Chapter 130. Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 130.— An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, and for other purposes.July 3, 1918.[[H. R. 12633](/us/bill/65/hr/12633).][[Public, No. 188](/us/pl/65/188).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*,That the following sums are Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriations.appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise 758 appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, namely:
Legislative. LEGISLATIVE. Senate.Senate. Pay of Senators.For compensation of Senators, $720,000. Mileage.For mileage of Senators, $51,000. For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: Officers, clerks, etc.Vice President’s office.Office of the Vice President: Secretary to the Vice President, $4,000; messenger, $1,440; telegraph operator, $1,500; telegraph page, $600; in all, $7,540. Chaplain.Chaplain: For Chaplain, $1,200. Secretary of the Senate. assistant, clerks, etc.Office of Secretary:
Secretary of the Senate, including compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators and of contingent fund of the Senate, $6,500; assistant secretary, Henry M. Rose, $5,000; chief clerk, $3,250; financial clerk, minute and Journal clerk, principal clerk, and enrolling clerk, at $3,000 each; reading clerk, $3,600; executive clerk, and assistant financial clerk, at $2,750 each; librarian, file clerk, chief bookkeeper, assistant Journal clerk, and printing clerk, at $2,500 each; first assistant librarian, and keeper of stationery, at $2,400 each; assistant librarian, $1,800; skilled laborer, $1,200; clerks—three at $2,500 each, four at $2,220 each, two at $2,100 each, one $1,800, two at $1,600 each, one $1,440; assistant keeper of stationery, $2,000; assistant in stationery room, $1,200; messenger, $1,440; assistant messenger, $1,200; laborers— three at $840 each, three at $720 each, one in stationery room, $720; in all, $94,410.
Document room. Superintendent, etc.Document room: Superintendent, George H. Boyd, $3,000; assistants—two at $2,250 each, one $1,440; clerk, $1,440; skilled laborer, $1,200; in all, $11,580. Clerks and messengers to committees.Clerks and messengers to the following committees: Additional Accommodations for the Library of Congress—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk, $1,440, messenger $1,200 ; Agriculture and Forestry— clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Appropriations—clerk $4,000, two assistant clerks at $2,500 each, two assistant clerks at $1,440 each, messenger $1,440, laborer, $720:
To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $l,200; Banking and Currency—clerk $3,000, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Canadian Relations—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200 ; Census—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger$1,200; Civil Service and Retrenchment—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Claims—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440;
Coast and Insular Survey— clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Coast Defenses—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Commerce—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Conference Minority of the Senate—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, two messengers at $1,200 each; Conservation of National Resources—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Corporations Organized in the District of Columbia—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200;
Cuban Relations— clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Disposition of Useless Papers in the Executive Departments—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; District of Columbia—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Education and Labor— clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Engrossed Bills—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,200 ; Enrolled Bills—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200;
To Ex- 759 amine the Several Branches of the Civil Service—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Department of Agriculture—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Department of Commerce—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Interior Department—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Department of Justice—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440 ;
Expenditures in the Department of Labor— clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Navy Department—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Post Office Department—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Department of State—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the Treasury Department—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Expenditures in the War Department—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, .messenger $1,200;
Finance—clerk $3,000, assistant clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,600, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440, two experts (one for the majority and one for the minority) at $2,000 each; Fisheries—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440 ; Five Civilized Tribes of Indians—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Foreign Relations—clerk $3,000, assistant clerk $2,220, messenger $1,440; Forest Reservations and the Protection of Game—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200;
Geological Survey— clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200 ; Immigration— clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Indian Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Indian Depredations—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Industrial Expositions—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Interoceanic Canals—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,200; Interstate Commerce—clerk $2,500, two assistant clerks at $1,800 each, messenger $1,440;
To Investigate Trespassers upon Indian Lands—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Irrigation and Reclamation of Arid Lands— clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Judiciary— clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, two assistant clerks at $1,800 each, messenger $1,440; Joint Committee on the Library—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Manufactures— clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Military Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, assistant clerk during the period of the war $1,440, messenger $1,200;
Mines and Mining—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Mississippi River and Its Tributaries—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; National Banks—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Naval Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Pacific Islands and Porto Rico—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Pacific Railroads—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200;
Patents—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Pensions—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, three assistant clerks at $1,440 each, messenger $1,440 ; Philippines—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk $,500, assistant clerk $2,000, two assistant clerks at $1,440 each, messenger $1,440; Printing—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Private Land Claims—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,200;
Privileges and Elections—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Public Health and National Quarantine— clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Public Lands— clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger 760 $1,200; Railroads—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Revolutionary Claims—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, Preparing Senate Manual.messenger $1,200;
Rules—clerk $2,720, to include full compensation for the preparation biennially of the Senate Manual, under the direction of the Committee on Rules, assistant clerk $1,800, messenger $1,440; Standards, Weights, and Measures—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Territories—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,440; Transportation and Sale of Meat Products—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Transportation Routes to the Seaboard—clerk $2,220 assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200;
University of the United States— clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; Woman Suffrage—clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,440, messenger $1,200; in all, $430,240. Navy Yearbook,1917.For compiling the Navy Yearbook for the calendar year nineteen hundred and seventeen, under the direction of the chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, $500. Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, assistant, etc. Office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper: Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $6,500;
Assistant Sergeant at Arms, $2,500; Assistant Doorkeeper, $3,000; Acting Assistant Doorkeeper, $3,000; Messengers, etc.two floor assistants at $2,000 each; messengers—four (acting as assistant doorkeepers) at $1,800 each, thirty-four at $1,440 each, one for the minority, $1,440; one $1,440, one $1,000, one at card door $1,600; clerk on Journal work for Congressional Record, to be selected by the official reporters, $2,400; storekeeper, $2,220; stenographer in charge of furniture accounts and records, $1,200; upholsterer and locksmith, $1,440; cabinetmaker, $1,200; three carpenters, at $1,080 Laborers, etc.each; janitor, $1,200; skilled laborers—four at $1,000 each; laborer in charge of private passage, $840; three female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring room, at $720 each; three attendants to womens toilet rooms, Senate Office Building, at $720 each; telephone operators—chief $1,200, four at $900 each, night operator $720; telephone page, $720; press gallery—superintendent $1,800, assistant superintendent $1,400, messenger for service to press correspondents $900;
Pages. laborers—three at $800 each, thirty-four at $720 each; sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of $2.50 per day each during the session, $4,800; in all, $144,720. Police, Senate Office Building.For police force for Senate Office Building under the Sergeant at Arms: Sixteen privates, at $1,050 each; special officer, $1,200; in all, $18,000. Postmaster,etc.Post office: Postmaster, $2,250; chief clerk, $1,800; eight mail carriers and one wagon master, at $1,200 each; three riding pages, at $912.50 each; in all, $17,587.50.
Folding room. Foreman, etc.Folding room: Foreman, $1,600; assistant, $1,400; clerk, $1,200; folders—seven at $1,000 each, seven at $840 each; in all, $17,080. Chief engineer, etc.Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds: Chief engineer, $2,160; assistant engineer and electrician, $1,800; three assistant engineers, at $1,440 each; ten elevator conductors, at $1,200 each; two machinists and electricians, at $1,400 each; laborers—four at $720 each, one in charge of Senate toilet rooms in old library space, $660; attendant for service in old library portion of the Capitol, $1,500; in all, $28,120.
Elevator conductors, Senate Office Building.For the Senate Office Building, under the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, subject to the control and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules: Fourteen elevator conductors, at $1,200 each; in all, $16,800. Assistance to Senators.For assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of committees, as follows: Thirty clerks, at $2,000 each; thirty assistant clerks, at $1,200 each; thirty messengers, at $1,200 each; in all, $132,000. 761 Contingent expenses:
For stationery for Senators and the President Contingent expenses. Stationery.of the Senate, including $6,000 for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $18,125. Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $200; office of Sergeant Postage stamps. at Arms, $100; in all, $300. For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for Motor vehicles.carrying the mails, and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Anns, $7,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
For the purchase, driving, maintenance, exchange, and operation Automobile for Vice President. *Proviso*. New automobile.of an automobile for the Vice President, $5,000: *Provided*, That not more than $2,750 of this sum shall be used toward the purchase of a new automobile. For materials for folding, $1,500.Folding. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $5,000. For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor, Fuel, etc.$1,500.
For purchase of furniture, $5,000.Furniture. For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, $3,000. For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, $2,000.Packing boxes. For packing boxes, $970. For rent of warehouse for storage of public document $1,800. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $140,000, of which sum Miscellaneous items.$40,000 shad be immediately available. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, Investigations, etc.including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding $1 per printed page, $25,000.Reporting debates.
For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, payable in equal monthly installments, $30,000. capitol police.Capitol police. For captain, $1,800; three lieutenants, at $1,200 each; two special Pay.officers, at $1,200 each; forty-seven privates, at $1,050 each; ten additional privates, at $840 each; one-half of said privates to be selected by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and one-half by the Sergeant at Arms of the House; in all, $65,550. For contingent expenses, $200.Contingent expenses.
One-half of the foregoing amounts under “Capitol police” shall be Division of disbursements.disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and one-half by the Clerk of the House. joint committee’ on printing.Joint Committee on Printing. For clerk, $3,000; inspector, under section twenty of the Act Clerk, etc.Vol. 28, p. 603.approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $2,000; stenographer, $1,000; for expenses of compiling, preparing, and Congressional Directory.indexing the Congressional Directory, $1,600; in all, $7,600, one half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House. house of representatives.
House of Representatives. For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, Pay of Members, Delegates, and Rest dent Commissioners.Delegates from Territories, the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, $3,304,500. 762 Mileage.For mileage of Representatives and Delegates and expenses of Resident Commissioners, $175,000. Officers, clerks, etc.For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: Speaker’s office.
Digest of Rules.Office of the Speaker: Secretary to Speaker, $4,000; clerk to Speaker’s table, $3,600, and for preparing Digest of the Rules, $1,000 per annum; clerk to Speaker, $1,600; messenger to Speaker, $1,440; messenger to Speaker’s table, $1,200; in all, $12,840. Chaplain.Chaplain: For Chaplain, $1,200, and $600 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent. Clerk of the House, clerks, etc.Office of the Clerk: Clerk of the House of Representatives, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, $6,500; hire of horse and wagon for use of the Clerk’s office, $1,200, or so much thereof as may be necessary; chief clerk, $4,500; journal clerk and two reading clerks, at $4,000 each; disbursing clerk, $3,400: tally clerk, $3,300; file clerk, $,250; enrolling clerk, $3,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; chief bill clerk, $3,000; assistant to chief clerk, and assistant enrolling clerk, at $2,500 each; assistant to disbursing clerk, $2,400; stationery clerk, $2,200; librarian, $2,100; assistant file clerk, $1,900; two assistant librarians, messenger and assistant Journal clerk, at $1,800 each; clerks—one $1,800, three at $1,680 each; bookkeeper, and assistant in disbursing office, at $1,600 each; four assistants to chief bill clerk, at $1,500 each; stenographer to Clerk, $1,400; locksmith, who shall be skilled in his trade, $1,300; messenger in chief clerk’s office and assistant in stationery room, at $1,200 each; messenger in file room, messenger in disbursing office, and assistant in House library, at $1,100 each; stenographer to chief bill clerk, $1,000; seven telephone operators, at $900 each; three session telephone operators, at $75 per month each from December first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and nineteen; substitute telephone operator when required, at $2.50 per day, $500; two laborers in bathroom, at $900 each; six laborers, at $720 each; page in enrolling room, $720; two janitors, at $720 each; allowance to chief clerk for stenographic and typewriter services, $1,000; in all, $102,570.
Chief engineer, etc.Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds: Chief engineer, $2,160; four assistant engineers at $1,440 each; twenty-four elevator conductors, including fourteen for service in the House Office Building, at $1,200 each, who shall be under the supervision and direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds; machinist, $1,400; electrician, $1,400; three laborers, at $800 each; in all, $41,920. Clerks, messengers, and janitors to committees.Clerks, messengers, and janitors to the following committees:
Accounts—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $1,000; Agriculture—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $1,000; Appropriations—clerk $4,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, assistant clerk and stenographer $2,500, assistant clerks—one $1,900, one $1,800, janitor $1,000; Banking and Currency—clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Census—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Claims—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720;
Coinage, Weights, and Measures—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; District of Columbia—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720; Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives in Congress—clerk $2,000; Elections Number One—clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000; Elections Number Two—clerk $2,000, janitor $720: Elections Number Three— clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Enrolled Bills—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Flood Control—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Foreign Affairs— clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720;
Immigration and Naturalization—clerk $2,000, janitor $720: Indian Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720; Industrial Arts and 763 Expositions—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Insular Affairs—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Interstate and Foreign Commerce—clerk $2,500, additional clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $1,000; Irrigation of Arid Lands—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Invalid Pensions—clerk $2,500, stenographer $2,190, assistant clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000;
Judiciary—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, janitor $720; Labor—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Library—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Merchant Marine and Fisheries—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Military Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $1,000; Mines and Mining—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Naval Affair’s—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $1,000; Patents— clerk $2.000, janitor $720; Pensions—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, janitor $720; Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,400, janitor $1,000;
Printing—clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000; Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Public Lands—clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Revision of the Laws—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Rivers and Harbors—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $1,000; Roads—clerk $,000, janitor $720; Rules—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Territories—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; War Claims—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Ways and Means—clerk $3,000, assistant clerk and stenographer $2,000, assistant clerk $1,900, janitors—one $1,000, one $720; in all, $171,790.
Janitors under the foregoing shall be appointed by the chairmen,Janitors.Appointment, etc. respectively, of said committees, and shall perform under the direction of the Doorkeeper all of the duties heretofore required of messengers detailed to said committees by the Doorkeeper, and shall be subject to removal by the Doorkeeper at any time after the termination of the Congress during which they were appointed. For eight clerks to committees, at $6 each per day during the Clerks to committees, session.session, $5,760.
Office of Sergeant at Arms: Sergeant at Anns, $6,500; deputy Sergeant at Arms, deputy, etc.sergeant at arms, $2,500; cashier, $3,400; financial clerk, $2,700; bookkeeper, $2,200; deputy sergeant at arms in charge of pairs, $1,800; messenger, $1,400’ stenographer and typewriter, $900; skilled laborer, $840; hire of horse and wagon, $600; in all, $22,840, For police force, House Office Building, under the Sergeant at Police, House Office Budding.Arms: Lieutenant, $1,200; thirteen privates, at $1,050 each; in all, $14,850.
Office of Doorkeeper: Doorkeeper, $5,000; maintenance and Doorkeeper, special employees, etc.repair of folding room motor truck, $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary; special employee, $1,500; superintendent of reporters’ gallery, $1,600; janitor, $1,500; messengers—sixteen at $1,180 each, Messengers, etc.fourteen on soldiers’ roll at $1,200 each; laborers—seventeen at $720 each, two known as cloakroom men at $840 each, eight known as cloakroom men, one $600 and $120 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, and seven at $600 each ; two female attendants in ladies’ retiring rooms at $800 each ; superintendent ofFolding room.
Superintendent, etc. folding room, $2,500; foreman, $1,800; three clerks, at $1,600 each; messenger, $1,200; janitor, $720; laborer, $720; thirty-two folders, at $900 each; two drivers, at $840 each; two chief pages, at $1,200 Pages, etc.each; two messengers in charge of telephones (one for the minority), at $1,500 each; forty-six pages, during the session, including two riding pages, four telephone pages, press-gallery page, and ten pages for duty at the entrances to the Hall of the House, at $2.50 per day each, $13,800; superintendent of document room, $2,900; assistant Document room.Superintendent, etc.superintendent, $2,100; clerk, $1,700; assistant clerk, $1,600; assistants—seven at $1,280 each, one $1,100; janitor, $920; messenger to pressroom, $1,000; in all, $147,920.
For the employment of Joel Grayson in document room, $2,150.Joel Grayson. 764 Minority employees.For minority employees authorized and named in the resolution of December sixth, nineteen hundred and fifteen: Special employee, $1,800; special messenger and assistant pair clerk, $1,800; two special messengers, at $1,500 each; special chief page and pair clerk, $1,800; in all, $8,400. Special designated employees.For assistant department messenger authorized and named in the resolution of December seventh, eighteen hundred and ninety-seven, ,$2,000.
For special messenger authorized and named in the resolution of January fifteenth, nineteen hundred, $1,500. To continue employment of the assistant foreman of the folding room, authorized m the resolution of September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, at $3.85 per day, $1,405.25. To continue employment of the person named in the resolution of April twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, as a laborer, $840. To continue employment of the laborer authorized and named in the resolution of December nineteenth, nineteen hundred and one, $840.
Appointment of successors.Successors to any of the employees provided for in the six preceding paragraphs may be named by the House of Representatives at any time. Conference minority.Conference minority: Clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,200; janitor, $1,000; in all, $4,700; the same to be appointed by the chairman of the conference minority. Caucus messengers.To continue the employment of messengers in the majority and minority caucus rooms, to be appointed by the majority and minority whips, respectively, at $1,200 each; in all, $2,400.
Postmaster, assistant, etc.Office of Postmaster: Postmaster, $4,000; assistant postmaster, $2,200 ; registry and money-order clerk, $1,500; messengers—thirteen (including one to superintend transportation of mails) at $1,200 each, eighteen at $100 per month each from December first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, $7,200; laborer, $720; in all, $31,220. Horses and wagons.For hire of horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, $3,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Official reporters.Official reporters: Six official reporters of the proceedings and debates of the House, at $5,000 each; assistant, $2,500; janitor, $720; in all, $33,220. Stenographers to committees.Stenographers to committees: Four stenographers to committees, at $5,000 each; janitor, $720; in all, $20,720. “During the session” to mean 120 days.Wherever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the one hundred and twenty days from December second, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to March thirty-first, nineteen hundred and nineteen, both inclusive.
Clerk hire, Members and Delegates.Clerk hire, Members and Delegates: To pay each Member, Delegate, and Resilient Commissioner, for clerk hire, necessarily employed by him in the discharge of his official and representative duties, $2,000 per annum, in monthly installments, $880,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary; and Representatives and Delegates elect to Congress whose credentials in due form of law have been duly filed with the Clerk of the House of Representatives, in [R.
S., sec. 31, p. 6](/us/rs/sec31/p6).accordance with the provisions of section thirty-one of the Revised Statutes of the United States, shall be entitled to payment under this *Proviso*. To be placed on roll of employees.appropriation: *Provided*, That all clerks to Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners shall be placed on the roll of employees of the House and be subject to be removed at the will of the Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner by whom they are appointed; and any Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner may appoint one or more clerks, who shall be placed on the roll as the clerk of such Member, Delegate, or Resident Commissioner making such appointments. 765 Contingent expenses:
For wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste, Contingent expenses,twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding, for use of Members, the Clerk’s office, and folding room, not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk Vol. 28, p. 624.of the House, under provisions of the Act approved January twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $10,000.Furniture. For furniture, and materials for repairs of the same, $15,000.
For packing boxes, $4,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, Packing boxes, ’Miscellaneous items.exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, $75,000. For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners, Stationery.including $5,000 for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, $60,000. For postage stamps:
Postmaster, $250; Clerk, $450; Sergeant at Postage stamps.Arms, $300; Doorkeeper, $150; in all, $1,150. For the purchase, driving, maintenance, exchange, and operation Automobile, Speaker.of an automobile for the Speaker, $5,000: *Provided*, That not more *Proviso*. . New car.than $2,750 of this sum shall be used toward the purchase of a new automobile. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.Library of Congress. General administration: Librarian, $6,500 ; chief assistant librarian, Librarian, etc.$4,000; chief clerk, $2,500; librarian’s secretary, $1,800; clerks—one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; stenographers and typewriters—one $1,200, one $900; messenger, $840; messenger to chief assistant librarian, $600; junior messenger, $420; operator of photographic copying machine, $600; in all, $22,560.
Mail and delivery: Assistants—One in charge $1,600, chief $1,200, Mail and delivery.one $960, one $780, one $600; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,560. Order and accession: Chief of division, $2,500; assistants—one Order and accession.$1,500, one $1,200, three at $960 each, two at $840 each, two at $600 each, one $580; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $12,380. Catalogue, classification, and shelf: Chief of division, $3,000 ; chief Catalogue, classification, and shelf.classifier, $2,000; assistants—four at $1,800 each, seven at $1,500 each, six at $1,400 each, twelve at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, fourteen at $960 each, four at $920 each, thirteen at $840 each, thirteen at $600 each, four at $540 each; six junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $92,020.
