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CHAP. 37.— AN ACT Making appropriations to supply further urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and prior years, and for other purposes. February 28, 1916.[[H. R. 9416](/us/bill/64/hr/9416).][[Public, No. 26](/us/pl/64/26).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums are Urgent deficiencies appropriations. appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro-15priated, to supply further urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and prior years, and for other purposes, namely:
LINCOLN MEMORIAL COMMISSION Lincoln Memorial Commission. For improvements in and additions to the Lincoln Memorial, and Construction, etc., of memorial. Limit of cost increased. Vol. 36, p. 898.for masonry steps and approaches and terrace wall, not heretofore provided for, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $263,000, to remain available until expended, and the limit of cost of the said Lincoln Memorial is hereby increased from $2,000,000 to $2,594,000. BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY.
Bureau of Efficiency. For investigating duplication of statistical and other work in the Expenses of investigations, etc.*Provisos.* Created as an independent establishment.Transfer of officials, etc.*Post,* p. 76.various branches of the Government service, $1,200: *Provided,* That hereafter the Division of Efficiency of the Civil Service Commission shall be an independent establishment and shall be known as the Bureau of Efficiency; and the officers and employees of the said division shall be transferred to the Bureau of Efficiency without reappointment, and the records and papers pertaining to the work of the said division and the furniture, equipment, and supplies that have been purchased for it shall be transferred to the said bureau: *And provided further,* That the duties relating to efficiency ratings imposed Duties transferred from Civil Service Commission.
Vol. 37, p. 413.upon the Civil Service Commission by section four of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act approved August twenty-third, nineteen hundred and twelve, and the duty of investigating the administrative needs of the service relating to personnel in the several executive departments and independent establishments, imposed on the Civil Service Commission by the legislative, executive, and judicial Vol. 37, p. 750.appropriation Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, are transferred to the Bureau of Efficiency.
CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. Civil Service Commission. 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 attendance at meetings of public officials, $6,000. For 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, $300.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. Interstate Commerce Commission. For authorized expenditures necessary in the execution of laws to Expenses.regulate commerce, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $100,000. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Department of State. foreign intercourse. Foreign intercourse. Exposition in city of Panama: For additional amount for the Panama Exposition. Participation expenses.
Vol. 38, p. 1127.suitable participation by the United States in an exposition to be held in the city of Panama, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, and also such compensation Pay of commissioner.to the Commissioner of the United States appointed by the President as the Secretary of State shall determine, $7,500. Payment to Panama: To enable the Secretary of State to pay to Panama.
Annual payment to. Vol. 33, p. 2238.the Government of Panama the fourth annual payment, due on 16February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, from the Government of the United States to the Government of Panama under article fourteen of the treaty of November eighteen, nineteen hundred and three, $250,000. United States and Canada boundary. Reimbursement to Great Britain. Vol. 35, p. 2003. International boundary, United States and Canada: To enable the Secretary of State to reimburse to the Government of Great Britain the excess paid by the Canadian Section of the International Waterways Commission over one-half of the joint expenses incurred under article four of the treaty of April eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, between the United States and Great Britain, in ascertaining and reestablishing accurately the location of the international boundary line between the United States and the Dominion of Canada from the Saint Lawrence River near the forty-fifth parallel of north latitude, through the Great Lakes to the mouth of Pigeon River, $8,044.21.
International Bureau Permanent Court of Arbitration. International Bureau of the Permanent Court of Arbitration: For an additional amount for the share of the United States for the calendar year nineteen hundred and fourteen, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $661.31. Emergencies. Emergencies in the Diplomatic and Consular Service: For emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $75,000.
Latitude observatory, Ukiah, Cal. Maintenance. International Latitude Observatory at Ukiah, California: For the maintenance of the International Latitude Observatory at Ukiah, California, and the continuance of the international latitude work there from March first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, until the International Geodetic Association shall find it possible to resume its *Proviso.* Deducted from quota to Geodetic Association.support of the observatory, $2,500: *Provided,* That so much thereof as may be used for the purposes mentioned shall be deducted from the quotas due from the United States as an adhering member of the International Geodetic Association for the Measurement of the Earth.
International Geodetic Association. To pay the subscription of the United States to the International Geodetic Association for the years nineteen hundred and fifteen and nineteen hundred and sixteen, $3,000. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department. public buildings, construction, sites, and rent. Public buildings. Construction, etc. For sites, commencement, continuation, or completion of public buildings within the respective limits of cost authorized by law, severally, as follows:
Aberdeen, Wash. Aberdeen, Washington, post office: For continuation, $45,000. Aledo, Ill. Aledo, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $500. Alliance, Nebr. Alliance, Nebraska, post office: For continuation, $29,000. Anoka, Minn. Anoka, Minnesota, post office: For continuation, $15,000. Antigo, Wis. Antigo, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, $29,000. Ashland, Ky. Ashland, Kentucky, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Ashland, Ohio. Ashland, Ohio, post office: For commencement, $20,000.
