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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 39 STAT. · September 8, 1916 · Chapter 464

Chapter 464. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 464.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes. September 8, 1916.[[H. R. 17465](/us/bill/64/hr/17465).][[Public, No. 272](/us/pl/64/272).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled, * That the following sums areDeficiencies appropriations. appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes, namely:
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION.Federal Trade Commission. The proper disbursing officer of the Federal Trade Commission isGeorge Rublee.Services. authorized and directed to pay George Rublee, from available appropriations, the compensation authorized to be paid to a commissioner in the Federal Trade Commission for the period covered by his service as such commissioner from the time of his entry on duty on March sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to May fifteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, the date when his nomination by the President to such position was rejected by the Senate, notwithstanding section seventeen hundred and sixty-one of the Revised Statutes[R.
S., sec. 1761, p. 313](/us/rs/s1761/p313). of the United States to the contrary. BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY.Bureau of Efficiency. The sum of $4,000 appropriated by the deficiency appropriationLabor-saving machinery, etc., for Pension Office.Reappropriation.Vol. 38, p. 1146. Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, for the purchase, rental, exchange, and remodeling of labor-saving machinery, equipment, and supplies necessary to enable the Bureau of Efficiency to demonstrate an improved system of paying pensions is reappropriated and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen: *Provided,* That the equipment*Provisos*.To remain in Pension Office.Investigation of business methods. purchased hereunder shall become the property of the Bureau of Pensions when the demonstration is completed: *Provided further,* That the Bureau of Efficiency shall investigate the business methods of the Bureau of Pensions and prepare recommendations for the improvement thereof and submit the same to the Secretary of the Interior as early as practicable for his approval. 802 Travel expenses, Indian Service investigations.*Ante*, p. 76.Not exceeding $3,000 of the appropriation for the Bureau of Efficiency made in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen may be used by the bureau for necessary traveling expenses incurred and to *Ante*, p. 159.be incurred in carrying out section twenty-eight of the Indian appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen and performing other duties imposed upon it by law.
Retention of present quarters.Until otherwise provided by law the Bureau of Efficiency shall continue to occupy its present quarters in the Winder Building. DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. foreign intercourse.Foreign intercourse. Pan American Scientific Congress.Printing reports, etc.Second Pan American Scientific Congress: For the preparation and printing of the reports, proceedings, and papers of the Second Pan American Scientific Congress, including salaries (not exceeding $3,300), rent in the District of Columbia, transportation, and miscellaneous expenses, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $42,000.
Nicaragua.Payment for canal concession.*Post*, p. 1771.Payment to Republic of Nicaragua: To enable the Secretary of State to pay, for the benefit of the Republic of Nicaragua, in accordance with article three of the treaty between the Government of the United States and the Government of Nicaragua, signed August fifth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $3,000,000. Canadian Boundary Waters Commission.Balance available for expenses.*Ante*, p. 259.International Joint Commission: That portion of the appropriation for the International Joint Commission, United States and Great Britain, contained in the Diplomatic and Consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, which reappropriates the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for the commission for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, is amended so as to reappropriate in lieu thereof the unexpended balance for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Representing foreign Governments during European war.Balances reappropriated.Vol. 38, pp. 778, 1138.Representation of foreign Governments: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $1,000,000 (public resolution, numbered forty-eight, September eleventh, nineteen hundred and fourteen) to enable the United States to fulfill the obligations devolving upon it in connection with or growing out of its representation of the interests of foreign Governments and their nationals, and to extend temporary assistance to other Governments and their nationals made necessary by hostilities in Europe and elsewhere by transferring or advancing funds for diplomatic and consular expenses and for the care or benefit of citizens or subjects of foreign nations, is reappropriated and made available for the same purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen.
Relief and protection of American seamen.Relief and protection of American seamen: For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, the Panama Canal Zone, and the Philippine Islands, $15,000. Chargés d’affaires ad interim.Chargés d’affaires ad interim: For charges d’affaires ad interim and vice consuls, $15,000. International Radiotelegraphic Conventions.Vol. 37, p. 1569.For an additional amount for the share of the United States for the calendar year nineteen hundred and fifteen, as a party to the International Radiotelegraphic Conventions heretofore signed, of the expenses of the radiotelegraphic service of the international bureau at Berne, Switzerland, $1,084.40.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Mrs. Joseph Cameron.Payment to.*Post*, p. 1347.For payment to Mrs. Joseph Cameron, widow of Joseph Cameron, for physical and personal injuries sustained by him while in the employ of the United States Government, in accordance with Private 803Act numbered sixty-nine, approved August seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $242. For refund of internal revenue taxes to the J. L. da Roza Estate,J. L. da Roza Estate.Payment to.*Post*, p. 1342.
Incorporated, of Elk Grove, California, in accordance with Private Act numbered eighty-three, approved August seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,158. For payment to M. J. Haynes, public administrator of the city andHector M. McDonald.Payment to estate of.*Post*, p. 1390. county of San Francisco, California, as administrator of the estate of Hector M. McDonald, deceased, in accordance with Private Act numbered one hundred and eighteen, approved August twenty-first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $261.20. federal farm loan board.Federal Farm Loan Board.
For salaries and expenses under the Federal Farm Loan BoardSalaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 360. created by the Act approved July seventeenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, including the salaries of four members thereof at the rate of $10,000 each per annum, and their actual necessary traveling expenses, and such salaries, fees, and expenses as are authorized by said Act, also not exceeding $10,000 for rental of quarters in the DistrictRent for Treasury bureaus removed from Department building. of Columbia for such bureaus of the Treasury Department that it may be necessary to move in order to accommodate the Federal Farm Load Board in the Treasury Building, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $100,000.
A detailed statement of expenditures hereunder shall be made to Congress, and hereafter detailed estimates for appropriations for the Federal Farm Loan Board shall be annually submitted to Congress. public buildings.Public buildings. Rogersville, Tennessee, post office: For continuation (site), $250.Rogersville, Tenn. Salem, New Jersey, post office: For site, $500.Salem, N. J. Honolulu, Hawaii, quarantine station: For the removal of theHonolulu, Hawaii, quarantine station. wharf at the quarantine station and its reerection, including all necessary new material, at a new location within the new harbor lines established by the War Department, $10,000.
Minneapolis (Minnesota) post office: To enable the Secretary ofMinneapolis, Minn. the Treasury, in his discretion, to pay the W. G. Cornell Company for extra construction work performed at the post office, Minneapolis, Minnesota, $954. Bureau of Engraving and Printing: For miscellaneous repairs toEngraving and Printing Bureau.Repairs. laundry, new roof, and so forth, damaged by fire, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $20,000. General expenses: The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized toGeneral expenses.Advertising. pay, out of the unexpended balance of the appropriation “General expenses of public buildings, nineteen hundred and fifteen,” the sum of $4.50, representing claims for advertising in the Morning Star, $2.70, and the Evening Dispatch, $1.80, both published at Wilmington, North Carolina. customs service.Customs service.
Section one of the Act entitled “An Act fixing the compensation ofPay of laborers modified.Vol. 35, p. 1065. certain officials in the customs service, and for other purposes,” approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and nine, shall not prohibit the Secretary of the Treasury from fixing the pay of laborers in the customs service at a rate not exceeding $2.50 per day if in so doing the aggregate amount paid to any person in any month does not exceed $70. internal revenue.Internal revenue.
Salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue: For salariesCollectors, surveyors, etc.Additional for 1917. and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, deputy collectors, sur-804veyors, clerks, messengers, and janitors in internal-revenue offices, *Ante*, p. 85.being additional to the amount of $2,465,000 provided by the Act approved May tenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred *Proviso*.Appointees from civil service eligibles.and seventeen, and for other purposes, $100,000: *Provided,* That all clerks, messengers, and janitors to be appointed under this provision shall be selected from eligible lists of the Civil Service Commission, and in accordance with the provisions of the civil service laws.
