Chapter 139. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 139.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes.July 8, 1918.[[H. R. 12600](/us/bill/65/hr/12600).][[Public, No. 191](/us/pl/65/191).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums are Deficiencies appropriations for war expenses, etc.*Ante*, pp. 469,594.*Post*, pp. 1020, 1161.appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes, namely:
EXECUTIVE.Executive. housing for war needs.Housing for war needs. The authorization fixed by section eight of the Act entitled “An Expenses of providing.*Ante*, p. 662.Act to authorize the President to provide housing for war needs,” approved May sixteenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, is increased from $60,000,000 to $100,000,000, and there is appropriated for the purposes thereof, including rental of offices in the District of Columbia, contingent and miscellaneous expenses, printing and binding, and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $40,000,000, to be expended in accordance with the authority and under the conditions prescribed in the said Act as amended by the *Ante*, p.596.deficiency appropriation Act approved June fourth, nineteen hundred and eighteen and to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Authority is granted to make the necessary connections and to Capitol powerplant. Power to group of building, Union Station Plaza.Payment.supply current from the Capitol Power Plant to the Union Station group of temporary housing. Payment for current shall be at the rates determined by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds and the proceeds therefrom shall be credited to the proper appropriations for the Capitol Power Plant and be available for the purposes of such appropriations during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. contingent and miscellaneous expenses. For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, Contingent expenses.stationery, and so forth, including the same objects specified822 under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $3,000. Automobiles.Purchase price increased.*Post*, p. 923.The limitation in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, of $900 for the purchase of automobiles seating four or more persons is increased to $1,500, and of $700 for automobiles seating less than four persons is increased to $1,200, inclusive of the value of the vehicle exchanged.
Coroner’s expenses.For purchase and maintenance, hire or livery, of means of transportation for the coroner’s office and the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and eighteen, $1,535;
Nineteen hundred and seventeen, $300. improvements and repairs. Suburban roads. Construction.Construction of suburban roads and suburban streets: For the completion of the construction of suburban roads and suburban streets, as provided for in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $32,000, to continue *Proviso*.Balances reappropriated.Vol. 39, pp. 1014-1016.available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen: *Provided*, That any unexpended balances of said appropriations are reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Unexpended balances for streets, etc., reappropriated.Vol. 39, pp. 1013-1017.Any unexpended balances of the appropriations contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, or in the urgent deficiency Act, approved March twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, for “work on streets and avenues,” “construction of suburban roads,” “repairs, streets, avenues and alleys,” and “for repairs to suburban roads,” are reappropriated and continued available for the same purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Cathedral Avenue NW., extension.For expenses of condemnation, extension of Cathedral Avenue northwest, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, payable wholly from the revenues of the District of Columbia, $175. South Dakota Avenue NE., bridge.Vol. 39, p. 1018.Any unexpended balance of the appropriation for the construction of the South Dakota Avenue Bridge, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Sewers. Balances reappropriated. Vol. 38, p. 904; Vol. 39, p. 1018.Any unexpended balances of the following appropriations are reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen: “Anacostia main interceptor, fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen,” and assessment and permit work, sewers, fiscal years nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and eighteen. Public schools.public schools. Furniture.For additional for furniture, including clocks, pianos, and window shades, for the following schools:
Eight rooms and assembly hall, E. V. Brown School, $4,000; two sewing schools $220; two cooking schools $450 ; two manual training shops $400 ; in all $5,070, to remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. Dunbar High School.For completing the equipment, and for furniture and furnishings for the Dunbar High School, to remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $15,000. Double salary restriction not applicable during vacation to teachers.
Vol. 39, pp. 120, 582.Section six of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act, approved May tenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended, shall not apply from July fifteenth to September fifteenth, nineteen 823 hundred and eighteen, to teachers of the public schools of the District of Columbia when employed by any of the executive departments or independent establishments of the United States Government. Section six of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Not applicable to community centers.Act, approved May tenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended, shall not apply to employees of the community center department of the public schools of the District of Columbia. health department.