Attleboro, Mass. Attleboro, Massachusetts, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Aurora, Nebr. Aurora, Nebraska, post office: For continuation, $30,000. Bakersfield, Cal. Bakersfield, California, post office: For continuation, $53,000. Barnesville, Ga. Barnesville, Georgia, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Bartow, Fla. Bartow, Florida, post office: For continuance, $10,000. Basin, Wyo. Basin, Wyoming, post office: For commencement, $500. Bay City, Tex. Bay City, Texas, post office:
For commencement, $500. Bayonne, N. J. Bayonne, New Jersey, post office: For commencement, $20,000. 17 Beardstown, Illinois, post office: For completion, $10,000. Beardstown, Ill. Beaufort, South Carolina, post office and customhouse: For continuation, $500. Beaufort, S. C. Beeville, Texas, post office: For commencement, $500. Beeville, Tex. Belton, Texas, post office: For continuation, $12,000. Belton, Tex. Berlin, New Hampshire, post office: For commencement, $26,000. Berlin, N.
H. Binghamton, New York, post office, courthouse, and so forth: For site, $100,000. Binghamton, N. Y. Birmingham, Alabama, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $100,000. Birmingham, Ala. Blackwell, Oklahoma, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Blackwell, Okla. Brenham, Texas, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Brenham, Tex. Buckhannon, West Virginia, post office: For commencement, $12,000. Buckhannon, W. Va. Burlington, North Carolina, post office: For continuation, $13,000.
Burlington, N. C. Burlington, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, $500. Burlington, Wis. Butler, Missouri, post office: For continuation, $500. Butler, Mo. Caribou, Maine, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Caribou, Me. Chadron, Nebraska, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Chadron, Nebr. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, post office: For continuation, $500. Chapel Hill, N. C. Charles City, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $29,000. Charles City, Iowa. Charlotte, Michigan, post office:
For commencement, $15,000. Charlotte, Mich. Cody, Wyoming, post office: For commencement, $500. Cody, Wyo. Cohoes, New York, post office: For site and continuation, $18,500. Cohoes, N. Y. Columbia, South Carolina, post office: For continuation, $40,000. Columbia, S. C. Commerce, Texas, post office: For commencement, $500. Commerce, Tex. Cordova, Alaska, post office and courthouse: For commencement, $500. Cordova, Alaska. De Land, Florida, post office: For commencement, $12,000.
De Land, Fla. Dickinson, North Dakota, post office: For commencement, $18,000. Dickinson, N. Dak. Douglas, Arizona, post office and customhouse: For commencement, $40,000. Douglas, Ariz. Dowagiac, Michigan, post office: For commencement, $11,000. Dowagiac, Mich. Dubois, Pennsylvania, post office: For commencement, $15,000. Dubois, Pa. Durango, Colorado, post office: For commencement, $40,000. Durango, Colo. East Orange, New Jersey, post office: For continuation, $49,000. East Orange, N.
J. Ellensburg, Washington, post office, For continuation, $30,000. Ellensburg, Wash. El Paso, Texas, post office: For commencement, $50,000. El Paso, Tex. Elyria, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $35,000. Elyria, Ohio. Falls City, Nebraska, post office: For continuation, $15,000. Falls City, Nebr. Farmville, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $500. Farmville, Va. Fordyce, Arkansas, post office: For commencement, $500. Fordyce, Ark. Fort Atkinson, Wisconsin, post office:
For continuation, $10,000. Fort Atkinson, Wis. Fort Morgan, Colorado, post office: For commencement, $500. Fort Morgan, Colo. Franklin, Virginia, post office: For commencement, $500. Franklin, Va. Frederick, Maryland, post office: For commencement, $36,000. Frederick, Md. Fremont, Ohio, post office: For commencement, $20,000. Fremont, Ohio. Fulton, Missouri, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Fulton, Mo. Gallatin, Tennessee, post office: For continuation, $500. Gallatin, Tenn.
Garden City, Kansas, post office: For completion, $6,050. Garden City, Kans. Gardiner, Maine, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Gardiner, Me. Girard, Kansas, post office: For continuation, $500. Girard, Kans. Glasgow, Kentucky, post office: For continuation, $500. Glasgow, Ky. Glenwood, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $500. Glenwood, Iowa. Globe, Arizona, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $19,000. Globe, Ariz. Gouverneur, New York, post office: For continuation, $5,000.
Gouverneur, N. Y. Grinnell, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $35,000. Grinnell, Iowa. Hackensack, New Jersey, post office: For continuation, $45,000. Hackensack, N.J. Hammond, Louisiana, post office: For commencement, $500. Hammond, La. Hiawatha, Kansas, post office: For commencement, $500. Hiawatha, Kans. 18 Honey Grove, Tex. Honey Grove, Texas, post office: For continuation, $500. Hoopeston, Ill. Hoopeston, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $500. Hornell, N. Y. Hornell, New York, post office:
For continuation, $15,000. Humboldt, Tenn. Humboldt, Tennessee, post office: For continuation, $29,000. Huntington, Ind. Huntington, Indiana, post office, For continuation, $30,000. Jamestown, N. Dak. Jamestown, North Dakota, post office: For commencement, $30,000. Jasper, Ala. Jasper, Alabama, post office: For continuation, $19,000. Kalispell, Mont. Kalispell, Montana, post office: For continuation, $30,000. Kirksville, Mo. Kirksville, Missouri, post office (extension): For completion, $10,000.
