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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 40 STAT. · July 1, 1918 · Chapter 113

Chapter 113. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 113.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.July 1, 1918.[[H. R. 12441](/us/bill/65/hr/12441).][[Public, No. 181](/us/pl/65/181).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,Sundry civil expenses appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise ap635propriated, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, namely:
NATIONAL DEFENSE. National Defense. For the national security and defense, and for each and every purpose At discretion of the President.connected therewith, to be expended at the discretion of the President, $50,000,000. DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Department of State. For the contribution of the United States toward the maintenance Interallied Committee for Reeducation of War Cripples.of the permanent Interallied Committee for the Reeducation of War Cripples, $6,000. Post allowances to consular and diplomatic officers:
The appropriations Post allowances, diplomatic and consular officers.*Ante*, p. 528.for post allowances to consular and diplomatic officers for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen are made available for payment to consular and diplomatic officers regardless of where stationed and to the officers of the United States Court for China. TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Treasury Department. public buildings, construction, rent, and sites. Public buildings. For sites, commencement, continuation, or completion of public Sites, construction, etc.buildings within the respective limits of cost authorized by law, rent and removal expenses in cities pending extension and remodeling of buildings, severally, as follows:
Aledo, Illinois, post office: For completion, $12,250. Aledo, Ill. Altus, Oklahoma, post office: For completion, $12,000. Altus, Okla. Bad Axe, Michigan, post office: For completion, $20,200. Bad Axe, Mich. Beaufort, South Carolina, post office and customhouse: For completion, Beaufort, S. C.$4,500. Butler, Missouri, post office: For completion, $8,000. Butler, Mo. Cambridge, Maryland, post office: For completion, $8,500. Cambridge, Md. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, post office:
For completion, $6,000. Chapel Hill, N. C. Chicago, Illinois, post office, courthouse, and so forth: The appropriation Chicago, Ill., post office, etc.Use of amount for, modified.of $20,000 “for removal of the present roof covering of the dome and the substitution of a new copper-covered roof,” contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen *Ante*, p. 107, amended.hundred and eighteen, is amended to read: “For altering, repairing, and making waterproof the present roof of the dome, $20,000.
” Cleveland, Ohio, post office, customhouse, and courthouse: For Cleveland, Ohio.new vault for stamp storage and equipment of same, $10,000. Durant, Oklahoma, post office: For completion, $5,000. Durant, Okla. East Saint Louis, Illinois: For additional for rent of temporary East Saint Louis, Ill., rent.quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $6,000. Eldorado, Kansas, post office: For completion, $9,750. Eldorado, Kans. Farmville, Virginia, post office:
For completion, $29,500. Farmville, Vs. Gallatin, Tennessee, post office: For completion, $8,500. Gallatin, Tenn. Girard, Kansas, post office: For completion, $18,500. Girard, Kans. Glasgow, Kentucky, post office: For completion, $11,600. Glasgow, Ky. Glenwood Springs, Colorado, post office: For completion, $20,500. Glenwood Springs, Colo. Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $43,000. Hollidaysburg, Pa. Hoopeston, Illinois, post office: For completion, $14,500.
Hoopeston, Ill. Kendallville, Indiana, post office: For completion, $11,500. Kendallville, Ind. Malden, Massachusetts, post office: For commencement, $500. Maiden, Mass. Marion, Illinois, post office: For completion, $15,000. Marion, Ill. Marion, Kentucky, post office: For completion, $14,750. Marion, Ky. 636 Muskegon, Mich., rent. Muskegon, Michigan: For additional for rent of temporary quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $1,400. Nashville, Tenn., rent.
Nashville, Tennessee: For additional for rent of temporary quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $5,000. New York, N. Y., assay office. New York, New York, assay office building: For completion. $272,000. Olney, Ill. Olney, Illinois, post office: For completion, $13,000. Providence, R. I. Providence, Rhode Island, customhouse and post office: For remodeling, repairs, and so forth, $125,000. Additions. Providence, Rhode Island, post office, courthouse, and customhouse:
For completion of fourth and fifth floors and changes incident thereto to fit them for occupancy, $50,000. Raton, N. Mex. Raton, New Mexico, post office: For completion, $17,300. Red Wing, Minn. Red Wing, Minnesota, post office: For remodeling of and additions to lookouts, $3,500. Richmond, Va. Richmond, Virginia, post office, courthouse, and customhouse: For alteration, remodeling, and so forth, $15,000. Rogers, Ark. Rogers, Arkansas, post office: For completion, $15,000. Saint Peter, Minn.
Saint Peter, Minnesota, post office: For completion, $15,700. Sanford, Fla. Sanford, Florida, post office; For completion, $12,000. Trenton, N. J. Trenton, New Jersey, post office and courthouse: For remodeling and changing lookout system, $3,000. Valparaiso, Ind. Valparaiso, Indiana, post office: For completion, $41,500. Vernon, Tex. Vernon, Texas, post office: For completion, $9,499. Washington, D. C. Washington, District of Columbia: Butler Building. Butler Building: For remodeling and extending annex to building so as to make it two stories of fireproof construction, $20,000.
Treasury Building. Treasury Building: For resetting granite steps leading to the street at the north and south plazas, $3,300. Treasury Annex. Treasury Building Annex: For completion, $750,000. Washington, Ga. Washington, Georgia, post office: For completion, $8,000. Wilmington, N. C., rent. Wilmington, North Carolina: For additional rent of temporary quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $2,000. Marine hospitals. marine hospitals. Buffalo, N.
Y. Buffalo, New York: For storehouse, $2,000. Memphis, Tenn. Memphis, Tennessee: For two tent houses and new cistern, $1,500. Mobile, Ala. Mobile, Alabama: For passenger elevator and refrigerating plant, $10,000. Saint Louis, Mo. Saint Louis, Missouri: For surgical dressing room, $4,000. Quarantine stations. quarantine stations. Charleston, S. C. Charleston, South Carolina: For lighting plant and water supply system, $19,000. Galveston, Tex. Galveston, Texas: For sea wall, boat basin, and boathouse, $70,000.
New Orleans, La. New Orleans, Louisiana: For refrigerating plant, $4,000. Port Townsend, Wash. Port Townsend, Washington: For wire fencing, $1,000. Reedy, Island, Del. Reedy Island, Delaware: For boathouse, $4,000. Supervision of construction. The foregoing work under “Marine Hospitals” and “Quarantine Stations” shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. public buildings, repairs, equipment, and general expenses. Repairs, preservation, etc.
Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of all completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof, under the control of the Treasury Department, and tor wire partitions and 637fly screens therefor, Government wharves and piers under the control of the Treasury Department, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto, buildings and wharf at Sitka, Alaska, and the Secretary Sitka, Alaska.of the Treasury may, in renting said wharf, require that the lessee shall make all necessary repairs thereto; care of vacant sites under the control of the Treasury Department, such as necessary fences, filling dangerous holes, cutting grass and weeds, but not for any permanent improvements thereon; repairs and preservation of buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargement of public buddings, the expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed fifteen per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated not exceeding *Provisos*.Marine hospitals and quarantine stations.$125,000 may be used for marine hospitals and quarantine stations and completed and occupied outbuildings, including wire partitions and fly screens for same, and not exceeding $14,000 for the Treasury, Treasury buildings.Butler, Winder, and Auditors Buildings at Washington, District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That this sum shall not be available for Personal services restricted.the payment of personal services except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $1,000,000: *Provided further*, Altering completed buildings.That not to exceed $200,000 of the appropriation in this paragraph may be expended for altering and remodeling completed and occupied public buildings outside the District of Columbia other than marine hospitals and quarantine stations.
Mechanical equipment: For installation and repair of mechanical Mechanical equipment.Heating, lighting, etc.equipment in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including heating, hoisting, plumbing, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum cleaning, and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit, wiring, call bell and signal systems, and for maintenance and repair of tower clocks; for installation and repair of mechanical equipment, for any of the foregoing items, in buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargements of public buildings, the total expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed ten per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided*, That of the *Provisos*.Marine hospitals and quarantine stations.Treasury buildings.sum herein appropriated, not exceeding $70,000 may be used for marine hospitals and quarantine stations, and not exceeding $10,000 for the Treasury, Butler, Winder, anti Auditors Buildings at Washington, District of Columbia, but not including the generating plant and its maintenance in the Auditors Building, and not exceeding $10,000 Pneumatic-tube service, Now York City.for the maintenance, changes in, and repairs of pneumatic-tube system between the appraisers’ warehouse at Greenwich, Christopher, Washington, and Barrow Streets and the new customhouse in Bowling Green, Borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, including repairs to the street pavement and subsurface necessarily incident to or resulting from such maintenance, changes, or repairs: *Provided further*, That this sum shall not be available for the payment Personal services restricted.of personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $500,000.
Vault and safes: For vaults and lock-box equipments and repairs Vaults and safes.thereto in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, and for the necessary safe equipments and repairs thereto in all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, whether completed and occupied or in course of construction, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under 638exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $50 at any one building, $175,000.
General expenses.Vol. 35, p. 537. General expenses: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to execute and give effect to the provisions of section six of the Act of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, Additional pay, Supervising Architect.page five hundred and thirty-seven): For additional salary of $1,000 Technical services, etc.for the Supervising Architect of the Treasury for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen; foremen draftsmen, architectural draftsmen, and apprentice draftsmen, at rates of pay from $480 to $2,500 per annum; structural engineers and draftsmen, at rate of pay from $840 to $2,500 per annum; mechanical, sanitary, electrical, heating and ventilating, and illuminating engineers and draftsmen, at rates of pay from $1,200 to $2,400 per annum; computers and estimators, at rates of pay from $1,600 to $2,500 per annum; the expenditures under all the foregoing classes for which a minimum and maximum rate of compensation is stated, not to exceed $160,000;
Superintendents.supervising superintendents, superintendents, and junior superintendents of construction and inspectors, at rates of pay from $1,600 Expenses of superintendence.to $2,900 per annum, not to exceed $250,000; expenses of superintendence, including expenses of all inspectors and other officers and employees, on duty or detailed in connection with work on public buildings and the furnishing and equipment thereof, and the work of the Supervising Architect’s Office, under orders from the Treasury Department; for the transportation of household goods, incident to change of headquarters of supervising superintendents, superintendents, and junior superintendents of construction, and inspectors, not in excess of five thousand pounds at any one time, together with the necessary expense incident to packing and draying the same, not to exceed in any one year a total expenditure of $7,500; office rent and expenses of superintendents, including temporary stenographic and other assistance in the preparation of reports and the Office supplies, etc.care of public property, and so forth; advertising; office supplies, including drafting materials, specially prepared paper, typewriting machines, adding machines, and other mechanical labor-saving devices, and exchange of same; furniture, carpets, electric-light fixtures, and office equipment; telephone service; not to exceed $6,000 for stationery; not to exceed $1,000 for books of reference, law books, technical periodicals and journals; not to exceed $10,000 for transporting drawings, miscellaneous supplies, and so forth, for public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department; contingencies of every kind and description, traveling expenses of site agents, recording deeds and other evidences of title, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates, and photographic materials, and such other articles and supplies and such minor and incidental expenses not enumerated, connected solely with work on public buildings, the acquisition of sites, and the administrative work connected with the annual appropriations under the Supervising Architect’s Office as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve, but not including heat, light, janitor service, awnings, curtains, or any expenses for the general maintenance of the Treasury Building, or surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test pit borings, or mill and shop inspections, $525,000.
Architectural competitions.Payment of commissions.Vol. 27, p. 468. Architectural competitions: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to make payment for architectural services under contracts entered into prior to the repeal of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain plans and specifications for public buildings to be erected under the supervision of the Treasury Department, and providing for local supervision of the construction of the same,” approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, including additional commissions accruing under 639certain of said contracts due to increase in the limits of cost of certain buildings, except as otherwise specifically provided by law, and including payment for the services from July first, nineteen hundred and twelve, of the architect of the Hilo, Hawaii, building, specially Hilo, Hawaii.Vol. 36, p. 1373;
Vol 37, p. 428.selected under the provisions of the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, the unexpended balances of the appropriations for architectural competitions, public buildings, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is continued and made available for said purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. public buildings, operating expenses. Operating expenses. Operating force:
For such personal services as the Secretary of Personal services.the Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department (except as hereinafter provided), together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including assistant custodians, janitors, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen; engineers, firemen, elevator conductors, coal passers, electricians, dynamo tenders, lampists, and wiremen; mechanical labor force in connection with said buildings, including carpenters, plumbers, steam fitters, machinists, and painters, but in no case shall the rates of compensation for such mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed, $3,500,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation shall *Proviso*.Building for which available.be available for use in connection with all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the customhouse at Washington, District of Columbia, but not including any other public building within the District of Columbia, and exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices.
Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, and Furniture, etc.repairs of same, for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for gas and electric lighting fixtures and repairs of same for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, but exclusive of mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for furniture and carpets for public buildings and extensions of public buildings in course of construction which are to remain under the custody and control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and buildings constructed for other executive departments or establishments of the Government, $650,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing *Provisos*.Personal services restricted.appropriation shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency, and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building: *Provided further*, That all furniture now owned by the United States in Use of present furniture.other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not.
Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heating Operating supplies.Fuel, lights, water, etc.purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting and power purposes, telephone service for custodian forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice; cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodian forces in the care and maintenance of completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, and in the care and maintenance of the equipment and 640furnishing in such buildings; miscellaneous supplies, tools, and appliances required in the operation (not embracing repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, plumbing, hoisting, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum-cleaning and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit wiring, call-bell and signal systems in such buildings (including the customhouse at Washington, Buildings excluded.District of Columbia, but excluding any other public building under the control of the Treasury Department within the District of Columbia, and excluding also marine hospitals and quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding; at one time the sum of $100 at any one building), Gas governors.$2,065,000.
The appropriation made herein for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors, when ordered by the Secretary *Proviso*.Rental.of the Treasury in writing: *Provided*, That rentals shall not be paid for such gas governors greater than thirty-five per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct. Pneumatic tube service.Furnishing steam for, of postal service. During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, out of the appropriations “Operating supplies for public buildings” and “Operating force for public buildings,” to furnish steam for the operation of pneumatic tubes of the Postal Service, as heretofore, and to pay employees in the production of said steam, as heretofore, the proceeds derived from the sale of said steam to be credited to said appropriations in proportion to the amounts expended therefrom.
Salamanca, N. Y.Ground rent. Salamanca, New York, ground rent: For annual ground rent of the Federal building site at Salamanca, New York, on account of Indian leases, due and payable on February nineteenth of each year, in advance, to the treasurer of the Seneca Nation of Indians, beginning February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and expiring February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and ninety-one, $7.50. Coast Guard. coast guard. Expenses. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized *Post*, p. 831.work of the Coast Guard, as follows:
Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men. For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary and substitute surfmen, cadets and cadet *Provisos*.Civilian instructor.Pay, etc.engineers, and one civilian instructor, $5,124,835: *Provided*, That a civilian instructor in the Coast Guard, after five years’ service as such, shall have the pay and allowances of a second lieutenant, and after ten years of such service shall have the pay and allowances of a Cadets.Pay, etc.first lieutenant in the Coast Guard: *Provided further*, That cadets in the Coast Guard shall receive the same pay and allowances as are now or may hereafter be provided by law for midshipmen in the Navy;
Rations. For rations or commutation thereof at the rate of 45 cents per ration for warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, $810,000; Clerks to superintendents. For twelve clerks to district superintendents, at such rate as the Secretary of the Treasury may determine, not to exceed $1,200 each, $13,000; Fuel, etc. For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge, 8358,000; Outfits, stores, etc. For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same, $500,000;
Stations, houses of refuge, etc. For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporary leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $200,000; 641 For actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of the Traveling expenses.Secretary of the Treasury, for officers, and actual traveling expenses for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, $50,000;
For carrying out the provisions of section eight of the Act approved Death allowances.Vol. 22, p. 57; Vol. 35 p. 46.May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, $20,000; For draft animals and their maintenance, $25,000; Draft animals. For telephone lines and their maintenance, $26,000; Telephones. For compensation of civilian employees in the field, $61,000; Civilian field employees. For contingent expenses, including communication service, subsistence Contingent expenses.*Post*, p. 777.of shipwrecked persons succored by the Coast Guard, wharfage, towage, freight, storage, repairs to station apparatus, advertising, surveys, medals, stationery, labor, newspapers and periodicals for statistical purposes, and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading, $60,000;
In all, $7,247,835. For the acquisition of land at Sault Sainte Marie, Michigan, for Sault Sainte Marie, Mich.Additional land.Repairs to cutters.wharf, storage warehouse, boathouse, and office purposes, $10,500. For repairs to Coast Guard cutters, $275,000. engraving and printing. Engraving and printing. For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work, Work authorized for fiscal year 1919.during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen of not exceeding one hundred and twenty-three million delivered sheets of United States currency, national-bank notes, and Federal reserve currency, one hundred million three hundred and fifty-three thousand delivered sheets of internal-revenue stamps, three hundred and five thousand delivered sheets of customs stamps, six hundred and eighty-seven thousand three hundred delivered sheets of opium orders and special tax stamps required under the Act of December seventeenth, nineteen Vol. 38, p. 785.hundred and fourteen, and five million and fifty-two thousand eight *Ante*, p. 596.hundred delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows:
For salaries of all necessary employees, other than employees required Salaries.for the administrative work of the bureau of the class provided for and specified in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation *Post*, p. 776.Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, and plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, $1,800,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Large notes.That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than those that may be canceled or retired, except m so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and Vol. 31, p. 45.fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary Wages.of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, $2,000,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended *Provisos*.Large notes.for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity Vol. 31, p 46.of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred: *Provided also*, That no part of this sum shall be Wages of printers’ assistants.used to increase the wages of plate printers until all printers’ assistants receive not less than $2.24 per day. 642 Materials.
For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except *Post*, p. 777.distinctive paper, miscellaneous expenses, including paper for internal revenue stamps, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, $1,335,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Proceeds from work to be credited to Bureau. During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen all proceeds derived from work performed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for said bureau for the said fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, as provided by the Act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and Vol. 24,p. 227.eighty-six (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page two hundred and twenty-seven), shall be credited when received to the appropriation for said bureau for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Miscellaneous. miscellaneous objects, treasury department. Internal revenue.Refund of, taxes. Vol. 35, p. 325. To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money covered into the Treasury as internal-revenue collections, under the provisions of the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, $75,000. Punishing violations of, laws. Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, $175,000.
Enforcing laws relating to the Treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use for, and in connection with, the enforcement of the laws relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its Details permitted.control, not exceeding at any one time four persons paid from the appropriation for the collection of customs, four persons paid from the appropriation for salaries and expenses of internal-revenue agents or from the appropriation for the foregoing purpose, and four persons paid from the appropriation for suppressing counterfeiting and other Limit.crimes, but not exceeding six persons so detailed shall be employed *Proviso*.Other details.at any one time hereunder: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall be construed to deprive the Secretary of the Treasury from making any detail now otherwise authorized by existing law.
Refunding two per cent bonds.Vol. 38, p. 269. Refunding United States bonds: For expenses of refunding two per centum bonds of the United States into one-year three per centum Treasury notes or thirty-year three per centum United States bonds, as authorized by section eighteen of the Federal reserve Act, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $15,000. Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury.*Post*, p. 776. Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes, for the collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, salaries of special agents, actual expenses of examiners detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several subtreasuries and depositories, [R.
S., sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3679/p718).including national banks acting as depositories under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and forty-nine of the Revised Statutes, also including examinations of cash account at mints, and cost of insurance on shipments of money by registered mail when necessary, $185,000. Recoinage of gold coins.[R. S., sec. 3512, p. 696](/us/rs/s3512/p696). Recoinage of gold coins: For recoinage of uncurrent gold coins in the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve of the Revised Statutes, $30,000. 643 Recoinage of minor coins:
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury Recoinage of minor coins.to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coins of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coin and the amount the same will produce in new coin, $10,000. Money laundry machines: For all miscellaneous expenses in connection Money laundry machines.with the installation and maintenance of money laundry machines, including repairs and purchase of supplies, for machines at Washington, District of Columbia, and in the various subtreasury offices, $5,500.
Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper Distinctive paper for securities.Quantities authorized.for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency, one hundred and twenty-nine million one hundred and fifty thousand sheets, in order that the Bureau of Engraving and Printing may deliver one hundred and twenty-three million sheets of United States currency, national bank and Federal reserve bank currency, including transportation of paper, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, $616,045.50; expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury Department, $50 per month when actually on duty, $600; three registers, at $1,380 each; six counters, at $800 each; guards—one $1,000, four at $900 each; skilled laborer, $800; in all, $630,985.50.
For custody of dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing for printing Government securities: Custodians—two at $2,000 each; distributors of stock—one $1,600, two at $1,400 each; in all, $8,400. Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurred Custody of dies, rolls, and plates.Suppressing counterfeiting, etc.*Post*, p. 777.under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign Governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign Governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, and for the enforcement of section eighteen of the War *Ante*, p. 511.Finance Corporation Act; hire and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; per diem Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.in lieu of subsistence, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for no other purpose whatever, except in the protection of the person of the President and the members of his immediate family and of the person chosen to be President of the Protecting person of the President, etc.*Provisos*.Fees, etc.United States, $300,000: *Provided*, That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of *Post*, p. 684.witnesses, United States courts”: *Provided further*, That until June Emergency use of employees.thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, the President is authorized to direct, without reference to existing limitations, the use of the persons employed hereunder if, in his judgment, an emergency exists which requires such action.
Appropriations in this Act shall not be used in payment of compensation Payment to persons detailed, forbidden.Exception.or expenses of any person detailed or transferred, except to the Department of State, from the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department, or who may at any time during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen have been employed by or under said Secret Service Division. 644 Lands, etc.Custody, etc. Lands and other property of the [R. S., secs. 3749, 3750, p. 739](/us/rs/s3749/3750/p739).United States:
For custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the United States, acquired and held under sections thirty-seven hundred and forty-nine and thirty-seven hundred and fifty of the Revised Statutes, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees in connection therewith, $300. Customs service. customs service. Collecting revenue. For collecting the revenue from customs, including not exceeding $200,000 for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, $10,500,000.
Automatic scales.*Ante*, p. 120. Scales for customs service: The unexpended balances of the appropriations heretofore made for construction and installation of special automatic and recording scales for weighing merchandise, and so forth, in connection with imports at the various ports of entry under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, are continued and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, together with the further sum of $27,000.
Compensation in lieu of moities. Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, $10,000. Public Health Service. public health service. Pay, etc., officers. For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissioned medical officers and pharmacists, $825,000; Active assistant surgeons. For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical officers), $330,000; Pay allotments allowed. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to permit officers of the Public Health Service to make allotments from their pay under such regulations as he may prescribe;
Other employees. For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $650,000: *Proviso*.Attendants’ pay increased.*Provided*, That the pay of attendants at marine hospitals, quarantine, and immigration stations, whose present compensation is less than the rate of $1,200 per annum, may be increased to a rate not to exceed $1,200 per annum; Freight, etc. For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, $35,000;
Fuel, etc. For fuel, light, and water, $110,000; Furniture. For furniture and repairs to same, $8,000; Supplies. For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospital supplies, $80,000; Hygienic Laboratory. For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $27,000; Marine hospitals.*Post*, p. 777. For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included *Proviso*.Cases for study.under special heads, $500,000: *Provided*, That there may be admitted into said hospitals for study persons with infectious or other diseases affecting the public health, and not to exceed ten cases in any one hospital at one time;
Outside treatment, etc. For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment of all other persons entitled to relief, and miscellaneous expenses other than marine hospitals, which are not, included under special heads, *Proviso*.Insane at Saint Elizabeths Hospital.$210,000: *Provided*, That the Public Health Service, from and after July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall pay to Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital the actual per capita cost of maintenance in the said hospital of patients committed by that service;
Books. For journals and scientific books, $500; Inspection of aliens.Vol. 39, p. 885. In all, $2,775,500, which shall include the amount necessary for the medical inspection of aliens, as required by section sixteen of the Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen. 645 Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, Quarantine service.*Post*, p. 777.exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of quarantine stations at Eastport and Portland, Maine; Boston, Massachusetts;
Providence, Rhode Island; Perth Amboy, New Jersey; Delaware Breakwater; Reedy Island, and the Delaware Bay and River; Alexandria, Virginia; Cape Charles and supplemental station thereto; Cape Fear, Newbern, and Washington, North Carolina: Georgetown, Charleston, Beaufort, and Port Royal, South Carolina; Savannah; South Atlantic; Darien; Brunswick; Cumberland Sound; Saint Johns River: Biscayne Bay; Key West; Boca Grande; Tampa Bay; Port Inglis; Cedar Key; Punta Rassa: Saint Georges Sound (East and West Pass);
Saint Joseph; Saint Andrews and Pensacola, Florida; Mobile; New Orleans and supplemental stations thereto; Pascagoula; Gulf; Gulfport; Galveston, Laredo, Eagle Pass, and El Paso, Texas; San Diego, San Pedro and adjoining ports, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Monterey, and Port Harford, California; Fort Bragg, Eureka, Columbia River, Florence, Newport, Coos Bay, and Gardner, Oregon; Port Townsend and supplemental stations thereto; quarantine systems of Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands including the leprosy hospital, Porto Rico; and the Virgin Islands; and including and not exceeding $500 for printing on account of the quarantine service at times when the exigencies of that service require immediate action, $200,000.
Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only of Prevention of epidemics.*Post*, p. 777.threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague or black death, trachoma, or infantile paralysis, to aid State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $400,000: *Provided*, That a detailed report of *Proviso*.Report of expenditures.the expenditures hereunder shall annually hereafter be submitted to Congress.
Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man and Field investigations.conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage, and the pollution of navigable streams and lakes of the United States, including personal service, $200,000. Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and Interstate quarantine service.*Post*, p. 1025.Additional duties.municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, including the sanitation of areas adjoining military and naval reservations and Government industrial plants, in order properly to safeguard the health of the military forces and Government employees, $1,000,000.
Rural sanitation: For special studies of, and demonstration work Rural sanitation.in, rural sanitation, including personal services, and including not to exceed $5,000 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $150,000: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Cooperation required.That no part of this appropriation shall be available for demonstration work in rural sanitation in any community unless the State, county, or municipality in which the community is located agrees to pay one-half the expense of such demonstration work.
Pellagra: For rental, equipment, and maintenance of a temporary Pellagra studies.field hospital and laboratory, including pay of personnel, for special studies of pellagra, $30,000. Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses, Viruses, serums, etc. Regulating sales, etc.serums, toxins, and analogous products, including personal service, $30,000. ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN. Alien property custodian. For expenses of the alien property custodian authorized by the Services, supplies, etc.Act entitled “An Act to define, regulate, and punish trading with *Ante*, p. 415.the enemy, and for other purposes,” approved October sixth, nineteen 646hundred and seventeen, including personal and other services and rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, printing and binding, law books, books of reference and periodicals, supplies and equipment, and maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $900,000.
Taxes to be paid from money, etc., held. All taxes heretofore or hereafter lawfully assessed by any body politic against money or other property held by the alien property custodian shall be paid out of such money or other property, and if that be insufficient, shall be charged thereto and paid out of any other moneys or properties required from the same enemy or ally of enemy. Board of Mediation and Conciliation. BOARD OF MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION. Salaries and expenses. For commissioner, $7,500; assistant commissioner, $5,000; necessary and proper expenses incurred in connection with any arbitration or with the carrying on of the work of mediation and conciliation, including traveling and other necessary expenses of members or employees of boards of arbitration, furniture, office fixtures and supplies, books of reference and periodicals, salaries, traveling expenses, and other necessary expenses of members or employees of the Board of Mediation and Conciliation, to be approved by the Rent.chairman of said board, $34,680; rent in the District of Columbia $2,820; in all, $50,000.
Authority for expenses. Authority for incurring expenses, including subsistence, by boards of arbitration shall first be obtained from the Board of Mediation and Conciliation. Public Information Committee. COMMITTEE ON PUBLIC INFORMATION. Services, rent, printing, etc. For all expenses of the Committee on Public Information, in connection with the work that may be specifically assigned to it by the President, including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, printing and binding, and for such expenses of every character as the President in his discretion may deem necessary m carrying on the work assigned to the committee, $1,250,000: *Provisos*.Advances authorized.*Provided*, That when necessary, advances for expenses that shall be warranted in connection with the authorized work of the committee may be made under proper safeguards in amounts not Motion picture receipts.exceeding $1,000: *Provided further*, That all moneys received through the motion picture activities of the committee shall be paid into the Treasury to the credit of the appropriation and be available for Detailed report.the said activities: *Provided further*, That a detailed report of the receipts and expenditures under this appropriation, which shall also contain a list of employees and salaries paid, shall be made to Congress Restriction on employees of draft age.on the first day of each regular session: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be used for the payment of the salary of any person who on the fifth of June, nineteen hundred and seventeen, was between the ages of twenty-one and thirty-one years, unless he has been placed in a deferred classification by his local board on account of physical defects, which incapacitate him for military duty.
Council of National Defense. COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE. Expenses of work by. For expenses of experimental work and investigations undertaken by the Council of National Defense, by the advisory commission, or Director, employees, etc.subordinate bodies; for the employment of a director, secretary, Supplies, etc.chief clerk, expert, clerical, and other assistance; equipment and supplies, including law books, books of reference, newspapers, and pe647riodicals; subsistence and travel, including the expenses of members of the advisory commission, or subordinate bodies or other employees going to and attending meetings of the advisory commission or subordinate bodies; rent of offices and grounds: expenses for repairs and upkeep of buildings occupied by the council; and printing and binding done at the Government Printing Office, $400,000.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. District of Columbia. Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum: For general repairs and Columbia Hospital for Women.for additional construction, including labor and material for each and every item connected therewith, $5,100; for expenses of heat, Repairs, heat, light, etc.light, and power required in and about the operation of the hospital, $15,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all, $20,100, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol, and paid, one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia Half from District revenues.and one-half out of the Treasury of the United States.
EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION. Employees’ Compensation Commission. Salaries: Three commissioners at $4,000 each; secretary and Salaries.solicitor, $3,000; chief statistician, $3,500; disbursing agent, $2,000; claim examiners—chief $2,250, assistant $1,800, two assistants at $1,600 each; special agents—one $1,800, two at $1,600 each; clerks—four of class three, eight of class two, eight of class one, two at $1,000 each; messenger, $840; telephone operator, $720; in all, $63,510.
Contingent expenses: For furniture and other equipment and Contingent expenses.repairs thereto, $1,500; law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, and supplies, $1,000; traveling expenses, $5,000; rent, $5,000; printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office, $5,000; experts and temporary assistants in the District Experts, etc.of Columbia and elsewhere to be paid at a rate not exceeding $8 per day and temporary clerks, stenographers or typewriters in the District of Columbia to be paid at a rate not exceeding $100 per month, $5,000; medical examinations, traveling and other expenses, and loss of wages payable to employees under section twenty-one of the Vol. 39, p. 747.Act of September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for miscellaneous items, $2,000; in all, $24,500.
Employees’ compensation fund: For the payment of compensation Compensation fund.Allowances under.Vol. 39, pp. 743, 745.provided by ‘‘An Act to provide compensation for employees of the United States suffering injuries in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, including medical, surgical, and hospital services, and supplies provided by section nine, and the transportation and burial expenses provided by sections nine and eleven, $500,000, to be available until expended.
FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION. Vocational Education Board. Not to exceed $5,250 of the appropriation contained in section Rent allowance in District of Columbia.Vol. 39, p. 933.seven of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational education, and so forth,” approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be available for rental of quarters in the District of Columbia for the said board during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. Federal Trade Commission. For five commissioners, at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; five Salaries.clerks to commissioners, at $1,800 each; chief clerk, $2,000; disbursing clerk, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, five of class three, 648ten of class two, seventeen of class one, twenty-one at $1,000 each, twenty-one at $900 each; messenger; four assistant messengers; nine messenger boys, at $480 each; general mechanics—one $1,200, one $840; three watchmen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; two skilled laborers, at $720 each; three unskilled laborers, at $660 each; telephone operator, $720; forewoman, $300; eight charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $177,540.
All other expenses. For all other authorized expenditures of the Federal Trade Commission in performing the duties imposed by law or in pursuance of law, including personal and other services and rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, supplies and equipment, law books, books of reference, periodicals, printing and binding, traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence not to exceed $4, newspapers, foreign postage, and witness fees and mileage in accordance with section nine of the Federal Trade Commission Act, $1,500,000.
Food Administration. FOOD ADMINISTRATION. Expenses of employees, etc.*Ante*, p. 276. For expenses of the United States Food Administration, created under authority contained in the Act entitled “An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel,” approved August tenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, including personal and other services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses, per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $4, printing and binding, supplies and equipment, law books, books of reference, periodicals, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $7,500,000.
Fuel Administration. FUEL ADMINISTRATION. Expenses of employees, etc.*Ante*, p. 276.*Post*, p. 1757. For expenses of the United States Fuel Administration created under authority contained in the Act entitled “An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel,” approved August tenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, including personal and other services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses, per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not to exceed $4, printing and binding, supplies and equipment, law books, books of reference, periodicals, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $3,500,000.
Interstate Commerce Commission. INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. Salaries.*Ante*, p. 270. For nine commissioners at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; in all $95,000. Expenses.Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. For all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execution of laws to regulate commerce, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred Amount for counsel.and fourteen, $1,175,000, of which sum there may be expended not exceeding $50,000 in the employment of counsel, not exceeding $3,000 for necessary books, reports, and periodicals, not exceeding $1,500 for printing other than that done at the Government Printing Office, not exceeding $100 in the open market for the purchase of office furniture similar in class or kind to that listed in the general supply Rent, D.
C.schedule, and not exceeding $70,000 for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia. 649 To further enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforce Enforcing accounting by railroads.Vol. 34, p. 593; Vol. 36, p. 556.compliance with section twenty of the Act to regulate commerce as amended by the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, including the employment of necessary special agents or examiners, $300,000. To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed Railway safety appliances.Vol. 27, p. 531;
Vol. 29, p. 85; Vol. 32, p. 943; Vol. 30, p. 298.Accidents.Vol. 31, p. 446; Vol. 36, p. 350.Block signals, etc.Vol. 34, p. 838; Vol. 35, p. 324.regarding and to enforce compliance with Acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads; the Act requiring common carriers to make reports of accidents and authorizing investigations thereof; and to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate and test block-signal and train-control systems and appliances intended to promote the safety of railway operation, as authorized by the joint resolution approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and the provision of the sundry civil Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, including the employment of inspectors, and per diem in lieu of subsistence Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $250,000.
Valuation of property of carriers: To enable the Interstate Commerce Physical valuation of railroads.Vol. 37, p. 701.Commission to carry out the objects of the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all acts amendatory thereof,” by providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of earners subject thereto and securing information Issue of stocks, etc.concerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities, approved March first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and including not exceeding $15,000 for rent of Rent, D.
C.buildings in the District of Columbia, $3,500,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. For all authorized expenditures under the provisions of the Act of Safe locomotive boilers, etc.Vol. 36, p. 913.*Ante*, p. 616.February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, “To promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,” and amendment of March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, extending Vol. 38, p. 1192.“the same powers and duties with respect to all parts and appurtenances of the locomotive and tender,” including such stenographic and clerical help to the chief inspector and his two assistants as the Interstate Commerce Commission may deem necessary, and for per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $225,000.
NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS. Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. For scientific research, technical investigations, and special reports All expenses.Vol. 38, p. 930*Ante*, p. 557.in the field of aeronautics, including the necessary laboratory and technical assistants; traveling expenses of members and employees; office supplies, printing, and other miscellaneous expenses; equipment, maintenance, and operation of research laboratory, and construction of additional buildings necessary in connection therewith; personal services in the field and in the District of Columbia: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Clerical, etc., services.That the sum to be paid out of this appropriation for clerical, drafting, watchmen, and messenger service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, shall not exceed $43,000; in all, $200,000, of which sum $10,300 shall be available for printing and binding the bibliography of aeronautics from July first, nineteen hundred Bibliography of aeronautics.and nine, to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and six650Office space in Signal Corps buildings.teen: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to furnish office space to the National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics in governmental buildings occupied by the Signal Corps.
Rock Creek and Potomac Parkway Commission. ROCK CREEK AND POTOMAC PARKWAY COMMISSION. Acquiring connecting lands.Vol, 37, p. 885. To enable the commission created by section twenty-two of the public buildings Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page eight hundred and eighty-five), to continue proceedings toward the acquisition of lands required for a connecting parkway between Potomac Park, the Zoological Park, and Rock Creek Park, $150,000, to be available until expended and to be payable one-half out of the Treasury of the Half from District revenues.*Provisos*.Area limited.United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the total area of lands finally to be acquired for said parkway shall not exceed the area and parcels described and delineated in the map numbered two, contained in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and fourteen of the Sixty-fourth Congress, Made part of park system.Vol. 30, p. 570.first session: *Provided further*, That Rock Creek Park and the Piney Branch Parkway are hereby made a part of the park system of the District of Columbia defined by section two of the Act of Congress approved July first, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight (Thirtieth Conditions imposed.Vol. 39, p. 282.Statutes at Large, page five hundred and seventy): *Provided further*, That the expenditure of the funds appropriated herein shall be subject to all the conditions imposed by the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen.
Shipping Board. SHIPPING BOARD. Salaries. For five commissioners, at $7,500 each; secretary, $5,000; in all, $42,500. All other expenses.Vol. 39, p. 728. For all other expenditures authorized by the Act approved September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, including the compensation of attorneys, officers, naval architects, special experts, examiners, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and for all other expenses of the board, including rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, printing and binding, and actual and necessary expenses of members of the board, its special experts, and other employees while upon official business outside of the District of Columbia, $800,000.
Investigating discriminations against American vessels, etc. For the investigation of foreign discrimination against vessels and shippers of the United States, the unexpended balance of the appropriation Balance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 125.of $175,000 for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. Emergency Shipping Fund. emergency shipping fund. Purchasing, etc., shipping plants, ships, etc.
For purchasing, requisitioning, or otherwise acquiring plants, material, charters, or ships now constructed or in the course of construction, and the expediting of construction of ships thus under construction, *Ante*, pp. 183, 345.authorized by the deficiency appropriation Acts approved June fifteenth and October sixth, respectively, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $65,000,000. Building ships.Cost limit extended. The cost of construction of ships authorized by the deficiency appropriation Acts approved June fifteenth and October sixth, respectively, *Ante*, pp. 184, 345.nineteen hundred and seventeen, is increased from $1,234,000,000 to $2,884,000,000, and there is appropriated for this purpose the sum of $1,438,451,000. 651 For the acquisition or establishment of plants suitable for shipbuilding Acquisition, etc., of plants for shipbuilding.*Post*, p. 1022.or ship maintenance or repair, or of materials essential thereto, and for the enlargement or extension of such plants as are now or may be hereafter acquired or established, $87,000,000.
For the operation of ships herein or heretofore authorized or in any Operation of ships.way acquired by the United States, including charter hire, except ships acquired for the Army or Navy, and for every expenditure incident thereto, $60,000,000. For carrying out the Act entitled “An Act to authorize and empower Housing of shipyard employees.*Ante*, p. 438.the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation to purchase, lease, requisition, or otherwise acquire, and to sell or otherwise dispose of improved or unimproved land, houses, buildings, and for other purposes,” approved March first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $75,000,000.
Urban and interurban railroads.Transporting war employees.*Ante*, p. 535. For carrying out the Act entitled “An Act to amend the emergency shipping fund provisions of the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, so as to empower the President and his designated agents to take over certain transportation systems for the transportation of shipyard and plant employees, and for other purposes,” approved April twenty-second, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $20,000,000.
For the purchase of ships under construction or to be constructed Purchase of ships abroad.in shipyards in foreign countries, $55,000,000. For recruiting, instructing, and training officers, engineers, and Recruiting, etc., to equip American vessels.crews for American vessels, and for all expenditures incidental thereto, $6,250,000. The power and authority granted the President under the emergency Authority vested in the President.*Ante*, p. 182.shipping fund in the deficiency appropriation Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, are extended and made applicable to the appropriations and authorizations made herein under the emergency shipping fund.
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to cause Accounting.an audit to be made of the financial transactions of the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation, under such rules and regulations as he shall prescribe. SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. Smithsonian Institution. International exchanges: For the system of international exchanges International exchanges.between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $35,000.