Health department. For the maintenance of a dispensary or dispensaries for the treatment Dispensaries for tuberculosis and venereal diseases.of persons suffering from tuberculosis and of persons suffering from venereal diseases, including payment for personal service, rent, and supplies: *Provided*, That the commissioners may accept such Provisos. Volunteer services.volunteer services as they deem expedient in connection with the establishment and maintenance of the dispensaries herein authorized: *Provided further*, That this shall not be construed to authorize the Pay prohibition.expenditure or the payment of any money on account of any such volunteer service, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $15,000.
Bacteriological Laboratory: For purchase and installation of newBacteriological laboratory.apparatus, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $32.50. courts.Courts. Supreme Court: For miscellaneous expenses of the Supreme Court Supreme Court. Miscellaneous expenses.of the District of Columbia, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and thirteen, $122; Nineteen hundred and fourteen, $217;
Nineteen hundred and fifteen, $62.10. Juvenile Court: For pay of acting judges for the fiscal years that Juvenile Court.follow: Nineteen hundred and eighteen, $185; Nineteen hundred and seventeen, $140; Nineteen hundred and sixteen, $30. Municipal Court: For contingent expenses, including books, law Municipal Court.books, books of reference, fuel, fight, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, $450. Writs of lunacy: For writs of lunacy, including the same objects Lunacy writs.specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $900.Support of convicts.
Support of convicts: For support, maintenance, and transportation of convicts transferred from the District of Columbia; expenses of shipping remains of deceased convicts to their homes in the United States, and expenses of interment of unclaimed remains of deceased convicts; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped convicts and rewards for their recapture; to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $10,000. reformatories and correctional institutions.Reformatories.
Washington Asylum and Jail: The appropriation for support of Asylum and jail.Supportai prisoners.Vol. 39, p. 1034.prisoners, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is made available for the payment of expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and reward for their capture, repairs and improvements to buildings, cells, and locking devices, and for the support of prisoners. Home for Aged and Infirm: Any unexpended balance of the appropriation Home for Aged and Infirm.Vol. 39, p. 1036.for the purchase and installation of two electric generators, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. 824 National Training School for Girls.National Training School for Girls:
For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and eighteen, $5,000; Nineteen hundred and seventeen, $75.94. Medical charities.medical charities. Casualty Hospital.For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, for the fiscal years that follow:
Nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,186.85. Nineteen hundred and eighteen, $10,500. Tuberculosis Hospital.Tuberculosis Hospital: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia Appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $1,800. Judgments.judgments. Payment of.For payment of judgments, including costs, against the District of Columbia, set forth in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and fifty-five of this session, $7,315.90, together with a further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding four per centum per annum on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment.
Helen C. Sheckels.For payment of the judgment in favor of Helen C. Sheckels, surviving executrix of Theodore Sheckels, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and ninety-five of this session, $4,606.25. Half from District revenues.One-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in appropriations on account of the District of Columbia, except as otherwise provided herein, shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Employees Compensation Commission.EMPLOYEES COMPENSATION COMMISSION. Clerks.For seven clerks, at $1,200 each, and one clerk, at $1,000, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $9,400. Experts, temporary assistants, etc.For experts, clerks, and temporary assistants in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $8 per day, and temporary clerks, stenographers, or typewriters in the District of Columbia, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $100 per month, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $5,000.
Employees detailed to work in France.For salaries of clerks and other employees of the commission detailed to work in France, and who may be authorized by the commission to adjudicate claims for compensation and perform such other duties as the commission may direct; for per diem in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, rent, printing and binding, and all other necessary expenses for carrying on the work of the commission in France, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $25,000.
Interstate Commerce Commission.INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION. Physical valuation of railroads.For valuation of the property of carriers, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $462.61. 825 To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informed Railway safety appliances.regarding and to enforce compliance with Acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $63,600.
For all authorized expenditures under the provisions of the Act of Safe locomotive boilers, etc.February seventeenth, nineteen hundred and eleven, “To promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads by compelling common carriers engaged in interstate commerce to equip their locomotives with safe and suitable boilers and appurtenances thereto,” and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $63,000.
