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CHAP. 117.— AN ACT Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for other purposes. May 10, 1916.[[H. R. 12207](/us/bill/64/hr/12207).][[Public, No. 73](/us/pl/64/73).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums are Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriations.appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, namely:
LEGISLATIVE. Legislative. senate. Senate. Pay of Senators. For compensation of Senators, $720,000. Mileage. For mileage of Senators, $51,000. For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: Vice President’s office. Office of the Vice President: Secretary to the Vice President, $4,000; messenger, $1,440; telegraph operator, $1,500; telegraph page, $600; in all, $7,540. Chaplain. Chaplain: For Chaplain, $1,200. Secretary of the Senate, assistant, clerks, etc. Office of Secretary:
Secretary of the Senate, including compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators and of the contingent fund of the Senate, $6,500; assistant secretary, Henry M. Rose, $5,000; chief clerk, $3,250; financial clerk, $3,000; minute and journal clerk, principal clerk, and enrolling clerk, at $3,000 each; reading clerk, $3,600; executive clerk, and assistant financial clerk, at $2,750 each; librarian, file clerk, chief bookkeeper, assistant journal clerk, and printing clerk, at $2,500 each; first assistant librarian, and keeper of stationery, at $2,400 each; assistant librarian, $1,800; skilled laborer, $1,200; clerks—three at $2,500 each, four at $2,220 each, two at $2,100 each, one $1,800, two at $1,600 each, one $1,440; assistant keeper of stationery, $2,000; assistant in stationery room, $1,200; messenger, $1,440; assistant messenger, $1,200; laborers—three at $840 each, three at $720 each, one in stationery room, $720; in all, $94,410.
Document room. Superintendent, etc. Document room: Superintendent, George H. Boyd, $3,000; assistants—two at $2,250 each, one $1,440; clerk, $1,440; skilled laborer, $1,200; in all, $11,580. Clerks and messengers to committees. Clerks and messengers to the following committees: Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Agriculture and Forestry—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Appropriations—clerk $4,000, two assistant clerks at $2,500 each, two assistant clerks at $1,440 each, messenger $1,440, laborer $720;
To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Banking and Currency—clerk $3,000, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Canadian Relations—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Census—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Civil Service and Retrenchment—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Claims—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440;
Coast and Insular Survey—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Coast Defenses—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Commerce—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Conference Minority of the Senate—clerk $2,220; assistant clerk $1,800, two messengers at $1,200 each; Conservation of National Resources—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200;
Cuban Relations—clerk 67$2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; District of Columbia—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Education and Labor—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Engrossed Bills—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,200; Enrolled Bills—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200;
To Examine the Several Branches of the Civil Service—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Department of Commerce—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Interior Department—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Department of Justice—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440;
Expenditures in the Department of Labor—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Navy Department—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Post Office Department—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Department of State—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Treasury Department—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the War Department—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200;
Finance—clerk $3,000, assistant clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,600, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440, two experts (one for the majority and one for the minority) at $2,000 each; Fisheries—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Five Civilized Tribes of Indians—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Foreign Relations—clerk, $3,000, assistant clerk $2,220, messenger $1,440; Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200;
Geological Survey—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Immigration—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Indian Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Indian Depredations—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Industrial Expositions—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Interoceanic Canals—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,200; Interstate Commerce—clerk $2,500, two assistant clerks at $1,800 each, messenger $1,440;
To Investigate Trespassers upon Indian Lands—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Judiciary—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, two assistant clerks at $1,800 each, messenger $1,440; Joint Committee on the Library—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Manufactures—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Military Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200;
Mines and Mining—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Mississippi River and its Tributaries—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; National Banks—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Naval Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Pacific Islands and Porto Rico—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Pacific Railroads—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200;
Patents—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Pensions—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, three assistant clerks at $1,440 each, messenger $1,440; Philippines—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,000, two assistant clerks at $1,440 each, messenger $1,440; Printing—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Private Land Claims—68clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,200;
Privileges and Elections—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Public Health and National Quarantine—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Public Lands—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800; assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Railroads—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Revolutionary Claims—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, Preparing Senate Manual.messenger $1,200;
Rules—clerk $2,720, to include full compensation for the preparation biennially of the Senate Manual, under the direction of the Committee on Rules, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Standards, Weights, and Measures—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Territories —clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440. messenger $1,440; Transportation and Sale of Meat Products— clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Transportation Routes to the Seaboard—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200;
University of the United States—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Woman Suffrage—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; in all, $428,380. Navy Yearbook, 1915. For compiling the Navy Yearbook for the calendar year nineteen hundred and fifteen, under the direction of the chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, $500. Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, assistant, etc. Office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper: Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $6,500;
Assistant Sergeant at Arms, $2,500; Assistant Doorkeeper, $3,000; Acting Assistant Doorkeeper, $3,000; Messengers, etc.two floor assistants, at $2,000 each; messengers—four (acting as assistant doorkeepers) at $1,800 each, thirty-four at $1,440 each, one $1,050, one $1,000, one at card door $1,600; clerk on Journal work for Congressional Record, to be selected by the official reporters, $2,400; storekeeper, $2,220; stenographer in charge of furniture accounts and records, $1,200; upholsterer and locksmith, $1,440; cabinetmaker, $1,200; three carpenters, at $1,080 each; janitor, Laborers, etc.$1,200; skilled laborers—four at $1,000 each; laborer in charge of private passage, $840; three female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring room, at $720 each; three attendants to women’s toilet rooms, Senate Office Building, at $720 each; telephone operators—chief $1,200, two at $900 each, night operator $720; telephone page, $720; press gallery—superintendent $1,800, assistant superintendent $1,400, messenger for service to press correspondents $900; laborers—three Pages.at $800 each, thirty-two at $720 each; sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of $2.50 per day each during the session, $4,720; in all, $139,570.
Police, Senate Office Building. For police force for Senate Office Building under the Sergeant at Arms: Sixteen privates, at $1,050 each; special officer, $1,200; in all, $18,000. Postmaster, etc. Post office: Postmaster, $2,250; chief clerk, $1,800; eight mail carriers and one wagon master, at $1,200 each; three riding pages, at $912.50 each; in all, $17,587.50. Folding Room. Foreman, etc. Folding room: Foreman, $1,600; assistant, $1,400; clerk, $1,200; folders—six at $1,000 each, eight at $840 each; in all, $16,920.
Chief engineer, etc. Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds: Chief engineer, $2,160; assistant engineer and electrician, $1,800; three assistant engineers, at $1,440 each; ten elevator conductors, at $1,200 each; two machinists and electricians, at $1,400 each; laborers—four at $720 each, one in charge of Senate toilet rooms in old library space, $660; attendant for service in old library portion of the Capitol, $1,500; in all, $28,120. Elevator conductors, Senate Office Building.
For the Senate Office Building, under the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, subject to the control and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules: Fourteen elevator conductors, at $1,200 each; in all, $16,800. 69 For assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of committees, Assistance to Senators.as follows: Twenty-four clerks, at $2,000 each; twenty-four assistant clerks, at $1,200 each; twenty-four messengers, at $1,200 each; in all, $105,600. Contingent expenses:
For stationery for Senators and the Contingent expenses. Stationery.President of the Senate, including $6,000 for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $18,125. Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $200; office of Sergeant at Arms, $100; in all, $300. Postage stamps. For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for Motor vehicles, etc.carrying the mails and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, $6,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For driving, maintenance, and care of automobile for the Vice President, $1,500. Automobile, Vice President. For materials for folding, $1,500. Folding. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $10,000. For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor, $1,500. Fuel, etc. For purchase of furniture, $5,000. Furniture. For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, $3,000. For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, $2,000.
For packing boxes, $970. Packing boxes. For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents, $1,800. Storage warehouse. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $50,000. Miscellaneous items. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, Investigations.including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding $1 per printed page, $25,000.
For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, payable Reporting debates.in equal monthly installments, $30,000. capitol police. Capitol police. For captain, $1,800; three lieutenants, at $1,200 each; two special Pay.officers, at $1,200 each; forty-seven privates, at $1,050 each; sixteen additional privates, at $720 each; one-half of said privates to be selected by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and one half by the Sergeant at Arms of the House; in all, $68,670.
For contingent expenses, $200. Contingent expenses. One-half of the foregoing amounts under “Capitol police” shall Division of disbursements.be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and one-half by the Clerk of the House. joint committee on printing. Joint Committee on Printing. For clerk, $3,000; inspector, under section twenty of the Act Clerk, etc. Vol. 28, p. 603.approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $2,000; stenographer, $1,000; for expenses of compiling, preparing, and Congressional Directory.indexing the Congressional Directory, $1,600; in all, $7,600, one half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House. house of representatives.
House of Representatives. For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, Pay of Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners.Delegates from Territories, the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, $3,304,500. 70 Mileage. For mileage of Representatives, Delegates, and expenses of Resident Commissioners, $175,000. Officers, clerks, etc. For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: Speaker’s office.
Digest of Rules. Office of the Speaker: Secretary to Speaker, $4,000; clerk to Speaker’s table, $3,600, and for preparing Digest of the Rules, $1,000 per annum; clerk to Speaker, $1,600; messenger to Speaker, $1,440; messenger to Speaker’s table, $1,200; in all, $12,840. Chaplain. Chaplain: For Chaplain, $1,200. Clerk of the House, clerks, etc. Office of the Clerk: Clerk of the House of Representatives, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, $6,500; hire of horse and wagon for use of the Clerk’s office, $900, or so much thereof as may be necessary;
Chief Clerk, $4,500; Journal clerk, and two reading clerks, at $4,000 each; disbursing clerk, $3,400; tally clerk, $3,300; file clerk, $3,250; enrolling clerk, $3,000; chief bill clerk, $3,000; assistant to Chief Clerk, and assistant enrolling clerk, at $2,500 each; assistant to disbursing clerk, $2,400; stationery clerk, $2,200; librarian, $2,100; assistant file clerk, $1,900; two assistant librarians, messenger and assistant Journal clerk, at $1,800 each; clerks—one $1,800, three at $1,680 each; bookkeeper, and assistant in disbursing office, at $1,600 each; four assistants to chief bill clerk, at $1,500 each; stenographer to Clerk, $1,400; locksmith, who shall be skilled in his trade, $1,300; messenger in Chief Clerk’s office, and assistant in stationery room, at $1,200 each; messenger in file room, messenger in disbursing office, and assistant in House library, at $1,100 each; stenographer to chief bill clerk, $1,000; five telephone operators, including one night operator, at $900 each; three session telephone operators, at $75 per month each from December first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen; substitute telephone operator when required, at $2.50 per day, $500; two laborers in bath room, at $900 each; six laborers, at $720 each; page in enrolling room, $720; two janitors, at $720 each; allowance to Chief Clerk for stenographic and typewriter services, $1,000; in all, $99,470.
Chief engineer, etc. Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds: Chief engineer, $1,900; assistant engineers—three at $1,300 each, one $1,200; twenty-four elevator conductors, including fourteen for service in the House Office Building, at $1,200 each, who shall be under the supervision and direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds; machinist, $1,300; electrician, $1,200; three laborers, at $800 each; in all, $40,700. Clerks, messengers, and janitors to committees.
Clerks, messengers, and janitors to the following committees: Accounts—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $1,000; Agriculture—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $1,000; Appropriations—clerk $4,000 and $1,000 additional while the office is held by the present incumbent, assistant clerk and stenographer $2,500, assistant clerks—one $1,900, one $1,800, janitor $1,000; Banking and Currency—clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Census—clerk $2,000, janitor $720;
Claims—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Coinage, Weights, and Measures—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; District of Columbia—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720; Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives in Congress—clerk $2,000; Elections Number One—clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000; Elections Number Two—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Elections Number Three—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Enrolled Bills—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Flood Control—clerk $2,000, janitor $720;
Foreign Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720; Immigration and Naturalization—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Indian Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720; Industrial Arts and Expositions—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Insular Affairs—clerk $2,000, janitor 71$720; Interstate and Foreign Commerce—clerk $2,500, additional clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $1,000; Irrigation of Arid Lands—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Invalid Pensions—clerk $2,500, stenographer $2,190, assistant clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000;
Judiciary—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, janitor $720; Labor—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Library—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Merchant Marine and Fisheries—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Military Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $1,000; Mines and Mining—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Naval Affairs—clerk $2,400, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $1,000; Patents—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Pensions—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, janitor $720; Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,400, janitor $1,000;
Printing—clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000; Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Public Lands—clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Revision of the Laws—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Rivers and Harbors—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $1,000; Roads—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Rules—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Territories—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; War Claims—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Ways and Means—clerk $3,000, assistant clerk and stenographer $2,000, assistant clerk $1,900, janitors—one $1,000, one $720; in all, $171,690.
Janitors under the foregoing shall be appointed by the chairmen, Janitors. Appointment, etc.respectively, of said committees, and shall perform under the direction of the Doorkeeper all of the duties heretofore required of messengers detailed to said committees by the Doorkeeper, and shall be subject to removal by the Doorkeeper at any time after the termination of the Congress during which they were appointed. For nine clerks to committees, at $6 each per day during the session, $6,372.
Clerks to committees, session. Office of Sergeant at Arms: Sergeant at Arms, $6,500; Deputy Sergeant at Arms, deputy, etc.Sergeant at Arms, $2,500; cashier, $3,400; financial clerk, $2,700; bookkeeper, $2,200; deputy sergeant at arms in charge of pairs, $1,800; messenger, $1,400; stenographer and typewriter, $900; skilled laborer, $840; hire of horse and wagon, $600; in all, $22,840. For police force, House Office Building, under the Sergeant at Police, House Office Building.Arms:
Lieutenant, $1,200; thirteen privates, at $1,050 each; in all, $14,850. Office of Doorkeeper: Doorkeeper, $5,000; hire of horses and Doorkeeper, special employee, etc.wagons and repairs of same, $1,200, or so much thereof as may be necessary; special employee, $1,500; superintendent of reporters’ gallery, $1,400; janitor, $1,500; messengers—sixteen at $1,180 each, Messengers, etc.fourteen on soldiers’ roll at $1,200 each; laborers—fifteen at $720 each, one in the water-closet $720, one $680, two known as cloakroom men at $840 each, eight known as cloakroom men, two at $720 each and six at $600 each; female attendant in ladies’ retiring room, $800; female attendant in ladies’ retiring room off Statuary Hall, $800; superintendent of folding room, $2,500; foreman, $1,800;
Folding room. Superintendent, etc.three clerks, at $1,600 each; messenger, $1,200; janitor, $720; laborer, $720; thirty-two folders, at $900 each; two drivers, at $840 each; two chief pages, at $1,200 each; two messengers in charge of telephones Pages, etc.(one for the minority), at $1,500 each; forty-six pages, during the session, including two riding pages, four telephone pages, press-gallery page, and ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, at $2.50 per day each, $13,570; superintendent of Document room.
Superintendent, etc.document room, $2,900; assistant superintendent, $2,100; clerk, $1,700; assistant clerk, $1,600; assistants—seven at $1,280 each, one $1,100; janitor, $920; messenger to press room, $1,000; in all, $148,270. For the employment of Joel Grayson in document room, $2,150. Joel Grayson. 72 Minority employees. For minority employees authorized and named in the resolution of December sixth, nineteen hundred and fifteen: Special employee, $1,800; special messenger and assistant pair clerk, $1, 800; two special messengers, at $1,500 each; special chief page and pair clerk, $1,800; in all, $8,400.
Special designated employees. For assistant department messenger authorized and named in the resolution of December seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, $2,000. For special messenger authorized and named in the resolution of January fifteenth, nineteen hundred, $1,500. To continue employment of the assistant foreman of the folding room, authorized in the resolution of September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, at $3.85 per day, $1,405.25. To continue employment of the person named in the resolution of April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as a laborer, $840.
To continue employment of the laborer authorized and named in the resolution of December nineteenth, nineteen hundred and one, $840. Appointment, etc. Successors to any of the employees provided for in the six preceding paragraphs may be named by the House of Representatives at any time. Conference minority. Clerks, etc. Conference minority: Clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,200; janitor, $1,000; in all, $4,700; the same to be appointed by the chairman of the conference minority.
Caucus messengers. To continue the employment of messengers in the majority and minority caucus rooms, to be appointed by the majority and minority whips, respectively, at $1,200 each; in all, $2,400. Postmaster, assistant, etc. Office of Postmaster: Postmaster, $4,000; assistant postmaster, $2,200; registry and money-order clerk, $1,500; messengers—twelve (including one to superintend transportation of mails) at $1,200 each, eighteen at $100 per month each from December first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $7,200; laborer, $720; in all, $30,020.
Horses and wagons. For hire of horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, $2,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Official reporters. Official reporters: Six official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the House, at $5,000 each; assistant, $2,500; janitor, $720; in all, $33,220. Stenographers to committees. Stenographers to committees: Four stenographers to committees, at $5,000 each; janitor, $720; in all, $20,720. “During the session” to mean 118 days. Wherever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the one hundred and eighteen days from December fourth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, both inclusive.
Clerk hire, Members and Delegates. Clerk hire, Members and Delegates: To pay each Member, Delegate, and Resident Commissioner, for clerk hire, necessarily employed by him in the discharge of his official and representative duties, $1,500 per annum, in monthly installments, $660,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and Representatives and Delegates elect to Congress whose credentials in due form of law have been duly filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in accordance R.
S., sec. 31, p. 6.with the provisions of section thirty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall be entitled to payment under this appropriation: *Proviso.* To be placed on roll of employees.*Provided,* That all clerks to Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners shall be placed on the roll of employees of the House and be subject to be removed at the will of the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner by whom they are appointed; and any Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may appoint 73one or more clerks, who shall be placed on the roll as the clerk of such Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner making such appointments.
Contingent expenses: For wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste, Contingent expenses. Folding materials.twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding, for use of Members, the Clerk’s office, and folding room, not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk of the House, under provisions of the act approved January Vol. 28, p. 624.twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $10,000.
For furniture, and materials for repairs of the same, $18,000. Furniture. For packing boxes, $4,350, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Packing boxes. Miscellaneous items. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, $75,000. For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners, including $5,000 for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, $60,000.
For postage stamps: Postmaster, $250; Clerk, $450; Sergeant at Postage stamps.Arms, $300; Doorkeeper, $150; in all, $1,150. For driving, maintenance, and operation of automobile for the Speaker, $1,500. Automobile, Speaker. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Library of Congress. General administration: Librarian, $6,500; chief assistant librarian, Librarian, etc.$4,000; chief clerk, $2,500; Librarian’s secretary, $1,800; clerks—one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; stenographers and typewriters—one $1,200, one $840; messenger, $840; messenger to chief assistant librarian, $540; junior messenger, $420; operator of photographic copying machine, $600; in all, $22,440.
Mail and delivery: Assistants—one in charge $1,500, one $960, Mail and delivery.one $780, one $600; junior messenger, $420; in all, $4,260. Order and accession: Chief of division, $2,500; assistants—one Order and accession.$1,500, one $1,200, three at $960 each, two at $840 each, two at $600 each, one $580; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $12,380. Catalogue, classification, and shelf: Chief of division, $3,000; chief Catalogue, classification, and shelf.classifier, $2,000; assistants—four at $1,800 each, seven at $1,500 each, six at $1,400 each, twelve at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, fourteen at $960 each, four at $920 each, thirteen at $840 each, thirteen at $600 each, four at $540 each; six junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $92,020.