Binding: Assistants—one in charge, $1,500, one $960; junior messenger, Binding.$420; in all, $2,880. Bibliography: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, two Bibliography.at $960 each, one $840; stenographer and typewriter, $960; junior messenger, $420; in ah, $8,640. Reading rooms (including evening service) and special collections: Reading rooms.Superintendent, $3,000; assistants—two at $1,800 each, seven at $1,200 each (including one in room for the blind), three at $1,000 each, two at charging desk at $1,080 each, five at $960 each (including one for Toner library and one for Washington library), one in room for the blind $900, twenty-seven at $840 each, six at $600 each; stenographer and typewriter, $960; attendants—Senate reading room, $960, Representatives’ reading; room—one $960, one $840, two in cloakroom at $780 each, two for gallery and alcoves at $540 each; telephone operator, $720; four junior messengers, at $420 each; two watchmen, at $780 each; in all, $62,460.
Periodical (including evening service): Chief of division, $2,000; Periodical.assistants—chief $1,500, two at $960 each, five at $840 each; stenographer and typewriter, $960; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $11,420. 766 Documents.Documents: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, ono $840; stenographer and typewriter, $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $6,720. Manuscript.Manuscript: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—chief $1,500, one $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,880.
Maps and charts.Maps and charts: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, two at $960 each, one $840; junior messenger, $420; in all, $7,680. Music.Music: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, one $1,000, two at $840 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, $7,600. Prints.Prints: Chief of division, $2,000; assistants—one $1,500, two at $960 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,840. Smithsonian deposit.Smithsonian deposit: Custodian, $1,500; assistants—one $1,500, one $840; junior messenger, $420; in all, $4,260.
Congressional Reference Library.Congressional Reference Library: Custodian, $1,500; assistants— one $1,200, one $960, one $840; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $5,340. Law Library.Law Library: Librarian, $3,000; assistants—two at $1,400 each, one $960, one $600, one $540, one (evening service) $1,500 ; in all, $9,400. Semitic and Oriental Literature.Semitic and Oriental Literature: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, one $900; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,820.
Copyright office.Copyright office: Register, $4,000; assistant register, $3,000; clerks.—four at $2,000 each, four at $1,800 each, seven at $1,600 each, one $1,500, eight at $1,400 each, ten at $1,200 each, ten at $1,000 each, eighteen at $960 each, two at $860 each, ten at $780 each, four at $600 each, two at $480 each; four junior messengers, at $420 each. Arrears, special service: Three clerks, at $1,200 each; porter, $780; junior messenger, $420; in all, $104,740. Legislative Reference.Service designated.Legislative Reference:
To enable the Librarian of Congress to employ competent persons to gather, classify, and make available, in translations, indexes, digests, compilations, and bulletins, and otherwise, data for or bearing upon legislation, and to render such data serviceable to Congress and committees and Members thereof, *Proviso*. Pay restriction.$30,000 ; *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $3,000 per annum. Card indexes.Distribution of card indexes:
For service in connection with distribution of card indexes and other publications of the Library: Chief of division, $3,000; chief assistant, $1,800; assistants—two at $1,600 each, three at $1,500 each, three at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, four at $1,100 each, four at $1,000 each; for services of assistants at salaries less than $1,000 per annum and for piecework and work by the hour, $17,000, including not exceeding $500 for freight charges, expressage, traveling expenses connected with such distribution, and expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $46,900.
Temporary services.Temporary services: For special and temporary service, including extra special services of regular employees at the discretion of the Librarian, $2,000. Carrier service.Carrier service: For service in connection with the Senate and House Office Buildings, $960, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Sunday opening.Sunday opening: To enable the Library of Congress to be kept open for reference use from two until ten o’clock postmeridian on Sundays and legal holidays, within the discretion of the Librarian, including the extra services of employees and the services of additional employees under the Librarian, $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Increase of Library.Purchase of books, etc.Increase of Library of Congress: For purchase of books for the Library, including payment hi advance for subscription books, and society publications, and for freight, commissions, and traveling expenses, and all other expenses incidental to the acquisition of books 767 by purchase, gift, bequest, or exchange, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twenty, $90,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this object for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen;
For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, under Lawbooks.the direction of the Chief Justice, $3,000; For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, to Books for Supreme Court.be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $2,000; For purchase of miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, $5,000;Periodicals. In all, $100,000. Contingent expenses: For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, Contingent expenses.stationery, supplies, stock, and materials directly purchased, miscellaneous traveling expenses, postage, transportation, incidental expenses connected with the administration of the Library and the Copyright Office, including not exceeding $500 for expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $7,300.
Library building and grounds: Superintendent, $3,600; clerks— Care of building and grounds. Superintendent; etc.one $2,000, one $1,600, one $1,400, one $1,000 each; property clerk, $900; messenger; assistant messenger; two telephone switchboard operators; captain of watch, $1,400; lieutenant of watch, $1,000; nineteen watchmen, at $900 each; two carpenters, at $900 each; painter, $900; foreman of laborers. $900; sixteen laborers; two attendants in ladies’ room, at $480 each; four check boys, at $360 each; mistress of charwomen, $425: assistant mistress of charwomen, $300; fifty-eight charwomen; chief engineer, $1,500; assistant engineers—one $1,200, three at $900 each; electrician, $1,500: machinists— one $1,000, one $900; two wiremen, at $900 each; plumber, $900; three elevator conductors, and ten skilled laborers, at $720 each; in all $85,065.
For extra services of employees and additional employees under the Sunday opening.superintendent to provide for the opening of the Library Building from two until ten o’clock postmeridian on Sundays and legal holidays, $3,000. For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous supplies, electric and steam General expenses.apparatus, city directory, stationery, mail and delivery service including new auto delivery wagon, and all incidental expenses in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of said building and grounds, including $2,000 for repairs to roof and $1,500 for pointing exterior stonework, $18,500, of which sum $1,500 shall be immediately available.
For refitting old boiler room and coal vaults, $3,000.Boiler room. For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical Furniture.work pertaining thereto, $12,000, of which $2,000 shall be available immediately. For extension of the steel stack for storage of catalogue cards in the Card stack.card division, $10,000. BOTANIC GARDEN.Botanic Garden. For superintendent, $2,250.Superintendent, assistants, etc. For assistants and laborers, including assistant superintendent $1,300, clerk $1,000, gardener in charge of greenhouses $960, four gardeners at $900 each, two shipping clerks at $720 each, outside foreman $780, and skilled laborers, and laborers at not exceeding $2 per diem, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $22,080.
For procuring manure, soil, tools, fuel, purchasing trees, shrubs, Repairs and improvements. plants, and seeds; services, including skilled laborers and laborers at not exceeding $2 per diem; materials, and miscellaneous supplies; 768 traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence of the superintendent and his assistants not to exceed $200; street car tickets not exceeding $25; office equipment, and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Gardens; exchange, care, and maintenance of motor-propelled delivery vehicle; under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $15,000.
Executive.EXECUTIVE. President.For compensation of the President of the United States, $75,000. Vice President.For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, $12,000. Executive Office. Secretary, executive clerk, etc.Office of the President: Secretary, $7,500; executive clerk, $5,000; chief clerk, $4,000; appointment clerk, $3,500; record clerk, $2,500; two expert stenographers, at $2,500 each; accounting and disbursing clerk, $2,500; two correspondents, at $2,500 each; clerks—two at $2,500 each, four at $2,000 each, five of class four, two of class three, four of class two, three of class one; messengers—three at $900 each, three at $840 each; three laborers at $720 each; in all, $76,780: *Proviso*.Details of employees.*Provided*, That employees of the executive departments and other establishments of the executive branch of the Government may be detailed from time to time to the office of the President of the United States for such temporary assistance as may be necessary.
Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationery, record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, automobiles, expenses of garage, including labor, and miscellaneous items, to be expended in the discretion of the President, $30,000. Bureau of Efficiency.BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY. Authority, etc., designated.To enable the Bureau of Efficiency, authorized by the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved February twenty-eighth, nine-teen hundred and sixteen, to establish and maintain a system of efficiency ratings, to investigate administrative needs of the service Vol. 37, pp. 413 , 750;
Vol. 38, p. 1008.relating to personnel in the several executive departments and independent establishments, required by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Acts for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and thirteen and nineteen hundred and fourteen, respectively, and to investigate duplication of statistical and other work and methods of Expenses.business in the various branches of the Government service ; for purchase or exchange of equipment, supplies, stationery, books and periodicals, printing and binding, traveling expenses not exceeding $3,000, and street car fare not exceeding $50; in all, $110,000.
Rent.For rent of buildings, $5,000. Civil Service Commission.CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. Commissioner, examinéis, clerks, etc.For commissioner, acting as president of the commission, $4,500; two commissioners, at $4,000 each; chief examiner, $3,500; secretary, $2,500; assistant chief examiner, $2,250; three chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; examiners—one $2,400, three at $2,000 each, six at $l,800 each; clerks—six of class four, twenty-eight of class three, thirty-nine of class two, fifty-two of class one, thirty-four at $1,000 each, twenty-two at $900 each; messenger; assistant messenger; skilled laborer, $720 ; four messenger boys, at $420 each.
Custodian force: Engineer, $840; general mechanic, $840; telephone-switch-board operator; two firemen; two watchmen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; three laborers; four charwomen; in all, $285,970. 769 For additional employees for the Civil Service Commission, Additional employees.$150,000: *Provided*, That not more than two persons shall be employed *Proviso*.Pay restriction.hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,400 per annum. Field force: District secretaries—two at $2,400 each, one $2,200, Field force.four at $2,000 each, five at $1,800 each; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class one, seven at $1,000 each, six at $900 each, five at $840 each; messenger boy, $480; in all, $45,680.
For five field examiners at the rate of $1,500 per annum each, for Field examiners.work in connection with members of local boards and other necessary work as directed by the commission, $7,500. No detail of clerks or other employees from the executive departments Details from departments, etc., forbidden.or other Government establishments in the District of Columbia to the Civil Service Commission, for the performance of duty in the District of Columbia, shall be made for or during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
The Civil Service Commission shall, Transfer of employees.however, have power in case of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees herein provided for to or from its office force, field force, or rural carrier examining board. Expert examiners: For employment of expert examiners not in Expert examiners.the Federal service to prepare questions and rate papers in examinations on special subjects for which examiners within the service are not available, $2,000. For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners Traveling expenses.acting under the direction of the commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, and including not exceeding $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings of public officials when specifically directed by the commission, $20,000.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Department of State. For Secretary of State, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, $5,000; Second Secretary, Assistants.and Third Assistant Secretaries, at $4,500 each; director of the Director of Consular Service, Counselor.consular service, $4,500; counselor for the department, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, $7,500; officers to aid in important drafting work—four at Officers on drafting work.$4,500 each, four at $3,000 each, to be appointed by the Secretary, any one of whom may be employed as chief of division of far eastern, Latin America, near eastern, or European affairs, or upon other work in connection with foreign relations ; three assistant solicitors of the Assistant solicitors.Chief clerk, chiefs of bureaus, clerks, etc.department, to be appointed by the Secretary, at $3,000 each; chief clerk, who shall sign such official papers and documents as the Secretary may direct, $3,000; law clerk, $2,500; law clerk, and assistant, to be selected and appointed by the Secretary to edit the laws of Congress and perform such other duties as may be required of them, at $2,500 and $1,500, respectively; chiefs of bureaus—two at $2,250 each, five at $2,100 each; two translators, at $2,100 each; additional to chief of Bureau of Accounts as disbursing clerk, $200; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; clerks—seventeen of class four, nineteen of class tliree, twenty-five of class two, forty-three of class one (three of whom shall be telegraph operators), eighteen at $1,000 each, eighteen at $900 each; chief messenger, $1,000; six messengers; twenty-three assistant messengers; two messenger boys at $420 each ; packer, $720; four laborers; four telephone switchboard operators; chauffeur, $1,080; in all, $322,760.
For the following additional force: Officer to aid in important Additional force. Officer on drafting work, assistant solicitor, clerks, etc.drafting work, $2,500; assistant solicitor, $2,500; two law clerks, at $2,000 each; clerks—two of class four, four of class three, five of class two, ten of class one, twelve at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; in all, $54,080. 770 Further additional force.For the following further additional force: Officers to aid in important drafting work—one $4,500, one $2,500, to be appointed by the Secretary; assistant solicitor of the department, to be appointed by the Secretary, $2,500; law clerks—two at $2,250 each, one $2,000, to be appointed by the Secretary; clerks—eight of class four, seven of class three, ten of class two, ten of class one; messenger; two assistant messengers; three laborers; five female laborers, at $240 each; in all, $73,060.
Additional employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For additional employees in the Department of State, $200,000: *Provided*, That not more than six persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. No other appropriation to be used for Department service.Exception.No money appropriated by any other Act, except the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service, shall be used *Ante*, p.522.during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen for employment and payment of personal service in the Department of State at Washington, District of Columbia.
Passport Bureau. New York, N. Y.New York, New York, Passport Bureau: Passport agent, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, two of class two ; messenger; messenger boy, $480; rent of offices, $2,500; stationery, furniture, fixtures, and other miscellaneous expenses, $2,000; in all, $15,620. San Francisco, Cal.San Francisco, California, Passport Bureau: For salaries and expenses of maintenance of the passport bureau, $7,500. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses:
For stationery, furniture, fixtures, typewriters, including exchange of the same, repairs and material for repairs, $55,000. Library.For books, maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, for the library, $2,000. Lithographing.For services of lithographer and necessary materials for lithographic press, $1,500. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenses, including maintenance and repair of a motor-propelled passenger vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; automobile mail wagon, including exchange of same; streetcar tickets not exceeding $100, and other items not included in the foregoing, $10,000.
Rent.For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $11,200. Treasury Department.TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Secretary and assistant. Assistant Secretaries.Office of the Secretary: Secretary of the Treasury, $12,000; assistant to the Secretary, $5,000; three Assistant Secretaries, at $5,000 each; two additional Assistant Secretaries, at $5,000 each, *Ante*, p. 347.in accordance with the authority contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen;
Clerks, actuary, etc.clerk to the Secretary, $3,000; executive clerk, $2,400; stenographer, $1,800; five private secretaries, one to each Assistant Secretary, at $1,800 each; Government actuary, under control of the Treasury, $4,000; clerks—one of class four, four of class three, two of class two; chief messenger, $1,100; two assistant chief messengers, at $1,000 each; messengers—three at $900 each, five at $840 each; in all, $83,200. Chief clerk, assistant superintendent, clerks, etc.Office of chief clerk and superintendent:
Chief clerk, including $300 as superintendent of Treasury Building, who shall be the chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries of the department, $4,000; assistant superintendent of Treasury Building, $2,500; administrative clerk, $2,000; clerks— one $2,000, four of class four, one of class three, three of class two, three of class one, one $1,000, one $900; operator of photographic copying machine, $800; two messengers; three assistant messengers; 771 mimeograph operator, $720; messenger boy, $420 ; storekeeper, $1,200; telegraphers—one $1,400, one $1,200; telephone and telegraph operator, $1,200; three telephone switchboard operators; chief engineer, Engineers, etc.$1,400; three assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; eight elevator conductors, at $720 each, and the use of laborers as relief elevator conductors during rush hours is authorized; eight firemen; coal passer, $600; locksmith and electrician, $1,400; captain of the watch, $1,400;
Watchmen, laborers, etc.two lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; sixty-five watchmen; foreman of laborers, $1,200; seven chauffeurs at $720 each, and the transfer to said positions of six laborers from the rolls of the chief clerk’s office is hereby authorized independently of the civil-service rules; skilled laborers—two at $840 each, two at $720 each; two electricians, at $1,200 each; wireman, $900; forty-five laborers; plumber, $1,100; painter, $1,100; plumber’s assistant, $780; attendant for emergency relief room, $660; eighty-five charwomen; carpenters—two at $1,000 each, one $720.
Winder Building: Engineer, Winder Building.$1,000; three firemen; elevator conductor, $720; four watchmen; three laborers (one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor); forewoman of char force, $480; eight charwomen. Cox Building, seventeen hundred and nine New York Cox Building.Avenue: Two watchmen-firemen, at $720 each; laborer. Auditor’s Auditors’ Building.Building: Forewoman of char force, $480; twenty-five charwomen; elevator conductor, $720; five laborers (one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor); two female laborers, at $480 each; skilled laborer, $840; in all, $204,520.
For employees for the care and protection of buildings for the War Risk Insurance and Internal Revenue. Care, etc., of buildings for.accommodation of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance and the Bureau of Internal Revenue, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Eight elevator conductors, at $720 each; fourteen firemen; seven female laborers, at $660 each; laborer in charge, $720; twenty-one laborers; two forewomen of charwomen, at $480 each; sixty-seven charwomen: twenty-seven watchmen; in all, $71,520.
General supply Committee: Superintendent of supplies, $2,250; General Supply Committee.clerks—two of class four, one of class three, one $1,500, three of class two, four of class one; twelve temporary clerks for four months, at $75 each per month; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $22,930. Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants: Chief of division, $4,000; Bookkeeping and Warrants Division.assistant chief of division, $3,000; estimate and digest clerk, $2,500; executive clerk, $2,500; two principal bookkeepers, at $2,100 each; eleven bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—thirteen of class four, nine of class three, six of class two, two of class one; messenger; three assistant messengers; messenger boy, $480; in all, $90,280.
Division of Customs: Chief of division, $4,500; two assistant chiefs Customs Division.of division, at $3,000 each; supervising tea examiner, $2,750; law clerks—four at $2,500 each, three at $2,000 each; clerks—five of class four, four of class three, six of class two, nine of class one, five at $1,000 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; in all, $71,250. Division of Appointments: Chief of division,$3,000; assistant chief Appointments Division.of division, $2,250; executive clerk, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, three of class three, four of class two, two of class one, two at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger; assistant messenger; in all, $26,310.
Section of Surety Bonds: Chief, $2,000; clerks—one of class three, Surety Bonds Section.one of class two, two of class one, one $1,000; assistant messenger; in all, $9,120. Division of Public Moneys: Chief of division, $3,000; assistant Public Moneys Division.chief of division, $2,500; clerks—six of class four, four of class three, five of class two, one of class one, one $1,000; messenger; assistant messenger; in all, $33,460. Division of Loans and Currency: Chief of division, $3,500; assistant Loans and Currency Division.chief of division, $2,700; second assistant chief of division, $2,500; 772 custodian of paper, $2,250; bond and interest clerk, $2,000; clerks— two at $2,000 each, thirteen of class four, thirteen of class three, two at $1,500 each, fourteen of class two, seventeen of class one, fifteen at $1,000 each, fifteen at $900 each (including one transferred from office of Auditor for Interior Department); assorter of bonds, $800; expert counter clerks—ten at $1,200 each, twenty at $1,000 each, twenty at $900 each, twenty at $800 each, fifteen at $720 each; machine operator, $840; two messengers; five assistant messengers; four messenger boys, at $420 each; skilled laborers—two at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; eighteen laborers; addressograph and graphotype operators—five at $1,200 each, five at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; in all, $250,130.
Printing and Stationery Division.Division of Printing and Stationery: Chief of division, $2,500: assistant chief of division, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, four of class three, three of class two, three of class one, one $1,000, one $900; bookbinder, $1,400; three messengers; assistant messenger; six laborers; two messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $37,240. Mail and Files Division.Division of Mail and Files: Superintendent of mail, $2,500; registry clerk, $1,800; distributing clerk, $1,400; clerks—one of class two, one of class one, one $1,000; mail messenger, $1,200; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $360; in all, $12,300.
Disbursing clerk’s officerOffice of disbursing clerk: Disbursing clerk, $3,000; deputy disbursing clerk, $2,750; clerks—four of class four, three of class three, three of class two, two of class one; messenger; in all, $25,190. War Risk Insurance Bureau.*Ante*, pp. 393,600.Bureau of War Risk Insurance: For expenses of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, authorized by the Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and prior Acts, as follows: Pay of Director, deputies, and other employees.For salaries of the director and commissioners, and of such deputies, assistants, accountants, experts, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, as the Secretary of the Treasury Rent.
