings for laboratory and office purposes, $57,300;
Mine inspector, Alaska.Per diem.For one mine inspector for duty in Alaska, $3,000; For per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence at a rate not exceeding $4 when absent on official business from his designated headquarters, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said inspector, $2,500; Clerk.For clerk to mine inspector of Alaska, $1,500; 859 For technical and scientific books and publications and books ofBooks, etc. reference, $1,500;
For purchase or lease of necessary land, where and under such conditionsHeadquarters for mine rescue cars. as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, for the head-quarters of mine rescue cars and construction of necessary railway sidings on the same, $1,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the*Proviso*.Acceptance of land. Interior is authorized to accept any suitable land or lands that may be donated for said purpose; Persons employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and six-teenTemporary details of field employees. in field work, outside of the District of Columbia, under the Bureau of Mines, may be detailed temporarily for service in Washington, District of Columbia, for purposes of preparing results of their field work; all persons so detailed shall be paid in addition to theirAllowances. regular compensation only their actual traveling expenses or per diem in lieu of subsistence in going to and returning therefrom: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Payment of necessary expenses, etc.
That nothing herein shall prevent the payment to employees of the Bureau of Mines their necessary expenses or per diem, in lieu of subsistence while on temporary detail in Washington, District of Columbia, for purposes only of consultation or investigations on behalf of the United States. All details made hereunder, and the purposes of each, during the preceding fiscal year, shall be reported in the annual estimates of appropriations to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof.
In all, Bureau of Mines, $757,300. reclamation service.Reclamation Service. The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund in theAppropriations from reclamation fund.Vol. 32, p. 388. Treasury of the United States created by the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-eight), and therein designated “the reclamation fund”: For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June seventeenth,All expenditures.*Ante*, p. 690. nineteen hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-eight), and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, known as the reclamation law, and all other Acts under which expenditures from said fund are authorized, including salaries in the city of Washington and elsewhere; rent of office quartersObjects designated.Rent, etc. in the city of Washington, $8,040, and for rent elsewhere; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; printing and binding; law books, books of reference, periodicals, engineering and statistical publications, not exceeding $600; purchase, maintenance, and operation of horse-drawn or motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; per diem in lieu of subsistence, when allowed, pursuant toPer diem subsistence.*Ante*, p. 630. section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen; payment of damagesPayment of damages. caused to the owners of lands or private property of any kind by reason of the operations of the United States, its officers or employees, in the survey, construction, operation, or maintenance of irrigation works, and which may be compromised by agreement between the claimant and the Secretary of the Interior; and compensationInjuries to artisans, etc.Vol. 35, p. 556. to artisans and laborers for injuries under the Act of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page fiveAllotments to projects. hundred and fifty-six), namely:
Salt River project, Arizona: For maintenance, operation, continuationSalt River, Ariz. of construction, and incidental operations, $590,000; Yuma project, Arizona-California: For maintenance, operation,Yuma, Ariz.-CaL continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $825,000; Orland project, California: For maintenance, operation, continuationOrland, Cat of construction, and incidental operations, $87,000; 860 Grand Valley, Colo.Grand Valley project, Colorado: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $702,000;
Uncompahgre, Colo.Uncompahgre project, Colorado: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $469,000; Boise, Idaho.Boise project, Idaho: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $1,650,000; Minidoka, Idaho.Minidoka project, Idaho: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $410,000; Jackson Lake, Idaho Wyo.Jackson Lake enlargement work, Idaho-Wyoming:
For maintenance, operation,Condition. continuation of construction, and incidental operations, conditioned upon the deposit of this amount by the Kuhn Irrigation and Canal Company and the Twin Falls Canal Company to the credit of the reclamation fund, $476,000; Garden City, Kans.Garden City project, Kansas: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $2,000; Huntley, Mont.Huntley project, Montana; For maintenance, operations, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $150,000;
Milk River, Mont.Milk River project, Montana: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $1,100,000; Sun River, Mont.Sun River project, Montana: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $1,100,000; Lower Yellowstone, Mont.-N. Dak.Lower Yellowstone project, Montana-North Dakota: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $70,000; North Platte, Nebr.-Wyo.North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming:
For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations (including $800,000 for the Fort Laramie unit), $1,140,000; Truckee-Carson, Nev.Truckee-Carson project, Nevada: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $236,000; Carlsbad, N. Mex.Carlsbad project, New Mexico: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $128,000; Hondo, N. Mex.Hondo project, New Mexico: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $6,000;
Rio Grande, N. Mex. -Tex.Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $1,265,000; North Dakota pumping project.North Dakota pumping project, North Dakota: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction and incidental operations, $25,000; Lawton, Okla.Lawton project, Oklahoma: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $50,000; Umatilla, Oreg.Umatilla project, Oregon:
For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $366,000; Klamath, Oreg.-Cal.Klamath project, Oregon-California: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $317,000; Belle Fourche, S. Dak.Belle Fourche project, South Dakota: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $144,000; Strawberry Valley, Utah.Strawberry Valley project, Utah: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $393,000;
Okanogan, Wash.Okanogan project, Washington: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $51,000; Yakima, Wash.Yakima project, Washington: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $1,250,000; Shoshone, Wyo.Shoshone project, Wyoming: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $478,000; Secondary projects.Secondary projects: For surveys and investigations of secondary projects, $50,000;
In all, for the Reclamation Service, $13,530,000. Expenditures restricted to allotments, etc.Under the provisions of this Act no greater sum shall be expended, nor shall the United States be obligated to expend, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, on any reclamation project appro861 priated for herein an amount in excess of the sum herein appropriated therefor, nor shall the whole expenditures or obligations incurred for all of such projects for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen exceed the whole amount in the “reclamation fund” for that fiscal year.
Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeablyInterchangeable amounts. for expenditure on the reclamation projects named; but not more than ten per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said projects. No work shall be undertaken or expenditure made for any lands,Limitation on increased construction costs. for which the construction charge has been fixed by public notice, which work or expenditure shall, in the opinion of the Secretary of the Interior, increase the construction cost above the construction charge so fixed; unless and until valid and binding agreement to repay the cost thereof shall have been entered into between the Secretary of the Interior and the water right applicants and entrymen affected by such increased cost, as provided by section four of the Act of August thirteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act extending the period of payment under reclamation projects, and for other purposes.” protection of lands and property in the imperial valley,Exception.Agreements with entry men, etc.*Ante*, p. 687. california.
For protecting lands and property in the Imperial Valley andImperial Valley, Cal. elsewhere along the Colorado River, within the limits of the United States, against injury or destruction by reason of the changes in the channels of the Colorado River, and the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to expend any portion of such money within the limits of the Republic of Mexico as he may deem proper in accordance with such agreements for the purpose as may be made with the Republic of Mexico, $ 100,000, which sum shall be available forProtecting lands, etc., in, on Colorado River. expenditure as soon as there shall have been paid into the Treasury, by contributions from the Imperial Valley irrigation district, an equivalent amount to the credit of the Secretary of the Interior to constitute with the amount hereby appropriated the total sum of $200,000, to be expended by him for the purposes herein described. testimony in disbarment proceedings.Available when local contributions paid in.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to take testimony, andMiscellaneous. prepare the same, in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the department, its bureaus and offices, $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. alaska, expenses in.Disbarment proceedings. Alaska Engineering Commission: For carrying out the provisionsAlaska expenses.Alaska Engineering Commission.Constructing, etc., railroads.*Ante*, p. 365. of the Act approved March twelfth, nineteen hundred and fourteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page three hundred and five), entitled “An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,” to continue available until expended, $2,000,000.
Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legally adjudgedCare of insane. insane in Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, $70,000. Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, inEducation. his discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; erection, repair, and rental of school buildings; textbooks and industrial apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses862 of general agent, assistant agent, superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, $200,000; so much of which sum as may be necessary for the purchase*Provisos*.Limit of pay, etc. of supplies shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That no person employed hereunder as special agent or inspector or to perform any special or unusual duty in connection herewith, shall receive as compensation exceeding $200 per month, in addition to actual traveling expenses and per diem not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence, when absent on duty from his designated and actual postServices in District of Columbia. of duty: *Provided*, That of said sum not exceeding $7,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Supervision of school expenditures.All expenditures of money appropriated herein for school purposes in Alaska for schools other than those for the education of white children under the jurisdiction of the governor thereof shall be under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Education and in conformity with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to con-duct and methods of instruction and expenditure of money as may from time to time be recommended by him and approved by the Secretary of the Interior.
Medical and sanitary relief of natives.Medical relief in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, with the advice and cooperation of the Public Health Service, to provide for the medical and sanitary relief of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; erection, purchase, repair, rental, and equipment of hospital buildings; books and surgical apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of physicians, nurses, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, to be immediately available, $25,000.