WAR TRADE BOARD.War Trade Board. The amounts collected from exporters for cable charges during the Cable charges collections available for uses of.fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen shall be credited to the appropriation for the War Trade Board and be available for the purposes thereof during the said fiscal year. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses. For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power purposes, Lighting, etc.gas and electric light fixtures, electric light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, $1,000.
For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $7,000.Freight, etc. office of the auditor for the war department.Auditor for War Department. For additional employees in the Office of the Auditor for the War Additional employees.Department, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $200,000. For purchase of office desks, chairs, typewriters and exchange of Office expenses.the same, calculating machines, filing cases, payment for telegrams, and all other necessary expenses, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $5,000. office of surgeon general, public health service.Public Health Service.
For four clerks of class two, and a messenger at $840, fiscal year Clerks, etc.nineteen hundred and nineteen, $6,440. independent treasury.Independent Treasury. For contingent Contingent expenses.expenses of the Independent Treasury, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $15,000. bureau of engraving and printing.Engraving and Printing Bureau. The limitation for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteenWork authorized extended.*Ante*, p. 117. as to the number of delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work to be executed is increased from six million to six million one hundred thousand. public buildings.Public buildings.
Operating supplies: For operating supplies for public buildings, Operating supplies.including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $150,000. 826 Quarantine stations.quarantine service. Boston, Mass. Boarding, etc., vessel.Boston, Massachusetts, Station: For additional for a boarding and disinfecting vessel, $15,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Cape Charles, Va. Boarding, etc., vessel.Cape Charles, Virginia, Station: For additional for a disinfecting and boarding vessel, $15,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. Rent.For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for use of the War Department, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $100,000. Requisition of buildings, etc., in District of Columbia.The Secretary of War is authorized, for the official purposes of the War Department, and within the limits of the appropriations for rent made by this or any other Act making appropriations for the War Department, to requisition the use of, and take possession of, any building or any space in any building, and the appurtenances thereof, in the Exceptions.District of Columbia, other than a dwelling house occupied as such or a building occupied by any other branch of the United States Government, and he shall ascertain and pay just compensation for such use.
If pay not satisfactory suit may be brought.If the amount of compensation so ascertained be not satisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of such amount and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as, added to said Procedure.seventy-five per centum, will make up such amount as will be just Vol. 36, pp. 1093,1136.compensation for such use in the manner provided by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five, of the Judicial Code.
National cemeteries.national cemeteries. Maintenance.For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools, and materials, $19,358.67. Interment of remains of officers, soldiers, etc.For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, civilian employees, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $100,000.
Lieut. Louis Brunelet, French Army.Burial at Arlington.For funeral expenses incurred in the burial of Lieutenant Louis Brunelet, Eighty-first Heavy Field Artillery, French Army, who died in Washington on November fourth and was interred in the Arlington National Cemetery on November sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $507.50. Armories and Arsenals.armories and arsenals. Frankford, Pa. Seawall.Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For seawall along the Delaware River at Frankford Arsenal, fiscal year nineteen hundred *Proviso*.
Use of balance. *Ante*, p. 352.and nineteen, $25,000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $36,000 for a seawall along the Delaware River at Frankford Arsenal contained in the urgent deficiency Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, be made available for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and nineteen. River and harbor work.river and harbor work. Damage claims. Vol. 36, p. 676.To pay the claims adjusted and settled under section four of the river and harbor appropriation Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, and certified to Congress in House Documents Numbered nine hundred and twenty-five, one thousand and thirty-five, and one thousand and sixty-eight, of the present session, $1,023.86. 827 MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Army. quartermaster corps.Quartermaster Corps.
Storage and shipping facilities: For inland and port storage, including Storage and shipping facilities.all necessary buildings, docks, tracks, handling, and other facilities for Government supplies, including rentals and purchase of land, $50,000,000. Mileage: For mileage to commissioned officers, members of the Mileage to officers, etc.Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, $2,750,000.
Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps: Postage; cost of Incidental expenses.telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, when ordered to active duty; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty, Extra duty pay, etc.under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; as additional school-teachers during the school term at post schools, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for overseers of general prisoners at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners, and for the United States disciplinary barracks guard; of extra-duty pay at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of War for mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots, who are graduates of the schools for bakers and cooks, and instructor cooks at the schools for bakers and cooks; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to officers or agents of the Quartermaster Corps to trains where military escorts can not be furnished; authorized office furniture, authorized issues of towels ; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster Corps, including the care of officers’ mounts when the same are furnished by the Government, and the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster Corps, and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist for the United States disciplinary barracks, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than $50 for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; for a donation of $5 to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement under court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures required Horse expenditures.for the several regiments of Cavalry, the batteries of Field Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit, purchase of picket ropes, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s tools for the Cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules ; chests and issue outfits ; and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operations of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, $20,500,000.
Clothing and camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens, Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage.materials, and for the purchase and manufacture of clothing for the Army, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; for payment for clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary; for 828 equipment and repair of equipment of laundries, dry-cleaning plants, salvage and sorting storehouses, hat-repairing shops, shoe-repair shops, clothing-repair shops, tent-repair shops, and garbage-reduction works; for educational propaganda in connection with reclamation:
Equipage.for equipage, including authorized issues of toilet articles, barbers and tailors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; issue of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment, and issue of housewives to the Army; for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizens’ outer clothing, to cost not exceeding $10, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge ; for Indemnity for destroyed clothing.indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, $712,232,605.
Regular quartermaster supplies.Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps: Regular supplies of the Quartermaster Corps, including their care and protection ; construction and repair of military reservation fences; stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States disciplinary barracks; also ranges, stoves, coffee roasters, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts, in the field, and when traveling, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; and the necessity power for the operation of moving-picture machines;
Heat, light, etc.authorized issues of candles and matches; for furnishing heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, and enlisted men, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty; contract surgeons when stationed at and occupying public quarters at military posts ; for officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, Recreation buildings.Vol. 32, p. 282.offices, the buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two; for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in Bakeries.the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries, including bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto and Ice machines.the repair thereof; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men and offices at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation Laundries, etc.of stores; for the construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions: for the authorized issues of laundry materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and for applicants for enlistment while held under observation; authorized School supplies, etc.issues of soap; for hire of employees; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipment for the post schools and libraries, and schools for noncommissioned officers ; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of officers’ schools at the several military posts; for purchase of relief maps for issue to organizations, commercial newspapers, market reports, and so forth; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the Forage, etc., for animals.enlisted men, including recruits; of forage, salt, and vinegar for the horses, mules, oxen, and other draft and riding animals of the Quartermaster Corps at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of Cavalry, and batteries of Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts 829 as may be mounted ; for remounts and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; for seeds and implements required for the raising of forage at remount depots and on military reservations in the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands and for labor and expenses incident thereto, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, the cost of irrigation; for straw for soldiers’ bedding, stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Quartermaster Corps, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department Printing.orders and reports, including $69,955.83 on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $90,971,072.06.
Transportation: For transportation of the Army and its supplies, Transportation.including the same objects specified under this head in the Army Appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, being for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and fifteen, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and nineteen hundred and seventeen, $4,113.87. All the money hereinbefore appropriated under the titles Subsistence Consolidated fund established.of the Army; Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps;
Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps; Transportation of the Army and its supplies; Water and sewer at military posts; and Clothing and camp and garrison equipage shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers and agents of the Quartermaster Corps as “Supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Barracks and quarters: For barracks, quarters, stables, storehouses, Barracks and quarters.magazines, administration and office buildings, sheds, shops, and other buildings necessary for the shelter of troops, public animals, and stores, and for administration purposes, except those pertaining to the Coast Artillery; for constructing and repairing public buildings Reclamation plants.at military posts; construction of reclamation plants; for hire of employees; for rental of the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, on duty with the troops at posts and stations where no public quarters are available; of barracks or authorized allowance of quarters for noncommissioned officers and enlisted men on duty where public quarters are not available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve, retired enlisted men, and members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty; of grounds for cantonments, camp sites, and other military purposes, and of buildings or portions of buildings for occupation by troops, for use as stables, storehouses, and offices, and for other military purposes; for the hire of recruiting stations and lodgings for recruits; for such furniture for the public rooms of officers’ messes and for officers’ quarters at military posts as may be approved by the Secretary of War; for wall lockers in permanent barracks and refrigerators in barracks and quarters; for screen doors, window screens, storm doors and sash, and window shades for barracks, offices, and quarters, and for flooring and framing for tents, and for the National National Guard, in service.Guard when called or drafted into the service of the United States, including $150,166.82 for services rendered and supplies furnished on Supplies to Panama.the Isthmus of Panama for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen, $27,767,860.32. *Provided*, That no part of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid *Provisos*.