Refunding taxes illegally collected.Former appropriation revoked.Vol. 38, p. 330.Refunding internal-revenue taxes illegally collected: The payment of six claims, aggregating $27,992.76, allowed by the Auditor for the Treasury Department and certified to Congress in House Document Numbered One thousand and forty-seven, Sixty-third Congress, second session, appropriated for by the deficiency appropriation Act approved July twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and further described in House Document Numbered Twelve hundred and sixty-four of the present session, is revoked, and of the said sum of $27,992.76 Claims allowed.the sum of $5,151.93 is made available for the payment of the three revised claims enumerated in House Document Numbered Twelve hundred and sixty-four of the present session, and the sum of $22,840.83 shall be covered into the Treasury.
Robert W. Childs.Services.To pay Robert W. Childs, special counsel in the civil proceedings against the Capital City Dairy Company, of Columbus, Ohio, for violations of the internal-revenue laws, and for recovery of taxes due the Government, $5,000, which sum shall be compensation in full for all services rendered by him in connection with the civil proceedings in said case. Additional clerks on emergency taxes.*Ante*, p. 82.Office of the Commissioner of Internal Revenue: For the following employees from January first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, both dates inclusive:
Clerks—two of class four, two of class three, one of class two, one of class one, one $900; two counters at $900 each; in all, $6,050. Tax on legacies, munitions, etc.Expenses.*Ante*, p. 756.Collecting the tax on legacies, munitions, and so forth: For expenses 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 , , nineteen hundred and sixteen, and to pay such sums as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may deem necessary, Employees, rent, supplies, etc., allowed.fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $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 *Proviso*.Clerks, etc., in District of Columbia.district of the United States, or any of the Territories thereof: *Provided,* That not more than $40,000 of the amount appropriated may be used for the employment in the District of Columbia of additional clerical help in the District of Columbia 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.
Investigation of business methods.The Bureau of Efficiency shall investigate the methods of transacting the public business in the Bureau of Internal Revenue and prepare recommendations for the improvement thereof and submit the same to the Secretary of the Treasury as early as practicable for his approval and to Congress at its next session. 805 coast guard.Coast Guard. For contingent expenses, including the same objects specified underContingent expenses. this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $8,593.86.
To reimburse the fund “General account of advances,” Navy“Onondaga,” cutter. Repairs. Department, the balance due on account of repairs made to the former revenue cutter Onondaga, at the Norfolk Navy Yard, under authority of department letter dated May twenty-second, nineteen hundred and twelve, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $700. miscellaneous. Credit in the accounts of Robert T. Crane: The accounting officersRobert T. Crane.Credit in accounts. of the Treasury are authorized and directed to credit the accounts of Robert T.
Crane, late United States consul at Rosario, Argentina, with the sum of $463.73, charged to him under the appropriation “Relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen hundred and twelve,” on a forged consular draft paid by the Treasury Department upon presentation by the Bank of New York, National Banking Association, a suit against said bank as the last indorser of the draft to recover the amount so paid having been decided against the Government, as reported in volume two hundred and nineteen of the Federal Reporter, pages six hundred and forty-eight to six hundred and fifty-four.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. Coroner’s office: To pay the deputy coroner during the absence ofDeputy coroner. the coroner for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $85; Nineteen hundred and fifteen, $160; Nineteen hundred and fourteen, $35. For contingent expenses of the coroner’s office for the fiscal yearsExpenses, coroner’s office. that follow: Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $744.52; Nineteen hundred and fifteen, $836.37. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses:
For printing, checks,Contingent expenses. books, law books, books of reference, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and fourteen, $50; Nineteen hundred and twelve, $24. For judicial expenses, including procurement of chains of title,Judicial expenses. the printing of briefs in the Court of Appeals of the District of Columbia, witness fees, and expert services in District cases before the supreme court of said district for the fiscal years that follow:
Nineteen hundred and fifteen, $1,201.30; Nineteen hundred and fourteen, $12.63. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and forAdvertising. tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $1,165.34. For advertising notice of taxes in arrears July first, nineteen hundredAdvertising taxes in arrears. and fourteen, as required to be given by Act of March nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, to be reimbursed by a charge of 50 cents for each lot or piece of property advertised, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $30.
For the purchase of enamel metal or leather identification numberVehicle tags. tags for motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, fiscal years nineteen hundred and twelve and nineteen hundred and thirteen, $7. To maintain public order: To provide for the maintenance ofInauguration, 1913. public order and the protection of life and property in connection 806with, the presidential inaugural ceremonies, fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $3. Benning Road viaduct.Reappropriation.Vol. 38, p. 1141.Benning Road and viaduct:
The appropriation for Benning Road, viaduct, and bridge, contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen is made available until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen. Assessment and permit work.Improvements and repairs: For assessment and permit work, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, $3. Sewers.Sewers: For purchase or condemnation of rights of way for construction, maintenance, and repair of public sewers, $1,100.
Bathing beach.Additional pay employees, 1917.*Ante*, p. 691.Bathing beach: The Commissioners of the District of Columbia are authorized to pay from the appropriation for “Streets, District of Columbia, Bathing beach,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, to certain persons employed at said bathing beach between July first and September fifteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, both dates inclusive, such additional compensation as they would have been entitled to at the rates of compensation paid for like services during the period between June sixteenth and thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Public schools.Principals.Public schools: For allowance to principals, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $361.70; Nineteen hundred and fourteen, $60; Nineteen hundred and nine, $20.80. Teachers.For teachers, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine, $82.33. Longevity pay.For longevity pay, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow:
Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $31,749.94; Nineteen hundred and nine, $13.86. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $3.35. Birney School.For construction of a six-room addition to the Birney School, $271.50. Instruction of deaf mutes.[R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/s4864/p942).Vol. 31, p. 844.For expenses attending the instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes, and as provided for in the Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and one, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $672.13.
Blind children.For instruction of indigent blind children of the District of Columbia, in Maryland or some other State, under a contract to be entered into by the commissioners, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $262.50. Juvenile court.Juvenile Court: For salaries of judges of municipal court acting as judges of the Juvenile Court, during the absence of the judge of said, court, at a compensation of $5 per diem when so acting, for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $145;
Nineteen hundred and fifteen, $180. For payment of premium on appeal bond in case of Hughlett against Juvenile Court, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $5. Lunacy writs.Writs of lunacy: For expenses attending the execution of writs de lunatico inquirendo, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $639.50; Nineteen hundred and nine, $1.25. 807 Support of convicts:
For support of convicts, including the sameSupport of convicts. objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $9,000. Miscellaneous expenses, supreme court: For miscellaneousSupreme court.Miscellaneous. expenses for the supreme court, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and fifteen, $20.15;
Nineteen hundred and fourteen, $1,755.10; Nineteen hundred and thirteen, $200.50; Nineteen hundred and twelve, $79.75. Washington Asylum and Jail: For provisions, fuel, forage, harnessWashington Asylum and Jail. and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $8,422.55; Nineteen hundred and eleven, $8.
For payments to destitute women and children, including the sameAbandoned families. objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $724; Nineteen hundred and fifteen, $315.50. For maintenance of jail prisoners of the District of Columbia atJail prisoners. the Washington Asylum and Jail, including pay of guards, and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein for the fiscal years that follow:
Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $3,542.08; Nineteen hundred and fifteen, $1,783.71. National Training School for Boys: For care and maintenanceNational Training School for Boys. of boys committed to the National Training School for Boys by the courts of the District of Columbia under a contract to be made by the Board of Charities with the authorities of said National Training School for Boys, $4,488.21. Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum: To pay theColumbia Hospital for Women.Construction.