Reindeer.Reindeer for Alaska: For support of reindeer stations in Alaska and instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of reindeer, $5,000, so much of which sum as may be necessary for the purchase of supplies shall be immediately available. Protection of came.Vol. 35, p. 102.Protection of game in Alaska: For carrying out the Act approved May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act for the protection of game in Alaska, and for other purposes,” including salaries, traveling expenses of game wardens, and all other necessary expenses, $20,000, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska.
Suppressing liquor traffic.Traffic in intoxicating liquors: For suppression of the traffic in intoxicating liquors among the natives of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $15,000. National parks.national parks. Yellowstone.Yellowstone National Park: For administration and protection, including not exceeding $300 for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for use of the superintendent in making inspections of the park, $5,500.
Care of buffalo.For procuring feed for buffalo and salaries of buffalo keepers, $3,000. Glacier.*Ante*, p. 648.Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration and improvement, construction of roads, trails, bridges, and telephone lines and the repair thereof, including necessary repairs to the road from the old town of Saint Marys; through that part of the Blackfeet Indian Reservation east of lower Saint Marys Lake to a point in or near section thirty-five, township thirty-six north, range fifteen west, on the boundary line between the Glacier National Park and the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, authorized by the sundry civil Act of AugustRoads authorized. first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $75,000.
Also the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to spend out of the appropriation herein863 authorized for the repair of the road known as the Two Medicine Road, from the main automobile road to the boundary line between the Glacier National Park and the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, within the Blackfeet Indian Reservation, $1,000; and also, $1,000 for the repair of the Cut Bank Road, from the main automobile road to the boundary line between the Glacier National Park and the Black-feet Indian Reservation, within the Blackfeet Indian Reservation.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept patented lands orAcceptance of lands, etc. rights of way over patented lands in the Glacier National Park that may be donated for park purposes. The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to expend from theImproving bridge.*Ante*, p. 649. appropriation for the administration and improvement of the Glacier National Park, provided for in the sundry civil Act of August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, the sum of $600, or so much thereof as may be necessary, in the improvement of the wooden bridge leading across the Middle Fork of the Flathead River, and connecting the Belton Road with the road into the park.
Yosemite National Park, California: For protection and improvement,Yosemite. construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads other than toll roads, including not exceeding $2,700 for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for use of the superintendent, supervisor, resident engineer, and employees in connection with general park work; the SecretaryAcceptance of lands, etc. of the Interior is authorized to accept patented lands or rights of way whether over patented or other lands in the Yosemite National Park that may be donated for park purposes, $75,000.
Sequoia National Park, California: For protection and improvement,Sequoia. construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, improvement of roads other than toll roads, including the purchase of necessary land where and under such conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, for ranger station at a cost not exceeding $500;Acceptance of lands, etc. the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept patented lands or rights of way whether over patented or other lands in the Sequoia National Park that may be donated for park purposes, $ 15,550.
General Grant National Park, California: For protection andGeneral Grant. improvement, construction of fences and trails, and repairing and extension of roads, $2,000. Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For protection andMount Rainier. improvement, construction of roads, bridges, fences, and trails, and improvements of roads, $30,000. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For protection and improvement,Mesa Verde, Colo. including not exceeding $456 for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle for use of the superintendent and employees, $10,000.
Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For protection andRocky Mountain, Colo. improvement, $8,000. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For protection and improvement,Crater Lake, Oreg. and repairing and extension of roads, $8,000. Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For improvement andWind Cave, S. Dak. protection, $2,500. Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For maintenance, bridging, roads,Platt, Okla. and trails, $8,000. government hospital for the insane.Government Hospital for Insane.
For support, clothing, and treatment in the Government HospitalMaintenance, etc. for the Insane of the insane from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Revenue-Cutter Service, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military and naval service864 of the United States who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, including exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $285,250; and not exceeding $1,500 of this sum may be expended in the removal of patients to their friends, not exceeding $1,000 in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required or the purposes of the hospital and for the medical library, and not exceeding $1,500 for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients.
Buildings and grounds.For the buildings and grounds, as follows: For general repairs and improvements, $55,000. For roadways, grading, and walks, $5,000. Columbia Institution for the Deaf.columbia institution for the deaf. Support, etc.For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, $70,000. For repairs to buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, $6,000.
Howard University.howard university. Maintenance, etc.For maintenance, to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, ice and stationery, the balance of which shall be paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than $1,500 shall be used for normal instruction, $65,000; For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the department of manual arts, $12,000;
For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures for the libraries, $1,500; For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, to be immediately available, $10,000; Medical department.Medical department: For part cost of needed equipment, laboratory supplies, apparatus, and repair of laboratories and buildings, $7,000; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, and natural history studies and use in laboratories of the new science hall, including cases and shelving, $2,000;
Fuel and light.For fuel and light: For part payment for fuel and light, Freedmen’s Hospital and Howard University, including necessary labor to care for and operate the same, $3,500; In all, $101,000. Freedmen’s Hospital.freedmen’s hospital. Salaries, etc.For salaries and compensation of the surgeon in chief, not to exceed $3,000, and for all other professional and other services that may be required and expressly approved by the Secretary of the Interior; in all, $32,640. A detailed statement of the expenditure of this sum shall be submitted to Congress;
Subsistence.*Post*, p. 1084.For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, motor-propelled ambulance, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $28,000; In all, $60,640. Department of Justice.DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Public buildings.public buildings. Courthouse, D. C.Courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia: For construction work at the courthouse and repairs thereof, as per estimate of the Superintendent of the Capitol, one-half to be paid out of the Treasury865 of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, $5,000.
Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For continuing construction,Leavenworth, Kans.Penitentiary. $100,000, to remain available until expended, all of which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary. Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For continuing construction,Atlanta, Ga.Penitentiary. $75,000, to remain available until expended, all of which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary.
Appropriations in this Act under the Department of Justice shallNew buildings forbidden. not be used for beginning the construction of any new or additional building at any Federal penitentiary. miscellaneous objects, department of justice.Miscellaneous. Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General, $8,000;Conduct of customs cases.Assistant Attorney General, attorneys, etc.Vol. 36, p. 108. assistant attorney, $3,000; special attorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs cases, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General, as authorized by section thirty of the Act of August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, $36,000; necessary clerical assistance and other employees at the seat of government and elsewhere, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General; supplies, printing, traveling, and otherSupplies. miscellaneous and incidental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $26,000; in all, $73,000.
For traveling expenses, fees, and mileage allowance of witnessesWitnesses, Board of General Appraisers. Before the Board of United States General Appraisers, $3,000. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For necessaryDefending suits in Claims. expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and such other expenses as may be necessary in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including not exceeding $500 for law books, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $17,000.
Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and expenses inDefense in Indian depredation claims. defense of the Indian depredation claims, including not exceeding $6,000 for salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $13,000. Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecutionDetection and prosecution of crimes. of crimes against the United States; the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks, and referees of the United States courts and the Territorial courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time; for the protection of the person of the President of the United States; forProtecting the President. such other investigations regarding official matters under the control of the Department of Justice as may be directed by the Attorney General, per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant toPer diem subsistence.*Ante*, p. 680. section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and including not to exceed $18,500 for necessary employees at the seat of government, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $485,000.
Inspection of prisons and prisoners: For the inspection of UnitedInspection of prisons, etc. States prisons and prisoners, and for the collection, classification, and preservation of criminal identification records, and their exchange with the officials of State and other institutions, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $10,000. 866 Traveling etc., expenses.Advances permitted.Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, including advances made by the disbursing clerk, authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of the first paragraph[R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). of section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, $7,500. Enforcing antitrust laws.*Ante*, p. 730.Enforcement of antitrust laws: For the enforcement of antitrust laws, including not exceeding $15,000 for salaries of necessary employees at the seat of government, $300,000: *Provided, however*, That*Provisos*.Use for prosecuting labor organizations, etc., forbidden. on part of this money shall be spent in the prosecution of any organization or individual for entering into any combination or agreement having in view the increasing of wages, shortening of hours or bettering the conditions of labor, or for any act done in furtherance thereof, not inAssociations of farmers, etc. itself unlawful: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the prosecution of producers of farm products and associations of farmers who cooperate and organize in an effort to and for the purpose to obtain and maintain a fair and reasonable price for their products.