American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among American ethnology.the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, including the excavation and preservation of archæologic remains, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $42,000. International Catalogue of Scientific Literature: For the cooperation International Catalogue of Scientific Literature.of the United States in the work of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, including the preparation of a classified index catalogue of American scientific publications for incorporation in the International Catalogue, clerk lure, purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and other necessary incidental expenses, $7,500.
Astrophysical Observatory: For maintenance of Astrophysical Astrophysical Observatory.Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including assistants, purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, repairs and alterations of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, $13,000. National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances National MuseumFixtures, salaries, etc.required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of collections, including necessary employees, $15,000; 652 Heating, lighting, etc.
For heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service, $55,000; Preserving collections, employees, etc. For continuing preservation, exhibition, and increase of collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including necessary employees, all other necessary expenses, and not exceeding $5,500 for drawings and illustrations for publications, $300,000; Repairs. For repairs of buildings, shops, and sheds, including all necessary labor and material, $10,000;
Books, etc. For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference, $2,000; Postage. For postage stamps and foreign postal cards, $500; In all, National Museum, $382,500. National Zoological Park.Expenses. National Zoological Park: For roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; necessary employees; incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of homes and vehicles required for official purposes, not exceeding $100 for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and exclusive of architect’s fees or compensation, Half from District revenues.$115,000; one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
Tariff Commission. TARIFF COMMISSION. Salaries and expenses. For salaries and expenses of the United States Tariff Commission, including the purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, Vol. 39, p. 795.books of reference and periodicals as may be necessary, as authorized under Title VII of the Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September eighth, nineteen hundred *Proviso*.Disbursing clerk.and sixteen, $200,000: *Provided*, That the disbursing clerk of the Treasury Department shall act in a similar capacity for the United States Tariff Commission.
War Industries Board. WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD. Expenses.*Post*, p. 1766. For expenses of the War Industries Board, including personal and other services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, rent of offices and grounds, traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, supplies and equipment, law books, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, repair and upkeep of buildings, and printing and binding, $1,150,000. War Trade Board. WAR TRADE BOARD. All expenses.*Ante*, p. 217.
For expenses of the War Trade Board created under authority contained in the Act entitled “An Act to punish acts of interference with the foreign relations, the neutrality, and the foreign commerce of the United States, to punish espionage, and better to enforce the *Ante*, p. 417.criminal laws of the United States, and for other purposes,” approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the “trading with the enemy Act,” approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, including personal and other services and rent of offices in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, law books, books of reference, periodicals, rent of grounds, supplies and equipment, printing and binding, maintenance, operation, and repair of motor-propelled vehicles, $3,500,000. 653 WAR DEPARTMENT.
War Department. temporary employees. Temporary employees. The limitation upon the salaries to be paid temporary employees Pay restriction modified.*Post*, p. 783.in the War Department, contained in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, is amended to read as follows: “*Provided further*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $5,000 per annum, not more than five persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $2,400 per annum each, and not more than thirty-five persons shall be employed at a rate of compensation in excess of $1,800 per annum each.” armories and arsenals.
Armories and arsenals. Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California: Benicia, Cal. For an addition to the office building, $9,000; For an addition to enlisted men’s barracks, $13,500; The unexpended balances of the appropriations of $16,000 for an Storehouses.Use of balances.*Ante*, pp. 352, 474.addition to the main issuing and receiving storehouse and $10,000 additional for the same purpose, made, respectively, in the deficiency appropriation Acts approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, are made available as an addition to the appropriation of $60,000 for two storehouses made in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.
In all, $22,500. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: Frankford, Pa. For additional for two sets of double quarters for officers, $10,000; For increasing facilities for fire protection, $70,000; The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $24,000 for increasing Fire protection.Use of balance.Vol, 39, p. 283.*Ante*, p. 352.facilities for fire protection, contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen;
For increasing facilities for the manufacture of small-arms ammunition, $400,000; The appropriation of $150,000 for increasing the facilities for assembling Assembling artillery ammunition.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 352.artillery ammunition, contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is continued and made available for extension and equipment of the forging-plant building; For a stable, $20,000; For a sewer for the western part of the arsenal, $9,000;
For increasing facilities for the storage of artillery ammunition, $100,000; For repair and reconstruction of the sea wall along Frankford Creek, $30,000; For a carpenter-shop building, $165,000; For extension of the barracks building, $30,000; For a lumber storehouse, $30,000; For improving the power plant, including necessary buildings, $205,000; In all, $1,069,000. Honolulu, Hawaii, Ordnance Depot: Honolulu, Hawaii. For the construction of a fence, $3,600; For installation of a telephone system, $3,000;
In all, $6,600. Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois: Rock Island, Ill. For increasing storage facilities, $655,000; 654 Field artillery machinery. For machinery for the manufacture of field artillery matériel, $1,092,290; For additional for improving water-power plant, $100,000; For additional for garage for motor trucks, $21,000; For increasing facilities for fire protection, $193,000; For repair of roads and sidewalks, $20,000; For maintenance and operation of power plant, $20,000;
Bridges, etc., expenses. For operating, care, and preservation of Rock Island bridges, and viaduct; and maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $30,000; In all, $2,131,290. San Antonio, Tex. San Antonio Arsenal, San Antonio, Texas: For a storehouse for paints, oils, and other inflammables, $15,000; For a storehouse, $125,000; For increasing facilities for the repair of equipment and small arms, including necessary building and equipment, $25,000; In all, $165,000.
Springfield, Mass. Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: For removal of old engine in hill shops plant, and alteration of engine room for use as planning and drafting room, $25,000; For enlarging the boiler room at the water shops, including erection of a new chimney and the procurement and installation of three new boilers with equipment, $200,000; For additional machinery for manufacture of rifles, $300,000; Lighting system.Use of balance.*Ante*, p. 353. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $25,000 for the installation of a modem lighting system in shops, contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, together with an additional sum of $15,000;
In all, $540,000. Watertown, Mass. Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts: Power tunnel. For a power tunnel between power plant and shops, including piping, electrical distribution mains, switchboards, and so forth, Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 129.$70,000; and the appropriation of $20,000 for a power tunnel between power plant and shops, made in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is reappropriated and made available as an addition to the foregoing sum;
For switching engines, locomotive cranes, flat cars, dump cars, and ingot cars, $156,000; For repairing and electrifying five large planers and boring mills, $32,000; For new machine tools in machine shop, $70,000; For extension of main office building, $100,000; For installation of a crane in smith shop, including extension of craneway, $25,000; For construction of new wagon roads and walks, $10,000; In all, $463,000. Testing machines. Watertown Arsenal, testing machines: For necessary professional and skilled labor, purchase of materials, tools, and appliances for operating the testing machines, for investigative test and tests of material in connection with the manufacturing work of the Ordnance Department, and for instruments and materials for operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, $25,000.
Watervliet, West Troy, N. Y. Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York: For increasing railroad transportation facilities, $50,000; For one gantry crane and the construction of a storage yard, $16,000; 655 For rebuilding main roads, including one public road running through the arsenal grounds, $32,000; For a locomotive crane, 825,000; For purchase of land known as the old burying ground, adjacent to Additional land.the arsenal, the disinterment and reinterment elsewhere of bodies, and the erection of a wall inclosing the land, $15,000;
In all, $138,000. Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvement of arsenals, and Repairs, etc.to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including $600,000, Machinery.or so much thereof as may be necessary for machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $1,750,000. quartermaster corps. QuartermasterCorps. Military Posts, Hawaiian Islands: For the construction of the necessary Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.buildings, water and sewer systems, roads, walks, and so forth, required for the permanent accommodations for one company of engineers, one regiment of Infantry, one regiment of Field Artillery, one ambulance company, $2,239,000.
Fort Monroe, Virginia, wharf, roads, and sewer: For repair and Fort Monroe, Va.Wharf.maintenance of wharf and apron of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms, water, brooms, and shovels, $30,000; wharfinger, $900; four laborers, $2,880; in all, $33,780; for one-third of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $11,260. For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, Repairs to roads, etc.macadam and asphalt block: repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains, $15,400; six laborers cleaning roads, at $720 each; in all, for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $13,146.67.
For waste, oil, boiler repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, Sewer.$1,725; two engineers, at $1,200 each; two laborers, at $720 each; in all, $5,565; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $3,710. For continuing construction of the necessary accommodations for Seacoast defenses, Philippines, etc.Maintenance.the Seacoast Artillery in the Philippine and Hawaiian Islands, and for temporary cantonments for oversea garrisons, $54,750. National cemeteries:
For maintaining and improving national National cemeteries.cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools, and materials, $150,000. For pay of seventy-six superintendents of national cemeteries, including Superintendents.not to exceed $1,500 for the superintendent at Mexico City, $63,720. For continuing the work of furnishing headstones of durable stone Headstones for soldiers’, etc., graves.or other durable material for unmarked graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy yards and stations of the United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of Vol. 17, p. 545;
Vol. 20, p. 281; Vol. 34, p. 56.March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and March ninth, nineteen hundred and six; continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked Civilians.Vol. 33, p. 396; Vol. 34,p. 741.graves of civilians interred in post cemeteries under the Acts of April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and four, and June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six; and furnishing headstones for the unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national cemeteries, Confederates.$50,000.
For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed Repairs to roadways.*Provisos*.Encroachments by railroads forbidden.by special authority of Congress, $12,000: *Provided*, That no railroads shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired by the United States to a national cemetery, or 656to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained Restriction.by the United States: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village.
Limited to one approach. No part of any appropriation for national cemeteries or the repair of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance of more than a single approach to any national cemetery. Burial of indigent soldiers, etc., D. C. For expenses of burying m the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding Half from District revenues.$45 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $2,000, one-half of which sum shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Antietam battlefield, Md.Preservation. Antietam battle field; For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Antietam battle field, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, $7,500. Superintendent. For pay of superintendent of Antietam battle field, said superintendent to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, $1,500.
Interment of remains of officers, soldiers, etc. Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, civilian employees, and so forth: For interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes or to such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper authority, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of the remains of officers, cadets, United States Military Academy, including acting assistant surgeons and enlisted men in active service; interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes, of the remains of civil employees of the Army in the employ of the War Department who die abroad, in Alaska, in the Canal Zone, or on Army transports, or who die while on duty in the field or at military posts within the limits of the United States; interment of military Removing remains from abandoned posts, etc.prisoners who die at military posts; removal of remains from abandoned posts to permanent military posts or national cemeteries, including the remains of Federal soldiers, sailors, or marines, interred Reimbursement to individuals.in fields or abandoned private and city cemeteries; and in any case where the expenses of burial or shipment of the remains of officers’ or enlisted men of the Army who die on the active list are borne by individuals, where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement to such individuals may be made of the amount allowed by the Government for such services out of this sum, but no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to July first, nineteen hundred and ten, $250,000: *Proviso*.Extended during the war to retired list on active duty.*Provided*, That during the continuance of the present war the above provisions shall be applicable in the cases of officers and enlisted men on the retired list of the Army who have died or may hereafter die while on active duty by proper assignment.
Confederate Mound, Chicago, Ill. Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago: For care, protection, and maintenance of the plat of ground known as “Confederate Mound ” in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, $500. Confederate Stockade, Ohio. For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate Stockade Cemetery, Johnstons Island in Sandusky Bay, Ohio, $250. Confederate burial plats, care, etc. Confederate burial plats: For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate burial plats, owned by the United States, located and known by the following designations:
Confederate cemetery, North Alton, Illinois; Confederate cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio; Confederate section, Greenlawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana; 657Confederate cemetery, Point Lookout, Maryland; and Confederate cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, $1,250. Monuments or tablets in Cuba and China: For repairs and preservation Monuments in Cuba and China.of monuments, tablets, roads, fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell, $1,000.
Burial of deceased indigent patients: For burying in the Little Little Rock, Ark.Burial of patients dying at Hot Springs Hospital.Rock (Arkansas) National Cemetery, including transportation thereto, indigent ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die while patients at the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, to be disbursed at a cost not exceeding $35 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $200.
Arlington National Cemetery: For construction and repair of Arlington Cemetery.Roads, improve meats, etc.roads and walks, laying out additional lots, landscaping, and providing suitable approaches, $70,000. national military parks. Military parks. Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuing the Chickamauga and Chattanooga.establishment of the park; compensation and expenses of civilian commissioner, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, including $300 for necessary clerical labor under direction of the chairman of the commission; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled and one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle; office and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; roads and their maintenance; purchase of small tracts of lands heretofore authorized by law, $48,060.
Gettysburg National Park: For continuing the establishment of Gettysburg.the park; acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet Dearing a brief legend giving historic facts and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battle field and the monuments thereon; compensation of civilian commissioner, clerical and other services, expenses, and labor; purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position; purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, and all other expenses incident to the foregoing, $50,000.
Guilford Courthouse National Military Park: For continuing the establishment of a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to establish a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $8,100. Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the establishment of Shiloh.the park; compensation of civilian commissioners; secretary and superintendent; clerical and other services; labor; historical tablets; maps and surveys; roads; purchase and transportation of supplies, implements, and materials; foundations to monuments; office and other necessary expenses, including purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $25,760.
Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the establishment Vicksburg.of the park; compensation of civilian commissioners; engineer and clerk, labor, iron gun carriages, mounting of siege guns, memorials, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps, surveys, roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of lands, purchase 658and transportation of supplies and materials; and other necessary expenses, $29,330.
Engineer Department. engineer department. Crater Lake Dark. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For construction and maintenance of a wagon road and the necessary bridges through the park, together with a system of tanks and water-supply pipes for sprinkling, in accordance with the recommendations in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-eight, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and for maintenance, repair, and operation of two horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $50,000.
Buildings and grounds, D. C. Buildings and grounds in and around Washington: For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows: Improvement and care. For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, $4,000; For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, $2,000; For repair and reconstruction of the greenhouses at the nursery, $3,000; For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, $2,000; For ordinary care of Franklin Park, $1,500; For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, $2,000;
Monument grounds. For care and improvement of Monument Grounds and annex, $7,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Garfield Park, $2,500. General repairs, etc. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; repairing and extending water pipes, and purchase of apparatus for cleaning them; hose, manure, and hauling the same; removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, stock for nursery, flowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, and moss, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances; cleaning statues and repairing pedestals, $18,550.
Improvements, etc. For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, including maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of three motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes, $35,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds, $3,000. For improvement and maintenance of Judiciary Park, $2,500. For laying cement and other walks in various reservations, $2,000. For broken-stone road covering for parks, $10,000.
For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, $2,000. Potomac Park. For improvement, care, and maintenance of West Potomac Park, including grading, soiling, seeding, planting, and constructing paths, $30,000. For oiling or otherwise treating macadam roads, $8,000. For care and improvement of East Potomac Park, $50,000. For continuing the improvement of Montrose Park, and for its care and maintenance, $5,000. Outdoor sports. For placing and maintaining special portions of the parks in condition for outdoor sports, $20,000.
Meridian Hill Park. To continue the development and improvement of Meridian Hill Park, $25,000. For care and maintenance of Willow Tree Park, $1,500. Sea wall, Potomac Park. For continuing moving out the sea wall on the river side of West Potomac Park, $20,000. 659 For care of the center parking on Maryland Avenue northeast, $1,000. For operation, care, repair, and maintenance of the pumps which Union Station Plaza fountains.operate the three fountains in the Union Station Plaza, $4,000: *Provided*, That the officer in charge of Public Buildings and Grounds *Proviso*.Reduction of cost.shall investigate and report to Congress on the first day of its next regular session what methods may be employed to reduce the cost of operating the said fountains.
To provide for the increased cost in park maintenance, $25,000. Increased cost of peak maintenance. For care of the center parking in Pennsylvania Avenue, between Second and Seventeenth Streets southeast, $2,500. Tidal Basin bathing beach: For completing the bathhouse, Tidal Basin bathing beach.bathing beach, and purification plant on the shore of the Tidal Basin in Potomac Park, $33,000, to be available immediately: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Incurred obligations included.That this appropriation shall be available for the payment of obligations incurred prior to the passage of this Act and which properly are chargeable to this appropriation.
For purification of waters of the Tidal Basin and maintenance of the bathing beach, $15,000. For new public comfort station in Stanton Park, $3,500. Convenience station. For new sewers in Smithsonian Grounds, $5,000. Sewers, Smithsonian Grounds. For installing and operating a ferry line from the vicinity of Ferry to East Potomac Park.Seventh and Water Streets to East Potomac Park, $10,000. One half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in Half from District revenues.and around Washington” shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of executive Grounds of executive departments, etc.departments, $1,000. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be requested by the superintendent of the Library Buildings, $1,000. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol and the Senate and House Office Buildings as may be requested by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building, $4,000.
For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds Executive Mansion grounds.(within iron fence), $5,000. For reconstructing a portion of the sewer in West Executive Sewer.Avenue, $5,000. For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of Engineer.public buildings and grounds, $2,400. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouses, $1,000. Executive Mansion: For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive Mansion.Care, etc.Executive Mansion, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official purposes, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine, $40,000.
For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, $8,000. Fuel. For care and maintenance of greenhouses, Executive Mansion, $9,000. For repair to greenhouses, Executive Mansion, Greenhouses.$3,000. For reconstructing one greenhouse, Executive Mansion, $4,000. For traveling expenses of the President of the United States, to be Traveling expenses of the President.expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, $25,000. For lighting the Executive Mansion, grounds, and greenhouses, Lighting.including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $8,600.
Lighting the public grounds: For lighting the public grounds, Lighting and heating public grounds.watchmen’s lodges, offices, and greenhouses at the propagating 660gardens, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $22,300. For heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $5,000; Half from District revenues. In all, $27,300, or so much thereof as may be necessary, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
Government telegraph. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the departments and Government Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, $500. Washington Monument.Maintenance salaries. Washington Monument: For custodian, $1,200; steam engineer, $960; assistant steam engineer, $840; fireman, $660; assistant fireman, $660; conductor of elevator car, $900; attendants—one on floor $720, one on top floor $720; three night and day watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $8, 820. Expenses.
For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors: repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery; and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric plant in good order, $4,500. Sunday opening. For extra services of employees and tor additional supplies and materials, to provide for opening the Monument to the public on Sundays and legal holidays, $2,000.
Building where Abraham Lincoln died. Building where Abraham Lincoln died: For painting and miscellaneous repairs, $200. Wakefield, Va. Birthplace of George Washington, Wakefield, Virginia: For repairs to fences and cleaning up and maintaining grounds about the monument, $100. Commission of fine Arts.Expenses.Vol. 36, p. 371. Commission of Fine Arts: For expenses made necessary by the Act approved May seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act establishing a Commission of Fine Arts,” including the purchase of periodicals, maps, and books of reference, to be disbursed on vouchers approved by the commission by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, who shall be the secretary and shall act as the executive officer of said commission, $9,000.
Grant Memorial.Reappropriation for unveiling, etc.*Ante*, p. 135. The appropriation of $5,000 made in the sundry civil Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, for unveiling and dedicating the memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including erecting and taking down viewing stands and putting the grounds in sightly condition, is made available for said purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Aqueduct Bridge.Construction.Vol. 39, p. 163.Half from District revenues. Aqueduct Bridge: For continuing the construction of the bridge authorized in section one of an Act entitled ‘‘An Act to provide for the removal of what is now known as the Aqueduct Bridge, across the Potomac River, and for the building of a bridge in place thereof,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $300,000, one half to be payable out of the Treasury of the United States and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Water main to reservations, etc., on Virginia side. For purchasing and installing a ten-inch water main across the Aqueduct Bridge, including a twelve-inch connection to the thirty-six-inch gravity main in M Street, and a water meter near this connection, for the purpose of supplying water to Federal reservations and buildings on the Virginia side of the Potomac River, $8,100. Rivers and harbors.Contract work. Harbors and rivers, contract work; Toward the construction of works on harbors and rivers, under contract and otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, including horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles required and to be used only for official business, namely: 661 For work authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen Vol. 39, p. 392.hundred and eleven, as amended by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and sixteen, as follows:
Black Rock Channel and Tonawanda Harbor, New York: For Black Rock Harbor, N. Y.completing improvement, $300,000. For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen Vol. 39, p. 394, 392.hundred and sixteen, as follows: Delaware River, Pennsylvania and New Jersey: For continuing Delaware River.Philadelphia to the sea.improvement from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, to the sea, $150,000. East River, New York: For continuing improvement in completion East River, N. Y.of contract authorization, $300,000.