No commutation, etc.for commutation of fuel or quarters to officers or enlisted men: *Provided further*, That the number of and total sum paid for civilian Civilian employees.employees in the Quartermaster Corps shall be limited to the actual requirements of the service, and that no employee therein shall receive a salary of more than $150 per month, except upon the approval of the Secretary of War. The appropriations made herein for “Regular supplies, Quartermaster Appropriations avail able until December 31, 1918.Corps,” “Barracks and quarters,” “Roads, walks, wharves, 830 and drainage,” “Construction and repair of hospitals,” and “Military post exchanges” shall continue available until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Post exchanges.Military post exchanges: For continuing the construction, equipment, and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school, library, reading, Recreation buildings.Vol. 32, p. 282.lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, including repairs to buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved. May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two, for the rental of films, purchase of slides, supplies for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits, and for similar and other recreational purposes at training and mobilization camps now established or which may be established hereafter, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War, including $179.12 for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $200,000.
Roads, walks, wharves, etc.Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage: For the construction and repair by the Quartermaster Corps of roads, walks, and wharves; pay of employees; disposal of drainage; dredging channels; and care and improvement of grounds at military posts and stations, including $7,879.01 for services rendered and supplies furnished on the Isthmus of Panama for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen, $7,177,183.01. Shooting galleries and ranges.Shooting galleries and ranges:
For shooting galleries and ranges, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,457.18. Hospitals.Construction, repairs, etc.Construction and repair of hospitals: For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same; construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto; additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, temporary hospitals in standing camps and cantonments; and for the alteration of permanent buildings at posts for use as hospitals, construction and repair of temporary hospital buildings at permanent posts, construction and repair of temporary general hospitals, rental of grounds and rental and alteration of buildings for use for hospital purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including necessary temporary quarters for hospital personnel, outbuildings, heating and laundry apparatus, plumbing, water and sewers, electric work, cooking apparatus, and roads and walks for the same, including $539.66 on account of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $13,936,554.66.
Civilian training camps.Civilian Military Training Camps: For the expense of maintaining, Maintenance, instruction, expenses, etc.upon military reservations or elsewhere, camps for the military instruction and training of such citizens physically capable of bearing arms as may be selected under such terms of enlistment and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, and for furnishing said citizens, at the expense of the United States, uniforms, subsistence, transportation by the most usual and direct route within said limits as to territory as may be prescribed ; for such expenditures as may be deemed necessary for water, fuel, light, temporary structures, not including quarters for officers nor barracks for men, screening, and damages resulting from field exercises, and other expenses incidental to maintaining said camps and the theoretical winter instruction in connection therewith, including textbooks Equipments, transportation, etc.Vol. 39, p. 198.and stationery; for furnishing such equipments, tentage, field equipage, and transportation belonging to the United States as may be deemed necessary as authorized by section fifty-four of the Act of Congress approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,000,000.
Rent of room.Rent of buildings: For rent of a room in the American Federation of Labor building for six months, $150. 831 medical department.Medical Department. For Medical and Hospital Department, for meeting obligations Supplies, etc. *Ante*, p. 597.incurred and to be incurred by authority of the deficiency appropriation Act approved June fourth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $33,000,000. FORTIFICATIONS.Fortifications. panama canal.Panama Canal. For continuing the construction of barracks, quarters, storehouses, Barracks, etc.and other buildings, necessary for accommodating the troops stationed there, including water, sewer, and lighting systems, roads, walks, and so forth, and for repairing and remodeling existing buildings to render them suitable for sheltering troops, $71,220.70.