Chesapeake and Potomac Telephone Company for extra telephone service during the construction of the Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol, $150.71. For labor and material for construction and installation of awnings, frames, and screens for windows and porches, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol, $4,000. For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to beCare of indigent patients. made with Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $185.
Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital: For emergency careEmergency Hospital. and treatment of and free dispensary service to indigent patients, under a contract or agreement made with Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital by the Board of Charities for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $9,357.20; Nineteen hundred and fifteen, $1,955.15; Eastern Dispensary: For emergency care and treatment of andEastern Dispensary. free dispensary service to indigent patients, under a contract or agreement made with Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities for the fiscal years that follow:
Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,258.25; Nineteen hundred and fifteen, $836.55. 808 Children’s Hospital.Children’s Hospital: For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract or agreement made with the Children’s Hospital by the Board of Charities for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $2,863.50; Nineteen hundred and fifteen, $1,735.80; Nineteen hundred and thirteen, $1,009.95; Nineteen hundred and eleven, $1,049.10. Tuberculosis Hospital.Tuberculosis Hospital:
For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $4,577.20; Nineteen hundred and fifteen, $669.10. Board of Children’s Guardians.Care, etc., of children.Board of Children’s Guardians: For board and care of all children, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $16,532.90.
Increase to sectarian institutions.Authority is granted to pay, in addition to the sum of $1,500, heretofore authorized, a further sum not to exceed $5,267.05 to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control, fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen. Authority is granted to pay, in addition to the sum of $6,200, heretofore authorized, a further sum not to exceed $1,016.57 to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen. Feeble-minded children.For maintenance of feeble-minded children, white and colored, $3,780.89.
Industrial School for Colored Children.Industrial Home School for Colored Children: For maintenance, including purchase and care of horses, wagons, and harness, $2,489.40. Industrial Home School.Industrial Home School: For maintenance, including purchase and care of horses, wagons, and harness, $1,179.82. Indigent insane.Hospital for the insane: For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in the Government Hospital for the Insane, as provided by law, $7,080.64.
Workhouse.Workhouse: For fuel for maintenance, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $55.91. Workhouse and Reformatory.Reformatory and workhouse: For maintenance, including the same objects specified under this head in the deficiency appropriation Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, fiscal years nineteen hundred and ten and nineteen hundred and eleven, $25.26. Militia.Mobilization expenses.Militia: For payment of actual and necessary expenses of mobilization of the Militia of the District of Columbia, including pay of certain unmustered officers and enlisted men for days actually employed on duties incident to mobilization, and to recruiting service under orders of the commanding general, $2,250.
Judgments.Judgments: For payment of judgments, including costs, against the District of Columbia, set forth m House Documents Numbered Twelve hundred and seventy-five and Thirteen hundred and fifty-twoException. of this session, except the judgments with interest and costs in favor of Samuel T. Kalbfus and Edward S. Wood, $50,532.17, together with a further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding four per centum on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment.
Half from District revenues.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, except the amounts of the judgments and costs aggregating $34,637.36 in favor of the Georgetown Gas Light Company and the Washington Gas 809Light Company, which judgments and costs and interest thereon shall be paid wholly out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Policemen and firemen’s relief fund, District of Columbia:Policemen and firemen’s relief fund.Pensions, etc., 1917. There is hereby appropriated for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, from the policemen and firemen’s relief fund, created by the District of Columbia appropriation Act*Ante*, p. 718. for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, so much as may be necessary to pay the relief and other allowances authorized by the provisions of said Act, not to exceed the sum of $180,000.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directedCol. William W. Harts.Credit in accounts. to credit the accounts of Colonel William W. Harts, United States Army, with the sum of $76, being the amount paid in March, nineteen hundred and fourteen, for coal for the White House and disallowed against Colonel Harts on the books of the Treasury; clerical services. For necessary employees during the balance of the fiscal yearAdditional clerks, etc., for 1917. nineteen hundred and seventeen, on account of extra work in consequence of the Act “For making further and more effectual provision*Ante*, p. 166. for the national defense, and for other purposes,” approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and in addition to those authorized by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act*Ante*, pp. 90–92. for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, in offices and at annual rates of compensation as follows:
Office of the Secretary: Clerks—one of class four, two of class three;Secretary’s Office. two assistant messengers; and two watchmen; Adjutant General’s Office: Clerks—ten of class four, ten of classAdjutant General’s Office. three, twenty-two of class two, fifty-eight at $1,000 each; messenger; three assistant messengers; and three laborers at $660 each; Inspector General’s Office: Clerks—three of class one, and two atInspector General’s Office. $1,000 each; Judge Advocate General’s Office:
Clerks—one of class three, twoJudge Advocate General’s Office. of class one; and one messenger; Signal. Office: Clerks—two of class four, two of class three, fourSignal Office. of class two, four of class one; three messengers; and two assistant messengers; Quartermaster General’s Office: Clerks—three of class four, fourQuartermaster General’s Office. of class three, six of class two, eight of class one, and nine at $1,000 each; Surgeon General’s Office: Clerks—one of class four, two of classSurgeon General’s Office. three, two of class two, four of class one, four at $1,000 each; and one assistant messenger;
The pay of the superintendent of the building occupied by thePay of superintendent, Medical Museum, reduced.*Ante*, p. 91. Army Medical Museum and Library, provided in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen at $250, is reduced to $200; Office of Chief of Ordnance: Clerks—two of class four, three ofOrdnance Office. class three, four of class two, nine of class one, three at $1,000 each, one $900; messengers—one at $780, and one at $720;
Office of Chief of Engineers: Clerks—one of class three, two of classEngineer Office. two, and four of class one; In all, for additional clerical services, $218,983.33, or so much thereof as may be necessary. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses. Rent of buildings: For rental of additional quarters in the DistrictRent. of Columbia for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $15,000. 810 buildings and grounds in and around washington.Buildings and grounds. Union Station Plaza.For operation, care, repair, and maintenance of the pumps which operate the three fountains in the Union Station Plaza, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $4,000.
Lighting public grounds, 1917.For lighting the public grounds, watchmen’s lodges, offices, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,300. Half from District revenues.One-half of the two foregoing sums shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half out of the Treasury of the United States. armories and arsenals.Arsenals. Frankford, Pa., 1917.Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
For repair of sea wall, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $23,400. Rock Island, Ill., 1917.Rock Island, Illinois, Arsenal: For one lumber storage house, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $7,500; For increasing storage facilities, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $250,000. San Antonio, Tex. 1917.San Antonio Arsenal, San Antonio, Texas: For increasing storage facilities, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $25,000. Sodium nitrate storage, 1917.Sodium nitrate storage:
For providing facilities for reserve supply of sodium nitrate, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $225,000. national cemeteries.National cemeteries. Disposition of remains of officers, etc., 1917.Disposition of remains, and so forth: For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, civilian employees, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, and in addition to the sum appropriated therein, $50,000. national military parks.National parks.
Chickamauga and Chattanooga.Motor vehicle.*Ante*, p. 288.The appropriation for the Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park, contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be available for the maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle. river and harbor work. River and harbor damage claims.Vol. 36, p. 676.To pay the claims adjusted and settled under section four of the river and harbor appropriation Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, and certified to Congress in House Documents Numbered Six hundred and ninety-one, Nine hundred and ninety-three, One thousand and nineteen, Twelve hundred and eighty-one, and Twelve hundred and ninety-eight at the present session, $1,226.20.
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Army. quartermaster corps.Quartermaster Corps. Pay.Pay of the Army: For pay of officers and enlisted men, $950,000. Travel allowance to National Guard on discharge.*Ante*, p. 217.Nothing contained in the Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen shall be construed as precluding the payment of travel allowance as 811provided in section one hundred and twenty-six of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to enlisted men of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States and the appropriation for the transportation of the Army and*Ante*, p. 633. its supplies for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen shall be available for this purpose and also for the purpose of paying travel pay to officers of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States as prescribed in the Act approved MarchVol. 31, p. 902. second, nineteen hundred and one.