Binding: Assistants—one in charge $1,500, one $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $2,880. Binding. Bibliography: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, Bibliography.two at $960 each, one $840; stenographer and typewriter, $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $8,640. Reading rooms (including evening service) and special collections: Reading rooms.Superintendent, $3,000; assistants—two at $1,800 each, five at $1,200 each (including one in room for the blind), two at charging desk at $1,080 each, three at $960 each, ten at $840 each, four at $600 each; stenographer and typewriter, $960; attendants—Senate reading room $960, Representatives’ reading room—one $960, one $840, two in cloak-room at $780 each, one in Toner Library $960, one in Washington Library $960, two for gallery and alcoves at $540 each; telephone operator, $660; four junior messengers, at $420 each; two watchmen, at $780 each; evening service, assistants—five at $960 each, fifteen at $840 each, two at $600 each; in all, $59,220.
Periodical (including evening service): Chief of division, $2,000; Periodicals.assistants—chief $1,500, two at $960 each, five at $840 each; stenographer and typewriter, $960; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $11,420. 74 Documents. Documents: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, one $840; stenographer and typewriter, $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $6,720. Manuscript. Manuscript: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—chief $1,500, one $960; junior messenger, $420: in all, $5,880.
Maps and charts. Maps and charts: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, two at $960 each, one $840; junior messenger, $420; in all, $7,680. Music. Music: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, one $1,000, two at $840 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, $7,600. Prints. Prints: Chief of division, $2,000; assistants—one $1,500, two at $960 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,840. Smithsonian deposits. Smithsonian deposit: Custodian, $1,500; assistant, $1,500; messenger, $780; junior messenger, $420; in all, $4,200.
Congressional Reference Library. Congressional Reference Library: Custodian, $1,500; assistants—one $1,200, one $960, one $840; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $5,340. Law Library. Law Library: Librarian, $3,000; assistants—two at $1,400 each, one $960, one $540, one (evening service), $1,500; junior messenger, $420; in all, $9,220. Semitic and Oriental Literature. Semitic and Oriental Literature: Chief of division, $3,000; assistant, $1,500; junior messenger, $420; in all, $4,920.
Copyright office. Copyright office: Register, $4,000; assistant register, $3,000; clerks—four at $2,000 each, four at $1,800 each, seven at $1,600 each, one $ 1,500, eight at $1,400 each, ten at $1,200 each, ten at $1,000 each, eighteen at $960 each, two at $860 each, ten at $780 each, four at $600, two at $480 each; four junior messengers, at $360 each. Arrears, special service: Three clerks, at $1,200 each; porter, $780; junior messenger, $360; in all, $104,440. Legislative Reference.
Service designated. Legislative Reference: To enable the Librarian of Congress to employ competent persons to gather, classify, and make available, in translations, indexes, digests, compilations, and bulletins, and otherwise, data for or bearing upon legislation, and to render such data serviceable to Congress and committees and Members thereof, $25,000. Card indexes. Distribution of card indexes: For service in connection with distribution of card indexes and other publications of the Library:
Chief of division, $3,000; chief assistant, $1,800; assistants—one $1,600, three at $1,500 each, three at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,100 each, four at $1,000 each; for services of assistants at salaries less than $1,000 per annum and for piecework and work by the hour, $17,000, including not exceeding $500 for freight charges, expressage, traveling expenses connected with such distribution, and expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $43,000.
Temporary services. Temporary services: For special and temporary service, including extra special services of regular employees at the discretion of the Librarian, $2,000. Carrier service. Carrier service: For service in connection with the Senate and House Office Buildings, $960, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Sunday opening. Sunday opening: To enable the Library of Congress to be kept open for reference use from two until ten o’clock postmeridian on Sundays and legal holidays, within the discretion of the Librarian, including the extra services of employees and the services of additional employees under the Librarian, $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Increase of Library. Purchase of books, etc. Increase of Library of Congress: For purchase of books for the Library, including payment in advance for subscription books and society publications, and for freight, commissions, and traveling expenses, and all other expenses incidental to the acquisition of books by purchase, gift, bequest, or exchange, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $90,000, 75together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this object for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen;
For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, Law books.under the direction of the Chief Justice, $3,000; For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, Books for Supreme Court.to be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $2,000; For purchase of miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, $5,000; Periodicals. In all, $100,000. Contingent expenses: For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, Contingent expenses.stationery, supplies, stock and materials directly purchased, miscellaneous traveling expenses, postage, transportation, incidental expenses connected with the administration of the Library and the Copyright Office, including not exceeding $500 for expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $7,300.
Library building and grounds: Superintendent, $3,000; clerks—one Care of buildings and grounds.Superintendent, etc.$2,000, one $1,600, one $1,400, one $1,000; property clerk, $900; messenger; assistant messenger; telephone switchboard operator; assistant telephone switchboard operator; assistant telephone switchboard operator; captain of watch, $1,400; lieutenant of watch, $1,000; eighteen watchmen, at $900 each; two carpenters, painter, and foreman of laborers, at $900 each; fourteen laborers, at $540 each; two attendants in ladies’ room, at $480 each; four check boys, at $360 each; mistress of charwomen, $425; assistant mistress of charwomen, $300; fifty-eight charwomen; chief engineer, $1,500; assistant engineers—one $1,200, three at $900 each; electrician, $1,500; machinists—one $1,000, one $900; two wiremen, at $900 each; plumber, $900; three elevator conductors, and ten skilled laborers, at $720 each; in all, $80,445.
For extra services of employees and additional employees under Sunday opening.the superintendent to provide for the opening of the Library Building from two until ten o’clock postmeridian on Sundays and legal holidays, $2,800. For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous supplies, electric and steam General expenses.apparatus, city directory, stationery, mail and delivery service, and all incidental expenses in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of said building and grounds, including $4,000 for waterproofing parts of east driveway and over machinery, and $2,000 for temporary repairs and painting of roof, $20,000.
For resurfacing west driveway and repairs to stone curb in Library Special repairs, etc.grounds, $4,000. For refitting of boiler room and coal vaults, $2,500. For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical Furniture.work pertaining thereto, $10,000. BOTANIC GARDEN. Botanic Garden. For superintendent, $1,800. For assistants and laborers, under the direction of the Joint Committee Superintendent, assistants, etc.on the Library, $18,000. For procuring manure, soil, tools, fuel, purchasing trees, shrubs, Repairs and improvements.plants, and seeds; services, materials, and miscellaneous supplies, traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence of the superintendent and his assistants not to exceed $200, street car tickets not exceeding $25, and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Gardens, purchase and maintenance of motor-propelled delivery vehicle, under direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, $11,903. 76 EXECUTIVE.
Executive. President. For compensation of the President of the United States, $75,000. Vice President. For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, $12,000. Executive Office. Secretary, executive clerk, etc. Office of the President: Secretary, $7,500; executive clerk, $5,000; chief clerk, $4,000; appointment clerk, $3,500; record clerk, $2,500; two expert stenographers, at $2,500 each; accountant and disbursing clerk, $2,500; two correspondents, at $2,500 each; clerks—two at $2,500 each, four at $2,000 each, five of class four, two of class three, four of class two, three of class one; messengers—three at $900 each, three at $840 each; three laborers at $720 each; in all, *Proviso.* Details of employees.$76,780: *Provided,* That employees of the executive departments and other establishments of the executive branch of the Government may be detailed from time to time to the office of the President of the United States for such temporary assistance as may be necessary.
Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationery, record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, automobiles, expenses of garage, including labor, and miscellaneous items, to be expended in the discretion of the President, $25,000. BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY. Bureau of Efficiency. Investigating administrative needs of executive departments, ratings, etc. *Ante,* p. 15. Vol. 37, pp. 413, 750. Vol. 38, p. 1008.
To enable the Bureau of Efficiency, authorized by the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to establish and maintain a system of efficiency ratings, to investigate administrative needs of the service relating to personnel in the several executive departments and independent establishments, required by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Acts for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and thirteen and nineteen hundred and fourteen, respectively, and to investigate duplication of statistical and other work and methods of business in the various branches of the Government service; for purchase or exchange of equipment, supplies, stationery, books and periodicals, Expenses. *Proviso.* Pay restriction.printing and binding, traveling expenses not exceeding $100, and street car fare not exceeding $50; in all, $40,000: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a compensation exceeding $4,000 per annum.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. Civil Service Commission. Commissioners, examiners, etc. For commissioner, acting as president of the commission, $4,500; two commissioners, at $4,000 each; chief examiner, $3,500; secretary, $2,500; assistant chief examiner, $2,250; chiefs of division—three at $2,000 each; examiners—one $2,400, three at $2,000 each, six at $1,800 each; clerks—six of class four, twenty-eight of class three, thirty-nine of class two, fifty-two of class one, thirty-four at $1,000 each, twenty-two at $900 each; messenger; assistant messenger; skilled laborer, $720; four messenger boys, at $360 each.
Custodian force: Engineer, $840; general mechanic, $840; telephone-switchboard operator; two firemen; two watchmen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; three laborers; four charwomen; in all, $285,730. Field force. Field force: District secretaries—two at $2,400 each, one $2,200, four at $2,000 each, five at $1,800 each; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class one, seven at $1,000 each, six at $900 each, five at $840 each; messenger boy, $480; in all, $45,680.
No details allowed from departments, etc. No detail of clerks or other employees from the executive departments or other Government establishments in Washington, District of Columbia, to the Civil Service Commission, for the performance 77of duty in the District of Columbia, shall be made for or during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen. The Civil Service Transfer of employees.Commission shall, however, have power in case of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees herein provided for to or from its office force, field force, or rural carrier examining board.
Expert examiners: For employment of expert examiners not in Expert examiners.the Federal service to prepare questions and rate papers in examinations on special subjects for which examiners within the service are not available, $2,000. For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners acting Traveling expenses, etc.under the direction of the commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, and including not exceeding $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings of public officials when specifically directed by the commission, $18,000.
For field examiners at the rate of $1,500 per annum each, for work Field examiners.in connection with members of local boards and other necessary work as directed by the commission, $7,500. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Department of State. For Secretary of State, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, $5,000; Secretary, Assistants. Director of Consular Service, Counselor.Second and Third Assistant Secretaries, at $4,500 each; Director of the Consular Service, $4,500; Counselor for the department, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, $7,500; officers to aid in important drafting work—four at Officers on drafting work.$4,500 each, four at $3,000 each, to be appointed by the Secretary, any one of whom may be employed as chief of division of far eastern, Latin American, near eastern, or European affairs, or upon other work in connection with foreign relations; assistant solicitors of the Assistant solicitors.department, to be appointed by the Secretary—three at $3,000 each; chief clerk, who shall sign such official papers and documents as the Chief clerk, chiefs of bureaus, clerks, etc.Secretary may direct, $3,000; law clerk, $2,500; law clerk and assistant, to be selected and appointed by the Secretary, to edit the laws of Congress and perform such other duties as may be required of them, at $2,500 and $1,500, respectively; chiefs of bureaus—two at $2,250 each, five at $2,100 each; two translators, at $2,100 each; additional to Chief of Bureau of Accounts as disbursing clerk, $200; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; clerks—seventeen of class four, nineteen of class three, twenty-five of class two, forty-three of class one (three of whom shall be telegraph operators), eighteen at $1,000 each, eighteen at $900 each; chief messenger, $1,000; six messengers; twenty-three assistant messengers; messenger boy, $420; packer, $720; four laborers, at $600 each; telephone switchboard operator; assistant telephone switchboard operator; driver, $840; hostler, $720; in all, $321,020.
For the following additional force: Officer to aid in important Additional force. Officer on drafting work, assistant solicitor, law clerks, etc.drafting work, $2,500; assistant solicitor, $2,500; two law clerks, at $2,000 each; clerks—two of class four, four of class three, five of class two, ten of class one, twelve at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; two assitant messengers; in all, $54,080. For the following further additional force: Officers to aid in important Further additional force.drafting work—one $4,500, one $2,500, to be appointed by the Secretary; assistant solicitor of the department, to be appointed by the Secretary, $2,500; law clerks—two at $2,250 each, one $2,000, to be appointed by the Secretary; clerks—eight of class four, seven of class three, ten of class two, ten of class one; messenger; two assistant messengers; three laborers, at $600 each; five female laborers, at $240 each; in all, $72,880. 78 No other appropriation to be used for services in the District. *Post,* p. 255.
No money appropriated by any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen for employment and payment of personal service in the Department of State at Washington, District of Columbia. Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses: For stationery, furniture, fixtures, typewriters, including exchange of the same, repairs, and material for repairs, $12,500. Library. For books, maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, for the library, $2,000. Lithographing.
For services of lithographer and necessary materials for lithographic press, $1,500. Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous expenses, including purchase, care, and subsistence of horses, to be used only for official purposes, repair and maintenance of horse-drawn passenger carrying vehicles; automobile mail wagon, including exchange of same, harness, equipment for drivers, street-car tickets not exceeding $100, and other items not included in the foregoing, $10,000. Rent. For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $11,200.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department. Secretary, Assistants, clerks, etc. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of the Treasury, $12,000; three Assistant Secretaries, at $5,000 each; clerk to the Secretary, $3,000; executive clerk, $2,400; stenographer, $1,800; three private secretaries, one to each Assistant Secretary, at $1,800 each; Government actuary, under control of the Treasury, $2,500; clerks—one of class four, four of class three, two of class two; chief messenger, $1,100; two assistant chief messengers, at $1,000 each; messengers—three at $900 each, three at $840 each; in all, $61,420.
Chief clerk, assistant superintendent, clerks, etc. Office of chief clerk and superintendent: Chief clerk, including $300 as superintendent of Treasury Building, who shall be the chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries of the department, $4,000; assistant superintendent of Treasury Building, $2,500; clerks—one $2,000, four of class four, one of class three, two of class two, three of class one (one transferred from Treasurer’s office at $1,400), one $1,000, one $900; operator of photographic copying machine, $800; two messengers; three assistant messengers; messenger boy, $360; storekeeper, $1,200; telephone and Engineers, etc.telegraph operator, $1,200; chief engineer, $1,400; three assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; eight elevator conductors, at $720 each, and the use of laborers as relief elevator conductors during rush hours is authorized; eight firemen; coal passer, $500; locksmith and electrician, Watchmen, laborers, etc.$1 ,400; captain of the watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; sixty-five watchmen; foreman of laborers, $1,000; skilled laborers—two at $840 each, two at $720 each; electrician, $1,200; wireman, $900; thirty-five laborers; ten laborers, at $500 each; plumber, $1,100; painter, $1,100; plumber’s assistant, $780; eighty-five Winder Building.charwomen; carpenters—two at $1,000 each, one $720.
Winder Building: Engineer, $1,000; three firemen; elevator conductor, $720; four watchmen; three laborers (one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor); forewoman of char force Cox Building.$480; eight charwomen. Cox Building, seventeen hundred and nine New York Avenue: Two watchmen-firemen, at $720 each; laborer. Auditors’ Building.Auditors’ Building: Forewoman of char force, $480; twenty-five charwomen; elevator conductor, $720; five laborers, at $500 each (one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor); two female laborers, at $480 each; skilled laborer, $840; in all, $185,980. 79 General Supply Committee:
Superintendent of supplies, $2,250; General Supply Committee.clerks—two of class four (one transferred from Treasurer’s office), one of class three, one $1,500 (transferred from Treasurer’s office), three of class two, four of class one (two transferred from Treasurer’s office); twelve temporary clerks for four months, at $75 each per month; in all, $21,550. Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants: Chief of division, $4,000; Bookkeeping and Warrants Division.assistant chief of division, $3,000; estimate and digest clerk, $2,500; executive clerk, $2,500; two principal bookkeepers, at $2,100 each; eleven bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—thirteen of class four (one transferred to Office of Comptroller of Currency), six of class three, six of class two, two of class one; messenger; three assistant messengers; messenger boy, $480; in all, $85,480.
Division of Customs: Chief of division, $4,500; assistant chiefs of Customs Division.division—one $3,000 (in lieu of supervising agent at $4,500 paid from appropriation “Expenses of collecting revenue from customs”), one $3,000; supervising tea examiner, $2,750; law clerks—four at $2,500 each, three at $2,000 each; clerks—five of class four, four of class three (one transferred from Division of Special Agents), six of class two (one transferred from Division of Special Agents), nine of class one (one transferred from Division of special Agents), five at $1,000 each; two messengers (one transferred from Division of Special Agents); assistant messenger; in all, $71,250.
Division of Appointments: Chief of division, $3,000; assistant Appointments Division.chief of division, $2,250; executive clerk, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, three of class three (one transferred to the Division of Loans and Currency), four of class two, two of class one, two at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger; assistant messenger; in all, $26,310. Section of Surety Bonds: Chief, $2,000; clerks—two of class one, Surety Bonds Section.one$1,000; assistant messenger; in all, $6,120.
Division of Public Moneys: Chief of division, $3,000; assistant chief Public Moneys Division.of division, $2,500; clerks—five of class four, four of class three, four of class two, one of class one, one $1,000; messenger; assistant messenger; in all, $30,260. Division of Loans and Currency: Chief of division, $3,500; assistant Loans and Currency Division.chief of division, $2,700; custodian of paper, $2,250; bond and interest clerk, $2,000; clerks—six of class four, six of class three (one transferred from Division of Appointments), five of class two, five of class one, one $1,000, four at $900 each; assorter of bonds, $800; expert counter clerks—nineteen at $900 each (one transferred from Treasurer’s Office), two at $800 each, fifteen at $720 each; messenger; three assistant messengers; eleven laborers; machine operator, $840; in all, $89,850.
Division of Printing and Stationery: Chief of division, $2,500; Printing and Stationery Division.assistant chief of division, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, three of class three, three of class two, three of class one, one $1,000, one $900; bookbinder, $1,400; three messengers; assistant messenger; two laborers; messenger boy, $360; in all, $32,520. Division of Mail and Files: Superintendent of mail, $2,500; registry Mail and Files Division.clerk, $1,800; distributing clerk, $1,400; clerks—one of class two, one of class one, one $1,000; mail messenger, $1,200; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $360; in all, $12,300.
Office of disbursing clerk: Disbursing clerk, $3,000; deputy disbursing clerk, Disbursing clerk.$2,750; clerks—three of class four, two of class three, three of class two, two of class one; messenger; in all, $21,790. Office of Supervising Architect: Supervising Architect, $5,000; Supervising Architect. *Post,* p. 271.executive officer, $3,250; technical officer, $3,000; drafting division—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,750; mechanical engineering division—superintendent $2,750, assistant superintendent $2,400; structural division—superintendent $2,750, assistant 80superintendent $2,400; superintendents—computing division $2,750, repairs division $2,400, accounts division $2,500, maintenance division $2,500; files and records division—chief $2,500, assistant chief $2,250; head draftsman $2,500; administrative clerks—eight at $2,000 each; technical clerks—four at $1,800 each; clerks—nine of class four, additional to one of class four as bookkeeper $100, four at $1,700 each, fourteen of class three, six at $1,500 each, thirteen of class two, eight at $1,300 each, twenty-one of class one, four at $1,100 each, seven at $1,000 each, three at $900 each, two at $840 each; photographer, $2,000; foreman, duplicating-galley, $1,800; two duplicating paper chemists at $1,200 each; foreman, vault, safe, and lock shop, $1,200; five messengers; two assistant messengers; messenger boys—one at $600, two at $480 each, two at $360 each; skilled laborers—four at $1,000 each, seven at $960 each, one $900, one $840; laborers—one $660, one $600; in all, $221,020.