Conveyances, Five Civilized Tribes.Expenses of suits to set aside allotments.Suits to set aside conveyances of allotted lands for removal of restrictions, allotted lands, Five Civilized Tribes: For necessary expenses incident to any suits brought at the request of the Secretary of the Interior in the eastern judicial district of Oklahoma, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, the unexpendedReappropriation.*Ante*, p. 53. balance of the appropriations heretofore made for this purpose is re appropriated and continued available for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Enforcing interstate commerce laws.Vol. 24, p. 379; Vol. 36, p. 539; Vol. 37, p. 701.Enforcement of Acts to regulate commerce: For expenses of representing the Government in all matters arising under the Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended, including traveling expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, including salaries of employees at Washington, $10,000. Seminole allotments.Expenses of suits affecting.Suits affecting title to Seminole allotted lands in Oklahoma:
For necessary expenses incident to any suits brought, including the salaries of attorneys specially employed to set aside illegal conveyances of Seminole allotments, to protect the possession of Seminole allottees in their allotted lands, or in the prosecution of any criminal proceedings based on frauds perpetrated upon Seminole allottees with respect to their allotted lands, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $7,500. Federal Court Reports and Digest.Federal Court Reports and Digests:
For one hundred and eighty copies of continuations of the Federal Reporter, as issued, estimated at ten volumes per year, to continue sets now furnished various officials, at $2 per volume, $3,600. Lawyers’ Cooperative Edition.Volume 59.For fifteen copies of volume fifty-nine of the Lawyers’ Cooperative Edition of the United States Reports, to continue sets now in the hands of certain officers, at $6 per volume, $90. Supreme Court Reports.Purchase of.For two hundred and seventy copies of each of five volumes—namely, two hundred and thirty-six to two hundred and forty of the United States Reports—to continue sets now in the hands of certain officials, at $1.75 per volume, $2,362.50.
Pacific railroads suits.Expenses.Protecting interests of the United States in suits affecting Pacific railroads: To enable the Attorney General to represent and protect the interests of the United States in matters and suits affecting the Pacific railroads, and for expenses in connection therewith, $65,000.867 JUDICIAL.Judicial. To pay the widow of Horace H. Lurton, late a justice of the Supreme Court of theJustice Horace H. Lurton.Pay to widow. United States, $14,500. united states courts.United States courts.
For payment of salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshalsMarshals.Salaries and expenses. and their deputies, including the office expenses of United States marshals in the District of Alaska, payment for services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, services in Alaska and Oklahoma in collecting evidence for the United States when so specially directed by the Attorney General, and maintenance, repair, and operation of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles used in connection with the transaction of the official business of the office of United States marshal for the District of Columbia, $1,530,000.
Advances to United States marshals, in accordance with existingAdvances. law, may be made from the proper appropriations, as herein provided, immediately upon the passage of this Act; but no disbursementsRestriction. shall be made prior to July first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, by said disbursing officers from the funds thus advanced, and no disbursements shall be made therefrom to liquidate expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen or prior years. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses ofDistrict attorneys.Salaries and expenses.
United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and for payment of salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the officeServices during vacancies. of the United States district attorney, $615,000. For fees of United States district attorney for the District of Columbia,District of Columbia.Fees, district attorney. $28,940.
For regular assistants to United States district attorneys who areRegular assistants. appointed by the Attorney General at a fixed annual compensation $350,000. For assistants to the Attorney General and to United States districtAssistants in special cases. attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, and for payment of foreign counsel employed by the AttorneyForeign counsel. General in special cases (such counsel shall not be required to takeOath.[R. S., sec. 366, p. 62](/us/rs/s366/p62). oath of office in accordance with section three hundred and sixty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States), $200,000.
For fees of clerks, $240,000. Clerks’ fees. For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peaceCommissioners, etc., fees. acting under section one thousand and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, $120,000. For fees of jurors, $1,125,000. Jurors’ fees. 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, $1,100,000.
For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers,Rent of court rooms. $64,000. For bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier inBailiffs, etc. each court, except in the southern district of New York and the northern district of Illinois: *Provided*, That all persons employed*Provisos*.Actual attendance.[R. S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/s715/p136). under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the order of the courts: *Provided further*, That no such persons shall be employed during vacation; expenses of circuit and district judges ofTravel, etc., expenses of judges.Vol. 36, p. 1161. the United States and the judges of the district courts of the United States in Alaska and Hawaii, as provided by section two hundred and fifty-nine of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and amend the laws868Jury expenses. relating to the judiciary”; meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, whenIn Alaska.Vol. 31, p. 363. ordered by the court, and meals and lodging for jurors in Alaska, as provided by section one hundred and ninety-three, Title II, of theJury commissioners.
Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred; and compensation for jury commissioners, $5 per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, $275,000. Miscellaneous expenses.For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, including so much as may be necesseary in the discretion of theAlaska. Attorney General for such expenses in the District of Alaska, $550,000. Supplies.For supplies, including exchange of typewriting and adding machines for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $35,000.
Support of prisoners.For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, discharge gratuities provided by law and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States or such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General, support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, and who continue insane after expiration of sentence who have no friends to whom they can be sent; shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their friends or relatives in the United States and interment of deceased prisoners whose remains are unclaimed; care and treatment of guards employed by the United States who may be injured by prisoners while said guards are endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppress mutiny; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and for rewards for their recapture, and not exceeding $2,500 for repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, $500,000.
Penitentiaries.Leavenworth, Kans.Subsistence.Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including supplies from the prison stores for warden, deputy warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining-room furniture and utensils, seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, $70,000; Clothing, transportation, etc.For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including materials for making clothing at the penitentiary; gratuities for prisoners at release, provided such gratuities shall be furnished to prisoners sentenced for terms of imprisonment of not less than six months, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, or to such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; expenses of shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their homes in the United States; expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on official duty; expenses incurred in pursuing and identifying escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, $25,000.
Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney General, fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, fuel for generating steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and lime; forage for issue to public animals, and hay and straw for bedding; not exceeding $125 for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; labor and materials for repairing steam-heating plant, electric plant and water circulation, and drainage; labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings; general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds; purchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness,869 veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; advertising in newspapers; fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental conditions of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; pay of extra guards or employees when deemed necessary by the Attorney General, and for expense of care and medical treatment of guards or employees who may be injured while endeavoring to prevent escapes or suppress mutiny, $50,000;
For hospital supplies, medicines, medical and surgical supplies,Hospital supplies. and all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners on the penitentiary reservation, $4,000; For salaries: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains—oneSalaries. $1,500, one $600; physician, $1,600; pharmacist, and physician’s assistant, $1,000; chief clerk, $1,800; stenographer, $900; four clerks, at $900 each; head cook, $1,000; steward and storekeeper, $1,200; superintendent of farm and transportation, $900; three captains of watch, at $1,000 each; guards, at $70 per month each, $52,080; two teamsters, at $600 each; engineer and electrician, $1,500; two assistants, at $1,200 each; in all, $80,280;
For foremen, laundrymen, tailor, and printer, when necessary, $3,300; In all, Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary, $232,580. For the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen and thereafter theConvicts, District of Columbia,Charges for custody, etc., in Federal penitentiaries. cost of the care and custody of District of Columbia convicts in any Federal penitentiary shall be charged against the District of Columbia in quarterly accounts to be rendered by the disbursing officer of said penitentiary; and the amount to be charged against the District of Columbia shall be ascertained by multiplying the average daily number of District of Columbia convicts confined in the penitentiary during the quarter by the per capita cost for all prisoners in such penitentiary for the same quarter but excluding expenses of construction or extraordinary repair of buildings.
Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the sameAtlanta, Ga.Subsistence. objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $40,000; For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including theClothing, transportation, etc. same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leaven-worth, Kansas, $20,000; For miscellaneous expenditures, in the discretion of the AttorneyMiscellaneous. General, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and not exceeding $150 for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $35,000;
For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified underHospital supplies. this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $2,100; For salaries: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains—oneSalaries. $1,500, one $1,200; chief clerk, $1,800; physician, $1,600; book-keeper and record clerk, $1,200; stenographer, $900; six clerks, at $900 each; engineer and electrician, $1,500; two assistants, at $1,200 each; steward and storekeeper, $1,200; superintendent of farm and transportation, $1,200; two teamsters, at $600 each; head cook, $1,000; three captains of watch, at $1,000 each; guards, at $70 per month each, $43,000; in all, $74,100;
For foremen, tailor, blacksmith, shoemaker, laundryman, and carpenter, when necessary, $4,000. In all, Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary, $175,200. McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For subsistence, includingMcNeil Island, Wash.Subsistence. the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and for supplies for guards, $13,000; 870 Clothing, transportation, etc.For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leaven-worth, Kansas, $7,000;
Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $10,000; Hospital supplies.For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $1,000; Salaries.For salaries: For warden, $2,000; deputy warden, $1,200; physician, $1,200; chief clerk and bookkeeper, $1,000; steward and cook, $1,000; superintendent of boats, $1,200; guards, at $70 per month each, $10,500; in all, $18,100;
In all, McNeil Island (Washington) Penitentiary, $49,100. National Training School for Boys, District of Columbia.Salaries.National Training School for Boys: Superintendent, $2,500; assistant superintendent, $1,500; teachers and assistant teachers, $9,120; chief clerk, $1,000; storekeeper and steward, matron of school, farmer, baker, tailor, and nurse, at $600 each; parole officer, $900; office clerk, $720; assistant office clerk, $480; six matrons of families, at $240 each; foremen of, and skilled helpers in industries, $3,800: assistant farmer and assistant engineer, at $420 each; teamster and laundress, at $360 each; florist, engineer, and shoemaker, at $540 each; cook, $480; dining-room attendant, boys’, $300; dining-room attendant, officers’, $240; housemaid, $216; seamstress, $240: assistant cook, $300; watchmen, not to exceed eight in number, $3,360; secretary and treasurer, $900; in all, $34,276;
Maintenance, etc.For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dry goods, leather, shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, furniture, tableware, farm implements, seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers; books and periodicals, printing, and entertainments, stationery, plumbing, painting, glazing, medicines and medical attendance, stock, maintenance, repair and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, fencing, repairs to buildings, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding $1,500, for additional labor or services, for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates, for rewards for their recapture, and not exceeding $500 for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, $10,500.