Rent of buildings: For rental of an office in the District of ColumbiaAviation section.Rent, 1917. for the use of the Aviation Section of the Signal Corps, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $5,000. engineer department.Engineer Department. Engineer equipment of troops: For pontoon material, tools, instruments,Equipment of troops. supplies, and appliances required for use in the engineer equipment of troops, for military surveys, and for engineer operations in the field, including the purchase and preparation of engineer manuals and procurement of special paper for same, $300,000.
Engineer operations in the field: For expenses incident to militaryOperations in the field. engineer operations in the field, including the purchase of material and such expenses as are ordinarily provided tor under appropriations for “Engineer depots,” “Civilian assistants to engineer officers,” and “Maps, War Department,” including the purchase, at a cost not exceeding $1,000, of one automobile, and its operation and maintenance, to remain available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $600,000.
Sandy Hook Reservation, New Jersey: For protection of the shoreSandy Hook, N. J.Protection of shore. of the Sandy Hook Reservation, New Jersey, to remain available until expended, $60,000. ordnance department.Ordnance Department. Automatic machine rifles: For the purchase, manufacture, andAutomatic machine rifles. test of automatic machine rifles, including their sights and equipments, $190,000. Ordnance stores—Ammunition: For the purchase or manufactureAmmunition. of ammunition for automatic machine rifles, $210,000.
FORTIFICATIONS.Fortifications. armament of fortifications.Armament. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliberAmmunition for field artillery, etc., practice. guns, and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $700,000. For alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, includingAltering mobile artillery. the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, $500,000.
PANAMA CANAL.Panama Canal. The authorized cost of construction, by contract or in navy yards,Two colliers.Cost increased.Vol. 38, p. 71. complete in every detail, including self-discharging equipment and all other necessary apparatus, of two colliers for the Panama Canal provided for in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, is increased from $1,300,000 each to $1,500,000 each. 812 fortifications.Fortifications. Ordnance depot.Buildings, etc.Ordnance depot:
For three storehouses, $90,000; For two magazine buildings, $20,000; For one magazine building, $6,000; For one shop building, $17,000; For one office building, $4,000; For one barrack, $17,350; For one set of field officers’ quarters, $16,800; For one set of captains’ quarters, $15,750; For one set of double noncommissioned officers’ quarters, $12,600; For seven sets of family quarters for personnel of Ordnance depot, $18,200; For one stable, with carriage house, $5,000; For three sets of family quarters for Ordnance machinists, one each at Forts Randolph, Sherman, and Grant, $7,800;
Dock.For one dock, $160,000; Dredging.For necessary dredging, $100,000; Railroad tracks.For necessary railroad tracks and connections, $17,500; Roads, water, etc.For roads, walks, sewers, water, light, and power, $25,000; In all, $533,000, to continue available until expended. NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.Volunteer Soldiers’ Home. Hampton, Va.Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $16,000;
For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,500; Marion, Ind.Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $6,000; Hot Springs, S. Dak.Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota:
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $3,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $3,000; State or Territorial homes.In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $29,500. State or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors:
For continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $2,247.03. Vicksburg National Memorial Celebration.Expenses of veterans attending.National Memorial Celebration and Peace Jubilee, Vicksburg, Mississippi:. For expenses, within the limits of this appropriation, in connection with the celebration to be held at Vicksburg, Mississippi, in the year nineteen hundred seventeen, by the survivors of the Armies of the Tennessee and of the Mississippi who participated hi the battle of Vicksburg in July, eighteen hundred sixty-three, in commemoration of a half century of peace and good fellowship which happily exists throughout the Republic, to be expended under the direction and supervision of the Secretary of War as follows:
For necessary sewerage, sanitation and hospital service of persons attending said celebration, for necessary camp and garrison equipment, rations and supplies for veterans of the Civil War attending said 813celebration, $150,000, no part of which shall be available until after January first, nineteen hundred seventeen: *Provided,* That the Secretary*Proviso*.Completion of arrangements. of War is authorized and directed to fully complete all arrangements herein authorized before October fourteen, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and that all camp equipment, including tents, supplies, and rations shall be fully ready for use by that date: *Provided further,* That the National Association of Vicksburg Veterans, formedControl of celebration exercises, etc. in Chicago, Illinois, August ninth, nineteen hundred thirteen, shall have charge of the order of exercises during the celebration; theControl of camp, etc. physical control of the camp and grounds and the movement of troops and marching bodies shall be in the hands of the Secretary of War, under such officers as he may detail for that purpose: *Provided further,* That the Secretary of War is authorized to reimburse andTravel expenses allowed. pay, out of the amount herein appropriated the traveling expenses of not exceeding seven members of the Council of Administration or of the Executive Committee of the National Association of Vicksburg Veterans for journeys authorized by him to be taken in attendance upon any one meeting in the interest of said celebration.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. clerical services. For necessary employees during the balance of the fiscal yearAdditional clerks, etc., for 1917.*Ante*, pp. 94–98. nineteen hundred and seventeen to expedite the transaction of departmental business in connection with the construction of new vessels and increases in personnel, in addition to those authorized by by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, in offices and at annual rates of compensation as follows:
Office of the Secretary: Stenographer, $1,000; clerk, $900; telephoneSecretary’s office. operator, $720; laborer, $660; Office of Chief of Naval Operations: Clerks—one of class three, oneNaval Operations. $1,000; two draftsmen, at $1,200 each; Office of Solicitor: Law clerk, $2,000; clerk of class three;Solicitor’s Office. Office of the Judge Advocate General: Chief law clerk, $2,000; lawJudge Advocate General. clerk, $1,600; messenger; Bureau of Construction and Repair: Clerks—one of class four, oneConstruction and Repair. of class three, one of class two, two at $1,100 each; two copyists at $900 each; two laborers at $660 each; messenger boys—one $600, one $480;
The limitation specified in the legislative, executive, and judicialTechnical services.*Ante*, p. 97. appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen on expenditures for draftsmen and other technical services from the appropriation “Construction and repair of vessels” is increased by the sum of $26,400. Bureau of Navigation: Clerks—one of class two, two of class one,Navigation. one $1,000, five at $900 each; messenger; Office of Naval Intelligence: Translator, $1,400; clerks—one ofNaval Intelligence. class two, two at $1,000 each;
Bureau of Ordnance: Clerks—one of class two, one of class one;Ordnance. Bureau of Steam Engineering: Clerks—one of class three, two ofSteam Engineering. class two, two of class one, one $1,100, two at $1,000 each; two assistant messengers; The limitation specified in the legislative, executive, and judicialTechnical services.*Ante*, p. 96. appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen on expenditures for draftsmen and other technical assistants from the appropriation “Engineering” is increased by the sum of $19,210;
Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Clerks—one of class four, two ofSupplies and Accounts. class two, three of class one, one $1,100, five at $900 each; messenger boy, $480; 814 Medicine and Surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: Clerks—one of class three, one of class two, one of class one; Yards and Docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks: Stenographer, $1,200; clerk, $1,000; messenger boy, $480; Technical services.*Ante*, p. 97.The limitation specified in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act tor the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen on expenditures for skilled draftsmen and other technical services from appropriations and allotments under the Bureau of Yards and Docks is increased by the sum of $62,730;
In all, $64,633.33, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Naval Militia Affairs.*Ante*, pp. 98, 559.Division of Naval Militia Affairs: Clerks—one of class two, one of class one; messenger boy, $400; to be paid from the appropriation for “Arming and Equipping Naval Militia” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen. office of naval records and library.Naval Records and Library. Naval Records of the Rebellion.Balance for publication reappropriated.The unexpended balances of the appropriations for the continuation for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and thirteen and nineteen hundred and fourteen of the publication of an edition of eleven thousand copies of the Official Records of the Union and Confederate Navies in the War of the Rebellion, which were appropriated and made available for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and fifteen and Vol. 37, pp. 390, 707.nineteen hundred and sixteen by the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, are continued and made available until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen. hydrographic office.Hydrographic Office.