Comptroller’s Office. Office of Comptroller of the Treasury: Comptroller, $6,000; assistant comptroller, $4,500; chief clerk, $2,500; chief law clerk, $2,500; law clerks revising accounts and briefing opinions—one $2,100, eight at $2,000 each; expert accountants—six at $2,000 each; private secretary, $1,800; clerks—eight of class four, three of class three, one of class two; stenographer and typewriter, $1,400; typewriter-copyist, $1,000; two messengers; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $73,460.
Office of Auditor for Treasury Department. Office of Auditor for Treasury Department: Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; two chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—eighteen of class four, fifteen of class three, thirteen of class two, thirty-one of class one, nine at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; three assistant messengers; three laborers; in all, $140,790. Office of Auditor for War Department. Office of Auditor for War Department:
Auditor, $4,000; assistant and chief clerk, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chief of division of accounts, $2,500; chief of claims and records division, $2,000; two assistant chiefs of division, at $1,900 each; chief transportation clerk, $2,000; clerks—twenty-two of class four, forty-nine of class three, fifty-five of class two, forty-five of class one, eight at $1,000 each; three at $900 each; skilled laborer, $900; messenger; five assistant messengers; nine laborers; messenger boy, $480; in all, $290,010.
Office of Auditor for Navy Department. Office of Auditor for Navy Department: Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chief of division, $2,000; assistant chief of division, $2,000; clerks—thirteen of class four, twenty-two of class three, twenty of class two, twenty-three of class one, six at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; helper, $900 (transferred from the Bureau of Engraving and Printing); messenger; assistant messenger; three laborers; in all, $142,290.
Office of Auditor for Interior Department. Office of Auditor for Interior Department: Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chief of division, $2,000; clerks—fourteen of class four, seventeen of class three, seventeen of class two, twenty-two of class one, twelve at $1,000 each, twelve at $900 each (seven transferred from lump-sum appropriation); two messengers; two assistant messengers; laborer; in all, $139,430. Mechanical devices. For rental of mechanical devices and the necessary expenses of their operation, $1,500.
Office of Auditor for State, etc., Departments. Office of Auditor for State and Other Departments: Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; two chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—seventeen of class four (one transferred from Treasurer’s office), one of class four (special examiner), seventeen of class three, thirteen of class two, eleven of class one, four at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, $113,550. 81 Office of Auditor for Post Office Department:
Auditor, Office of Auditor for Post Office Department.$5,000; assistant and chief clerk, $3,000; law clerk, $3,000; expert accountant, $3,000; four chiefs of division, at $2,250 each; tour assistant chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; three principal bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty-five of class four, forty-three of class three, forty-nine of class two, sixty-two of class one, fifteen at $1,000 each, twelve at $900 each; skilled laborers—five at $840 each, eleven at $720 each, six at $660 each; messenger boys—four at $480 each, five at $420 each, five at $360 each; ten male laborers, at $660 each; forewoman, $480; nineteen charwomen; in all, $353,140.
For compensation to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, of Employees on mechanical devices.such number of employees as may be necessary to audit the accounts and vouchers of the Postal Service by the use of labor-saving devices, $247,730: *Provided,* That not exceeding $32,200 may be used for the *Proviso.* Employees on leave.payment of compensation to said employees absent on leave. The Secretary of the Treasury may, during the fiscal year nineteen Reduction in grades below chief of division.hundred and seventeen, diminish from time to time, as vacancies occur by death, resignation, or otherwise, the number of positions of the several grades below the grade of chief of division in the Office of the Auditor for the Post Office Department and use the unexpended balances of the appropriations for the positions so diminished as a fund to pay the compensation, as fixed by the Secretary of the Payment to employees on mechanical devices.Treasury, of such number of employees as may be necessary to audit the accounts and vouchers of the Postal Service by the use of labor-saving devices.
Postal Savings System: Clerks—one of class three, five of class Postal Savings System.two, twelve of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each; seven skilled laborers, at $900 each; in all, $42,300. Office of the Treasurer: Treasurer, $8,000; Assistant Treasurer, Treasurer’s Office.$3,600; Deputy Assistant Treasurer, $3,200; cashier, $3,600; assistant cashier, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; five chiefs of division, at $2,500 each; two assistant chiefs of division, at $2,250 each; vault clerk, $2,500; principal bookkeeper, $2,500; two tellers, at $2,500 each; two assistant tellers, at $2,250 each; assistant bookkeepers—two at $2,100 each, two at $2,000 each; vault clerk, bond division, $2,000; clerk for Treasurer, $1,800; coin clerk, $1,400; clerks—twenty-four of class four (one transferred to General Supply Committee and one to Auditor for State Department), nineteen of class three, four at $1,500 each (one transferred to General Supply Committee), fourteen of class two (one transferred to Chief Clerk’s office, Treasury, as clerk of class one), three at $1,300 each, thirty-nine of class one (two transferred to General Supply Committee, one to Office of Assistant Treasurer at San Francisco, three reduced to $1,100 each), four at $1,100 each (three in lieu of three at $1,200 each), sixteen at $1,000 each, twenty-two at $900 each; expert counters—six at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, thirty-eight at $900 each (one transferred to Division of Loans and Currency), twelve at $800 each, thirty-three at $720 each, six at $600 each; two compositors and pressmen, at $1,600 each; two skilled laborers at $1,200 each; silver piler, $1,000, and $200 additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; seventeen money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; mail messenger, $840; eight messengers; eight assistant messengers; twenty-one laborers; seven messenger boys, at $360 each; in all, $395,060.
For the force employed in redeeming the national currency (to be, Redemption of national currency.reimbursed by the national banks): Superintendent, $3,500; teller, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,400; assistant teller, $2,000; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; clerks—five of class four, seven of class three, nine of class two; expert counters—thirty-five at $1,200 each, fifty-two at $1,000 each, forty-two at $900 each, forty-four at $800 each, six 82at $700 each; two messengers; four assistant messengers; four charwomen; in all, $221,920.
Postal Savings System. Postal Savings System: Accountant, $2,000; clerks—three of class two, two of class one, three at $1,000 each; expert counter, $900; in all, $12,500. For repairs to canceling and cutting machines in the office of the Treasurer of the United States, $200. Register’s Office. Office of Register of the Treasury: Register, $4,000; Assistant Register, $2,500; chief of division, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, two of class two, three of class one, three at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; messenger; laborer; in all, $29,800.
Office of Comptroller of the Currency. Office of Comptroller of the Currency: Comptroller, $5,000; deputy comptrollers—one $3,500, one $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chiefs of divisions—one $2,500, two at $2,200 each; general bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; clerks—eleven of class four (one transferred from Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants), additional to bond clerk $200, sixteen of class three, nineteen of class two, twenty-six of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each; stenographer, $1,600; six counters, at $840 each; messenger; five assistant messengers; three laborers; two messenger boys, at $360 each; in all, $161,380.
National currency expenses. For expenses of the national currency (to be reimbursed by the national banks): Superintendent, $2,500; teller, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, four of class two, five of class one, four at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; engineer, $1,000; counters—twelve at $840 each, three at $700 each; assistant messenger; fireman; messenger boy, $360; two charwomen; in all, $43,460. Special examinations, etc. For special examinations of national banks and bank plates, of keeping macerator in Treasury Building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerator, and for procuring information relative to banks other than national, $5,000.
Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue. *Post,* p. 804. Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue: Commissioner, $6,500; deputy commissioners—one $4,000, one $3,600; chemists—chief $3,000, one $2,500; assistant chemists—two at $1,800 each, one $1,600, one $1,400; heads of divisions—four at $2,500 each, five at $2,250 each; superintendent of stamp vault, $2,000; private secretary, $1,800; clerks—three at $2,000 each, thirty-one of class four, twenty-seven of class three, forty-one of class two, forty of class one, thirty-two at $1,000 each, forty-two at $900 each; four messengers; seventeen assistant messengers; sixteen laborers; in all, $357,610.
Additional employees on income tax. For the following, formerly authorized and paid from the appropriation for “Classifying, and so forth, returns of corporations,” and for Deputy commissioner, heads of division, etc.others whose employment is necessary on account of the Act imposing income taxes on corporations and individuals, namely: Deputy commissioner, $4,000; heads of divisions—one $3,500, one $2,500; three assistant heads of divisions, at $2,000 each; attorney, $3,600; law clerk, $2,000; insurance expert, $2,000; railroad expert, $2,000; clerks—one $2,000, seventeen of class four, twenty-nine of class three, fifty-four of class two, forty of class one, forty-tour at $1,000 each, twenty-eight at $900 each; seven messengers; four assistant messengers; in all, $306,160.
Clerks on emergency taxes. *Ante,* p. 2. *Post,* p. 804. For the following employees in the office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue from July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, both dates inclusive: Clerks—two of class four, two of class three, one of class two, one of class one, one $900; two counters, at $900 each; in all, $6,050. Temporary clerks. For the employment of temporary clerical help in the Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue at rates to be fixed by the commissioner with the approval of the Secretary, $10,000. 83 For stamp agents—one $1,600, one $900; counter, $900; in all, Stamp agents.$3,400, to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers.
Office of the Coast Guard: Two chiefs of division, at $3,000 Coast Guard Office.each; two assistant chiefs of division, at $2,200 each; title and contract clerk, $2,000; law and contract clerk, $1,800 and $200 additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; topographer and hydrographer, $1,800; civil engineer, $2,250; draftsman, $1,500; clerks—four of class four, nine of class three, five of class two, eight of class one, seven at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $72,710.
The services of skilled draftsmen, and such other technical services Skilled draftsmen etc.as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Coast Guard in connection with the construction and repair of Coast Guard cutters, to be paid from the *Post,* p. 274. *Proviso.* Limit, etc.appropriation “Repairs to Coast Guard cutters”: *Provided,* That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen shall not exceed $3,400.
A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each, shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Bureau of Engraving and Printing: Director, $6,000; assistant Engraving and Printing Bureau.director, $3,500; chief of division of assignments and reviews, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; disbursing agent, $2,400; medical and sanitary officer, $2,000; stenographer, $1,800; storekeeper, $1,600; assistant storekeeper, $1,000; clerk in charge of purchases and supplies, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, six of class three, nine of class two, nine of class one, eight at $1,000 each, twelve at $900 each, fifteen at $840 each, three at $780 each; nine attendants, at $600 each; helpers—one at $900, two at $720 each, two at $600 each; three messengers; seven assistant messengers; captain of watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of watch at $900 each; sixty watchmen, at $720 each; two forewomen of charwomen, at $540 each; twenty-five day charwomen, at $400 each; seventy-seven morning and evening charwomen, at $300 each; foreman of laborers, $900; four laborers; eighty-five laborers, at $540 each; in all, $240,860; and no other fund appropriated by this or any Limit on paying for services.other Act shall be used for services, in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, of the character specified in this paragraph, except in cases of emergency arising after the passage of this Act, and then only on the written approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and in every such case of emergency a detailed statement of the expenditures on account thereof shall be reported to Congress at the beginning of each regular session.
Secret Service Division: Chief, $4,000; assistant chief, who shall Secret Service Division.discharge the duties of chief clerk, $3,000; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, two of class two, one of class one, one $1,000; assistant messenger; in all, $16,120. Office of Director of the Mint: Director, $5,000; examiner, Office of Director of the Mint.$3,000; computer and adjuster of accounts, $2,200; assayer, $2,200; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, one of class one; private secretary, $1,400; assistant in laboratory, $1,200; messenger; assistant messenger; skilled laborer, $720; in all, $23,680.
For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, Freight.between mints and assay offices, $25,000. For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expended Contingent expenses.under the direction of the director: For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, pamphlets, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, $800. For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose Examinations, etc.of superintending the annual settlements, and for special exami-84Precious metals statistics.nations, and for the collection of statistics relative to the annual production and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, $4,800.
Public Health Service. Office of Surgeon General of Public Health Service: Surgeon General, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,250; private secretary to the Surgeon General, $1,800; assistant editor, $1,800; clerks—four of class four, five of class three, eight of class two, one of whom shall be translator, nine of class one, five at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; messenger; three assistant messengers; telephone operator, $720; two laborers, at $540 each; in all, $61,550. Contingent expenses.
Stationery. Additional deducted from bureaus, offices, etc. Contingent expenses: For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, $50,000, and in addition from bureaus, offices, thereto sums amounting to $94,000 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, as follows: Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, $6,000; contingent expenses, mint at Philadelphia, $400; contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco, $200; contingent expenses, mint at Denver, $200; contingent expenses, assay office at New York, $400; materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $4,100; suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, $200;
Public Health Service, $2,300; Quarantine Service, $500; preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $200; expenses of Coast Guard, $2,500; general expenses of public buildings, $6,000; collecting the revenue from customs, $35,000; miscellaneous expenses of collecting internal revenue, $14,000; expenses of collecting the income tax, $22,000; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $50,000, the total appropriation for stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, with the exception or field officers located in foreign countries, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen.
Postage. For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, $1,000. Binding. For materials for the use of the bookbinder located in the Treasury Department, $250. Reference books, etc. For newspaper clippings, financial journals, law books, city directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $1,000. Freight, etc. For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $9,000.
Investigations to secure better administrative methods, etc. For investigation and experimentation and to secure better methods of administration, with a view to increased efficiency or to greater economy in the expenditure of public money, including necessary traveling expenses, in connection with special work, or obtaining of better administrative methods in any branch of the service within or under the Treasury Department, including the temporary employment of agents, stenographers, accountants, or other expert services either within or without the District of Columbia, $15,000.
Rent. For rent of buildings, $11,350. Vehicles. For purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks; purchase, exchange, and maintenance of horses, including shoeing; purchase and repair of wagons, horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and harness, all to be used for official purposes only, $2,500. Files. For purchase of file holders and file cases, $4,000. Fuel, etc. For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $12,000.
Lighting. For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, gas and electric light fixtures, electric light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, $21,500. 85 For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings and fixtures, Miscellaneous.window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower-garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps and repairs of same, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, toilet paper, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, street car tickets not exceeding $250, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public auction in Washington, District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, $13,500.
For purchase of labor-saving machines and supplies for same, including Labor - saving machines, etc.the purchase and exchange of registering accountants, numbering machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, and purchase of supplies for photographic copying machines, $6,000. For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats, Carpets, etc.rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and re-laying of the same, by contract, $2,000.
For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair caning, chair covers, Furniture.desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $10,000. For maintenance of the automatic fire-alarm systems in the Treasury Fire alarm.and Winder Buildings, $2,029.50.
Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Office of Auditor for Post Office Department: Auditor for Post Office Department. Contingent expenses.For miscellaneous items, including purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters and adding machines, of which not exceeding $500 may be used for furniture and repairs, not exceeding $375 may be used for rental of telephones, and not exceeding $300 may be used for the purchase of law books, books of reference, and city directories, $6,000, to be expended under the Control of expenses.direction of the Auditor for the Post Office Department under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and to operate as a specific exception of the said office from the appropriation for contingent expenses, Treasury Department, unless otherwise provided by law.
For purchase of cards and tabulating equipment for use in auditing Tabulating supplies, etc.accounts and vouchers of the Postal Service, including exchange and repairs, $112,750, to be expended under the direction of the Auditor for the Post Office Department under rules and regulations *Proviso.* Rental limit.to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* That not exceeding $27,850 may be expended for the rental of tabulating and card-sorting machines. collecting internal revenue.
Collecting internal revenue. Collectors, surveyors, etc. *Post,* p. 803. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, deputy collectors, surveyors, clerks, messengers, and janitors in internal-revenue offices, $2,165,000: *Provided,* That no part of this amount *Proviso.* Witness fees.be used in defraying the expenses of any officer, designated above, subpoenaed by the United States court to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation *Post,* p. 314for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts.” 86 Emergency tax expenses. *Ante,* p. 2.
For additional amount required for salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, deputy collectors, surveyors, clerks, messengers, and janitors in internal-revenue offices until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $300,000. *Provisos.* Daily deposits by collectors. *Provided,* That collectors of internal revenue shall pay daily into the Treasury of the United States, under instructions of the Secretary of the Treasury, the gross amounts of all collections of whatever nature, made by authority of law (including sums offered in compromise R.
S., sec. 3229, p. 620.under the provisions of section thirty-two hundred and twenty-nine, Revised Statutes, as well as all other money received for which they are accountable under their respective collection P. S., sec. 3143, p. 602.bonds required to be given under section thirty-one hundred and forty-three, Revised Statutes), and the same shall be covered into Not applicable to income tax. Vol. 38, p. 168.the Treasury as internal-revenue collections: *Provided,* That nothing herein contained shall be construed as affecting the provisions of subsection “D” of Section II, Act of October third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, in the matter of withholding the normal income tax at the source.
Agents, gaugers, etc. For salaries and expenses of forty revenue agents provided for by law, including per diem not to exceed $4, in lieu of subsistence pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and fees and expenses of gaugers, salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeeper-gaugers, $2,200,000. Collecting income tax. Vol. 38, p. 180. *Ante,* p. 84. Collecting the income tax: For expenses of assessing and collecting the income tax as provided in paragraph N, section two, of an Act entitled “An Act to reduce tariff duties, and to provide revenue for the Government, and for other purposes,” approved October third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, including the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary for use in the several collection districts, including not Per diem subsistence.
Vol. 38, p. 680.to exceed $4 per diem, in lieu of subsistence, pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $1,700,000, and authority is hereby given to use $40,000 of said sum for the employment in the District of Columbia Personal services, etc., in District of Columbia.of necessary clerical and other personal services and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia.
Collecting cotton-futures tax. Balance reappropriated. Vol. 38, p. 698. *Post,* p. 481. Collecting the cotton-futures tax: The unexpended balance on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, of the appropriation of $50,000 provided by section nineteen of the Act approved August eighteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to tax the privilege of dealing on exchanges, boards of trade, and similar places in contracts of sale of cotton for future delivery, and for other Per diem subsistence.
Vol. 38, p. 680.purposes,” including not to exceed $4 per diem in lieu of subsistence, pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, is reappropriated and made available for like purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen. Restricting sale of opium, etc. Expenses. Vol. 38, p. 785. Restricting the sale of opium, and so forth: For expenses to enforce the provisions of the Act approved December seventeenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or cocoa leaves, Employees, etc.their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes,” including the employment of agents, deputy collectors, inspectors, chemists, assistant chemists, clerks, and messengers in the field and in the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the District of Columbia, to be appointed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and for the purchase of 87such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia and the several collection districts, including not to exceed $4 per diem in lieu of Per diem subsistence.
Vol. 38, p. 680.subsistence pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $300,000. For rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia, telephone Miscellaneous. *Ante,* p. 84.service, and other miscellaneous expenses incident to the collection of internal revenue, purchase of necessary books of reference and *Post,* p. 804.periodicals for the chemical laboratory and law library, not to exceed $500, and reasonable expenses for not exceeding sixty days immediately following the injury of field officers or employees in the Internal-Revenue Service while in line of duty, of medical attendance, surgeon’s and hospital bills made necessary by reason of such injury, and for horses crippled or killed while being used by officers in making raids, not exceeding $150 for any horse so crippled or killed, $100,000.