Laconia, N.H. Laconia, New Hampshire, post office: For commencement, $30,000. La Junta, Colo. La Junta, Colorado, post office: For completion, $20,000. Lancaster, Ky. Lancaster, Kentucky, post office: For commencement, $500. Las Cruces, N. Mex. Las Cruces, New Mexico, post office and courthouse: For commencement, $500. Laurel, Miss. Laurel, Mississippi, post office: For completion, $10,000. Lincoln, Nebr. Lincoln, Nebraska, post office and courthouse (extension): For completion, $75,000.
Little Falls, Minn. Little Falls, Minnesota, post office: For continuation, $16,000. Live Oak, Fla. Live Oak, Florida, post office: For completion, $10,000. Logan, Ohio. Logan, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $20,000. McComb, Miss. McComb, Mississippi, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Madison, S. Dak. Madison, South Dakota, post office: For commencement, $12,000. Maquoketa, Iowa. Maquoketa, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Marion, S. C. Marion, South Carolina, post office:
For continuation, $10,000. Marlin, Tex. Marlin, Texas, post office: For continuation, $7,000. Martin, Tenn. Martin, Tennessee, post office: For commencement, $500. Maryville, Tenn. Maryville, Tennessee, post office: For continuation, $15,000. Media, Pa. Media, Pennsylvania, post office: For commencement, $25,000. Mena, Ark. Mena, Arkansas, post office: For commencement, $500. Merrill, Wis. Merrill, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, $15,000. Middletown, Conn. Middletown, Connecticut, post office:
For continuation, $55,000. Middletown, Ohio. Middletown, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Missoula, Mont. Missoula, Montana, post office and courthouse (extension): For continuation, $15,000. Moberly, Mo. Moberly, Missouri, post office (continuation): For continuation, $10,000. Montevideo, Minn. Montevideo, Minnesota, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Mount Pleasant, Tex. Mount Pleasant, Texas, post office: For continuation, $500. Mount Vernon, N. Y. Mount Vernon, New York, post office:
For completion, $10,000. Muskegon, Mich. Muskegon, Michigan, post office and customhouse (extension): For continuation, $15,000. Nacogdoches, Tex. Nacogdoches, Texas, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Naugatuck, Conn. Naugatuck, Connecticut, post office: For continuation, $25,000. Navasota, Tex. Navasota, Texas, post office: For continuation, $15,000. Neenah, Wis. Neenah, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, $31,000. New Braunfels, Tex. New Braunfels, Texas, post office:
For continuation, $20,000. Newburyport, Mass. Newburyport, Massachusetts, post office: For commencement, $28,000. Orlando, Fla. Orlando, Florida, post office: For commencement, $12,000. Palatka, Fla. Palatka, Florida, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Pittsburg, Tex. Pittsburg, Texas, post office: For continuation, $500. Pottstown, Pa. Pottstown, Pennsylvania, post office: For commencement, $36,000. Pulaski, Va. Pulaski, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Quitman, Ga.
Quitman, Georgia, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Reading, Mass. Reading, Massachusetts, post office: For commencement, $500. Redfield, S. Dak. Redfield, South Dakota, post office: For continuation, $25,000. Richfield, Utah. Richfield, Utah, post office: For commencement, $500. Ridgway, Pa. Ridgway, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $20,000. 19 Rockville, Connecticut, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Rockville, Conn. Roseburg, Oregon, post office: For continuation, $39,000.
Roseburg, Oreg. Rumford, Maine, post office: For continuation, $24,000. Rumford, Me. Salamanca, New York, post office: For continuation, $25,000. Salamanca, N. Y. Sanford, Florida, post office: For continuation, $500. Sanford, Fla. Savanna, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Savanna, Ill. Seymour, Connecticut, post office: For continuation, $25,000. Seymour, Conn. Shelby, North Carolina, post office: For continuation, $24,000. Shelby, N. C. Shelbyville, Kentucky, post office:
For continuation, $5,000. Shelbyville, Ky. Sidney, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $35,000. Sidney, Ohio. Skowhegan, Maine, post office: For commencement, $15,000. Skowhegan, Me. South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $44,000. South Bethlehem, Pa. South Boston, Virginia, post office: For commencement, $20,000. South Boston, Va. Stamford, Texas, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Stamford, Tex. Statesboro, Georgia, post office: For commencement, $500.
Statesboro, Ga. Tarentum, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $11,000. Tarentum, Pa. Taylorville, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $15,000. Taylorville, Ill. Titusville, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $15,000. Titusville, Pa. Twin Falls, Idaho, post office: For commencement, $15,000. Twin Falls, Idaho. Vancouver, Washington, post office: For continuation, $45,000. Vancouver, Wash. Van Wert, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Van Wert, Ohio.
Vernon, Texas, post office: For continuation, $500. Vernon, Tex. Wahoo, Nebraska, post office: For commencement, $500. Wahoo, Nebr. Warrenton, Virginia, post office: For commencement, $10,000. Warrenton, Va. Washington, District of Columbia, central heating, lighting, and Washington, D. C. Central heating, etc., plant.*Proviso.* Service extended to additional buildings.Vol. 38, p. 25.power plant: For continuation, $600,000: *Provided,* That so much of the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for other purposes,” approved June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page twenty-five), as authorizes the construction of a central heating, lighting, and power plant in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, be, and the same is hereby, amended so as to add to the buildings already enumerated in said Act to be furnished with heat, light, and power the Johnson-Walker Building (known as the Navy Annex), the Interior Department Office Building, the Lincoln Memorial, and the Women’s Memorial Building (Red Cross Limit of cost increased.Building), and the limit of cost for said plant is hereby increased from $1,494,104 to $1,669,104, and the limit of $35,000 therein fixed for the employment of technical services in connection with the plans and specifications and construction of said plant is hereby increased to not exceeding $60,000 and made available for the employment of technical and clerical services for said purposes.