Flood control: For prosecuting work of flood control in accordance Flood control.Prosecuting work.Vol. 39, p. 948.with the provisions of the flood-control Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, as follows: Mississippi River, $6,670,000; Mississippi River. Sacramento River, California, $330,000. Sacramento River, Cal. Maps, War Department: For publication of engineer maps for use Maps.of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, $10,000. Survey of northern and northwestern lakes:
For survey of northern Survey of northern and northwestern lakes, etc.and northwestern lakes, Lake of the Woods, and other boundary and connecting waters between said lake and Lake Superior, Lake Champlain, and the natural navigable waters embraced in the navigation system of the New York canals, including all necessary expenses for preparing, correcting, extending, printing, binding, and issuing charts and bulletins, and of investigating lake levels with a view to their regulation, $125,000.
California Débris Commission: For defraying the expenses of the California Débris Commission.Vol. 27, p. 507.commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, $15,000. Harbor of New York: For the prevention of obstructive and injurious New York Harbor.Preventing injurious deposits.deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, and office force, and expenses of office, $10,260;
For pay of crews and maintenance of patrol fleet, six steam tugs and one launch, $85,000; For purchase and installation of a new engine on the naphtha launch Lookout, $500; In all, $95,760. medical department. Medical Department. Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or Artificial limbs.commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, $70,000. Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliances Surgical appliances.to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, $1,000.
Trusses for disabled soldiers: For trusses for persons entitled Trusses.thereto under section eleven hundred and seventy-six, Revised [R.S., sec. 1176, p. 211](/us/rs/s1176/p211).Statutes of the United States, and the Act of Congress amendatory Vol. 20, p. 353.thereof approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, $2,000. Providence Hospital: For the support and medical treatment of Providence Hospital, D.C.Destitute patients.medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital by the Surgeon General of the Army, $19,000, one half of which sum Half from District revenues.shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. 662 Repairs to heating, etc., plant.
For repairs to and improvements of the heating, lighting, and power plant of the Providence Hospital, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $19,950, to be expended under the direction and supervision of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Half from District revenues.Grounds and to be paid one-half out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. Garfield Hospital, D. C. Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it to provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, under a contract to be made with the Board of Charities of Half from District revenues.the District of Columbia, $19,000, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers. national home for disabled volunteer soldiers. Support. For support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: Dayton, Ohio.Current expenses. Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: Current expenses: For pay of officers and noncommissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks, weighmasters, and orderlies; chaplains, religious instruction, and entertainment for the members of the home, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, janitors, watchmen, fire company, and property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the home; articles of amusement, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and repairs not done by the home; stationery, advertising, legal advice*Proviso*.Effects of deceased members., payments due heirs of deceased members: *Provided*, That all receipts on account of the effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall also be available for such payments; and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditures, $60,000;
Subsistence. Subsistence: For pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks, porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; food supplies, except articles of special diet for the sick, purchased for the subsistence of the members of the home and civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the branch, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; tobacco; dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers’ tools and appliances, and, their repair not done by the home, $320,000;
Household. Household: For furniture for officers’ quarters; bedsteads, bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and of civilian employees permanently employed and residing at the branch, and their repair, if not repaired by the home; fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; engineers and firemen, bathhouse keepers, janitors, laundry employees, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and repairs, if not repaired by the home, $160,000;
Hospital. Hospital: For pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, hospital clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, drivers, funeral escort, janitors, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; burial of the dead; surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not purchased under subsistence; bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other special articles necessary for the wards; hospital furniture, including special articles and appliances for hospital kitchen and dining room; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the home, $83,000; 663 Transportation:
For transportation of members of the home, Transportation.$1,200; Repairs: For pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters, Repairs.painters, gas fitters, electrical workers, plumbers, tinsmiths, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; and repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent character, $63,000: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Restriction on new buildings.That no part of the appropriation for repairs for any of the branch homes shall be used for the construction of any new building;
Farm: For pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm Farm.hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers; tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; grain, and grain products, hay, straw, fertilizers, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; animals purchased for stock or work (including animals in the park); gasoline; materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, park, and cemetery; and construction of roads and walks, and repairs not done by the home, $25,000;
In all, $712,200. Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, Milwaukee, Wis.Current expenses.including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $43,300; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.head for the Central Branch, $170,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.for the Central Branch, $107,000. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.for the Central Branch, $43,000;
For transportation of members of the home, $600; Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs.for the Central Branch, $35,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.the Central Branch, $8,000; In all, $406,900. Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: For current expenses, including Togus, Me.Current expenses.the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $41,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.head for the Central Branch, $115,000;
For household, including the same objects specified under this Household.head for the Central Branch, $93,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.for the Central Branch, $38,000; For transportation of members of the home, $400; Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs.for the Central Branch, $33,500; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.the Central Branch, $16,000;
In all, $336,900. Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, Hampton, Va.Current expenses.including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.head for the Central Branch, $210,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this Household.head for the Central Branch, $90,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.for the Central Branch, $43,000;
For transportation of members of the home, $1,000; Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs.for the Central Branch, $43,000; 664 Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $9,000; In all, $441,000. Leavenworth, Kans.Current expenses. Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $48,000; Subsistence.
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $230,000; Household. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $115,000; Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $54,500; Transportation. For transportation of members of the home, $1,000; Repairs. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $58,000;
Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $17,000; In all, $523,500. Santa Monica, Cal.Current expenses. Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000; Subsistence. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $290,000; Household. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $100,000;
Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $60,000; Transportation. For transportation of members of the home, $2,500; Repairs. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $44,000; Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $17,000; In all, $558,500. Marion, Ind.Current expenses. Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $41,000;
Subsistence. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $156,000; Household. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $77,000; Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $40,500; Transportation. For transportation of members of the home, $350; Repairs. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $38,000;
Farm. For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $12,000; In all, $364,850. Danville, Ill. Current expenses.Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $42,000; Subsistence. For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $200,000; Household. For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $104,000;
Hospital. For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $39,800; Transportation. For transportation of members of the home, $500; Repairs. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $36,000; 665 For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.the Central Branch, $9,500; In all, $431,800. Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: For current expenses, Johnson City, Tenn.Current expenses.including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $38,600;
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head Subsistence.for the Central Branch, $140,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.for the Central Branch, $72,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.for the Central Branch, $35,000; For transportation of members of the home, $1,000; Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs.for the Central Branch, $31,000;
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head Farm.for the Central Branch, $16,000; In all, $333,600. Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For Hot Springs, S. Dak.Current expenses.current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $23,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.head for the Central Branch, $,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head Household.for the Central Branch, $53,000;
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head Hospital.for the Central Branch, $37,400; For transportation of members of the home, $3,000; Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs.for the Central Branch, $15,500; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for Farm.the Central Branch, $5,000; In all, $201,900. Clothing for all branches: For clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, Clothing for all branches.boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed, and for use in the tailor shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, $275,000.
Board of managers: President, $4,000; secretary, $500; general Board of Managers.Salaries, etc.treasurer, who shall not be a member of the board of managers, $4,500; inspector general and chief surgeon, $4,000; assistant general treasurer and assistant inspector general, $3,000; assistant inspector general, $3,000; clerical services for the offices of the president, general treasurer, and inspector general and chief surgeon, $15,500; clerical services for managers, $2,700; traveling expenses of the board of managers, their officers, and employees, including officers of branch homes when detailed on inspection work, $10,000; outside relief, $100; legal services, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, 41,700; in all, $49,000.
In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $4,635,150: *Provided*, That no part of the foregoing appropriations shall be *Proviso*.Intoxicants.expended for any purpose at any branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers that maintains or permits to be maintained on its premises a bar, canteen, or other place where beer, wine, or other intoxicating liquors are sold. State or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For State or Territorial homes.Aid to.Vol. 25, p. 450.continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $1,000,000: *Provided*, That no part of this *Proviso. *Intoxicants.666appropriation shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold:
Collections from in mates. *Provided further*, That for any sum or sums collected in any manner from inmates of such State or Territorial homes to be used for the support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained. Back pay and bounty. back pay and bounty. Payment to Civil War volunteers.Vol. 14, p. 322. For arrears of pay of two and three year volunteers, for bounty to volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and for Commutation of rations.amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in States of the so-called Confederacy, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $10,000.
War with Spain, etc. For arrears of pay and allowances on account of service of officers and men of the Army during the War with Spain and in the Philippine Islands that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, $500. Interior Department. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Public buildings. public buildings. Repairs to Department buildings.
Repairs of buildings: For repairs of Patent Office Building, Pension Office Building, and of the General Land Office Building, including preservation and repair of steam-heating and electric-lighting plants and elevators, $30,000, of which sum not exceeding $7,500 may be expended for day labor except for work done by contract. Capitol.Repairs, etc., to buildings. Capitol Buildings: For work at the Capitol and for general repairs thereof, including cleaning and repairing works of art, flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Capitol anti for Senate and *Post*, p. 797.House Office Buildings; flagstaffs, halyards, and tackle; wages of mechanics and laborers; purchase, maintenance, and driving of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying office vehicles; and not exceeding $100 for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books and city directory, $52,000.
Improving grounds. Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surrounding the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, pay of one clerk, mechanics, gardeners, fertilizers, repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways, $35,750. Repairs to stables, etc. For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house, Senate and House stables, and repairs to and paving of floors and courtyards Purchases.of same, including personal services, $1,500; this and the three foregoing sums may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be expended for purchases of articles without reference to section Vol. 36, p. 531.four of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, concerning purchases for executive departments.
Enlarging Capitol Grounds.Reappropriation for removing buildings, etc.*Ante*, p. 142. The unexpended balances of the appropriations heretofore made for expenses of removal of the buildings or other structures upon the land acquired for the enlargement of the Capitol Grounds, for grading, seeding, and soiling, and preparation of plans for permanently improving the same, are reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. Courthouse, D. C.Temporary quarters.Half from District revenues.
Courthouse, District of Columbia: For rental of temporary quarters for the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, $8,000, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol 667Building and Grounds and to be paid one-half out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $2,000 heretofore Repairs.Reappropriation of balance.*Ante*, p. 372.made for general repairs to the building temporarily occupied by the courthouse, District of Columbia, is reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. public lands service.
Public lands. Registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registers Registers and receivers.of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding $3,000 per annum each, $500,000. Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other Contingent expenses.incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the exchange of typewriters; per diem, in lieu of subsistence, of clerks detailed to Per diem subsistence.examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in the operation of said offices, and in the opening of new land offices and reservations, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen Vol. 38, p. 680.of the sundry civil appropriation act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for actual necessary traveling expenses of said clerks, including necessary sleeping-car fares: *Provided*, That no *Proviso*.Expenditures restricted.expenses chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, $400,000.
Depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing money Depositing moneys.received from the disposal of public lands, by registered mail, bank exchange, or otherwise, as may be directed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under rules to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, $500. Depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement Timber depredations, protecting, and swamp land claims.*Post*, p. 797.of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity:
For protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity for swamp lands, including not exceeding $15,000 for clerical services in bringing up and making current the work of the General Land Office, $500,000, including not exceeding $5,000 for the purchase of motorcycles for the use of agents and others employed in the field service and for operation, maintenance, and exchange of same and for operation and maintenance of a motor boat: *Provided*, That the compensation of *Provisos*.Service pay established.the chief of field service employed hereunder, including his services in the District of Columbia, shall not exceed $3,500 per annum and the compensation of all others employed hereunder shall not exceed $2,700 per annum each, except in Alaska where a compensation not to exceed $3,000 per annum may be allowed: *Provided further*, That Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.agents and others employed under this appropriation may be allowed per diem in lieu of subsistence, pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, at a rate not exceeding $3.50 each and actual Alaska service.necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, except when agents are employed in Alaska they may be allowed not exceeding $5 per day each in lieu of subsistence.
For the protection of the so-called Oregon and California Railroad Oregon and California Railroad lands.Protection, etc.Vol. 39, p. 218.Lands and Coos Bay Wagon Road Lands: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, with the cooperation of the Secretary of Agriculture or otherwise, as in bis judgment may be most advisable, to establish and maintain a patrol to prevent trespass and to guard against and check fires upon the lands revested in the United States by the Act 668Coos Bay Wagon Road lands. approved June ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and the lands known as the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands involved in the case of Southern Oregon Company versus United States (numbered twenty-seven hundred and eleven, in the circuit court of appeals of the ninth circuit), $25,000.
Hearings in land entries. Hearings in land entries: For hearings or other proceedings held by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine the character of lands; whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law; and of hearings *Proviso*.Fees for depositions.in disbarment proceedings, $35,000: *Provided*, That where depositions are taken for use in such hearings the fees of the officer taking them shall be 20 cents per folio for taking and certifying same and 10 cents per folio for each copy furnished to a party on request.
Reproducing plats of surveys. Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of the General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, to furnish local land offices with the same, and for reproducing by photolithography original plats of surveys prepared in the offices of surveyors general, $5,000. National forests.Advertising restoration of lands in. Restoration of lands in forest reserves:
To enable the Secretary of the Interior to advertise the restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves or of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest reserve purposes, $10,000. Opening Indian reservations to entry. Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable): For expenses pertaining to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reservation lands as may be opened during the fiscal year nineteen hundred *Proviso*.Reimbursement.and nineteen: *Provided*, That the expenses pertaining to the opening of each of said reservations and paid for out of this appropriation shall be reimbursed to the United States from the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively, $10,000.
Surveying. surveying the public lands. Expenses.*Post*, p. 797. For surveys and resurveys of public lands, under the supervision of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the *Provisos*.Preferences.Secretary of the Interior, $700,000: *Provided*, That in expending this appropriation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied in whole or in part by actual settlers and of Vol. 25, p. 616.lands granted to the States by the Act approved February twenty-second, Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222.eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and to survey under such other Acts as provide for land grants to the several States and Territories, and such indemnity lands as the several States and Territories may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, except railroad land grants, and other surveys shall include lands adapted to agriculture and lands deemed advisable to survey on account of availability for irrigation or dry farming, lands subject to disposition under mineral land laws where survey thereof is not otherwise provided for, lines of reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest Pay of surveyors.reservations.
The surveys and resurveys provided for in this appropriation to be made by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, at such compensation, not exceeding $200 per month each, as he may prescribe, except in Alaska, where a compensation not exceeding $300 per month each may be allowed Supervisors of surveys.such surveyors, except that the Secretary of the Interior may appoint not to exceed one supervisor of surveys, whose compensation shall not exceed $300 per month, and not to exceed ten surveyors who may be employed in a supervisory capacity, whose compensation shall 669not exceed $250 per month each, and such per diem in lieu of subsistence, Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 880.not exceeding $3.50, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, said per diem and traveling expenses to be allowed to all surveyors employed hereunder and to such clerics who are competent surveyors who may be detailed to make surveys, resurveys, or examinations of surveys Resurveys, etc.heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making, by such competent surveyors, fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of the United States: *Provided further*, That the sum of not Metal section corners.exceeding ton per centum of the amount hereby appropriated may be expended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal or other equally durable monuments to be used for public-land survey corners wherever practicable: *Provided further*, That not Bringing up office work arrears.to exceed $25,000 of the above amount may be used to bring up the arrears of office work in surveyors general’s offices upon returns of surveys filed therein prior to the passage of this Act: *Provided further*, Field employees detailed to General Land Office.That not to exceed $10,000 of this appropriation may be expended for salaries of employees of the field surveying service temporarily detailed to the General Land Office.
Abandoned reservations: For necessary expenses of survey, Abandoned reservations.Vol. 23, p. 103.appraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande.Casa Grande, $5,000. united states geological survey. Geological Survey. Office of Director: Director, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,500; disbursing Salaries, Director, etc.clerk, $2,500; librarian, $2,000; photographer, $2,000; assistant photographers—one $900, one $720; clerks—one of class two, three of class one, one $1,000, four at $900 each; four copyists, at $720 each; four messenger boys, at $480 each; in all, $31,020;
Scientific assistants: Geologists—two at $4,000 each, one $3,000, Scientific assistants.one $2,700; two paleontologists, at $2,000 each; chemist, $3,000; geographers—one $2,700, one $2,500; two topographers, at $2,000 each; in all, $29,900; General expenses: For every expenditure requisite for and incident General expenses.*Post*, p. 797.to the authorized work of the Geological Survey, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, including not to exceed $10,000 for the purchase and exchange, and not to exceed $15,000 for the hire, maintenance, repair, and operation, of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for field use only by geologists, topographers, and engineers, to be expended under the regulations from time to time prescribed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under the following heads:
For pay of skilled laboréis and various temporary employees, Skilled laborers, etc.$15,080; For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, $142,196: *Provided*, That in expending this sum preference shall be Topographic surveys.*Proviso*.Preference to Army areas.given special topographic surveys of areas selected by the War Department and in securing such extra topographic data as are requested by the War Department in these or other areas; For geologic surveys in the various portions of the United States, Geologic surveys.$347,073.50; 670 Chemical and physical researches.
For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the United States, including researches with a view of determining geological conditions favorable to the presence of deposits of potash salts, $40,000; Illustrations. For preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey, $18,280; Mineral resources report. For preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the United States, $99,414.70; Water supply. For gauging streams and determining the water supply of the United States, the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of Boring wells.utilizing the water resources, $148,244.10, of which $25,000 may be used to test the existence of artesian and other underground water supplies suitable for irrigation in the arid and semiarid regions by boring wells;
Library. For purchase of necessary books for the library, including directories and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, $2,000; Maps. For engraving and printing geologic maps, $118,049; National forests surveys. For continuation of topographic surveys of the public lands that have been or may hereafter be designated as national forests, $74,219.60; Classifying lands tor enlarged homesteads, etc. For the examination and classification of lands requisite to the determination of their suitability for enlarged homesteads, stock-raising homesteads, public watering places, and stock driveways, as required by the public land laws, $197,268.60;
In all, United States Geological Survey, $1,262,745.50. Bureau of Mines. bureau of mines. General expenses, salaries, etc.*Post*, p. 797. For general expenses, including pay of the director and necessary assistants, clerks, and other employees, in the office in the District of Columbia, and in the field, and every other expense requisite for and incident to the general work of the bureau in the District of Columbia, and in the field, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $73,300;
Investigating mine explosions, etc. For investigation as to the causes of mine explosions, methods of mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, the appliances best adapted to prevent accidents, the possible improvement of conditions under which mining operations are carried on, the use of explosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents, and other inquiries and technologic investigations pertinent to the mining industry, and including all equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $387,210;
Investigating minerals, fuel, etc.Economical use in departments. For investigation of mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products belonging to or for the use of the United States, with a view to their most efficient mining, preparation, treatment, and use, and to recommend to various departments such changes in selection and use of fuel as may result in greater economy, and including all equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $135,000; Inquiries, etc., for improving conditions of mining, etc.
For inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances, with a view to improving health conditions and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries; and including all *Proviso*.Private work forbidden.equipment, supplies, expenses of travel and subsistence: *Provided*, That no part thereof may be used for investigation in behalf of any private party, $100,000; 671 For inquiries and investigations concerning the mining, preparation, Petroleum and natural gas investigations.treatment, and utilization of petroleum and natural gas, with a view to economic development and conserving resources through the prevention of waste; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting the industry, including equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel, and subsistence, $100,000;
For the enforcement of the Act entitled ‘ ‘An Act to prohibit the Explosives.Enforcing prohibitions against unlicensed manufacturing, etc., of.*Ante*, p. 385.*Post*, p. 1711.manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession in time of war of explosives, providing regulations for the safe manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession of the same, and for other purposes,” approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, printing and binding, supplies and equipment, traveling and subsistence expenses, and not to exceed $10,000 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, hire, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, $300,000: *Provided*, That any license issued under *Provisos*.Cancellation of licenses for violations.the Act of October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, may be canceled by the Director of the Bureau of Mines if the person to whom such license was issued shall, after notice and an opportunity to be heard, be found to have violated any of the provisions of the Act: *Provided further*, That platinum, iridium, and palladium and compounds Platinum, etc.Subject to terms of explosives Act.*Post*, p. 1009.therof are hereby made subject to the terms, conditions, and limitations of said Act of October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the Director of the Bureau of Mines is hereby authorized, under rules and regulations approved by the Secretary of the Interior, to limit the sale, possession, and the use of said material;
Not exceeding twenty per centum of the preceding sums for investigation Personal services In District of Columbia.Allowances from specified investigations tor.as to the causes of mine explosions; for inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances; for inquiries and investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of petroleum and natural gas; and not exceeding thirty per centum of the preceding sums for investigation of mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products belonging to or for the use of the United States and for enforcement of the explosives Act, may be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen for personal service in the District of Columbia.