Repairs, etc.For extraordinary repairs to buildings, fences, roadways, and drainage, and for purchase of equipment, $1,500; For furniture and gymnasium equipment for new school building, to be immediately available, $3,000; In all, National Training School for Boys, $49,276. Department of Commerce.DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. Lighthouse Service.lighthouse service. General expenses.Specified objects.General expenses: For supplies, repairs, maintenance, and incidental expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoyage, fog signals, lighting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted, light vessels, other aids to navigation, and lighthouse tenders, including the establishment, repair, and improvement of beacons and day marks and purchase of land for same, the establishment of post lights, buoys, submarine signals, and fog signals, the establishment of oil or carbide*Proviso*.Limit for oil and Carbide houses, buildings, etc. houses, not to exceed $10,000: *Provided*, That any oil or carbide house erected hereunder shall not exceed $550 in cost; construction of necessary outbuildings at a cost not exceeding $200 at any one light station in any fiscal year, the improvements of grounds and buildings connected with light stations and depots, wages of laborers attending post lights, pay of temporary employees and field force while engaged on works of general repair and maintenance, and pay of laborers and871 mechanics at lighthouse depots; rations and provisions or commutationRations, etc. thereof for keepers of lighthouses, officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials and other authorized persons of the Lighthouse Service on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, and money accruing from commutation for rations and provisions for the above-named persons on board of tenders and light vessels may be paid on proper vouchers to the person having charge of the mess of such vessels, reimbursement under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce of keepers of light stations and masters of light vessels and of lighthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothing furnished shipwrecked persons who may be temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all $5,000 in any fiscal year, fuel and rent of quarters where necessary for keepers of lighthouses, the purchase of land sitesPurchase of lands, etc. for fog signals, the rent of necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or to mark changeable channels and which in consequence can not be made permanent, the rent of offices, depots, and wharves, traveling expenses, including per diem in lieuPer diem subsistence.*Ante*, p. 680. of subsistence allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and four-teen, mileage, library books for fight stations and vessels, and technical books and periodicals not exceeding S$1,000, and for all otherContingent expenses.*Post*, p. 1045. contingent expenses of district offices and depots and for contingent expenses of the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses in Washington, $2,775,000.
Keepers of lighthouses: For salaries of not exceeding one thousandKeepers. eight hundred lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights exclusive of post lights, $940,000. Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crews ofLighthouse vessels. light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $1,010,000. Inspectors, clerks, and so forth: For salaries of seventeen lighthouseInspectors, clerks, etc. inspectors, and of clerks and other authorized permanent employees in the district offices and depots of the Lighthouse Service, exclusive of those regularly employed in the Bureau of Lighthouses, Washington, District of Columbia, $375,000. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey.
For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work ofExpenses. the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including maintenance, repair, or operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn vehicles for use in field work, and including compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, and commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate not exceeding $2.50 per day each, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey from time to time prescritted by the Secretary of Commerce, and under the following heads: *Provided*, That advances of money under this appropriation*Proviso*.Advances. may be made to the Coast and Geodetic Survey and by authority of the superintendent thereof to chiefs of parties, who shall give bond under such rules and regulations and in such sum as the Secretary of Commerce may direct, and accounts arising under such advances shall be rendered through and by the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the Treasury Department as under advances heretofore made to chiefs of parties.
Field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the AtlanticField expenses.Atlantic and Gulf coasts.*Proviso*.Islands, etc., restrictions. and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States: *Provided*, That not more than $25,000 of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of said outlying islands, and the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal, $65,000; 872 Pacific coasts.For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts on the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, including $50,000 to be immediately available, $200,000;
Physical hydrography.For continuing researches in physical hydrography, relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, $6,400; Offshore soundings, Coast Pilot, etc.For offshore soundings and examination of reported dangers on the coasts of the United States, and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, and to continue the compilation of the Coast Pilot, and to make special hydrographic examinations, and including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, $15,000;
Magnetic observations, etc.For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States, and for making magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States, including the purchase of additional magnetic instruments, and the lease of sites where necessary and the erection of temporary magnetic buildings; for continuing the linePoints to State surveys. of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; for furnishing points to State surveys, to be applied as far as practicable in States where points have not been furnished; for the determinations of geographical positions, and for continuing gravity observations, $56,000;
Special surveys.For any special surveys that may be required by the Bureau of Lighthouses or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, $10,000; Miscellaneous.For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, including the preparation or purchase of preliminary plans and specifications of vessels; actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the superintendent, and not exceeding $550 for theInternational Geodetic Association. expenses of the attendance of the American delegates at the meetings of the International Geodetic Association, $3,000;
In all, field expenses, $355,400. Vessels, repairs, etc.Vessels: For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, including traveling expenses of the person inspecting the repairs, but excluding engineer’s supplies and other ship chandlery, $40,000. Pay of officers and Crews.For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels, including professional seamen serving as mates on vessels of the survey, to execute the work of the survey herein provided for and authorized by law, $252,200.
Salaries.Superintendent, assistants, etc.Salaries: Superintendent, $6,000; assistants, to be employed in the field or office, as the superintendent may direct, one of whom may be designated by the Secretary of Commerce to act as assistant superintendent—two at $4,000 each, one $3,200, five at $3,000 each, five at $2,500 each, seven at $2,400 each, eight at $2,200 each, eight at $2,000 each, eight at $1,800 each, eight at $1,600 each, eight at $1,400 each, ten at $1,200 each; aids—six at $1,100 each, eighteen at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; in all, $174,600.
Office force.Clerks etc.Office force: Disbursing agent, $2,500; chief of division of library and archives, $1,800; clerks—three at $1,800 each, three at $1,650 each, four at $1,400 each, eight at $1,200 each, five at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each, six at $720 each; Draftsmen.Topographic and hydrographic draftsmen: Two at $2,400 each, three at $2,200 each, three at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each;
Computers.Astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers: One $2,500, one $2,200, two at $2,100 each, three at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, four at $1,400 each, five at $1,200 each; 873 Copperplate engravers: One $2,400, two at $2,200 each, three atEngravers. $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; Engravers and apprentices at not exceeding $1,000 each, $3,600; Instrument makers: Ono $2,400, one $1,600, two at $1,400 each,Instrument makers, etc. one $1,200, three at $1,000 each;
Carpenters: Three at $1,200 each, carpenter and painter $900; Electrotypers and photographers, lithographers, plate printers andElectrotypers, etc. their helpers, engineer, and other skilled laborers: One $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,700, one $1,600, one $1,400, eight at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, two at $900 each, five at $700 each;. Watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers: Three at $880 each,Watchmen, etc. four at $820 each, three at $720 each, four at $700 each, two at $640 each, three at $630 each, four at $550 each;
In all, pay of office force, $204,420. Office expenses: For purchase of new instruments, including theirOffice expenses.*Post*, p. 1045. exchange, materials and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, books, scientific and technical books, journals, books of reference, maps, charts, and subscriptions; copperplates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photo-graphing, and electrotyping supplies; photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use, stationery for office and field parties, transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses, office wagon and horses; heating, lighting, and power, telephones, including operation of switchboard, telegrams, ice, and washing, office furniture, repairs, traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office, miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, and not exceeding for extra labor, $3,400; in all, $50,000.
