Chapter 5.
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CHAP. 5.— JOINT RESOLUTION Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen. December 17, 1915.[[[H. J. Res. 60](/us/bill/64/hjres/60).][[Pub. Res., No. 3](/us/bill/64/pubres/3).] *Resolved by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums are Urgent deficiencies appropriations.appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in certain appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, as follows:
DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Department of State. For the participation by the Government of the United States in, Pan American Scientific Congress. Expenses. Vol. 38, pp. 450, 1126.and to meet the necessary expenses of, the Second Pan American Scientific Congress, whose sessions at Washington have been fixed for December twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to January eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, inclusive, in addition to the sum of $50,000 heretofore appropriated therefor and including the same purposes authorized therein, the further sum of $35,000.
POSTAL SERVICE. Postal service. out of the postal revenues. For mail bags, $100,000. Mail bags. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Interior Department. patent office. Patent Office. For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, and Printing weekly issue of patents, etc.labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indices, at the Government Printing Office, $56,444.17.
LEGISLATIVE. Legislative. capitol police. Capitol police. For sixteen additional privates at the rate of $720 per annum each, Additional privates.from December sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, both dates inclusive, one- half of said privates to be selected by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and one-half by the Sergeant at Arms of the House, $6,240; one-half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House.
Approved, December 17, 1915.