The Secretary of the Treasury may detail medical officers of the Public Health Service officers may be detailed for work.Public Health Service for cooperative health, safety, or sanitation work with the Bureau of Mines, and the compensation and expenses of officers so detailed may be paid from the applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Mines. For the employment of personal services and all other expenses in Mining experiment stations.Vol. 38, p. 959.connection with the establishment, maintenance, and operation of mining experiment stations, authorized by the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $150,000;
Toward dismantling and removal of the plant of the Pittsburgh Pittsburgh Experiment Station.Removing plant to new location.Vol. 37, p. 886.Mining Experiment Station and installation in the new buildings in Pittsburgh constructed under the authority contained in section twenty-six of the public buildings Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, including the employment of necessary labor; machinery, appliances, materials and supplies, furniture and office equipment, cases for apparatus, shades, awnings, and all other articles made necessary by such removal fully to equip and furnish these new buildings for laboratory and office purposes, and including construction of a garage for mine rescue trucks; the unexpended Balances reappropriated.Vol. 38, p. 858;
Vol. 39, p. 302.balance of the appropriation made for such dismantling and removal for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen is reappropriated and made available for the foregoing purposes for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen; 672 Improving grounds at new site, etc. For the filling, grading, and general improvement of the grounds at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on which the new Bureau of Mines buildings are located, and for removal to and installation on grounds of the experimental mine at Bruceton, Pennsylvania, of the machinery, apparatus, and so forth, used in the physical testing of explosives, Balance reappropriated.*Ante*, p. 146.the unexpended balance of the appropriation made for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen;
Additional services. For such additional personal services as may be necessary for the care and maintenance of the new buildings at Pittsburgh, $17,220; Operating rescue cars. For operation of mine rescue cars, including personal services, traveling expenses and subsistence, equipment and supplies, authorized Vol. 38, p. 959.by the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen; to be available for expenditure on any preliminary work that may be found necessary in connection with such of the cars as are to be purchased prior to the time of their actual delivery, $136,667;
Mine Inspector, Alaska. For one mine inspector for duty in Alaska, $3,000; For clerk to mine inspector of Alaska, $1,500; For per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence, at a rate not exceeding $4 when absent on official business from his designated headquarters, and for actual necessary traveling and contingent expenses of said inspector and clerk, $2,500; Library. For technical and scientific books and publications and books of reference, $1,500;
Headquarters for rescue cars, etc. For purchase or lease of necessary land, where and under such conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, for the headquarters of mine rescue cars and construction of necessary railway sidings and housing for the same, or as the site of an experimental *Proviso*.Acceptance of lands, etc.mine and a plant for studying explosives, $1,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept any suitable land or lands, buildings, or improvements, that may be donated for said purpose and to enter into leases for periods not exceeding ten years, subject to annual appropriations by Congress;
Temporary details of field employees. Persons employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine teen in field work, outside of the District of Columbia, under the Bureau of Mines, may be detailed temporarily for service in the District of Columbia, for purposes of preparing results of their field work; all persons so detailed shall be paid in addition to their regular compensation only their actual traveling expenses or per diem in lieu *Proviso*.Payment of necessary expenses.of subsistence in going to and returning therefrom: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall prevent the payment to employees of the Bureau of Mines their necessary expenses or per diem, in lieu of subsistence while on temporary detail m the District of Columbia, for purposes only of consultation or investigations on behalf of the United States.
All details made hereunder, and the purposes of each, during the preceding fiscal year, shall be reported in the annual estimates of appropriations to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof; Purchase of minor supplies. The purchase of supplies and equipment or the procurement of services for the Bureau of Mines outside of the District of Columbia, hereafter may be made in open market in the manner common among business men when the aggregate amount of the purchase does not exceed $50;
Government fuel yards, D. C.Establishment authorised for Federal service and District of Columbia. Government Fuel Yards: The Secretary of the Interior is authorized and directed to establish in the District of Columbia storage and distributing yards for the storage of fuel for the use of and delivery to all branches of the Federal service and the municipal government in the District of Columbia and such parts thereof as may be situated immediately without the District of Columbia and economically can be supplied therefrom, and to select, purchase, contract for, and dis673tribute all fuel required by the said services.
Authority is granted Acquirement of lands, etc.the Secretary of the Interior, in connection with the establishment of the said yards, to procure by purchase, requisition for immediate use, condemnation, or lease for such period as may be necessary, land, wharves, and railroad trestles and sidings requisite therefor. All branches of the Federal service and the municipal government Purchases for public use to be made there from.in the District of Columbia, from and after the establishment of the said fuel yards, shall purchase all fuel from the Secretary of the Interior and make payment therefor from applicable appropriations at the actual cost thereof to the United States, including all expenses connected therewith;
For the establishment of the fuel storage and distributing yards Expenses of establishing yard, distributing fuel, etc.herein authorized, including the procurement of the necessary land, wharves, railroad sidings, and trestles; storing, handling, and distributing equipment, including motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for inspectors; and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including personal services in the District of Columbia; $432,300, to be available immediately;
For the purchase and transportation of fuel; storing andFuel purchases, etc. handling fuel in yards; maintenance and operation of yards and equipment, including motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for inspectors, rentals, and all other expenses requisite for and incident thereto, including personal services in the District of Columbia, $1,154,088, to be available immediately: *Provided*, That all moneys received *Provisos*.Moneys received to Continue available.from the purchase of fuel during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen shall be credited to this appropriation and be available for the purposes of this paragraph: *Provided further*, That no part of any Private yards, etc., not to be interfered with.moneys herein or hereafter appropriated shall be used for the purpose of taking over or in any way interfering with the yards or coal dumps or other facilities for storage and distribution of coal that have been used and occupied in the past year by coal dealers for supplying the general public;
Four-fifths of the two preceding sums shall be paid out of the Division of appropriations.Treasury of the United States and the other one-fifth out of the revenues of the District of Columbia; In all, Bureau of Mines, $2,995,285. reclamation service. Reclamation Service. The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund in the Payments from reclamation fund.Treasury of the United States created by the Act of June seventeenth, All expenditures.Vol. 32, p. 388.nineteen hundred and two, and therein designated “the reclamation fund”:
For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-eight), and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, known as the reclamation law, and all other Acts under which expenditures from said fund are authorized, including salaries in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; rent of office Objects specified.quarters in the District of Columbia, $8,040, and for rent elsewhere; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; printing and binding; law books, books of reference, periodicals, engineering and statistical publications, not exceeding $1,500; purchase, maintenance, and operation of horse-drawn or motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; payment of damages caused to the owners of lands of private property of any kind by reason of the operations of the United States, its officers or employees, in the survey, construction, operation, or maintenance of irrigation works, and which may be compromised by agreement between the claimant and the Secretary of the Interior, and payment for official telephone service and rental in the field hereafter incurred in case of official telephones installed in private 674houses when authorized under regulations established by the Secretary of the Interior, namely:
Projects designated.Salt River, Ariz. Salt River project, Arizona: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $797,000; Yuma, Ariz.-Cal. Yuma project, Arizona-California: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $590,000; Orland, Cal. Orland project, California: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $95,000; Grand Valley, Colo. Grand Valley project, Colorado:
For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $348,000; Uncompahgre, Colo. Uncompahgre project, Colorado: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operation, $185,000; Boise, Idaho. Boise project, Idaho: For maintenance, operation, continuation of *Proviso*.Extensions restricted.construction, and incidental operations, $732,000: *Provided*, That no money shall be expended for extensions of the Boise project, except such amounts as may be collected from construction charges on that project under public notice;
King Hill, Idaho. King Hill project, Idaho: For continuing construction and incidental *Provisos*.Subject to reclamation laws.Vol. 32, p. 388.operations, $423,000: *Provided*, That said project shall be subject to the reclamation Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and all Acts amendatory thereof or supplementary thereto, so far as applicable and consistent with contract heretofore made between the United States and King Hill irrigation district: *Provided further*, Patents to lands reclaimed under Carey Act.That for the purposes of issuing patent to lands reclaimed, the reclamation effected by the operations of the United States Reclamation Service may be considered by the Secretary of the Interior Vol. 28, p. 422.as equivalent to reclamation effected by the State of Idaho, under the Carey Act of August eighteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-four.
Minidoka, Idaho. Minidoka project, Idaho: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $489,000; Huntley, Mont. Huntley project, Montana: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $112,000; Milk River, Mont. Milk River project, Montana: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $186,000, *Ante*, p. 148.together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen;
Sun River, Mont. Sun River project, Montana: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $222,000, Vol. 38, p. 860.together with $100,000 of the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen; Lower Yellowstone, Mont.-N. Dak. Lower Yellowstone project, Montana-North Dakota: For maintenance, operation, and incidental operations, $55,000; North Platte, Nebr.-Wyo. North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming:
For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, *Ante*, p. 148.$881,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen; Truckee-Carson, Nev. Truckee-Carson project, Nevada: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $671,000, Public Laws, 1st sess., p. 148.together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen;
Carlsbad, N. Mex. Carlsbad project, New Mexico: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $75,000; Rio Grande, N. Mex.-Tex. Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, *Ante*, p. 148.$1,296,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and *Proviso*.Use for drainage restricted.eighteen: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for drainage except in irrigation districts formed under 675State laws and upon the execution of agreements for the repayment to the United States of all project investments;
North Dakota pumping project, North Dakota; For maintenance, North Dakota pumping.operation, and incidental operations, $64,000; Lawton project, Oklahoma: For continuation of investigations, Lawton, Okla.$1,000; Umatilla project, Oregon: For maintenance, operation, continuation Umatilla, Oreg.of construction, and incidental operations, $80,000, together *Ante*, p. 149.with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen;
Klamath project, Oregon-California: For maintenance, operation, Klamath, Oreg.-Cal.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $423,000; Belle Fourche project, South Dakota: For maintenance, operation, Belle Fourche, S. Dak.continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $262,000; Strawberry Valley project, Utah: For maintenance, operation, Strawberry Valley, Utah.and incidental operations, $59,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year *Ante*, p. 149.nineteen hundred and eighteen;
Okanogan project, Washington: For construction, maintenance, Okanogan, Wash.operation, and incidental operations, $154,000; Yakima project, Washington: For maintenance, operation, continuation Yakima, Wash.of construction, and incidental operations, $645,000, *Ante*, p. 149.together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen; Shoshone project, Wyoming: For maintenance, operation, continuation Shoshone, Wyo.of construction, and incidental operations, $400,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for *Ante*, p. 149.this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen;
Secondary projects: For cooperative and other miscellaneous Secondary projects.investigations, $100,000; Under the provisions of this Act no greater sum shall be expended, Expenditures limited to specified allotments, etc.nor shall the United States be obligated to expend, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, on any reclamation project appropriated for herein an amount in excess of the sum herein appropriated therefor, nor shall the whole expenditures or obligations incurred for all of such projects for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen exceed the whole amount in the “reclamation fund” for that fiscal year;
Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeably Interchangeable amounts.for expenditure on the reclamation projects named; but not more than ten per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said projects; Hereafter the purchase of supplies and the procurement of services Purchases of minor supplies, etc.for the Reclamation Service may be made in open market in the manner common among business men, without advertising and formal contract, when the aggregate of the amount required does not exceed $50, and when, in the opinion of the Director of the Reclamation Service, such limitations of amount are not designed to evade the purchase of supplies and the procurement of services under advertising and format contract, and equally or more advantageous terms can thereby be secured.
In all, Reclamation Service, $9,345,000. For reimbursement to the reclamation fund the proportionate Yakima Indian Reservation, Wash.Reimbursement to fund, for water to lands in.Vol. 38, p. 604.expense of operation and maintenance of the reservoirs for furnishing stored water to the lands in Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-two of the Act of August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page six hundred and four), there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $10,160. 676 Drainage of lands outside projects, and reclamation of cut-over timber lands.Expenses of investigations for.
For an investigation to be made by the Director of the Reclamation Service of the reclamation by drainage of lands outside existing reclamation projects and of the reclamation and preparation for cultivation of cut-over timber lands in any of the States of the United States, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase, maintenance, repair, hire, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger vehicles, and for all other expenses, there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, $100,000.
Miscellaneous. testimony in disbarment proceedings. Disbarment proceedings. To enable the Secretary of the Interior to take testimony and prepare the same, in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the department, its bureaus and offices, $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Alaska. alaska, expenses in. Alaska Engineering Commission.Constructing railroads, etc.Vol. 38, p. 305. Alaska Engineering Commission:
For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March twelfth, nineteen hundred and fourteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page three hundred and five), entitled “An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,” including expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations in Alaska, to continue available until expended, $5,250,000. Sale of supplies, etc., to employees.
Authority is granted to purchase during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, from the appropriation made for the construction and operation of railroads in Alaska, articles and supplies for sale to employees and contractors, the appropriation to be reimbursed by the proceeds of such sales. Receipts from sales, etc., credited to construction account. During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen there shall be covered into the appropriation established from time to time under the Act approved March twelfth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,” the proceeds of the sale of material utilized for temporary work and structures in connection with the operations under said Act, as well as the sales of all other condemned property which has been purchased or constructed under the provisions thereof, also any moneys refunded in connection with the construction and operations under said Act, and a report hereunder shall be made to Congress at the beginning of its next session.
Care of insane. Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, *Proviso*.Payment to Sanitarium Company.$99,000: *Provided*, That authority is granted to the Secretary of the Interior to pay from this appropriation to the Sanitarium Company of Portland, Oregon, not to exceed $420 per capita per annum for the care and maintenance of Alaskan insane patients during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Education of natives. Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; erection, repair, and rental of school buildings; textbooks and industrial apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under *Provisos*.Limit of pay.the above special heads, $215,000: *Provided*, That no person employed hereunder as special agent or inspector, or to perform any special or unusual duty in connection herewith, shall receive as 677compensation exceeding $200 per month, in addition to actual traveling expenses and per diem not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence, when absent on duty from his designated and actual post of duty: *Provided further*, That of said sum not exceeding $7,000 may be Service in District of Columbia.expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
All expenditures of money appropriated herein for school purposes Supervision of school expenditures.in Alaska for schools other than those for the education of white children under the jurisdiction of the governor thereof shall be under the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Education and in conformity with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to conduct and methods of instruction and expenditure of money as may from time to time be recommended by him and approved by the Secretary of the Interior.
Medical relief in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, Medical and sanitary relief.in his discretion and under his direction, with the advice and cooperation of the Public Health Service, to provide for the medical and sanitary relief of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; erection, purchase, repair, rental, and equipment of hospital buildings; books and surgical apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of physicians, nurses, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, $75,000.
Patients who are not indigent may be admitted to the hospitals Admission of pay patients.for care and treatment on the payment of such reasonable charges therefor as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe. Reindeer for Alaska: For support of reindeer stations in Alaska Reindeer.and instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of reindeer, $6,000: *Provided*, That the Commissioner of Education is *Proviso*.Sales of males, etc.authorized to sell such of the male reindeer belonging to the Government as he may deem advisable and to use the proceeds in the purchase of female reindeer belonging to missions and in the distribution of reindeer to natives in those portions of Alaska in which reindeer have not yet been placed and which are adapted to the reindeer industry.
Protection of game in Alaska: For carrying out the Act approved Protection of game.Vol. 35, p. 102.May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “An Act for the protection of game in Alaska, and for other purposes,” including salaries, traveling expenses of game wardens, and all other necessary expenses, $20,000, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska. Traffic in intoxicating liquors: For suppression of the traffic in Suppressing liquor traffic.intoxicating liquors among the natives of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $15,000. national parks.
National parks. National Park Service: Director, $4,500; assistant director, $2,500; Director of National Park Service, etc.chief clerk, $2,000; draftsman, $1,800; clerks—two of class three, two of class two, two at $900 each; messenger, $600; in all, for park service in the District of Columbia, $19,200. The limitation of cost upon the construction of any administration Cost of buildings increased.Vol. 37, p. 460.or other building in any national park without express authority of Congress, contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, is increased from $1,000 to $1,500.
Yellowstone National Park, Wyoming: For administration, protection, Yellowstone, Wyo.maintenance, and improvement, including not to exceed $7,500 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the east boundary, not to exceed $7,500 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the south boundary, for repairing roads in the park and in adjoining 678forest reserves from Lake Hotel to the Cody entrance, $25,000; not to exceed $7,600 for the purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and including feed for buffalo and other animals and salaries of buffalo keepers, $269,520, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary of the *Proviso*.Removal of snow.Interior: *Provided*, That not exceeding $2,000 may be expended for the removal of snow from any of the roads for the purpose of opening them in advance of the tourist season.
Road extensions restricted. Hereafter road extensions and improvements shall be made in said park under and in harmony with the general plan of roads and improvements to be approved by the Secretary of the Interior. Specified roads, bridges, etc. For continuing the widening to not exceeding eighteen feet of roadway, improving the surface of roads, and for building bridges and culverts from the belt-line road to the western border, from the Thumb Station to the southern border, and from the Lake Hotel to the eastern border, all within Yellowstone National Park, to make such roads suitable and safe for animal-drawn and motor-propelled vehicles, $15,400.
Gardiner Slide Road. For a new road around the Gardiner Slide, $50,000. Belt line. For resurfacing and for finishing the belt line with oil macadam, *Ante*, p. 132.the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen is made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. Glacier, Mont. Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration and improvement, construction of roads, trails, bridges, and telephone lines and the repair thereof, including necessary repairs to the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to various points in the boundary fine of the Glacier National Park, including not exceeding $1,200 for the maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-driven and one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $80,000.
Yosemite, Cal. Yosemite National Park, California: For protection and improvement, construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads other than toll roads; including, not exceeding $1,000 for purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of two motorcycles, not exceeding $800 for maintenance, operation, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, not exceeding $15,000 for a bridge at the old Sentinel Bridge site, and not exceeding $75,000 for grading in width not exceeding twenty feet El Portal-Yosemite Road, $255,000.
Sequoia, Cal. Sequoia National Park, California: For protection and improvement, construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, improvement of roads other than toll roads, including not exceeding $1,200 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with the general park work; and not exceeding $12,000 for a bridge at the old Marble Fork bridge site, $30,510.
General Grant, Cal. General Grant National Park, California: For protection and improvement, construction of fences and trails, and repairing and extension of roads, $4,500. Mount Rainier, Cal. Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For protection and improvement, construction of roads, bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads, including not exceeding $500 for the maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle for use of the superintendent and park employees in connection with general park work, $24,600.
Mesa Verde, Colo. Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For protection and improvement, including not exceeding $433 for maintenance, operation, and repair of 679horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle for use of the superintendent and employees, $18,000. Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For protection and improvement, Rocky Mountain, Colo.$10,000. Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For protection and improvement, Crater Lake, Oreg.and repairing and extension of roads, including not exceeding $1,200 for the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle for the use of the superintendent and employees in connection with general park work, $13,225.
Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For improvement and Wind Cave, S. Dak.protection, $4,000. Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For improvement and protection, Platt, Okla.$7,500. National Monuments: For the preservation, development, administration, National monuments.Preservation, etc.and protection of the national monuments, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $10,000. Hawaii National Park: For expenses incident to securing donations Hawaii.of patented lands and rights of way over patented lands in Hawaii National Park, $750.
Sieur de Monts National Monument, Maine: For protection and Sieur de Monts National Monument, Me.improvement, including not exceeding $1,400 for purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle for use of rangers in administration of the monument, $10,000. Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas: For labor, material, supervision, Hot Springs Reservation, Ark.New buildings.clearing site, and all other necessary expenses incident to the construction of a new administration and Government free bathhouse building, to cost not to exceed $190,000, there is appropriated $140,000, and in addition thereto $50,000 is authorized to be expended Additional from revenues.therefor from the revenues received from the said reservation. saint elizabeths hospital.