Contingent expenses. *Post*, p. 777.may deem necessary, $3,000,000; rental of quarters, $140,000; stationery and miscellaneous expenses, including not exceeding $100 for law books and books of reference and subscriptions to periodicals, Printing and binding.and not exceeding $150 for street car tickets, $60,000; printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office and necessary printing of forms, and so forth, for use abroad may be done abroad, Traveling expenses, etc.$200,000; furniture, equipment, and supplies, $150,000; traveling expenses, including not exceeding $4 per diem in lieu of subsistence, $40,000; purchase, maintenance, and repair of a motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicle, $1,000; in all, $3,591,000.
Federal Farm Loan Bureau.Members of board, chiefs of divisions, etc.Vol. 39, p. 360.Federal Farm Loan Bureau: Four members of the board, at $10,000 each; secretary, $4,500; assistant secretary, $3,000; four private secretaries, at $2,000 each; chiefs of divisions—bond division $3,000, statistical division $3,000, appraisement division $3,000, charter and reports division $3,000; assistant chief, bond division, $2,500; custodian of securities, $2,500; seven examiners of securities, at $2,400 each; twelve registrars at $4,000 each; chief examiner, Clerks, etc.$5,000; irrigation expert adviser, $4,800; clerks—three of class three, five of class two, nine of class one, seven at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; stenographers—four at $1,200 each, one $1,000; messenger; four assistant messengers; in all, $191,620.
Traveling expenses, etc.For traveling expenses of the members of the board and its officers and employees; per diem in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $4; and contingent and miscellaneous expenses, exclusive of stationery and printing and binding; $50,000; In all, $241,620. Supervising Architect’s Office.Supervising Architect, superintendents, etc. *Ante*, p. 638.Office of Supervising Architect: Supervising Architect, $5,000; executive officer, $3,250; technical officer, $3,000; drafting division—superintendent $3.000, assistant superintendent, $2,750; mechanical engineering division—superintendent $2,750, assistant superintendent $2,400; structural division—superintendent $2,750, 773 assistant superintendent $2,400; superintendents—computing division $2,750, repairs division $2,400, accounts division $2,500, maintenance division $2,500; files and records division—chief, $2,500, assistant chief $2,250; head draftsman, $2,500; administrative clerks—eight at $2,000 each; four technical clerks, at $1,800 each; clerks—nine of class four, additional to one of class four as bookkeeper $100, four at $1,700 each, fourteen of class three, six at $1,500 each, thirteen of class two, eight at $1,300 each, twenty-one of class one, four at $1,100 each, seven at $1,000 each, three at $900 each, two at $840 each; photographer, $2,000; foreman, duplicating galley, $1,800; two duplicating paper chemists, at $1,200 each; foreman, vault, safe, and lock shop, $1,200; five messengers; two assistant messenger’s; messenger boys—one $600, two at $480 each, two at $360 each; skilled laborers—four at $1,000 each, seven at $960 each, one $900, one $840; laborers—one $660, one $600; in all, $221,020.
Office of Comptroller of the Treasury: Comptroller, $6,000; Comptroller’s Office. assistant comptroller, $4,500; chief clerk, $2,500; chief law clerk, $2,500; law clerks—two at $2,400 each, two at $2,200 each, thirteen Additional law clerks. at $2,000 each; five expert accountants at $2,100 each; private secretary, $1,800; clerks—twelve of class four, seven of class three, four of class two, three of class one, one $1,000; three messengers; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $109,900.
The Chief Clerk in the office of Comptroller of the Treasury hereafter Chief clerk to countersign warrants.shall have the power, in the name of the comptroller, to countersign all classes of warrants. Auditing accounts abroad: For salaries and expenses incurred Auditing accounts abroad.Salaries and expenses.*Ante*, p. 293.under section twelve of the Act of September twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, including traveling expenses, per diem not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence for officers and employees absent from Washington, rent, cablegrams and telegrams, printing, law books, books of reference, periodicals, stationery, office equipment and exchange thereof, supplies, and all other necessary expenses, $700,000, of which not exceeding $25,000 may be expended at Washington for the purposes of this section, but no officer or employee shall receive for duty in Washington any compensation other than his regular salary.
Office of Auditor for Treasury Department: Auditor, $4,000; Office of Auditor for Treasury Department.chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chief of division. $2,250; two chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty-six of class four, thirty of class three, thirty-six of class two, forty-three of class one, thirty at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; messenger; three assistant messengers; four laborers; in all, $250,540. Office of Auditor for War Department:
Auditor, $4,000; assistant Office of Auditor for War Department.and chief clerk, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chief of division of accounts, $2,500; chief of claims and records division, $2,000; two assistant chiefs of division, at $1,900 each; chief transportation clerk, $2,000; clerks—thirty-nine of class four, sixty-six of class three, eighty-three of class two, one hundred and thirteen of class one, thirty at $1,000 each; nine at $900 each; skilled laborer (qualified as carpenter), $900; skilled laborer (to act as foreman of laborers), $900; two messengers; eight assistant messengers; twelve laborers; messenger boy, $480; in all, $501,890.
Office of Auditor for Navy Department: Auditor, $4,000; Office of Auditor for Navy Department.chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chief of division, $2,000; two assistant chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty-one of class four, thirty-eight of class three, twenty-one of class two, fifty-five of class one, twenty-eight at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each; helper, $900; messenger; two assistant messengers; three laborers; in all, $247,710. Office of Auditor for Interior Department:
Auditor, $4,000; Office of Auditor for Interior Department.chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chief of di- 774 vision, $2,000; clerks—fourteen of class four; seventeen of class three, seventeen of class two, twenty of class one, two at $1,000 each, four at $900 each (one transferred to Division of Loans and Currency) ; four check assorters (unapportioned), at $1,000 each; two messengers; two assistant messengers; laborer; in all, $123,830. Office of Auditor for State, etc., Departments.Office of Auditor for State and Other Departments:
Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; two chiefs of division, at $2,000 each ; clerks—eighteen of class four, one of class four (special examiner), twenty of class three, seventeen of class two, thirteen of class one, four at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, $128,150. Office of Auditor for Post Office Department.Office of Auditor for Post Office Department: Auditor, $5,000; assistant and chief clerk, $3,000; law clerk, $3,000; expert accountant, $3,000; four chiefs of division, at $2,250 each; four assistant chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; three principal book-keepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty-five of class four, forty-three of class three, forty-nine of class two, fifty-one of class one, twelve at $900 each; skilled laborers—five at $840 each, eleven at $720 each, five at $660 each; messenger boys—five at $540 each, four at $480 each, five at $420 each; nine male laborers, at $660 each; forewoman, $480; nineteen charwomen; in all, $324,520.
Employees on mechanical devices.For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, of such number of employees as may be necessary to audit the accounts *Proviso*.Pay of absentees.and vouchers of the Postal Service, $297,130: *Provided*, That not exceeding $43,200 may be used for the payment of compensation to said employees absent on leave. Postal Savings System.Postal Savings System: Clerks—eleven at $1,000 each; seven skilled laborers, at $900 each; in all, $17,300.
Treasurer’s Office.Office of the Treasurer: Treasurer, $8,000 ; Assistant Treasurer $3,600; Deputy Assistant Treasurer, $3,200; cashier, $3,600; assistant cashier, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; five chiefs of division, at $2,500 each; three assistant chiefs of division, at $2,250 each; vault clerk, $2,500; principal bookkeeper, $2,500; two tellers, at $2,500 each; assistant tellers—two at $2,250 each, two at $2,000 each; five section chiefs, at $2,000 each; assistant bookkeepers—two at $2,100 each, two at $2,000 each; interest teller, $2,000; vault clerk, bond division, $2,000; clerk for Treasurer, $1,800; coin clerk, $1,400; clerks—twenty-five of class four, twenty-eight of class three, eight at $1,500 each, thirty-two of class two, eight at $1,300 each, seventy-four of class one, forty at $1,000 each, sixteen at $900 each; expert counters—thirty-three at $1,200 each, eight at $1,100 each, forty-four at $ 1,000 each, sixty-one at $900 each, twelve at $800 each, twenty-six at $720 each, six at $600 each; two compositors and pressmen, at $1,600 each; two skilled laborers, at $1,200 each; silver piler, $1,000 and $200 additional while the office is held by the present incumbent ; seventeen counters, laundry machines, at $900 each ; fourteen messengers; eight assistant messengers; twenty-three laborers; messenger boys—four at $600 each, eight at $480 each, eight at $360 each; in all, $630,390.
Redemption of national currency.For the force employed in redeeming the national currency (to be reimbursed by the national banks): Superintendent, $3,500; teller, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,400; assistant teller, $2,000; assistant book-keeper, $2,000 ; clerks—five of class four, seven of class three, nine of class two; expert counters—thirty-five at $1,200 each, fifty-seven at $1,000 each, fifty-two at $900 each, thirty-five at $800 each; two messengers; four assistant messengers; four charwomen; in all, $224,520.
Postal Savings System.Postal Savings System: Accountant, $2,000; clerks—three of class two, two of class one, three at $1,000 each; expert counter, $900; in all, $12,500. 775 For repairs to canceling and cutting machines in the office of the Cutting machine repairs.Treasurer of the United States, $200. Office of Register of the Treasury: Register, $4,000; assistant Office of Register.register, $2,500; two chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, six of class two, eight of class one, fifty at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; messenger; three laborers; in all, $89,220.
Office of Comptroller of the Currency: Comptroller, $5,000; Office of Comptroller of the Currency.deputy comptrollers—one $3,500, one $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chiefs of divisions—one $2,500, two at $2,200 each, one $2,000; general bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; clerks— eleven of class four, additional to bond clerk $200, seventeen of class three, nineteen of class two, twenty-eight of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each; stenographer, $1,600; six counters, at $840 each; messenger; five assistant messengers; three laborers; messenger boys—one $480, one $420; in all, $167,560.
For expenses of the national currency (to be reimbursed by the National currency expenses.national banks): Superintendent, $2,500; teller, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, four of class two, five of class one, four at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; engineer, $1,000; counters— twelve at $840 each, three at $700 each; assistant messenger; fireman; messenger boy, $420; two charwomen; in all, $43,520. For special examinations of national banks and bank plates, of Special examiners.keeping macerator in Treasury Building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerator, and for procuring information relative to banks other than national, $5,000.
Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue: Commissioner, Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue.$6,500; deputy commissioners—one $4,000, one $3,600; chemists— chief $3,000, one $2,500; assistant chemists—two at $1,800 each, one $1,600, one $1,400 ; heads of divisions—four at $2,500 each, five at $2,250 each ; superintendent of stamp vault, $2,000; private secretary, $1,800; clerks—three at $2,000 each, thirty-five of class four, thirty-one of class three, forty-four of class two, forty-three of class one, thirty-two at $1,000 each, forty-five at $900 each; four messengers; seventeen assistant messengers; sixteen laborers; in all, $381,710.
For the following, on account of the Act imposing income taxes on Additionalemployees on income tax,Deputy commissioner, heads of divisions, etc.corporations and individuals, namely: Deputy commissioner, $4,000; heads of divisions—one $3,500, one $2,500; three assistant heads of divisions, at $2,000 each ; attorney, $3,600 ; law clerk, $2,000 ; insurance expert, $2,000; railroad expert, $2,000; clerks—one $2,000, seventeen of class four, twenty-nine of class three, fifty-four of class two, forty of class one, forty-four at $1,000 each, twenty-eight at $900 each; seven messengers; four assistant messengers; m all, $306,160.
For stamp agents—one $1,600, one $900; counter, $900; in all, Stamp agents.$3,400, to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers. Office of the Coast Guard: Two chiefs of division, at $3,000 each; Coast Guard Office.two assistant chiefs of division, at $2,200 each; title and contract clerk, $2,000; law and contract clerk, $1,800; topographer and hydrographer, $1,800; civil engineer, $2,250; draftsman, $1,500; private secretary for captain commandant, $1,400; clerks—four of class four, ten of class three, six of class two, nine of class one, ten at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $81,110.
The services of skilled draftsmen, and such other technical services Technical services.as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Coast Guard in connection with the construction and repair of Coast Guard cutters, to be paid from the *Ante*, p. 641.appropriation “Repairs to Coast Guard cutters”: *Provided*, That the *Proviso*. Limit, etc.expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and 776 nineteen shall not exceed $5,000.
A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Engraving and Printing Bureau.Bureau of Engraving and Printing: Director, $6,000; assistant director, $3,500; chief of division of assignments and reviews, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; disbursing agent, $2,400; cost accountant, $2,000; medical and sanitary officer, $2,250; stenographer, $1,800; storekeeper, $1,600; assistant storekeeper, $1,000; clerk in charge of purchases and supplies, $2,000; clerks—six of class three, twelve of class two, ten of class one, eight at $1,000 each, twelve at $900 each, fifteen at $840 each, three at $780 each, nine attendants, at $600 each; helpers—one at $900, two at $720 each, two at $600 each; three messengers; seven assistant messengers; captain of watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of watch, at $900 each; sixty watchmen, at $720 each; two forewomen of charwomen, at $540 each; twenty-five day charwomen, at $400 each; seventy-seven morning and evening charwomen, at $300 each; foreman of laborers, $900: four laborers; eighty-five laborers, at $540 Limit on paying for services.each; in all, $246,710; and no other fund appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used for services, in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, of the character specified in this paragraph, except in cases of emergency arising after the passage of this Act, and then only on the written approval of the Secretary of the Treasury and in every such case of emergency a detailed statement of the expenditures on account thereof shall be reported to Congress at the beginning of each regular session.
Secret Service Division.Secret Service Division: Chief, $4,500; assistant chief, who shall discharge the duties of chief clerk, $3,500; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, two of class two, two of class one, one $1,000; assistant messenger; in all, $20,120. Office of Director of the Mint.Office of Director of the Mint: Director, $5,000; examiner, $3,000; computer, and adjuster of accounts $2,200; assayer, $2,200; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, one of class one; private secretary, $1,400 ; assistant in laboratory, $ 1,200 ; messenger ; assistant messenger; skilled laborer, $720; in all, $23,680.
Freight.For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, $25,000. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expended under the direction of the director: For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, pamphlets, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, $800. Examinations, etc.For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose of superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations, and for the collection of statistics relative to the Precious metals statistics.annual production and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, $4,800.
Public Health Service.Office of Surgeon General of Public Health Service: Surgeon General, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,250; private secretary to the Surgeon General, $1,800; statistician, $2,000; technical assistant, $2,000; assistant editor, $1,800; librarian, $1,600; clerks—four of class four, five of class three, eight of class two (one of whom shall be translator), fourteen of class one, six at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; messenger; three assistant messengers; telephone operator, $720; two laborers, at $540 each; in all, $74,150.
Contingent expenses.Stationery.Contingent expenses: For stationery, including tags, labels, and index cards printed in course of manufacture, for the Treasury Additional deducted from bureaus, etc.Department and its several bureaus and offices, $62,200, and in addition thereto sums amounting to $235,800 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, as follows: Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, $6,000; contingent expenses, mint at Philadelphia, $700; contingent expenses, 777 mint at San Francisco, $300; contingent expenses, mint at Denver, $300; contingent expenses, assay office at New York, $700; materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $6,000; suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, $700;
Public Health Service, $3,500; Quarantine Service, $1,000; preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, $600; expenses of Coast Guard, $5,000; general expenses of public buildings, $6,000; collecting the revenue from customs, $40,000; miscellaneous expenses of Internal-Revenue Service, $50,000; expenses of collecting the income tax, $70,000; stationery and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of War Risk Insurance, $45,000; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $62,200, the total appropriation for stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, with the exception of field officers located in foreign countries, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union Postage. countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, $1,200. For materials for the use of the bookbinder located in the Treasury Binding.Department, $250. For newspaper clippings, financial journals, law books, city Reference books, etc.directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $1,000. For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $9,000.Freight, etc.
For investigation and experimentation and to secure better methods Investigations to secure better administrative methods, etc.of administration, with a view to increased efficiency or to greater economy in the expenditure of public money, including necessary traveling expenses, in connection with special work, or obtaining of better administrative methods in any branch of the service within or under the Treasury Department, including the temporary employment of agents, stenographers, accountants, or other expert services either within or without the District of Columbia, $15,000.
For rent of buildings, $21,350.Rent. For purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks; Vehicles, etc.purchase, exchange, and maintenance of horses, including shoeing; purchase and repair of wagons, horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and harness, all to be used for official purposes only, $5,000.Files. For purchase of file holders and file cases, $5,000. For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate Fuel, etc. baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $15,000.
For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, Lighting.gas and electric fight fixtures, electric light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, $21,500. For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings and fixtures, Miscellaneous.window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower-garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps and repairs of same, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, toilet paper, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, street-car tickets not exceeding $250, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public auction in Washington, District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, $16,000. 778 Labor-saving machines.For purchase of labor-saving machines and supplies for same, including the purchase and exchange of registering accountants, numbering machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, and purchase of supplies for photographic copying machines, $10,000.
Carpets, etc.For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats, rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, $3,000. Furniture.For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair cane, chair covers, desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolera and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $15,000.
Fire alarm.For maintenance of the automatic fire-alarm systems in the Treasury and Winder Buildings, $2,003.50. Auditor for Post Of fice Department.Contingent expenses.Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Office of Auditor for the Post Office Department: For miscellaneous items, including purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters and adding machines, of which not exceeding $500 may be used for furniture and repairs, not exceeding $375 may be used for rental of telephones, and not exceeding $300 may be used for the purchase of law books, books Control of expenditures.of reference, and city directories, $7,500, to be expended under the direction of the Auditor for the Post Office Department under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and to operate as a specific exception of the said office from the appropriation for contingent expenses, Treasury Department, unless otherwise provided by law.
Tabulating equipment, etc.For purchase of cards and tabulating equipment for use in auditing accounts and vouchers of the Postal Service, including exchange and repairs, $194,000, to be expended under the direction of the Auditor for the Post Office Department under rules and regulations to be *Proviso*.Rental allowance.prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That not exceeding $37,400 may be expended for the rental of tabulating and card-sorting machines. Collecting internal revenue.collecting internal revenue.
Collectors, surveyors, etc.For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, deputy collectors, surveyors, clerks, messengers, and janitors in internal-*Proviso*. Witness fees.revenue offices, $3,565,000: *Provided*, That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any officer, designated above, subpoenaed by the United States court to attend any trial before a United *Ante*, p. 684.States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts.
” Agents, gauges, etc.>For salary and expenses of forty revenue agents provided for by law, fees and expenses of gaugers, and salaries and expenses of storekeepers and storekeepergaugers, $1,200,000. Collecting income tax. Vol. 39, p. 756. *Ante*, pp. 306, 329, 777.Collecting the income tax: For expenses of assessing and collecting the income tax as provided in Title I of an Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and subsequent Acts, including the employment of agents, inspectors, deputy collectors, clerks, and messengers in the District of Columbia, and the several collection districts, to be appointed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia and the several *Proviso*.collection districts, $3,000,000: *Provided*, That not more than 779 $215,000 of the foregoing sum may be used for the employment, in Personal services, etc., in Bureau. the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the District of Columbia, of necessary clerical and other personal services, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia.
For expenses of assessing and collecting the internal-revenue taxes, Collecting war revenue taxes.*Ante*, p. 300.as provided in an Act entitled “An Act to provide revenue to defray war expenses, and for other purposes,” approved October third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, including the employment of necessary officers, attorneys, experts, agents, inspectors, deputy collectors, clerks, janitors, and messengers in the District of Columbia and the several collection districts, to be appointed as provided by law, telegraph and telephone service, rental of quarters, postage, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, printing, stationery, law books and books of reference, and such other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia and the several collection districts, $8,000,000: *Provided*, That not more than *Provisos*.Punishing violations of laws, etc.$500,000 of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for detecting and bringing to trial persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations: *Provided further*, That not more than $1,172,000 Amount for Bureau, D.
C.of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended in the Bureau of Internal Revenue, in the District of Columbia. Collecting the cotton-futures tax: For expenses to enforce theCollecting cotton futures tax.Vol. 39, p. 476. provisions of part A of the Act approved August eleventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, known as the cotton-futures Act, including the employment of attorneys, agents, inspectors, deputy collectors, clerks, and messengers at rates to be fixed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue,subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and for the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary, $20,000: *Provided*, That no person *Proviso*.Pay restriction.shall be employed hereunder at a compensation exceeding $4,000 per annum.