For land defenses, Panama Canal, including the procurement and Land defenses.installation of searchlights, purchase of armored cars and locomotives, construction of roads and surveys incidental thereto, $1,600. insular possessions.Insular possessions. For maintenance and repair of searchlights and Electric plants, Hawaii.electric light and power equipment for seacoast fortifications and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, in the Hawaiian Islands, $2,500.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.Public buildings and grounds. For new road pavements, curbs, gutters, and sidewalks, on the Judiciary Park.Roads, curbs, etc.E and F Street roadways through Judiciary Park, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $10,000, one-half to be paid out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia; *Provided*, That the unexpended balance *Provisos*.Balances continued.*Ante*, p. 133.of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen is continued and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen: *Provided further*, That Limitation waived.the said sums may be expended without reference to the limitation upon the cost for making or relaying sheet asphalt or asphalt block contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS.State, etc., Department Buildings The Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Employees distributed.Building may from time to time alter the distribution among the various office buildings under his direction and control of the employees allowed by law as he may find it necessary and proper to do. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. For stationery, furniture, newspapers, and so forth, including the Stationery.same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $76,537.37.
NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Navy. To pay the claims adjusted and determined by the Navy Department, Collisions damages claims.under the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eleven, on account of damages occasioned to private 832 property by collisions with vessels of the United States Navy and for which naval vessels were responsible, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered twelve hundred and two of this session, $2,794.08. General account of advances.Reimbursement.
Vol. 20, p. 167.General account of advances: To reimburse “General account of advances,” created by the Act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and sixty-seven), for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several appropriations named hereunder in excess of the sums appropriated therefor for the fiscal year given, found to be due the “General account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, namely:
Aeronautics Commission.Advisory Commission for Aeronautics, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $129.55; Saint Helena station, Va.Naval training station, Saint Helena, Virginia, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $133.54; Naval auxiliaries.Maintenance, naval auxiliaries, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $106,443.55; Outfits.Outfits on first enlistment, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $10,911.60; Provisions.Provisions, Navy, nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen, $88,086.05;
Marine Corps.Maintenance, Marine Corps, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $3.479.75; Pay.Pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $5,904.75; Medical Department.Medical Department, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $311.64; Pay, miscellaneous.Pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $50,711.75; Provisions.Provisions, Navy, nineteen hundred and fourteen and nineteen hundred and fifteen, $31.14; Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.New York, N. Y.Portsmouth, N. H.Machinery plant, Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, $394.66;
Machinery plant, New York, New York, $1,420.33. Naval hospital, Portsmouth, New Hampshire, $331.29; In all, general account of advances, $268,289.60. Bureau of Yards and Docks.bureau of yards and docks. Maintenance. Maintenance: For general maintenance of yards and docks, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $3,875,000. Public works.public works, bureau of yards and docks. Training camps.Training camps:
For construction and equipment of training camps, including the rental of land, $1,250,000. Repairs, etc.Repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations: For repairs and preservation at navy yards, fuel depots, fuel plants, and stations, $520,000. South Brooklyn, N.Y.Terminal warehouses.Land for warehouses: For the purchase of land for terminal warehouses between Twenty-eighth and Thirty-second Streets and Second and Third Avenues, South Brooklyn, New York, $99,085.90, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.bureau of medicine and surgery. Surgeons’ necessaries.For surgeon’s necessaries for vessels in commission, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $2,000,000. Contingent.For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $200,000.
Appropriations avail able tor increased emergency obligations.The appropriations contained herein under the Navy Department and the Naval Establishment shall be available for the payment of 833 obligations on account of the existing emergency incurred prior to the passage of this Act and which are properly chargeable to such appropriations. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. Courthouse, District of Columbia: For reconstruction and furnishing Courthouse, D. C. Reconstruction, etc.of the courthouse, District of Columbia, including material and labor, and for each and every item incident thereto, $445,000, one-half to be paid out of the Treasury and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. general land office.Public lands.