For two new vessels, including their equipment, $289,000. New vessels. Appropriations herein for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall notAllowances restricted. be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the superintendent), except as now provided by law. bureau of fisheries.Bureau of Fisheries. Commissioner’s office:
Commissioner, $6,000; deputy commissioner,Commissioner, deputy, etc. $3,500; assistants in charge of divisions—fish culture $2,700, inquiry respecting food fishes $2,700, statistics and methods of fisheries $2,500; assistants—one in charge of office, $2,500, one $2,500, one $1,800, one $1,600, two at $1,200 each, two at $900 each; fish pathologist (to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce), $2,500; architect and engineer, $2,200; assistant architect, $1,600; drafts-man, $1,200; accountant, $2,100; librarian, $1,500; superintendent of car and messenger service, $1,600; clerks—three of class four, fourClerks, etc. of class three, one to commissioner $1,600, four of class two, six of class one, three at $1,000 each, fifteen at $900 each; statistical agents—one $1,400, two at $1,000 each; local agents—one at Boston $300, one at Gloucester $600, one at Seattle $600; engineer, $1,080; three firemen at $720 each; two watchmen at $720 each; five janitors and messengers at $720 each; janitress $480; messenger boy, $360; four charwomen at $240 each; in all, $100,380.
Alaska service: Pribilof Islands—two agents and caretakers, atAlaska service.Agents, physicians, etc. $2,000 each; two physicians, at $1,500 each; three school-teachers, at $1,200 each; storekeeper, $1,800; agent, $2,500; assistant agents—one $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,500; inspector, $1,800; wardens—one $1,200, six at $900 each; in all, $28,600. 874 Employees at large.Employees at large: Two field station superintendents, at $ 1,800 each; fish-culturists—two at $960 each, two at $900 each; six machinists, at $960 each; two coxswains, at $720 each; in all, $14,520.
Distribution employees.Distribution (car employees): Five captains, at $1,200 each; six messengers, at $1,000 each; five assistant messengers, at $900 each; five laborers, at $720 each; five cooks, at $600 each; in all, $23,100. Station employees.Afognak, Alaska.Afognak (Alaska) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; two skilled laborers, at $960 each; three laborers, at $900 each; cook, $900; in all, $8,220. Alpena, Mich.Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; in alt, $2,100.
Baird and Battle Creek. Cal.Baird (California) and Battle Creek (California) Stations: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,080; foreman, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $5,280. Baker Lake, Wash.Baker Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Beaufort, N. C.Beaufort (North Carolina) Biological Station: Superintendent and director, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all $3,600.
Boothbay Harbor, Me.Boothbay Harbor (Marne) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; engineer, $1,100; skilled laborer, $780; three firemen, at $600 each; custodian of lobster pounds, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $8,000. Bozeman, Mont.Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Bryans Point, Md.Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, $360. Cape Vincent, N. Y.Cape Vincent (New York) Station:
Superintendent, $1,500; skilled laborer, $720; fireman, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,140. Clackamas, Oreg.Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishcultur-ist, $900; three skilled laborers, at $720 each; two laborers, at $600 each: in all, $5,760. Cold Springs, Ga.Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishcul-turist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Craig Brook, Me.Craig Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, 8900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200.
Duluth, Minn.Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $900; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Edenton, N. C.Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Erwin, Tenn.Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Fairport, Iowa.Fairport
(Iowa)Biological Station: Director, $1,800; superintendent of fish culture, $1,500; scientific assistants—one $1,400, one $1,200; foreman, $1,200; shell expert, $1,200; engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at $600 each; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $11,700. Gloucester, Mass.Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; fireman, $720; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,920. Green Lake, Me.Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $900; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Homer, Minn.Homer (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; scientific assistants—one $ 1,400, one $ 1,200; foreman, $1,200; engineer, $ 1,000; two firemen, at $600 each; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $8,700. Leadville, Colo.Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; two fish-culturists, at $900 each; skilled laborer, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; cook, $480; in all, $6,900. Louisville, Ky.Louisville (Kentucky) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each: in all, $3,600. Mammoth Spring, Ark.Mammoth Spring (Arkansas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. 875 Manchester
(Iowa)Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Manchester, Iowa. $900; three laborers, at S600 each; in all, $4,200. Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Nashua, N. H. $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $900;Neosho, Mo. skilled laborer, $720; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,320. Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman,Northville, Mich. $960; fish-culturist, $900; four laborers, at $600 each; in all, $5,760. Orangeburg (South Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Orangeburg, S. C. $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Puget Sound (Washington) Stations: Three foremen, at $1,200Puget Sound, Wash. each; nine laborers, at $600 each; in all, $9,000. Put in Bay
(Ohio)Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman,Put in Bay, Ohio. $1,000; machmist, $960; two laborem, at S600 each; in all, S4,660. Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station and Holden (Vermont) AuxiliarySaint Johnsbury and Holden, Vt. Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; skilled laborer, $720; four laborers, at $600 each; in all, $6,720. San Marcos (Texas) Station; Superintendent, $1,500; foreman,San Marcos, Tex. $1,200; fish-culturist, S900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $5,400. Saratoga (Wyoming) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Saratoga, Wyo. $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Spearfish, S. Dak. $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Tupelo (Mississippi) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Tupelo, Miss. $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Washington (District of Columbia) Central Station and Aquaria:Washington, D. C.Central Station and Aquaria. Superintendent, $1,500; two skilled laborers, at $720 each; laborer, $600; in all, $3,540. White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia) Station: Superintendent,White Sulphur Springs, W. Va. $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; machinist,Woods Hole, Mass. $960; fish-culturist, $900; pilot and collector, $720; three firemen, at $600 each; four laborers, at $600 each; in all, $8,280. Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman,Wytheville. Va. $900; fish-culturist, $900; two laborers, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Yes Bay (Alaska) Hatchery: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman,Yes Bay, Alaska. $1,200; two skilled laborers, at $960 each; three laborers, at $900 each; cook, $900; in all, $8,220. Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: Naturalist, $1,800; generalVessel service. assistant, $1,200; fishery expert, $1,200; clerk, $1,000; in all, $5,200. Steamer Fish Hawk: Cabin boy, $480. Steamer Osprey: Master, $1,500; engineer, $1,100; cook, $600; two firemen, at $720 each; seaman, $600; in all, $5,240. Schooner Grampus: Master, $1,500; first mate, $1,080; second mate, $840; engineer, $840; cook, $600; three seamen, at $600 each; cabin boy, $420; in all, $7,080. Steamer Phalarope: Master, $1,200; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; two seamen, at $600 each; cook, $600; in all, $4,820. Steamer Curlew: Pilot, $1,100; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; cook, $600; in all, $3,520. Steamer Gannet: Master, $1,200; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; two seamen, at $600 each; in all, $4,220. For officers and crew of vessel for Alaska fisheries service, $16,000. Alaska fisheries, vessel.Administration expenses.*Post*, p. 1045. Expenses of administration: For expenses of the office of the commissioner, including stationery, scientific and reference books, periodicals, newspapers, for library, furniture, telegraph and telephone service, repairs to and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, compensation of temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $10,000. 876 Propagation expenses.Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, equipment, and operations of fish-cultural stations, general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, temporary labor, propagation and distribution of fresh-water mussels, and the necessary expenses connected therewith, not to exceed $10,000, $350,000. Restriction on expenses in States.No part of the foregoing amount shall be expended for hatching or planting fish or eggs in any State in which, in the judgment of the Secretary of Commerce, there are not adequate laws for the protection of the fishes, nor in any State in which the United States Com-missioner of Fisheries and his duly authorized agents are not accorded full and free right to conduct fish-cultural operations, and all fishing and other operations necessary therefor, in such manner and at such times as is considered necessary and proper by the said commissioner or bis agents. Maintenance of vessels.*Post*, p. 1151.Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of vessels and launches, including purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $60,000. Inquiry respecting food ashes.Inquiry respecting food fishes: For inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food fishes in the waters of the United States, investigations and experiments in respect to the aquatic animals, plants, and waters, in the interests of fish culture and the fishery industries, including expenses of travel and preparation of reports, $40,000. Statistical Inquiry.Statistical inquiry; For collection and compilation of statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, including travel and preparation of reports and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $7,500. Sponge fisheries.Protection, etc.Sponge fisheries: For expenses in protecting the sponge fisheries, including employment of inspectors, watchmen, and temporary assistants, hire of boats, rental of office and storage, care of seized sponges and other property, travel, and all other expenses necessary*Ante*, p. 692. to carry out the provisions of the Act of August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to regulate the sponge fisheries, $2,500. Alaska general service.Seal fisheries protection, food to natives, etc.Alaska, General Service: For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska, including the furnishing of food, fuel, clothing, and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands of Alaska, transportation of supplies to and from the islands, expenses of travel of agents and other employees and subsistence while on said islands, hire and maintenance of vessels, and for all expenses necessary to carry outVol. 36, p. 326. the provisions of the Act approved April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act to protect the seal fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes,” and for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, including travel, hire of boats, employment of temporary labor, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $75,000. Payment under treaty obligations.For payments to be made to Great Britain and Japan under the terms of article eleven of the convention for protection and preservation of the fur seal and sea otters in lieu of their share of sealskins for the yearly season of nineteen hundred and fifteen, and in accordanceVol. 