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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 38 STAT. · May 25, 1914 · Chapter 96

Chapter 96. Making appropriations to supply further urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 96.— An Act Making appropriations to supply further urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes.May 25, 1914.[[H. R. 16508](/us/bill/63/hr/16508).][[Public, No. 105](/us/pl/63/105).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums are Urgent deficiencies appropriations.appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply further urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes, namely:
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. public buildings.Public buildings. Washington, District of Columbia, old building, Bureau of Engraving Engraving and Printing Bureau.Equipping, etc., old building for Treasury offices. and Printing: For new floors, suspended ceilings, repairs, painting, reinforcing floors, vault equipment, partitions, plumbing, conduit and wiring, and other necessary repairs, to adapt the old building of the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for the accommodation of various Treasury offices, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $29,500. public health service.Public Health Service.
Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of Prevention of epidemics.threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague or black death, or trachoma, to aid State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $100,000.
Providence (Rhode Island) Quarantine Station: For quarantine Quarantine station, Providence, R. I.facilities, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $25,000. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission Valuation of property of carriers: To enable the Interstate Physical valuation of railroads, etc.Vol. 37, p. 701.Commerce Commission to carry out the objects of the Act providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers subject to the Act to regulate commerce and amendments thereto and to secure information concerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $100,000.
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Army. Pay: For pay of the Army, including the same objects specified Pay.under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $1,828,663.33. Subsistence: For subsistence of the Army, including the same Quartermaster Corps.Subsistence.objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $1,255,538.90. Regular Supplies: For regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps, Regular supplies.including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $306,960.
Transportation: For transportation of the Army and its supplies, Transportation.including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $2,429,445.01. 380 Incidental expenses.Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps: For incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $50,000.
Horses.Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth: For horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $405,825. Barracks and quarters.Barracks and quarters: For barracks and quarters, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $20,000.
Water and sewers at posts.Water and sewers at military posts: For water and sewers at military posts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $15,000. Mileage, officers, etc.Mileage to officers and contract surgeons: For mileage to officers, acting dental surgeons, veterinarians, contract surgeons, pay clerks, and expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, when authorized by law, $50,000.
Signal Service. Replacing equipment.Signal Service: For the repair and replacement of equipment and material lost and damaged by fire in the Signal Corps laboratory, Washington, District of Columbia, March eighteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $7,500. Medical Department. Supplies.Department of Commerce.Medical and hospital department: For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army Appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $50,000.
Department of Commerce.DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. Fisheries Bureau.bureau of fisheries. Alaska fisheries.Alaska Service: For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska, including Protecting seal fisheries. etc.Food to natives, etc.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, purchase, hire, maintenance of, and crews for vessels, and including not exceeding $2,500 for installation of water supply on Saint Paul Island, and for all expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act approved Vol. 36, p. 326.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, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $50,000.
Department of Labor.DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. Naturalization Bureau.Bureau of Naturalization: For the purchase of safety paper Paper for certificates.for certificates of naturalization, $4,200. Legislative. LEGISLATIVE. House of Representatives. house of representatives. Miscellaneous items, etc.For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, $52,000. Folding.For folding speeches, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $6,000. 381 There is authorized to be expended out of the appropriation made House Office Building.Window awnings.*Ante*, p. 240.in the joint resolution approved October twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for furnishing the additional rooms in the House Office Building, not exceeding $1,600 for additional awnings for the windows in said building. government printing office.Public printing and binding.
For printing and binding for the War Department, $50,000.War Department. Approved, May 25, 1914.
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