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CHAP. 163.— AN ACT Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes. March 3, 1917.[[H. R. 18542](/us/bill/64/hr/18542).][[Public, No. 381](/us/pl/64/381).] *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 expenses 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 eighteen, 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, 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 84,000, 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, mes-1071senger $1,200;
Cuban Relations—clerk $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; Inter-oceanic 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; 1072Private Land Claims—clerk $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 Preparing Senate Manual.clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Revolutionary Claims—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, 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, 1916. For compiling the Navy Yearbook for the calendar year nineteen hundred and sixteen, under the direction of the chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, $500. Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, assistants, 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, $8,400; in all, $143,250.
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. 1073 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 President of the Senate, Contingent expenses. Stationery.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 Postage stamps.Arms, $100; in all, $300. 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, Automobile, Vice President.$2,000. For materials for folding, $1,500. Folding. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $5,000. 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. Senate Resolutions Numbered Fiver hundred and sixty-one, Sixty-third Authority for additional clerks repealed.Congress, third session, and one hundred and one, Sixty-fourth Congress, first session, are hereby repealed. 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; ten additional privates, at $840 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, $65,550.
For contingent expenses, $200. Contingent expenses. One-half of the foregoing amounts under “Capitol police” shall be Division of disbursements.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 indexing the Congressional Directory, $1,600; in all, $7,600, one half to be Congressional Directory.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 1074Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, $3,304,500. Mileage. For mileage of Representatives and 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, 84,000; clerk to Speaker's table, $3,600, and for preparing Digest of the Rules, 81,000 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 and $600 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent. 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 home mid 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, at $900 each; three session telephone operators, at $75 per month each from December first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen; substitute telephone operator when required, at $2.50 per day, $500; two laborers in Bathroom, 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, $100,145.
Clerks, messengers, and janitors to committees. Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds: Chief engineer, $1,900; assistant engineers—throe 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 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, 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 $720; Interstate 1075and 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 Affaire—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, $170,690.
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 eight clerks to committees, at $6 each per day during the Clerks to committees, session.session, $10,080.
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 employees, etc.wagons and repairs of same, $1,200, or so much thereof as may be necessary; special employee, $1,500; superintendent of reporters’ gallery, $1,600; 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; two female attendants in ladies’ retiring rooms at $800 each; superintendent of folding room, $2,500;
Folding room. Superintendent, etc.foreman, $1,800; 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 Pages, etc.in charge of telephones (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, $24,150; superintendent of document room, $2,900; assistant superintendent, Document room.
Superintendent, etc.$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, $159,050. For the employment of Joel Grayson in document room, $2,150. Joel Grayson. For minority employees authorized and named in the resolution Minority employeesof December sixth, nineteen hundred and fifteen: Special employee, 1076$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.
For assistant department messenger authorized and named in the resolution of December seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, $2,000. Special designated employees. 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 seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $12,600; laborer, $720; in all, $35,420.
Horses and wagons. For hire of horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, $3,500, 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 210 days. Wherever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the two hundred and ten days from December third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, 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, $2,000 per annum, in monthly installments, $880,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and Representatives and Delegates elect to Congress whose credentials in due form of law have R. S., sec. 31, p. 6.been duly filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in accordance with the provisions of section thirty-one of the Revised *Proviso.* To be placed on roll of employees.Statutes of the United States, shall be entitled to payment under this appropriation: *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 arc appointed; and any Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may appoint one or more clerks, who shall he placed on the roll as the clerk of such Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner making such appointments. 1077 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 Vol. 28, p. 624.January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $10,000, For furniture, and materials for repairs of same, $20,000.
Furniture. For packing boxes, $4,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Packing boxes. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, Miscellaneous items.exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, $75,000, For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners, Stationery.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 Automobile, Speaker.Speaker, $2,000. 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, $1,600, chief $1,200, Mail and delivery.one $960, one $780, one $600; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,560. 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 $60C 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 $l,50C 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 $42C each; in all, $92,020.
Binding: Assistants—one in charge $1,500, one $960; junior messenger, Binding.$420; in all, $2,880. 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 Sl,20t each (including one in room for the blind), two at charging desk al $1,080 each, five at $960 each (including one for Toner library am one for Washington library), one in room for the blind, $900, ten al $840 each, four at $600 each; stenographer and typewriter, $960 attendants—-Senate reading room, $960, Representatives’ reading room—one $960, one $840, two in cloakroom at $780 each, 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, $60,120.
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. 1078 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 deposit. 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 each, two at $480 each; four junior messengers, at $420 each. Arrears, special service: Three clerks, at $1,200 each; porter, $780; junior messenger, $420; in all, $101,740. 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—two at $1,600 each, three at $1,500 each, three at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, four 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, $46,900.
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 alt other expenses incidental to the acquisition of books by purchase, gift, bequest, or exchange, to continue available during 1079the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $90,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this object for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen;
For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, under Law books.the direction of the Chief Justice, $3,000; For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, to Books for Supreme Court.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, $3,600; 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; two telephone switchboard operators; captain of watch, $1,400; lieutenant of watch, $1,000; eighteen watchmen, at $900 each; two carpenters, at $900 each; painter, $900; foreman of laborers, $900; sixteen laborers, at $600 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, $83,205.
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 post meridian 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 $1,400, to be immediately available, additional for waterproofing parts of east driveway and over machinery; $1,075 for fire hose and fittings; $8,500, to be immediately available, for repairing tunnel and mechanical book carrier connecting the Library Building and the Capitol; $2,300 for repairing passenger elevators; $500 for painting portions of roof of building; and $2,000 for pointing exterior stonework of building, $28,000.
For providing and installing cooling and circulating drinking-water Drinking-water system.system in Library Building, $5,000, to be immediately available. For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical Furniture.work pertaining thereto, $10,000. BOTANIC GARDEN. Botanic garden. For superintendent, $2,000. Superintendent, assistants, etc. For assistants, and skilled laborers, and laborers at not exceeding $2 per diem, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $21,640.
For procuring manure, soil, tools, fuel, purchasing trees, shrubs, Repairs and improvements.plants, and seeds; services, including skilled laborers, and laborers at not exceeding $2 per diem, materials, and miscellaneous supplies, traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence of the superin-1080tendent and his assistants not to exceed $200, street car tickets not exceeding $25, office equipment, and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Gardens, care, and maintenance of motor-propelled delivery vehicle, under direction of the Joint Library Committee of Congress, $12,000.
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, $30,000. BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY. Bureau of Efficiency.Investigating administrative needs of executive departments, ratings, etc.*Ante,* p. 15. 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 Vol. 37, pp. 413, 750.
Vol. 38, p. 1008.establishments, required by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Acts for the fiscal years ninteen hundred and thirteen and nineteen hundred and fourteen, respectively, and to investigate duplication of statistical and other work and methods Expenses.of business in the various branches of the Government service; for purchase or exchange of equipment, supplies, stationery, books and periodicals, printing and binding, traveling expenses not exceeding $3,000, and street car fare not exceeding $50; in all, $60,000: *Proviso.* Pay restriction.*Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a compensation exceeding $4,000 per annum.
Claims against United States, etc. Investigation of auditing, etc. The Bureau of Efficiency shall investigate the methods of examining and auditing claims against the United States and accounts of disbursing officers, and of accounting for receipts and disbursements and shall submit a report to the Secretary of the Treasury and to Congress, with recommendations, at its next regular session. Subtreasuries. Investigating transfer of work, etc. The Bureau of Efficiency shall investigate the work performed by the Sub treasuries and report to the Secretary of the Treasury and to Congress at the beginning of the next regular session what part of the work of the Subtreasuries may be transferred to other offices of the Government, banks of the Federal Reserve System or Farm Loan Banks, and for the purpose of this investigation the representatives of the Bureau of Efficiency shall have access to all necessary books and other records of the Government.
Civil Service Commission. Business methods to be investigated. The Bureau of Efficiency shall investigate the methods of transacting the public business in the Civil Service Commission and report to Congress through the President at the next regular session of Con-1081gress. The officers and employees of the Civil Service Commission are hereby directed to furnish said bureau with such information as it may require to carry out this provision. The Bureau of Efficiency shall ascertain the rates of pay of employees Pay of employees.
Examination of rates of, by States, commercial institutions, etc.of various State and municipal governments and commercial institutions in different parts of the United States and shall submit to Congress at its next regular session a report showing how such rates compare with the rates of pay of employees of the Federal Government performing similar services. Officers and employees of the executive departments and other Departments, etc., to furnish data required.establishments shall furnish authorized representatives of the Bureau of Efficiency with all information that the bureau may require for the performance of the duties imposed on it by law, and shall give such representatives access to all records and papers that may be needed for that purpose.