Reinforcing rooms in Navy Annex.*Ante*, p. 95.The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to expend not exceeding $2,500 from the appropriation “Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office, nineteen hundred and seventeen,” for reinforcing the floors of rooms numbered fifty-two and one hundred and sixteen in the building rented by the Navy Department in New York Avenue, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Streets northwest, Washington, District of Columbia, and known as the Navy Building. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses.
Additional for 1917.*Ante*, p. 98.For stationery, furniture, 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 seventeen, and in addition to the sum appropriated therein, $15,000. Rent.*Ante*, p. 98.For rental of additional quarters in the District of Columbia for the Bureau of Yards and Docks, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,860. claims for damages.
Navy collision claims.Payment.Vol. 36, p. 607.To pay the claims adjusted and settled under the provisions of the naval appropriation Act approved June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page six hundred and seven), and certified to Congress in House Documents Numbered Six hundred an 4 thirty-three, Eleven hundred and sixty-six, and Thirteen hundred and twenty-nine, at its present session, $335.08. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Navy. Pay, miscellaneous.Pay, miscellaneous:
For pay, miscellaneous, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve, $4.30. 815 To pay the New York Telephone Company for rental of twenty-oneNew York Telephone Company. extension telephones in public quarters at the New York Navy Yard during the second, third, and fourth quarters of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $94.50. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance. Ammunition for ships:
For ammunition for ships of the Navy,Ammunition for ships. including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $180,873.50. Torpedoes and appliances: For the purchase and manufacture ofTorpedoes, etc. torpedoes and appliances, fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $13,993.82. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks. Maintenance: For general maintenance of yards and docks,Maintenance. including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $670.64. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
Pay of the Navy: For pay of the Navy, including the same objectsPay. specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $952,953.30. Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For freight, includingFreight. the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $133,198. Coal and transportation: For coal and other fuel, including theCoal, etc. same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow:
Nineteen hundred and fifteen, $320,487.84; Nineteen hundred and fourteen, $12,445.25; Nineteen hundred and twelve, $15.84. Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations, includingProvisions. the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $46,605.83. bureau of construction and repair.Bureau of Construction and Repair. Construction and repair of vessels: For construction and repair ofConstruction and repair. vessels, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $9.89.
For payment of vouchers in favor of the Carroll Foundry,Carroll Foundry. Houghton, Michigan, for work done on the United States Steamship Yantic under orders of the commanding officer of the Michigan Naval Militia, for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and nine, $120.28; Nineteen hundred and ten, $170.73. bureau of steam engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering. Engineering: For engineering, including the same objects specifiedEngineering. under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $35,000.
Steam machinery: For steam machinery, including the sameSteam machinery. objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and thirteen, $427.13. 816 general account of advances.General account of advances. Reimbursement.To reimburse “General account of advances” created by the Act Vol. 20, p. 167.of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and sixty-seven), for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named hereunder in excess of the sums appropriated therefor for the fiscal year given, found to be due the “General account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, the accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to credit by transfer from unexpended balances of appropriations for the Naval Establishment, fiscal years nineteen hundred and fourteen and nineteen hundred and fifteen, amounts as follows:
Pay, miscellaneous.Pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $489.04; Bureau of Yards and Docks.Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $2,164.38; Repairs and preservation at navy yards, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $835.02; Bureau of Navigation.Transportation, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $686.47. Bureau of Steam Engineering.Steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $3,397.28;
Marine Corps.Provisions, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $513.91; Pay, miscellaneous.Pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and twelve, $41.93; Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.Provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and twelve, $927.03. In all, general account of advances, $9,055.06. marine corps.Marine Corps. Captain Davis B. Wills, and Paymaster’s Clerk Leon L. Dye.Credit on accounts.The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to allow the sums of $3,636.16 and $13.67, respectively, in the settlement of the accounts of Captain Davis B.
Wills, assistant paymaster, United States Marine Corps, and Paymaster’s Clerk Leon L. Dye, acting assistant paymaster, United States Marine Corps, being [R. S., sec. 1612, p. 273](/us/rs/s1612/p273).Vol. 34, p. 247.the amounts paid by them pursuant to section sixteen hundred and twelve, Revised Statutes, and the Act of June twelfth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page two hundred and forty-seven), to officers of the Fifth Regiment, United States Marine Corps, as actual expenses for sea travel while traveling on duty under competent orders with troops on board the United States naval transport Hancock, from August fourteenth to November sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, inclusive.
Military stores.Military stores: For military stores, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $45,000. Contingent.Contingent: For contingent expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $42,500. Transportation and recruiting.Transportation and recruiting: For transportation and recruiting, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $26,524.18.
Forage.Forage: For forage, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $25,000. 817 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIORInterior Department. public buildings.Public buildings. Court of Claims Building: To pay P. F. Brandstedt for labor andCourt of Claims.Repairs. material for emergency repairs to the roof of the Court of Claims Building, $183.75. To pay the National Mortar Company for cement bags, $300.National Mortar Company.
Courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia: For an additional amount for the restoration and reconstruction of the exterior andCourthouse, District of Columbia.Restoration of buildings, etc., 1917. interior of the courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia, including all material, personal and other services, and for each and every purpose in connection therewith, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, $150,000, to be available for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen, one-half to be paid out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of theHalf from District revenues. revenues of the District of Columbia.
To provide temporary quarters by rental or otherwise for the courts,Rent of temporary quarters, etc., 1917. judges, and officials connected therewith, and for other offices, officials, and employees of the courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia, pending the reconstruction of the said courthouse, $8,000, to be available for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen, and to provide for the removal and readjustment of all office furniture and fittings in connection with said temporary occupancy, including personal and other services, and for every item connected therewith, $7,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be available for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen.
The twoSupervision. foregoing appropriations to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, one-half to be paid out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of theHalf from District revenues. revenues of the District of Colunbia. Capitol Building: For payment to Professor Charles E. Munroe, forCapitol.Charles E. Munroe. expert services rendered in the investigation of the explosion which occurred in the reception room of the Senate wing on July second, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $500, said sum to be payment in full satisfaction of all claims for said services.
For overhauling the elevator machinery in the Senate wing of theElevators, Senate wing. Capitol and installation of new control boards, fiscal year nineteen hundred seventeen, $3,000. surveying the public lands.Public lands, surveying. The unexpended balance on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred andNorthern Pacific grant.Classifying lands within.Vol. 38, p. 1148. sixteen, remaining to the credit of the appropriation of $2,590.11 authorized in the deficiency appropriation Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, for the completion during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen of the examination and classification of lands within the limits of the Northern Pacific grant under the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-fourVol. 13, p. 367.
(Thirteenth Statutes, page three hundred and sixty-five), is made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen toVol. 28, p. 683. meet the expenses pertaining to such examination and classification as may be incurred after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen. To reimburse the estate of Joseph C. Auld, late receiver of publicJoseph C. Auld.Reimbursing estate of. moneys, United States land office at Miles City, Montana, for amount erroneously deposited by him in the Treasury of the United States in excess of public moneys received by and due from him to the United States on account of sales of public lands, as shown in the settlement of his final accounts by the Auditor for the Interior 818Department, per certificate numbered eleven thousand two hundred and seven, dated January twenty-first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $32.65. bureau of mines.Mines Bureau.