Collecting the tax on estates, munitions, and so forth: For expenses Collecting tax on estates, munitions, etc.Vol. 39, pp. 756. 782.*Ante*, p. 324.of assessing and collecting the tax as provided by Titles I, I, and III, of an Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and subsequent Acts, and to pay such sums as the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, may deem necessary, $340,000; and the Commissioner Employees, etc.of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, is authorized to appoint and pay from this appropriation all necessary officers, experts, agents, inspectors, deputy collectors, clerks, messengers, and janitors, and to rent such quarters, incur expense for telephone service, purchase such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary for employment or use in the District of Columbia, or any collection district of the United States, or any of the Territories thereof: *Provided*, *Proviso*.Services in District of Columbia.That not more than $40,000 of the amount appropriated may be used for the employment in the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the District of Columbia of necessary clerical help at rates to be fixed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, subject to the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and for the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia.
Restricting the sale of opium, and so forth: For expenses to enforce Restricting opium, etc., sales.Expenses. Vol. 38, p. 785.the provisions of the Act approved December seventeenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon, all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, 780 deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or cocoa leaves, Employees, etc.their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes,” including the employment of agents, deputy collectors, inspectors, chemists, assistant chemists, clerks, and messengers in the field and in the Bureau of Internal Revenue in the District of Columbia, to be appointed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue, with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and for the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, and other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia and the several Per diem subsistence.collection districts, including not to exceed $4 per diem in lieu of subsistence, $325,000.
Miscellaneous. *Ante*, p. 777.For rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia, telephone service, and other miscellaneous expenses incident to the collection of internal revenue, purchase of necessary books of reference and periodicals for the chemical laboratory and law library, not to exceed $500, and reasonable expenses for not exceeding sixty days immediately following the injury of field officers or employees in the Internal-Revenue Service while in fine of duty, of medical attendance, surgeon’s and hospital bills made necessary by reason of such injury, and for horses crippled or killed while being used by officers in making raids, not exceeding $150 for any horse so crippled or killed, $100,000.
Statement to Congress of employees, rent, etc., in District of Columbia.The Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a detailed statement showing the number, designation, and annual rate of compensation of the persons employed and the amounts expended for rent and other authorized purposes in the District of Columbia from the foregoing appropriations for the collection of internal revenue. Independent Treasury.independent treasury.
Assistant treasurers’ offices. Baltimore.Baltimore, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, $4,500; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,900; exchange teller, $1,800; vault clerk, $1,800; clerks—two at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; messenger, $840; three watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $31,500. Boston.Boston, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, $5,000; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,500; vault clerk, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,000; redemption teller, $1,800; clerks—one $2,200, five at $1,600 each, one $1,500, one $1,400, two at $1,200 each, three at $1,100 each, four at $1,000 each; chief guard, $1,100; three watchmen, at $850 each; laborer and guard, $720; four money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $46,570.
Chicago.Chicago, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, $5,000; cashier, $3,000; assistant cashier, $2,000; vault clerk, $2,250; paying teller, $2,500; assorting teller, $2,000; redemption teller, $2,000; change teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,000; two bookkeepers, at $1,500 each; clerks—one $1,750, one $1,600, nine at $1,500 each, thirteen at $1,200 each; attendant for money laundry machines, $1,200; hall man, $1,100; messenger, $840; three watchmen, at $720 each; janitor, $720; eight money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; m all, $71,420.
Cincinnati.Cincinnati, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, $4,500; cashier, $2,250; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,800; vault clerk, $1,600; clerks—two at $1,300 each, four at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; clerk and stenographer, $1,000; chief watchman, $840; two watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $24,830. New Orleans. New Orleans, office of assistant treasttrer: Assistant treasurer, $4,500; cashier, $2,250; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,000; vault clerk, $1,800; assorting teller, $1,200; clerks—one $1,500, five at $1,200 each, one $1,000; typewriter and stenographer, 781 $1,000; day watchman, $720; night watchman, $720; messenger, $600; tour guards, at $720 each; in all, $28,170.
New York, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, New York.$8,000; cashier, $4,200; assistant cashier, $3,600; chief clerk, $3,000; check pay division—chief $3,000; assistant chief, $2,000, bond clerk and assistant vault clerk $2,800, paying teller $3,000, assistant paying teller $2,250, receiving teller $2,800; redemption division— chief $2,700, assistant chief $2,250, vault and authorities clerk $2,500; coin division—chief $2,700, assistant chief $2,000, paying teller $2,100; bookkeepers—chief $2,400, two at $2,000 each; clerks—one $2,300, two at $2,000 each, one $1,900, one $1,800, one $1,700, four at $1,600 each, seven at $1,500 each, nine at $1,400 each, five at $1,300 each, eight at $1,200 each, one $1,000; messengers—two at $1,200 each, five at $900 each, two at $800 each; guards—chief $1,500, one $1,200, four at $1,000 each; superintendent of building, $1,800; engineers—chief $1,200, two at $1,050 each; eight watchmen, at $720 each; twelve money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $150,460.
Philadelphia, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer,Philadelphia.$5,000; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,250; coin teller, $2,000; vault clerk, $1,900; bookkeeper, $1,800; assorting teller, $1,800; receiving teller, $1,700; redemption teller, $1,600; clerks—one $1,600, two at $1,500 each, two at $1,400 each, one $1,300, five at $1,200 each, one $1,000; chief guard, $1,100; five counters, at $900 each; six watchmen, at $720 each; four money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each ; in all, $49,770.
Saint Louis, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, Saint Louis.$4,500; cashier, $2,500; paying toller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,800; change teller, $1,600; coin teller, $1,200; clerks—two at $1,500 each, five at $1,200 each, two at $1,100 each, three at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; two watchmen, at $720 each; two janitors, at $600 each; guard, $720; in all, $33,860. San Francisco, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant San Francisco. treasurer, $4,500; cashier, who also acts as vault clerk, $2,800; bookkeeper, $2,000; paying teller, $2,400; receiving teller, $2,000; clerks— one $2,000, two at $1,800 each, one $1,500; stenographer and typewriter, $1,200; messenger, $840: four watchmen, at $720 each; two guards, at $720 each; in all, $27,160. mints and assay offices.
Mints and assay offices. Carson, Nevada, Mint: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform Carson City, Nov,the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; chief clerk, $1,200; in all, $4,200. For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,500. Denver, Colorado, Mint: Superintendent, $4,500 ; assayer, $3,000; Denver, Colo.superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coming department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $2,500; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant assayer, $2,200; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; assistant cashier, $1,800; clerks—two at $2,000 each, two at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, one $1,200; private secretary, $1,200; in all, $45,600.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $100,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery*Ante*, p. 777. and repairs, wastage in melting and refining department and coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $70,000. New Orleans, Louisiana, Mint: Assayer in charge, who shall New Orleans, La. also perform the duties of melter, $2,500; assistant assayer, $1,500; 782 chief clerk, who shall perform the duties of cashier, $1,500; in all, $5,500.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $6,250. For incidental and contingent expenses, $2,000. Philadelphia, Pa.Philadelphia Mint: Superintendent, $4,500; engraver, $4,000; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; assistant assayer, $2,200; cashier, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,500; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; assistant cashier, $1,800; curator, $1,800; clerks—one $2,000, one $1,700, eight at $1,600 each, one $1,500, six at $1,400 each, one $1,300, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; in all, $68,600.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $440,000. *Ante*, p. 776.For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, expenses of the annual assay commission, wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, and not exceeding $1,000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint, $177,000.
San Francisco, Cal. San Francisco, California, Mint: Superintendent, $4,500; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant assayer, $2,200; assistant cashier, $1,800; assistant bookkeeper, $1,800; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; clerks—one $2,000, two at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, two at $1,000 each; private secretary, $1,400; in all, $48,000.
For wages of workmen, and other employees, $170,000. *Ante*, p. 777.For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department and in the coming department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $60,000. Boise, Idaho.Boise, Idaho, assay office: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; chief clerk, who shall abo perform the duties of cashier, $1,200; in all, $4,200.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,300. Deadwood, S. Dak. Deadwood, South Dakota, assay office: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; clerk, $1,000; in all, $4,000. For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,200. Helena, Mont.Helena, Montana, assay office: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of cashier, $1,400; assistant assayer, $1,200; in all, $4,400.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,500. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,600. New York, N. Y.New York assay office: Superintendent, $5,000 ; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, deposit weigh clerk, and assistant assayer, at $2,500 each; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; bookkeeper, $2,350; assistant cashier, $1,800 ; clerks—two at $2,000 each, four at $1,800 each, one $1,600, one $1,500, one $1,250, seven at $1,000 each; private secretary, $1,400; in all, $51,100.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $160,000. *Ante*, p. 777.For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion, $136,000. 783 Salt Lake City, Utah, assay office: Assayer in charge, who shall Salt Lake City, Utah.also perform the duties of melter, chief clerk, and cashier, $1,800. For wages of workmen, and other employees, $1,500. For incidental and contingent expenses, $600.
Seattle, Washington, assay office: Assayer in charge, who shall Seattle, Wash.also perform the duties of melter, $2,750; assistant assayer, $2,000; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of ’cashier, $2,000; clerks—one $1,700, one $1,600, one $1,400; in all, $11,450. For wages of workmen, and other employees, $15,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including rent of building, $5,700. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of War, $12,000;
Assistant Secretary, $5,000 ; assistant Secretary, Assistant, assistant and chief clerk, etc.*Ante*, p. 515.and chief clerk, who shall sign such official papers and documents as the Secretary may direct, $4,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary, $2,000; stenographer to the Secretary, $2,000; clerk to the Assistant Secretary, $2,400; assistant chief clerk, $2,400; disbursing clerk, $2,750; appointment clerk, $2,250; four chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each;
Chiefs of divisions, clerks, etc.superintendent of buildings outside of State, War, and Navy Department Building, in addition to compensation as chief of division, $500 ; chief telegrapher, $1,800; clerks—six of class four, seven of class three, fifteen of class two, twenty of class one, five at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; foreman, $1,200; carpenters—one $1,200, one $1,080; chief messenger, $1,000; skilled laborer, $1,080; six messengers; nine assistant messengers; two telephone switch board operators; engineer, $900; assistant engineer, $720; fireman; six watchmen; three watchmen, at $660 each; eight laborers ; hostlers— one $600, one $540; four charwomen; in all, $155,940.
For the following as authorized by the Act approved April sixth, Second and Third Assistant Secretaries.*Ante*, p. 515nineteen hundred and eighteen, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Second Assistant Secretary of War, $4,500; Third Assistant Secretary of War, $4,500; in all, $10,850, of which sum $1,850 shall be available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. Temporary Employees: For the temporary employment of such Temporary employees.additional force of clerks and other employees as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of the existing situation may demand, $10,277,250: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War shall *Provisos*.
Detailed statement of employees, etc., to be submitted.submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a statement showing by bureaus or offices the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensation paid Pay restrictions.*Ante*, p. 643.to each: *Provided further*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $2,400 per annum and not more than thirty persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $1,800 each per annum.
Adjutant General’s Office: Chief clerk, $2 500; ten chiefs of Adjutant General’ss Office.divisions, at $2,000 each; clerks—fifty-eight of class four, seventy-four of class three, one hundred and sixteen of class two, two hundred and thirty-one of class one, ninety-three at $1,000 each; engineer, $1,400; assistant engineer, $900; two firemen; skilled mechanic, $1,000; eleven messengers; sixty-one assistant messengers; four watchmen; twenty-one laborers; in all, $852,540; all employees provided for by this paragraph for The Adjutant General’s Office of the War Department shall be exclusively engaged on the work of this office for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. 784 Inspector General’s Office.Office of Inspector General:
Clerks—one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, four of class one, two at $1,000 each; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger, $600; in all, $18,160. Judge Advocate General’s Office.Office of Judge Advocate General: Chief clerk and solicitor, $2,500; law clerks—one $2,400, one $2,000; clerks—two of class four, three of class three, four of class two, eight of class one, two at $1,000 each; three messengers; assistant messenger; in all, $35,740. Signal Office.Signal Office:
Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, three of class three, five of class two, eight of class one, nine at $1,000 each; five messengers; three assistant messengers ; in all, $45,960. Skilled draftsman, etc.The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the various appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and for the Signal Service of the Army, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the foregoing *Proviso*.
Limit, etc.employees appropriated for in the Signal Office: *Provided*, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen shall not exceed $53,280, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Radio engineer, etc.The services of one radio engineer and such radio assistants, as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the *Post*, p. 847.Signal Office to carry into effect the appropriation for the Signal Service of the Army, to be paid from such appropriation, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the Signal Office: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Limit, etc.That the entire expenditures for this purpose tor the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen shall not exceed $5,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Quartermaster General’s Office.Office of Quartermaster General: Chief clerk, $2,750; principal clerks—five at $2,250 each, three at $2,000 each; clerks—fifteen of class four, twenty-nine of class three, fifty of class two, ninety-three of class one, fifty-nine at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each; advisory architect, $4,000; draftsmen—three at $1,800 each, seven at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each; supervising engineer, $2,750; hydraulic and sanitary engineer, $2,000; civil engineer, $1,800; electrical engineer, $2,000; electrical and mechanical engineer, $2,250; marine engineer, $3,500; sanitary and heating engineer, $1,800; six messengers; fourteen assistant messengers; twelve laborers; laborer, $600; in all, $410,340.
Surgeon General’s of flee.Office of Surgeon General: Chief clerk, $2,250; principal assistant librarian, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chemist, $2,100; assistant chemist, $1,600; pathologist, $1,800; microscopist, $1,800; assistant librarian, $1,800; anatomist, $1,600; entomologist, $1,600; photographer, $1,500; two translators at $1,800 each; clerks—fourteen of class four, thirteen of class three, twenty-six of class two, thirty-six of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each; two at $900 each; engineer,$1,400; skilled mechanic, $1,000; two messengers; eleven assistant messengers; three firemen; three watchmen; superintendent of building (Army Medical Museum and Library), $200; six laborers; four charwomen; in all, $185,740.
Ordnance Office.Office of Chief of Ordnance: Chief clerk, $2,250; chief of division, $2,000; principal clerk, $2,000; clerks—eight of class four, ten of class three, seventeen of class two, thirty-six of class one, twelve at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; messengers—two at $780 each, two at $720 each; laborer; in all, $126,210. 785 The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the Skilled draftsmen, etc.Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Ordnance to carry into effect the various appropriations for the armament of fortifications and for the arming and equipping of the National Guard, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the amount specifically appropriated for draftsmen in the Army Ordnance Bureau: *Provided*, That the entire expenditures *Proviso*.
Limit, etc.for tins purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen shall not exceed $800,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. The Chief of Ordnance is authorized to appoint one of the Army Disbursing officer for civilian employees.officers serving in his office as disbursing officer to pay the civilian employees in the Ordnance Office authorized in this or any other appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Office of Chief of Engineers: Chief clerk, $2,250; two chiefs of Engineer Office.divisions, at $2,000 each; clerks—eight of class four, twelve of class three, fifteen of class two, twenty of class one, fourteen at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; six messengers ; three assistant messengers ; laborer; messenger boy, $400; in all, $112,510. The services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such other Skilled draftsmen, etc.services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the Office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, fortifications, and surveys and preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and bills, to be paid from such appropriations: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year *Proviso*.
Limit, etc.nineteen hundred and nineteen shall not exceed $50,400; the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each. Bureau of Insular Affairs: Law officer, $4,500; chief clerk, Insular Affairs Bureau.$2,250; clerks—ten of class four, seven of class three, eleven of class two, fourteen of class one, ten at $1,000 each; three messengers; two assistant messengers; four laborers; two charwomen; in all, $85,230.
Militia Bureau: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, Militia Affairs Bureau.three of class three, seven of class two, fifteen of class one, eight at $1,000 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, $49,800. Office of Chief of Coast Artillery: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks— Coast Artillery Office.one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, five of class one, three at $1,000 each; three messengers, at $720 each; in all, $22,360. Contingent expenses, War Department:
For purchase of professional Contingent expenses.and scientific books, law books, including their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriters and adding machines; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department Building) occupied by the War Department and its bureaus; not exceeding $3,500 for the purchase oi a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle for Motor vehicle for Secretary.official use of the Secretary of War; purchase and exchange of motor trucks and motorcycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks and motorcycles, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; street car tickets, not exceeding $1,000; and other absolutely necessary expenses, including a per diem allowance not to Per diem subsistence.exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, $600,000.
For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices, Stationery.$750,000. 786 Postage stamps. For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, $500. Rent.For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the War Department, $75,000. Public buildings and grounds.PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. Superintendent, assistant and chief clerk, etc.Office of public buildings and grounds:
Superintendent, $3,600; assistant and chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class two and stenographer, two of class one ; messenger; landscape architect, $2,400; junior engineer, $1,500; in all, $17,940. Foremen, etc.For foremen, gardeners, mechanics, and laborers employed in the public grounds, $31,200. Park watchmen.For sergeant of park watchmen, $950. For second sergeant of park watchmen, $900. Day force.For day watchmen, as follows: One in Franklin Park and adjacent reservations on New York Avenue; one in Lafayette Park; two in Smithsonian Grounds and neighboring reservations ; one in Judiciary Park; one in Lincoln Park and adjacent reservations; one in Iowa Circle and reservations to the northeast; one in Thomas and Scott Circles and neighboring reservations; one in Washington Circle and neighboring reservations; one in Dupont Circle and neighboring reservations; one in McPherson Park and Farragut Square; one in Stanton Park and neighboring reservations; two in Henry and Seaton Parks and neighboring reservations; one in Mount Vernon Park and reservations to the northeast; one in grounds south of the Executive Mansion; one in Garfield and Marion Parks and reservations to the east: one in Monument Park; four in Potomac Park; and one in Montrose Park; twenty-three in all, at $840 each, $19,320.
Night force.For night watchmen, as follows: Three in Smithsonian Grounds and neighboring reservations; one in Judiciary Park; two in Henry and Seaton Parks and adjacent reservations; one in grounds south of the Executive Mansion; one in Monument Park; one in Garfield Park and neighboring reservations; one in Iowa, Scott, and Thomas Circles and neighboring reservations; two in Stanton and Lincoln Parks and neighboring reservations; two in Lafayette and McPherson Squares, and Franklin and Farragut Parks; one in Washington and Dupont Circles and neighboring reservations; one in Mount Vernon Park and neighboring reservations ; two for greenhouses and nursery ; and four in Potomac Park; twenty-two in all, at $840 each, $18.480.
Wakefield, Va.Assistant superintendent, clerks, engineers, etc.For watchman for the care of the monument and dock at Wakefield, Virginia, the birthplace of Washington, $300. Contingent expenses.For contingent and incidental expenses, including purchase of professional and scientific books and technical periodicals, books of reference, blank books, photographs, and maps, $700. For purchase and repair of bicycles and revolvers for park watchmen and for purchase of ammunition, $1,000.
For maintenance, repair, and operation of two motorcycles at $144 each, $288. For purchasing and suppljung uniforms to park, Monument, and bridge watchmen, $3,145. Part from District revenues.Of the foregoing amounts appropriated under public buildings and grounds, the sum of $37,641.50 shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. State, War, and Navy Department Buildings.STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS. Main building.Assistant superintendent, clerks, engineers, etc.Office of superintendent:
Assistant superintendent, $2,000; clerks— two of class one, one $1,000; chief engineer, $1,800; five assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; electrical machinist, $1,200; captain of the 787watch, $1,200; two lieutenants of the watch, at $840 each; seventy watchmen; carpenter, $1,000; electrician, $1,200; machinist, $1,000; painter, $1,000; plumber, $1,000; three dynamo tenders, at $900 each; nine skilled laborers or mechanics, at $840 each; messenger; foreman of laborers, $840; sixteen firemen; twenty-five elevator conductors, at $720 each; twenty-five laborers; three second-class firemen, at $660 each; four forewomen of charwomen, at $300 each; sixty-seven charwomen; gardener, $720; attendant, $480; in all, $151,300.
For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, city directories, Contingent expenses.and dictionary, $48,800. Navy Department Annex, New York Avenue near Seventeenth Navy Annex.Street northwest: Engineer, $1,200; six firemen; five elevator conductors, at $720 each; seven watchmen; skilled laborer, $840; four laborers; forewoman, $300; nine charwomen; in all, $20,100. For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items, $8,000. State Department Annex: Laborer, $660.State Department Annex.