The Bureau of Efficiency shall investigate the classification, salary, Employees of departments, etc., D. C. Investigation of classification, pay, efficiency, etc.and efficiency of the employees of the Departments and Independent Establishments of the Government in the District of Columbia and report fully or partially to Congress by January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, as to needed equalization or reclassification, and if a partial report be submitted then a full report shall be submitted as soon thereafter as possible with such recommendations as the Bureau may deem proper.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. Civil Service Commission. For commissioner, acting as president of the commission, $4,500; Commissioners, examiners, etc.two commissioners, at $4,000 each; chief examiner, $3,500; secretary, $2,500; assistant chief examiner, $2,250; three chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; examiners—one$2,400, three at $2,000 each, six at$l,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: District secretaries—two at $2,400 each, one $2,200, Field force.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.
For five field examiners at the rate of $1,500 per annum each, for Field examiners.work in connection with members of local boards and other necessary work as directed by the commission, $7,500. No detail of clerks or other employees from the executive departments No details allowed from departments, etc.or other Government establishments in Washington, District of Columbia, to the Civil Service Commission, for the performance of duty in the District of Columbia, shall be made for or during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
The Civil Service Commission shall, however, have power in case of emergency to transfer or detail Transfer of employees.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 arc not available, $2,000. For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners Traveling expenses, etc.acting 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, $20,000. 1082 DEPARTMENT OF STATE.
Department of State. Secretary, Assistants. Director of Consular Service, Counselor. For Secretary of State, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, $5,000; 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 Officers on drafting work.the Senate, $7,500; officers to aid in important drafting work—four at $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 Assistant solicitors.
Chief clerk, chiefs of bureaus, clerks, etc.in connection with foreign relations; three assistant solicitors of the department, to be appointed by the Secretary, at $3,000 each; chief clerk, who shall sign such official papers and documents as the 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; two telephone switchboard operators; chauffeur, $1,080; in all, $320,660.
Additional force. Officer on drafting work, assistant solicitor, law clerks, etc. For the following additional force: Officer to aid in important 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 assistant messengers; in all $54,080. Further additional force. For the following further additional force: Officers to aid in important 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.
Employees now paid from emergencies. For employees now paid from appropriation for emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, $4,140. No other appropriation to be used for services in the Department. No money appropriated by any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen 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 maintenance and repair of a motor-propelled passenger vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; automobile mail wagon, including exchange of same, street-cur tickets not exceeding $100, and other items not included in the foregoing, $9,000.
Rent. For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $11,200. Automobile for Secretary. For purchase of an automobile for official use of the Secretary of State, to be immediately available, $4,000. 1083 The Public Printer is directed to remove, within thirty days after Removal of branch printing office from building.the passage of this Act, all printing machinery, material, and so forth, from all rooms in the State, War, and Navy Building now assigned to the Department of State, and the State, War, and Navy branch Abolished.printing office is hereby abolished.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of the Treasury, $12,000; Secretary. Assistant to the Secretary. Assistant Secretaries, clerks, etc.assistant to the Secretary, at the rate of $5,000 per annum, from March first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, both dates inclusive, $6,666.67; 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, $68,086.67. Office of chief clerk and superintendent: Chief clerk, including Chief clerk, assistant superintendent, clerks, etc.$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 $1,000, one $900; operator of photographic copying machine, $800; two messengers; three assistant messengers; messenger boy, $360; storekeeper, $1,200; telephone and telegraph operator, $1,200; chief Engineers, etc.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, $1,400; captain of the Watchmen, laborers, etc.watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; sixty- five watchmen; foreman of laborers, $1,200; 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 charwomen; carpenters—two at $1,000 each, one $720.
Winder Building: Engineer, Winder Building.$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, $480; eight charwomen. Cox Building, seventeen hundred and nine New Cox Building.York Avenue: Two watchmeh-firemen, at $720 each; laborer. Auditors’ Building: Forewoman of char force, $480; twenty-five Auditors’ Building.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, $186,180.
General Supply Committee: Superintendent of supplies, $2,250; General Supply Committee.clerks—two of class four, one of class three, one $1,500, three of class two, four of class one; twelve temporary clerks for four months, at $75 each per month; laborer; in all, $22,210. 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, six of class three, six of class two, two of class one; messenger; three assistant messengers; messenger boy, $480; in all, $85,480. 1084 Customs Division.
Division of Customs: Chief of division, $4,500; two assistant chiefs of division, at $3,000 each; supervising ten examiner, $2,750; law clerks—four at $2,500 each, three at $2,000 each; clerks—five of class four, four of class three, six of class two, nine of class one, five at $1,000 each; two messengers: assistant messenger; in all, $71,250. Appointments division. Division of Appointments: Chief of division, $3,000; assistant chief of division, $2,250; executive clerk, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, three of class three, four of class two, two of class one, two at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger; assistant messenger: in all, $26,310.
Surety Bonds Section. Section of Surety Bonds: Chief, $2,000; clerks—one of class two, one of class one, one $1,000; assistant messenger; in all, $6,320. Public Moneys Division. Division of Public Moneys: Chief of division, $3,000; assistant chief of division, $2,500; clerks—six of class four (including one formerly assistant receiving teller, office of Assistant Treasurer at New York), four of class three, four of class two, one of class one, one $1,000; messenger; assistant messenger; in all, $32,060.
Loans and Currency Division. Division of Loans and Currency: Chief of division, $3,500; assistant chief of division, $2,700; custodian of paper, $2,250; bond and interest clerk, $2,000; clerks—seven of class four, six of class three, 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, four at $800 each, fifteen at $720 each; machine operator, $810; messenger; three assistant messengers; skilled laborer, $1,000: eleven laborers; in all, $94,250.
Printing and Stationery Division. Division of Printing and Stationery: Chief of division, $2,500; assistant chief of division, $2,000: clerks—four of class four, four of class three, three of class two, three of class one, one $1,000, one $900; bookbinder, $1,400; three messengers; assistant messenger; six laborers; messenger boy, $360; in ah, $36,760. Mail and Files Division. Division of Mail and Files: Superintendent of mail, $2,500; registry 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.
Disbursing clerk. Office of disbursing clerk; Disbursing clerk, $3,000; deputy disbursing clerk, $2,750; clerks—three of class lour, two of class three, three of class two, two of class one; messenger; in all, $21,790. Federal Farm Loan Board. Members of Board, clerks, etc. Federal Farm Loan Bureau: For four members of the board, at $10,000 each; secretary to the board, $4,500; chief, bond division, $3,000; four private secretaries, at $2,000 each; clerks—one of class four, one $900, three at $720 each, one $600; clerk and stenographer, $1,200; stenographers—seven at $1,000 each, four at $900 each, three at $720 each; messenger; and three assistant messengers; in all, $77,920;
Salaries and expenses.*Ante,* p. 360. For salaries and expenses under the Federal Farm Loan Board created by the Act approved July seventeenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, including the actual necessary traveling expenses of the members of the board and such salaries, fees, and expenses as are authorized by said Act, including farm-loan registrars, examiners, and such attorneys, experts, assistants, clerks, laborers, and other employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere as the Federal Farm Loan Board may find necessary, $182,080; in all, $260,000.
Statement of expenditures.A detailed statement of expenditures hereunder shall be made to Congress. Estimates to be annually submitted. Estimates in detail for all expenditures under the Federal Farm Loan Bureau for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, and annually thereafter, shall be submitted to Congress in the annual Book of Estimates. Supervising Architect. Office of Supervising Architect: Supervising Architect, $5,000; executive officer, $3,250; technical officer, $3,000; drafting division superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,750; mechanical engineering division—superintendent $2,750, assistant superin-1085tendent $2,400; structural division—superintendent $2,750, assistant superintendent $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; four technical clerks, 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 $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.
Office of Comptroller of the Treasury: Comptroller, $6,000; Comptroller’s Office.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; five expert accountants at $2,100 each; private secretary, $1,800; clerks—seven of class four, three of class three, two of class two, one $1,000; two messengers; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $70.160. Office of Auditor for Treasury Department:
Auditor, $4,000; Office of Auditor for Treasury Department.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, sixteen of class three, seventeen of class two, twenty-four of class one, nine at $1,000 each; four at $900 each; three assistant messengers; three laborers; in all, $139,590. Office of Auditor for War Department: Auditor, $4,000; Office of Auditor for War Department.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-six of class four, fifty-three of class three, fifty-nine of class two, fifty-three of class one, sixteen at $1,000 each; eight at $900 each; skilled laborer, $900 ; two messengers ; five assistant messengers ; nine laborers ; messenger boy, $480 ; in all, $332,150.