Rescue cars.For reconstruction and repairs of mine rescue cars, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $26,055. columbia institution for the deaf.Columbia Institution for the Deaf. Buildings and grounds.For additional amount for the removal of the college women’s dormitory, and the construction, equipment, and furnishing of a new dormitory, necessary repairs, or replacement of walks and grading of grounds adjacent to said dormitory, including all material, personal and other services, and for each and every purpose in connection therewith, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $53,000. improvement of mukuntuweap national monument, utah.Mukuntuweap National Monument, Utah.
Interstate wagon road.Vol. 36, p. 2498.For a proportionate share of the amount required to construct an interstate wagon road or highway through the Mukuntuweap National Monument, Utah, approximately fifteen miles, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $15,000. judicial.Judicial. Joseph R. Lamar.Pay to widow of Justice.To pay the widow of Joseph R. Lamar, late a justice of the Supreme Court of the United States, $14,500. Judge, New Jersey district.*Ante*, p. 48.For salary of the additional district judge in the district of New Jersey, appointed under the Act of April eleventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen:
Fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $533.33; Fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $6,000. Mount Rainier Park.Commissioner.*Ante*, p. 243.Vol. 29, p. 184.Commissioner, Mount Rainier National Park: Commissioner in Mount Rainier National Park, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,366.67. 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 right of said commissioner to receive said salary as herein provided.
Crater Lake Park.Commissioner.*Ante*, p. 521.Vol. 29, p. 184.Commissioner, Crater Lake National Park: Commissioner in Crater Lake National Park, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,250. 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 right of said commissioner to receive said salary as herein provided. united states courts.United States courts.
Marshals.For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $25,000. Ewing C. Bland.Services.The payment of the salary of Ewing C. Bland, from the appropriation entitled “Salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, nineteen hundred and fifteen,” for the period from December twelfth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to and including March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, during which period services were rendered by him in good faith as United States marshal for the 819western district of Missouri, is authorized, notwithstanding the fact that his appointment was not confirmed by the United States Senate.
For support of United States prisoners, including the same objectsSupport of prisoners. specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $35,000. There is created a commission, to be composed of the Chief ofPenitentiaries.Commission on manufacturing in articles used by the Government. Ordnance of the United States Army, the Chief of Ordnance of the United States Navy, the superintendent of prisons of the Department of Justice, and the purchasing agent of the Post Office Department, who shall serve without additional compensation and who shall report to Congress not later than the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred and sixteen, detailed estimates and plans for equipping the United States penitentiaries for the manufacture, by the prisoners, of various articles used by the Government.
Such report shallNature of report. indicate what articles it is thought desirable to be so manufactured; the cost of equipping existing buildings and the erection and equipping of any other necessary buildings; the probable cost of manufacture of such articles and the price now paid under contract; and such other data as may be pertinent to the general inquiry. For expensesExpenses. of the commission, to be paid on vouchers to be approved by the chairman, who shall be selected by the members thereof, $5,000.
For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses ofDistrict attorney. United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $191.67. To pay Tom K. Richie, of Tucson, Arizona, the sum inadvertentlyTom K. Richie.Reimbursement. covered into the Treasury on a forfeited cash recognizance in a case pending in the United States district court and the court having remitted the same on appearance of the defendant for trial in the case entitled “United States against Frank Lee,” $1,000.
Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For miscellaneous expenditures,Penitentiaries.Atlanta, Ga. including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $3,042.26. For hospital supplies, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, and all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners on the penitentiary reservation, $23.86.
Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For miscellaneous expenditures,Leavenworth, Kans., including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $8,232.59. McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For miscellaneous expenditures,McNeil Island, Wash. including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $282.05.
National Training School for Boys: Of the unexpended balance ofNational Training School for Boys, D. C. $4,887.50 of the appropriation of $41,000, made by the sundry civil Act of June twenty-third, nineteen hundred and thirteen, for theAdditional land.Vol. 38, p. 52. purchase of additional land adjoining the National Training School for Boys, Washington, District of Columbia, the sum of $4,000 is reappropriated and made available for the purchase of such additional land. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post Office Department.
For furniture and filing cabinets, fiscal year nineteen hundred andFurniture, etc., 1917. seventeen, $5,000. For publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, fiscal yearOfficial Postal Guide. nineteen hundred and seventeen, $19,000, in addition to the appropriationAdditional for 1917.*Ante*, p. 108. of $21,000 for this purpose in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and 820seventeen; and the amounts received during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen from sales of the Official Postal Guide to the public may be used as a further appropriation for the publication, of copies of such Guide.
POSTAL SERVICE.Postal service. Out of the Postal Revenues. office of the first assistant postmaster general. Postmasters.For compensation to postmasters, $400,000. Unusual conditions.For unusual conditions at post offices, $20,000. office of the second assistant postmaster general. Freight on postal cards, etc.For pay of freight or expressage on postal cards, stamped envelopes, newspaper wrappers, and empty mail bags, $84,000. Star routes, Alaska.For inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, $1,100.
Railroad routes.For inland transportation by railroads on account of the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $255,000; Nineteen hundred and fourteen, $390,000. Injured employees.For postal employees injured or killed while on duty, including the same objects specified under this head in the Post Office appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $56,000; Nineteen hundred and fourteen, $800. audited settlements submitted by the auditor for the post office department.
Special delivery.Fees.Special Delivery Service, fees to messengers: To reimburse the postal revenues, for the fiscal years that follow, the amounts retained by postmasters in excess of the appropriations for those years, namely: For nineteen hundred and thirteen, 32 cents; For nineteen hundred and fourteen, $39.76. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Department of Commerce. lighthouse service.Lighthouse Service. Repairing damages, Gulf of Mexico hurricane.For rebuilding, repairing, and reestablishing the aids to navigation and structures connected therewith on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico which were damaged or destroyed by the hurricane of July fifth and sixth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $125,000. bureau of fisheries.Fisheries Bureau.
Vessel service.Commutation of rations.Commutation of rations may be paid to officers and crews of vessels of the Bureau of Fisheries at such rates as the Secretary of Commerce may fix and under regulations prescribed by him, not to exceed 50 cents per day to each person. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the department, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, 821and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,310. immigration service.Immigration.
Immigrant station, Ellis Island, New York: For completion ofEllis Island immigrant station, N. Y. dredging, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $9,000. For repairing damages to buildings caused by explosions on July thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $150,000. Section six of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriationA. B. Fry.Double salary restriction not applicable to.*Ante*, p. 120. Act, approved May tenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended by the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall not prohibit the employment and payment, since May ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, in the Immigration Service at Ellis Island, of A.
B. Fry, a consulting engineer employed in another branch of the Federal service, under such terms as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe. For refund to the Scandinavian-American Line of amount erroneouslyScandinavian-American Line.Refund to. paid for maintenance of Helene Blum and two children in September and October, nineteen hundred and fifteen, at the Ellis Island Immigration Station, $162.50. To pay E. C. Terry for information that led to the collection of $500E. C. Terry.Informer’s fee. in penalties from the Arena Centerfreeze Company, of New Haven, Connecticut, for importing aliens under contract in violation of the immigration laws, $100.
UNITED STATES EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION.Employees’ Compensation Commission. For expenses under an Act entitled “An Act to provide compensationExpenses.*Ante*, p. 742. for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September , nineteen hundred and sixteen, namely: Miscellaneous expenses: For salaries of the Commissioners, andSalaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 749. for such assistants, clerks, and other employees, as the Commission may deem necessary, and for traveling expenses, expenses of medical examinations, and for reasonable traveling and other expenses and loss of wages payable to employees under section twenty-one, for rent in the District of Columbia and equipment of offices, purchase of books, stationery, and other supplies, printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office, and other necessary expenses, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $50,000.
EstimatesEstimates. in detail shall hereafter be annually submitted hereunder. Employees’ compensation fund: For the payment of compensationCompensation fund.Payment into.*Ante*, p. 749. provided by said Act, including medical, surgical, and hospital services, and supplies provided by section nine, and the transportation and burial expenses provided by sections nine and eleven, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $500,000. LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate.