War and Navy Department Buildings (Henry Park Reservation): Henry Park Buildings.Assistant superintendent, clerks, etc.*Ante*, p. 598.For the following employees for the maintenance and protection of the buildings, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; clerks—one of class three, one of class two, two of class one, one at $1,000; three messengers, at $720 each; electricians—chief $1,400, two at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; two plumbers, at $1,200 each; machinist, $1,200; foreman, $1,500; two painters, at $1,200 each: four carpenters, at $1,200 each; two carpenters, at $1,000 each; three switchboard operators, at $1,000 each; ten general mechanics, at $1,000 each; chief engineer, $1,400; assistant engineers, four at $1,200 each; steamfitter, $1,080; firemen—seven at $840 each, eleven at $720 each; laborers—foreman $1,000, fifty at $660 each; nine female laborers, at $480 each;
Guards, etc.guards—captain $1,600, three lieutenants at $1,000 each, six sergeants at $840 each, one hundred and fifty-five at $720 each; charwomen—four forewomen at $300 each, eighty at $240 each; in all, $245,700. For fuel, lights, repairs, motorcycle repairs and supplies, miscellaneous Contingent exposes.items, printing, and city directories, $90,000. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of the Navy, $12,000; Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.Assistant Secretary, $5,000; chief clerk, $3,000; private secretary to Secretary, $2,500; clerk to Secretary, $2,250; private secretary to Assistant Secretary, $2,400; clerk to Assistant Secretary, $2,000; disbursing clerk, $2,250; appointment clerk, $2,000; estimate clerk, $1,800; stenographers—one $1,800, one $1,200, one $1,000; clerks— one of class four, three of class three, five of class two, five of class one, one $1,100, six at $1,000 each, one $900; three copyists; carpenter, $900; four messengers; four assistant messengers; four laborers; messenger boys—four at $600 each, one $420, one $400, one $360; in all, $82,860.
Temporary employees: For the employment of such additional Temporary employees.temporary force of clerks, messengers, laborers, and other assistants as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy may be necessary to the transaction of official business in the Navy Department and its bureaus and offices on account of the existing emergency, as follows:Distribution. Office of the Secretary, $20,000; Office of the Solicitor, $1,804; Office of the Judge Advocate General, $21,500;
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, $100,000; Office of Naval Intelligence, $10,000; 788 Hydrographic Office, $55,000; Naval Observatory, $11,620; Bureau of Steam Engineering, $45,000; Bureau of Construction and Repair, $72,660; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $12,000; Bureau of Yards and Docks, $55,000; Bureau of Navigation, $100,000; Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $150,000; *Proviso*. Statement of employees, etc.In all, $654,584: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a statement showing, by bureaus or offices, the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensation paid to each.
Solicitor’s Office.Office of Solicitor: Solicitor, $4,000; law clerks—one, $2,500, one $2,250, two at $2,000 each; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, one of class two, one $840; messenger, $600; in au, $20,590. Naval Records and Library.Office of Naval Records and Library: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, one to be selected from officers of the Confederate Navy (agent for collection of Confederate records); four of class two, four of class one, two at $1,000 each; copyist; copyist, $720; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $21,000.
All employees provided for by this paragraph shall be exclusively engaged on the work of this office during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. Judge Advocate General’s Office.Office of Judge Advocate General: Chief law clerk, $2,250; law clerks—one $2,200, one $1,600; clerks—one of class four, one $1,300, two of class one, three at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger; assistant messenger; in all, $17,010. Chief of Naval Operations.Office of Chief of Naval Operations:
Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, three of class one ; four at $ 1,000 each, one $900 ; telegraphers—chief $1,800, one $1,400, one $1,200, one $1,100; two draftsmen, at $1,200 each; two assistant messengers; messenger boys—one $600, two at $400 each; laborer; in all, $31,350. Bureau of Navigation.Bureau of Navigation: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—one $2,200, two at $2,000 each, five of class four, five of class three, eight of class two, eleven of class one, three at $1,100 each, seventeen at $1,000 each, five at $900 each ; fourteen copyists ; nine copyists, at $840 each ; messenger; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $600; five laborers; in all, $100,990.
Naval Intelligence Office.Office of Naval Intelligence: Clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class two, one $1,300, five at $1,000 each; three translators, at $1,400 each; draftsman, $1,200; messenger boy, $600; in all, $17,100. Hydrographic Office.Salaries.Hydrographic Office:Hydrographic engineer, $3,000; assistants—one $2,200, one $2,000; chief clerk, $1,800; nautical experts— one $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,400, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; clerks—one of class two, one of class one; custodian of archives, $1,200; copyists—three at $900 each, one $840, two at $720 each; compiler, $1,400; editor of Notice to Mariners, $1,800; computer, $1,400; draftsmen—four at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, our at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, ten at $1,000 each, one $900; three apprentice draftsmen, at $700 each; engravers—chief $2,000, two at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, one $1,400, six at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $720; apprentice engravers—one $800, one $700; plate printers—chief $1,400, one $1,200, one $1,000, two at $900 each, one $800 ; apprentice plate printers—one $700, one $600 ; lithographers—chief $1,800, two at $1,000 each, apprentice $700; process photographer, $1,600; lithographic transferer, $1,400; lithographic pressman, $1,400; photographic printer, $1,200; two nega 789 tive cutters, at $1,000 each; electrotyper and chart plate maker, $1,400; assistant messenger;six laborers; helpers—two at $720 each, two at $660 each, one $600, one $500, one $480; in all, $124,020.
For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing Materials, etc.directions; copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning copperplates; tools, instruments, power, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographic charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; purchase of equipment for the storage of plates used in making charts and for the storage of Hydrographic Office charts and pubheations; care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools, including the purchase of a hand press; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; preparation of pilot charts and their supplements, and printing and g same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $90,000.
Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Branch offices. Contingent expenses.Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Mario, Seattle, Panama, and Galveston, including furniture, fuel, lights, works, and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, stationery, miscellaneous articles, rent, and care of offices, care of time balls, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and express charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for pilot charts, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, $12,500.
For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $17,960.Employees. No expenditure shall be incurred or authorized for personal services Personal services in Washington restricted.or otherwise under the Hydrographic Office at Washington, District of Columbia, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, except as herein authorized by appropriations under the Navy Department or under appropriations that may be made for printing and binding. Naval Observatory: Astronomer, Naval Observatory.Salaries.$2,800;
Assistant astronomers—one $2,400, one $2,000, one $1,800; assistant in department of nautical instruments, $1,600; clerks—one of class four, one of class two; instrument maker, $1,500: electrician, $ 1,500 ; librarian, $1,800; assistants—three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; stenographer and typewriter, $900; foreman and captain of the watch, $1,000; carpenter, $1,000; engineer, $1,000; three firemen; six watchmen; elevator conductor, $720; nine laborers; in all, $47,040.
For miscellaneous computations, $5,000.Computations. For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodicals, Library.engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library, $1,000. For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, $3,000.Apparatus, etc. For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences; furniture, gas, chemicals, Contingent expenses.and stationery ; freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage, and expressage; plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses, $4,000.
For fuel, oil, grease, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for the Miscellaneous.maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, elec- 790 tric lighting and power plant, and water-supply system; purchase and maintenance of teams; maintenance, repair, exchange, or operation of motor truck and of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles ; material for boxing nautical instruments for transportation ; paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, $10,000.
Grounds and roads.For cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads, $6,000. Nautical Almanac Office.Nautical Almanac Office: For assistants in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris ami Nautical Almanac—one $2,000, two at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; copyist and typewriter, $900; assistant messenger; messenger boy, $420; in all, $19,240. Computers.For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, $3,000.
Bureau of Steam Engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering: Chief clerk, $2,250 ; bookkeeper and accountant, $1,800; clerks—one of class four, five of class three, six of class two, two at $1,300 each, seven of class one, two at $1,100 each, six at $1,000 each, one $900; copyist; two expert radio aids, at $3,130 each; expert in wireless telegraphy, $3,000; draftsmen— one (who shall be an expert in marine construction) $2,000, one $1,400, assistant $1,200; two blue printers, at $720 each; four assistant messengers; laborers—three at $660 each, two at $600 each; messenger boy, $600; in all, $65,210.
Technical services.The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Steam Engineering and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy” and “Engineering,” to be paid *Proviso*. Limit, etc.from the appropriation “Engineering”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nine-teen shall not exceed $236,140.
A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Bureau of Construction and Repair.Bureau of Construction and Repair: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—three of class four, four of class three, four of class two, four at $1,300 each, four of class one, eleven at $1,100 each, fifteen at $1,000 each; seven copyists; two assistant messengers; three laborers; messenger boys—ten at $600 each, one $480, one $400; in all, $73,350.
Technical services. The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Construction and Repair and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy,” and “Construction and Repair,” to be paid from the appropriation “Construction and Repair”: *Proviso*.Limit, etc. *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen shall not exceed $318,941.16.
A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Bureau of Ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance: Chief clerk, $2,250; draftsman, $1,400; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, one $1,300, four of class one, one $1,100, five at $1,000 each; three copyists; two copyists, at $840 each; assistant messenger; messenger boys—two at $600 each, two at $400 each; laborer; in all, $34,610.
Technical services.The services of clerks, draftsmen, and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Ordnance, and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to carry into effect the various appropriations 791 for “Increase of the Navy,” and “Ordnance and ordnance stores,” to be paid from the appropriation “Ordnance and ordnance stores”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year *Proviso*.
Limit, etc.nineteen hundred and nineteen shall not exceed $94,783.76. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each, shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Civilian assistant, $2,500; Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.chief accountant, $2,250; two chief bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; statistician, $1,800; clerks—six of class four, eight of class three, nine of class two, eighteen of class one, twelve at $1,100 each, twentyeight at $1,000 each, nineteen at $900 each; two copyists, at $840 each; five assistant messengers; messenger boys—four at $600 each, one $480, two at $400 each; laborer; in ail, $136,270.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks— Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, two of class one, two at $1,100 each, three at $1,000 each; copyist, $840; assistant messenger; laborer; naval dispensary—driver $600, laborer, $480; in all, $24,150. Bureau of Yards and Docks: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—two of Bureau of Yards and Docks.class four, one $1,700, one of class three, two of class two, four of class one, one $1,100, seven at $1,000 each; assistant messenger; messenger boys—three at $600 each, one $480; two laborers; in all, $29,170.
The services of skilled draftsmen and such other technical services Technical services.as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Yards and Docks to carry into effect the various appropriations and allotments thereunder and be paid from such appropriations and allotments: *Provided*, That the expenditures on *Proviso*. Limit, etc.this account for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen shall not exceed $400,000. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each, shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates.
Division of Naval Militia Affairs: For the following, authorized Naval Militia Affairs Division. Vol. 38, p. 238. *Ante*, p. 712.by section seventeen of the Naval Militia Act approved February sixteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen: Chief clerk, $1,800; clerks— two of class two, three of class one, one $1,100, four at $1,000 each; messenger boys—one $600, one $400; in all, $14,300. For miscellaneous expenses, including stationery, furniture, office Miscellaneous expenses.equipment, postage, typewriters and exchange of same, and necessary printing and binding, $3,000, which sum, together with the foregoing amount for salaries, shall be paid from the appropriation *Ante*, p. 712.for “ Arming and equipping Naval Militia,” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, and no other or further sums shall be expended from said appropriation for or on account of said Division of Naval Militia Affairs during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Contingent expenses: For professional and technical books and Contingent expenses, Books, etc.periodicals, law books, and necessary reference books, including citv directories, railway guides, freight, passenger, and express tariff books, for department library, $2,000. For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, and drawing Stationery, furniture, etc.materials; not exceeding $3,500 for the purchase of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle for official use of the Secretary of the Navy ; purchase and exchange of motor trucks or motor delivery wagons; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks or motor delivery wagons, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; garage rent; street car tickets not exceeding $500; freight, expressage, postage, typewriters and computing machines; necessary traveling expenses for collection of 792 records not exceeding $100; and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, $270,000; it shall not be lawful to expend, for any of the offices or bureaus of the *Ante*, p. 704.Navy Department at Washington, any sum out of appropriations made for the Naval Establishment for any of the purposes mentioned or authorized in this paragraph.
Rent.For rental of additional quarters for the Navy Department, $30,000. Restriction on use of navalappropriations.No part of any appropriations made for the naval service shall be expended for any of the purposes (including freight and expressage) herein provided tor on account of the Navy Department at Washington, District of Columbia, except for personal services in certain bureaus, as herein expressly authorized. Interior Department. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Secretary, Assistants chiefclerks.Office of the Secretary:
Secretary of the Interior, $12,000; First Assistant Secretary, $5,000; Assistant Secretary, $4,500; chief clerk, including $500 as superintendent of buildings, who shall be chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries, Assistant, Inspectors, clerks, etc.$4,000; assistant to the Secretary, $2,750; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; assistant attorney, $2,500; two special inspectors, whose employment shall be limited to the inspection of offices and the work in the several offices under the control of the department, at $2,500 each; six inspectora, at $2,500 each; chief disbursing clerk, $2,500; chiefs of division—one of supplies, $2,250, one of appointments, mails, and files, $2,250, and one of publications, $2,250; ex pert accountant, $2,000 (transferred from the Indian Office) ; clerks— our at $2,000 each, twelve of class four (one transferred to Solicitor’s Office), two at $1,740 each (one transferred from the Bureau of Mines and one from the Geological Survey), sixteen of class three (two transferred to Solicitor’s Office), one $1,620 (transferred from Bureau of Mines), one $1,500 (transferred from Geological Survey), nineteen of class two (including one transferred from Pension Office and three transferred to Solicitor’s Office), one $1,320 (transferred from Reclamation Service), twenty-five of class one (including one transferred from Geological Survey), four at $1,000 each (including one transferred from Bureau of Mines), one $840 (transferred from Bureau of Mines); returns office clerk, $1,600; female clerk, to be designated by the President, to sign land patents, $1,200; seven copyists (one transferred to Solicitor’s Office); classified laborer, $1,140 (transferred from Bureau of Mines); skilled laborer, $840 (transferred from Bureau of Mines); multigraph operator, $900; assistant multigraph operator, $720;
Messengers, etc.typewriter repairer, $900; two telephone switchboard operators; eleven chauffeurs at $720 each; ten messengers (including one transferred from Pension Office); seven assistant messengers (including one in lieu of a messenger boy at $720 transferred from Geological Survey and one transferred to Solicitor’s Office) ; twenty-one laborers; skilled mechanics—one $900, one $720; two carpenters, at $900 each; plumber, $900; electrician, $1,000; gardener, $600 (transferred from Geological Survey) ; laborer; messenger boys—one $540 (transferred from Geological Survey), one $420 (in lieu of one transferred from Pension Office at $400) ; five packers at $660 each ; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; eight female laborers, at $400 each; captains Watchmen, etc.of the watch—one $1,200, one $840 (transferred from Pension Office); lieutenants of the watch—one $1,020 (transferred from Geological Survey), three at $840 each (two transferred from Geological Survey and one from Bureau of Mines) ; three sergeants of the watch 793 at $750 each (transferred from Pension Office) ; sixty-eight watchmen (including seventeen transferred from Pension Office, two from Reclamation Service, two from Bureau of Mines, six from Geological Survey, and one in lieu of one at $840 transferred from Geological Survey) ; additional to two watchmen acting as lieutenants of watchmen, at $120 each; engineer, $1,200; assistant engineer, $1,000; seven firemen ; clerk to sign, under the direction of the Secretary, in Clerk to sign tribal deeds.his name and for him, his approval of all tribal deeds to allottees and deeds for town lots made and executed according to law for any of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory, $1,200; in all, $320,270.
General Land Office Building: Engineer and electrician, $1,600; General Land Office Building.Salaries.assistant engineer, $1,000; four firemen; three watchmen, acting as lieutenants, at $840 each; twenty watchmen; elevator conductor, $720 ; fourteen laborers ; three skilled mechanics (painter, carpenter, and plumber), at $900 each; in all, $35,060. Building for Interior Department offices, care and maintenance: Department Office Building.Assistant superintendent, laborers, etc.
Assistant superintendent, $2,000 ; clerk of class two (in lieu of superintendent of building, $1,400, transferred from Pension Office); foreman of laborers, $1,000; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $900 each ; laborers—sixty-five at $660 each (including twenty-three transferred from Pension Office, thirteen from General Land Office, and two from Geological Survey), forty-five at $600 each (including one transferred from Bureau of Mines, one from Geological Survey, four from Patent Office, and eleven in lieu of eleven at $540 each transferred from Patent Office), sixteen at $540 each (one in lieu of one at $480 transferred from General Land Office, three in lieu of three at $480 each transferred from Bureau of Education, eleven in lieu of eleven at $480 each transferred from Geological Survey, and one in lieu of one at $400 transferred from Bureau of Education); seventeen female laborers at $400 each (including ten transferred from Pension Office and one from Geological Survey); sixteen charwomen (one in lieu of one at $270 transferred from Geological Survey and fifteen tranferred from Pension Office) ; engineer, $1,200 (transferred Engineers, mechanics, etc.from Geological Survey); two assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; nine firemen (including two transferred from Pension Office); general machinist, $1,500; electrician, $1,400 (in lieu of assistant electrical engineer at $1,800 transferred from Geological Survey); substation operators—three at $1,200 each, three assistants at $900 each; two wiremen, at $1,000 each; two electricians’ helpers, at $720 each; painter, $1,000; painter, $900 (transferred from Pension Office); carpenters—chief $1,320 (transferred from Geological Survey), two at $900 each (transferred from Geological Survey); cabinetmaker, $900 (transferred from Pension Office); plumber, $1,400; two assistant plumbers, at $1,000 each; two plumbers’ helpers, at $840 each; thirteen elevator conductors, at $720 each; janitor, $600 Watchmen, etc.(transferred from Geological Survey); eighteen watchmen; copyist (transferred from Pension Office); four messengers (three transferred from Pension Office and one from Patent Office) ; two assistant messengers (transferred from Patent Office) ; three messenger boys at $420 each (one transferred from Patent Office and two in lieu of two at $400 each transferred from Pension Office); in all, $158,580.Solicitor’s Office.
Office of Solicitor: Three members of a board of appeals, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, at $4,000 each ; assistant attorneys—one $3,000’, two at $2,750 each, four at $2,500 each, seven at $2,250 each, eleven at $2,000 each; medical expert $2,000; clerks—one of class four (transferred from Secretary’s office), six of class three (one of whom shall act as stenographer and one of whom shall be a stenographer and typewriter) (including two transferred from Secretary’s office), three of class two (transferred from Sec- 794 retary’s office), one of class one; copyist (transferred from Secretary’s office) ; messenger (transferred from Pension Office) ; three assistant messengers (one transferred from Secretary’s office and two from Pension Office), in all, $90,950.
Special inspectors. Subsistence, etc.For per diem in lieu of subsistence of two special inspectors, while traveling on duty, at not exceeding $4, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation (including temporary employment of stenographers, typewriters, and other assistance outside of the District of Columbia, and for incidental expenditures necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations), to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $4,500.
Inspectors. Subsistence, etc.For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence to six inspectors and while remaining at the seat of government under orders of the Secretary not to exceed twenty days, transportation and sleeping-car fare, incidental expenses of negotiation, inspection, and investigation, including telegraphing, $12,800. General Land Office.General Land Office: Commissioner, $5,000; assistant commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk, $3,000; chief law clerk, $2,500; two law clerks, at $2,200 each; three law examiners of surveyors general and district land offices, at $2,000 each; recorder, $2,000; chiefs of divisions—one of surveys $2,750, one $2,400, ten at $2,000 each; assistant chief of division, $2,000; law examiners—fourteen at $2,000 each, ten at $1,800 each, eighteen at $1,600 each; clerks—twenty-seven of class four, fifty-seven of class three, eighty-three of class two, eighty-nine of class one, seventy-seven at $1,000 each; sixty-five copyists; twenty-six copyists, at $720 each; two messengers; ten assistant messengers; messenger boys—ten at $600 each, six at $480 each; six skilled laborers, who may act as assistant messengers when required, at $660 each; three laborers (thirteen transferred to building for Interior Department offices) ; packer, $720 ; depositary acting for the commissioner as receiver of public moneys, $2,000, who may, with the approval of the commissioner, designate a clerk of the General Land Office to act as such depositary in his absence; clerk and librarian, $1,000; in all, $672,790.