Hereafter the Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall determine Posts of duty of employees.and designate the posts of duty of all employees of the Internal Revenue Service engaged in field work or traveling on official business outside of the District of Columbia, and when ordered from Per diem allowed when traveling away from, on orders. R. S., sec. 3152, p. 604.their designated posts of duty all internal revenue agents appointed under Section thirty-one hundred and fifty-two, Revised Statutes, as amended, and cotton-futures attorneys, may be granted per diem in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, and, when ordered from their designated posts of duty, income-tax agents and inspectors, special gaugers, and special employees may be granted a per diem in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $3, the per diem in lieu of subsistence to be fixed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury. independent treasury.
Independent Treasury. Baltimore, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, Assistant treasurers offices. Baltimore.$4,500; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,900; exchange teller, $1,800; vault clerk, $1,800; clerks—two at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; messenger, $840; three watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $31,500. Boston, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, Boston.$5,000; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,500; vault clerk, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,000; redemption teller, $1,800; clerks—one $2,200, five at $1,600 each, one $1,500, one $1,400, two at $1,200 each, three at $1,100 each, four at $1,000 each; chief guard, $1,100; three watchmen, at $850 each; laborer and guard, $720; four money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $46,570.
Chicago, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, Chicago.$5,000; cashier, $3,000; assistant cashier, $2,000; vault clerk, $2,250; paying teller, $2,500; assorting teller, $2,000; redemption teller, $2,000 change teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,000; bookkeepers—two at $1,500 each; clerks—one $1,750, one $1,600, nine at $1,500 each, thirteen at $1,200 each; attendant for money laundry machines, $1,200; hall man, $1,100; messenger, $840; three watchmen, at $720 each; janitor, $720; eight money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $71,420.
Cincinnati, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, Cincinnati.$4,500; cashier, $2,250; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,800; vault clerk, $1,600; clerks—two at $1,300 each, four at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; clerk and stenographer, $1,000; chief watchman, $840; two watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $24,830. New Orleans, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, New Orleans.$4,500; cashier, $2,250; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, 88$2,000; vault clerk, $1,800; assorting teller, $1,200; clerks—one $1,500, five at $1,200 each, one $1,000; typewriter and stenographer, $1,000; day watchman, $720; night watchman, $720; messenger, $600; in all, $25,290.
New York. New York, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, $8,000; cashier, $4,200; assistant cashier, $3,600; chief clerk, $3,000; check pay division—chief $3,000, assistant chief $2,000; bond clerk and assistant vault clerk, $2,800; paying teller, $3,000; assistant paying teller, $2,250; receiving teller, $2,800; assistant receiving teller, $1,800; redemption division—chief $2,700, assistant chief $2,250; vault and authorities clerk, $2,500; coin division—chief $2,700, assistant chief $2,000, paying teller $2,100; bookkeepers—chief $2,400, two at $2,000 each; clerks—one $2,300, two at $2,000 each, one $1,900, one $1,800, one $1,700, four at $1,600 each, seven at $1,500 each, nine at $1,400 each, five at $1,300 each, thirteen at $1,200 each, one $1,000; messengers—two at $1,200 each, five at $900 each, two at $800 each; guards—chief $1,500, one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; superintendent of building, $1,800; engineers—chief $1,200, two at $1,050 each; eight watchmen, at $720 each; sixteen money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $159,860.
Philadelphia. Philadelphia, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, $5,000; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,250; coin teller, $2,000; vault clerk, $1,900; bookkeeper, $1,800; assorting teller, $1,800; receiving teller, $1,700; redemption teller, $1,600; clerks—one $1,600, two at $1,500 each, two at $1,400 each, one $1,300, five at $1,200 each, one $1,000; chief guard, $1,100; five counters, at $900 each; six watchmen, at $720 each; four money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $49,770.
Saint Louis. Saint Louis, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, $4,500; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,800; change teller, $1,600; coin teller, $1,200; clerks—two at $1,500 each, five at $1,200 each, two at $1,100 each, three at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; two watchmen, at $720 each; two janitors, at $600 each; guard, $720; in all, $33,860. San Francisco. San Francisco, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, $4,500; cashier, who also acts as vault clerk, $2,800; bookkeeper, $2,000; paying teller, $2,400; receiving teller, $2,000; clerks—one $2,000, two at $1,800 each, one $1,500; stenographer and typewriter, $1,200 (transferred from United States Treasurer’s office); messenger, $840; four watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $25,720.
Discontinuance of subtreasuries. Report to be made on, etc. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to report to Congress at the beginning of its next session which of the subtreasuries, if any, should be continued after the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, and if, in his opinion, any should be continued the reasons in full for such continuance; also if any or all of said subtreasuries may be discontinued what legislation will be necessary in order to transfer their duties and functions to some other branch of the public service or to Federal Reserve Banks.
MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICES. Mints and assay offices. Carson City, Nev. Mint at Carson, Nevada: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; chief clerk, $1,200; in all, $4,200. For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,000. Denver, Colo. Mint at Denver, Colorado: Superintendent, $4,500; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; 89cashier, $2,500; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant assayer, $2,200; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; assistant cashier, $1,800; clerks—two at $2,000 each, two at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, one $1,200; private secretary, $1,200; in all, $45,600.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $90,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery *Ante,* p. 84.and repairs, wastage in melting and refining department and coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $38,000. Mint at New Orleans, Louisiana: Assayer in charge, who shall New Orleans, La.also perform the duties of melter, $2,500; assistant assayer, $1,500; chief clerk, who shall perform the duties of cashier, $1,500; in all, $5,500.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $5,350. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,500. Mint at Philadelphia: Superintendent, $4,500; engraver, $4,000; Philadelphia, Pa.assayer, $3,000; melting and refining department—superintendent $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; assistant assayer, $2,200; cashier, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,500; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; assistant cashier, $1,800; curator, $1,800; clerks—one $2,000, one $1,700, eight at $1,600 each, one $1,500, six at $1,400 each, one $1,300, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; in all, $68,600.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $295,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery *Ante,* p. 84.and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, expenses of the annual assay commission, wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, and not exceeding $1,000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint, $60,000.
Mint at San Francisco, California: Superintendent, $4,500; San Francisco, Cal.assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant assayer, $2,200; assistant cashier, $1,800; assistant bookkeeper, $1,800; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; clerks—one $2,000, two at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, two at $1,000 each; private secretary, $1,400; in all, $48,000.
For wages of workmen, and other employees, $120,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery *Ante,* p. 84.and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department and in the coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $40,000. Assay office at Boise, Idaho: Assayer in charge, who shall also Boise, Idaho.perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of cashier, $1,200; in all, $4,200.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,000. Assay office at Deadwood, South Dakota: Assayer in charge, Deadwood, S. Dak.who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; clerk, $1,000; in all, $4,000. For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,500. Assay office at Helena, Montana: Assayer in charge, who shall Helena, Mont.also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of cashier, $1,400; assistant assayer, $1,200; in all, $4,400. 90 For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,500.
For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,000. New York, N. Y. Assay office at New York: Superintendent, $5,000; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, deposit weight clerk, and assistant assayer, at $2,500 each; assayer's assistant, $2,000; bookkeeper, $2,350; assistant cashier, $1,800; clerks—two at $2,000 each, four at $1,800 each, one $1,600, one $1,500, one $1,250, seven at $1,000 each; private secretary, $1,400; in all, $51,100.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $90,000. *Ante,* p. 84. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion, $70,000. Salt Lake City, Utah. Assay office at Salt Lake City, Utah: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, chief clerk, and cashier, $1,800. For wages of workmen, and other employees, $1,500. For incidental and contingent expenses, $500.
Seattle, Wash. Assay office at Seattle, Washington: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $2,750; assistant assayer, $2,000; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of cashier, $2,000; clerks—one $1,700, one $1,600, one $1,400; in all, $11,450. For wages of ’workmen, and other employees, $15,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including rent of building, $5,000. WAR DEPARTMENT. War Department. Secretary, Assistant, assistant and chief clerk, clerks, etc. *Post,* p. 809.
Office of the Secretary: Secretary of War, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, $5,000; assistant and chief clerk, who shall sign such official papers and documents as the Secretary may direct, $4,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary, $2,000; stenographer to the Secretary, $2,000; clerk to the Assistant Secretary, $2,400; assistant chief clerk, $2,400; disbursing clerk, $2,750; appointment clerk, $2,250; four chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; superintendent of buildings outside of State, War, and Navy Department Building, in addition to compensation as chief of division, $500; chief telegrapher, $1,800; clerks—five of class four, five of class three, fifteen of class two, nineteen of class one, five at $1,000 each, one at $900; foreman, $1,200; carpenters—one $1,200, one $1,080; chief messenger, $1,000; skilled laborer, $1,080; six messengers; seven assistant messengers; telephone switchboard operator; assistant telephone switchboard operator; engineer, $900; assistant engineer, $720; fireman; four watchmen; three watchmen, at $660 each; eight laborers; hostlers—one $600, one $540; four charwomen; in all, $145,840.
Adjutant General’s Office. *Post,* p. 809. Adjutant General’s Office: Chief clerk, $2,250; ten chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; clerks—forty-eight of class four, sixty-four of class three, ninety-four of class two, two hundred and thirty-one of class one, thirty-five at $1,000 each; engineer, $1,400; assistant engineer, $900; two firemen; skilled mechanic, $1,000; ten messengers; fifty-four assistant messengers; messenger boy, $360; eight watchmen; eighteen laborers; in all, $724,870; all employees provided for by this paragraph for The Adjutant General’s Office of the War Department shall be exclusively engaged on the work of this office for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen.
Inspector General’s Office. *Post,* p. 809. Office of Inspector General: Clerks—one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, one of class one; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger, $600; in all, $12,560. Judge Advocate General’s Office. *Post,* p. 809. Office of Judge Advocate General: Chief clerk and solicitor, $2,500; law clerks—one $2,400, one $2,000; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, six of class one; copyist; two messengers; assistant messenger; in all, $26,600. 91 Signal Office:
Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, one Signal Office. *Post,* p. 809.of class three, one of class two, four of class one, nine at $1,000 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; in all, $24,800. The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Skilled draftsmen, etc. *Post,* p. 339.Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the various appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and for the Signal Service of the Army, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the Signal Office: *Provided,* That *Proviso.* Limit, etc.the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen shall not exceed $30,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
The services of one radio engineer, and such radio assistants as the Radio engineers, etc.Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the appropriation for the Signal *Post,* p. 809.Service of the Army, to be paid from such appropriation, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the Signal Office: *Provided,* That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal *Proviso.* Limit, etc.year nineteen hundred and seventeen shall not exceed $5,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Office of Quartermaster General: Chief clerk, $2,750; principal Quartermaster General’s Office. *Post,* p. 809.clerks—five at $2,250 each, three at $2,000 each; clerks—twelve of class four, twenty-five of class three, forty-four of class two, eighty-five of class one, fifty at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each; advisory architect, $4,000; draftsmen—three at $1,800 each, seven at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each; supervising engineer, $2,750; hydraulic and sanitary engineer, $2,000; civil engineer, $1,800; electrical engineer, $2,000; electrical and mechanical engineer, $2,250; marine engineer, $3,500; sanitary and heating engineer, $1,800; blue-print operator, $900; six messengers; fourteen assistant messengers; twelve laborers; laborers—one $600, one $480; in all, $372,920.
Office of Surgeon General: Chief clerk, $2,250; principal Surgeon General’s Office. *Post,* p. 809.assistant librarian, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chemist, $2,100; assistant chemist, $1,600; pathologist, $1,800; microscopist, $1,800; assistant librarian, $1,800; anatomist, $1,600; two translators, at $1,800 each; clerks—thirteen of class four, eleven of class three, twenty-four of class two, thirty-two of class one, nine at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; engineer, $1,400; skilled mechanic, $1,000; two messengers; ten assistant messengers; three firemen; three watchmen; superintendent of building (Army Medical Museum and Library), $250; six laborers; four charwomen; in all, $165,370.
Office of Chief of Ordnance: Chief clerk, $2,250; chief of Ordnance Office. *Post,* p. 809.division, $2,000; principal clerk, $2,000; clerks—five of class four, seven of class three, twelve of class two, twenty-six of class one, nine at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; messengers—one $780, one $720; laborer; in all, $91,610. The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Skilled draftsmen etc.Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Ordnance to carry into effect the various appropriations for the armament of fortifications and for the arming and equipping of the Organized Militia, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the amounts specifically appropriated for draftsmen in the Army Ordnance Bureau: *Provided,* That the entire *Proviso.* Limit, etc. *Post,* p. 350.expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall not exceed $140,000, and the Secretary of War shall 92each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Office of Chief of Engineers. *Post,* p. 809. Office of Chief of Engineers: Chief clerk, $2,250; two chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; clerks—eight of class four, eleven of class three, thirteen of class two, sixteen of class one, fourteen at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; six messengers; three assistant messengers; laborer; messenger boy, $400; in all, $103,310. Skilled draftsmen, etc. The services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and surveys and preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor *Proviso.* Limit, etc.estimates and bills, to be paid from such appropriations: *Provided,* That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen shall not exceed $50,400; the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Insular Affairs Bureau. Office of Bureau of Insular Affairs: Law officer, $4,500; chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—ten of class four, seven of class three, eleven of class two, fourteen of class one, twelve at $1,000 each; three messengers; two assistant messengers; four laborers; two charwomen; in all, $87,230. Militia Affairs Division, Office of Chief of Staff. Vol. 35, p. 403. *Post,* p. 203. Vol. 38, p. 481. Division of Militia Affairs, Office of Chief of Staff: For the following authorized by section twenty of the Act approved January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and three, as amended by the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, and as restricted by the legislative, executive, and judicial Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen:
Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, four of class two, eleven of class one, eight at $1,000 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, $39,200. Miscellaneous expenses. For miscellaneous expenses, including stationery, furniture, telegraph and telephone service, and necessary printing and binding, $3,200, which sum, together with the foregoing amounts for salaries, shall R. S., sec. 1661, p. 290. Vol. 34, p. 449.be paid from the permanent appropriation for militia under the provisions of section sixteen hundred and sixty-one, Revised Statutes, as amended, and no other or further sums shall be expended from said appropriation for or on account of said Division of Militia Affairs during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen.
Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses, War Department: For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, including their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriters and adding machines, including their exchange; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department Building) occupied by Adjutant General’s Office and other offices of the War Department and its bureaus located in the Lemon Building; purchase, exchange, care, and subsistence of horses, and the purchase, maintenance, repair, and exchange of wagons and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and harness, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; street car tickets, not exceeding $300; and other absolutely necessary expenses, including Per diem subsistence.
Vol. 38, p. 680.a per diem allowance not to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $45,000. Stationery. For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices, $20,000. 93 For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required Postage.under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, $250. For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia:
Medical dispensary, Rent.*Post,* p. 809.Surgeon General’s Office, $1,000; War Department, $7,200; Adjutant General’s Office, $1,500; in all, $9,700. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. Public building and grounds. Office of public buildings and grounds: Superintendent, Superintendent, assistant, clerks, etc.$3,000; assistant and chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class two and stenographer, one of class one; messenger; landscape architect, $2,400; surveyor and draftsman, $1,500; in all, $16,140.
For foremen, gardeners, mechanics, and laborers employed in the Foremen, etc.public grounds, $31,200. For sergeant of park watchmen, $950. Watchmen. For second sergeant of park watchmen, $900. Day force. For day watchmen, as follows: One in Franklin Park and adjacent reservations on New York Avenue; one in Lafayette Park; two in Smithsonian Grounds and neighboring reservations; one in Judiciary Park; one in Lincoln Park and adjacent reservations; one in Iowa Circle and reservations to the northeast; one in Thomas and Scott Circles and neighboring reservations; one in Washington Circle and neighboring reservations; one in Dupont Circle and neighboring reservations; one in McPherson Park and Farragut Square; one in Stanton Park and neighboring reservations; two in Henry and Seaton Parks and neighboring reservations; one in Mount Vernon Park and reservations to the northeast; one in grounds south of the Executive Mansion; one in Garfield and Marion Parks and reservations to the east; one in Monument Park; four in Potomac Park; one in Montrose Park; twenty-three in all, at $840 each, $19,320.
For night watchmen, as follows: Two in Smithsonian Grounds and Night force.neighboring reservations; one in Judiciary Park; two in Henry and Seaton Parks and adjacent reservations; one in grounds south of the Executive Mansion; one in Monument Park; one in Garfield Park and neighboring reservations; one in Iowa, Scott, and Thomas Circles and neighboring reservations; one in Stanton and Lincoln Parks and neighboring reservations; two in Lafayette, McPherson, Franklin, and Farragut Parks; one in Washington and Dupont Circles and neighboring reservations; one in Mount Vernon Park and neighboring reservations; two for greenhouses and nursery; four in Potomac Park; twenty in all, at $840 each, $16,800.
For watchman for the care of the monument and dock at Wakefield, Wakefield, Va.Virginia, the birthplace of Washington, $300. For contingent and incidental expenses, including purchase of professional Contingent expensesand scientific books and scientific periodicals, books of reference, blank books, photographs, and maps, $700. For purchase and repair of bicycles and revolvers for park watchmen and for purchase of ammunition, $1,000. For purchase of two motorcycles at $250 each, and for the upkeep of same at $144 each, $788.
For purchasing and supplying uniforms to park, Monument, and bridge watchmen, $2,800. Of the foregoing amounts appropriated under public buildings and Part from District revenues.grounds, the sum of $36,879 shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. 94 STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDING. State, War, and Navy Department Building. Clerks, engineers, etc. Office of superintendent: Clerk of class three; stenographer and typewriter, $900; chief engineer, $1,400; five assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; electrical machinist, $1,200; captain of the watch, $1,200; two lieutenants of the watch, at $840 each; forty watchmen; carpenter, $1,000; electrician, $1,200; machinist, $1,000; painter, $1,000; plumber, $1,000; three dynamo tenders, at $900 each; seven skilled laborers or mechanics, at $840 each; messenger; foreman of laborers, $840; ten firemen; eleven elevator conductors, at $720 each; seventeen laborers; three second-class firemen, at $660 each; four forewomen of charwomen, at $300 each; sixty-seven charwomen; gardener, $720; in all, $103,560.
Fuel, lights, etc. *Provisos.* Reapportionment of space in building permitted. For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, and city directories, $32,000: *Provided,* That the commission in charge, or a majority of the members thereof, may at any time reapportion space among the departments now occupying the State, War, and Navy Department Building if the same can be done with a reduction of the amount of floor space occupied by any branch of the public service in said building, the reduction or avoidance of public expense for rent of office or storage space for the Government, and the reduction of the number of watchmen required for said building from forty Conditions.to not more than thirty-eight: *Provided further,* That no arrangement of space made hereunder shall involve the ejectment from the building of any department or branch of the public service now occupying the Prohibition on museum use.same: *Provided further,* That no rooms vacated under any arrangement of space hereunder shall be used for museum purposes.