Washington, District of Columbia, Interior Department offices: For continuation, $300,000. Interior Department offices. Washington, Georgia, post office: For continuation, $500. Washington, Ga. Washington, Indiana, post office: For continuation, $24,000. Washington, Ind. Washington, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $35,000. Washington, Iowa. Waterloo, New York, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Waterloo, N. Y. Water Valley, Mississippi, post office: For continuation, $500.
Water Valley, Miss. Waynesville, North Carolina, post office: For continuation, $5,000. Waynesville, N. C. Webb City, Missouri, post office: For completion, $16,000. Webb City, Mo. Wellsburg, West Virginia, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Wellsburg, W. Va. West Point, Georgia, post office: For continuation, $500. West Point, Ga. Willow, California, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Willow, Cal. Woodbury, New Jersey, post office: For commencement, $10,000. Woodbury, N.
J. Yoakum, Texas, post office: For commencement, $15,000. Yoakum, Tex. 20 public buildings, repairs and equipment. Repairs and preservation. Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of all completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $25,000. Vaults and safes. Vaults and safes: For vaults and lock-box equipments and repairs thereto in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $10,000. public buildings, operating expenses.
Operating force. Personal services. Operating force: For such personal services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $100,000. Operating supplies. Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, light, water, ice, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $35,000. collecting internal revenue.
Internal revenue. Collectors, etc. For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $300,000. Refund of corporation excise taxes. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue is authorized to reopen and allow claims for taxes for the recovery of which suits are pending and which would be allowable under the decision of the Supreme Court in the case of McCoach, collector, against Minehill and Schuylkill Haven Railroad Company; and there is hereby appropriated for the payment of such claims a total sum not to exceed $300,000, this appropriation to be available for the payment of such of the aforesaid claims as are not payable out of moneys heretofore appropriated and available during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for the payment of claims. coast guard.
Coast Guard. Repair of Gulf stations. For construction and repair work made urgently necessary, owing to the destruction of the Galveston, San Luis, and Velasco Coast Guard Stations by a hurricane in August, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $67,147.20, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen. mints and assay offices. Mints and assay offices. New York. New York Assay Office: For wages of workmen and other employees, $13,000. 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, $15,000. bureau of engraving and printing.
Engraving and Printing Bureau. Increase of work authorized. Vol. 38, p. 833. The limitation in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen as to the number of delivered 21sheets of United States currency to be executed is hereby increased from eighty-two million to ninety million. For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials, except Materials. Transfers of appropriations to. Vol. 38, p. 834.distinctive paper, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to transfer $120,000 from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, as follows:
From “Salaries of all necessary employees, other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants,” $75,000 and from “Wages of Plate Printers,” $45,000. public health service. Public Health Service. For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment of Outside treatment.all other persons entitled to relief, and miscellaneous expenses other than marine hospitals, which are not included under special heads, $44,000. For special studies of and demonstration work in rural sanitation, Rural sanitation.including personal service, $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. District of Columbia. Public Utilities Commission: For completing the valuation of Public Utilities Commission. Valuation expenses.utilities as required by law, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $16,000. Improvements and repairs: The unexpended balances of the Q Street Bridge over Rock Creek. Balances available for construction.several appropriations for the construction of the bridge across Rock Creek on the line of Q Street, including the approaches thereto, contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and twelve, nineteen hundred and thirteen, and nineteen hundred and fourteen are made available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Publication of notices in condemnation cases: The provision Street extensions. Provision for publishing condemnation notices repealed. Vol. 38, p. 213.contained in the urgent deficiency Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, approved October twenty-second, nineteen hundred and thirteen, regarding notice by publication in condemnation cases for the opening, extension, widening, or straightening of streets, avenues, roads, highways, alleys, or minor streets in the District of Columbia is hereby repealed, and section four hundred and ninety-one c of the Code of Law for the District of Columbia be, District of Columbia Code.
Condemning land for streets.and the same is hereby, reenacted so as to read as follows: " Sec. 491c. The said court shall cause public notice of not less than twenty days to be given of the institution of such proceeding, by advertisement in three daily newspapers published in the District of Notice by advertisements. Vol. 34, p. 151, amended.Columbia, which notice shall warn and require all persons having any interest in the proceeding to appear in court at a day to be named in said notice and to continue in attendance until the court shall have made its final order ratifying and confirming the award of damages and the assessment of benefits by the jury herein provided for; and in addition to such public notice said court shall cause a Personal service.copy of said notice to be served by the United States marshal for the District of Columbia, or his deputies, upon such owners of the land to be condemned as can be found by said marshal, or his deputies, within the District of Columbia and upon the tenants and occupants of the same.
The said court shall appoint a guardian ad litem for any person interested in the proceedings who may be under disability.” " Disposal of city refuse: For disposal of city refuse, including City refuse.the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia 22appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $8,823. Schools. Addition to Powell. Public schools: For additional amount necessary for construction of an eight-room addition, including an assembly hall, to the Powell School, $9,500.