Per diem subsistence, etc., investigations.For per diem in lieu of subsistence, at not exceeding $4, of examiners and of clerks detailed to inspect offices of United States surveyors general and other offices in public land service, to investigate fraudulent land entries, trespasses on the public lands, and cases of official misconduct, actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping car fares, and for employment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations, and when authorized by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, $6,000.
Law books.For law books for the law library, $400. Maps. *Proviso*. Distribution.For connected and separate United States and other maps, prepared in the General Land Office, $20,000: *Provided*, That of the United States maps procured hereunder seven thousand two hundred copies shall be delivered to the Senate and fourteen thousand four hundred copies shall be delivered to the House of Representatives, five hundred copies shall be delivered to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the residue shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Interior for distribution.
All maps delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives hereunder shall be mounted with rollers ready for use. State and Territorial maps.Enlarged homestead areas.For separate State and Territorial maps of public-land States, including maps showing areas designated by the Secretary of the Interior under the enlarged-homestead Acts, prepared in the General Land Office, $3,000. Files.For appliances in connection with filing system, $3,000. Indian Office.Indian Office: Commissioner, $5,000; assistant commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk, $2,750; financial clerk, $2,250; chiefs of divisions— 795 one $2,250, one $2,000; law clerk, $2,000; assistant chief of division, $2,000; private secretary, $1,800; examiner of irrigation accounts, $1,800; draftsmen—one $1,400, one $1,200; clerks—twenty of class four, thirty-one of class three, thirty-eight of class two, two at $1,500 each, sixty-eight of class one (including one stenographer), thirty-two at $1,000 each (including one stenographer), thirty-four at $900 each, two at $720 each; messenger; four assistant messengers; four messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $320,790.
Pension Office: Commissioner, $5,000; deputy commissioner, Pension Office.$3,600; chief clerk, $2,500; assistant chief clerk, $2,000; medical referee, $3,000; assistant medical referee, $2,250; two qualified surgeons, at $2,000 each; nine medical examiners, at $1,800 each; six chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; law clerk, $2,250; chief of board of review, $2,250; thirty-seven principal examiners, at $2,000 each; private secretary, to be selected and appointed by the Commissioner of Pensions, $2,000: eleven assistant chiefs of divisions, at $1,800 each; three stenographers, at $1,600 each; disbursing clerk for the payment of pensions, $4,000; deputy disbursing clerk, $2,750; three supervising clerks in the disbursing division, at $2,000 each; clerks— ninety-three of class four, eighty-three of class three, two hundred and forty-seven of class two (one transferred to Secretary’s office), three hundred and twenty of class one, sixty-five at $1,000 each; thirty-six copyists (one transferred to building for Interior Department offices) ; twenty-three messengers (one transferred to Secretary’s office, three to building for Interior Department offices, and one to Solicitor’s office); six assistant messengers (two transferred to Solicitor’s office) ; skilled laborer, $660; six messenger boys, at $420 each (one transferred to Secretary’s office and two to building for Interior Department offices) ; in all, $1,322,620.
Appointment shall not be made to any of the positions herein appropriated Restriction on filling vacancies.for in the classified service of the Bureau of Pensions not actually filled June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, nor shall more than fifty per centum of other vacancies actually occurring in the $1,200 grade, nor more than twenty-five per centum of such vacancies actually occurring in all other grades or positions, except those with salaries of $2,250 or above, or $1,000 or below, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, be filled by original appointment or promotion.
The salaries or compensation of all places which may not be filled as hereinabove provided for shall not be available for expenditure, but shall lapse and shall be covered into the Treasury. For per them at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence for persons Per diem, etc., investigations.employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertaining to said bureau and for actual and other necessary expenses, including telegrams, $90,000.
For purchase, repair, and exchange of adding machines, addressing Labor-saving devices, etc.machines, typewriters, check-signing machines, and other labor-saving devices, furniture, filing cabinets, and postage on foreign mail, $6,000.Patent Offices. Patent Office: Commissioner, $5,000; first assistant commissioner, $4,500; assistant commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk (who shall be qualified to act as principal examiner), $3,000; five law examiners, at $2,750 each; examiner of classification, $3,600; five examiners in chief, at $3,500 each; two examiners of interferences, at $2,700 each; examinera of trade-marks and designs—one $2,700, first assistant $2,400, six assistants at $1,500 each; examiners—forty-five principals at $2,700 each, ninety firat assistants at $2,400 each, ninety second assistants at $2,100 each, ninety third assistants at $1,800 each, ninety fourth assistants at $1,500 each; financial clerk, who shall give bond in such amount as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, $2,250; librarian, who shall be qualified to act as an as 796 sistant examiner, $2,000; six chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; three assistant chiefs of divisions, at $1,800 each; private secretary, to be selected and appointed by the commissioner, $1,800; translator of languages, $1,800; clerks—nine of class four, nine of class three, seventeen of class two, one hundred and thirty-five of class one, ninety-one at $1,000 each; three skilled draftsmen, at $1,200 each; four draftsmen, at $1,000 each; ninety copyists; forty copyists, at $720 each; three messengers (one transferred to building for Interior Department offices); thirty-three assistant messengers (two transferred to building for Interior Department offices); thirteen laborers, at $600 each (four transferred to building for Interior Department offices); forty-five examiners’ aids, at $600 each; twenty-four copy pullers, who shall be selected without regard to apportionment, at $480 each; in all, $1,416,500.
Temporary typewriters.For special and temporary services of typewriters certified by the Civil Service Commission, who may be employed in such numbers, at $2.50 per diem, as may, in the judgment of the Commissioner of Patents, be necessary to keep current the work of furnishing manuscript copies of records, $5,000. Books, etc.For purchase of law, professional and other reference books and publications and scientific books and expense of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign Governments, $3,000.
Copies of weekly issue of patents, etc.For producing copies of weekly issue of patents, designs, and trademarks; production of copies of drawings and specifications of exhausted patents and other papers; $140,000. Investigating use of inventions.For investigating the question of public use or sale of inventions for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and such other questions arising in connection with applications for patents as may be deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Patents; and expense attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents, $500.
International Bureau, Berne.For the share of the United States in the expense of conducting the International Bureau at Berne, Switzerland, $750. Bureau of Education.Bureau of Education: Commissioner, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,000; specialist in higher education, $3,000; editor, $2,000; statistician, $1,800; specialist in charge of land-grant college statistics, $1,800; two translators, at $1,800 each: collector and compiler of statistics, $2,400; specialists—one in foreign educational systems and one in educational systems, at $1,800 each; clerks—five of class four, five of class three, six of class two, nine of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each; two copyists; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger boy, $420; in all, $79,860.
Rural and industrial education, etc.For investigation of rural education, industrial education, and school hygiene, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and no salary shall be paid hereunder in excess of $3,500 per annum, $50,000. Traveling expenses.For necessary traveling expenses of the commissioner and employees acting under his direction, including attendance at meetings of educational associations, societies, and other organizations, $5,000.
Library.For books for library, current educational periodicals, other current publications, and completing valuable sets of periodicals, $500. School and home gardeningFor investigation of school and home gardening in cities and manufacturing towns, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $7,500. Special reports.For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of information, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $3,600.
Distributing documents, etc.For purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational documents, collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus and 797 appliances, textbooks, and educational reference books, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and repairing the same, including personal services in the District of Columbia for the purpose of bringing the cataloguing up to date, $2,500.
For investigation of elementary and secondary education, including Elementary, etc., education investigations.evening schools and the wider use of the schoolhouse in cities and towns, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $9,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed *Proviso*. Pay restriction.hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $3,500 per annum. For investigation of kindergarten education, including personal Kindergarten education.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $4,300: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $2,500 per annum.
Office of Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Superintendent of Capitol Building and Grounds.Grounds: Superintendent, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,000; chief electrical engineer, $3,750; civil engineer, $2,400; two draftsmen, at $1,200 each; two clerks, at $1,200 each; compensation to disbursing clerk, $1,000; messenger; person in charge of the heating of the Supreme Court and central portion of the Capitol, $ 1,000 ; laborer in charge of water-closets in central portion of the Capitol, $660 ; seven laborers for cleaning Rotunda, corridors, Dome, and old library portion of Capitol, at $660 each ; two laborers in charge of public closets of the House of Representatives and in the terrace, at $720 each; book-keeper and accountant, $2,200; in all, $30,710.
Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior: The following Contingent expenses.sums, which shall be so apportioned as to prevent deficiencies therein, namely: For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus, offices, and buildings of the department, including $30,000 for the Civil Service Commission: Furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, street car tickets not exceeding $250, and expressage; not exceeding $3,500 for the purchase of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle for Motor vehicle for Secretary.official use of the Secretary of the Interior; purchase and exchange of motor trucks, motorcycles, and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle and motor tracks, motorcycles, and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; diagrams; awnings; filing and labor-saving devices; constructing model and other cases and furniture; and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for, including traveling expenses,fuel and fights, typewriting and adding machines; $165,000.
For electrical power, electric fight, gas, window washing, and telephone Supplies for Department Office Building.service, fuel, telephones, window shades, awnings, and other materials and supplies as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior may be required for general maintenance and operation of the building for Interior Department offices, $100,000. For stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined Stationery.wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the department and its several bureaus and offices, including not to exceed $20,000 for the Civil Service Commission; $100,000, and, in addition thereto, sums amounting Additional deducted from specified appropriations.to $46,350 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, as follows:
Surveying public lands, $2,000; protecting public lands and timber, $2,000; contingent expenses of offices of surveyors general, $2,000; Capitol Building and repairs, $150; Geological Survey, $2,100; Bureau of Mines, $3,500; Indian Service, $34,000; Freedmen’s Hospital, $600; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $100,000, the total appropriation 798 for stationery for the department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Books, periodicals, etc.For professional and scientific books, law books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $1,000, of which sum $250 may be used for the Civil Service Commission. Rent.For rent of building for the Civil Service Commission, $16,875. For rent of quartern for department trucks, and for the storage of Patent Office models and exposition exhibits, $2,400. Postage stamps.For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, and for special-delivery stamps for use in the United States when it is necessary to secure immediate delivery of mail, $2,000.
Surveyors general.SURVEYORS GENERAL. Salaries and office expenses. *Ante*, p. 797.For salaries of surveyors general, clerks in their offices, and contingent expenses, including office rent, pay of messengers, stationery, printing, binding, drafting instruments, typewriters, furniture, fuel, lights, books of reference for office use, post-office box rent, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, as follows: Alaska.Alaska: Surveyor general and ex efficio secretary of the Territory, $4,000;
Clerks, $10,000; Contingent expenses, $2,500; in all, $16,500. Arizona.Arizona: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $13,000; Contingent expenses, $600; in all, $16,600. California.California: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $12,000; Contingent expenses, $1,400; in all, $16,400. Colorado.Colorado: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $20,310; Contingent expenses, $1,800; in all, $25,110 Idaho.Idaho: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $13,060; Contingent expenses, $750; in all, $16,810.
Montana.Montana: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $18,500; Contingent expenses, $600; in all, $22,100. Nevada.Nevada: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $10,000; Contingent expenses, $400; in all, $13,400. New Mexico.New Mexico: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $18,000; Contingent expenses, $900; in all, $21,900. Oregon.Oregon: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $12,500; Contingent expenses, $600; in all, $16,100. South Dakota.South Dakota: Surveyor general, $2,000; Clerks, $3,100;
Contingent expenses, $300 ; in all, $5,400. Utah. Utah: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $14,640; Contingent expenses, $750; in all, $18,390. Washington.Washington: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $8,000; Contingent expenses, $750; in all, $11,750. Wyoming.Wyoming: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $9,700; Contingent expenses, $500; in all, $13,200. 799 Expenses chargeable to the foregoing appropriations for clerk Restriction on clerk hire, etc.hire and incidental expenses in the offices of the surveyors general shall not be incurred by the respective surveyors general in the conduct of said offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to detail temporarily Temporary details authorized.clerks from the office of one surveyor general to another as the necessities of the service may require and to pay their actual necessary traveling expenses in going to and returning from such office out of the appropriation for surveying the public lands. A detailed statement of traveling expenses incurred hereunder shall be made to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof.
The use of the fund created by the Act of March second, eighteen Office work, surveys in railroad land grants. Vol. 28, p. 937.hundred and ninety-five (Twenty-eighth Statutes, page nine hundred and thirty-seven), for office work in the surveyors general’s offices is extended for one year from June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen: *Provided*, That not to exceed $25,000 of this fund shall *Proviso*.Limit.be used for the purposes above indicated. GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES.Government in the Territories.
Territory of Alaska: Governor, $7,000; four judges, at $7,500 Alaska.each; four attorneys, at $5,000 each; four marshals, at $4,000 each; four clerks, at $3,500 each; in all, $87,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, clerk hire, not to exceed $2,250; janitor service for the governor’s offices and the executive mansion, not to exceed $1,200; traveling expenses of the governor while absent from Juneau on official business ; repair and preservation of executive mansion; stationery, lights, water, and fuel; in all, $6,000, to be expended under the direction of the governor.
For the repainting of the executive mansion at Juneau, Alaska, including interior repainting, kalsomining, and decorating, $750. Legislative expenses: For salaries of members, $21,600; mileage ofLegislative expenses.members, $9,250; salaries of employees, $5,160; printing of laws, $3,500; rent of legislative halls and committee rooms, $2,000; stationery, supplies, printing of bills, reports, and so forth, $4,500; in all, $46,010, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska.
Territory of Hawaii: Governor, $7,000; secretary, $4,000; chief Hawaii.justice, $6,000; two associate justices, at $5,500 each; in all, $28,000. For judges of circuit courts, at $4,000 each, so much as may be necessary, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. For contingent expenses, to be expended by the governor, for stationery, postage, and incidentals, $1,200, and for private secretary to the governor, $2,000; in all, $3,200.Legislative expenses. Legislative expenses:
For furniture, light, telephone, stationery, record casings and files, printing and binding, including printing, publication, and binding of the session laws and the house and senate journals, indexing records, postage, ice, water, clerk hire, mileage of members, and incidentals, pay of chaplain, clerk, sergeant at arms, stenographers, typewriters, janitors, and messengers, $30,000: *Provided*, *Proviso*. Pay, etc., to Members restricted.That the members of the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii shall not draw their compensation of $200 or any mileage for an extra session, held in compliance with section fifty-four of an Act to provide Vol. 31, p. 150.a government for the Territory of Hawaii, approved April thirtieth, nineteen hundred.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Post Office Department. Office, Postmaster General: Postmaster General, $12,000; Postmaster General, chief clerk, etc.chief derk, including $500 as superintendent of buildings, $4,000; 800 private secretary, $2,500; disbursing clerk, $2,250; appointment clerk, assistant to chief clerk, confidential clerk to Postmaster General, Chief inspector, purchasing agent, etc.and chairman, board of inspection, at $2,000 each; chief inspector, $4,000; chief clerk to chief inspector, $2,000; purchasing agent, $4,000; chief clerk to purchasing agent, $2,000; assistant attorneys— one, $2,750, one $2,500; three at $2,000 each; bond examiner, Clerks, etc.$2,500; law clerk, $1,800; clerks—eighty-eight of class four, one hundred and thirty-four of class three, two hundred and eight of class two, two hundred and seventy-six of class one, one hundred and eighty-three at $1,000 each, thirty-one at $900 each; skilled draftsmen—three at $1,800 each, eight at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each, eight at $1,200 each; map mounter, $1,200; assistant map mounter, $1,000; blue printer, $900; assistant blue printer, $840; telegrapher, $1,400; typewriter repairer, $1,200; three telephone Messengers, watch men, engineers, etc.switchboard operators; two messengers in charge of mails, at $900 each; twenty-two messengers; thirty-five assistant messengers; captain of the watch, $1,200; additional to three watchmen acting as lieutenant of watchmen, at $120 each; thirty-four watchmen; two engineers, at $1,200 each; nine assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; two blacksmiths or steamfitters, at $1,000 each; three oilers, at $840 each; fifteen firemen; twenty elevator conductors, at $720 each; chief engineer, $1,600; assistant electricians—two at $1,200 each, Carpenters, laborers, etc.three at $1,000 each; two dynamo tenders, at $900 each; carpenters—one $1,400, three at $1,000 each; awning maker, painter, and plumber, at $1,000 each; assistant plumber, $900; laborers—foreman $900, assistant foreman $840, two at $840 each, seventy-six at $720 each, three at $660 each; female laborers—one $540, three at $500 each, nine at $480 each; fifty-eight charwomen; actual necessary expenses of the purchasing agent while traveling on business of the department, $500; in all, $1,516,540.
Readjustment of salaries.In making readjustments hereunder, the salary of any clerk in any class may be fixed by the Postmaster General at $100 below the salary fixed by law for such class and the unused portion of such salary shall be used to increase the salary of any clerk in any class entitled thereto by not less than $100 above the salary fixed by law for such class. Assignments to bureaus, etc.The Postmaster General shall assign to the several bureaus, offices, and divisions of the Post Office Department such number of the employees herein authorized as may be necessary to perform the work required therein; and he shall submit a statement showing such assignments and the number employed at the various salaries in the annual Book of Estimates following the estimates for salaries in the Post Office Department.
Censorship, etc. *Ante*,pp. 230,425,654.For enforcement of title twelve of the Espionage Act, approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and section nineteen of the Trading with the Enemy Act, approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $50,000. Office of First Assistant Postmaster General.Office, First Assistant Postmaster General: First Assistant Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of post-office Superintendents of divisions, etc.service—superintendent $4,000, assistant superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,250, two assistant superintendents at $2,000 each; division of postmasters’appointments—superintendent $3,000, two assistant superintendents at $2,000 each; superintendent, division of dead letters, $2,500; chief, division of correspondence, $2,000; in all, $32,250.
Office of Second Assistant Postmaster General. Superintendents of di visions, etc.Office,Second Assistant Postmaster General: Second Assistant Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of railway adjustments—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent, $2,250; division of foreign mails—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,000; division of railway mail service—general 801 superintendent $4,000, assistant general superintendent $3,500; chief clerk, $2,000; in all, $27,250.
Office, Third Assistant Postmaster General: Third Assistant Office of Third Assistant Postmaster General.Superintendents of divisions, etc.Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500: division of postal savings—director $4,800, assistant director $3,000, chief clerk $2,500, clerk in charge of administrative section, and clerk in charge of audit section, at $2,000 each; superintendents of divisions—stamps $2,750, finance (who shall give bond in such amount as the Postmaster General may determmefor the faithful discharge of his duties) $2,250, classification $2,750, registered mails $2,500, money orders $2,750; chief clerk division of money orders, $2,250; in all, $37,050.
Office, Fourth Assistant Postmaster General: Fourth Assistant Office of Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. Superintendents of divisions, etaPostmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of rural mails—superintendent $3,000, chief clerk $2,000; division of equipment and supplies—superintendent $3,000, chief clerk $2,000; topographer, $2,400; in all, $19,900. Total salaries, $1,682,990. Contingent expenses, Post Office Department: For stationery Contingent expenses.and blank books, index and guide cards, folders, and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes, $25,000.
For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, and power plant, including Heating, etc., plant.repairs to elevators, purchase and exchange of tools, and electrical supplies, and removal of ashes, $55,000.Telegraphing, etc. For telegraphing, $5,000. For painting, $2,000. For purchase, exchange, hire, and maintenance of horses and horse-drawn Vehicles.passenger-carrying vehicles, purchase of a motor track, and repair of vehicles, including motor trucks and harness, $3,200. For miscellaneous items, including purchase, exchange, and repair Miscellaneous.of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; street car tickets not exceeding $300; plumbing; floor coverings; postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad which is not exempt under article eleven of the Rome convention of the Universal Postal Union, $30,000, of which sum not exceeding $3,985 may be expended for telephone service, and not exceeding $1,500 may be expended for law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, books necessary to conduct the business of the department; and repairs to department buildings.