37, p. 1544. with the Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, to give effect to the above-named convention, $20,000. Boothbay Harbor, Me.Vessel for station.Fish-cultural station, Boothbay Harbor, Maine: For purchase or construction of vessels for the fish-cultural station at Boothbay Harbor, Maine, to be immediately available, $45,000. Louisville, Ky.Addition to station.Fish hatchery, Louisville, Kentucky: For addition to the Louisville, Kentucky, fisheries station, including the construction of buildings and ponds, and for equipment, to be immediately available, $20,000. Orangeburg, S. C.Addition to station.Fish hatchery, Orangeburg, South Carolina: For addition to the Orangeburg, South Carolina, fisheries station, including the construc877 tion of buildings and ponds, and for equipment, to be immediately available, $10,000. Fish hatchery, Saratoga, Wyoming: For addition to the Saratoga,Saratoga, Wyo.Addition to station. Wyoming, fisheries station, including construction of buildings and ponds, improvement to water supply, and for equipment, to be immediately available, $18,000. Distribution cars: For purchase or construction of one steel carSteel distribution car. for the distribution of useful food fishes, to be immediately available, $20,000. Fur-seal islands, Alaska, cold-storage plant: For purchase andCold-storage plant, Alaska. installation of a cold-storage plant on the Pribilof Islands, to be immediately available, $3,000. Fish hatchery, Baker Lake, Washington: For the reconstructionBaker Lake, Wash.Reconstructing buildings. of the hatchery building and barn recently destroyed by fire, to be immediately available, $4,500. bureau of standards.Bureau of Standards. Testing of large scales: For investigation and testing of railroadTesting large scales. track scales, elevator scales, and other scales used in weighing commodities for interstate shipments and to secure equipment and assistance for testing the scales used by the Government in its transactions with the public, such as post office, navy yard, and customhouse scales, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $40,000. Chemical laboratory: Toward the construction of the fireproofChemical laboratory.*Ante*, p. 665. chemical laboratory, to cost not exceeding $200,000 under a contract authorized by the act of August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $50,000. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. immigration service.Immigration service. For enforcement of the laws regulating immigration of aliens intoEnforcing laws regulating immigration of aliens. the United States, including the contract-labor laws; cost of the re-ports of decisions of the Federal courts, and digests thereof, for the use of the Commissioner General of Immigration; salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees appointed to enforce said laws, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuantPer diem subsistence.*Ante*, p. 680.Vol. 34, p. 898.Vol. 36, p. 263. to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen; enforcement of the provisions of the Act of February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States,” and Acts amendatory thereof; necessary supplies,*Post*, p. 1047. including exchange of typewriting machines, alterations, and repairs, and for all other expenses authorized by said act; preventing theChinese exclusion. unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto; 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 seaboardRefunding head tax. for deportation; refunding of head tax upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that collection was made through error of Government officers; and including not exceeding $2,000 for operation, maintenance, and repair of motor propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, $2,450,000. To pay Maurice Burman and Harry Kyman for information thatMaurice Burman and Harry Kyman.Informer’s fee. led to the collection of $2,000 in penalties from J. Mandleberg and Company (Limited), of New York, New York, for importing aliens under contract, in violation of the immigration laws, $500 each, $1,000. 878 Naturalization Bureau.naturalization service. Special examiners, etc.For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Labor, of examiners, interpreters, clerks, and stenographers, for the purpose of carrying on the work of the Bureau of Naturalization, provided forVol. 34, p. 596. by the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six,Vol. 37, p. 736. as amended by the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-seven, page seven hundredTraveling expenses, etc. and thirty-six), and for their actual necessary traveling expenses while absent from their official stations, including street car fare on official business at official stations, together with per diem in lieu of subsistence, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred andPer diem subsistence.*Ante*, p. 680. fourteen, and for such per diem together with actual necessary traveling expenses of officers and employees of the Bureau of Naturalization in Washington while absent on official duty outside of the District of Columbia; telegrams, verifications of legal papers, telephone service in offices outside of the District of Columbia; not to exceedRent.Assistance to clerks of courts.Vol. 34. p. 600.Vol. 36, pp. 764, 830. $5,300 for rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia where suitable quarters can not be obtained in public buildings; carrying into effect section thirteen of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page six hundred), as amended by the Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten; the expenditures from this appropriation shall be made in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe, $275,000. Legislative.LEGISLATIVE. Statement of appropriations.Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the direction of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements for the third session of the Sixty-third Congress, showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together withVol. 25, p. 587. a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills, as required by law, $4,000, to be paid to the persons designated by the chair-men of said committees to do said work. Botanic Garden.Repairs, etc.Botanic Garden: For general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, painting, glazing, repairs to footwalks and roadways, general repairs to packing sheds, storerooms, and stables, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $6,000. Removing fence, etc.Reappropriation.Vol. 36, p, 1403; Vol.37, p. 478.*Ante*, pp. 66, 670.The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $2,500 made in the sundry civil Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve and reappropriated for subsequent years, for removing fence and wall around the. Botanic Garden and such grading, soiling, seeding, and sodding as may be incident thereto, is reappropriated and made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen. Senate Office Building.Maintenance.Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and supplies, and for all necessary personal and other services for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building, under the direction and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, $55,000. Furniture, etc.For furniture for the Senate Office Building and for labor and material incident thereto and repairs thereof, window shades, awnings, carpets, glass for windows and bookcases, desk lamps, window ventilators, and so forth, $5,000. Senate kitchens and restaurants.For the Capitol: For repairs, improvements, and equipment for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended by879 the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, under the supervision of the Committee on Rides, United States Senate, $17,500. House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneousHouse Office Building.Maintenance.Capitol power plant.Maintenance. items, and for all necessary services, $45,712. Capitol power plant: For lighting the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, and Congressional Library Building, and the grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, Senate stables and engine house, House stables, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the Senate; pay of superintendent of meters, at the rate of $1,600 per annum, who shall inspect all gas and electric meters of the Government in the District of Columbia without additional compensation; for necessary personal and other services; and for materials and labor in connection with the maintenance and operation of the heating, lighting, and power plant, and substations connected therewith, $90,000. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the powerFuel, oil, etc. plant which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and congressional buildings, $82,924. This and the foregoing appropriationsPurchases not restricted to supply committee, etc. shall 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, appointed under the ActVol. 34, p. 1365. approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, and without reference to section four of the Act approved June seventeenth,Vol. 35, p. 531. nineteen hundred and ten, concerning purchases for executive departments. PANAMA-PACIFIC INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION.Panama-Pacific Exposition. The appropriation of $30,000, made in the sundry civil appropriationCopyright and Patent Branch Office.Continuance of appropriation.*Ante*, p. 668, Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, for the Copyright and Patent Branch Office at the Panama-Pacific International Exposition is continued and made available for expenditure during the first half of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.Government Printing Office. public printing and binding. Office of Public Printer: Public Printer, $5,500; purchasing agent,Public Printer, purchasing agent, etc. $3,600; chief clerk, $2,500; accountant, $2,500; assistant purchasing agent, $2,500; cashier and paymaster, $2,500; clerk in charge of Congressional Record at the Capitol, $2,500; private secretary, $2,500 (now being paid from “Printing and binding”); assistant accountant, $2,250; chief timekeeper, $2,000; paying teller, $2,000; clerks—two at $2,000 each, seven of class four, thirteen of class three, eight of class two, five of class one, ten at $1,000 each, fourteen at $900 each, one $840; paymaster’s guard, $1,000; doorkeepers—chief $1,200, one $1,200, six assistants at $1,000 each; messengers—two at $S40 each; delivery men—chief $1,200, five at $950 each; telephone switchboard operator, $720; three assistant telephone switchboard operators, at $600 each; six messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $130,460. Office of Deputy Public Printer: Deputy Public Printer, $4,500;Deputy Public Printer, etc. two clerks of class one; clerk, $840; chemist, $1,600; messenger, $840; in all, $10,180. Watch force: Captain, $1,200; two lieutenants, at $900 each;Watch force. sixty-four watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $49,080. Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisionsHolidays. of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $180,000. 880 Leaves of absence.Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting thirty clays’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $320,000. Public printing and binding.Aggregate amount.For public printing, public binding, and paper for public printing and binding, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving, for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the International Bureau of American Republics,Office salaries and expenses. the Executive Office, and the departments; for salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary employees additional to those herein specifically appropriated for, including the compensation of the foreman of binding and the foreman of printing; rents, fuel, gas, electric current,Vehicles, etc. gas and electric fixtures; bicycles, electrical vehicles for the carriage of printing and printing supplies, and the maintenance, repair, and operation of the same, to be used only for official purposes, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use of the officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing ordered by the Public Printer (not exceeding $1,500); freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; furniture, typewriters, and carpets; traveling expenses, stationery, postage, and advertising; directories, technical books, and books of reference, not exceeding $500; adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; Machinery, equipment, etc.machinery (not exceeding $100,000); equipment, and for repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor alterations to buildings: necessary equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Government Printing Office who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injuryMiscellaneous Items. 