Navy Department annex. Navy Department Annex, New York Avenue near Seventeenth Street northwest: Engineer $1,200; four firemen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; five watchmen; four laborers; forewoman, $300; nine charwomen; in all, $14,220. For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items, $7,000. State Department annex. State Department Annex: Laborer, $660. NAVY DEPARTMENT. Navy Department. Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc. *Post,* p. 813. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of the Navy, $12,000;
Assistant Secretary, $5,000; chief clerk, $3,000; private secretary to Secretary, $2,500; clerk to Secretary, $2,250; private secretary to Assistant Secretary, $2,400; clerk to Assistant Secretary, $2,000; disbursing clerk, $2,250; appointment clerk, $2,000; estimate clerk, $1,800; stenographer, $1,800; clerks—one of class four, three of class three, five of class two, five of class one, one $1,100, six at $1,000 each; stenographer, $1,200; three copyists; carpenter, $900; four messengers; four assistant messengers; three laborers; messenger boys—four at $600 each, one $420, one $400, one $360; two telephone switchboard operators; in all, $81,740.
Solicitor’s Office. *Post,* p. 813. Office of Solicitor: Solicitor, $4,000; law clerks—one $2,500, one $2,250, one $2,000; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class two, one $840; messenger, $600; in all, $16,990. Office of Naval Records and Library. Office of Naval Records and Library: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, one to be selected from officers of the Confederate Navy (agent for collection of Confederate records); four of class two, four of class one, two at $1,000 each; copyist; copyist, $720; assistant messenger; laborer; necessary traveling expenses for collection of records, $100; in all, $21,100.
All employees provided for by this paragraph shall be exclusively engaged on the work of this office during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen. Judge Advocate General’s Office. *Post,* p. 813. Office of Judge Advocate General: Law clerk, $2,200; clerks—one of class four, one $1,300, two of class one, three at $1,000 each, one $900; assistant messenger; in all, $12,320. 95 Office of Chief of Naval Operations: Chief clerk, $2,250; Office of Chief of Naval Operations.
Vol. 38, p. 929. *Post,* p. 813.clerks—one of class four, one of class three, three of class two, three of class one, three at $1,000 each; one $900; telegraphers—chief $1,800, one $1,400, one $1,200, one $1,100; two assistant messengers; messenger boys—one $600, two at $400 each; laborer; in all, $26,350. Bureau of Navigation: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—two at Bureau of Navigation. *Post,* p. 813.$2,000 each, five of class four, five of class three, six of class two, eight of class one, three at $1,100 each, fourteen at $1,000 each; fourteen copyists; nine copyists, at $840 each; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $600; five laborers; in all, $84,050.
Office of Naval Intelligence: Clerks—one of class four, one of Naval Intelligence Office.class three, one $1,300, three at $1,000 each; two translators, at $1,400 each; draftsman, $1,200; messenger boy, $600; in all, $12,300. Hydrographic Office: Hydrographic engineer, $3,000; assistants—one Hydrographic Office. Salaries.$2,200, one $2,000; chief clerk, $1,800; nautical experts—one $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,400, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; clerks—one of class two, one of class one; custodian of archives, $1,200; copyists—three at $900 each, one $840, two at $720 each; compiler, $1,400; editor of Notice to Mariners, $1,800; computer, $1,400; draftsmen—four at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, four at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, ten at $1,000 each, one $900; three apprentice draftsmen, at $700 each; engravers—chief $2,000, two at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, one $1,400, six at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $720; apprentice engravers—one $800, one $700; plate printers—chief $1,400, one $1,200, one $1,000, two at $900 each, one $800; apprentice plate printers—one $700, one $600; lithographers—chief $1,800, two at $1,000 each, apprentice $700; process photographer, $1,600; lithographic transferer, $1,400; lithographic pressman, $1,400; photographic printer, $1,200; two negative cutters, at $1,000 each; two feeders, at $480 each; electrotyper and chart plate maker, $1,400; assistant messenger; four laborers; helpers—two at $720 each, two at $660 each, one $600, one $500, one $480; in all, $123,660.
For copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart Materials, etc. *Post,* p. 814.portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning copperplates; tools, instruments, power, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; preparation of Pilot Charts and their supplements, and Pilot Charts.printing and mailing same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $26,000.
Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Branch offices. Contingent expensesBaltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, Seattle, Panama, and Galveston, including furniture, fuel, lights, works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, stationery, miscellaneous articles, rent and care of offices, care of time balls, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and express charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for pilot charts, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, $10,000. 96 Employees.
For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $17,960. Personal services in Washington restricted. No expenditure shall be incurred or authorized for personal services or otherwise under the Hydrographic Office at Washington, District of Columbia, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen except as herein authorized by appropriations under the Navy Department or under appropriations that may be made for printing and binding. Naval Observatory. Salaries. Naval Observatory:
Assistant astronomers—one $2,400, one $2,000, one $1,800; assistant in department of nautical instruments, $1,600; clerks—one of class four, one of class two; instrument maker, $1,500; electrician, $1,500; librarian, $1,800; assistants—three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; stenographer and typewriter, $900; foreman and captain of the watch, $1,000; carpenter, $1,000; engineer, $1,000; three firemen; six watchmen; elevator conductor, $720; nine laborers; in all, $44,240.
Computations. For miscellaneous computations, $5,000. Library, etc. For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodicals, engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library, $750. Contingent expenses. For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, $2,000. For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences; furniture, gas, chemicals, and stationery; freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage, and expressage; plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses, $3,000.
Miscellaneous. For fuel, oil, grease, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power plant, and water-supply system; purchase and maintenance of teams; maintenance, repair, exchange, or operation of motor truck and of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; material for boxing nautical instruments for transportation; paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, $8,000.
Grounds and roads. For cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads, $5,000. Nautical Almanac Office. Nautical Almanac Office: For assistants in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac—one $2,000, two at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; copyist and typewriter, $900; assistant messenger; messenger boy, $420; in all, $19,240. Computers. For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, $3,000.
Bureau of Steam Engineering. *Post,* p. 813. Bureau of Steam Engineering: Chief clerk, $2,250; bookkeeper and accountant, $1,800; clerks—one of class four, four of class three, four of class two, two at $1,300 each, five of class one, one $1,100, four at $1,000 each, one $900; copyist; two expert radio aids, at $3,130 each; expert in wireless telegraphy, $3,000; draftsmen—one (who shall be an expert in marine construction) $2,000, one $1,400, assistant $1,200; blue printer, $720; two assistant messengers; laborers—three at $660 each, two at $600 each; messenger boy, $600; in all, $53,150.
Technical services. The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Steam Engineering and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy” and “Engineering,” to be paid from the *Proviso.* Limit, etc. *Post,* p. 813.appropriation “Engineering”: *Provided,* That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen shall not exceed $70,891.28.
A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. 97 Bureau of Construction and Repair: Chief clerk, $2,250; Bureau of Construction and Repair. *Post,* p. 813.clerks—two of class four, three of class three, three of class two, four at $1,300 each, four of class one, nine at $1,100 each, fifteen at $1,000 each; five copyists; two assistant messengers; laborer; messenger boys—nine at $600 each; one $400; in all, $62,150.
The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Technical services.Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Construction and Repair and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy” and “Construction and Repair,” to be paid from the appropriation “Construction and Repair”: *Provided,* That the expenditures on this account for the *Proviso.* Limit, etc. *Post,* p. 813.fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen shall not exceed $135,201.16.
A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Bureau of Ordnance: Chief clerk, $2,250; draftsman, $1,400; Bureau of Ordnance. *Post,* p. 813.clerks—two of class four, two of class three, two of class two, one $1,300, three of class one, one $1,100, five at $1,000 each; three copyists; two copyists, at $840 each; assistant messenger; messenger boys—two at $600 each, two at $400 each; laborer; in all, $32,010.
The services of clerks, draftsmen, and such other technical services Technical services, etc.as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Ordnance, and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy” and “Ordnance and ordnance stores,” to be paid from the appropriation “Ordnance and ordnance stores”: *Provided, * That the expenditures on this account for the *Proviso.* Limit, etc. *Post,* p. 813.fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen shall not exceed $13,283.76.
A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each, shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Civilian assistant, $2,500; Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. *Post,* p. 813.chief accountant, $2,250; two chief bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; statistician, $1,800; clerks—five of class four, eight of class three, seven of class two, fifteen of class one, eleven at $1,100 each, twenty-eight at $1,000 each, fourteen at $900 each; two copyists, at $840 each; five assistant messengers; messenger boys—four at $600 each, two at $400 each; laborer; in all, $121,990.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: Chief Clerk, $2,250; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, two of class two, one of class one, two at $1,100 each, three at $1,000 each; copyist, $840; assistant messenger; laborer; naval dispensary—driver, $600, laborer, $480; in all, $19,950. Bureau of Yards and Docks: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—one Bureau of Yards and Docks. *Post,* p. 814.and draftsman $1,800, one of class three, one of class two, two of class one, one $1,100, six at $1,000 each; draftsmen—one $1,700, one (for work in connection with depots for coal) $1,200; assistant messenger; three messenger boys, at $600 each; two laborers; in all, $23,290.
The services of skilled draftsmen and such other technical services Technical services.as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Yards and Docks to carry into effect the various appropriations and allotments thereunder and be paid from such appropriation and allotments: *Provided,* That the expenditures on this *Proviso.* Limit, etc. *Post,* p. 814.account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen shall not exceed $50,000. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each, shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. 98 Naval Militia Division.
Vol. 38, p. 288. *Post,* p. 814. Division of Naval Militia Affairs: For the following, authorized by section seventeen of the Naval Militia Act approved February sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen: Chief clerk, $1,600; clerks—one of class two, two of class one, one $1,100, four at $1,000 each; messenger boys—one $600; in all, $11,100. Miscellaneous expenses. For miscellaneous expenses, including stationery, furniture, office equipment, postage, typewriters and exchange of same, and necessary printing and binding, $3,000, which sum, together with the foregoing amount for salaries, shall be paid from the appropriation for *Post,* p. 559.“Arming and equipping Naval Militia” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, and no other or further sums shall be expended from said appropriation for or on account of said Division of Naval Militia Affairs during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen.
Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses: For professional and technical books and periodicals, law books, and necessary reference books, including city directories, railway guides, freight, passenger, and express tariff books, for department library, $2,000. For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, drawing materials, horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes, including rental of stable; purchase, maintenance, repair, or operation of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, automobile mail wagon, including exchange of same, street car tickets not exceeding $250, freight, expressage, postage, typewriters and computing machines and exchange of same, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department anti its various bureaus and offices, $42,000; *Post,* p. 557.shall not be lawful to expend, for any of the offices or bureaus of the Navy Department at Washington, any sum out of appropriations made for the Naval Establishment for any of the purposes mentioned or authorized in this paragraph.
Rent. *Post,* p. 814. For rental of additional quarters for the Navy Department, $33,000. Restriction on use of naval appropriations. No part of any appropriations made for the naval service shall be expended for any of the purposes (including freight and expressage) herein provided for on account of the Navy Department at Washington, District of Columbia, except for personal services in certain bureaus, as herein expressly authorized. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Interior Department.
Secretary, Assistants, chief clerk. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of the Interior, $12,000; First Assistant Secretary, $5,000; Assistant Secretary, $4,500; chief clerk, including $500 as superintendent of buildings, who shall be chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries, Assistant, inspectors, clerks, etc.$4,000; assistant to the Secretary, $2,750; assistant attorney, $2,500; two special inspectors, whose employment shall be limited to the inspection of offices and the work in the several offices under the control of the department, at $2,500 each, six inspectors, at $2,500 each; chief disbursing clerk, $2,500; clerk in charge of supplies, $2,250; clerk in charge of mails, files, and archives, $2,250; clerk in charge of publications, $2,250; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerks—four at $2,000 each, thirteen of class four, eighteen of class three, twenty-one of class two, twenty-four of class one, three at $1,000 each; returns office clerk, $1,600; female clerk, to be designated by the President, to sign land patents, $1,200; eight copyists; multigraph operator, $900; assistant multigraph operator, $720; typewriter repairer, $900; two telephone switchboard Messengers, watchmen, etc.operators; nine messengers; seven assistant messengers; 99twenty-one laborers; skilled mechanics—one $900, one $720; two carpenters, at $900 each; plumber, $900; electrician, $1,000; laborers—one $600, six at $480 each; packer, $660; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; eight charwomen; captain of the watch, $1,200; forty watchmen; additional to two watchmen acting as lieutenants of watchmen, at $120 each; engineer, $1,200; assistant engineer, $1,000; seven firemen; clerk to sign, under the direction of the Clerk to sign tribal deeds, etc.Secretary, in his name and for him, his approval of all tribal deeds to allottees and deeds for town lots made and executed according to law for any of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory, $1,200; in all, $275,820.
General Land Office Building: Engineer and electrician, $1,600; General Land Office Building.assistant engineer, $1,000; four firemen; three watchmen, acting as lieutenants, at $840 each; twenty watchmen; elevator conductor, $720; fourteen laborers; nine laborers, at $480 each; three skilled mechanics (painter, carpenter, and plumber), at $900 each; in all, $39,380. Office of Solicitor: Three members of a board of appeals, to be Solicitor’s Office.appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, at $4,000 each; assistant attorneys—one $3,000, two at $2,750 each, four at $2,500 each, seven at $2,250 each, eleven at $2,000 each; medical expert, $2,000; clerks—four of class three (one of whom shall act as stenographer and one of whom shall be a stenographer and typewriter), one of class one; in all, $77,850.
For per diem in lieu of subsistence of two special inspectors, while Per diem. Special inspectors. Vol. 38, p. 680.traveling on duty, at a rate to be fixed by the Secretary, not exceeding $4 pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation (including temporary employment of stenographers, typewriters, and other assistance outside of the District of Columbia, and for incidental expenditures necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations), to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $4,500.
For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence to six Inspectors. Vol. 38, p. 680.inspectors pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and while remaining at the seat of government under orders of the Secretary not to exceed twenty days, transportation and sleeping-car fare, incidental expenses of negotiation, inspection, and investigation, including telegraphing, $12,800. General Land Office: Commissioner, $5,000; assistant commissioner, General Land Office.$3,500; chief clerk, $3,000; chief law clerk, $2,500; two law clerks, at $2,200 each; three law examiners of surveyors general and district land offices, at $2,000 each; recorder, $2,000; chiefs of divisions—one of surveys, $2,750, one $2,400, ten at $2,000 each; assistant chief of division, $2,000; law examiners—thirteen at $2,000 each, ten at $1,800 each, eighteen at $1,600 each; clerks—twenty-seven of class four, fifty-one of class three, seventy-four of class two, seventy-seven of class one, sixty-five at $1,000 each; sixty-five copyists; twenty-six copyists, at $720 each; two messengers; ten assistant messengers; messenger boys—ten at $600 each, six at $480 each; six skilled laborers, who may act as assistant messengers when required, at $660 each; sixteen laborers; laborer, $480; packer, $720; depositary acting for the commissioner as receiver of public moneys, $2,000, who may, with the approval of the commissioner, designate a clerk of the General Land Office to act as such depositary in his absence; clerk and librarian, $1,000; in all, $631,250.
For per diem in lieu of subsistence, at not exceeding $4, pursuant Per diem, etc., investigations. Vol. 38, p. 680.to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, of examiners and of clerks detailed 100to inspect offices of United States surveyors general and other offices in public land service, to investigate fraudulent land entries, trespasses on the public lands, and cases of official misconduct, actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, and for employment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations, and when authorized by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, $6,000.
Law books. For law books for the law library, $400. Maps. *Proviso.* Distribution. For connected and separate United States and other maps, prepared in the General Land Office, $20,000: *Provided,* That of the United States maps procured hereunder seven thousand two hundred copies shall be delivered to the Senate and fourteen thousand four hundred copies shall be delivered to the House of Representatives, 500 copies shall be delivered to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the residue shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Interior for distribution.
All maps delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives hereunder shall be mounted with rollers ready for use. State and Territorial maps. Enlarged homestead areas. For separate State and Territorial maps of public land States including maps showing areas designated by the Secretary of the Interior, under the enlarged homestead Acts prepared in the General Land Office, $3,000. Indian Office. Indian Office: Commissioner, $5,000; assistant commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk, $2,750; forester, $3,000; financial clerk, $2,250; chiefs of divisions—one $2,250, one $2,000; law clerk, $2,000; assistant chief of division, $2,000; expert accountant, $2,000; private secretary, $1,800; examiner of irrigation accounts, $1,800; draftsmen—one $1,400, one $1,200; clerks—twenty of class four, thirty-one of class three, thirty-eight of class two, two at $1,500 each, sixty-eight of class one (including one stenographer), thirty-two at $1,000 each (including one stenographer), thirty-four at $900 each, two at $720 each; messenger; four assistant messengers; four messenger boys, at $360 each; in all, $325,550.
Pension Office. Pension Office: Commissioner, $5,000; deputy commissioner, $3,600; chief clerk, $2,500; assistant chief clerk, $2,000; medical referee, $3,000; assistant medical referee, $2,250; two qualified surgeons, at $2,000 each; eleven medical examiners, at $1,800 each; eight chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; law clerk, $2,250; chief of board of review, $2,250; thirty-nine principal examiners, at $2,000 each; private secretary, to be selected and appointed by the Commissioner of Pensions, $2,000; eleven assistant chiefs of divisions, at $1,800 each; three stenographers, at $1,600 each; disbursing clerk for the payment of pensions, $4,000; deputy disbursing clerk, $2,750; three supervising clerks in the disbursing division, at $2,000 each; clerks—ninety-nine of class four, eighty-nine of class three, two hundred and sixty-four of class two, three hundred and thirty-four of class one, seventy at $1,000 each; forty copyists; twenty-nine messengers; eleven assistant messengers; two skilled laborers, at $660 each; twelve messenger boys, at $400 each; superintendent of building, $1,400; twenty-three laborers; ten female laborers, at $400 each; fifteen charwomen; painter and cabinetmaker, skilled in their trades, at $900 each; captain of the watch, $840; three sergeants of the watch, at $750 each; nineteen watchmen; engineer, $1,200; two firemen; in all, $1,460,790.
Restriction on filling vacancies. Appointments shall not be made to any of the positions herein appropriated for in the classified service of the Bureau of Pensions not actually filled June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, nor shall more than twenty-five per centum of other vacancies actually occurring in any grade in the classified service of that Bureau, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, be filled by original 101appointment or promotion. The salaries or compensation of all places which may not be filled as hereinabove provided for shall not be available for expenditure but shall lapse and shall be covered into the Treasury.
For per diem at not exceeding $3 in lieu of subsistence pursuant to Per diem, etc., investigations. Vol. 38, p. 680.section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, for persons employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertaining to said bureau and for actual and other necessary expenses, including telegrams, $80,000. For purchase, repair, and exchange of adding machines, addressing Labor-saving devices, etc.machines, typewriters, check-signing machines, and other laborsaving devices, furniture, filing cabinets, and postage on foreign mail, $6,000.
Patent Office: Commissioner, $5,000; first assistant commissioner, Patent Office. *Ante,* p. 9.$4,500; assistant commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk (who shall be qualified to act as principal examiner), $3,000; five law examiners, at $2,750 each; examiner of classification, $3,600; five examiners in chief, at $3,500 each; examiner of interferences, $2,700; examiners of trade-marks and designs—one $2,700, first assistant $2,400, six assistants at $1,500 each; examiners—forty-three principals at $2,700 each, eighty-six first assistants at $2,400 each, eighty-six second assistants at $2,100 each, eighty-six third assistants at $1,800 each, eighty-six fourth assistants at $1,500 each; financial clerk, who shall give bonds in such amount as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, $2,250; librarian, who shall be qualified to act as an assistant examiner, $2,000; six chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; three assistant chiefs of divisions, at $1,800 each; private secretary, to be selected and appointed by the commissioner, $1,800; translator of languages, $1,800; clerks—nine of class four, nine of class three, seventeen of class two, one hundred and thirty of class one, ninety-one at $1,000 each; three skilled draftsmen, at $1,200 each; four draftsmen, at $1,000 each; ninety copyists; fifty copyists, at $720 each; four messengers; twenty-five assistant messengers; laborers—fourteen at $600 each, forty-two at $540 each; forty messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $1,375,040.