For furniture and filing cabinets, $7,000.Furniture. For rent of stables, $500.Rent. For publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, $33,000; Official Postal Guide.and the amounts received during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen from sales of the Official Postal Guide to the public may be used as a further appropriation for the publication of copies of such guide. Appropriations made for the service of the Post Office Department Postal service appropriations not to be used for Department.Vol. 5, p. 80.in conformity with the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and thirty-six, shall not be expended for any of the purposes herein provided for on account of the Post Office Department at Washington, District of Columbia.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. Office of the Attorney General: Attorney General, $12,000; Attorney General, Solicitor General, Assistants. Solicitors for Departments, etc.Solicitor General, $10,000; assistant to the Attorney General, $9,000; six Assistant Attorneys General, at $7,500 each; Solicitor for the Department of the Interior, $5,000; Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $5,000; Solicitor of Internal Revenue, $5,000; Solicitor for the Department of State, $5,000; four attorneys, at $5,000 each, Attorneys, assistants, etc.one of whom shall have charge of all condemnation proceedings in the District of Columbia and supervise the examination of titles and 802 matters arising from such condemnation proceedings in which the United States shall be a party or have an interest, and no special attorney or counsel, or services of persons other than of those provided for herein, shall be employed for such purposes; attorneys— one $4,500, one $3,750, four at $3,500 each, one $3,250, fourteen at $3,000 each, two at $2,500 each; assistant attorneys—one $3,500, two at $3,000 each, two at $2,750 each, five at $2,500 each, one $2,400, two at $2,000 each; assistant examiner of titles, $2,000;
Chief clerk, clerks, etc.chief clerk and ex officio superintendent of buildings, $3,000; superintendent of buildings, $500; private secretary and assistant to the Attorney General, $3,000; clerk to the Attorney General, $1,800; stenographer to the Solicitor General, $1,600; law clerks—three at $2,000 each, two at $1,800 each; clerk in office of Solicitor of Internal Superintendent of prisons, etc.Revenue, $1,800; attorney in charge of pardons, $3,000; superintendent of prisons, $4,000; disbursing clerk, $2,750; appointment Investigation division.clerk, $2,000; chief of division of investigation, $4,000; examiners— two at $2,500 each, four at $2,250 each, two at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each; librarian, $1,800; clerks—eight of class four, eleven of class three, ten of class two, twenty of class one, sixteen at $1,000 each, fifteen at $900 each; chief messenger, $1,000; packer, $900;
Messengers, watchmen, etc.messenger, $960; six messengers; thirteen assistant messengers; seven’ laborers; seven watchmen; engineer, $1,200; two assistant engineers, at $900 each; two telephone switchboard operators; four firemen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; head charwoman, $480; Division of Accounts.twenty-four charwomen. Division of Accounts: Chief, $2,750; administrative accountant, $2,500; chief bookkeeper and record clerk, $2,200; clerks—three of class four, six of class three, six of class two, five of class one, three at $900 each; in all, $467,620.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For furniture and repairs, including carpets, file holders, and cases, $6,000. For books for law library of the department, including their exchange, $3,000. For purchase of session laws and statutes of the States and Territories for library of department, including their exchange, $500. For books for office of Solicitor of the Department of Commerce, $300. For books for office of Solicitor of the Department of Labor, $500. Stationery,For stationery for department and its several bureaus, $8,000.
Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, typweriters and adding machines and exchange of same, street-car tickets not exceeding $200, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney General, $37,000. Vehicles, etc.For official transportation, including the purchase of a motor- Motor for Attorney General.propelled passenger-carrying vehicle for use of the Attorney General to cost not exceeding $3,500, and for the maintenance, repair, and operation thereof, to be used only for official purposes, and purchase and repair of bicycles, $6,000.
Rent.For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia, $36,000. Solicitor of the Treasury.Office of Solicitor of the Treasury: Solicitor, $5,000; Assistant Solicitor, $3,000; chief clerk, who shall also discharge the duties of chief law clerk, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; two docket clerks, at $2,000 each ; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, two of class two; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $27,230. For law books for office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, $300.
Office of Solicitor of the Department of Commerce: Solicitor, $5,000; Assistant Solicitor, $3,000; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, one of class one; messenger; in all, $21,040. 803 Office of Solicitor of the Department of Labor: Solicitor, Solicitor of the Department of Labor.$5,000; law clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, two of class one; messenger; in all, $13,840. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Department of Commerce. Office of the Secretary:
Secretary of Commerce, $12,000; Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.Assistant Secretary, $5,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; confidential clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; private secretary to Assistant Secretary, $2,100; chief clerk and superintendent, $3,000; disbursing clerk, $3,000; chiefs of divisions—appointments $2,500, publications $2,500, supplies $2,100; assistant chief, division of publications, $2,000; clerks—ten of class four, nine of class three, twelve of class two (including one transferred from Bureau of Fisheries), nineteen of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each, thirteen at $900 each; two telephone operators, at $720 each; messenger to the Secretary, $1,000; five messengers; five assistant messengers; nine messenger boys, at $480 each; chief engineer and electrician, $1,400; assistant engineer, $1,000; skilled laborers—one $1,000, one $900, two at $840 each, five at $720 each; three elevator conductors, at $720 each; three firemen; fifteen laborers; cabinetmaker, $1,200; carpenter, $900; chief watchman, $900 ; nine watchmen; twenty-five charwomen; in all, $189,040.
Bureau of Lighthouses: Commissioner, $5,000; deputy commissioner, Lighthouses Bureau.$4,000; chief constructing engineer, $4,000; superintendent of naval construction, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one $2,000, two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, five of class one, seven at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger boy, $480; assistant engineers—one $3,000, one $2,400, one $2,250, one $2,000; draftsmen—one $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,500, one $1,440, one $1,200; in all, $65,430.
Census Office: Director, $6,000; five chief statisticians, at $3,000 Census Office.each; chief clerk, $2,500; geographer, $2,000; stenographer, $1,500; nine expert chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty of class four, thirty of class three, sixty-five of class two, two hundred and eighty-five of class one, ninety at $1,000 each, eighty-one at $900 each; skilled laborers—tliree at $900 each, one $720; three messengers; five assistant messengers; four unskilled laborers, at $720 each; four messenger boys, at $480 each; in all, $739,240.
For securing information for census reports, provided for by law, Securing information for reports.semimonthly reports of cotton production, periodical reports of stocks of baled cotton in the United States and of the domestic and foreign consumption of cotton; quarterly reports of tobacco; per diem compensation of special agents and expenses of same and of detailed employees, whether employed in Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere; not to exceed $10,000 for the temporary Temporary employees.employment of clerks, stenographers, and machine operators in the District of Columbia, to be selected from the registers of the Civil Service Commission, and to be paid at the rate of not to exceed $100 per month, the same person to be employed for not more than six consecutive months; the cost of transcribing State, municipal, and Vital statistics.other records; temporary rental of quarters outside of the District of Columbia; for supervising special agents, and employment by them of such temporary service as may be necessary in collecting the statistics required by law, including $15,000 for collecting tobacco Tobacco statistics.statistics authorized by law in addition to any other fund available therefor: *Provided*, That the compensation of not to exceed ten *Proviso*.Pay of special agents.special agents provided for in this paragraph may be fixed at a rate not to exceed $8 per day, $490,000.
For constructing tabulating machines, and for experimental work Tabulating machines, etc.in developing, improving, and constructing an integrating counter 804 for use in statistical work and repairs to such machinery and other mechanical appliances, including technical and mechanical service in connection therewith, whether performed in Washington, District of Columbia, or elsewhere, and purchase of necessary machinery and supplies, $60,000. Punching machines for 14th Census.For the construction, purchase, rental, or repair of punching machines for use in punching cards of the Fourteenth Decennial Census, $60,000.
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce: Chief, $6,000; assistant chiefs—one $3,500, one $3,000; chiefs of divisions—one $2,500, one $2,000; assistant chief of division, $2,250; chief clerk, $2,250; expert on commerce and finance, $2,000; translators—one $2,000, one $1,800, two at $1,400 each; stenographer to chief of bureau, $1,600; editorial assistant, $2,000; editorial clerk, $1,600; clerks—twelve of class four, six of class three, two at $1,500 each, eighteen of class two, eighteen of class one, twenty at $1,000 each, fourteen at $900 each ; messenger; four assistant messengers ; laborer; two messenger boys, at $420 each in all, $154,120.
Promoting commerce.*Post*, p. 809.To further promote and develop the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States, including exchange on official checks, $125,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce: *Proviso*.Purchase of publications.*Provided*, That not exceeding $3,000 of this sum may be expended for the purchase of documents, manuscripts, plans, specifications, and other publications necessary for the promotion of our commercial interests.
Promoting ecommerce with South and Central America.To further promote and develop the commerce of the United States with South and Central America, including the employment *Post*, p. 809.of experts and special agents in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, reports, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, exchange on official checks, and all other necessary incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, $100,000.
Promoting commerce with the Far East.To further promote and develop the commerce of the United States with the Far East, including the employment of experts and special agents in Washington, District of Columbia, and elsewhere, *Post*, p. 809.purchase of books of reference and periodicals, reports, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, exchange on official checks, and all other necessary incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, $50,000.
Commercial attachés.Commercial attachés: For commercial attachés, to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce, after examination to be held under his direction to determine their competency, and to be accredited through the State Department, whose duties shall be to investigate and report upon such conditions in the manufacturing industries and trade of foreign countries as may be of interest to the United States; and Clerks, etc.for one clerk to each of said commercial attachés to be paid a salary not to exceed $1,500 each and for necessary traveling and subsistence expenses, rent, purchase of reports, books of reference and periodicals, travel to and from the United States, exchange on official checks, and all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing; such commercial attachés shall serve directly under the Secretary of Commerce and shall report directly to him, $125,000: *Proviso*.Special post allowances.*Provided*, That not more than $25,000 of the foregoing sum may be used by the Secretary of Commerce, in his discretion and in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe, to make special allowances by way of additional compensation to officers and employees of the commercial attaché service, in order to adjust their official income to the ascertained cost of living at the posts to which they may be assigned. 805 Steamboat-Inspection Service:
Supervising Inspector General, Steam boat Inspection Service.*Ante*, p. 739.$4,000; chief clerk and Acting Supervising Inspector General in the absence of that officer, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, one of class two, two of class one, two at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; in all, $19,440. Steamboat inspectors: For eleven supervising inspectors, at $3,000 Supervising inspectors. *Ante*, p. 740.each, $33,000; Inspectors of hulls and inspectors of boilers, as authorized by law, $174,100;
Assistant inspectors, as authorized by law, for the following ports: New York, thirty-six at $2,000 each; New Orleans, six at $1,800 each; Baltimore, eight at $1,800 each; Providence, four at $1,800 each; Boston, eight at $1,800 each; Philadelphia, ten at $1,800 each; San Francisco, twelve at $1,800 each; Buffalo, six at $1,600 each; Cleveland, ten at $1,600 each; Milwaukee, four at $1,600 each; Chicago, four at $1,600 each; Grand Haven, four at $1,600 each; Detroit, four at $1,600 each;
Norfolk, six at $1,600 each; Seattle, ten at $1,600 each; Portland (Oregon), two at $1,600 each; Albany (New York), two at $1,600 each; Duluth, two at $1,600 each; Portland (Maine), two at $1,600 each; New London, two at $1,600 each; two traveling inspectors, at $2,500 each; $256,200; In all, for inspectors, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $463,300. Clerk hire, service at large: For compensation, not exceeding Clerk hire.*Ante*, p. 741.$1,500 a year to each person, of clerk to boards of steamboat inspectors, to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce in accordance with the provisions of law, $100,000.
Contingent expenses: For fees to witnesses; traveling and other Contingent expenses.*Post*, p. 809.expenses when on official business of the Supervising Inspector General, supervising inspectors, traveling inspectors, local and assistant inspectors, and clerks; instruments, furniture, stationery, janitor service, and every other thing necessary to carry into effect the provisions of Title fifty-two, Revised Statutes, $130,000.[R. S., Title LII, pp. 852-869](/us/rs/p852-869/) .Navigation Bureau.
Bureau of Navigation: Commissioner, $4,000; deputy commissioner, $2,750; chief clerk, $2,000; clerk to commissioner, $1,600; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, four of class one, four at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; two stenographers and typewriters to be employed not to exceed six months at the rate of $75 per month each; two messengers; in all, $38,130. Shipping service: For shipping commissioners in amounts not Shipping commissioners.exceeding the following:
Baltimore, $1,200; Bath, Maine, $1,000; Boston, $3,000; New Bedford, $1,200; New Orleans, $1,500; NewportNewport News added. News, $1,500; New York, $5,000; Norfolk, $1,500; Philadelphia, $2,400; Portland,Maine,$1,300; Seattle, $3,500; Providence,$1,800; Rockland, $1,200; San Francisco, $4,000; in all, $30,100. Clerk hire: For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Clerk hire.Commerce, of not to exceed $1,600 per annum to each person or clerk in the offices of shipping commissioners, $47,700: *Provided*, That one *Proviso*.Allowance.clerk may be employed hereunder at a compensation not to exceed $1,800 per annum.
Contingent expenses: For rent, stationery, and other requisites Contingent expenses.*Post*, p. 809.for transaction of the business of shipping commissioners’ offices, and for janitor in the commissioner’s office at New York, $840; in all, $8,365. To enable the Commissioner of Navigation to secure uniformity in Admeasurements of vessels. *Post*, p. 809.the admeasurement of vessels, including the employment of an adjuster of admeasurements at not to exceed $2,100, purchase and exchange of admeasuring instruments, traveling and incidental expenses, $3,500.
For purchase and repair of instruments for counting passengers, Counting passengers. *Post*, p. 809.$250. 806 Motor boats, etc., to enforce navigation laws. *Post*, p. 809.Enforcement of navigation laws: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to provide and operate such motor boats and employ thereon such persons as may be necessary for the enforcement, under his direction by customs officers, of laws relating to navigation and inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, and counting of passengers on excursion boats, $26,000.
Preventing overcrowding of excursion vessels, etc.To enable the Secretary of Commerce to employ, in addition to those now provided for by law, such other persons as may be necessary, of whom not more than two at any one time may be employed in the District of Columbia, to enforce the laws to prevent overcrowding of passenger and excursion vessels, and all. necessary expenses in connection therewith, $18,000. Wireless communication on steamers.Vol. 38, p. 829; Vol. 37, p. 199.Post, p. 809.Wireless-communication laws:
To enable the Secretary of Commerce to enforce the Acts of Congress “to require apparatus and operators for radio communication on certain ocean steamers” and “to regulate radio communication’’ and carry out the international radio telegraphic convention, and to employ such persons and means as may be necessary, this employment to include salaries of employees in Washington not exceeding $8,050 traveling and subsistence expenses, purchase and exchange of instruments, technical books, rent and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $45,000.
Standards Bureau.Bureau of Standards: Director, $6,000; physicists—chief $4,800, one qualified in optics $3,600, two at $3,600 each, one $3,300, three at $3,000 each; assistant to the director, $3,600; associate physicists— five at $2,700 each, five at $2,500 each, four at $2,200 each, seven at $2,000 each; assistant physicists—twelve at $1,800 each, thirteen at $1,600 each, eighteen at $1,400 each; chemists—chief $4,800, one $3,500, one $3,000; associate chemists—three at $2,700 each, two at $2,500 each, one $2,200, four at $2,000 each; assistant chemists—four at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, six at $1,400 each; physical chemist, $1,800; laboratory assistants—twenty-three at $1,200 each, eighteen at $1,000 each; laboratory helpers—two at $840 each, four at $720 each, three at $600 each; aids—fourteen at $900 each, sixteen at $720 each; twenty laboratory apprentices, at $540 each; secretary, $2,200; storekeeper, $1,000; librarian, $1,600; chief clerk, $2,200; clerks—one of class four, three of class three, three of class two, eight of class one, seven at $1,000 each, five at $900 each, two at $720 each; two telephone operators, at $720 each; office apprentices—four at $540 each, two at $480 each, two at $420 each; five elevator boys at $480 each; mechanicians—chief $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,500, two at $1,400 each, five at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, one $900; machinist, $1,200; shop apprentices—two at $600 each, two at $540 each, three at $480 each; eight watchmen; skilled woodworkers— foreman of woodworking shops $1,500, one$l,200, two at $1,000 each; skilled laborers—two at $840 each, five at $720 each; draftsman, $1,200; photographers—one $1,400, one $1,200; packer, $840; two messengers; assistant messenger; superintendent of mechanical plant, $2,500; assistant engineers—one $1,600, one $1,400, two at $1,200 each, one $1,000, one $900; two pipefitters at $1,000 each; five firemen; glassblowers—one $1,600, one $1,200; glassworker, $1,600; electricians—one $1,400, one $1,200, one $900; foreman of janitors and laborers $900; fourteen laborers; janitors—three at $660 each, one $600; two female laborers, at $360 each; in all, $432,360 Apparatus, etc.*Post*, p. 809.For apparatus, machinery, tools, and appliances used in connection with buildings or work of the bureau, laboratory supplies, materials, and supplies used in the construction of apparatus, machinery, or other appliances, including their exchange; piping, wiring, and construction incident to the installation of apparatus, machinery, or appliances ; furniture for laboratories and offices, cases for apparatus, $75,000. 807 For repairs and necessary alterations to buildings, $6,000.Repairs, etc.
For fuel for beat, light, and power ; office expenses, stationery, books Miscellaneous.*Post*, p. 809. and periodicals; traveling expenses (including expenses of attendance upon meetings of technical and professional societies when required in connection with standardization, testing, or other official work of the bureau) ; street car tickets not exceeding $100; expenses of the visiting committee; expenses of attendance of American member at the meeting of the International Committee of Weights and Measures; supplies for operation, maintenance, purchase, and repair of a passenger automobile and motor trucks for official use, including their exchange; and contingencies of all kinds, $50,000.
For grading, construction of roads and walks, piping grounds for Care of grounds.water supply, lamps, wiring for lighting purposes, and other expenses incident to the improvement and care of grounds, $7,500. To investigate the dangers to life and property due to the transmission High-power electric currents, etc.of electric currents at high potentials, and the precautions to be taken and the best methods of construction, installation, and operation to be followed in the distribution and return of such currents, in order to reduce to a minimum such dangers; also to investigate the best means of protecting life and property from lightning, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000.
For continuation of the investigation of structural materials, such Structural materials investigations.as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $125,000. For maintenance and operation of testing machines, including Testing machines tor physical constants.personal services in connection therewith in the District of Columbia and in the field, for the determination by the Bureau of Standards of the physical constants and the properties of materials as authorized by law, $30,000.
For investigation of fire-resisting properties of building materials Fire-resisting building materials.and conditions under which they may be most efficiently used, and for the standardization of types of appliances for fire prevention, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $25,000. For investigation of the standards and methods of measurements Measurements of public utilities.of public utilities, such as gas, electric light, electric power, water, telephone, and electric railway service, and the solution of the problems which arise in connection with standards in such service, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $50,000.
For investigation of materials used in the construction of rails, Railway equipment Investigations.wheels, axles, and other railway equipment, and the cause of their failure, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000. For testing miscellaneous materials, such as varnish materials, Miscellaneous testing, etc.soap materials, inks, and chemicals, including supplies for the Government departments and independent establishments, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, as authorized by law, $30,000.
For investigation and standardization of methods and instruments Radio communication standardisation.employed in radio communication, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $20,000. To develop color standards and methods of manufacture and of Industrial colors standardization, etc.color measurement, with special reference to their industrial use in standardization and specification of colorants such as dyestuffs, inks, and pigments, and other products, paint, paper, and textiles, in which color is a pertinent property, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000. 808 Clay products processes.To study methods of measurement and technical processes used in the manufacture of pottery, brick, tile, terra cotta, and other clay products, and the study of the properties of the materials used in that industry, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $20,000.
Experiments in physical constants of industrial materials, etc.To determine experimentally important physical constants of materials essential to the industries or in laboratory investigations, as authorized by law, such as the determination of the value of gravity, thermal conductivities of materials, mechanical equivalent of heat, metallurgical constants such as specific and latent neats of metals and alloys, the electrochemical equivalent of metals, the velocity of light; including data important in the efficient planning of industrial processes, and in the effective utilization of the properties of materials, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $5,000.
Aeronautical engineering investigations, etc.To develop methods of testing and standardizing machines, motors, tools, measuring instruments, and other apparatus and devices used in mechanical, hydraulic, and aeronautic engineering; for the comparative study of types of apparatus and methods of operation, and or the establishment of standards of performance; for the accurate determination of fundamental physical constants involved in the proper execution of this work; and for the scientific experiments ana investigations needed in solving the problems which may arise in connection therewith, especially in response to the requirements of aeronautics and aviation for information of a purely scientific nature, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000.