Office of Auditor for Navy Department: Auditor, $4,000; Office of Auditor for Navy Department.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-four (including one transferred from register’s office) of class three, twenty-one of class two, twenty-five of class one, eight at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each (including one transferred from register’s office); helper, $900; messenger; two assistant messengers; three laborers; in all, $152,910.
Office of Auditor for Interior Department: Auditor, $4,000; Office of Auditor for Interior Department.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, eleven at $900 each; check assorter (unapportioned), $900; two messengers; two assistant messengers; laborer; in all, $139,430. Office of Auditor for State and Other Departments:
Auditor, Office of Auditor for State, etc., Departments.$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 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. 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 1086accountant, $3,000; four chiefs of division, at $2,250 each; four 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, fifty-one of class one, fifteen at $1,000 each, twelve at $900 each; skilled laborers—five at $840 each, eleven at $720 each, five at $660 each; messenger boys—four at $480 each, five at $420 each, three at $360 each; nine male laborers, at $660 each; forewoman, $480; nineteen charwomen; in all, $337,900.
Employees on mechanical devices. For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, of such number of employees as may be necessary to audit the accounts *Proviso.* Employees on leave.and voucher’s of the Postal Service, $254,730: *Provided,* That not exceeding $37,030 may be used for the payment of compensation to said employees absent on leave. Reduction in grades below chief of division. Hereafter the Secretary of the Treasury may 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 Payment to employees on mechanical devices.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 Treasury, of such number of employees as may be necessary to audit the accounts and vouchers of the Postal Service.
Postal Savings System. Postal Savings System: Clerks—eleven at $1,006 each; seven skilled laborers, at $900 each; in all, $17,300. Treasurer’s Office. Office of the Treasurer: Treasurer, $8,000; Assistant Treasurer, $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, nineteen of class three, four at $1,500 each, fourteen of class two, three at $1,300 each, thirty of class one, eight at $1,000 each, eight at $900 each; expert counters—fifteen at $1,200 each, four at $1,100 each, fourteen at $1,000 each, forty-six at $900 each, twelve at $800 each, twenty-six 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; nineteen laborers; messenger boys—three at $480 each; six at $360 each; in all, $384,380.
Redemption of national currency. For the force employed in redeeming the national currency (to be 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, thirty-five at $800 each; two messengers; four assistant messengers; four charwomen; in all, $210,520.
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, one of class three, two of class two, three of class one, three at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; messenger; laborer; in all, $27,300. 1087 Office of Comptroller of the Currency:
Comptroller, $5,000; Office of Comptroller of the Currency.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, additional to bond clerk $200, sixteen of class of 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; messenger boys—one $480, one $360; in all, $161,500.
For expenses of the national currency (to be reimbursed by the National currency expenses.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, $420; two charwomen; in all, $43,520. For special examinations of national banks and bank plates, of Special examinations, etc.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: Commissioner, $6,500; Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue.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 81,400; 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-five of class four (including two now on emergency roll), thirty-one of class three (including two now on emergency roll), forty-four of class two (including one now on emergency roll), forty-three of class one (including one now on emergency roll), thirty-two at $1,060 each, forty-five at $900 each (including three now on emergency roll, two formerly counters); four messengers; seventeen assistant messengers; sixteen laborers; in all, $381,710.
For the following on account of the Act imposing income taxes on Additional employees on income tax. Deputy commissioner, heads of divisions, etc.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-four at $1,000 each, twenty-eight at $900 each; seven messengers: four assistant messengers; m all, $306,160.
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: private secretary for captain commandant, $1,400; 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, $74,110.
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 appropriation “Repairs to Coast Guard cutters”: *Provided,* That *Proviso.* Limit, etc.the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen shall not exceed $5,000.
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. 1088 Engraving and Printing Bureau. Bureau of Engraving and Printing: Director, $6,000; assistant director, $3,500; chief of division of assignments and reviews, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; disbursing agent, $2,400; cost accountant, $2,000; medical and sanitary officer, $2,250; stenographer, $1,800; storekeeper, $1,600; assistant storekeeper, $1,000: clerk in charge of purchases and supplies, $2,000 ; clerk—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;
Limit on paying for services.eighty-five laborers, at $540 each; in all, $241,310; and no other fund appropriated by this or any 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. Secret Service Division: Chief, $4,500; assistant chief, who shall discharge the duties of chief clerk, $3,500; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, two of class two, one of class one, one $1,000; assistant messenger; in all, $17,120. Office of Director of the Mint. Office of Director of the Mint: Director, $5,000; examiner, $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.
Freight. For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, $25,000. Contingent expenses. For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expended 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. Examinations, etc. For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations, and for the collection of statistics relative to the Precious metals statistics.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, $60,000, and in addition thereto sums amounting to $104,000 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, as follows: Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, $6,000; contingent expenses, mint at Philadelphia, $500; contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco, $200; contingent expenses, mint at Denver, $200; contingent expenses, assay office at New York, $500; materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $5,000; suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, $300;
Public Health Service, $2,500; Quarantine Service, $600; preventing the 1089spread of epidemic diseases, $200; expenses of Coast Guard, $3,000; general expenses of public buildings, $6,000; collecting the revenue from customs, $33,000; miscellaneous expenses of collecting internal revenue, $14,000; expenses of collecting the income tax, $3 2,000; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $60,000, the total appropriation for stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, with the exception of field officers located in foreign countries, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union Postage.countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, $1,200. For materials for the use of the bookbinder located in the Treasury Binding.Department, $250. For newspaper clippings, financial journals, law books, city directories, Reference books, etc.and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $1,000. For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $9,000. Freight, etc.
For investigation and experimentation and to secure better methods Investigations to secure better administrative methods, etc.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.
For rent of buildings, $21,350. Rent. For purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks; Vehicles, etc.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, $4,000. Files. For purchase of file holders and file cases, $4,000. For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate Fuel, etc.baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $12,000.
For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, Lighting.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. 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, Labor-saving machines, etc.including 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, $7,000. For purchase of carpets, carpet border and fining, linoleum, mats, Carpets, etc.rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, $2,000. 1090 Furniture.
For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair cane, chair covers, 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. Fire alarm. For maintenance of the automatic fire-alarm systems in the Treasury and Winder Buildings, $2,005. Auditor for Post Office Department.
Contingent expenses. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Office of Auditor for Post Office Department: 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 Control of expenses.reference, and city directories, $6,000, to be expended under the 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.
Tabulating supplies, etc. For purchase of cards and tabulating equipment for use in auditing accounts and vouchers of the Postal Service, including exchange and repairs, $139,400, to be expended under the direction of the Auditor for the Post Office Department under rules and regulations to be *Proviso.* Rental limit.prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* That not exceeding $32,000 may be expended for the rental of tabulating and card-sorting machines. collecting internal revenue.
Collecting internal revenue. Collectors, surveyors, etc. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, deputy collectors, surveyors, clerks, messengers, and janitors in internal *Proviso.* Witness fees.revenue offices, $2,565,000: *Provided,* That no part of this amount 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 for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts.
” Agents, gaugers, etc. For salaries and expenses of forty revenue agents provided for by law, foes and expenses of gaugers, and salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeepor-gaugers, $2,200,000. Collecting income tax.*Ante,* p. 756. Collecting the income tax: For expenses of assessing and collecting the income tax as provided in Title I of an Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, including the employment of agents, inspectors, deputy collectors, clerks, and messengers in the District of Columbia, and the several collection districts, to be appointed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia and the several collection Personal services, etc., in District of Columbia.*Ante,* p. 1089.districts, $1,700,000; and authority is given to use $40,000 of said sum for the employment in the Bureau of Internal Revenue in tho 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.*Ante,* p. 476. Collecting the cotton-future tax: For expenses to enforce the provisions of part A of the Act approved August eleventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, known as the cotton-futures Act, including the employment of attorneys, agents, inspectors, deputy collectors, clerks, 1091and messengers at rates to be fixed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and for the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary, $20,000: *Provided,* *Proviso.* Pay restriction.That no person shall be employed hereunder at a compensation exceeding $4,000 per annum.