M Street High School. So much as may be necessary of the appropriations for the construction for the new M Street High School for colored pupils is made Equipment.available for the complete equipment and for furniture, furnishings, and pianos for said building, in accordance with plans and specifications prepared in the office of the Engineer Commissioner. Police. Motor patrol wagons. Vol. 38, p. 912. Metropolitan police: The appropriation of $2,500 for one additional motor patrol wagon, contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, is made available for the purchase of two or more motor patrol wagons, as in the judgment of the commissioners may be required for the police patrol service.
Temporary services. Limit increased. Vol. 38, p. 924. Temporary services: Section two of the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, placing a limitation on expenditures for purposes specified therein of $70,000, is amended by increasing said limitation to $80,000. Half from District revenues. Except as otherwise provided, one-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. War Department. Army. Pay. Pay: For pay of the Army, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $1,199,772.62. STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDING. State, War, and Navy Department Building. Navy annex. Navy Department annex: For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items, $3,000. NAVY DEPARTMENT. Navy Department. Contingent expenses. Contingent expenses: For stationery, furniture, newspapers, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $10,000.
Rent. For rental of additional quarters for the Navy Department, $1,250, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Naval Observatory. Motor truck. Naval Observatory: The superintendent of the Naval Observatory is authorized to purchase one motor-propelled nonpassenger-carrying vehicle out of the appropriation “Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Observatory, fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen.” Paying claims for collisions with, naval vessels. Vol. 36, p. 607. Claims for damages:
To pay the claims adjusted and determined by the Navy Department, under the provisions of the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page six hundred and seven), on account of damages occasioned to private property by collision with vessels of the United States Navy and for which the naval vessels were responsible, certified to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Four hundred and seventy-nine, $2,703.89.
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. Navy. Bureau of Construction and Repair. Bureau of Construction and Repair: For construction and repair of vessels, including the same objects specified under this head in 23the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $48,950. Bureau of Steam Engineering: For engineering, including the Bureau of Steam Engineering.same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $38,620.40.
The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to expend the two foregoing Additional for technical services. Vol. 38, pp. 945, 946.amounts for the services of draftsmen or other technical assistants for the purpose of constructing battleships numbered forty-three and forty-four in certain United States navy yards and of expediting the preparation of designs, contract plans, and specifications of new vessels, being additional to the sums authorized for such personal services in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen.
The limitations specified in the legislative, executive, and judicial Allowances increased in Bureaus. Vol. 38, pp. 1027, 1028.appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, on expenditures for draftsmen and other technical services from the appropriations “Construction and repair of vessels” and “Engineering,” are increased by $19,700 and $9,370.40, respectively. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Interior Department. Capitol Building: For work at the Capitol and general repairs Capitol.
Repairs, etc.thereof, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $6,500. alaska, expenses in. Alaska Engineering Commission: For carrying out the provisions Alaska Engineering Commission. Constructing railroads, etc. Vol. 38, p. 305.of the Act approved March twelfth, nineteen hundred and fourteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page three hundred and five), entitled “An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,” to continue available until expended, $2,000,000. geological survey.
Geological Survey. For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska mineral resources.Alaska, $100,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen. national parks. National Parks. There is appropriated, for the remainder of the fiscal year nineteen Superintendent authorized from improvement, etc.*Post,* p. 534.hundred and sixteen, from the several appropriations for protection, improvement, and management, and so forth, of the various national parks, including the Hot Springs Reservation, as well as from the revenues from privileges, and so forth, in the national parks and the Hot Springs Reservation, such sum or sums as the Secretary of the Interior in his judgment may deem necessary, to be expended in employment of the superintendent of national parks in the District of Columbia and in the field, and other necessary expenses in connection with the administration of the national parks and the Hot Springs Reservation; a detailed statement of such expenditures to be submitted Report required.to Congress.
POSTAL SERVICE. Postal service. out of the postal revenues. For mail messenger service, $160,000. Messenger service. For regulation screen or other wagon service, $305,000. Wagon service. 24 Railroad routes. For inland transportation by railroad routes, including the same objects appropriated for under this head in the joint resolution making appropriations for the service of the Post Office Department for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,729,000. Electric and cable car service.
For inland transportation of mail by electric and cable cars, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $3,389.74. Indemnity lost matter. For limited indemnity for the loss of domestic registered, insured, and collect-on-delivery mail, for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $116,000; Nineteen hundred and fifteen, $25,000; Nineteen hundred and fourteen, $5,000. Stationery. For stationery, including all money-order offices, S10,000. City delivery supplies.
For supplies for the City Delivery Service, including letter boxes, letter-box fasteners, package boxes, posts, furniture, satchels, straps, baskets, time cards, time-card frames, time-recorder supplies, maps, transfer designs, and stencils, $10,000. Twine, etc. For wrapping twine and tying devices, $25,000. Facing slips. For facing slips, plain and printed, including the furnishing of paper for same; and for card-slide labels, blanks, and books of an urgent nature, $10,000. Star routes.
For inland transportation by star routes (excepting service in Alaska), including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $50,000. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Department of Agriculture. forest service. Forest Service. General expenses. For “General expenses, Forest Service,” including the same objects specified under this head in the Agricultural appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $57,300. bureau of plant industry.