For purchase of professional and other reference books and publications Books, etc.and scientific books and expense of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign Governments, $3,000. For producing copies of weekly issue of patents, designs, and trademarks; Copies of weekly issues of patents, etc.production of copies of drawings and specifications of exhausted patents and other papers, $140,000. For investigating the question of public use or sale of inventions Investigating use of inventions.for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and such other questions arising in connection with applications for patents as may be deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Patents; and expense attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents, $500.
For the share of the United States in the expense of conducting the International Bureau, Bern.International Bureau at Bern, Switzerland, $750. Bureau of Education: Commissioner, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,000; Bureau of Education.specialist in higher education, $3,000; editor, $2,000; statistician, $1,800; specialist in charge of land-grant college statistics, $1,800; two translators, at $1,800 each; collector and compiler of statistics, $2,400; specialists—one in foreign educational systems and one in educational systems, at $1,800 each; clerks—four of class four, four of class three, five of class two, eight of class one, seven at $1,000 each; six copyists; two copyists—at $800 each, one $720; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; messenger; assistant messenger; laborers— three at $480 each, one $400; in all, $75,200. 102 Rural and industrial education.
For investigation of rural education, and industrial education, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and no salary shall be paid hereunder in excess of $3,500 per annum, $35,000. Traveling expenses. For necessary traveling expenses of the commissioner and employees acting under his direction, including attendance at meetings of educational associations, societies, and other organizations, $3,000. Library. For books for library, current educational periodicals, other current publications, and completing valuable sets of periodicals, $500.
School and home gardening. For investigation of school and home gardening in cities and manufacturing towns, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $5,700. Special reports. For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of information, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $3,600. Distributing documents, etc. For purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents, collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus and appliances, textbooks, and educational reference books, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and repairing the same, including personal services in the District of Columbia for the purpose of bringing the cataloguing up to date, $2,500.
Superintendent, Capitol Building and Grounds. Office of Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds: Superintendent, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,000; chief electrical engineer, $3,000; civil engineer, $2,400; two draftsmen, at $1,200 each; two clerks, at $1,200 each; compensation to disbursing clerk, $1,000; messenger; person in charge of the heating of the Supreme Court and central portion of the Capitol, $1,000; laborer in charge of water-closets in central portion of the Capitol, $660; seven laborers for cleaning Rotunda, corridors, Dome, and old library portion of Capitol, at $660 each; two laborers in charge of public closets of the House of Representatives and in the terrace, at $720 each; bookkeeper and accountant, $2,200; in all, $29,960.
Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior: The following sums, which shall be so apportioned as to prevent deficiencies therein, namely: For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus, offices, and buildings of the department, including $12,000 for the Civil Service Commission: Furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, street car tickets not exceeding $250, expressage, wagons and harness, horses, purchase, maintenance, and repair of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, motor trucks, motor cycles, and bicycles, maintenance, repair, and exchange of same, food, forage, and shoeing of horses, diagrams, awnings, filing and labor-saving devices, constructing model and other cases and furniture, and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for, including traveling expenses, fuel and lights, typewriting and adding machines and exchange of same, $131,000.
Stationery. For stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the department and its several bureaus and offices, including not to exceed $6,500 for the Civil Service Commission, Additional deducted from bureaus, offices, etc.$81,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $35,650 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, as follows:
Surveying public lands, $2,000; protecting public lands and timber, $2,000; contingent expenses of offices of surveyors general, $2,000; Capitol Building and repairs, $150; Geological Survey, $2,100; Bureau of Mines, $2,000; Indian Service, $25,000; Freedmen’s Hospital, $400; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $81,000, the total appropria-103tion for stationery for the department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen.
For professional and scientific books, law books, and books to complete Books, periodicals, etc.broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $1,000, of which sum $250 may be used for the Civil Service Commission. For rent of buildings: Geological Survey, $40,000; Civil Service Rent. Commission, $16,875; Bureau of Mines, $12,000; in all, $68,875. For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required Postage Stamps.under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, and for special-delivery stamps for use in the United States when it is necessary to secure immediate delivery of mail, $2,000.
OFFICES OF SURVEYORS GENERAL. Surveyors general. For salaries of surveyors general, clerks in their offices, and contingent Salaries and expenses of offices. *Ante,* p. 102.expenses, including office rent, pay of messengers, stationery, printing, binding, drafting instruments, typewriters, furniture, fuel, lights, books of reference for office use, post-office box rent, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, as follows: Alaska: Surveyor general and ex officio secretary of the Territory, $4,000;
Alaska. Clerks, $10,000; Contingent expenses, $2,500; in all, $16,500. Arizona: Surveyor general, $3,000; Arizona. Clerks, $13,000; Contingent expenses, $1,500; in all, $17,500. California: Surveyor general, $3,000; California. Clerks, $12,000; Contingent expenses, $1,400; in all, $16,400. Colorado: Surveyor general, $3,000; Colorado. Clerks, $21,000; Contingent expenses, $2,500; in all, $26,500. Idaho: Surveyor general, $3,000; Idaho. Clerks, $16,000; Contingent expenses, $1,200; in all, $20,200.
Montana: Surveyor general, $3,000; Montana. Clerks, $18,500; Contingent expenses, $600: in all, $22,100. Nevada: Surveyor general, $3,000; Nevada. Clerks, $10,000; Contingent expenses, $400; in all, $13,400. New Mexico: Surveyor general, $3,000; New Mexico. Clerks, $18,000; Contingent expenses, $1,400; in all, $22,400. Oregon: Surveyor general, $3,000; Oregon. Clerks, $12,500; Contingent expenses, $600; in all, $16,100. South Dakota: Surveyor general, $2,000; South Dakota. Clerks, $3,100;
Contingent expenses, $500; in all, $5,600; Utah: Surveyor general, $3,000; Utah. Clerks, $17,240; Contingent expenses, $1,000; in all, $21,240. Washington: Surveyor general, $3,000; Washington. Clerks, $8,000; Contingent expenses, $1,500; in all, $12,500. Wyoming: Surveyor general, $3,000; Wyoming. Clerks, $15,000; Contingent expenses, $500; in all, $18,500. 104 Restriction on clerk hire, etc. Expenses chargeable to the foregoing appropriations for clerk hire and incidental expenses in the offices of the surveyors general shall not be incurred by the respective surveyors general in the conduct of said offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
Temporary details authorized. The Secretary of the interior is authorized to detail temporarily clerks from the office of one surveyor general to another as the necessities of the service may require and to pay their actual necessary traveling expenses in going to and returning from such office out of the appropriation for surveying the public lands. A detailed statement of traveling expenses incurred hereunder shall be made to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof.
Office work, surveys in railroad land grants. The use of the fund created by the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four (Thirteenth Statutes, page three hundred and Vol. 13, p. 365. Vol. 28, p. 937.sixty-five), and the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five (Twenty-eighth Statutes, page nine hundred and thirty-seven), for office work in the surveyor generals’ offices and in the General Land Office is extended for one year from June thirtieth, *Proviso.* Limit.nineteen hundred and sixteen: *Provided,* That not to exceed $25,000 of this fund shall be used for the purposes above indicated.
GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES. Government in the Territories. Alaska. Territory of Alaska: Governor, $7,000; four judges, at $7,500 each; four attorneys, at $5,000 each; four marshals, at $4,000 each; four clerks, at $3,500 each; in all, $87,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, clerk hire, not to exceed $2,250; janitor service for the executive mansion and office building, not to exceed $1,200; traveling expenses of the governor while absent from Juneau on official business; repair and preservation of executive mansion; stationery, lights, water, and fuel; in all, $7,500, to be expended under the direction of the governor.
Legislative expenses. Legislative expenses: For salaries of members, $21,600; mileage of members, $9,250; salaries of employees, $5,160; printing of laws, $4,000; rent of legislative halls and committee rooms, $2,000; stationery, supplies, printing of bills, reports, and so forth, $4,000; in all, $46,010, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska. Hawaii. Territory of Hawaii: Governor, $7,000; secretary, $4,000; chief justice, $6,000; two associate justices, at $5,500 each; in all $28,000.
For judges of circuit courts, at $4,000 each, so much as may be necessary, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen. For contingent expenses, to be expended by the governor, for stationery, postage, and incidentals, $1,000, and for private secretary to the governor, $2,000; in all, $3,000. Legislative expenses. Legislative expenses: For furniture, light, telephone, stationery, record casings and files, printing and binding, including printing, publication, and binding of the session laws and the House and Senate Journals, indexing records, postage, ice, water, clerk hire, mileage of members, and incidentals, pay of chaplain, clerk, sergeant at arms, *Proviso.* Restriction on pay to members.stenographers, typewriters, janitors, and messengers, $30,000: *Provided,* That the members of the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii shall not draw their compensation of $200 or any mileage for an extra session, held in compliance with section fifty-four of an Vol. 31, p. 150.Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Post Office Department. Postmaster General, chief clerk, clerks, etc. Office Postmaster General: Postmaster General, $12,000; chief clerk, including $500 as superintendent of buildings, $4,000; private secretary, $2,500; disbursing clerk, $2,250; bookkeeper and account-105ant, $1,800; two stenographers, at $1,600 each; appointment clerk, $2,000; assistant to chief clerk, $2,000; confidential clerk to Postmaster General, $2,000; chairman, board of inspection, $2,000; printing clerk, $1,800; clerks—four of class four, five of class three (one transferred from Fourth Assistant’s Office, one submitted as telegrapher at $1,400), seven of class two (one transferred from Division of Postmaster’s Appointments and one from Second Assistant’s Office, two transferred to First Assistant’s Office and one to Third Assistant’s Office, and one submitted as typewriter repairer at $1,200), six of class one (one transferred from Second Assistant's Office and one submitted as telephone operator at $720), one $1,000 (one transferred to Solicitor’s Office), eight at $900 each (one transferred from Division of Inspectors, one from Solicitor’s Office, one submitted as telephone operator at $720); telegrapher, $1,400; typewriter repairer, $1,200; three telephone switchboard operators; assistant telephone switchboard operator; messenger in charge of mails, Messengers, engineers, etc.$900; three messengers; three assistant messengers; pages—two at $480 each, three at $360 each; engineer, $1,400; eight assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; electrician, $1,400; two assistant electricians, at $1,200 each; two dynamo tenders, at $900 each; fireman, who shall be a blacksmith, and fireman, who shall be a steam fitter, at $900 each; ten elevator conductors, at $720 each; fifteen firemen; carpenters—one $1,200, one $1,000, two at $900 each; captain of the watch, $1,000; additional to two watchmen acting as lieutenant of watchmen, at $120 each; twenty-two watchmen; foreman of laborers, Watchmen, laborers, etc.$800; forty-three laborers; plumber, $900; awning maker, $900; female laborers—one $540, three at $500 each, five at $480 each; forty-three charwomen; in all, $190,550.
Division of Post-office Inspectors: Chief inspector, $4,000; chief Post Office Inspectors’ Division.clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, eleven of class three, fourteen of class two (one submitted in lieu of one at $1,200), eighteen of class one (five in lieu of five at $1,000 each, one submitted at $1,400 and one at $900), thirteen at $1,000 each (one in lieu of one at $900, five submitted at $1,200 each), eight at $900 each (one transferred to Postmaster General’s office, one in lieu of one at $1,200, one submitted at $1,000); messenger; two assistant messengers; laborer; in all, $91,540.
Division of Purchasing Agent: Purchasing agent, $4,000; chief Purchasing Agent’s Division.clerk, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, three of class three, two of class two, two of class one, two at $1,000 each, one $900; two assistant messengers; actual and necessary expenses of the purchasing agent while traveling on business of the department, $500; in all, $22,640. Division of Solicitor: Assistant attorneys—one $2,750, one $2,500, Solicitor’s Division.two at $2,000 each; bond examiner, $2,500; law clerk, $1,800; clerks—three of class four, two of class three, four of class two, five of class one (one transferred from Division of Postal Savings), two at $1,000 each (one transferred from Postmaster General’s office), one $900 (one transferred from Division of Postal Savings and one transferred to Postmaster General’s office); assistant messenger; in all, $37,370.
Washington, District of Columbia, post-office building: Two assistant Washington, D. C., post office. Care of building, etc.engineers, at $1,000 each; three assistant electricians, at $900 each; ten elevator conductors, at $720 each; three oilers, at $720 each; twelve watchmen; additional to one watchman acting as lieutenant of watch, $120; fifteen laborers; assistant plumber, $840; two female laborers, at $480 each; fifteen charwomen; in all, $38,120. Office First Assistant Postmaster General:
First Assistant Office of First Assist ant Postmaster General. Post Office Service Division, etc.Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; Division of Post Office Service—superintendent, $4,000 (formerly Superintendent of 106Division of Salaries and Allowances), assistant superintendent $3,000 (formerly Superintendent Division of City Delivery), assistant superintendent $2,250 (formerly Assistant Superintendent Division of Salaries and Allowances), two assistant superintendents $2,000 each (one formerly Assistant Superintendent Division of City Delivery, Appointments Division.
Dead Letters Division. Correspondence Division.one formerly Superintendent Division of Miscellaneous Transportation, Second Assistant’s office); Division of Postmasters’ Appointments—superintendent $3,000, two assistant superintendents at $2,000 each, Superintendent Division of Dead Letters $2,500 (transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office). Chief Division of Correspondence $2,000; clerks—sixteen of class four (one transferred from Second Assistant’s office, two transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office), twenty-four of class three (four transferred from Second Assistant’s office, one transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office, one submitted at $1,400, and one submitted at $1,200), thirty-six of class two (one in lieu of one at $1,600, two transferred from Postmaster General’s office, three from Second Assistant’s office, nine from Fourth Assistant’s office, one submitted at $1,200, and one transferred to Postmaster General’s office), fifty of class one (one in lieu of one at $1,600, one in lieu of one at $1,400, five transferred from Second Assistant’s office, twenty-six transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office, four submitted at $1,000 each, and one at $900), thirty-six at $1,000 each (four in lieu of four at $1,200 each, five transferred from Second Assistant’s office, sixteen transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office, and three submitted at $900 each), nineteen at $900 each (three in lieu of three at $1,000 each, one in lieu of one at $1,200, one transferred from Division of Postal Savings, six transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office, two submitted at $840 each, and four at $720 each); four messengers (two in lieu of two at $900 each and one submitted at $660); seven assistant messengers (four in lieu of three at $900 each, two transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office); seven laborers (one in lieu of one at $840, six transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office); three female laborers at $480 each (transferred from Fourth Assistant’s office); in all, $277,410.
Second Assistant Postmaster General. Railway Adjustments Division. Foreign Mails Division. Office Second Assistant Postmaster General: Second Assistant Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; Division of Railway Adjustments—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,250; Division of Foreign Mails—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,000; clerks, eleven of class four (one transferred to First Assistant’s office, and one omitted), eighteen of class three (four transferred to First Assistant’s office and one submitted at $1,200), twelve of class two (one transferred to Postmaster General’s office, three transferred to First Assistant’s office, and two submitted at $1,200), eight of class one (one in lieu of one at $1,600, two in lieu of two at $1,400, one transferred to Postmaster General’s office, five transferred to First Assistant’s office, one submitted at $1,000 and three omitted), eight at $1,000 each (one in lieu of one at $1,200, five transferred to First Assistant’s office), seven at $900 each; messenger in charge of mails, $900; four assistant messengers (one in lieu of clerk, $900, transferred from Division of Railway Mail Service, one omitted); page, $360; in all, $111,190.
Railway Mail Service Division. Division of Railway Mail Service: General superintendent, $4,000; assistant general superintendent, $3,500; chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, five of class three, four of class two (two submitted at $1,200 each), nine of class one (two in lieu of two at $1,400 each and one in lieu of one at $1,000), two at $1,000 each (one submitted at $1,200), one $900 (one transferred to Second Assistant’s office at $720); in all, $40,400. Third Assistant Postmaster General.
Stamps Division. Finance Division. Office of Third Assistant Postmaster General: Third Assistant Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of stamps—superintendent $2,750; division of finance—superintendent 107(who shall give bond in such amount as the Postmaster General may determine for the faithful discharge of his duties) $2,250: superintendents Classification Division. Registered Mails Division. Money Orders Division.of divisions—classification $2,750, registered mails $2,500; division of money orders—superintendent $2,750, chief clerk $2,250; clerks—twenty of class four (one transferred from Division of Postal Savings), twenty-eight of class three (three submitted at $1,400 each and one at $1,200, one transferred from Division of Postal Savings), fifty-four of class two (three in lieu of three at $1,600 each, five transferred from Division of Postal Savings, one from Postmaster General’s office, and two submitted at $1,200 each), eighty-one of class one (one in lieu of one at $1,600, two in lieu of two at $1,400 each, ten in lieu of ten at $1,000 each, and nine transferred from Division of Postal Savings), forty-eight at $1,000 each (nine in lieu of nine at $900 each, eight transferred from Division of Postal Savings, ten submitted at $1,200 and one at $840), seventeen at $900 each (five transferred from Division of Postal Savings, nine submitted at $1,000 each, one at $840, and one at $720); six messengers (one in lieu of clerk at $1,000, one in lieu of clerk at $900, one in lieu of assistant messenger at $720, and one transferred from Division of Postal Savings); two assistant messengers (one in lieu of clerk at $900, one transferred from Division of Postal Savings, two submitted at $660, one at $840); two laborers (in lieu of two assistant messengers at $720 each); in all, $347,450.
Postal Savings System: Director, $4,800; assistant director, $3,000; Postal Savings System.chief clerk, $2,500; clerk in charge of administrative section, $2,000; clerk in charge of audit section, $2,000; clerks—seven of class four (one transferred to Third Assistant’s office), fifteen of class three (one in lieu of one at $1,400 and one transferred to Third Assistant’s office), twenty of class two (three in lieu of three at $1,200, one submitted at $1,600, and five transferred to Third Assistant’s office), thirty-seven of class one (five in lieu of five at $1,000, three, submitted at $1,400 each, nine transferred to Third Assistant’s office, and one to Solicitor’s office), twenty-nine at $1,000 each (five submitted at $1,200, eight transferred to Third Assistant’s office, and five omitted), five at $900 each (one submitted at $840, one transferred to Division of City Delivery, five to Third Assistant’s office, one to Solicitor’s office, and nine omitted); messenger (one in lieu of clerk at $900 and one transferred to Third Assistant’s office); three assistant messengers (one transferred to Third Assistant’s office); pages—two at $480 each, one $360; in all, $161,120.