Collecting the tax on estates, munitions, and so forth: For expenses Collecting tax on estates, munitions, etc.*Ante,* pp. 756–782.*Ante,* p. 1000.of assessing and collecting the tax as provided by Titles I, II, and III, of an Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and to pay such sums as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the Employees, etc.approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may deem necessary, $340,000, and the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, is authorized to appoint and pay from this appropriation all necessary officers, experts, agents, inspectors, deputy collectors, clerks, messengers, and janitors, and to rent such quarters, incur expense for telephone, service, purchase such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary for employment or use in the District of Columbia, or any collection district of the United States, or any of the Territories thereof: *Provided,* That not more than $40,000 of the amount appropriated *Proviso.* Services, etc., District of Columbia.may be used for the employment in the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the District of Columbia of necessary clerical help at rates to be fixed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and for the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia.
Restricting the sale of opium, and so forth: For expenses to enforce Restricting sale of opium, etc. Expenses. Vol. 38, p. 785.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, their suits, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes,” including the employment of agents, deputy collectors, inspectors, Employees, etc.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 such 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 subsistence, Per diem subsistence.$300,000.
For rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia, telephone Miscellaneous.*Ante,* p. 1088.service, and other miscellaneous expenses incident to the collection of internal revenue, purchase of necessary books of reference and 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 homes crippled or killed while being used by officers in making raids, not exceeding $ 150 for any horse so crippled or killed, $100,000. 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. 1092 Boston. Boston, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, $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. Chicago, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, $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: two bookkeepers, 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. Cincinnati, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, $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, $84 0; two watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $24,830. New Orleans. New Orleans, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, $4,500; cashier, $2,250; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $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; 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 81,600 each, seven at $1,500 each, nine at $1,400 each, five at $1,300 each, ten 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, $154,460.
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 Louts, 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—1093one $2,000, two at $1,800 each, one $1,500; stenographer and typewriter, $1,200; messenger, $840; four watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $25,720.
MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICES. Mints and assay offices. Carson, Nevada, Mint: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform Carson City, Nev.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, $1,300. Denver, Colorado, Mint: Superintendent, $4,500; assayer, Denver, Colo.$3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coming department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $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, $92,000. *Ante,* p. 1088. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery 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, $44,000. New Orleans, Louisiana, Mint: Assayer in charge, who shall also New Orleans, La.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, $1,800. Philadelphia Mint: Superintendent, $4,500; engraver, $4,000; Philadelphia, Pa.assayer, $3,000; superintendent melting and refining department, $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, $315,000. *Ante,* p. 1088. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery 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, $65,000.
San Francisco, California, Mint: 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, $125,000. *Ante,* p. 1088. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery 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, $42,000. Boise, Idaho, assay office: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform Boise, Idaho.the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; chief 1094clerk, 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, $1,200. Deadwod, S. Dak. Deadwood, South Dakota, assay office: Assayer in charge, 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, $1,000. Helena, Mont. Helena, Montana, assay office: Assayer in charge, who shall 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.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,500. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,300. New York, N. Y. New York assay office: Superintendent, $5,000; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, deposit weigh 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, $110,000. 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, $76,000. Salt Lake City, Utah. Salt Lake City, Utah, assay office: 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.
In all, $3,800. Seattle, Wash. Seattle, Washington, assay office: 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, $5,500. WAR DEPARTMENT. War Department. Secretary, Assistant, assistant and chief clerk, clerks, etc.
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— sly of class four, seven of class three, fifteen of class two, twenty of class one, five at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; foreman, $1,200: carpenters—one $1,200, one $1,080; chief messenger, $1,000; skilled laborer, $1,080; six messengers; nine assistant messengers; two telephone switchboard operators ; engineer, $900; assistant engineer, $720; fireman; sly watchmen; three watchmen, at $660 each; eight laborers; hostlers—one $600, one $540; four charwomen; in all, $155,940.
Adjutant General’s Office. Adjutant General's Office: Chief Clerk, $2,500; ten chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; clerks—fifty-eight of class four, seventy-four of class three, one hundred and sixteen of class two, two hundred 1095and thirty-one of class one, ninety-three at $1,000 each; engineer, $1,400; assistant engineer, $900; two firemen; skilled mechanic, $1,000; eleven messengers; sixty-one assistant messengers; four watchmen; twenty-one laborers: in all, $852,540; 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 eighteen.
Office of Inspector General: Clerks—one of class four, two of Inspector General’s Office.class three, three of class two, four of class one, two at $1,000 each; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger, $600; in all, $18,160. Office of Judge Advocate General: Chief clerk and solicitor, Judge Advocate General’s Office.$2,500; law clerks—one $2,400, one $2,000; clerks—two of class four, three of class three, four of class two, eight of class one, two at $1,000 each; copyist; three messengers; assistant messenger; in all, $36,640.
Signal Office: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, three of Signal Office.class three, five of class two, eight of class one, nine at $1,000 each; five messengers; three assistant messengers; in all, $45,960. The services of skilled draftsmen and such other service as the Skilled draftsmen, etc.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,* *Proviso.* Limit, etc.That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen shall not exceed $53,280, 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 Radio engineers, etc.the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the appropriation for the Signal 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 *Proviso.* Limit, etc.the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen 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.clerks—five at $2,250 each, three at $2,000 each; clerks—fifteen of class four, twenty-nine of class three, fifty of class two, ninety- three of class one, fifty-nine 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; six messengers; fourteen assistant messengers; twelve laborers; laborer, $600; in all, $410,340.
Office of Surgeon General: Chief clerk, $2,250; principal Surgeon General’s Office.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—fourteen of class four, thirteen of class three, twenty-six of class two, thirty-six of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; engineer, $1,400; skilled mechanic, $1,000; two messengers; eleven assistant messengers; three firemen; three watchmen; superintendent of building (Anny Medical Museum and Library), $200; six laborers; four charwomen; in all, $182,640.
Office of Chief of Ordnance: Chief clerk, $2,250; chief of Ordnance Office.division, $2,000; principal clerk, $2,000; clerks—eight of class four, 1096ten of class three, seventeen of class two, thirty-six of class one, twelve at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; two messengers: assistant messenger; messengers—two at $780 each, two at $720 each; laborer; in all, $126,210. Skilled draftsmen, etc. The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the 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 National Guard, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the amount specifically appropriated for *Proviso.* Limit, etc.draftsmen in the Army Ordnance Bureau: *Provided,* That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen shall not exceed $225,000, 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 Chief of Engineers. Office of Chief of Engineers: Chief clerk, $2,250; two chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; clerks—eight of class four, twelve of class three, fifteen of class two, twenty of class one, fourteen at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; six messengers; three assistant messengers; laborer; messenger boy, $400; in all, $112,510. 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 int o effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and surveys and preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and bills, to be paid from such appropriations: *Proviso.* Limit, etc.*Provided,* That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen 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. 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, ten at $1,000 each; three messengers; two assistant messengers; four laborers; two charwomen; in all, $85,230. Militia Bureau.*Ante,* p. 203. Militia Bureau: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, three of class three, seven of class two, fifteen of class one, eight at $1,000 each; messenger: two assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, $49,800.
Office of Chief of Coast Artillery.*Ante,* p. 168. Office of Chief of Coast Artillery: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, five of class one, three at $1,000 each; three messengers, at $720 each; in all, $22,360. 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; 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, motor trucks, and horsedrawn 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, $50,000. 1097 For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices, $25,000. Stationery. 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:
War Department, Rent.$7,200; Adjutant General’s. Office, $1,500; and Bureau of Ordnance, $1,800; in all, $10,500. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. Public buildings 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 ail, $16,140.
For foremen, gardeners, mechanics, and laborers employed in the public grounds, $31,200. Foremen, etc. For sergeant of park watchmen, $950. Watchmen. For second sergeant of park watchmen, $900. For day watchmen, as follows: One in Franklin Park and adjacent Day force.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; and one in Montrose Park; twenty-three in all, at $840 each, $19,320.
For night watchmen, as follows: Three in Smithsonian Grounds Night force.and 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; two 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; and four in Potomac Park; twenty-two in all, at $840 each, $18,480.
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 expenses.and scientific books and technical 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 maintenance, repair, and operation of two motorcycles at $144 each, $288.
For purchasing and supplying uniforms to park; Monument, and bridge watchmen, $3,000. Of the foregoing amounts appropriated under public buildings and Part from District revenues.grounds, the sum of $37,569 shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. 1098 STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDING. State, War, and Navy Department Building. Clerks, engineers, etc. Office of superintendent: Clerks—one of class three, one of class one; 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; thirty-eight 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; fifteen 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, $106,200.