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, $4,400,000; Total.In all, for public printing and binding, including salaries of office force, payments for holidays and leaves of absence, and the last-named sum, $5,089,720; and from the said sum printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: Allotments.Congress.For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings and debates, $1,587,520. Printing and binding for Congress charge-able to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress, within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. Departments, etc.For the State Department, $40,000. For the Treasury Department, $390,000. Army medical bulletins.For the War Department, $200,000: *Provided*, That the sum of $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the publication, from time to time, of bulletins prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General of the Army, for the instruction of medical officers, when approved by the Secretary of War. For the Navy Department, $145,000, including not exceeding $25,000 for the Hydrographic Office. For the Interior Department, including not exceeding $50,000 for the Civil Service Commission, and not exceeding $25,000 for the publication of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, $300,000. 881 For the Patent Office: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indices, $440,000. For the United States Geological Survey: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the Annual Report of the Director, and for the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, and for printing and binding the same publications, of which sum not more than $45,000 may be used for engraving, $175,000. For the Smithsonian Institution: For printing and binding the Annual Reports of the Board of Regents, with general appendixes, the editions of which shall not exceed ten thousand copies, $10,000; under the Smithsonian Institution: For the Annual Reports of the National Museum, with general appendixes, and for printing labels and blanks, and for the Bulletins and Proceedings of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not exceed four thousand copies, and binding, in half morocco or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to or acquired by the National Museum Library, $37,500; for the Annual Reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and for miscellaneous printing and binding for the bureau, $21,000; for miscellaneous printing and binding for the International Exchanges, $200; the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, $100; the National Zoological Park, $200; the Astrophysical Observatory, $200; and for the Annual Report of the American Historical Association, $7,000; in all, $76,200. For the Department of Justice, $35,000. For the United States Court of Customs Appeals, $1,500. For the Post Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, $290,000. For the Department of Agriculture, including not to exceedAgricultural report. $47,000 for the Weather Bureau, and including the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved JanuaryVol. 26, p. 61G. twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and in pursuance of the joint resolution Numbered Thirteen, approved March thirtieth,Vol 34, p. 825. nineteen hundred and six, and also including not to exceed $137,500Farmers’ bulletins. for farmers’ bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of tour-fifths of which shall be delivered to or sent out under the addressed franks furnished by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as they shall direct, $500,000. For the Department of Commerce, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey, the Bureau of the Census, and reprinting publications of the Thirteenth Decennial Census, $390,000. For the Department of Labor, $125,000. For the Federal Trade Commission, $15,000. For the Supreme Court of the United States, $15,000; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ unless it shall otherwise order. For the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, $1,500. For the Court of Claims, $25,000. For the Library of Congress, including the copyright office and the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the copyright office, and binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for building and grounds, Library of Congress, $200,000. For the Executive Office, $3,000. For the Interstate Commerce Commission, $115,000, of which sum not exceeding $10,000 shall be available to print and furnish to the States at cost report-form blanks. 882 For the International Union of American Republics, $20,000. Restrictions.That no more than an allotment of one-halt of the sum hereby appropriated for the public printing and for the public binding shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended; and no department or Government establishment shall consume in any such period a greater percentage of its allotment that can be lawfully expended during the same period of the whole appropriation. Certificate of necesity required.Money appropriated under the foregoing allotments shall not be expended for printing or binding for any of the executive departments or other Government establishments except such as shall be certified in writing to the Public Printer by the respective heads or chiefs thereof to be necessary to conduct the ordinary and routine business required by law of such executive departments or Government establishments, and except such reports, monographs, bulletins, or other publications as are authorized by law or specifically provided for inCongressional appropriations herein; all other printing required or deemed necessary or desirable by heads of executive departments or other Government establishments or offices or bureaus thereof shall be done only as Congress shall from time to time authorize. Restriction on payment of employees detailedNo part of any money appropriated in this Act shall be paid to any person employed in the Government Printing Office while detailed for or performing service in any other executive branch of the public service of the United States unless such detail be authorized by law. Apportionment of expenditures to workAll expenditures from appropriations made herein under Government Printing Office, except appropriations for salaries and for stores and general expenses in and for the office of superintendent of documents, and expenses incurred on account of heat, light, and power furnished the city post-office building in Washington, District of Columbia, shall be equitably apportioned and charged by the Public Printer to each publication or work executed under any of the foregoing allotments, so that the total charges for work done from the appropriations aforesaid shall not be less than the total amount actually expended from all of said appropriations. Office of Superintendent of Documents.office of superintendent of documents. Superintendent, assistant, etc.Superintendent, $3,500; assistant superintendent, $2,500; clerks—two of class four, three of class three, five of class two, eight of class one, nine at $1,000 each, eight at $900 each; four at $840 each, twenty at $720 each; cataloguers—one in charge $1,800, two at $1,500 each, three at $1,200 each, one $1,100, seven at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; cashier, $1,600; librarian, $1,500; shipper in charge, $1,400; stock keepers—one $1,100, three at $1,000 each, five at $900 each, three at $720 each; helpers—one $870, three at $750 each; five assistant messengers; three mailers, at $840 each; forty-one skilled laborers, at $626 each; ten unskilled laborers, at $626 each; janitress, $626; two folders, at $626 each; eleven laborers, at $626 each; messenger boys—eleven at $500 each, six at $420 each, eleven at $375 each; labor necessary to handle current periodicals, $16,000; in all, $178,395. Contingent expenses.For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving machines and accessories, time stamps, adding and numbering machines, awnings, curtains, books of reference, directories, books, miscellaneous office and desk supplies; paper; twine, glue, envelopes, postage, car tickets, soap, toilet paper, towels, disinfectants, and ice; drayage, express, freight, telephone and telegraph service; repairs to building, elevators, and machinery; preserving sanitary condition of883 building, light, heat, and power; stationery and office printing, including blanks, price lists, and bibliographies, $30,000; for catalogues and indexes, not exceeding $16,000; for binding reserve remainders, and for supplying books to depository libraries, $86,000; equipment, material, and supplies for distribution of public documents, $17,000; in all, $149,000. THE PANAMA CANAL.Panama Canal. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the construction,All expenses.Objects designated. maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, including the following: Compensation of all officials and employees; foreign and domestic newspapers and periodicals; law books not exceeding $500, text books and books of reference; printing and binding, including printing of annual report, rents and personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase or exchange of typewriting, adding, and other machines; purchase or exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; claims for damages toClaims for damages. vessels passing through the locks of the Panama Canal, as authorized by the Panama Canal Act; claims for losses of or damages to property arising from the conduct of authorized business operations; claims for damages caused to owners of private lands or private property of any kind by reason of the grants contained in the treaty between theVol. 33, p. 2234. United States and the Republic of Panama, proclaimed February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and four, or by reason of the operations of the United States, its agents or employees, or by reason of the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and protection of the said canal or of the work of sanitation and protection therein provided for, whether such claims are compromised by agreement between the claimants and the Governor of the Panama Canal or allowed by a joint land commission; acquisition of land and landPayment for land.Vol. 37, p. 561.Disposal of unserviceable materials, etc. under water, as authorized in the Panama Canal Act; expenses incurred in assembling, assorting, storing, repairing, and selling material, machinery, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal which are unserviceable or no longer needed, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of such sales; expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus; expenses incident to any emergency arising because of calamity by flood, fire, pestilence, or like character not foreseen or otherwise provided for herein; per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence when prescribed byPer diem subsistence.*Ante*, p. 680. the Governor of the Panama Canal, to persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business, pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for such other expenses not in the United States as the Governor of the Panama Canal may deem necessary to best promote the construction, maintenance, and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal, all to be expended under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal and accounted for as follows: For continuing the construction and equipment of the PanamaConstruction, equipment, etc., of Canal. Canal, including $1,000 additional compensation to the Auditor for the War Department for extra services in auditing accounts for the Panama Canal, and not exceeding $40,000 for establishing two lightsLighthouses, Pacific coast.