Saint Elizabeths Hospital. For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths Hospital Maintenance.of the insane from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the United States, civilians in the quartermaster’s service of the Army, persons transferred from the anal Zone, who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, including purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, for the use of the superintendent, purchasing agent, and general hospital business, not exceeding $1,500; not to exceed $45,240 for adjustment of compensation of employees; and not exceeding $13,685 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of sixteen horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the general hospital business and official use of the superintendent, $426,750; and not exceeding $1,500 of this sum may be expended in the removal of patients to their friends, not exceeding $1,000 in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital and for the medical library, and not exceeding $1,500 for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients.
For the buildings and grounds, as follows: Buildings and grounds. For general repairs and improvements, $55,000. For roadways, grading, and walks, $5,000. For an isolation building, $5,000. For a railroad scale, $7,000. 680 Columbia Institution for the Deaf. columbia institution for the deaf. Support, etc. For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, $82,000. Repairs. For repairs to buildings of the institution, including plumbing and steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, $6,000.
Number of outside beneficiaries increased.Vol. 31, p. 620. The number of beneficiaries in said institution authorized by the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred (Thirty-first Statutes, page six hundred and twenty), to be received from the several States and Territories, is increased from one hundred to one hundred and twenty-five. Howard University. howard university. Maintenance, etc. For maintenance, to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, ice and stationery, the balance of which shall be paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than $1,500 shall be used for normal instruction, $72,437.75;
For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the department of manual arts, $20,000; For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures for the libraries, $1,500; For improvement of grounds and repairs of buildings, $10,000; Medical Department. Medical department: For part cost of needed equipment, laboratory supplies, apparatus, and repair of laboratories and buildings, $7,000; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, biological, and natural-history studies and use in laboratories of the science hall, including cases and shelving, $2,000;
Fuel and light: For part payment for fuel and light, Freedmen’s Hospital and Howard University, including necessary labor to care for and operate the same, $5,000; In all, $117,937.75. Freedmen’s Hospital. freedmen’s hospital. Salaries, etc. For salaries and compensation of the surgeon in chief, not to exceed $3,000, and for all other professional and other services that may be required and expressly approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $33,360. A detailed statement of the expenditure of this sum shall be submitted to Congress;
Contingent expenses. For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, motor-propelled ambulance, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $46,000; In all, $79,360. Department of Justice. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. public buildings. Penitentiaries,Leavenworth, Kans.Construction, etc. Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For continuing construction, $100,000, to remain available until expended, and to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary.
McNeil Island, Wash.New buildings, etc. McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For the construction complete of a new cell wing, $100,000, and for the construction complete of an isolation building, $7,500; in all, $107,500, to remain available until expended, and to be expended so as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary; 681 Appropriations in this Act under the Department of Justice shall Use for other buildings forbidden.not be used for beginning the construction of any new or additional building, other than those specifically provided for herein, at any Federal penitentiary. miscellaneous objects, department of justice.
Miscellaneous. Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General, $8,000; Conduct of customs cases.Assistant Attorney General, attorneys etc.Vol. 36, p. 108.assistant attorney, $3,000; special attorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs cases, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General, as authorized by section thirty of the Act of August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine; necessary clerical assistance and other employees at the seat of government and elsewhere, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General; supplies, printing, traveling, and other miscellaneous Supplies, etc.and incidental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General; in all, $60,000.
For traveling expenses, fees, and mileage allowance of witnesses Witnesses, Board of General Appraisers.before the Board of United States General Appraisers, $3,000. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For necessary Defending suits in claims.expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States, including Indian depredation claims and such other expenses as may be Indian depredation claims.necessary in defending suits in the Court of Claims, and including not exceeding $500 for law books which shall be available to keep current existing sets of United States Supreme Court reports, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $25,000.
Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution Detection and prosecution of crimes.of crimes against the United States; the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks, referees, and trustees of the United States courts and the Territorial courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time; for the protection of the person of the President of the United States;
Protection of the President, etc.for such other investigations regarding official matters under the control of the Department of Justice or the Department of State as may be directed by the Attorney General; hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary; per diem Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and including not to exceed $70,000 for necessary employees at the seat of government, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $1,000,000.
Inspection of prisons and prisoners: For the inspection of United Inspection of prisons, etc.States prisons and prisoners, and for the collection, classification, and preservation of criminal identification records and their exchange with the officials of State and other institutions, including salary of the assistant superintendent of prisons, $2,500; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $10,000. Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and other Traveling, etc., expenses.Advances.[R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).miscellaneous and emergency expenses, including advances made by the disbursing clerk, authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, $7,500. Enforcement of antitrust Enforcing antitrust laws.Vol. 38, p. 730.*Provisos*.Use for prosecuting labor, etc., organizations forbidden.laws: For the enforcement of antitrust laws, including not exceeding $15,000 for salaries of necessary employees at the seat of government, $100,000: *Provided, however*, That no part of this money shall be spent in the presentation of any organization or individual for entering into any combination or agreement 682having in view the increasing of wages, shortening of hours or bettering the conditions of labor, or for any act done in Associations of farmers, etc.furtherance thereof, not in itself unlawful: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the prosecution of producers of farm products and associations of farmers who cooperate and organize in an effort to and for the purpose to obtain and maintain a fair and reasonable price for their products.
Withdrawn oil lands.Expenses of suits affecting. Suits affecting withdrawn oil lands: To enable the Attorney General to represent and protect the interests of the United States in matters and suits affecting withdrawn oil lands and for expenses in connection therewith, including salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, $65,000. Conveyances, Five Civilized Tribes.Suits to set aside. Suits to set aside conveyances of allotted lands for removal of restrictions, allotted lands, Five Civilized Tribes:
For necessary expenses incident to any suits brought at the request of the Secretary of the Interior in the eastern judicial district of Oklahoma, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $23,000: *Proviso*.Expediting cases directed.*Provided*, That the Department of Justice is directed to expedite the final determination of all of said suits. Enforcing interstate commerce laws.Vol. 34, p. 379; Vol. 36, p. 539: Vol. 37. p. 701; Vol. 38, p. 219. Enforcement of Acts to regulate commerce:
For expenses of representing the Government in all matters arising under the Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce, ” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended, including traveling expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, including salaries of employees at Washington, $8,750. Federal Court Reports and Digests. Federal Court Reports and Digests: For one hundred and seventy-nine copies of continuations of the Federal Reporter, as issued, estimated at ten volumes per year, to continue sets now furnished various officials, at $2 per volume, $3,580.
Lawyers’ Cooperative Edition.Volume 62. For fifteen copies of volume sixty-two of the Lawyers’ Cooperative Edition of the United States Reports, to continue sets now in the hands of certain officers, at $7.50 per volume, $112.50. United States Reports.Volumes 249 to 252. For two hundred and seventy copies of each of four volumes—namely, two hundred and forty-nine to two hundred and fifty-two of the United States Reports to continue sets now in the hands of certain officials, at $1.75 per volume, $1,890.
Pacific railroad suits.Expenses. Protecting interests of the United States in suits affecting Pacific railroads: To enable the Attorney General to represent and protect the interests of the United States in matters and suits affecting the Pacific railroads, and for expenses in connection therewith, $35,000. Judicial. JUDICIAL. United States courts. united states courts. Marshals.Salaries and expenses. For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including the office expenses of United States marshals in the District of Alaska, services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, services in Alaska and Oklahoma in collecting evidence for the United States when so specially directed by the Attorney General, and maintenance, alteration, repair, and operation of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles used in connection with the transaction of the official business of the office of United States marshal for the District of Columbia, $1,730,000.
Advances.Advances to United States marshals, in accordance with existing law, may be made from the proper appropriations, as herein provided, immediately upon the passage of this Act; but no disbursements shall be made prior to July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, by said disbursing officers from the funds thus advanced, and no disbursements shall be made therefrom to liquidate expenses for the 683fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, or prior years: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Cost of keeping attached vessels, etc.That there shall be paid hereunder any necessary cost of keeping vessels or other property attached or libeled in admirality in such amount as the court, on petition setting forth the facts under oath, may allow: *Provided further*, That marshals and office deputy marshals Per diem subsistence.Vol. 29, p. 183.(except in the district of Alaska) may be granted a per diem of not to exceed $4 and $3, respectively, in lieu of subsistence, instead of, but under the conditions prescribed for, the present allowance for actual expenses of subsistence.
For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of District attorneys.Salaries and expenses.United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and for salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district Services during vacancies.attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney, $660,000. For fees of United States district attorney for the District of District of Columbia.Fees, district attorney.Allowance for salaries, etc.Columbia, $33,300.
The United States district attorney for the District of Columbia shall hereafter pay to his deputies or assistants not exceeding in all $15,000 per annum; also his clerical and messenger hire not exceeding $10,000; office rent, fuel, stationery, printing, and other incidental expenses not exceeding $2,500, out of the fees of his office: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Restriction.That no expenses other than those above specified shall be allowed: *Provided further*, That after July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, Subsistence allowance when absent.the maximum allowance for actual expenses of subsistence to the United States attorney for the District of Columbia and his assistants, when absent from the District of Columbia on official business, shall be $4 per day.
For regular assistants to United States district attorneys who are Regular assistants.appointed by the Attorney General at a fixed annual compensation, $385,000: *Provided*, That except as otherwise prescribed by law the *Proviso*.Maximum pay.Vol. 29, p. 181.compensation of such of the assistant district attorneys authorized by section eight of the Act approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, as the Attorney General may deem necessary, may be fixed at not exceeding $3,000 per annum.
For assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district Assistants in special cases.attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, and for payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney Foreign counsel.General in special cases (such counsel shall not be required to take Oath.[R. S., sec. 366, p. 62](/us/rs/s366/p62).oath of office in accordance with section three hundred and sixty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States), $175,000. For fees of clerks, $235,000: *Provided*, That courts of the United Clerks fees.*Provisos*.Suits by seamen.States, including appellate courts, hereafter shall be open to seamen, without furnishing bonds or prepayment of or making deposit to secure fees or costs, for the purpose of entering and prosecuting suit or suits in their own name and for their own benefit for wages or salvage and to enforce laws made for their health and safety: *Provided further*, That the Attorney General is authorized to require the official bonds of clerks of United States courts to be renewed every Renewal of bonds.four years, and to fix the amounts of such bonds within statutory limits.
Failure to take such action shall not affect the liability Office vacated on failure.under such bonds, but upon failure or refusal of any clerk to execute such new bond or bonds his office shall be deemed vacant by order of the President and so declared by the district attorney in open court: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be Not available for District of Columbia Supreme Court.*Post*, p. 1035.used to pay the fees of the clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia.
For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace Commissioners’, etc., fees.acting under section one thousand and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, $175,000. For fees of jurors, $1,150,000. Jurors’ fees. 684 Witness fees, etc.[R.S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p180). Fees of witnesses: For fees of witnesses and for payment of the actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, $1,200,000.
Rent of court rooms. For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers, $58,000. Bailiffs, etc. For bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier in each court, except in the southern district of New York and the *Provisos*.Attendance.[R. S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/s715/p130).northern district of Illinois: *Provided;* That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the Traveling expenses of judges.order of the courts: *Provided further*, That no such persons shall be employed during vacation; expenses of circuit and district judges of the United States and the judges of the district courts of the United Vol. 36, p. 1161.States in Alaska, Porto Rico, and Hawaii, as provided by section two hundred and fifty-nine of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven entitled, “An Act to codify, revise, and amend Jury expenses.the laws relating to the judiciary”; meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the same, In Alaska.when ordered by the court, and meals and lodging for jurors in Alaska, Vol. 31, p. 363.as provided by section one hundred and ninety-three, Title II, of the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred; and compensation for jury commissioners, $5 per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, $250,000.
Miscellaneous expenses. For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, including so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney General for such expenses in the District of Alaska, $450,000. Supplies. For supplies, including exchange of typewriting and adding machines for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $45,000.
Support of prisoners. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, discharge gratuities provided by law and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States or such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, and who continue insane after expiration of sentence who have no friends to whom they can be sent; shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their friends or relatives in the United States and interment of deceased prisoners whose remains are unclaimed; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and for rewards for their recapture; and not exceeding $2,500 for repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, $700,000.
Penitentiaries.Leavenworth, Kans. Subsistence. Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including supplies from the prison stores for warden, deputy warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining-room furniture and utensils, seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, $148,000; Clothing, transportation, etc. For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including materials for making clothing at the penitentiary; gratuities for prisoners at release, provided such gratuities shall be furnished to prisoners sentenced for terms of imprisonment of not less than six months, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, or to such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; expenses of shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their homes in the United States; expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on official duty; expenses incurred in pursuing and identifying escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, $63,750;
Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney General, fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, fuel for generating 685steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and lime; forage for issue to public animals, and hay and straw for bedding; not exceeding $1,350 for purchase, maintenance, and repair of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle; blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; labor and materials for repairing steam-heating plant, electric plant and water circulation, and drainage; labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings; general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brickyard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photograph gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds; purchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; advertising in newspapers; fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental conditions of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; pay of extra guards or employees when deemed necessary by the Attorney General: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Live stock.That live stock may be exchanged or traded when authorized by the Attorney General, $100,000;
For hospital supplies, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, and Hospital.all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners on the penitentiary reservation, $7,225; For salaries; Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains—Salaries.one $1,500, one $1,200; physician, $1,600; pharmacist and physician’s assistant, $1,000; chief clerk, $1,800; record clerk, $1,200; stenographer, $900; clerks—one $1,200, one $1,000, four at $900 each; head cook, $1,000; steward and storekeeper, $1,200; superintendent of farm and transportation, $1,200; three captains of watch, at $1,000 each; guards, at $70 per month each, $78,540; two teamsters, at $600 each; engineer and electrician, $1,500; two assistants, at $1,200 each; in all, $111,040;
For foremen, laundrymen, tailor, printer, and shoemaker, when necessary, $4,300; In all, Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary, $434,315. Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the Atlanta, Ga.Subsistence.same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $104,000; For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the Clothing, transportation, etc.same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $52,000;
For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects Miscellaneous.specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and not exceeding $25 for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $71,500; For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under Hospitalthis head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $4,600; For salaries: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains—Salaries.one $1,500, one $1,200; chief clerk, $ 1,800; physician, $1,600; pharmacist and physician’s assistant, $1,000; bookkeeper and record clerk, $1,200; stenographer, $900; clerks—one $1,200, one $1,000, four at $900 each; engineer and electrician, $1,500; two assistants, at $1,200 each; steward and storekeeper, $1,200; superintendent of farm and transportation, $1,200; two teamsters, at $600 each; head cook, $1,000; three captains of watch, at $1,000 each; guards, at $70 per month each, $55,440; in all, $87,940;
For foremen, tailor, shoemaker, laundryman, and carpenter, when necessary, $4,000; In all, Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary, $324,040. 686 McNeil Island, Wash.Subsistence. McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and for supplies for guards, $16,500; Clothing, transportation, etc. For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $11,000;
Miscellaneous. For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $16,000; Hospital. For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $750; Salaries. For salaries: For warden, $2,000; deputy warden, $1,200; physician, $1,200; steward and cook, $1,000; chief clerk, $1,200; engineer and electrician, $1,200; superintendent of boats, $1,200; guards, at $70 per month each, $11,500; in all, $20,500;
In all, McNeil Island (Washington) Penitentiary, $64,750. National Training School for Boys, D. C. National Training School for Boys; Superintendent, $2,500; assistant Salaries.superintendent, $1,500; teachers and assistants, $12,120; chief clerk, $1,000; matron of school and nurse, at $600 each; storekeeper and steward, $720; farmer, $660; baker, $660; tailor, $720; parole officer, $900; office clerk, $720; assistant office clerk, $480; seven matrons of families, at $240 each; foremen of shop and skilled helper, $4,200; assistant farmer and assistant engineer, at $420 each; laundress, $360; teamster, $420; florist, $540; engineer and shoemaker, at $600 each; cook, $600; dining-room attendants—boys $300, officers $240; housemaid, $216; seamstress, $240; assistant cook, $300; watchmen, not to exceed nine in number, $3,780; secretary and treasurer, $900; janitor, $420; in all, $39,416;
Maintenance. For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dry goods, leather, shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, furniture, tableware, farm implements, seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books and periodicals, stationery, printing, entertainments, plumbing, painting, glazing, medicines and medical attendance, stock, maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, fencing, roads, all repairs to buildings, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding $1,500, for additional labor or services, for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates, for rewards for their recapture, and not exceeding $500 for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, $15,000;
In all, National Training School for Boys, $54,416. Department of Commerce. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. Lighthouses Bureau, aids to navigation. lighthouses, beacons, fog signals, light vessels, and other works under the lighthouse service. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba.Keepers’ dwellings, etc. Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, aids to navigation: For dwelling for keepers of the lights, and improving the lighting, $14,000. Second district depot.*Proviso*.Conditions. Depot for second lighthouse district:
For construction and equipment, $85,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be expended on the said depot until after the adoption of such plans, specifications, and bids as will complete the same within the appropriation made herein. Detroit, Mich., depot. Detroit, Michigan, lighthouse depot: For improvements, $53,000. Sand Island, Ala. Sand Island Light Station, Alabama: For improvements, $37,000. Spectacle Reef, Mich. Spectacle Reef Light Station, Michigan: For improvements, $28,000.
Ambrose Channel, N.Y. Ambrose Channel, New York: For improving the system of lighted buoys, $26,000. Joe Flogger Shoal, Del.Gas buoys, etc. Joe Flogger Shoal, Delaware, aids to navigation: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $40,000 “toward a light and fog 687signal station on the Joe Flogger Shoal, Delaware River,” contained Vol. 34, p. 659.in the Act approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, is made available for establishing gas buoys and improving aids to navigation in the vicinity of Joe Flogger Shoal, Delaware.
Fifth lighthouse district: For the purchase of additional gas buoys Fifth district.Gas buoys.for the improvement of aids to navigation, $65,000. Depot for sixteenth lighthouse district: For a lighthouse depot and Sixteenth district.Depot.the necessary equipment for the sixteenth lighthouse district, $90,000. The appropriation of $15,000 ‘for the installation of an electrically Nantucket, Mass.Electric log signal bell.*Ante*, pp. 496, 607.operated fog signal whistle on the east breakwater, Nantucket Harbor, Massachusetts,” contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, is made available for the establishment of an electrically operated fog-signal bell at that point. lighthouse service.
Lighthouse Service. General expenses: For supplies, repairs, maintenance, and incidental General expenses.Objects specified.expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoyage, fog signals, lighting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted, light vessels, other aids to navigation, and lighthouse tenders, including the establishment, repair, and improvement of beacons and day marks and purchase of land for same; establishment of post lights, buoys, Oil or carbide houses.submarine signals, and fog signals; establishment of oil or carbide houses, not to exceed $10,000: *Provided*, That any oil or carbide house *Provisos*.Limit of cost of buildings.erected hereunder shall not exceed $550 in cost; construction of necessary outbuildings at a cost not exceeding $500 at any one light station in any fiscal year; improvement of grounds and buildings connected with light stations and depots; restoring light stations and depots and buildings connected therewith: *Provided*, That such restoration shall Limit for restorations.be limited to the original purpose of the structures; wages of laborers attending post lights; temporary employees and field force while engaged on works of general repair and maintenance, and laborers and mechanics at lighthouse depots; rations and provisions or commutation Rations, etc.thereof for keepers of lighthouses, working parties in the field, officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials and other authorized persons of the Lighthouse Service on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, and money accruing from commutation for rations and provisions for the above-named persons on board of tenders and light vessels or in working parties in the field may be paid on proper vouchers to the person having charge of the mess of such vessel or party; reimbursement under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce of keepers of light stations and masters of light vessels and of lighthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothing furnished shipwrecked persons who may be temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all $.000 in any fiscal year; fuel and rent of quarters where necessary for keepers of lighthouses; purchase of land sites for fog signals; rent of necessary ground for all Purchase of sites, etc.such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or to mark changeable channels and which in consequence can not be made permanent; rent of offices, depots, and wharves; traveling expenses; mileage; library books for light stations and vessels, and technical books and periodicals not exceeding $1,000; all other contingent expenses of district offices and depots; and not exceeding $10,000 for contingent Contingent expenses.expenses of the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses in Washington, $3,500,000.