Fuel, lights, etc. For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, and city directories, $32,000. Navy Department Annex. Navy Department Annex, New York Avenue near Seventeenth Street northwest: Engineer, $1,200; four firemen; three elevator conductors, at $720 each; five watchmen; four laborers; forewoman, $300; nine charwomen; in ail, $14,940. For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items, $7,000. State Department Annex. New elevators. State Department Annex:
Laborer, $660. For the removal of elevator numbered nine, main building, and installation in its stead of two high-speed passenger elevators, $20,000. NAVY DEPARTMENT. Navy Department. Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc. 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; stenographers—one $1,800, one $1,200, one $1,000; 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, one $900; throe copyists; carpenter, $900; four messengers; four assistant messengers; four laborers; messenger boys— four at $600 each, one $420, one $400, one $360; three telephone switchboard operators; in all, $85,020.
Solicitor’s Office. Office of Solicitor: Solicitor, $4,000; law clerks—one $2,500, one $2,250, two at $2,000 each; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, one of class two, one $840; messenger, $600; in all, $20,590. 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 eighteen. Judge Advocate General’s Office. Office of Judge Advocate General: Chief law clerk, $2,250; law clerks—one $2,200, one $1,600; clerks—one of class four, one $1,300, two of class one, three at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger; assistant messenger; in all, 817,010. Office of Chief of Naval Operations. Office of Chief of Naval Operations:
Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, three of class one, four at $1,000 each, one $900; telegraphers—chief $1,800, one $1,400, one $1,200, one $1,100; two draftsmen, at $1,200 each; two assistant messengers; messenger boys—one $600, two at 8400 each; laborer; in all, $31,350. Bureau of Navigation. Bureau of Navigation: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—one $2,200, two at $2,000 each, five of class four, five of class three, eight of class 1099two, eleven of class one, three at $1,100 each, seventeen at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; fourteen copyists; nine copyists, at $840 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $600; five laborers; in all, $100,990.
Office of Naval Intelligence: Clerks—one of class four, one of Naval Intelligence Office.class three, one of class two, one $1,300, five at $1,000 each; three translators, at $1,400 each; draftsman, $1,200; messenger boy, $600; in all, $17,100. Hydrographic Office: Hydrographic engineer, $3,000; Hydrographic Office. Salaries.assistants—one $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; electrotyper and chart plate maker, $1,400; assistant messenger; six laborers; helpers—two at $720 each, two at $660 each, one $600, one $500, one $480; in all, $124,020.
For copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart Materials, etc.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, Pilot charts.and 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, $30,000.
Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston, New York, Branch offices. Contingent expenses.Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, Seattle, Panama, and Galveston, in eluding 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 bails, 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.
For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $17,960. Employees. No expenditure shall be incurred or authorized for personal services Personal services in Washington restricted.or otherwise under the Hydrographic Office at Washington, District of Columbia, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen except as herein authorized by appropriations under the Navy Department or under appropriations that may be made for printing and binding. 1100 Naval Observatory.
Salaries. Naval Observatory: Astronomer, $2,800; 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, $47,040.
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, amt 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. Solar eclipse expenses. For expenses in preparing for and conducting observations of total solar eclipse of June eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $3,500. Repair shop. For audition of two stories to nautical-instrument repair shop, $20,000. 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. Bureau of Steam Engineering: Chief clerk, $2,250; bookkeeper and accountant, $1,800; clerks—one of class four, five of class three, six of class two, two at $1,300 each, seven of class one, two at $1,100 each, six 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; two blue printers, at $720 each; four assistant messengers; laborers—three at $660 each, two at $600 each; messenger boy, $600; in all, $65,210.
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 sixteen, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy” and “Engineering,” to be paid from the *Proviso.* Limit, etc.appropriation “Engineering”: *Provided,* That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen shall not exceed $90,100.
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 Construction and Repair. Bureau of Construction and Repair: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—three of class four, four of class three, four of class two, four at $1,300 each, four of class one, eleven at $1,100 each, fifteen at 1101$1,000 each; seven copyists; two assistant messengers; three laborers; messenger boys—ten at $600 each, one $480, one $400; in all, $73,350.
The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as the Technical services.Secretary of the 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 sixteen, 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,* *Proviso.* Limit, etc.That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen shall not exceed $161,601.16.
” 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.clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, one $1,300, four 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, $34,610.
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 sixteen, 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,* *Proviso.* Limit, etc.That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen 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; chief accountant, $2,250; Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.two chief bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; statistician, $1,800; clerks—six of class four, eight of class three, nine of class two, eighteen of class one, twelve at $1,100 each, twenty-eight at $1,000 each, nineteen at $900 each; two copyists, at $840 each; five assistant messengers; messenger boys—four at $600 each, one $480, two at $400 each; laborer; in all, $136,270.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: Chief Clerk, $2,250; clerks—two Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.of class four, two of class three, three of class two, two 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, $24,150. Bureau of Yards and Docks: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—two Bureau of Yards and Docks.of class four, one $1,700, one of class three, two of class two, four of class one, one $1,100, seven at $1,000 each; assistant messenger; messenger boys—three at $600 each, one $480; two laborers; in all, $29,170.
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 appropriations and allotments: *Provided,* That the expenditures on *Proviso.* Limit, etc.this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen shall not exceed $125,000. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each, snail be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates.
Division of Naval Militia Affairs: For the following, authorized Naval Militia Division. Vol. 38, p. 288.by section seventeen of the Naval Militia Act approved February sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen: Chief clerk, $1,800; clerks—two of class two, three of class one, one $1,100, four at $1,000 each; messenger boys—one $600, one $400; in all, $14,300. 1102 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 “Arming and equipping *Post,* p. 1172.Naval Militia,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, 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 eighteen.
Contingent expenses. Books, etc. 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. Stationery, etc. 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, operation, or exchange of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, automobile mail wagon, including exchange of same, street car tickets not exceeding 8250, freight, expressage, postage, typewriters and computing machines, amt other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, $60,000; it shall not *Post,* p. 1168.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. For rental of additional quarters for the Navy Department, $35,860. Blue-printing plant. For the purchase and installation of a modem blue-printing plant in the Bureau of Steam Engineering, Navy Department, $5,000. 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 Assistant, inspectors, clerks, etc.temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries, $4,000; assistant to the Secretary, $2,750; assistant attorney, $2,500; two special inspectors, whoso 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 Messengers, watchmen, etc.repairer, $900; two telephone switchboard operators; nine messengers; seven assistant messengers; twenty-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;
Clerk to sign tribal deeds, etcassistant engineer, $1,000; seven firemen; clerk to sign, under the 1103direction of the 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.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 Vol. 38, p. 680.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 faro, 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-three of class three, seventy-seven of class two, eighty-one of class one, sixty-nine 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, $64 7,450.
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 to inspect offices of United States surveyor's 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.
For law books for the law library, $400. Law books. 1104 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, five hundred 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. For separate State and Territorial maps of public-land States, including maps showing areas designated by the Secretary of the Enlarged homestead areas.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; 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, $322,550.
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; ten medical examiners, at $1,800 each; seven 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-seven of class four, eighty-nine of class three, two hundred and fifty-nine of class two, three hundred and twenty-eight of class one, sixty-nine at $1,000 each; thirty-nine copyists; twenty-eight messengers: ten assistant messengers; skilled laborer, $660; nine 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; two firemen; in all, $1,432,670.
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 seventeen, 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 eighteen, be filled by original appointment 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.
Per diem, etc., investigations. Vol. 38, p. 680. For per diem at not exceeding $3 in lieu of subsistence pursuant to 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. 1105 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.$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 alt, $1,375,040.
For special and temporary services of typewriters certified by the Temporary typewriters.Civil Service Commission, who may be employed in such numbers, at $2.50 per diem, as may, in the judgment of the Commissioner of Patents, be necessary to keep current the work of furnishing manuscript copies of records, $10,000. For purchase of law, professional and other reference books and Books, etc.publications 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 issue 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 Investigating use of inventions.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 International Bureau, Berne.the International Bureau at Berne, 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; copyists—two 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.
For investigation of rural education, industrial education, Rural and industrial education.and school hygiene, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and no salary shall be paid hereunder in excess of $3,500 per annum, $45,000. 1106 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, $5,000.
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, $7,500. 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: *Provided,* *Proviso.* No employee to receive other than Government salary for services.That on and after July first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, no Government official or employee shall receive any salary in connection with his services as such an official or employee from any source other than the Government of the United States, except as may be contributed out of the treasury of any State, county, or municipality, and no person, association, or corporation shall make any contribution to, or in any way supplement the salary of, any Government official or employee for the services performed by him for the Government of the Punishment for violations.United States.