Office Fourth Assistant Postmaster General: Fourth Assistant Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. Rural Mails Division. Equipment and Supplies Division.Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of rural mails—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,000, chief clerk $2,000; division of equipment and supplies—superintendent $2,750, assistant superintendent $2,500 (formerly assistant superintendent, division of supplies), chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—twelve of class four (two transferred to First Assistant’s office), twenty-four of class three (one transferred to Postmaster General’s office, one to First Assistant’s office, and two submitted at $1,200 each), thirty-five of class two (nine transferred to First Assistant’s office and three submitted at $1,200 each), fifty-three of class one (three in lieu of three at $1,400 each, two in lieu of two at $1,600 each, three submitted at $1,000 each, and twenty-six transferred to First Assistant’s office), forty at $1,000 each (three in lieu of three at $1,200 each and sixteen transferred to First Assistant’s office), seventeen at $900 each (six transferred to First Assistant’s office); skilled draftsmen—four at $1,800 each, six at $1,600 each (two in lieu of two at $1,400 each), seven at $1,400 each (three in lieu of three at $1,200 each and two submitted at $1,600 each), four at $1,200 each (two in lieu of two at $1,000 each and three submitted at $1,400 each); map mounter, $1,200; assistant map mounter, 108$840; mechanic, $1,000; map copyists—four at $1,000 each (two submitted as skilled draftsmen at $1,200 each); four messengers, eight assistant messengers (one submitted at $660, two transferred to First Assistant’s office); nineteen laborers (one in lieu of assistant messenger, six transferred to First Assistant’s office, and four omitted); in all, $309,750.
Contingent expenses. Stationery, etc. Contingent expenses, Post Office Department: For stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders, and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes, $20,000. Heating plant. For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, and power plant, including repairs to elevators, purchase and exchange of tools, and electrical supplies, and removal of ashes, $38,500. Telegraphing, etc. For telegraphing, $4,500. For painting, $2,000.
For purchase, exchange, hire, and maintenance of horses and horsedrawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and repair of vehicles, including motor trucks and harness, $2,500. Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous items, including purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; street car tickets not exceeding $200; plumbing; floor coverings; postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad which is not exempt under article eleven of the Rome convention of the Universal Postal Union, $30,000, of which sum not exceeding $3,985 may be expended for telephone service, and not exceeding $1,500 may be expended for law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, books necessary to conduct the business of the department; and repairs to department buildings.
Furniture. *Post,* p. 819. Rent. Official Postal Guide. For furniture and filing cabinets, $7,000. For rent of stables, $500. For publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, $21,000. Supply for departments, etc. *Post,* p. 819. Hereafter contracts let for the publication of the Official Postal Guide shall provide for the supply of such copies as may be required for public use by the several executive departments and other Government establishments at a price not exceeding the cost of such guides to the Post Office Department.
Postal service appropriations not to be used for Department. Vol. 5, p. 80. Appropriations made for the service of the Post Office Department in conformity with the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, shall not be expended for any of the purposes herein provided for on account of the Post Office Department at Washington, District of Columbia. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Department of Justice. Attorney General, Solicitor General, Assistants. Solicitors for Departments, etc.
Office of the Attorney General: Attorney General, $12,000; Solicitor General, $10,000; assistant to the Attorney General, $9,000; six Assistant Attorneys General, at $7,500 each; Solicitor for the Department of the Interior, $5,000; Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $5,000; Solicitor of Internal Revenue, $5,000; Solicitor for Attorneys, assistants, etc.the Department of State, $5,000; four attorneys, at $5,000 each, one of whom shall have charge of all condemnation proceedings in the District of Columbia and supervise the examination of titles and matters arising from such condemnation proceedings in which the United States shall be a party or have an interest, and no special attorney or counsel, or services of persons other than of those provided for herein, shall be employed for such purposes; attorneys—one $3,750, five at $3,500 each, one $3,250, fourteen at $3,000 each, two at $2,500 each; assistant attorneys—one $3,500, two at $3,000 each, two at $2,750 each, five at $2,500 each, one $2,400, two at Chief clerk, clerks, etc.$2,000 each; assistant examiner of titles, $2,000; chief clerk and ex officio superintendent of buildings, $3,000; superintendent of build-109ings, $500; private secretary and assistant to the Attorney General, $3,000; clerk to the Attorney General, $1,800; stenographer to the Solicitor General, $1,600; law clerks—three at $2,000 each, two of class four; clerk in office of Solicitor of Internal Revenue, $1,800; attorney in charge of pardons, $3,000; superintendent of prisons, Superintendent of prisons, etc.$4,000; disbursing clerk, $2,750; appointment clerk, $2,000; chief of Investigation division.division of investigation, $3,500; examiners—two at $2,500 each, four at $2,250 each, two at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each; librarian, $1,800; clerks—eight of class four, ten of class three, ten of class two, twenty of class one, seventeen at $1,000 each, fifteen at $900 each; chief messenger, $1,000; packer, $900; messenger, $960; six messengers;
Messengers, watchmen, etc.thirteen assistant messengers; seven laborers; seven watchmen; engineer, $1,200; two assistant engineers, at $900 each; four firemen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; head charwoman, $480; twenty-four charwomen. Division of Accounts: Chief, $2,500; Division of accounts.administrative accountant, $2,500; chief bookkeeper and record clerk, $2,000; clerks—three of class four, six of class three, six of class two, five of class one, three at $900 each; in all, $463,630.
Contingent expenses: For furniture and repairs, including Contingent expenses.carpets, file holders, and cases, $4,500. For books for law library of the department, including their exchange, $3,000. For purchase of session laws and statutes of the States and Territories for library of department, including their exchange, $500. For books for office of Solicitor of the Department of Commerce, $300. For books for office of Solicitor of the Department of Labor, $500. For stationery for department and its several bureaus, $6,500.
Stationery. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, Miscellaneous.lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and adding machines and exchange of same, street car tickets not exceeding $200, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney General, $27,000. For official transportation, including purchase and exchange, keep and shoeing of animals, and purchase, exchange, and repairs of wagons, carriages, and harness, including those used for carrying passengers, and purchase and repair of bicycles, $2,500.
For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia, $36,000. Rent. The Attorney General is authorized to enter into a contract for Five-year lease for office building authorized.the lease of a modern fireproof office building for the use of the Department of Justice for a period not to exceed five years, renewable, at the option of the Government, for an additional period not exceeding five years, at an annual rental not exceeding $36,000 and at a rate per annum per square foot of available floor space not to exceed thirty-six and three-tenths cents.
Office of Solicitor of the Treasury: Solicitor, $5,000; Solicitor of the Treasury.Assistant Solicitor, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,000; two law clerks, $2,000 each; two docket clerks, at $2,000 each; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, two of class two; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $28,980. For law books for office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, $300. Office of Solicitor of the Department of Commerce: Solicitor, Solicitor of the Department of Commerce.$5,000;
Assistant Solicitor, $3,000; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, one of class one; messenger; in all, $21,040. Office of Solicitor of the Department of Labor: Solicitor, Solicitor of the Department of Labor.$5,000; law clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, two of class one; messenger; in all, $13,840. 110 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. Department of Commerce. Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of Commerce, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, $5,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; confidential clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; private secretary to Assistant Secretary, $2,100; chief clerk and superintendent, $3,000; disbursing clerk, $3,000; chiefs of divisions—appointments, $2,500, publications $2,500, supplies $2,100; assistant chief, division of publications, $2,000; clerks—nine of class four, nine of class three, nine of class two, nineteen of class one (four transferred from Census Office), eleven at $1,000 each, eleven at $900 each (one transferred from Census Office); two telephone operators, at $720 each; messenger to the Secretary, $1,000; five messengers; seven assistant messengers; eight messenger boys, at $480 each (one transferred from Census Office); engineer, $1,100; assistant engineer, $1,000; skilled laborers— one at $1,000, one at $900 (transferred from Census Office), two at $840 each, five at $720 each (one in lieu of one watchman at $720); three elevator conductors, at $720 each; three firemen; thirteen laborers; two laborers, at $480 each; cabinetmaker, $1,000; carpenter, $900; chief watchman, $900; nine watchmen; twenty-five charwomen; in all, $179,340.
Lighthouses Bureau. Bureau of Lighthouses: Commissioner, $5,000; deputy commissioner, $4,000; chief constructing engineer, $4,000; superintendent of naval construction, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one $2,000, two of class four, two of class three, two of class two, five of class one, seven at $1,000 each, two at $900 each, one $840; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger boy, $480; assistant engineers—one $3,000, one $2,400, one $2,250; draftsmen—one $1,800, one $1,560, one $1,500, one $1,440, two at $1,200 each; in all, $64,030.
Census Office. Census Office: Director, $6,000; four chief statisticians, at $3,000 each; chief clerk, $2,500; geographer, $2,000; stenographer, $1,500; nine expert chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; clerks—fifteen of class four, twenty-five of class three, forty of class two, two hundred and eighty-three of class one (four transferred to Secretary’s Office), eighty-three at $1,000 each, eighty-one at $900 each (one transferred to Secretary’s office); skilled laborers—two at $900 each (one transferred to Secretary’s office), one $720; three messengers; five assistant messengers; four unskilled laborers, at $720 each; three messenger boys, at $480 each (one transferred to Secretary’s office); in all, $673,460.
Securing information for reports. For securing information for census reports, provided for by law, semimonthly reports of cotton production, periodical reports of stocks of baled cotton in the United states and of the domestic and foreign consumption of cotton; quarterly reports of tobacco; per diem compensation of special agents and expenses of same and of detailed employees, whether employed in Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere; the cost of transcribing State, municipal, and other records, temporary rental of quarters outside of the District of Columbia; for supervising special agents, and employment by them of such temporary Tobacco statistics.service as may be necessary in collecting the statistics required by law, including $15,000 for collecting tobacco statistics authorized *Provisos.* Division of Cotton and Tobacco Statistics created.
Procuring tobacco information. Vol. 37, p. 106.by law in addition to any other fund available therefor: *Provided,* That hereafter there shall be in the official organization of the bureau a separate, distinct, and independent division called the Division of Cotton and Tobacco Statistics: *Provided further,* That hereafter the Director of the Census may procure the information for the tobacco reports required by this Act and the Act approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and twelve, by mail or by special agents or by other Pay of special agents.employees of the Bureau of the Census: *Provided further,* That the compensation of not to exceed five special agents provided for in this paragraph may be fixed at a rate not to exceed $8 per day, $512,000. 111 For experimental work in developing, improving, and constructing Tabulating machines, etc.tabulating machines and repairs to such machinery and other mechanical appliances, including technical and mechanical service in connection therewith, whether performed in Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere, and purchase of necessary machinery and supplies, $25,000.
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce: Chief, $6,000; Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.assistant chiefs—one $3,500, one $3,000; chiefs of divisions—one $2,500, one $2,000; assistant chiefs of divisions—one $2,250; chief clerk, $2,250; experts—one on commerce and finance $2,000; translators—one $2,000, one $1,400; stenographer to chief of bureau, $1,600; clerks—ten of class four, six of class three, one $1,500, sixteen of class two, fifteen of class one, fifteen at $1,000 each, fourteen at $900 each; messenger; four assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, $130,640.
To further promote and develop the foreign and domestic commerce Promoting commerce.of the United States, including exchange on official checks, $125,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce: *Provided,* That not exceeding $3,000 of this sum may be expended *Provisos.* Purchase of publications, etc. Editorial assistants.for the purchase of documents, manuscripts, plans, specifications, and other publications necessary for the promotion of our commercial interests: *Provided further,* That out of this sum there may be expended $2,000 for the employment of an editorial assistant, and $1,600 for an editorial clerk, in Washington, District of Columbia, to edit the reports of the field agents employed under this appropriation.
Investigating cost of production: For salaries and all other actual Investigating cost of production. Vol. 25, p. 183. Vol. 27, p. 407. *Post,* p. 796.necessary expenses, including field investigations at home and abroad, compensation of experts, special agents, to be employed in Washington, District of Columbia, or in the field, rental of quarters outside of the District of Columbia, when required, purchase of books of reference, manuscripts, and periodicals, to enable the Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce to ascertain at as early a date as possible, and whenever industrial changes shall make it essential, the cost of producing articles at the time dutiable in the United States, in leading countries where such articles are produced, by fully specified units of production, and under a classification showing the different elements of cost, of such articles of production, including the wages paid in such industries per day, week, month, or year, or by the piece; and hours employed per day; and the profits of manufacturers and producers of such articles; and the comparative cost of living and the kind of living; what articles are controlled by trusts or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor, and what effect said trusts or other combinations of capital, business operations, or labor have on production and prices, $50,000.
Promoting commerce, South and Central America: To further promote Promoting commerce with South and Central America.and develop the commerce of the United States with South and Central America, including the employment of experts and special agents in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, reports, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, and all other necessary incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, $100,000.
Commercial attachés: For commercial attachés, to be appointed Commercial attachés.by the Secretary of Commerce, after examination to be held under his direction to determine their competency, and to be accredited through the State Department, whose duties shall be to investigate and report upon such conditions in the manufacturing industries and trade of foreign countries as may be of interest to the United States; and for one clerk to each of said commercial attachés to be paid a Clerks, traveling expenses, etc.salary not to exceed $1,500 each; and for necessary traveling and 112subsistence expenses, rent, purchase of reports, books of reference and periodicals, travel to and from the United States, exchange on official checks, and all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing; such commercial attaches shall serve directly under the Secretary of Commerce and shall report directly to him, $100,000.
Steamboat-Inspection Service. Steamboat-Inspection Service: Supervising Inspector General, $4,000; chief clerk and Acting Supervising Inspector General in the absence of that officer, $2,000; clerks—two of class three, one of class two, one of class one, two at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; in all, $16,440. Supervising inspectors.R.S., sec. 4404, p. 853. Steamboat inspectors: For ten supervising inspectors, at $3,000 each, as authorized by section forty-four hundred and four, Revised Statutes, $30,000;
Inspectors. Vol. 34, p. 106; Vol. 35, p. 428: Vol. 37, p. 785. Inspectors of hulls and inspectors of boilers, as authorized by Acts approved April ninth, nineteen hundred and six, May twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, and March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $171,100; Assistant inspectors. Vol. 34, p. 106. Assistant inspectors, as authorized by Act of April ninth, nineteen hundred and six, for the following ports: New York, thirty, at $2,000 each; New Orleans, six at $1,800 each;
Baltimore, eight at $1,800 each; Providence, four at $1,800 each; Boston, six at $1,800 each; Philadelphia, eight at $1,800 each; San Francisco, ten at $1,800 each; Buffalo, six at $1,600 each; Cleveland, six at $1,600 each; Milwaukee, two at $1,600 each; Chicago, four at $1,600 each (including two transferred from Milwaukee); Grand Haven, four at $1,600 each (including two transferred from Milwaukee); Detroit, four at $1,600 each (including two transferred from Milwaukee); Norfolk, six at $1,600 each;
Seattle, eight at $1,600 each; Portland (Oregon), two at $1,600 each; Albany (New York), two at $1,600 each; two traveling inspectors at $2,500 each ; $211,000; In all, for inspectors, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $412,100. Clerk hire, at large. Clerk hire, service at large: For compensation, not exceeding $1,500 a year to each person, of clerks to boards of steamboat inspectors, to R. S., sec. 4414, p. 854. Vol. 34, p. 106; Vol. 36, p. 1229.be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce in accordance with the provisions of section forty-four hundred and fourteen, Revised Statutes, and the Acts of April ninth, nineteen hundred and six, and March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, $84,000.
Contingent expenses. *Post,* p. 116. Contingent expenses: For fees to witnesses; traveling and other expenses when on official business of the Supervising Inspector General, supervising inspectors, traveling inspectors, local and assistant inspectors, and clerks; instruments, furniture, stationery, janitor service, and every other thing necessary to carry into effect the provisions R. S., Title LII, pp. 852–869. Vol. 25, p. 80; Vol. 24, p.80; Vol. 28, p. 699; Vol. 29, p. 530;
Vol. 33, p. 1026; Vol. 34, p. 106; Vol. 35, p. 428.of Title fifty-two, Revised Statutes, of the Act of April fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, amending the Act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six, as amended by Acts of March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, February fifteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, March third, nineteen hundred and five, April ninth, nineteen hundred and six, and May twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eight, $100,000.
Navigation Bureau. Bureau of Navigation: Commissioner, $4,000; deputy commissioner, $2,400; chief clerk, $2,000; clerk to commissioner, $1,600; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, four of class one, four at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; two stenographers and typewriters to be employed not to exceed six months at the rate of $75 per month each; two messengers; in all, $37,780. Shipping service. Commissioners. Vol. 23, p. 59. Shipping service: For shipping commissioners in amounts not exceeding the following:
Baltimore, $1,200; Bath, Maine, $1,000; Boston, $3,000; New Bedford, $1,200; New Orleans, $1,500; New York, $5,000; Norfolk, $1,500; Philadelphia, $2,400; Portland, Maine, $1,300; Seattle, $3,500; Providence, $1,800; Rockland, $1,200: San Francisco, $4,000; in all, $28,600. 113 Clerk hire: For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce, Clerk hire.not to exceed $1,600 per annum to each person, of clerks in the offices of shipping commissioners, $38,400. Contingent expenses:
For rent, stationery, and other requisites for Contingent expenses. *Post,* p. 116.transaction of the business of shipping commissioners’ offices, and for janitor in the commissioner’s office at New York, $840; in all, $6,300. To enable the Commissioner of Navigation to secure uniformity in Admeasurement of vessels.the admeasurement of vessels, including the employment of an adjuster of admeasurements at not to exceed $2,100, purchase and exchange of admeasuring instruments, traveling and incidental expenses, $3,000.
Instruments for counting passengers: For purchase and repair of Counting passengers.instruments for counting passengers, $250. Enforcement of navigation laws: To enable the Secretary of Commerce Motor boats, etc., to enforce navigation laws.to provide and operate such motor boats and employ thereon such persons as may be necessary for the enforcement, under his direction by customs officers, of laws relating to navigation and inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, and counting of passengers on excursion boats, $24,000.
To enable the Secretary of Commerce to employ temporarily, in Temporary employees to prevent overcrowding of excursion vessels, etc.addition to those now provided for by law, such other persons as may be necessary, of whom not more than two at any one time may be employed in the District of Columbia, to enforce the laws to prevent overcrowding of passenger and excursion vessels, and all necessary expenses in connection therewith, $18,000. Wireless-communication laws: To enable the Secretary of Commerce Wireless apparatus on steamers.
Vol. 36, p. 629; Vol. 37, p. 199. Vol. 37, p. 1565. *Post,* p. 116.to enforce the Acts of Congress “to require apparatus and operators for radio communication on certain ocean steamers” and “to regulate radio communication” and carry out the international radio telegraphic convention, and to employ such persons and means as may be necessary, this employment to include salaries of employees in Washington not exceeding $7,150, traveling and subsistence expenses, purchase and exchange of instruments, technical books, rent, and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $45,000.