Every lighthouse keeper and assistant lighthouse keeper in the Rations or commutation.*Ante*, p. 608.Lighthouse Service of the United States shall be entitled to receive one ration per day, or, in the discretion of the Commissioner of Lighthouses, commutation therefor at the rate of 45 cents per ration. Keepers of lighthouses: For salaries of not exceeding one thousand Keepers.eight hundred lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights exclusive of post lights, $940,000. 688 Lighthouse vessels Lighthouse vessels:
For salaries and wages of officers and crews of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $1,265,000. Inspectors, etc.*Ante*, p. 608. Inspectors, clerks, and so forth: For salaries of seventeen lighthouse inspectors, and of clerks and other authorized permanent employees in the district offices and depots of the Lighthouse Service, exclusive of those regularly employed in the Bureau of Lighthouses, Washington, District of Columbia, $380,000.
Coast and Geodetic Survey. coast and geodetic survey. Expenses. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including maintenance, repair, or operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn vehicles for use in field work, and including compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, and commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate not exceeding $2.50 per day each, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey prescribed by the Secretary *Provisos*.Advances.of Commerce, and under the following heads: *Provided*, That advances of money from available appropriations hereafter may be made to the Coast and Geodetic Survey and by authority of the superintendent thereof to chiefs of parties, who shall give bond under such rules and regulations and in such sum as the Secretary of Commerce may direct, and accounts arising under such advances shall be rendered through and by the disbursing officer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the Treasury Department as under advances Purchase of minor supplies, etc.heretofore made to chiefs of parties: *And provided further*, That hereafter the purchase of supplies or the procurement of services outside the District of Columbia may be made in the open market in the manner common among business men when the aggregate amount of the purchase does not exceed $50;
Field expenses.Atlantic and Gulf coasts.*Proviso*.Islands, etc., limit. Field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands under the jurisdiction of the United States: *Provided*, That not more than $45,000 of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of said outlying islands, and the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal, $101,500; Pacific coasts. For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts on the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, $160,000;
Physical hydrography. For continuing researches in physical hydrography, relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, including extra compensation at not to exceed $1 per day for each station to employees of the Lighthouse Service while observing tides or currents, $16,000; Coast Pilot. For compilation of the Coast Pilot, including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, $5,600;
Magnetic observations, etc. For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridian lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States; magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States; purchase of additional magnetic instruments; lease of sites where necessary and erection of temporary magnetic buildings; continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; establishing lines of exact levels in Alaska; determination of geographical positions, by triangulation or traverse for the control of Federal, State, boundary, and other surveys and engineering works in all parts of the interior of the United States and Alaska; determination of field astronomic positions; for continuing gravity observations; and including the employment in the field and 689office of such magnetic observers, at salaries not exceeding $2,200 per annum, as may be necessary, $90,000;
For special surveys that may be required by the Bureau of Lighthouses Special surveys.or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, $5,000; For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, Miscellaneous.including the preparation or purchase of plans and specifications of vessels and the employment of such hull draftsmen in the field and office as may be necessary for the same; the reimbursement, under Reimbursement for relieving shipwrecked persons, etc.rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce, of officers of the Coast and Geodetic Survey for food, clothing, medicines, and other supplies furnished for the temporary relief of distressed persons in remote localities and to shipwrecked persons temporarily provided for by them, not to exceed a total of $550; actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office in the District of Columbia for consultation with the superintendent, and not exceeding $500 for the expenses of the attendance of the American International Geodetic Association.delegates at the meetings of the International Geodetic Association, $4,500;
In all, field expenses, $382,600. Vessels: For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, Vessels.Maintenance, etc.including traveling expenses of persons inspecting the repairs, and exclusive of engineer’s supplies and other ship chandlery, $36,000. For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels, including Officers and crews.professional seamen serving as mates on vessels of the survey, to execute the work of the survey herein provided for and authorized by law, $225,000.
Salaries: Superintendent, $6,000; hydrographic and geodetic engineers, Salaries.Superintendent, engineers, etc.junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers, and aids, to be employed in the field or office, as the superintendent may direct, one of whom may be designated by the Secretary of Commerce to act as assistant superintendent; hydrographic and geodetic engineers—two at $4,000 each, one $3,200, five at $3,000 each, one $2,800, five at $2,500 each, twelve at $2,400 each, nine at $2,200 each, twelve at $2,000 each; junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers—sixteen at $1,800 each, eleven at $1,600 each, nine at $1,400 each, twelve at $1,200 each; aids—ten at $1,100 each, nineteen at $1,000 each; in all, $223,500.
Office force: Disbursing agent, $2,500; chief of division of library Office force.Clerks, etc.and archives, $1,800; clerk to superintendent, $1,800; chief of printing and sales, $2,000; clerks—two at $1,800 each, three at $1,650 each, four at $1,400 each, eleven at $1,200 each, five at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each, six at $720 each; Topographic and hydrographic draftsmen: Two at $2,400 each, Draftsmen.three at $2,200 each, three at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, six at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, two copyist draftsmen at $1,000 each;
Astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers: One Computers.$2,500, two at $2,200 each, two at $2,100 each, two at $2,000 each, four at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each, eleven at $1,200 each; Copperplate engravers: One $2,400, two at $2,200 each, three at Engravers.$2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; Engravers and apprentices at not exceeding $1,000 each, $3,600; Instrument makers:
Mechanical engineer $2,750, one $1,800, one Instrument makers.$1,600, two at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each; Pattern makers and carpenters: Three at $1,400 each, two carpenters Pattern makers, etc.and painters at $900 each; Lithographers, lithographic draftsmen, transferers, lithographic Printing employees.pressmen and their helpers, plate printers and their helpers, and other 690skilled laborers: Two at $2,000 each, two at $1,800 each, one $1,700, one $1,600, one $1,400, eight at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $900, five at $700 each;
Photographers. Photographers: One $1,700, one $1,600, one $1,200; Engineers, watchmen, etc. Engineer, electricians, dynamo tenders, and electrotypers: One $1,800, one $1,400, one $1,200, four at $1,080 each; Watchmen, firemen, messengers, and laborers: Three at $880 each, three at $840 each, four at $820 each, three at $720 each, four at $700 each, two at $640 each, three at $630 each, one $550; In all, pay of office force, $253,860. Office expenses.*Post*, p. 809. Office expenses:
For purchase of new instruments, including their exchange, materials and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, books, scientific and technical books, journals, books of reference, maps, charts, and subscriptions; copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use; including the employment in the District of Columbia of such personal services, other than clerical, as may be necessary for the prompt preparation of charts, not to exceed $6,000; stationery for office and field parties; transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses; office wagon and horses or automobile truck; heating, lighting, and power; telephones, including operation of switchboard; telegrams, ice, and washing; office furniture, repairs, traveling expenses of officers and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office; miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, and not exceeding $3,400 for extra labor, $80,000.
Machinery attachment to press.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 164. The appropriation of $3,000 “for an offset attachment for a lithographic press,” contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is reappropriated for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. For two motor-driven lathes, especially adapted for fine instrument work, at $750 each. New vessels. For one new vessel, including equipment, to cost not exceeding $354,000, $50,000.
For a new motor-driven vessel, including equipment, to replace the Taku, $50,000. Allowances restricted. For four or more new launches, including their equipment, $62,500. Appropriations herein made for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall not be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the superintendent), except as now provided by law.
Fisheries Bureau. bureau of fisheries. Commissioner, deputy, etc. Commissioner’s office: Commissioner, $6,000; deputy commissioner, $3,500; assistants in charge of divisions—fish culture $2,700, inquiry respecting food fishes $2,700, statistics and methods of fisheries $2,500; assistants—one in charge of office $2,500, one $2,500, one for developing fisheries and for saving and use of fishery products $2,400, one $2,400, one $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,600, two at $1,200 each, two at $900 each; fish pathologist, $2,500; architect and engineer, $2,200; assistant architect, $1,600; draftsman, $1,200; accountant, $2,100; librarian,.$1,500; superintendent of car and messenger Clerks, etc.service, $1,600; clerks—three of class four, four of class three, one to commissioner $1,600, four of class two (one transferred to office of Secretary of Commerce), seven of class one, three at $1,000 each, fourteen at $900 each (including one for Seattle office); statistical agents—two at $1,400 each, two at $1,000 each; local agents—one 691at Boston $300, one at Gloucester $600, one at Seattle $600; engineer, $1,080; three firemen, at $720 each; two watchmen, at $720 each; five janitors and messengers, at $720 each; janitress, $480; messenger boy, $360; five charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $109,120.
Alaska service: Pribilof Islands—two agents and caretakers at Alaska service.Agents, physicians, etc.$2,000 each, two physicians at $1,500 each, three school-teachers at $1,200 each, two storekeepers at $1,800 each; agent, $2,500; assistant agents—one $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,500; inspector, $1,800; wardens—one $1,200, six at $900 each; in all, $30,400. Employees at large: Field assistant, $3,000; two field station Employees at large.superintendents, at $1,800 each; field assistants—one $1,500, one $1,200; fish-culturists—two at $960 each, two at $900 each; six machinists, at $960 each; two coxswains, at $720 each; in all, $20,220.
Distribution
(car)employees: Five captains, at $1,200 each; six Distribution employees.messengers, at $1,000 each; five assistant messengers, at $900 each; five apprentice messengers, at $720 each; five cooks, at $600 each; in all, $23,100. Afognak (Alaska) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, Station employees.Afognak, Alaska.$1,200; two fish-culturists, at $960 each; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $900 each; cook, $900; in all, $8,220. Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; Alpena, Mich.in all, $2,100. Baird (California) and Battle Creek (California) Stations: Superintendent, Baird and Battle Creek, Cal.$1,500; foreman, $1,080; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,280. Baker Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Baker Lake, Wash.$900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Beaufort (North Carolina) Biological Station: Superintendent and Beaufort, N. C.director, $1,500; scientific assistant, $1,400; fish-culturist, $900; apprentice fish-culturist, $600; in all, $4,400. Berkshire (Massachusetts) Trout Hatchery: Superintendent, $1,500; Berkshire, Mass.fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Boothbay Harbor (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Boothbay Harbor, Me.$900; engineer, $1,100; apprentice fish-culturists—one $780, two at $600 each; three firemen, at $600 each; custodian of lobster pounds, $720; in all, $8,000. Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, Bozeman, Mont.$1,200; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,800. Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, $360. Bryans Point, Md. Cape Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fireman, Cape Vincent, N. Y.$720; apprentice fish-culturists—one $720, two at $600 each; in all, $4,140. Clackamas (Oregon) and subsidiary stations: Superintendent, Clackamas, Oreg.$1,500; foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; apprentice fish-culturists—three at $720 each, two at $600 each; in all, $6,960. Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Cold Springs, Ga.$900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Craig Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Craig Brook, Me.$900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; two Duluth, Minn.fish-culturists at $900 each; two apprentice fish-culturists at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Edenton, N. C.$900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, Erwin, Tenn.$900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. 692 Fairport, Iowa. Fairport
(Iowa)Biological Station: Director, $1,800; superintendent of fish-culture, $1,500; scientific assistants—one $1,400, one $1,200; foreman, $1,200; shell expert., $1,200; clerk, $900; engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at $600 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $12,600. Gloucester, Mass. Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; fireman, $720; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,920. Green Lake, Mo. Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; two fish-culturists, at $900 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Homer, Minn. Homer (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; scientific assistants—one $1,400, one $1,200; foreman, $1,200; engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at $600 each; two apprentice fish-culturists,. at $600 each; in all, $8,700. Key West, Fla. Key West (Florida) Biological Station: Superintendent, $1,800; engineer, $1,000; laboratory aid, $900; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,800. Leadville, Colo. Leadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; two fish-culturists, at $900 each; apprentice fish-culturists—one $720, two at $600 each; cook, $480; in all, $6,900. Louisville, Ky. Louisville (Kentucky) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Mammoth Spring, Ark. Mammoth Spring (Arkansas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Manchester, Iowa. Manchester
(Iowa)Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Nashua, N. H. Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Neosho, Mo. Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; apprentice fish-culturists—one $720, two at $600 each; in all, $4 320. Northville, Mich. Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $960; fish-culturist, $900; four apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,760. Orangeburg, S. C. Orangeburg (South Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Puget Sound, Wash. Puget Sound (Washington) Station: Three foremen, at $1,200 each; nine apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $9,000. Put in Bay, Ohio. Put in Bay
(Ohio)Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,000; machinist, $960; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,660. Saint Johnsbury and Holden, Vt. Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station and Holden (Vermont) Auxiliary Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; apprentice fish-culturists—one $720, four at $600 each; in all, $6,720. San Marcos, Tex. San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,400. Saratoga, Wyo. Saratoga (Wyoming) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Spearfish, S. Dak. Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Springville, Utah. Springville
(Utah)Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. 693 Private John Allen Station, Tupelo, Mississippi: Superintendent, Private John Alien, Tupelo, Miss.$1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Washington (District of Columbia) Central Station and Aquaria: Washington, D. C.Central Station and Aquaria.Superintendent, $1,500; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $720 each; laborer, $600; in all, $3,540. White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia) Station: Superintendent, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.$1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists at $600 each: in all, $4,200. Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; Woods Hole, Mass.machinist, $960; two fish-culturists at $900 each; three firemen, at $600 each; four apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $8,460. Wytheville (Virginia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; two fish-culturists, Wytheville, Va.at $900 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Yes Bay (Alaska) Hatchery: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, Yes Bay, Alaska.$1,200; two fish-culturists, at $960 each; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $900 each; cook, $900; in all, $8,220. Steamer Albatross: Naturalist, $1,800; general assistant, $1,200; Vessel service.fishery expert, $1,200; clerk, $1,000; in all, $5,200. Steamer Fish Hawk: Cabin boy, $480. Steamer Osprey: Master, $1,500; engineer, $1,100; cook, $600; two firemen, at $720 each; seaman, $600; in all, $5,240. Steamer Gannet: Master, $1,200; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; two seamen, at $600 each; in all, $4,220. For officers and crew of vessel for Alaska fisheries service, $26,000. Alaska fisheries service.Officers, etc., of vessels not appropriated for.Status retained for one year. The officers and crews of the Bureau of Fisheries vessels Phalarope, Curlew, and Grampus, heretofore appropriated for but who are not specifically appropriated for herein, shall not lose their civil-service status at the expiration of one year, but shall be eligible for reappointment to similar positions until June thirtieth, nineteen and nineteen. Administration: For expenses of the office of the commissioner, Administration expenses.*Post*, p. 809.including stationery, scientific and reference books, periodicals, newspapers, for library, furniture, telegraph and telephone service, repairs to and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, compensation of temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $10,000. Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, equipment, and Propagation expenses.operations of fish-cultural stations, general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including movement, maintenance, and repairs of cam, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, temporary labor, and not to exceed $10,000 for propagation and distribution of fresh-water mussels and the necessary expenses connected therewith, $400,000. For developing by the Bureau of Fisheries in cooperation with the Aquatic leather.Developing sources of.Bureau of Standards new aquatic sources of supply of leather, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, the unexpended balance of the appropriation for the fiscal year nineteen Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 167.hundred and eighteen is reappropriated and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. Appropriations herein or hereafter made for propagation of food Restriction on expenses in Status.fishes shall not be expended for hatching or planting fish or eggs in any State in which, in the judgment of the Secretary of Commerce, there are not adequate laws for the protection of the fishes, nor in any State in which the United States Commissioner of Fisheries and his duly authorized agents are not accorded full and free right to conduct fish-cultural operations, and all fishing and other operations 694necessary therefor, in such manner and at such times as is considered necessary and proper by the said commissioner or his agents. Maintenance of vessels. Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of vessels and launches, including purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, and money accruing from commutation of rations and provisions on board vessels may be paid on proper vouchers to the persons having charge of the mess of such vessels, $95,000. Clothing, etc., for sale to crews. Hereafter the Secretary of Commerce is authorized to purchase, to the extent of not to exceed $5,000, from the appropriations for the Bureau of Fisheries, clothing and small stores for the crews of vessels, to be sold to the employees of said service and the appropriations reimbursed. Commutation of rations, vessel service. Commutation of rations not to exceed 60 cents may be paid to officers and crews of vessels of the Bureau of Fisheries under regulations prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce. Treatment by Public Health Service. Officers and crews of the several vessels belonging to the Bureau of Fisheries may be admitted to the benefits of the Public Health Service without charge upon the application of their respective commanding officers. Food fishes inquiry. Inquiry respecting food fishes: For inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food fishes in the waters of the United States, investigations and experiments in respect to the aquatic animals, plants, and waters, in the interest of fish culture and the fishery industries, including expenses of travel and preparation of reports, $50,000. Statistical inquiry. Statistical inquiry: For collection and compilation of statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, including travel and preparation of reports and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $7,500. Sponge fisheries.Protection, etc. Sponge fisheries: For protecting the sponge fisheries, including employment of inspectors, watchmen, and temporary assistants, hire of boats, rental of office and storage, care of seized sponges and other property, travel, and all other expenses necessary to carry out the Vol. 38, p. 692.provisions of the Act of August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to regulate the sponge fisheries, $3,000. Alaska, general service.Seal fisheries protection, food to natives, etc. Alaska, general service: For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska, including the furnishing of food, fuel, clothing, and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands of Alaska, transportation of supplies to and from the islands, expenses of travel of agents and other employees and subsistence while on said islands, hire and maintenance of vessels, and for all expenses necessary to carry out the provisions of the Act approved April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and ten, Vol. 36, p. 326.entitled “An Act to protect the seal fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes,” and for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, including travel, hire of boats, employment of temporary labor, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $100,000. Berkshire, Mass.Increasing trout hatchery.Vol. 39, p. 431. Berkshire, Massachusetts, trout hatchery: For increasing the hatching and rearing facilities, including the construction and repair of ponds, improvements to water supply, and for equipment, $2,500. Saint Johnsbury, Vt.Auxiliary station. Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, station: For the establishment of an auxiliary station on Lake Champlain, including the purchase of land, construction of buildings, and for equipment, $5,000. Edenton, N. C.Appropriation for land continued.*Ante*, p. 168. Edenton, North Carolina, fish hatchery: The appropriation of $3,500 for land and improvements, contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is continued and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. Pribilof Islands.Power lighter for. Alaska fur-seal islands: For the purchase or construction of a wooden power lighter for use at the Pribilof Islands, $20,000. 695 bureau of standards. Bureau of Standards. Testing of large scales: For investigation and testing of railroad Testing large scales.track scales, elevator scales, and other scales used in weighing commodities for interstate shipments and to secure equipment and assistance for testing the scales used by the Government in its transactions with the public, such as post-office, navy-yard, and customhouse scales, and for the purpose of cooperating with the States in securing uniformity in the weights and measures laws and in the methods of inspection, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $40,000. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. Department of Labor. immigration stations. Immigrant stations. Ellis Island, New York: For two new generators, complete with Ellis Island, N.Y.Machinery.engines, replacing worn-out machinery, $45,000; For continuation of granite-faced sea wall, under original limit of Sea wall.cost, $125,000; In all, $170,000. immigration service. Immigration Service. For enforcement of the laws regulating immigration of aliens into Enforcing laws regulating admission of aliens.*Post*, p. 811.the United States, including the contract-labor laws; cost of reports of decisions of the Federal courts, and digests thereof, for the use of the Commissioner General of Immigration; salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees, appointed to enforce said laws, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen; enforcement of the provisions of the Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, Vol. 39, p. 874.entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to and the residence of aliens in the United States,” and Acts amendatory *Ante*, p. 542.thereof; necessary supplies, including exchange of typewriting machines, alterations, and repairs, and for all other expenses authorized by said Act; preventing the unlawful entry of Chinese into the Chinese exclusion.United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto; expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expenses of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or seaboard for deportation; refunding of head Refunding head tax.tax and maintenance bills upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that collection was made through error of Government officers; all to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Labor, $2,450,000: *Provided*, That the purchase, use, maintenance, *Provisos*.Vehicles outside of District of Columbia.and operation of horses and motor vehicles required in the enforcement of the immigration and Chinese exclusion laws outside of the District of Columbia may be contracted for and the cost thereof paid from the appropriation for the enforcement of those laws, under such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe: *Provided further*, Maintenance, etc.That not more than $12,000 of the sum appropriated herein may be expended in the purchase and maintenance of such motor vehicles: *Provided further*, That no part of the sum hereby Maintenance of station privileges forbidden.Vol. 39, p. 894.appropriated shall be expended for the maintenance at any United States immigrant station of any of the privileges now disposed of after public competition as provided by the Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to and the residence of aliens in the United States.” 