Optical glass production.For the investigation of the problems involved in the production of optical glass, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $20,000. Checking chemical analyses.For purchase, preparation, analysis, and distribution of standard materials to be used in checking chemical analyses and in the testing of physical measuring apparatus, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $4,000. Textiles, paper, etc., standardization.To investigate textiles, paper, leather, and rubber in order to develop standards of quality and methods of measurement, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000.
Sugar standardation. etc.For the standardization and design of sugar-testing apparatus; the development of technical specifications for the various grades of sugars with particular reference to urgent problems made pressing by war conditions, especially involving the standardization and manufacture of sugars; for the study of the technical problems incidental to the collection of the revenue on sugar and to determine the fundamental scientific constants of sugars and other substances, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $20,000.
Cooperative standardiring of gauges, screw threads, etc. *Post*, p. 912.To provide by cooperation of the Bureau of Standards, the War Department, the Navy Department, and the Council of National Defense, for the standardization and testing of the standard gauges, screw threads, and standards required in manufacturing throughout the United States, and to calibrate and test such standard gauges, screw threads, and standards, including necessary equipment, rental in Washington, and elsewhere, erection of temporary structures, office expenses, books of reference and periodicals, personal services in the District of Columbia, and in the field, and all other necessary items not included in the foregoing, $150,000.
Storage batteries.For the renewal of storage batteries, $20,000. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce:For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscel809laneous expenses are not specifically made, including purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $2,500); stationery; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges ; fuel, lighting and heating; not exceeding $3,500 for the purchase of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle for official use of the Secretary of Commerce; purchase and exchange of motor trucks and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle and of motor trucks and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; postage to foreign countries; telegraph and telephone service; typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; repairs to building occupied by offices of the Secretary of Commerce; first-aid outfits for use in the buildings occupied by employees of this department; storage of documents belonging to the Bureau of Lighthouses, not to exceed $1,500 ; streetcar tickets, not exceeding $300; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $70,000, and in addition thereto sums amounting to $50,750 shall be deducted Additional to be deducted from bureaus, etc., for purchases through Supply Committee.from other appropriations made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen and added to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce,” in order to facilitate the purchase Vol. 38, p. 531.through the central purchasing office as provided in the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-six, page five hundred and thirty-one), of certain supplies for bureaus and offices for which contingent and miscellaneous appropriations are specifically made as follows:
Bureau of Foreign and domestic Commerce—promoting commerce $6,000, promoting commerce (South and Central America) $3,000, commercial attachés $6,000, promoting commerce in the Far East $2,000 ; general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $10,000; contingent expenses, Steamboat Inspection Service, $5,000; contingent expenses, shipping service, $500 ; instruments for measuring vessels, $500 ; instruments for counting passengers, $250; enforcement of wireless communication laws, $1,000;
Bureau of Standards—equipment $1,500, general expenses $2,000; general expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $4,500; miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $8,500; and the said total To be expended through Division of Supplies.sum of $120,750 shall be and constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses, Department of Commerce, to be expended through the central purchasing office (Division of Supplies), Department of Commerce, and shall also be available for objects and purposes of the several appropriations mentioned under the title “Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce,” in this Act.
During the present war section thirty-seven hundred and nine of Minor purchases.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/sec3709/p733).the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Department of Commerce when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $25. For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $66,500.Rent. For rent of storage space outside the Commerce Building, $2,000. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.
Department of Labor. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of Labor, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.Secretary, $5,000; chief clerk, $3,000; disbursing clerk, $3,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; private secretary to the Assistant Secretary, $2,100; chief of division of publications and supplies, $2,500; appointment clerk, $2,100; assistant chief, division of publications and supplies, $2,000 ; librarian 810 (transferred from Children’s Bureau), $2,000; clerks—four of class four, eight of class three (including one transferred from Bureau of Labor Statistics), nine of class two (including one transferred from Children’s Bureau), ten of class one (including one transferred from Children’s Bureau), nine at $1,000 each (including one transferred from Bureau of Labor Statistics), four at $900 each; three telephone switchboard operators; two messengers; five assistant messengers; five messenger boys, at $480 each; engineer, $1,100; two skilled laborers, at $840 each: electrician, $1,000; three firemen; eleven laborers (one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor); lieutenant of the watch, $840; six watchmen; eleven charwomen; three elevator conductors, at $720 each; in all, $128,200.
Commissioners of conciliation. Vol. 37, p. 738. *Ante*, p. 696.Commissioners of conciliation: To enable the Secretary of Labor to exercise the authority vested in him by section eight of the Act creating the Department of Labor, and to appoint commissioners of conciliation, for per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4, and traveling expenses, including an executive clerk at $2,000 in the District of Columbia, $200,000. Labor Statistics Bureau.Bureau of Labor Statistics:
Commissioner, $5,000; chief statistician, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, $3,000; statistician, $3,000; six statistical experts, at $2,000 each; employees—two at $2,760 each, one $2,520, five at $2,280 each, one $1,800, six at $1,600 each, seven at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; special agents—four at $1,800 each, six at $1,600 each, eight at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; clerks—eight of class four, seven of class three (one transferred to the Secretary’s Office), ten of class two, seventeen of class one, eight at $1,000 each (one transferred to the Secretary’s Office); two copyists; messenger; three assistant messengers-two laborers; in all, $172,960.
Per diem, special agents,etc.For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence, of special agents and employees and for their transportation; experts andtemporary assistance for field service outside of the District of Temporary statistical assistants, etc.Columbia, to be paid at the rate of not exceeding $8 per day ; temporary statistical clerks, stenographers, and typewriters in the District of Columbia, to be selected from civil-service registeis and to be paid at the rate of not exceeding $100 per month, the same person to be employed for not more than six consecutive months, the total expenditure for such temporary clerical assistance in the District of Columbia not to exceed $6,000, traveling expenses of officers and employees, purchase of reports and materials for reports and bulletins of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, and for subvention to Association tor Labor Legislation.“International Association for Labor Legislation,” and necessary expenses connected with representation of the United States Government therein, $70,000.
Periodicals, etc.For periodicals and newspapers for the purpose of procuring strike data and court decisions for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, $300. Immigration Bureau.Bureau of Immigration: Commissioner General $5,000; Assistant Commissioner General, who shall also act as chief clerk and actuary, $3,500; private secretary, $1,800; chief statistician, $2,000; law examiner, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, five of class three, seven of class two, ten of class one, nine at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; in all, $69,000.
Information Division.Division of Information: Chief, $3,500; assistant chief, $2,500; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, two of class two, three of class one, one $900; messenger; in all, $19,340. Naturalization Bureau.Bureau of Naturalization: Commissioner, $4,000, deputy commissioner, $3,250; clerks—eight of class four, twelve of class three, sixteen of class two, sixteen of class one, ten at $1,000 each, two at $900 each: messenger; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $480; in all, $97,010. 811 Children’s Bureau:
Chief, $5,000; assistant chief, $2,400; experts— Children’s Bureau.one on sanitation $2,800, industrial $2,000, social service $2,000, statistical $2,000; special agents—one $1,800, four at $1,600 each, ten at $1,400 each, twelve at $1,200 each; private secretary to chief of bureau, $1,500; clerks—two of class four, four of class three, four of class two (one transferred to Secretary’s office), seventeen of class one (one transferred to Secretary’s office), ten at $1,000 each; copyist; messenger; in all, $102,040.
To investigate and report upon matters pertaining to the welfare Child life, mortality, etc.of children and child life, and especially investigate the questions of infant mortality, $72,120: *Provided*, That not exceeding eight *Proviso*. Pay restriction.persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation of $2,000 each per annum and above that sum. For traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence at not Per diem subsistence, experts, etc.exceeding $4, of officers, special agents, and other employees of the Children’s Bureau; experts and temporary assistants, to he paid at a rate not exceeding $6 a day, and interpreters to be paid at a rate not exceeding $4 a day when actually employed ; purchase of reports and Materials for publication, etc.material for the publications of the Children’s Bureau, newspapers and clippings to enable the Children’s Bureau to secure data regarding the progress of legislation affecting children and the activities of public and private organizations dealing with children, and for reprints from State, city, and private publications for distribution when said reprints can be procured more cheaply than they can be printed by the Government, $94,000.
Child Labor Division: To enable the Secretary of Labor to carry ChUd Labor Division. Vol. 39, p. 675.into effect the provisions of the Act of September first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act to prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor, and for other purposes,” in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4, telegraph and telephone service, express and freight charges, contingent and miscellaneous expenses, and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, *Proviso*.
Pay restriction.$125,000: *Provided*, That no salary shall be paid hereunder at a rate exceeding $3,000 per annum. Contingent expenses, Department of Labor: For contingent Contingent expenses.and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, laundry, street car tickets not exceeding $150, lighting and heating; maintenance and repair of a motor track and passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; repairs to the building occupied by the office of the Secretary of Labor; purchase of law books, books of reference, and periodicals not exceeding $2,000; in all, $45,000; and in addition thereto such sum as may be necessary, Additional from Im migration expenses.Vol. 36, p. 531.*Ante*, p. 695.not in excess of $13,500, to facilitate the purchase, through the central purchasing office as provided in the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page five hundred and thirty-one), of certain supplies for the Immigration Service, shall be deducted from the appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration” made for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen and added to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of Labor,” for that year; and the total sum thereof shall be and constitute To be expended through Division of Publication and Supplies.the appropriation for contingent expenses for the Department of Labor, to be expended through the central purchasing office (Division of Publications and Supplies), Department of Labor. 812 Minor purchases. [R.
S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/sec3709/p733).During the present war section thirty-seven hundred and nine of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Department of Labor when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $25. Rent.Rent:For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Department of Labor, $24,000. Judicial. JUDICIAL. Supreme Court.Supreme Court:
Chief Justice, $15,000; eight associate justices, at $14,500 each; marshal, $4,500; nine stenographic clerks, one for the Chief Justice and one for each associate justice, at not exceeding $2,000 each; in all, $153,500. Circuit courts of appeals.Circuit Courts of Appeals: Thirty-three circuit judges, at $7,000 each; nine clerks of circuit courts of appeals, at $3,500 each; messenger, to act as librarian and crier, circuit court of appeals, eighth circuit, $3,000; in all, $265,500.
District Judges.District courts: Ninety-seven district judges, at $6,000 each, $582,000. Hawaii district court.District court, Territory of Hawaii: Two judges, at $6,000 each; clerk, $3,000; reporter, $1,200; in all, $16,200. Porto Rico district court.District Court for Porto Rico: District judge, $5,000; clerk, $3,000; in all, $8,000. Retired judges.Vol. 36, p. 1161.Retired judges: Salaries of judges retired under section two hundred and sixty of the Judicial Code (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page eleven hundred and sixty-one), so much as may be necessary or the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Court of Appeals. D. C.Court of Appeals, District of Columbia: Chief justice, $7,500; two associate justices, at $7,000 each; clerk, $3,250, and $230 additional as custodian of the Court of Appeals Building; assistant or *Proviso*.Reports.deputy clerk, $2,250; reporter, $1,500: *Provided*, That the reports issued by him shall not be sold for more than $5 per volume ; crier, who shall also act as stenographer and typewriter in the clerk’s office when not engaged in court room, $1,200; three messengers, at $720 each; three stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at $1,200 each; necessary expenditures in the conduct Half from District revenues.of the clerk’s office, $1,000; in all, $36,710, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Supreme Court, D. C.Supreme Court, District of Columbia: Chief justice, $6,500; five associate justices, at $6,000 each; six stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at $1,100 each; in all, Half from District revenues.$43,100, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia. National Park Commissioners. Salaries. Vol. 29, p. 184.National Park Commissioners: For commissioners in the Crater Lake, Glacier, Mount Ramier, and Yellowstone National Parks, at $1,500 each, $6,000.
The provisions of section twenty-one of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act approved May twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, shall not be construed as impairing the rights of said commissioners to receive the salaries provided herein. Books for Judicial officers.Books for judicial officers: For purchase and rebinding of law books, including the exchange thereof, for United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the nine libraries of the United States circuit courts of appeals, to be expended under *Proviso*.
Transmittal to successors.the direction of the Attorney General: *Provided*, That such books shall in all cases be transmitted to their successors in office; all books purchased thereunder to be marked plainly, “ The property of the United States,” $16,000. 813 Court of Customs Appeals: Presiding judge and four associate Court of Customs Appeals.judges, at $7,000 each; marshal, $3,000; clerk, $3,500; assistant clerk, $2,000; five stenographic clerks, at $1,600 each; stenographic reporter, $2,500; messenger, $840; in all, $54,840.
For rent of necessary quarters in Washington, District of Columbia, Miscellaneous ex penses.and elsewhere, $7,000; books and periodicals, including their exchange, stationery, supplies, traveling expenses, freight, telephone and telegraph, heat, light, and power service, drugs, chemicals, cleansers, furniture, and printing: pay of bailiffs and all other necessary employees not otherwise specifically provided for; and such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $5,660; in all, $12,660.
Court of Claims: Chief justice, $6,500; four judges, at $6,000Court of Claims. each; chief clerk, $3,500; assistant clerk, $2,500; bailiff, $1,500; clerks—two at $1,600 each (one of whom shall be a stenographer), one $1,400, two at $1,200 each; four stenographers, at $1,200 each; chief messenger, $1,000; two assistant messengers; three firemen; three watchmen; elevator conductor, $720; two laborers; two charwomen; in all, $59,080. For auditors, and additional stenographers, when deemed necessary, Auditors, etc.in the Court of Claims, to be disbursed under the direction of the court, $9,000.
For stationery, court library, repairs, including repairs to bicycles, Contingent expenses.fuel, electric light, electric elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, $3,900. For reporting the decisions of the court and superintending the Reporting decisions.printing of the fifty-third volume of the reports of the Court of Claims, $1,000, to be paid on the order of the court to the reporter, notwithstanding section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised [R.S.. sec. 1765, p, 314](/us/rs/sec1765/p314).Statutes or section three of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred Vol. 18, p. 109.and seventy-four.
For custodian of the building occupied by the Court of Claims, $500, Custodian.to be paid on the order of the court, notwithstanding section seventeen R.S.,sec. 1765, p.314.hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes or section three of the Vol. 18, p. 109.Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four. Sec. 2.That the pay of telephone switchboard operators, assistant Pay of switchboard operators, assistant messengers, laborers, etc.messengers, firemen, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen provided for in this Act, except those employed in mints and assay offices, unless otherwise specially stated, shall be as follows:
For telephone-switchboard operators, assistant messengers, firemen, and watchmen, at the rate of $720 per annum each; for laborers, at the rate of $660 per annum each; assistant telephone-switchboard operators, at the rate of $600 each, and for charwomen, at the rate of $240 per annum each. Sec. 3.That the appropriations herein made for the officers, clerks, No pay for permanently incapacitated persons.and persons employed in the public service shall not be available for the compensation of any persons incapacitated otherwise than temporarily for performing such service.
Sec. 4. That no part of any money appropriated by this or any Typewriting ma chines.Restriction on prices to be paid lor.other Act shall be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen for the purchase of any typewriting machine at a price in excess of the lowest price paid by the Government of the United States for the same make and substantially the same model of machine during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen; such price shall include the value of any typewriting machine or machines given in exchange, but shall not apply to special prices granted on typewriting machines used in schools of the District of Columbia or of the Indian Service, the lowest of which special prices Exceptions.paid for typewriting machines shall not be exceeded in future purchases for such schools: *Provided*, That in construing this section the *Proviso*.Determination of character of machines.Commissioner of Patents shall advise the 814 as to whether the changes in any typewriter are of such structural character as to constitute a new machine not within the limitations of this section.
Sec. 5.Details for service outside of District of Columbia restricted.That in expending appropriations made in this Act persons in the classified service at Washington, District of Columbia, shall not be detailed for service outside of the District of Columbia except for or in connection with work pertaining directly to the service at the seat of government of the department or other Government establishment *Proviso*. Department of Justice investigations excepted.from which the detail is made: *Provided*, That nothing in this section shall be deemed to apply to the investigation of any matter or the preparation, prosecution, or defense of any suit by the Department of Justice.
Sec. 6. Additional $120 pay to civilian employees and of District of Columbia at $2,500 and less.That all civilian employees of the Governments of the United States and the District of Columbia who receive a total of compensation at the rate of $2,500 per annum or less, except as otherwise provided in this section, shall receive, during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen, additional *Provisos*.For rate between $2,500 and $2,620.compensation at the rate of $120 per annum: *Provided*, That such employees as receive a total of annual compensation at a rate more than $2,500 and less than $2,620 shall receive additional compensation at such a rate per annum as may be necessary to make their salaries, plus their additional compensation, at the rate of $2,620 per Restriction.annum, and no employee shall receive additional compensation under this section at a rate which is more than thirty per centum of the rate of the total annual compensation received by such employee: *Provided Increased pay 1918 not computed as salary.further*, That the increased compensation at the rates of five and ten per centum for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall not be computed as salary in construing Restriction if pay Increased $200 a year during 1917 or 1918.this section: *Provided further*, That where an employee in the service on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, has received during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, or shall receive during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen an increase of If entering service since June 30, 1917.salary at a rate in excess of $200 per annum, or where an employee whether previously in the service or not, has entered the service since June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, whether such employee has received an increase in salary or not, such employees shall Be granted the increased compensation provided herein only Certificate required to grant increase.when and upon the certification of the person in the legislative branch or the head of the department or establishment employing such persons of the ability and qualifications personal to such employees as would justify such increased compensation: *Provided further*, That Increased pay of employees adjusted by wage boards, etc.the increased compensation provided in this section to employees whose pay is adjusted from time to time through wage boards or similar authority shall be taken into consideration by such wage boards or similar authority in adjusting the pay of such employees.
Exceptions. Specified employees not entitled.The provisions of this section shall not apply to the following: Employees paid from the postal revenues and sums which may be advanced from the Treasury to meet deficiencies in the postal revenues; employees of the Panama Canal on the Canal Zone; employees of the Alaskan Engineering Commission in Alaska; employees paid from lump-sum appropriations in bureaus, divisions, commissions, or any other governmental agencies or employments created by law since January first, nineteen hundred and sixteen ; employees whose duties require only a portion of their time, except chaiwomen, who shall be included; employees whose services are utilized for brief periods at intervals; persons employed by or through corporations, firms, or individuals acting for or on behalf of or as agents of the United States or any department or independent establishment of the Government of the United States in connection with construction work or the operation of plants ; employees who receive a part of their pay from any outside sources under cooperative arrangements with the Govern815ment of the United States or the District of Columbia; employees who serve voluntarily or receive only a nominal compensation, and employees who may be provided with special allowances because of their Railroad employees not deemed united States employees.service in foreign countries.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to employees of the railroads taken over by the United States, and nothing contained herein shall be deemed a recognition of the employees of such railroads as employees of the United States. Section six of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Double salary prohibition not applicable hereto.Vol. 39, p. 582.Act approved May tenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended by the naval appropriation Act approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall not operate to prevent anyone from receiving the additional compensation provided in this section who otherwise is entitled to, receive the same.Piecework employees.
Such employees as are engaged on piecework, by the hour, or at per diem rates, if otherwise entitled to receive the additional compensation Computation to determine pay.shall receive the same at the rate to which they are entitled in this section when their fixed rate of pay for the regular working hours and on the basis of three hundred and thirteen days in the said fiscal year would amount to $2,500 or less: *Provided*, That this method of *Proviso*. Not applicable to regular per diem pay.computation shall not apply to any per diem employees regularly paid a per diem for every day in the year.
So much as may be necessary to pay the additional compensation Appropriation for increased pay of Government employees.provided in this section to employees of the Government of the United States is appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. So much as may be necessary to pay the increased compensation Appropriation for District of Columbia employees, half from District revenues.provided in this section to employees of the government of the District of Columbia is appropriated, one-half out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, except to employees of the Water Department employees from water revenues.Washington Aqueduct and the water department, which shall be paid entirely from the revenues of the water department.
So much as may be necessary to pay the increased compensation Trust fund employees from trust funds.provided in this section to persons employed under trust funds who may be construed to be employees of the Government of the United States or the District of Columbia is authorized to be paid, respectively, from such trust funds. Reports shall be submitted to Congress on the first day of the next Detailed reports on first day ofnext session.regular session showing for the first four months of the fiscal year the average number of employees in each department, bureau, office, or establishment receiving the increased compensation at the rate of $120 per annum and the average number by grades receiving the same at each other rate.
Approved, July 3, 1918.