Plant Industry Bureau. Citrus canker. Eradication of. For the emergency caused by the infectious nature and continued spread of the destructive disease of citrus trees known as citrus canker, by conducting such investigations of the nature and means of communication of the disease, and by applying such methods of eradication or control of the disease as in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture may be necessary, and to pay such expense and employ such persons and means, including not exceeding $2,000 for personal services in the city of Washington, and to cooperate with such authorities of the States concerned, organizations of growers, or individuals as he may deem necessary to accomplish such purpose, $300,000, no part of which shall be used to pay the cost or value of trees or other property destroyed or damaged.
White pine tree blister rot. Services, etc., eradicating. For the emergency caused by the infectious nature and continued spread of the destructive disease of pine tree known as the white pine blister rust, by conducting such investigations of the nature and means of communication of the disease, and by applying such methods of eradication or control of the disease as in the judgment of the Secretary of Agriculture may be necessary, $20,000; and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to pay such expense and employ such persons and means, and to cooperate with such authorities of the States concerned, organization, or individuals, as he may deem necessary to accomplish such purpose. bureau of biological survey.
Biological Survey Bureau. Rabies in predatory animals. Destruction, etc. To meet the emergency caused by the prevalence and continued spread of rabies in wolves, coyotes, and other predatory wild ani-25mals, which is being communicated by them to stock and other domestic animals, on the public lands, national forests, and elsewhere, in the Western and Northwestern States, by the destruction of such wild animals, $75,000; and the Secretary of Agriculture is authorized to incur such expense and to employ such persons and means, as, in his judgment, may be necessary to enable him to carry out the purposes of this appropriation.
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. Department of Commerce. bureau of standards. Standards Bureau. Chemical laboratory: For completing the construction of the fire-proof Chemical laboratory.chemical laboratory authorized by the Act of August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $125,000. To equip the new chemical laboratory building, including the construction, Equipment.purchase, and installation of chemical desks, hoods, cases, special furniture, and other necessary equipment, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $35,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen. bureau of foreign and domestic commerce.
Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau. Promoting commerce: To further promote and develop the foreign Promoting commerce.and domestic commerce of the United States, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, $2,000. steamboat-inspection service. Steamboat-Inspection Service. Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses, including the same Contingent expenses.objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $20,000. bureau of navigation.
Bureau of Navigation. Enforcement of navigation laws: For enforcement of navigation Enforcing navigation laws.laws, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,500. Clerk hire, shipping service: For clerk hire, shipping service, Shipping service. Clerk hire.including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,125. coast and geodetic survey.
Coast and Geodetic Survey. For necessary repairs to the steamer Explorer, $5,000. Repairs, “Explorer.” bureau of fisheries. Fisheries Bureau. Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of vessels and launches, Maintenance of vessels.including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $7,500. lighthouse service. Lighthouse Service. General expenses: For rebuilding, repairing, and reestablishing Repairs, etc., damages by Gulf hurricane, 1915.such aids to navigation and structures connected therewith on the Gulf of Mexico as were damaged or destroyed by the hurricane of the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $200,000. 26 Paying claims for collisions with, vessels.
Claims for damages: To pay the claims for damages which have been considered, adjusted, and determined to be due to the claimants by the Commissioner of Lighthouses, under authority of the provisions Vol. 36, p. 537.of section four of the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page five hundred and thirty-seven), on account of damages occasioned by collision for which vessels of the Lighthouse Service have been found responsible, certified to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Five hundred and forty-one, $53.39.
DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. Department of Labor. Commissioners of conciliation. Expenses. Commissioners of conciliation: For commissioners of conciliation, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $25,000. Labor Statistics Bureau. Per diem, special agents, etc. Vol. 38, p. 680. Bureau of Labor Statistics: For additional amount 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 exceeding $8 per day; and traveling expenses of officers and employees, $3,000. immigration service.
Immigration Service. Byron H. Uhl. Payment of costs against. For payment of costs assessed by the United States District Court for the Southern District of New York in the case of Ali Gegiow and another against Byron H. Uhl, as acting commissioner of immigration at the port of New York, $126.40. Purchases allowed. The Secretary of Labor is authorized to charge against the appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen not exceeding $15,000 for articles purchased for use during that period pursuant to orders placed during the preceding fiscal year.
LEGISLATIVE. Legislative. Senate Office Building. Maintenance, etc. Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and supplies, and for all necessary personal and other services for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building, under the direction and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, $2,500. House Office Building. Maintenance, etc. House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $2,500. senate.
Senate. Jacob C. Donaldson. Pay to niece of. The Secretary of the Senate is authorized and directed to pay to Mary Meyer, niece of Jacob C. Donaldson, deceased, late a skilled laborer in the Senate Library, the amount of salary due him for the month of December, nineteen hundred and fifteen. house of representatives. House of Representatives. Folding. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $10,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen. 27 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.
Government Printing Office. printing and binding. Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions Holidays.of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $27,305.93; Nineteen hundred and fifteen, $270.22. Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with Leaves of absence.the provisions of the law granting leave to employees of the Government Printing Office, $48,866.76, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Printing and binding. Department of Labor. Interstate Commerce Commission. For printing and binding for the Department of Labor, $30,000. For printing and binding for the Interstate Commerce Commission, $10,000. Patent Office: For additional amount for printing the weekly Patent Office.issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indices, $78,555.83.