Bureau of Standards: Director, $6,000; physicists—chief, $4,800, Standards Bureau.one qualified in optics $3,600, two at $3,600 each, one $3,000; associate physicists—three at $2,700 each, four at $2,500 each, four at $2,200 each, six at $2,000 each; assistant physicists—nine at $1,800 each, eleven at $1,600 each, fourteen at $1,400 each; chemists—chief $4,800, one $3,500; associate chemists—one $2,700, two at $2,500 each, one $2,200, one $2,000; assistant chemists—two at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each; laboratory assistants—sixteen at $1,200 each, thirteen at $1,000 each, thirteen at $900 each; laboratory helpers—one $840, three at $720 each, two at $600 each; aids—ten at $720 each, seven at $600 each; laboratory apprentices—twelve at $540 each; secretary, $2,200; storekeeper, $1,000; librarian, $1,600; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, two of class two, six of class one, five at $1,000 each, five at $900 each, two at $720 each; telephone operator, $720; office apprentices—two at $540 each, two at $480 each, three at $360 each; three elevator boys, at $360 each; mechanicians—chief $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,500, one $1,400, three at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each, one $900; shop apprentices—one $540, two at $480 each; four watchmen; skilled woodworkers—one $1,200, one $1,000, one $840; skilled laborers—six at $720 each; draftsman, $1,200; photographer, $1,200; packer, $840; messenger; assistant messenger; superintendent of mechanical plant, $2,500; assistant engineers—one $1,600, two at $1,200 each, one $1,000, one $900; pipe fitter, $1,000; five firemen; glass blower, $1,600; glassworker, $1,600; electricians—one $1,200, 114one $900; foreman of janitors and laborers, $840; ten laborers; janitors—three at $660 each, one $600; two female laborers, at $360 each; in all, $311,720.
Apparatus, etc. *Post,* p. 116. For apparatus, machinery, tools, and appliances used in connection with buildings or work of the bureau, laboratory supplies, materials, and supplies used in the construction of apparatus, machinery, or other appliances, including their exchange; piping, wiring, and construction incident to the installation of apparatus, machinery, or appliances; furniture for laboratories and offices, cases for apparatus, $50,000. Repairs, etc. For repairs and necessary alterations to buildings, $5,000.
Miscellaneous. For fuel for heat, light, and power; office expenses, stationery, books and periodicals; traveling expenses (including expenses of attendance upon meetings of technical and professional societies when required in connection with standardization, testing, or other official work of the bureau); street car tickets not exceeding $100; expenses of the visiting committee; expenses of attendance of American International Committee of Weights and Measures.member at the meeting of the International Committee of Weights and Measures; including a heavy motor freight truck to replace electric truck at a cost not to exceed $3,000; supplies for operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger automobile and motor trucks for official use; and contingencies of all kinds, $28,500.
Care of grounds. For grading, construction of roads and walks, piping grounds for water supply, lamps, wiring for lighting purposes, and other expenses incident to the improvement and care of grounds, $6,000. High-power electric currents, etc. To investigate the dangers to life and property due to the transmission of electric currents at high potentials, and the precautions to be taken and the best methods of construction, installation, and operation to be followed in the distribution and return of such currents, in order to reduce to a minimum such dangers; also to investigate the best means of protecting life and property from lightning, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000.
Refrigeration investigations. To complete the investigations incident to the establishment of units and standards of refrigeration, and the determination of the physical constants of materials used in the refrigeration industries, such as ammonia, aqueous ammonia solutions, carbonic acid, brines, and so forth, and the determination of the thermal conductivities of materials, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000. Structural materials, investigations.
For continuation of the investigation of structural materials, such as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $100,000. Testing machines for physical constants. For maintenance and operation of testing machines, including personal services in connection therewith in the District of Columbia and in the field, for the determination by the Bureau of Standards of the physical constants and the properties of materials as authorized by law, $30,000.
Fire-resisting building materials. For investigation of fire-resisting properties of building materials and conditions under which they may be most efficiently used, and for the standardization of types of appliances for fire prevention, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $25,000. Measurement of public utilities. For investigation of the standards and methods of measurements of public utilities, such as gas, electric light, electric power, water, telephone, and electric railway service, and the solution of the problems which arise in connection with standards in such service, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $40,000. 115 For investigation of materials used in the construction of rails, Railway equipment investigations.wheels, axles, and other railway equipment, and the cause of their failure, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000.
For testing miscellaneous materials, such as varnish materials, soap Miscellaneous testing, etc.materials, inks, and chemicals, including supplies for the Government departments and independent establishments, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, as authorized by law, $20,000. For investigation and standardization of methods and instruments Radio communication standardization.employed in radio communication, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000.
To develop color standards and methods of manufacture and of Industrial color standards, etc.color measurement, with special reference to their industrial use in standardization and specification of colorants such as dyestuffs, inks, and pigments, and other products, paint, paper, and textiles, in which color is a pertinent property, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000. To study methods of measurement and technical processes used in Clay products processes.the manufacture of pottery, brick, tile, terra cotta, and other clay products, and the study of the properties of the materials used in that industry, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000.
To determine experimentally important physical constants of materials Experiments in physical constants of industrial materials, etc.essential to the industries or in laboratory investigations, as authorized by law, such as the determination of the value of gravity, thermal conductivities of materials, mechanical equivalent of heat, metallurgical constants such as specific and latent heats of metals and alloys, the electrochemical equivalent of metals, the velocity of light; including data important in the efficient planning of industrial processes, and in the effective utilization of the properties of materials, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $5,000.
To develop methods of testing and standardizing machines, motors, Aeronautical engineering investigations, etc.tools, measuring instruments, and other apparatus and devices used in mechanical, hydraulic, and aeronautic engineering; for the comparative study of types of apparatus and methods of operation, and for the establishment of standards of performance; for the accurate determination of fundamental physical constants involved in the proper execution of this work; and for the scientific experiments and investigations needed in solving the problems which may arise in connection therewith, especially in response to the requirements of aeronautics and aviation for information of a purely scientific nature, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000.
Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce: For contingent Contingent expenses.and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $2,500); stationery, furniture and repairs to same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, lighting and heating; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and care of horses, horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and motor-propelled trucks, and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; repairs to building occupied by offices of the Secretary of Commerce; storage of documents belonging to the 116Bureau of Lighthouses, not to exceed $1,500; street car tickets, not exceeding $300; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary Additional to be deducted from bureaus, etc., for purchase through supply committee.expenses not included in the foregoing, $57,000, and in addition thereto sums amounting to $49,450 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen and added to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce,” in order to facilitate the purchase through the Vol. 36, p. 531.central purchasing office as provided in the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-six, page five hundred and thirty-one), of certain supplies for bureaus and offices for which contingent and miscellaneous appropriations are specifically made as follows:
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce—Investigating cost of production $3,700, promoting commerce $4,500, promoting commerce (South and Central America) $3,000, commercial attachés $4,500; general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $10,000; contingent expenses, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $5,000; contingent expenses, shipping service, $500; instruments for measuring vessels, $500; instruments for counting passengers, $250; enforcement of wireless communication laws, $1,000; Bureau of Standards—equipment $1,500, general expenses $2,000; general expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $4,500; miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $8,500; and the said total sum of $106,450 shall be and constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses, Department To be expended through Division of Supplies.of Commerce, to be expended through the central purchasing office (Division of Supplies), Department of Commerce, and shall also be available for objects and purposes of the several appropriations mentioned under the title “Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce,” in this Act.
Rent. For rent of biddings in the District of Columbia, $66,500. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. Department of Labor. Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of Labor, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, $5,000; chief clerk, $3,000; disbursing clerk, $3,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; private secretary to the Assistant Secretary, $2,100; chief of division, $2,500; appointment clerk, $1,800; clerks—three of class four, five of class three, eight of class two, five of class one, six at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; two telephone switchboard operators; two messengers; four assistant messengers; three messenger boys, at $480 each; engineer, $1,000; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; ten laborers (one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor); four watchmen; nine charwomen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; in all, $96,200.
Commissioners of conciliation. Vol. 37, p. 738. Commissioners of conciliation: To enable the Secretary of Labor to exercise the authority vested in him by section eight of the Act creating the Department of Labor, and to appoint commissioners Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680.of conciliation, for per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4 pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and traveling expenses, including an executive clerk at $2,000 in the District of Columbia, $75,000.
Labor Statistics Bureau. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Commissioner, $5,000: chief statistician, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, $3,000; statistical experts—four at $2,000 each; employees—one $2,760, one $2,520, three at $2,280 each, one $1,800, six at $1,600 each, seven at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; special agents—four at $1,800 each, six at $1,600 each, eight at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; clerks—five of class four, five of class three, six of class two, twelve of class one, nine at $1,000 each; two copyists; two assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, $137,880. 117 For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence, pursuant Per diem, special agents, etc.
Vol. 38, p. 680.to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, of special agents and employees and for their transportation; experts and temporary assistance for field service outside of the District of Columbia, to be paid at the rate of Temporary statistical assistance.not exceeding $8 per day; and for temporary statistical clerks and stenographers in the District of Columbia, to be selected from civil-service registers and to be paid at the rate of not exceeding $100 per month, the same person to be employed for not more than six consecutive months, the total expenditure for such temporary clerical assistance in the District of Columbia not to exceed $6,000; traveling expenses of officers and employees, purchase of reports and materials for reports and bulletins of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and for subvention to “International Association for Labour Legislation,” Association for Labour Legislation.and necessary expenses connected with representation of the United States Government therein, $64,090.
For books, periodicals, and newspapers for the library the sum of Library.$100 may be expended for newspapers for the purpose of procuring strike data, $1,000. To enable the Secretary of Labor to provide and pay for the medical Medical examination of injured employees. Vol. 35, p. 557. *Post,* pp. 748, 821.examination of employees of the United States receiving compensation for injuries under the provisions of the Act of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, as directed by section five of said Act, and for clerical assistance in its administration, and for subsistence, transportation, and traveling expenses of officers and employees of the Bureau of Labor Statistics while traveling on duty away from their homes and outside of the District of Columbia while engaged in the investigation of claims arising under the provisions of said Act, $3,000.
Bureau of Immigration: Commissioner General, $5,000; Assistant Immigration Bureau.Commissioner General, who shall also act as chief clerk and actuary, $3,500; private secretary, $1,800; chief statistician, $2,000; clerks—three of class four, four of class three, seven of class two, nine of class one, nine at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; in all, $62,400. Division of Information: Chief, $3,500; assistant chief, $2,500; Information division.clerks—two of class four, one of class three, two of class two, three of class one, one $900; messenger; in all, $19,340.
Bureau of Naturalization: Commissioner, $4,000; deputy commissioner, Naturalization Bureau.$3,250; clerks—six of class four, ten of class three, fourteen of class two, fifteen of class one, ten at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $480; in all, $86,210. Children’s Bureau: Chief, $5,000; assistant chief, $2,400; Children’s Bureau.experts—one on sanitation $2,800, industrial $2,000, social service $2,000, librarian $2,000, statistical $2,000; special agents—one $1,800, four at $1,600 each, ten at $1,400 each, twelve at $1,200 each; private secretary to chief of bureau, $1,500; clerks—two of class four, four of class three, five of class two, eighteen of class one, ten at $1,000 each; copyist; messenger; in all, $106,640.
For traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence at not Per diem subsistence, etc. Vol. 38, p. 680. Experts, etc.exceeding $4, pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, of officers, special agents, and other employees of the Children’s Bureau; employment of experts and temporary assistants, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $8 a day, and of interpreters, to be paid at a rate not Material for publications.exceeding $4 a day when actually employed; purchase of reports and material for the publications of the Children’s Bureau, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals, including the advance payment of subscriptions for the same, for newspaper clippings to enable 118the Children’s Bureau to secure data regarding the progress of legislation affecting children and the activities of public and private organizations dealing with children, and for reprints from State, city, and private publications for distribution when said reprints can be procured more cheaply than they can be printed by the Government, $58,000.
Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses, Department of Labor: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, laundry, street car tickets, not exceeding $125, lighting and heating; maintenance and repair of a motor truck; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of passenger-carrying vehicle for use of the Secretary and such other officials as exigency may require for official purposes; freight and express charges, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, adding machines and other labor-saving devices, including their exchange; repairs to the building occupied by the office of the Secretary of Labor; purchase of law books, books of reference, and Additional from immigration expenses.
Vol. 36, p. 531.periodicals not exceeding $300;in all, $36,100; and in addition thereto such sum as may be necessary, not in excess of $13,500, to facilitate the purchase, through the central purchasing office as provided in the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and thirty-one), of certain supplies for the Immigration Service, shall be deducted from the appropriation *Post,* p. 325.“Expenses of regulating immigration” made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen and added to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of Labor,” for that year; and the total sum thereof shall be and constitute the appropriation for contingent To be expended through Division of Publications and Supplies.expenses for the Department of Labor, to be expended through the central purchasing office (Division of Publications and Supplies), Department of Labor.
Rent. Rent: For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Department of Labor, $20,000. Five-year lease for office building authorized. The Secretary of Labor is authorized to enter into a contract for the lease of a modern fireproof building for the use of the Department of Labor for a period not to exceed five years, renewable, at the option of the Government, for an additional period not exceeding five years, at an annual rental not exceeding $24,000 and at a rate per annum per square foot of available floor space not to exceed thirty-six and three-tenths *Proviso.* Renewal of present lease.cents: *Provided,* That the Secretary of Labor may renew for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen a lease of the premises now occupied by the Department of Labor at an annual rental not exceeding $24,000.
JUDICIAL. Judicial. Supreme Court. Supreme Court: Chief Justice, $15,000; eight associate justices, at $14,500 each; marshal, $4,500; nine stenographic clerks, one for the Chief Justice and one for each associate justice, at not exceeding $2,000 each; in all, $153,500. Circuit courts of appeals. Circuit Courts of Appeals: Thirty-three circuit judges, at $7,000 each; nine clerks of circuit courts of appeals, at $3,500 each; messenger, to act as librarian and crier circuit court of appeals, eighth circuit, $3,000; in all, $265,500.
District judges. District Courts: Ninety-five district judges, at $6,000 each, $570,000. Hawaii district court. District court, Territory of Hawaii: Two judges, at $6,000 each; clerk, $3,000; reporter, $1,200; in all, $16,200. 119 Retired judges: Salaries of Judges retired under section two Retired judges. Vol. 36, p. 1161.hundred and sixty of the Judicial Code (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page eleven hundred and sixty-one), so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen.
Court of Appeals, District of Columbia: Chief justice, $7,500; Court of Appeals, District of Columbia.two associate justices, at $7,000 each; clerk, $3,250, and $250 additional as custodian of the Court of Appeals Building; assistant or deputy clerk, $2,250; reporter, $1,500: *Provided,* That the reports *Proviso.* Reports.issued by him shall not be sold for more than $5 per volume; crier, who shall also act as stenographer and typewriter in the clerk’s office when not engaged in court room, $1,200; three messengers, at $720 each; necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s office, $1,000; three stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at $1,200 each; in all, $36,710, one-half of Half from District revenues.which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Supreme Court, District of Columbia: Chief justice, $6,500; Supreme Court, District of Columbia.five associate justices, at $6,000 each; six stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at $900 each; in all, $41,900, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the Half from District revenues.District of Columbia. Commissioner, Yellowstone Park: Commissioner in Yellowstone Yellowstone Park. Commissioner.National Park, $1,500. The provisions of section twenty-one of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act approved Vol. 29, p. 184.May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall not be construed as impairing the right of said commissioner to receive said salary as herein provided.
Commissioner of Glacier National Park: Commissioner in Glacier Park. Commissioner. Vol. 29, p. 184.Glacier National Park, $1,500. The provisions of section twenty-one of the legislative, executive, and judicial Act approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall not be construed as impairing the right of said commissioner to receive said salary as herein provided. Books for judicial officers: For purchase and rebinding of Books for judicial officers.law books, including the exchange thereof, for United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the nine libraries of the United States circuit courts of appeals, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General: *Provided,* That such *Proviso.* Transmittal to successors.books shall in all cases be transmitted to their successors in office; all books purchased thereunder to be plainly marked, “The property of the United States,” $16,000.
Court of Customs Appeals: Presiding judge and four associate Court of Customs Appeals.judges, at $7,000 each; marshal, $3,000; clerk, $3,500; assistant clerk, $2,000; five stenographic clerks, at $1,600 each; stenographic reporter, $2,500; messenger, $840; in all, $54,840. For rent of necessary quarters in Washington, District of Columbia, Miscellaneous expenses.and elsewhere, $7,000; books, periodicals, stationery, supplies, traveling expenses, freight, telephone and telegraph, heat, light, and power service, drugs, chemicals, cleansers, furniture, and printing; pay of bailiffs and all other necessary employees not otherwise specifically provided for; and such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $5,870; in all, $12,870.
Court of Claims: Chief justice, $6,500; four judges, at $6,000 Court of Claims.each; chief clerk, $3,500; assistant clerk, $2,500; bailiff, $1,500; clerks—one $1,600, three at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; stenographer, $1,200; chief messenger, $1,000; two assistant messengers; three firemen; three watchmen; elevator conductor, $720; two laborers; two charwomen; in all, $56,680. For auditors and additional stenographers, when deemed necessary, Auditors, etc.in the Court of Claims, and a stenographer, at $1,600, for the chief justice, to be disbursed under the direction of the court, $7,000.
For stationery, court library, repairs, including repairs to bicycles, Contingent expenses.120fuel, electric light, electric elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, $3,900. Reporting decisions. For reporting the decisions of the court and superintending the printing of the fifty-first volume of the reports of the Court of Claims, $1,000, to be paid on the order of the court to the reporter, notwithstanding R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314. Vol. 18, p. 109.section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes or section three of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four.
Custodian. For custodian of the building occupied by the Court of Claims, R.S., sec. 1765, p.314. Vol. 18, p. 109.$500, to be paid on the order of the court, notwithstanding section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes or section three of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. Pay of switchboard operators, assistant messengers, laborers, etc., rated. Sec. 2. That the pay of telephone-switchboard operators, assistant messengers, firemen, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen provided for in this Act, except those employed in mints and assay offices, unless otherwise specially stated, shall be as follows:
For telephone-switchboard operators, assistant messengers, firemen, and watchmen, at the rate of $720 per annum each; for laborers, at the rate of $660 per annum each; assistant telephone-switchboard operators, at the rate of $600 each, and for charwomen, at the rate of $240 per annum each. No pay for permanently incapacitated persons. Sec. 3. That the appropriations herein made for the officers, clerks, and persons employed in the public service shall not be available for the compensation of any persons incapacitated otherwise than temporarily tor performing such service.
Typewriting machines. Restriction on prices to be paid for. Sec. 4. That no part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen 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 fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen; such price shall include the value of any typewriting machine or machines given Exception.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, the lowest of which special prices paid for typewriting machines shall not be exceeded in future purchases for such schools: *Proviso.* Determination of character of machines.*Provided,* That in construing this section the Commissioner of Patents shall advise the Comptroller of the Treasury as to whether the changes in any typewriter are of such structural character as to constitute a new machine not within the limitations of this section.
Details for service outside of District restricted. Sec. 5. That in expending appropriations made in this Act persons in the classified service at Washington, District of Columbia, shall not be detailed for service outside of the District of Columbia except for or in connection with work pertaining directly to the service at *Proviso.* Department of Justice investigations excepted.the seat of government of the department or other Government establishment from which the detail is made: *Provided,* That nothing in this section shall be deemed to apply to the investigation of any matter or the preparation, prosecution, or defense of any suit by the Department of Justice.
Double salaries restricted. *Post,* p. 582. Sec. 6. That unless otherwise specially authorized by law no money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be available for payment to any person receiving more than one salary when the combined amount of said salaries exceeds the sum of $2,000 per Exception.annum, but this shall not apply to retired officers of the Army, Navy, or Marine Corps whenever they may be appointed or elected to public office or whenever the President shall appoint them to office by and with the advice and consent of the Senate or to officers and enlisted men of the Organized Militia and Naval Militia in the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia.
Approved, May 10, 1916.