Any person violating any of the terms of this proviso shall be deemed guilty of a misdemeanor, and upon conviction thereof shall be punished by a fine of not less than $1,000 or imprisonment for not less than six months, or by both such fine and imprisonment as the court may determine. Superintendent of 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 waterclosets 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, motorcycles, 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, $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 bu-1107reaus and offices, including not to exceed $7,500 for the Civil Service Commission $82,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to Additional deducted from bureaus, offices, etc.$43,250 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, 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, $2,500; Indian Service, $3 2,000; Freedmen’s Hospital, $500; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $82,000, the total appropriation for stationery for the department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
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 building for the Civil Service Commission, $16,875. Rent. 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.
SURVEYORS GENERAL. Surveyors General. For salaries of surveyors general, clerks in their offices, and contingent Salaries of offices, etc. *Supra.*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, Alaska.$4,000;
Clerks, $10,000; Contingent expenses, $2,500; in all, $16,500. Arizona: Surveyor general, $3,000; Arizona. Clerks, $13,000; Contingent expenses, $1,200; in all, $17,200. 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, $1,800; in all, $25,800. 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, $900; in all, $21,900. 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, $300; in all, $5,400. 1108 Utah. Utah: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $17,000; Contingent expenses, $1,000; in all, $21,000. Washington. Washington: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $8,000; Contingent expenses, $750; in all, $11,750. Wyoming. Wyoming: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $10,750; Contingent expenses, $500; in all, $14,250. 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.
Vol. 28, p. 937. The use of the fund created by the Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five (Twenty-eighth Statutes, page nine hundred and thirty-seven), for office work in the surveyors general’s offices and in the General Land Office is extended for one year from June *Proviso.* Limit.thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen: *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.
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 eighteen. 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. 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; appointment clerk, assistant to chief clerk, confidential clerk to Postmaster General, and Chief inspector, purchasing agent, etc.chairman, board of inspection, at $2,000 each; chief inspector, $4,000: chief clerk to chief inspector, $2,000; purchasing agent, $4,000; chief clerk to purchasing agent, $2,000; assistant attorneys—one $2,750, one $2,500, three at $2,000 each; bond examiner, $2,500; law clerk, Clerks, etc.$1,800; clerks—eighty-two of class four, one hundred and twenty-eight of class three, two hundred of class two, two hundred and fifty-nine of class one, one hundred and seventy-nine at $1,000 each, fifty-1109three at $900 each; skilled draftsmen—three at $1,800 each, eight at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; map mounter, $1,200; assistant map mounter, $840; four map copyists, at $1,000 each; blue printer, $900; telegrapher, $1,400; typewriter repairer, $1,200; three telephone switchboard operators, assistant telephone switchboard operator; two messengers in charge of mails, at $900 Messengers, watchmen, engineers, etc.each; twenty-one messengers; forty-one assistant messengers; captain of the watch, $1,000; additional to three watchmen acting as lieutenant of watchmen, at $120 each; thirty-four watchmen; engineer, $1,400: ten assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; two blacksmiths or steamfitters, at $900 each; three oilers, at $720 each; fifteen firemen; twenty elevator conductors, at $720 each; electrician, $1,600; two assistant electricians, at $1,200 each; three assistant electricians, at $900 each; two dynamo tenders, at $900 each; carpenters—one $1,200, Carpenters laborers, etc.two at $1,000 each, one at $900; awning maker, painter, and plumber, at $900 each; assistant plumber, $840: foreman of laborers, $800; seventy-nine laborers, at $720 each; seven laborers, at $660 each; female laborers—one $540, three, at $500 each, ton at $480 each: fifty-eight charwomen; actual and necessary expenses of the purchasing agent while traveling on business of the department, $500: in all, $1,483,560.
In making readjustments hereunder, the salary of any clerk in any Readjustments of salaries.class may be fixed by the Postmaster General at $100 below the salary fixed by law for such class and the unused portion of such salary shall be used to increase the salary of any clerk in any class entitled thereto by not less than $100 above the salary fixed by law for such class. The Postmaster General shall assign to the several Assignments to bureaus, etc.bureaus, offices, and divisions of the Post Office Department such number of the employees herein authorized as may be necessary to perform the work required therein; and he shall submit a statement showing such assignments anti the number employed at the various salaries in the annual Book of Estimates following the estimates for salaries in the Post Office Department.
Office First Assistant Postmaster General: First Assistant Office of First Assistant Postmaster General. Superintendents of divisions, etc.Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of post-office service—superintendent $4,000, assistant superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,250, two assistant superintendents at $2,000 each; division of postmasters’ appointments—superintendent $3,000, two assistant superintendents at $2,000 each; superintendent division of dead letters, $2,500; chief division of correspondence, $2,000; in all, $32,250.
Office Second Assistant Postmaster General: Second Office of Second Assistant Postmaster General. Superintendents of divisions.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; Division of Railway Mail Service—general superintendent $4,000, assistant general superintendent $3,500, chief clerk $2,000; in all, $27,250.
Office Third Assistant Postmaster General: Third Assistant Office of Third Assistant Postmaster General. Superintendents of divisions, etc.Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of postal savings—director $4,800, assistant director $3,000, chief clerk $2,500, clerk in charge of administrative section, and clerk in charge of audit section, at $2,000 each; superintendents of divisions—stamps $2,750, finance (who shall give bond in such amount as the Postmaster General may determine for the faithful discharge of his duties) $2,250, classification $2,750, registered mails $2,500, money orders $2,750; chief clerk division of money orders, $2,250; in all, $37,050.
Office Fourth Assistant Postmaster General: Fourth Assistant Office of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. Superintendents of divisions, etc.Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of rural mails—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,000, 1110chief clerk $2,000; division of equipment and supplies—superintendent $2,750, assistant superintendent $2,500, chief clerk $2,000, topographer $2,400; in all, $24,150. Total salaries, $1,604,260. Central supply distributing districts authorized.*Ante,* p. 1069.
In order to promote economy in the distribution of supplies, and in auditing and accounting, the Postmaster General may designate districts and central offices in such districts through which-supplies shall be distributed and accounts audited, but in no case shall the postmaster at the central station be given authority to abolish offices, to change officers or employees in offices included in such district. 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, $25,000. 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. For furniture and filing cabinets, $7,000. Rent. For rent of stables, $500. Official Postal Guide. For publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, $33,000; and the amounts received during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen from sales of the Official Postal Guide to the public may be Use of receipts from sales.used as a further appropriation for the publication of copies of such guide. 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 Attorneys, assistants, etc.for 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 employee! for such purposes; attorneys— one $4,500, one $3,7 50, four at $3,500 each, one $3,2 50, fourteen at $3,000 each, two at $2,500 each; assistant attorneys—one $8,500, two at $3,000 each, two at $2,750 each, five at $2,500 each, 1111one $2,400, two at $2,000 each; assistant examiner of titles, $2,000; chief clerk and ex officio superintendent of buildings, $3,000; superintendent Chief clerk, clerks, etc.of buildings, $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 Superintendent of prisons, etc.of prisons, $4,000; disbursing clerk, $2,750; appointment clerk, $2,000; chief of division of investigation, $3,500; examiners—two Investigation division.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, eleven of class three, ten of class two, twenty of class one, sixteen at $1,000 each, fifteen at $000 each; chief messenger, $1,000; packer, $900;
Messengers, watchmen, etc.messenger, $960; six messengers; thirteen assistant messengers; seven laborers; seven watchmen; engineer, $1,200; two assistant engineers, at $900 each; two telephone switchboard operators; 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, $466,670.
Contingent expenses: For furniture and repairs, including carpets, Contingent expenses.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. Stationery.
For stationery for department and its several bureaus, $6,500. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, Miscellaneous.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. Office of Solicitor of the Treasury: Solicitor, $5,000; assistant Solicitor of the Treasury.solicitor, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,000; two law clerks, at $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. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. Department of Commerce. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of Commerce, $12,000;
Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.Assistant Secretary, $5,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; confidential clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; private secretary 1112to 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, eleven at $1,000 each, eleven at $900 each; two telephone operators at $720 each; messenger to the Secretary, $1,000; five messengers; seven assistant messengers; eight messenger boys, at $480 each; chief engineer and electrician, $1,200; assistant engineer, $1,000; skilled laborers—one $1,000, one $900, two at $840 each, five at $720 each; three elevator conductors, at $720 each; three firemen; fourteen laborers (including one transferred from Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce); two laborers, at $480 each; cabinetmaker, $1,000; carpenter, $900; chief watchman, $900; nine watchmen; twenty-five charwomen; in all, $180,100.