696 Montreal, Canada.Lease of office quarters. The Secretary of Labor is authorized to execute a lease for office quarters for the United States Immigration Service at Montreal, Canada, for a period of five years from July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, at a rate of rental not exceeding $4,500 per annum. Payment of accounts for interned German crews. The Secretary of Labor is authorized to pay certain maintenance bills incurred by immigration officers at Boston, Massachusetts, and elsewhere, incident to the removal and temporary guarding of crews of German ships in the month of April, nineteen hundred and seventeen, the amount of such payments not to exceed $500 and to be charged against the appropriation for that fiscal year. Cunard Steamship Company.Refund. For refund to the Cunard Steamship Company (Limited) of amount erroneously paid for passage money for the aliens John Cavalas and Nicolas Coffas, $75. Hartfield, Solari and Company.Refund. For refund to Hartfield, Solari and Company of amount erroneously paid for hospital maintenance of nineteen American citizens, $160.75. Scandinavian-American Line.Refund. For refund to Scandinavian-American Line of amount erroneously paid for hospital maintenance of three American citizens, $70.50. Mauro Fierro.Informer’s fee. To pay to Mauro Fierro for information that led to the collection of 81,000 in penalties from Garcia Rodriguez, of El Paso, Texas, for importing aliens under contract, in violation of the immigration laws, $125. War emergency services. war emergency services. Employment for wage earners, standardization of wages, etc. To enable the Secretary of Labor, during the present emergency, to furnish such information and to render such assistance in the employment of wage earners throughout the United States as may be deemed necessary in the prosecution of the war and to aid in the standardization of all wages paid by the Government of the United Services, supplies, etc.States and its agencies, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, heat and light, telegraph and telephone service, supplies and equipment, and printing and binding, $5,500,000: *Proviso*.Limit on paying wages.*Provided*, That no money now or hereafter appropriated for the payment of wages not fixed by statute shall be available to pay wages in excess of the standard determined upon by the War Labor Policies Board. Advances for transportation to secure employment.*Ante*, p. 496. The appropriation of $250,000 “to enable the Secretary of Labor to advance to wage earners transportation to such places as may be deemed necessary for the purpose of securing employment in connection Appropriation available for fiscal year 1919.with the prosecution of the war,” contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, is continued and made available for the same purposes and under the same conditions for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. War labor administration.Conciliation of labor disputes, etc.*Post*, p. 810.Objects specified. To enable the Secretary of Labor, during the present emergency, to carry on the work of war-labor administration, including mediation and conciliation in labor disputes, the working conditions of wage earners in the most essential war industries, the acquiring and diffusing of information on subjects connected with labor, the employment of women in industry, and the training and dilution of labor, including personal services and rent in the District of Columbia and in the field, per diem in lieu of subsistence not to exceed $4, traveling expenses, law books, books of reference, periodicals, Allotment of expenses.newspapers, supplies and equipment, and contingent and miscellaneous expenses, in amounts not exceeding the following: Commissioners of conciliation, $300,000; working conditions service, $45,000; information and education service, $225,000; woman in industry service, $40,000; investigation and inspection service, $300,000; personnel service, $15,000; training and dilution service, $150,000; Secretary’s office, $110,000; printing and binding for all services, $150,000; in all, $1,335,000. 697 naturalization service. Naturalization Bureau. For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Labor, of examiners, Pay of examiners, interpreters, etc.interpreters, clerks, and stenographers, for the purpose of Vol. 34, p. 596.carrying on the work of the Bureau of Naturalization, provided for by the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, as amended by the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and Vol. 37, p. 736.thirteen (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-seven, page seven hundred and thirty-six), and for their actual necessary traveling expenses while absent from their official stations, including street car fare on official business at official stations, together with per diem in lieu Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.of subsistence, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for such per diem together with actual necessary traveling expenses of officers and employees of the Bureau of Naturalization in Washington while absent on official duty outside of the District of Columbia; telegrams, verifications of legal papers, telephone service in offices outside of the District of Columbia; not to exceed $5,300 for rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia where suitable quarters can not be obtained in public buildings; Assistance to clerks of courts.Vol. 34, p. 600.carrying into effect section thirteen of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page six hundred), as amended by the Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred Vol. 36, pp. 765, 830.and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page seven hundred and*Ante*, p. 171. sixty-five) and in accordance with the provisions of the sundry civil Act of June twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; and for mileage Witness fees, etc.and fees to witnesses subpoenaed on behalf of the United States, the expenditures from this appropriation shall be made in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe, $275,000. LEGISLATIVE. Legislative. Protection of the Capitol during the period of the war: For anAdditional policefor Capitol, Office Buildings, etc., during the war. additional uniformed police force during the period of the war for the protection of the Capitol Building and Grounds, the Senate and House Office Buildings, and the Capitol Power Plant, and for emergencies, and each and every item incident thereto, $30,000, one-half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and one-half by the Clerk of the House of Representatives: *Provided*, That the appointment *Proviso*.Appointments.to the positions herein provided shall be made by the Sergeants-at-Arms of the two Houses and the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, and shall be made solely on account of efficiency and special qualifications. The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $20,000 for the Joint Committee on Commerce.Unused balance continued.*Ante*, p. 377.Joint Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce in the Act entitled “An Act making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes,” approved April seventeenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is hereby continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the direction Statement of appropriations.To include first and second sessions of the present Congress.of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements for the first and second, sessions of the Sixty-fifth Congress, showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a chronological history of the regular appropriation bills, as required by law, $4,000, to be paid to the Vol. 25, p. 587.persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work. 698 Botanic Garden.Repairs, etc. Botanic Garden: For general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, painting, glazing, repairs to footwalks and roadways, general repairs to packing sheds, storerooms, and stables, including skilled laborers and laborers at rates to be fixed by the superintendent: purchase, exchange, care, and maintenance of a motor-propelled vehicle; purchase and installation of sanitary drinking fountains; repairing and putting comfort station in sanitary condition; under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $14,000. Senate Office Building.Maintenance. Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and supplies, and for all necessary personal and other services for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building, under the direction and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, $65,000. Furniture. For furniture for the Senate Office Building and for labor and material incident thereto and repairs thereof, window shades, awnings, carpets, glass for windows and bookcases, desk lamps, window ventilators, name plates for doors and committee tables, electric fans, and so forth, $7,500. Senate kitchens and restaurants. For the Capitol: For repairs, improvements, and equipment for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, $41,000. House Office Building.Maintenance. House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $60,000. Capitol power plant.Maintenance. Capitol power plant: For lighting the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, and Congressional Library Building, and the grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, Senate stables and engine house, House stables, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the Senate; pay of superintendent of meters, at the rate of $1,600 per annum, who shall inspect all gas and electric meters of the Government in the District of Columbia without additional compensation; for necessary personal and other services; and for materials and labor in connection with the maintenance and operation of the heating, lighting, and power plant, and substations connected therewith, $111,000. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the power Fuel, oil, etc.plant which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and congressional Purchases not restricted to supply committee.buildings, $127,000. This and the two foregoing appropriations shall be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds under the supervision and direction of the commission in Vol. 34, p. 1365.control of the House Office Building, appointed under the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred, and seven, and without Vol. 36, p. 531.reference to section four of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, concerning purchases for executive departments. Reimbursement for power supplied. The Department of the Interior shall reimburse the Capitol Power Plant for current supplied during the fiscal years nineteen hundred and eighteen and nineteen hundred and nineteen and the amounts so reimbursed shall be credited to the appropriations for the said plant and be available for the purposes named therein. Government Printing Office. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. public printing and binding. Public Printer, purchasing agent, clerks, etc. Office of Public Printer: Public Printer, $5,500; purchasing agent, $3,600; chief clerk, $2,750; accountant, $2,500; assistant purchasing agent, $2,500; cashier and paymaster, $2,500; clerk in charge of Congressional Record at the Capitol, $2,500; private secretary, $2,500; assistant accountant, $2,250; chief timekeeper, 699$2,000; paying teller, $2,000; clerks—three at $2,000 each, nine of class four, thirteen of class three, ten of class two, seven of class one, fifteen at $1,000 each, eleven at $900 each, one $840; paymaster’s guard, $1,000; doorkeepers—chief $1,200, one $1,200, six assistants at $1,000 each; two messengers, at $840 each; delivery men—chief $1,200, five at $950 each; telephone switchboard operator, $720; three assistant telephone switchboard operators, at $600 each; seven messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $144,230. Office of Deputy Public Printer: Deputy Public Printer, $4,500; Deputy Public Printer, etc.clerks—two of class one, one $840; chemist, $1,600; messenger; in all, $10,180. Watch force: Captain, $1,200; two lieutenants, at $900 each; Watch force.sixty-four watchmen; in all, $49,080. Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions Holidays.of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $246,500. Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with Leaves of absence.the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $400,000. For public printing, public binding, and paper for public printing Public printing, binding, etc.Aggregate amount.and binding, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving, for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the International Bureau of American Republics, the Executive Office, and the departments; for salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary Office salaries and expenses.employees additional to those herein specifically appropriated for, including the compensation of the foreman of binding and the foreman of printing; rents, fuel, gas, electric current, gas and electric fixtures; bicycles, electrical vehicles for the carriage of printing and printing supplies, and the maintenance, repair, and operation of the same, to be used only for official purposes, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use of the officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing ordered by the Public Printer (not exceeding $1,500); freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; furniture, typewriters, and carpets; traveling expenses, stationery, postage, and advertising; directories, technical books, and books of reference, not exceeding $500; adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar character; machinery (not exceeding Machinery, equipment, etc.$100,000); equipment, and for repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor alterations to buildings; necessary equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Government Printing Office who may be taken suddenly ill or receive injury while on duty; other necessary Miscellaneous items.contingent and miscellaneous items authorized by the Public Printer; and for all the necessary materials and equipment needed in the prosecution and delivery and mailing of the work, $7,000,000. In all, for public printing and binding, including salaries of office Total.force, payments for holidays and leaves of absence, and the last-named sum, $7,849,990; and from the said sum printing and binding Allotments.shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings Congress.and debates, $1,852,790. Printing and binding for Congress chargeable to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, 700together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. Departments, etc. For the State Department, $40,000. For the Treasury Department, including printing required by the Federal farm loan Act, $475,000. *Proviso*.Army medical bulletins. For the War Department, $2,250,000: *Provided*, That the sum of $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the publication, from time to time, of bulletins prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General of the Army, for the instruction of medical officers, when approved by the Secretary of War, and not exceeding $50,000 shall be available for printing and binding under the direction of the Chief of Engineers. *Post*, p. 1169. For the Navy Department, $300,000, including not exceeding $50,000 for the Hydrographic Office. For the Interior Department, including not exceeding $90,000 for the Civil Service Commission, and not exceeding $25,000 for the publication of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, $340,000. For the Patent Office: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indices, $585,000. For the United States Geological Survey: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the annual report of the director, and for the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, and for printing and binding the same publications, of which sum not more than $45,000 may be used for engraving, $100,000. For the Smithsonian Institution: For printing and binding the Annual Reports of the Board of Regents, with general appendixes, the editions of which shall not exceed ten thousand copies, $10,000; under the Smithsonian Institution: For the Annual Reports of the National Museum, with general appendixes, and for printing labels and blanks, and for the Bulletins and Proceedings of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not exceed four thousand copies, and binding, in half morocco or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to or acquired by the National Museum Library, $37,500; for the Annual Reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and for miscellaneous printing and binding for the bureau, $21,000; for miscellaneous printing and binding for the International Exchanges, $200; the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, $100; the National Zoological Park, $200; the Astrophysical Observatory, $200; and for the Annual Report of the American Historical Association, $7,000; in all, $76,200. For the Department of Justice, $40,000. For the United States Court of Customs Appeals, $1,500. For the Post Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, $290,000. For the Department of Agriculture, including not to exceed Department of Agriculture.Vol. 28, p. 616.$47,000 for the Weather Bureau, and including the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and in pursuance Vol. 34, p. 825.of the joint resolution numbered thirteen, approved March thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and also including not to exceed $200,000 for farmers’ bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of four-fifths of which shall be delivered to or sent out under the addressed franks furnished by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as they shall direct, $600,000. 701 For the Department of Commerce, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Bureau of the Census, $400,000. For the Department of Labor, $100,000. For the Supreme Court of the United States, $15,000; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ unless it shall otherwise order. For the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, $1,500. For the Court of Claims, $25,000. 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, $200,000. For the Executive Office, $3,000. For the Interstate Commerce Commission, $130,000, of which sum not exceeding $10,000 shall be available to print and furnish to the States at cost report-form blanks. For the Pan American Union, $25,000. That no more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby Quarterly allotment restrictions.appropriated for the public printing and for the public binding shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended; and no department or Government establishment shall consume in any such period a greater percentage of its allotment than can be lawfully expended during the same period of the whole appropriation. Money appropriated under the foregoing allotments shall not be Certificates of necessity required.expended for printing or binding for any of the executive departments or other Government establishments, except such as shall be certified in writing to the Public Printer by the respective heads or chiefs thereof to be necessary to conduct the ordinary and routine business required by law of such executive departments or Government establishments, and except such reports, monographs, bulletins, or other publications as are authorized by law or specifically provided for in appropriations heroin; all other printing required or deemed necessary or desirable by heads of executive departments or other Government establishments or offices or bureaus thereof shall be done only as Congress shall from time to time authorize. No part of any money appropriated in this Act shall be paid to Restriction on paying detailed employees.any person employed in the Government Printing Office while detailed for or performing service in any other executive branch of the public service of the United States unless such detail be authorized by law. All expenditures from appropriations made herein under Government Apportionment of expenditures to work executed.Printing Office, except appropriations for salaries and for stores and general expenses in and for the office of superintendent of documents, and expenses incurred on account of heat, light, and power furnished the city post-office building in Washington, District of Columbia, shall be equitably apportioned and charged by the Public Printer to each publication or work executed under any of the foregoing allotments, so that the total charges for work done from the appropriations aforesaid shall not be less than the total amount actually expended from all of said appropriations. office of superintendent of documents. Office of superintendent of documents. Superintendent, $3,500; assistant superintendent, $2,500; clerks.—Superintendent, assistant, etc.two of class four, three of class three, five of class two, eight of class one, eleven at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each, twenty-four at $840 each; cataloguers.—one in charge $1,800, two at $1,500 each, four at $1,200 each, one $1,100, eight at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; 702cashier, $1,600; librarian, $1,500; foreman, $1,600; assistant foreman, $1,200; stock keepers—one $1,100, three at $1,000 each; five at $900 each, three at $720 each; helpers—one $870, three at $750 each; five assistant messengers; three mailers, at $840 each; fifty-two skilled laborers, at $688.60 each; fourteen unskilled laborers, at $688.60 each; janitress, $688.60; two folders, at $688.60 each; messenger boys—eleven at $500 each; six at $420 each, eleven at $375 each; labor necessary to handle current periodicals, $17,000; in all, $196,018.40. Contingent expenses. For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving machines and accessories, time stamps, adding and numbering machines, awnings, curtains, books of reference, directories, books, miscellaneous office and desk supplies; paper; twine, glue, envelopes, postage, car tickets, soap, towels, disinfectants, and ice; drayage, express, freight, telephone and telegraph service; repairs to building, elevators, and machinery; preserving sanitary condition of building, light, heat, and power; stationery and office printing, including blanks, price lists, and bibliographies, $39,000; for catalogues and indexes, not exceeding $16,000; for binding reserve remainders, and for supplying books to depository libraries, $80,000; equipment, material, and supplies for distribution of public documents, $20,000; in all, $155,000. Panama Canal. THE PANAMA CANAL. All expenses. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Objects designated.Canal and Canal Zone, including the following: Compensation of all officials and employees, including $1,000 additional compensation to the Auditor for the War Department for extra services in auditing accounts for the Panama Canal; foreign and domestic newspapers and periodicals; law books not exceeding $500, textbooks and books of reference; printing and binding, including printing of annual report; rents and personal services in the District of Columbia; purchase or exchange of typewriting, adding, and other machines; purchase or exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled Claims for damages, etc.and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; claims for damages to vessels passing through the locks of the Panama Canal, Vol. 37, p. 563.as authorized by the Panama Canal Act; claims for losses of or damages to property arising from the conduct of authorized business operations; claims for damages to property arising from the maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Payment for land.Vol. 37, p. 561.Disposal of unserviceable materials, etc.Panama Canal; acquisition of land and land under water, as authorized in the Panama Canal Act; expenses incurred in assembling, assorting, storing, repairing, and selling material, machinery, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal which are unserviceable or no longer needed, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of such sales; expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus; expenses incident to any emergency Per diem subsistence.arising because of calamity by flood, fire, pestilence, or like character not foreseen or otherwise provided for herein; per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence, when prescribed by the Governor of the Panama Canal, to persons engaged in field work or traveling Vol. 38, p. 680.on official business, pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen; and for such other expenses not in the United States as the Governor of the Panama Canal may deem necessary best to promote the maintenance and operation, sanitation and civil government of the Panama Canal, all to be expended under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal and accounted for as follows: 703 For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, salary of the Maintenance and operation.Governor.Purchases, etc.governor, $10,000; purchase, inspection, delivery, handling, and storing of material, supplies, and equipment for issue to all departments of the Panama Canal, the Panama Railroad, other branches of the United States Government, and for authorized sales, payment Payment to alien cripples.Vol. 39, p. 742.in lump sums of not exceeding the amounts authorized by the injury compensation Act approved September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to alien cripples who are now a charge upon the Panama Canal by reason of injuries sustained while employed in the construction of the Panama Canal, $9,000,000, together with all Additional from receipts.moneys arising from the conduct of business operations authorized by the Panama Canal Act; For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and support Sanitation, etc.of the insane and of lepers, and aid and support of indigent persons legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses of their deportation when practicable, and including additional compensation to any officer of the United States Public Health Service detailed with the Panama Canal as chief quarantine officer, $900,000; For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, salaries Civil government expenses.of district judge $6,000, district attorney $5,000, marshal $5,000, and for gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged prisoners, $750,000; In all, $10,650,000, to be immediately available and to continue available until expended. Except in cases of emergency, or conditions arising subsequent Number of employees limited to estimates.to and unforeseen at the time of submitting the annual estimates to Congress, and except for those employed in connection with the construction Exceptions.Construction employees.of permanent quarters, offices, and other necessary buildings, dry docks, repair shops, yards, docks, wharves, warehouses, storehouses, and other necessary facilities and appurtenances for the purpose of providing coal and other materials, labor, repairs, and supplies, and except for the permanent operating organization under Permanent organization.Vol. 37, p. 561.which the compensation of the various positions is limited by section four of the Panama Canal Act, there shall not be employed at any time during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen under any of the foregoing appropriations for the Panama Canal, any greater number of persons than are specified in the notes submitted, respectively, in connection with the estimates for each of said appropriations Rate of pay restricted.in the annual Book of Estimates for said year, nor shall there be paid to any such person during that fiscal year any greater rate of compensation than was authorized to be paid to persons occupying the same or like positions on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and seventeen; and all employments made or compensation increased Report of emergency increases.because of emergencies or conditions so arising shall be specifically set forth, with the reasons therefor, by the governor in his report for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated, for the Moneys from designated sources to be credited to original appropriations.fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen for expenditure and reinvestment under the several heads of appropriation aforesaid without being covered into the Treasury of the United States, all moneys received by the Panama Canal from services rendered or materials and supplies furnished to the United States, the Panama Railroad Company, the Canal Zone government, or to their employees, respectively, or to the Panama Government, from hotel and hospital supplies and services; from rentals, wharfage, and like services; from labor, materials, and supplies and other services furnished to vessels other than those passing through the canal, and to others unable to obtain the same elsewhere; from the sale of scrap and other byproducts of manufacturing and shop operations; from the sale of obsolete and unserviceable materials, supplies, and equipment purchased or acquired for the operation, maintenance, protection, sani704Net profits to be covered into the Treasury.tation, and government of the canal and Canal Zone; and any net profits accruing from such business to the Panama Canal shall annually be covered into the Treasury of the United States. Operating water worksite, for Panama and Colon. In addition there is appropriated for the operation, maintenance, and extension of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses. Sec. 2. Sums for salaries to be in full. That all sums appropriated by this Act for salaries of officers and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, and all laws or parts of laws to the extent they, are in conflict with the provisions of this Act are repealed. Approved, July 1, 1918.
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