To pay Caroline F. Martin, Vallie B. Williamson, Lucy E. Boyd, andEdwin C. Burleigh.Pay to family of. Ethelyn H. Stubbs, daughters; Lewis A. Burleigh, son; and Edwin C. Burleigh and Donald Q. Burleigh, grandsons of the late Senator Edwin C. Burleigh, from the State of Maine, $7,500. To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates ofOfficial reporters.Reimbursement. the Senate for expenses incurred to July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for clerk hire and other clerical services, $4,200. 822 Dennis M.
Kerr.Services.To pay Dennis M. Kerr for extra and expert services rendered to the Committee on Pensions during the first session of the Sixty-fourth Congress as assistant clerk to said committee by detail from the Bureau of Pensions, $1,200. house of representatives.House of Representatives. Joseph A. Goulden.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Joseph A. Goulden, late a Representative from the State of New York, $7,500. Samuel A. Witherspoon.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Samuel A.
Witherspoon, late a Representative from the State of Mississippi, $7,500. William G. Brown, jr.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of William G. Brown, junior, late a Representative from the State of West Virginia, $7,500. Hunter H. Moss, jr.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Hunter H. Moss, junior, late a Representative from the State of West Virginia, $7,500. Contested-election expenses.For allowance to the following contestants and contestees for expenses incurred by them in contested-election cases, audited and recommended by the Committees on Elections Numbered One, Two, and Three:
William Elza Williams.William Elza Williams, $2,000; J. McCan Davis.J. McCan Davis, $2,000; Francis J. Horgan.Francis J. Horgan, $1,500; George Holden Tinkham.George Holden Tinkham, $1,500; William J. Cary.William J. Cary, $2,000; In all, $9,000. Stationery.For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners, $125. Miscellaneous items, etc.For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, $7,500.
Folding.For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $6,000. Official reporters and stenographers.Reimbursement.To reimburse the Official Reporters of Debates $900 each, and the Official Stenographers to Committees $750 each, for moneys actually and necessarily expended by them to August thirty-first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $8,400. Horses and mail wagons.For hire of horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.Government Printing Office. Holidays.Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $604.67. Leaves of absence.Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting thirty days annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $1,000. Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes.To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes, messengers on night duty during the present session of Congress, for extra services, $700 each; in all, $2,100. printing and binding.Printing and binding.
Library of Congress.For printing and binding for the Library of Congress, including the copyright office and the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the copyright office, and binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for building and grounds, Library of Congress, $9,000. 823 JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.Judgments, United States courts. For payment of the final judgment and decree, including cost ofPayment. suit, which has been rendered under the provisions of the Act ofVol. 24, p. 505.
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 Twelve hundred and sixty-seven, and which has not been appealed, namely: Under the Treasury Department, $2,069.55.Treasury Department. In all, $2,069.55; together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the judgment 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 Twelve hundred and sixty-three, and Senate Document Numbered Five hundred and thirty-eight, namely:Classification. Under the Treasury Department, $24,934.96; Under the War Department, $46,775.74; Under the Navy Department, $21,304.74; Under the Interior Department, $9,271.86; Under the Post Office Department, $342.88;
In all, $102,630.18. For payment of the net amount, namely, $689,460.54, of a judgmentMille Lac Band of Chippewa Indians.Payment of judgment in favor of. of the Court of Claims, dated December sixth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and thirty-two, of this session, rendered under the Act of February fifteenth, nineteen hundred and nine, in favorVol. 35, p. 619. of the Mille Lac Band of Chippewa Indians in the State of Minnesota, to be credited to “Chippewas in Minnesota fund,” established by section seven of the Act approved January fourteenth, eighteenVol. 25, p. 645. hundred and eighty-nine; $487,873.94 of said net judgment, as determined by the Court of Claims, to bear interest which is herebyInterest. appropriated out of any moneys in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, at the rate of five per centum per annum from December sixth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, until the date the fund is credited; and thereafter the amount credited to the fund shall draw interest as provided in section seven of the said Act of January fourteenth, eighteen hundred and eighty-nine.
JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.Judgments, Indian depredation claims. For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims inPayment. Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Twelve hundred and sixty-six at its present session, $35,804; said judgments to be paid after the deductions requiredDeductions.Vol. 26, p. 853. 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 tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to theReimbursement.
United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary 824of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: *Proviso*.Appeal.*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 of appeal.None of the judgments contained in this Act shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired.
AUDITED CLAIMS.Audited claims. Sec. 2. Claims certified by accounting officers. 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 House Document Numbered Twelve hundred and sixty-eight, 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, $1.44. For collecting the revenue from customs, $4,189.44. For salaries and expenses under Act to amend the national banking laws, $125.40. For suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, 28 cents. For Public Health and Marine-Hospital Service, $1.05. For refunding internal-revenue collections, $25. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $111,277.75.
For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $397,071.18. For redemption of stamps, $25. For allowance of drawback, internal revenue, $46.97. For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving Service, $239.36. For Life-Saving Service, $487.15. For contingent expenses, assay office at Helena, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $6.29. For operating supplies for public buildings, $119.63. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, $211.21. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $208.88.
For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $33.96. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $27.28. For heating apparatus for public buildings, $11.66. For rent of buildings, Boston, Massachusetts, $168.35. For post office and courthouse, La Crosse, Wisconsin, $71.20. For general expenses of public buildings, $29.44. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $49,398.30. For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks at Army division and department headquarters, $1,503.25.
For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $42. 825 For subsistence of the Army, $11.58. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, $84.72. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $49,805.79. For barracks and quarters, $90.64. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $2,927.08. For roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $609.53. For water and sewers at military posts, $1,397.10. For construction and repair of hospitals, $3,660.19. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $13.14.
For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Central Branch, $12.80. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Mountain Branch, $9.30. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, salaries and incidental expenses, $22.54. For pay, transportation, services, and supplies of Oregon and Washington Volunteers in eighteen hundred and fifty-five and eighteen hundred and fifty-six, $24.69. For support four companies Utah Volunteers, $62.71. For expenses of Rogue River Indian War, $7.91.
For transporting and caring for interned Mexican soldiers and military refugees, $5,973.29. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. For pay, miscellaneous, $30.Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. For contingent, Navy, $30. For pay, Marine Corps, $2,334.23. For contingent, Marine Corps, $99.03. For repairs, Naval Academy, $3.04. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $291.72. For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $7.34. For new batteries for ships of the Navy, Bureau of Ordnance, $51.27.
For fire control for ships of the Navy, Bureau of Ordnance, $5,970. For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, $75. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $121.68. For bringing home remains of officers, and so forth, Navy Department, nineteen hundred and fifteen and nineteen hundred and sixteen, $226.34. For pay of the Navy, $4,143.51. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $98.61. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $14,920.27.
For coal and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $6.08. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $40.16. For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $44. For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act March second,Vol. 28, p. 962. eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $196.27. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, $27.25. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. For contingent expenses of land offices, $22.32.Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.
For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, $2. For surveying the public lands, $12.10. For Geological Survey, $2.99. For investigating mine accidents, $7.88. 826 For return of funds of patients, Government Hospital for the Insane, $2.40. For Army pensions, $701.57. For suppressing liquor traffic among the Indians, 50 cents. For Indian school and agency buildings, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $889.67. For Indian school transportation, $6.79. For industrial work and care of timber, $31.95.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $4,521.07. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $170.04. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $183.69. For contingencies, Indian Department, $15. For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, $255. For bridge, Western Navajo Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), $30.57. For support of Indians of Fort Hall Reservation, Idaho, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $45.22.
For support of Sioux of Devils Lake, North Dakota, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $58.79. For Indian school, Chilocco, Oklahoma, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $3. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $8.90. For maintenance and operation irrigation system, Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), nineteen hundred and fifteen, $3.29. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments.
Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments.Vol. 38, p. 806.For salaries of vice consuls (Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen), nineteen hundred and fifteen, $3,187.67. For salaries, charges d’affaires ad interim, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $4,494.69. For salaries, Consular Service, $3.33. For relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $5,720.25. For relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $1,873.27.
For preservation of collections, National Museum, $7.76. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $837.31. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $8.26. For meat inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry, $13.50. For cooperative experiments in animal feeding and breeding, $7.20. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $125.69. For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, $1.91. For general expenses, Forest Service, $102.10. For improvement of the national forests, $3.29.
For fighting and preventing forest fires in emergency, $9.46. For enforcement of the food and drugs act, $646.37. For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, $3.52. For irrigation investigations, $1. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $3.09. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $133.06. For salaries, keepers of lighthouses, $510.59. For expenses of buoyage, $21.17. For Lincoln Rock Light Station, Alaska, $6.48. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $24.38.
For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, $6.13. 827 For expenses of regulating immigration, $162.59. For naturalization of aliens, 8 cents. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $2.50. For fees of clerks, United States courts, $60.50. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $683.70. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $17.60. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $57. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $341.15.
For pay of bailiffs, and so forth, United States courts, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $234. For support of prisoners, United States court, $130.15. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department. For indemnities, international registered mail, $533.11.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department. For indemnities, domestic registered mail, $428.26. For parcel-post insurance, $97.98. For freight on mail bags, postal cards, and so forth, $147.34. For shipment of supplies, $253.38.
For Star Route Service, $218.86. For post-office inspectors, traveling expenses, $7. For postal employees, injured, $6,604.24. For Railway Mail Service, injured, $2,000. For Railway Mail Service, travel allowance, railway postal clerks, $23.85. For railway post-office car service, $46.44. For mail-messenger service, $5.59. For power-boat service, $7.32. For rural free delivery, $2,566.40. For Rural Delivery Service, carriers, $127.05. For supplies, Rural Deh very Service, $2.85.
For Rural Delivery Service, tolls, $38.40. For Rural Deh very Service, letter carriers and clerks, $39.56. For office appliances, $127.50. For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $134.99. For railroad transportation, $9.56. For City Delivery Service, carriers, $263.16. For substitute, auxiliary, and temporary city delivery carriers, $263.70. For city delivery horse hire, $23.60. For rewards to postal employees for inventions, $400. For compensation to postmasters, $86.68. For assistant postmasters and clerks in post offices, $66.80.
For separating mails, third and fourth class offices, $123.80. For unusual conditions at post offices, $385. For rent, light, and fuel, $591.82. For compensation to clerks in post offices, $375. For intaglio seals, $1,055.70. For manufacture of postal cards, $557.87. For amounts deposited in the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts, $12.34. For relief of E. M. Morgan, $19.11. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toAdditional claims. be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of theVol. 18, p. 110.
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 828Vol. 23, p. 254.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 Senate Document Numbered Five hundred and thirty-six, 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 care of seamen, and so forth, Public Health Service, $30. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $29,166.86. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $22,729.45. For redemption of stamps, $165.84. For punishment for violation of internal-revenue laws, $50. For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, $7.92. For contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, $6,577.35. For pay of assistant custodians and janitors, $37.44.
For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $263.25. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $1. For general expenses of public buildings, $1.80. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $6,989.07. For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks at Army division and department headquarters, $165.50. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, $59.54. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $1,971.95.
For barracks and quarters, $35.50. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $2,342.79. For encampment and maneuvers, Organized Militia, $11. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $1.92. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $1.79. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.For pay of the Navy, $2,467.16. For pay, miscellaneous, $44.02. For pay, Marine Corps, $1,624.97. For maintenance, quartermaster’s department, Marine Corps, $33.80.
For contingent, Marine Corps, $58.24. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $6.50. For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $10. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $4,300. For maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, $7.04. For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and fourteen and nineteen hundred and fifteen, $9.12. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $1,597.10. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $1,787.29.
For coal and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $11.23. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $80.80. Vol. 28, p. 962.For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $223.95. 829 claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. For Geological Survey, $1.09.Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. For restoration of lands in forest reserves, $74.60. For public use of inventions and defending suits, Patent Office, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $8.86.
For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, $30. For Indian schools, support, $169.56. For industrial work and care of timber, $48.78. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $49,294.72. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $370.29. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $12.85. For general expenses, Indian Service, $6.23. For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, $159.65.
For Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $3.10. For administration of affairs of Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, $1.28. For sale of unallotted lands, Five Civilized Tribes, (reimbursable), $26.46. For support of Indians of Klamath Agency, Oregon, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $34.31. For support of Indians of Warm Spring Agency, Oregon, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $111.28. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $4.46.
For irrigation, Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), $132. For maintenance and operation, irrigation system, Yakima Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), nineteen hundred and sixteen, $473.29. For support of Chippewas of Lake Superior, Wisconsin, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $131.48. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. For salaries, chargés d’affaires ad interim, nineteen hundred andClaims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments. sixteen, $10,669.26.
For salaries of vice consuls (Act of February fifth, nineteen hundredVol. 38, p. 806. and fifteen), nineteen hundred and sixteen, $54.17. For salaries, Consular Service, $3.33. For relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $7,036.83. For relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $1,744.61. For relief and protection of American seamen, $12. For boundary line, Alaska and Canada, and United States and Canada, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $8,193.43.
For boundary line, Alaska and Canada, and United States and Canada, $1,749.99. For preservation of collections, National Museum, $4.70. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, 33 cents. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $138.12. For general expenses, Forest Service, 30 cents. For general expenses, Bureau of Soils, $1.68. For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, $137.34. For testing structural materials, Bureau of Standards, $17.71. For supplies of lighthouses, $61.84. 830 For expenses of light vessels, $24.48.
For expenses of buoyage, $24.47. For lighting of rivers, $12.89. For contingent expenses, Department of Labor, $5.48. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, 60 cents. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $185.40. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $73.80. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $47.40. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department.For contingent expenses, Post Office Department, $484.06.
For shipment of supplies, $8.26. For freight on mail bags, postal cards, and so forth, $662.62. For star-route service, Alaska, $45. For indemnities, domestic registered mail, $19.50. For compensation to postmasters, $75.72. For rent, light, and fuel, $53.03. For separating mails, third and fourth class post offices, $8.34. For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, $1.25. For City Delivery Service, horse hire, $57. For city delivery carriers, substitute, auxiliary, and temporary, $402.60.
For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $22.78. For Railway Mail Service, per diem and expenses, assistant superintendents, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $17.95. For relief of Marshall Field and Company, $200. Sec. 4. Special estimates must conform to law.Vol. 34, p. 448. That the Secretary of the Treasury shall not hereafter transmit special or additional estimates of appropriations to Congress unless they shall conform to the requirements of section four of the Act approved June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page four hundred and forty-eight).
Sec. 5. Memorial Amphitheater, Arlington, Va.Vol. 37, p. 882. Section fourteen of the public buildings Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-seven, page eight hundred and eighty-two), which created a commission to direct the construction of a memorial amphitheater in the national cemetery at Arlington, Virginia, is amended John McElroy to serve on Commission.to substitute the name of John McElroy, representing the Grand Army of the Republic, in the place of Ivory G.
Kimball, deceased. Sec. 6. Porto Rico.Postponement of election, etc.*Post*, p. 951. That in the event H. R. 9533, entitled “An Act to provide a civil government for Porto Rico and for other purposes,” is not enacted during this session of Congress, the election in Porto Rico fixed for the first Tuesday after the first Monday of November, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall be postponed to a date to be hereafter fixed by the President of the United States, and the present incumbents of the offices which were to be filled at that election shall continue in office until the officers elected at the postponed election shall qualify.
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