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; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger boy, $480; assistant engineers—one $3,000, one $2,400, one $2,250, one $2,000; draftsmen—one $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,500, one $1,440, one $1,200; in all, $64,030.
Census Office. Census Office: Director, $6,000; five 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, eighty-three at $1,000 each, eighty-one at $900 each; skilled laborers—two at $900 each, one $720; three messengers; five assistant messengers; four unskilled laborers, at $720 each; three messenger boys, at $480 each; in all, $676,460.
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 amt 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 service as may be necessary in collecting the Tobacco statistics.statistics by law, including $15,000 for collecting tobacco statistics authorized by law in addition to any other fund available therefor: *Proviso.* Pay of special agents.*Provided,* 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, $647,000.
Tabulating machines, etc. For experimental work developing, improving, and constructing tabulating machines and an integrating counter for use in statistical work 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, $60,000. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce. Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce:
Chief, $6,000; assistant chiefs—one $3,500, one $3,000; chiefs of divisions—one $2,500, one $2,000; assistant chief of division, $2,250; chief clerk, $2,250; expert on commerce and finance, $2,000; translators—one $2,000, one $1,800, two at $1,400 each; stenographer to chief of bureau, $1,600; editorial assistant, $2,000 (now being paid from appropriation for “Promoting Commerce”); editorial clerk, $1,600 (now being paid from appropriation for “Promoting Commerce”); clerks—twelve of class four, six of class three, two at $1,500 each, eighteen of class two, eighteen of class one, twenty at $1,000 each, 1113fourteen at $900 each; messenger; four assistant messengers; laborer (one transferred to Secretary’s office); two messenger boys at $420 each; in all, $154,120.
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 *Proviso.* Purchase of publications. *Post,* p. 1117.expended for the purchase of documents, manuscripts, plans, specifications, and other publications necessary for the promotion of our commercial interests.
Promoting commerce, South and Central America: To further promote Promoting commerce with South and Central America. *Post,* p. 1117.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 expense of office is and employees, exchange on official checks, 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. *Post,* p. 1117.salary not to exceed $1,500 each and for necessary traveling and subsistence 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 attachés shall serve directly under the Secretary of Commerce and shall report directly to him, $100,000, Steamboat-Inspection Service:
Supervising Inspector General, Steamboat-Inspection Service.$4,000; chief clerk and Acting Supervising Inspector General in the absence of that officer, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, one of class two, one of class one, two at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; in all, $18,240. Steamboat inspectors: For ten supervising inspectors, at $3,000 each, $30,000; Supervising inspectors. Inspectors of hulls and inspectors of boilers, as authorized by law, $171,100;
Inspectors. Assistant inspectors, as authorized by law, for the following ports: Assistant inspectors. Vol. 34, p. 106.New York, thirty-six 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, ten 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; Grand Haven, four at $1,600 each;
Detroit, four at $1,600 each; Norfolk, six at $1,600 each; Seattle, ten at $1,600 each; Portland (Oregon), two at $1,600 each; Albany (New York), two at $1,600 each; Duluth, two at $1,600 each; two traveling inspectors at $2,500 each; $233,000; In all, for inspectors, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $434,100. Clerk hire, service at large: For compensation, not exceeding Clerk hire, at large.$1,500 a year to each person, of clerks to boards of steamboat inspectors, to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce in accordance with the provisions of law, $90,000.
Contingent expenses: For fees to witnesses; traveling and other Contingent expenses. *Post,* p. 1117.expenses when on official business of the Supervising Inspector General, supervising inspectors, traveling inspectors, local and assistant inspectors, and clerks; instruments, furniture, stationery, janitor 1114 R. S., Title LII, pp. 852–869.service, and every other thing necessary to carry into effect the provisions of Title fifty-two, Revised Statutes, $120,000. Navigation Bureau.
Bureau of Navigation: Commissioner, $4,000: deputy commissioner, $2,750; 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; two messengers; in all, $38,130. 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. Clerk hire. Clerk hire: For compensation, to he fixer! by the Secretary of Commerce, of not to exceed $1,600 per annum to each person, of clerks *Proviso.* Allowancein the offices of shipping commissioners, $45,000: *Provided,* That one clerk may be employed hereunder at a compensation not to exceed $1,800 per annum.
Contingent expenses. *Post,* p. 1117. Contingent expenses: For rent, stationery, and other requisites for transaction of the business of shipping commissioners' offices, and for janitor in the commissioner's office at New York. $840: in all, $7,500. Admeasurement of vessels. *Post,* p. 1117. To enable the Commissioner of Navigation to secure uniformity in 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, $3,500.
Counting passengers. For purchase and repair of instruments for counting passengers, $250. Motor boats, etc., to enforce navigation laws. *Post,* p. 1117. Enforcement of navigation laws: To enable the Secretary of Commerce 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, including not to exceed $9,000 for new engines for the Dixie and not to exceed $9,000 for a new boat, $42,000.
New boat, etc. Preventing overcrowding of excursion vessels, etc. To enable the Secretary of Commerce to employ temporarily, in 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 apparatus on steamers. Vol. 36, p. 629;
Vol. 37, p. 199. Wireless-communication laws: To enable the Secretary’ of Commerce 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 Vol. 37, p. 1565. *Post,* p. 1117.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 $8,050 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.
Standards Bureau. Bureau of Standards: Director, $6,000; physicists—chief $4,800, 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, one $3,000; associate chemists—three at $2,700 each, two at $2,500 each, one $2,200, four at $2,000 each; assistant chemists— four at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, six at $1,400 each: physical chemist, $1,800; laboratory assistants—nineteen at $1,200 each, 1115fourteen at $1,000 each, fourteen at $900 each; laboratory helpers—two at $840 each, three at $720 each, three at $600 each; aids—eleven at $720 each, seven at $600 each; twelve laboratory apprentices, 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; elevator boys—one $480, three 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; five 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, one $1,400, two at $1,200 each, one $1,000, one $900; pipefitter, $1,000; five firemen; glass blower, $1,600; glassworker, $1,600; electricians—one $1,200, one $900; foreman of janitors and laborers $840; twelve laborers; janitors—three at $660 each, one $600; two female laborers, at $360 each; in all, $348,900.
For apparatus, machinery, tools, and appliances used in connection Apparatus, etc. *Post,* p. 1117.with buddings 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, $55,000. For repairs and necessary alterations to buildings, $5,000.
Repairs, etc. For fuel for heat, light, and power; office expenses, stationery, Miscellaneous. *Post,* p. 1117.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 member at the meeting of the International Committee of Weights and Measures; supplies for operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger automobile and motor trucks for official use; and contingencies of all kinds, $35,000.
For grading, construction of roads and walks, piping grounds for Care of grounds.water supply, lamps, wiring for lighting purposes, and other expenses incident to the improvement and care of grounds, $6,000. To investigate the dangers to life and property due to the transmission High-power electric currents, etc.of electric currents at high potentials, and the precautions to be taken and the best methods or 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.
For continuation of the investigation of structural materials, Structural materials, investigations.such as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $100,000. For maintenance and operation of testing machines, including Testing machines for physical constants.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.
For investigation of fire-resisting properties of building materials Fire-resisting 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. 1116 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, $50,000.
Railway equipment investigations. For investigation of materials used in the construction of rails, 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. Miscellaneous testing, etc. For testing miscellaneous materials, such as varnish materials, soap 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.
Radio communication standardization. For investigation and standardization of methods and instruments employed in radio communication, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000. Industrial color standards, etc. To develop color standards and methods of manufacture and of 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.
Clay products processes. To study methods of measurement and technical processes used in 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. Experiments in physical constants of industrial materials, etc. To determine experimentally important physical constants of materials 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.
Aeronautical engineering investigations, etc. To develop methods of testing and standardizing machines, motors, 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 rquirements 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.
Optical glass investigations. For the investigation of the problems involved in the production of optical glass, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000. Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce: 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 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, 1117file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, lighting and heating; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and care of horses, horsedrawn 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 ; first-aid outfits for use in the buildings occupied by employees of this department; storage of documents belonging to the Bureau of Lighthouses, not to exceed 81,500; streetcar tickets, not exceeding $300; and ail other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $60,000, and in addition thereto sums amounting to $48,750 shall be deducted from Additional to be deducted from bureaus, etc., for purchases through supply committee.other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen and added to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce,” in order to facilitate the purchase through the 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—promoting commerce $6,000, promoting commerce (South and Central America) $3,000, commercial attachés $6,000; general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $10,000; contingent expenses, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $5,000; contingent expenses, shipping service, $500; instruments for measuring vessels, $500; instrument 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 $108,750 shall be and constitute the appropriation for contingent To be expended through Division of Supplies.expenses, Department 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.