*Post*, 927. on the Pacific coast, necessary as aids to navigation near the Pacific entrance to the Panama Canal, one at Bona Island and one at Cape Mala, said lights to be established and maintained as a part of the lighting system of the Panama Canal, $10,500,000; For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, salary of theMaintenance and operation.Governor. Governor, $10,000; purchase, inspection, delivery, handling, and884Purchases, etc. storing of material, supplies, and equipment for issue to all departments of the Panama Canal, the Panama Railroad, other branches of the United States Government, and for authorized sales, $5,200,000,Additional from receipts. together with all moneys arising from the conduct of business operations authorized by the Panama Canal Act; Sanitation, etc.For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and support of the insane and of lepers, and aid and support of indigent persons legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses of their deportation when practicable, $700,000; Civil government expenses.For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, salaries of district judge, $6,000, district attorney, 35,000, marshal, $5,000, and for gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged prisoners, 3540,000; Available until expended.*Proviso*.Reimbursement from sale of bonds.In all, $16,940,000, the same to be immediately available and to continue available until expended: *Provided*, That all expenditures from the appropriations heretofore, herein, and hereafter made for the construction of the Panama Canal, including any portion of such appropriations which may be used for the construction of dry docks, repair shops, yards, docks, wharves, warehouses, storehouses, and other necessary facilities and appurtenances, for the purpose of providing coal and other materials, labor, repairs, and supplies, for the construction of office buildings and quarters, and other necessaryExceptions. buildings, exclusive of fortifications and colliers, and exclusive of the amount used for operating and maintaining the canal, and exclusive of the amount expended for sanitation and civil government after January first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, may be paid from or reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States out of the proceedsVol. 32, p. 484. of the sale of bonds authorized in section eight of the said Act approvedVol. 36, p. 117. June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, and section thirty-nine of the tariff Act approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine. Number of employees limited to estimates.Except in cases of emergency, or conditions arising subsequent to and unforeseen at the time of submitting the annual estimates to Congress, and except for those employed in connection with the construction of permanent quarters, offices, and other necessary buildings, dry docks, repair shops, yards, docks, wharves, warehouses, store-houses, and other necessary facilities and appurtenances for the purpose of providing coal and other materials, labor, repairs, and supplies,Permanent organization excepted.Vol. 37, p. 561. and except for the permanent operating organization under which the compensation of the various positions is limited by section four of the Panama Canal Act, there shall not be employed at any time during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen under any of the foregoing appropriations for the Panama Canal, any greater number of persons than are specified in the notes submitted respectively in connection with the estimates for each of said appropriations in theCompensation restricted. annual Book of Estimates for said year, nor shall there be paid to any such person during that fiscal year any greater rate of compensation than was authorized to be paid to persons occupying the same or like positions on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and fourteen; and all employments made or compensation increased because of emergencies or conditions so arising shall be specifically set forth, with the reasons therefor, by the governor in his report for the fiscal year nine-teen hundred and sixteen. Moneys from designated objects to be credited to original appropriations.In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, for expenditure and rein-vestment under the several heads of appropriation aforesaid without being covered into the Treasury of the United States, all moneys received by the Panama Canal from services rendered or materials and supplies furnished to the United States, the Panama Railroad Company, the Canal Zone government, or to their employees, respectively, or to the Panama Government; from hotel and hospital sup885 plies and services; from rentals, wharfage, and like services; from labor, materials, and supplies and other services furnished to vessels other than those passing through the canal, and to others unable to obtain the same elsewhere; from the sale of scrap and other by products of manufacturing and shop operations; from the sale of obsolete and unserviceable material, supplies, and equipment purchased or acquired for the operation, maintenance, protection, sanitation, and government of the canal and Canal Zone; and any netNet profits to be covered into the Treasury. profits accruing from such business to the Panama Canal shall annually be covered into the Treasury of the United States. In addition there is appropriated for the operation, maintenance,Operating waterworks, etc., for Panama and Colon. and extension of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses. fortifications, panama canal.Fortifications. For fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, toAvailable until expended. be immediately available and to continue available until expended, namely: Electric light and power plants: For the purchase and installationElectric plants. of electric light and power plants for the seacoast fortifications on the Canal Zone, $3,081. Searchlights: For the purchase and installation of searchlights forSearchlights. the seacoast fortifications on the Canal Zone, $79,666. Clearings and trails: For maintenance of clearings and trails,Clearings and trails. $45,000. For protection, preservation, and repair of the fortifications of thePreservation, repairs, etc. Panama Canal, including structures erected for torpedo defense, and for maintaining channels for access to torpedo wharves, $15,000. For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light andMaintenance of electric plants etc. power equipment for the fortifications of the Panama Canal, and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, $7,500. For reserve equipment for the fortifications of the Panama Canal,Reserve equipment. $50,000. Where the expenses of persons engaged in field work or traveling onPer diem subsistence.*Ante*, p. 680. official business are chargeable to appropriations herein for fortifications or other works of defense for the Panama Canal, a per diem may be allowed in lieu of subsistence, pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoastAmmunition. and land defense cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture at the arsenals, $733,000: *Provided*, That if, in the opinion of the Secretary of War, it should*Proviso*.Manufacture of projectiles at Watertown Arsenal. be to the best interests of the United States, not to exceed $50,000 of the foregoing appropriation may be expended for the erection of a building at the Watertown Arsenal for the installation of machinery to be used in the manufacture of projectiles. For the alteration, maintenance, and installation of the seacoastInstalling, etc., seacoast artillery. artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics, and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $30,000. For alteration, maintenance, and repair of submarine mine matériel,Submarine mine supplies. $2,500; Fire control: For the construction of fire-control stations and theFire-control stations. purchase and installation of accessories therefor, $383,301,30; 886 Barracks’ and quarters.For continuing the construction on the Panama Canal Zone of barracks, quarters, storehouses, and other buildings necessary for accommodating the mobile army and Coast Artillery troops to be stationed there, including water, sewer, and lighting systems, roads, walks, and so forth, and for repairing and remodeling existing buildings to render them suitable for sheltering troops, $1,290,000; In all, specifically for fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, $2,639,048.30. Sec. 2. Joint Land Commission.Not to act on claims under Panama Railroad leases, etc.Vol. 33, p. 2238. No part of the money appropriated by this Act shall be used for payment of salaries or expenses of the Joint Land Commission, established under article fifteen of the treaty between the United States and the Republic of Panama, in adjudicating or settling any claim originating under any lease or contract for occupancy, made by the Panama Railroad Company in the Canal Zone, or for the payment of any awards made by said commission on account of any such claims. Sec. 3. Accounting.Details from Auditor’s and Comptroller’s offices to examine vouchers on the Isthmus.*Ante*, p. 679. That in prescribing regulations under the provisions of section five of the sundry civil Act of August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, the President shall provide that in lieu of furnishing to the auditor individual detail collection vouchers, not provided for in said regulations, two competent persons, one from the office of the Auditor for the War Department, designated by the auditor, and one from the office of the Comptroller of the Treasury, designated by the comptroller, shall be sent semiannually, at such time as may be designated by the comptroller, to the Canal Zone to examine the accounts and vouchers and verify the submitted schedules of collections and report in triplicate to the Auditor for the War Department, the Comptroller of the Treasury, and the auditor of the PanamaOther examinations. Canal; and such persons shall make such other examination into the accounts of the Panama Canal as may be directed by the comptroller, and for all such purposes they shall have access to all records and papers pertaining thereto. Such examination and inspection shall be made for the period covered by the persons designated as soon as practicable, and the report of such persons shall be promptly filed.Expenses. Such persons shall be furnished their transportation going and returning, including meals, and be paid a per diem of $4 from the day of sailing from the United States until return thereto, both days inclusive, in lieu of subsistence on the Isthmus and all other expenses, out of such appropriation for the Panama Canal as may be designated by the governor. Sec. 4. Annual reports, etc.Time for furnishing copy to Public Printer.[R. S., sec. 196, p. 31](/us/rs/s196/p31), amended.*Ante*, p. 680. That appropriations herein for printing and binding shall not be used for any annual report or the accompanying documents unless the copy therefor is furnished to the Public Printer in the following manner: Copies of the documents accompanying such annual reports on or before the fifteenth day of October of each year; copies of the annual reports on or before the fifteenth day ofExceptions. November of each year; and complete revised proofs of the accompanying documents and the annual reports on the tenth and twentieth days of November of each year, respectively. The provisions of this section shall not apply to the annual reports of the Smithsonian Institution, the Commissioner of Patents, or the Comptroller of the Currency. Sec. 5. Typewriting machines.Prices restricted. That no part of any money appropriated by this Act shall be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen for the purchase of any typewriting machine at a price in excess of the lowest price paid by the Government of the United States for the same make and substantially the same model of machine during the period of the fiscal years nineteen hundred and thirteen and nineteen hundred and fourteen; such price shall include the value of any typewriting machine or machines given in exchange, but shall not apply to special prices granted on typewriting machines used in schools of the District of Columbia or of the Indian Service. 887 Sec. 6. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officersSums for salaries to be in full. and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, and all laws or parts of laws to the extent they are in conflict with the provisions of this Act are repealed. Approved, March 3, 1915.
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