For printing and binding for the Court of Claims, $5,000. Court of Claims. JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS. Judgments, United States courts. For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of Payment. Vol. 24, p. 505.suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney General in House Document Numbered Five hundred and sixty-three and Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty-three, Classification.and which have not been appealed, namely:
Under the Treasury Department, $1,097; Under the War Department, $5,714.42; Under the Department of Justice, $583.75; In all, $7,395.17; together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. Judgments, Court of Claims. For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, Payment.reported to Congress at its present session in House Document Numbered Five hundred and sixty-six and Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty-two, namely:
Classification Under the Treasury Department, $52,988.23; . Under the War Department, $87,645.05; Under the Navy Department, $97,373.74; Under the Post Office Department, $64.71; Under the Department of Agriculture, $34.45; In all, $238,106.18. JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS. Judgments, Indian depredation claims. For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Payment.Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Five hundred and sixty-four at its present session, 28 Verbal correction.*Post,* p. 1599.$59,259.50, and the judgment therein in favor of “Andrew D.
Everett, administrator, Thomas W. Everett, deceased,” shall read “Thomas W. Everett, administrator, Andrew D. Everett, deceased,” and the judgment in favor of “Mrs. Joseph E. Winn, administratrix, John Winn, deceased,” shall read “John M. Winn and Mrs. Joseph E. Winn, administrators, John Winn, deceased”; said judgments to be paid Vol. 26, p. 853.after the deductions required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or Reimbursement.tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: *Proviso.* Not appealed.*Provided,* That no one of said judgments provided in this paragraph shall be paid until the Attorney General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.
Right to appeal. None of the judgments contained in this Act shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. AUDITED CLAIMS. Audited claims. Claims certified by accounting officers. Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted Vol. 18, p. 110.or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen and other Vol. 23, p. 254.years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Five hundred and sixty-seven, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For contingent expenses, Treasury Department: Freight, telegrams, and so forth, 41 cents. For collecting the revenue from customs, $2.17. For salaries and expenses under act to amend the national banking laws, $117.20. For care of seamen, and so forth, Public Health Service, $4.20. For Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, $6.25. For preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $1,587.50. For miscellaneous expenses, Internal-Revenue Service, $18.08.
For refunding internal-revenue collections, $150. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $48,335.75. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $531,139.68. For redemption of stamps, $150. For allowance or drawback, internal revenue, $14.65. For salaries, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $32.67. For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, $5.88. 29 For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving Service, $239.98. For Life-Saving Service, $1,444.48.
For fuel, lights, and water tor public buildings, $88.78. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $478.87. For furnishing new post office, courthouse, and customhouse, Cleveland, Ohio, $42. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $5.93. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $64.58. For general expenses of public buildings, $25.53. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. For salaries, Adjutant General’s Office, $6.67. Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.
For Signal Service of the Army, $1.50. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $119,833.89. For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks at Army division and department headquarters, $4,259.57. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $176.94. For subsistence of the Army, $44.90. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, $539.25. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $1,435.35. For barracks and quarters, $316.67. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $15,227.02, together with a sufficient sum to pay interest, at six per centum, from October twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, until this appropriation is made, on the claim of $1,115.93, certificate numbered eleven thousand five hundred and three, in favor of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, due and payable under decision of the Comptroller of the Treasury of May tenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-five Vol. 18, p. 481.(Eighteenth Statutes at Large, page four hundred and eighty-one).
For medical and hospital department, $13.60. For Ordnance Service, $129.83. For encampment and maneuvers, Organized Militia, $1,196.92. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $72.13. For burial of indigent soldiers, $45. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $46.02. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers: Central Branch, $6; Western Branch, $8.58; Marion Branch, $1.05. For expenses of recruiting, $90.31. For collecting, drilling, and organizing Volunteers, $6.29. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.
For pay of the Navy, $8,118.96. Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. For pay, Manne Corps, $12,780.13. For pay, miscellaneous, $409.80. For contingent, Navy, $8,750.22. For provisions, Marine Corps, $6.55. For commutation of quarters, Marine Corps, $12.80. For contingent, Marine Corps, $143.32. For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, $1.82. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $2,515.95. For contingent, Bureau of Navigation, 50 cents. For recruiting, Bureau of Navigation, $203.66.
For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $50.34. For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, $22.50. 30 For maintenance of naval auxiliaries, Bureau of Navigation, $208.06. For naval training station, California, Bureau of Navigation, $122.76. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $441.76. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $340.72. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $4.05. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $156.
For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $2,558.14. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $2,481.52. For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $221.13. Vol. 28, p. 962. For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $558.87. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, $38.28. For enlistment bounties to seamen, $75. Vol. 37, p. 1380. For reimbursement to Samuel Butter and Company, Act of March third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $11,709.69. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. Vol. 33, p. 31. For salaries, Bureau of Education, $50. For Office Building, House of Representatives (deficiency Act, February eighteenth, nineteen hundred and four), $2,500. For return of funds of patients, Government Hospital for the Insane, $42.31. For education of natives of Alaska, $112.50. For contingent expenses of land offices, $2.01. For expenses of hearings in land entries, $19.45. For surveying the public lands, $503.88.
For Geological Survey, $1,345.98. For general expenses, Bureau of Mines, $2.48. For investigating mine accidents, $53.51. For mineral mining investigations, Bureau of Mines, $2.86. For testing fuel, Louisiana Purchase Exposition, Saint Louis, Missouri, $11.72. For Army pensions, $1,046.20. For Navy pensions, $45. For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, $8. For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $454.01. For Indian schools, support, $13.54.