For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $66,500. Rent. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. Department of Labor. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of Labor, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.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, six of class three, eight of class two, seven of class one, six at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; two telephone switchboard operators; two messengers; four assistant messengers; four messenger boys, at $480 each; engineer, $1,100; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; electrician, $900; three firemen at $720 each; ten laborer’s (one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor); five watchmen; eleven charwomen; three elevator conductors, at 8720 each; in all, $105,760.
Commissioners of conciliation: To enable the Secretary of Labor Commissioners of Conciliation. Vol. 37, p. 738. Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680.to exercise the authority vested in him by section eight of the Act creating the Department of Labor, and to appoint commissioners 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. 1118 Labor Statistics Bureau.
Bureau of Labor Statistics: Commissioner, $5,000; chief statistician, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, $3,000; four statistical experts, 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—seven of class four, six of class three, eight of class two, fourteen of class one, nine at $1,000 each; two copyists; two assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, $148,280.
Per diem special agents, etc. Vol. 38, p. 680. For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence, pursuant 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 not Temporary statistical assistants.exceeding $8 per day; 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 Association for Labour Legislationto “International Association for Labour Legislation,” and necessary expenses connected with representation of the United States Government therein, $64,090.
Library For books, periodicals, and newspapers for the library the sum of $100 may be expended for newspapers for the purpose of procuring strike data, $1,000. Immigration Bureau. Bureau of Immigration: Commissioner General, $5,000; Assistant 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.
Information Division. Division of Information: Chief, $3,500; assistant chief, $2,500; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, two of class two, three of class one, one $900; messenger; in all, $19,340. Naturalization Bureau. Bureau of Naturalization: Commissioner, $4,000, deputy commissioner, $3,250; clerks—seven of class four, eleven 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, $89,610.
Children’s Bureau. Children’s Bureau: Chief, $5,000; assistant chief, $2,400; 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. Child life, infant mortality, etc.
To investigate and report upon matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life, and especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, $72,120. Per diem subsistence, etc. Vol. 38, p. 680. For traveling expenses and 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, of officers, Experts, etc.special agents, and other employees of the Children’s Bureau; employment of experts and temporary assistants, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $6 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 1119subscriptions for the same, for newspaper clippings to enable the 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, $95,000.
Contingent expenses, Department of Labor: For contingent Contingent expenses.and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the department, for winch 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 and passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used for official purposes; freight and express charges, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, adding machines and other labor-saving devices; repairs to the building occupied by the office of the Secretary of Labor; purchase of law books, books of reference, and periodicals not exceeding $300; in all, $40,000;
Additional from immigration expenses.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 Vol. 36, p. 531.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 “Expenses of regulating immigration” made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen and added to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of Labor,” for that year; and the total sum thereof shall be and constitute To be expended through Division of Publications and Supplies.the appropriation for contingent expenses for the Department of Labor, to be expended through the central purchasing office (Division of Publications and Supplies), Department of Labor.
Rent: For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Department of Labor, $24,000. Rent. JUDICIAL. Judicial. Supreme Court: Chief Justice, $15,000; eight associate justices, Supreme Court.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: Thirty-three circuit judges, at $7,000 Circuit courts of appeals.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 courts: Ninety-six district judges, at $6,000 each, District judges.$576,000. District court, Territory of Hawaii: Two judges, at $6,000 Hawaii district court.each; clerk, $3,000; reporter, $1,200; in all, $16,200. 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 eighteen.
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 of 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, 1120$1,000; three stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for Half from District revenues.each associate justice, at $1,200 each; in all, $36,710, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Supreme Court, District of Columbia. Supreme Court, District of Columbia: Chief justice, $6,500; 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, Half from District revenues.$41,900, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia. National Park Commissioners. Salaries. Vol. 29, p. 184. National Park Commissioners: For commissioners in the Crater Lake, Glacier, Mount Rainier, and Yellowstone National Parks, at $1,500 each, $6,000.
The provisions of section twenty-one of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall not be construed as impairing the rights of said commissioners to receive the salaries provided herein. Books for judicial officers. Books for judicial officers: For purchase and rebinding of 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 *Proviso.* Transmittal to successors.the direction of the Attorney General: *Provided,* That such 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. Court of Customs Appeals: Presiding judge and four associate 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. Miscellaneous expenses. For rent of necessary quarters in Washington, District of Columbia, 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, $5,660; in all, $12,660.
Court of Claims. Court of Claims: Chief justice, $6,500; four judges, at $6,000 each; chief clerk, $3,500; assistant clerk, $2,500; bailiff, $1,500; clerks—two at $1,600 each (one of whom shall be a stenographer), one $1,400, two at $1,200 each; four stenographers, at $1,200 each; chief messenger, $1,000; two assistant messengers; three firemen; throe watchmen; elevator conductor, $720; two laborers; two charwomen; in all, $59,080. Auditors, etc. For auditors, and additional stenographers, when deemed necessary, in the Court of Claims, to be disbursed under the direction of the court, $9,000.
Contingent expenses. For stationery, court library, repair’s, including repairs to bicycles, fuel, 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-second volume of the reports of the Court of Claims, $1,000, to fie paid on the order of the court to the reporter, R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314. Vol. 18, p. 109.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.
Custodian. R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314. Vol. 18, p. 109. For custodian of the building occupied by the Court of Claims, $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. 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-1121switchboard 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. Sec. 3. That the appropriation herein made for the officers, clerks, No pay for permanently incapacitated persons.and persons employed in the public service shall not be available for the compensation of any persons incapacitated otherwise than temporarily for performing such service.
Sec. 4. That no part of any money appropriated by this or any Typewriting machines. Restriction on prices to be paid for.other Act shall be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen 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 sixteen; such price shall include the value of any typewriting machine or machines given in exchange, but shall not apply to special prices granted on typewriting Exceptions.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: *Provided,* That in construing this section the Commissioner of Patents *Proviso.* Determination of character of machines.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.
Sec. 5. That in expending appropriations made in this Act persons Details for service outside of District restricted.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 the seat of government of the department or other Government establishment from which the detail is made: *Provided,* That nothing in *Proviso.* Department of Justice investigations excepted.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.
Sec. 6. That hereafter the members of the Joint Committee on Joint Committee on Printing. Continuance of. *Proviso.* Appointment at end of session of reelected Member to serve.Printing who are reelected to the succeeding Congress shall continue as members of said committee until their successors are chosen: *Provided,* That the President of the Senate and the Speaker of the House of Representatives shall, on the last day of a Congress, appoint members of their respective Houses who have been elected to the succeeding Congress to fill any vacancies which may then be about to occur on said committee, and such appointees and the members of said committee who shall have been reelected shall continue until their successors are chosen.
The Joint Committee on Printing shall, Powers, etc., when Congress not in session.when Congress is not in session, exercise all the powers and duties devolving upon said committee as provided by law, the same as when Congress is in session. Sec. 7. That to provide, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred Appropriation for increased pay of employees receiving less than $1,800 a year.and eighteen, for increased compensation at the rate of ten per centum per annum to employees who receive salaries at a rate per annum less than $1,200, anti for increased compensation at the rate of five per centum per annum to employees who receive salaries at a rate not more than $1,800 per annum and not less than $1,200 per annum, so much as may lie necessary is appropriated: *Provided,* That *Provisos.* Applicable only to employees under this Act.
Report to Congress.this section shall only apply to the employees who are appropriated for in this Act specifically and under lump sums or whose employment is authorized herein: *Provided further,* That detailed reports shall be submitted to Congress on the first day of the next session showing the number of persons, the grades or character of positions, the original rates of compensation, and the increased rates of compensation provided for herein. 1122 Duplication of service, etc.
Investigation of, in departments, etc. Abolishment authorized. Sec. 8. The Bureau of Efficiency shall investigate duplication of service in the various executive departments and establishments of the Government, including bureaus and divisions, and make a report to the President thereon, and the President is hereby authorized, after such report shall have been made to him, wherever he finds such duplications to exist to abolish the same. Report of the action taken hereunder shall be made to Congress at its next regular session.
Approved, March 3, 1917.