For Indian school and agency buildings, $824. For industrial work and care of timber, $5.60. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $49,009.76. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $29,439.89. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $1,011.22. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $5.27. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, $1.77.
For expenses of Indian commissioners, nineteen hundred and fourteen, 18 cents. For contingencies, Indian Department, $1. For general expenses, Indian Service, $8.77. For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, $174. For Indian school, Phoenix, Arizona, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $107.43. 31 For Indian school, Truxton Canyon, Arizona, nineteen hundred and fourteen, 94 cents. For maintenance, irrigation system, Pima Indian lands, Arizona, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $17.84.
For support of Indians in California, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $41.55. For maintenance and operation, Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $35.90. For Indian school, Kickapoo Reservation, Kansas, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $72.93. For Indian school, Genoa, Nebraska, 15 cents. For Indian school, Albuquerque, New Mexico, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $10.30. For Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $6.46.
For support of Cheyennes and Arapahoes, Oklahoma, $31.83. For Indian school, Chilocco, Oklahoma, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $20.98. For Indian school, Chilocco, Oklahoma, $92.68. For administration of affairs of Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, $16. For Indian school, Carlisle, Pennsylvania, $20.32. For Indian school, Flandreau, South Dakota, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $133.02. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $156.60.
For support of Sioux, Yankton Tribe, South Dakota, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $13.65. For surveying and allotting Standing Rock Reservation, South Dakota and North Dakota (reimbursable), $162.88. For support of Indians of Colville and Puyallup Agencies and Joseph’s Band of Nez Perces, Washington, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $138.96. For maintenance and operation, irrigation system, Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), nineteen hundred and fifteen, $104.32. For Indian school, Hayward, Wisconsin, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $10.08.
For Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $20.78. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. For salaries of vice consuls (Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. Vol. 38, p. 806.and fifteen), nineteen hundred and fifteen, $10,921.39. For allowance for clerks at consulates, $193.75. For expenses, interpreters and guards in Turkish dominions, and so forth, $3.60. For relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $4,278.38.
For relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $6,466.51. For administration of the customs laws, $29.12. For fuel, lights, and so forth, State, War, and Navy Department Building, $858. For preservation of collections, National Museum, $23.03. For library, Department of Agriculture, $8.33. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $4.70. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $176.24. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $47.81. 32 For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, $50.91.
For general expenses, Forest Service, $319.64. For improvement of the national forests, $4.50. For general expenses, Bureau of Chemistry, $21.83. For laboratory, Department of Agriculture, $3.60. For enforcement of the food and drugs Act, $4.05. For general expenses, Bureau of Entomology, $57.57. For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, $1.89. For general expenses, Division of Publications, $7.20. For drainage investigations, $4.65. For International Dry-Land Congress at Lethbridge, Canada, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $474.61.
For expenses of the Thirteenth Census, $7.90. For expenses of the Twelfth Census, $17.19. For salaries and expenses, special attorneys, examiners, and so forth, Bureau of Corporations, $3.19. For equipment, Bureau of Standards, $321.55. For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, 37 cents. For testing machines, Bureau of Standards, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $80.64. For testing machines, Bureau of Standards, $45.01. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $2.28. For supplies of lighthouses, $100.
For repairs of lighthouses, $17.84. For expenses of buoyage, $294.86. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $9.67. For protecting seal and salmon fisheries of Alaska, $117.89. For contingent expenses, Department of Labor, $7.98. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, $12.74. For expenses of regulating immigration, $16.61. For miscellaneous expenses, Division of Naturalization, 50 cents. For naturalization of aliens, 72 cents. For books for judicial officers, United States courts, $2.28.
For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $311.05. For fees of clerks, United States courts, $192.67. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $5. For support of prisoners, United States courts, $111.66. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $24,258.97. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred, and fourteen, $9.25. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $5,274.25. For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $189.74.
For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, $1,514. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $195.95. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $356.90. Additional claims. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or Vol. 18, p. 110.carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen and other years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress Vol. 23, p. 254.under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty-five, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: 33 claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
For refunding taxes illegally collected, $28,406.30. Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $2,985.95. For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving Service, $17.77. For Life-Saving Service, $600. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $5,412.54. Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department. For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks at Army division and department headquarters, $369.60.
For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $28.10. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, $81.88. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $5,592.65. For barracks and quarters, $44.40. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $69.15. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $1.66. For raising four additional regiments, $46.35. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. For pay of the Navy, $757.52. Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.
For pay, miscellaneous, $127.12. For pay, Marine Corps, $66.60. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $536.09. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $65.20. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $4. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $204. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.hundred and fifteen, 3969.96.
Department. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $80.73. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 70 cents. For Indian school, Fort Bidwell, California, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $15.36. For Army pensions, 10 cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. For contingent expenses, Executive Office, nineteen hundred Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments.
Vol. 38, p. 806.and fourteen, 88 cents. For salaries of vice consuls (Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen), nineteen hundred and fifteen, $79.17. For allowance for clerks at consulates, $80. For relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $594.96. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, $7.84. For expenses of regulating immigration, $144.25. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $82.20.
For fees of jurors, United States courts, $51. For support of prisoners, United States courts, $1.30. Approved, February 28, 1916.