To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the Oregon and California railroad lands.Classifying, etc.Vol. 39, p. 218.Secretary of Agriculture, or otherwise, to complete the classification of lands involved in the Oregon and California railroad forfeiture suit, as authorized and directed by the Act of June ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $36,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $90,000 for this purpose contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved April seventeenth, nineteen hundred and *Ante*, p. 19.seventeen, to remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. For new boilers for the National Training School for Boys, fiscalNational Training School for Boys. year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $ 10,000. The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized to allow in Courthouse, D. C.the accounts of the United States marshal for the District of Columbia items aggregating $442.14, covering payments for coal actually sup plied and used for heating the building occupied by the Supreme Curt for the District of Columbia and offices connected therewith, notwithstanding the failure to have said coal inspected and weighed as required by law.
For settlement in full of the claim of Henry R. Rathbone in theHenry R. Rathbone.Payment to. matter of the suit filed against the United States in the Court of Claims to recover damages on account of the failure to restore the premises known as number eight, Jackson Place, District of Columbia, to its condition existing prior to occupancy by the Department of Justice, $350. To enable the Attorney General to employ, at his discretion Opinions of Attorney General.Editing,etc., Volume 31.R.S.,sec.l765,p.314.Vol. 18, p. 109.Vol. 39, p. 120.and irrespective of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and sixty-five, Revised Statutes, and the provisions of section six of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act of May tenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, such competent person or persons as will in his judgment best perform the service, to edit and prepare for publication and superintend the printing of volume thirty-one of the Opinions of the Attorney General, the printing of said volume to be done in accordance with the provisions of section three hundred [>.
S., sec. 383, p. 63](/us/rs/sec383/p63).and eighty-three, Revised Statutes, $500. For the purchase of one hundred and seventy-nine copies of volume Digest of Federal Reporter.eleven of the Digest of the Federal Reporter to complete sets now in the hands of various officials, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $895. UNITED STATES COURTS.United States courts. For assistants to the Attorney General and to United States district Assistant attorneys in special cases.[R. S., sec. 366, p. 62](/us/rs/sec366/p62).attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special 834 cases, and for payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney General in special cases (such counsel shall not be required to take oath of office in accordance with section three hundred and sixty-six, Revised Statutes of the United States), $15,000.
Clerks’fees.For fees of clerks, $20,000. Commissioners’ fees.[R.S.,sec. 1014, p.189](/us/rs/sec1014/p189).For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section one thousand and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, $80,000. Jurors’fees.For fees of jurors, $25,000. Penitentiaries.Leavenworth, Kans.Leavenworth, Kansas, penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $42,000.
For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $4,500. For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $36,000. Atlanta, Ga.Atlanta, Georgia, penitentiary:
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $49,000. For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $11,000. For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $14,000.
McNeil Island, Wash.McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $1,250. For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $750.
For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $3,825. Postal Service,POSTAL SERVICE. Out of the Postal Revenues. First Assistant Post master General.office of first assistant postmaster general. Postmasters.For compensation to postmasters, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $919,049.99. Special delivery fees.For special delivery fees, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $713,680.24.
Second Assistant Postmaster General.office of second assistant postmaster general. Star routes, Alaska. For inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, $10,000. 835 office of third assistant postmaster general.Third Assistant Postmaster General, For payment of limited indemnity for the loss of pieces of domestic Indemnity lost mail matter.registered mail, insured, and collection-delivery matter, fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $5,000. For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of pieces of domestic registered matter, insured, and collect-on-delivery mail, for the fiscal years that follow:
Nineteen hundred and seventeen, $35,000; Nineteen hundred and eighteen, $630,000. LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. Botanic Garden: The limitation of $2 per day on the pay of skilled Botanic Garden.Laborers’ pay limitation removed.*Ante*, p. 767.laborers and laborers in the Botanic Garden, contained m the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, hereby is removed, and skilled laborers and laborers may be employed and paid from such appropriations during the said fiscal year at rates to be fixed by the superintendent.
House Office Building: For construction and equipment of additional House Office Building.rooms at the House Office Building, and for each and every Additional rooms, etc.purpose connected therewith, $5,200, to be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. Capitol Power Plant: For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising Capitol power plant Fuel, etc.for the power plant which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and congressional buildings, $34,750. senate.Senate.
For sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber at the rate of $2.50 per Pages.day each from and including July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, until the close of the second session of the Sixty-fifth Congress, so much as may be necessary. 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 Arms, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $250. To enable the Postmaster of the Senate to keep a constant supply Postage stamps.of postage stamps for sale to Senators, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $300.
To pay Dennis M. Kerr for extra and expert services rendered to Dennis M. Kerr.Services.the Committee on Pensions during the first and second sessions of the Sixty-fifth Congress as assistant clerk to said committee by detail from the Bureau of Pensions, $1,200. To reimburse the Official Reporters of the proceedings and debates Official Reporters. Reimbursementof the Senate for clerical expenses actually and necessarily incurred from September first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $4,851.67. house of representatives.House of Representatives.
To pay the widow of John H. Capstick, late a Representative from John H. Capstick.Pay to widow.the State of New Jersey, $7,500. To pay the widow of William A. Jones, late a Representative from the State of Virginia, $7,500. For allowance to the following contestant and contestee for expenses Contested election expenses.incurred by them in the contested-election case audited and recommended by the Committees on Elections Numbered One and Three: Mark R. Bacon, $2,000;Mark R. Bacon.
Samuel W. Beakes, $2,000;Samuel W. Beakes. 836 T. J. Steels.T. J. Steele, $2,000; George C. Scott.George C. Scott, $2,000. Official reporters and stenographers.Reimbursement.To reimburse the official reporters of debates to April thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $300 each, and the official stenographers to committees to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $550 each, for moneys actually and necessarily expended by them, $4,000. Horses and mail wagons.For additional for hire of horses and mail wagons for carrying the mails, fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $700.
Pages, etc., until close of session.For the following employees, from and including July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, until the close of the second session of the Sixty-fifth Congress: Forty-six pages, including two riding pages, four telephone pages, one press gallery page, and ten pages for duty at the entrance to the Hall of the House, at $2.50 per day each; Session committee clerks.three session telephone operators at $75 per month each; and eight clerks to committees at $6 per day each; so much as may be necessary.
Government Printing Office.GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes.To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes, messengers on night duty during the Sixty-fifth Congress, second session, for extra services, $700 each; in all, $2,100. Superintendent of Documents. Employees.Office of Superintendent of Documents: For the following employees during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, to be in lieu of the positions of stockkeepers, helpers, assistant messengers, *Ante*, p. 699.mailers, skilled laborers, unskilled laborers, janitress, folders, and messenger boys, provided in the sundry civil appropriation act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen:
Four stockkeepers at $1,126.80 each, twenty helpers at $1,001.60 each, fifty-eight skilled laborers at $876.40 each, eleven unskilled laborers at $876.40 each, and twenty-eight messenger boys at $500.80 each; in all, $99,033.20. Pay to designated employees increased.From and after the passage of this Act the compensation of all printer-linotype operators, printer-monotype-keyboard operators, makers-up, proofreaders, and pressmen employed in the Government Printing Office shall be at the rate of 65 cents per hour for the time actually employed, and that the pay of all compositors, book-binders, and bookbinder-machine operators employed in the Government Printing Office shall be at the rate of 60 cents per hour for the *Proviso*.
Increase to continue during the war, etc.time actually employed: *Provided*, That employees of the Government Printing Office whose wages are increased by the provisions of this Act shall be paid at the rates provided for herein during the period of the present war and for six months after the proclamation of peace, when the wages paid such employees shall thereafter be at the rates paid at the time of the passage of this Act, unless otherwise provided by law. Judgments, United States courts.JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.
Payments.Vol 24, p. 505.For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress during the present session by the Attorney General in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty-one, and which have not been appealed, namely: War Department.Under the War Department, $344.88.
Navy Department.Under the Navy Department, $1,700. Interest.In all, $2,044.88, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. 837 For payment of the judgment, including cost of suit, rendered Eastern Transportation Company.Vol. 39, p. 1353.against the Government under the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for the relief of the Eastern Transportation Company,” approved August ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $2,664.08: *Provided*, *Proviso*.
Former appropriation repealed.*Ante*, p. 378.That the appropriation of $2,599.42 and interest thereon, contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, for payment of the judgment in favor of the Eastern Transportation Company, is repealed. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.Judgments, Court of Claims For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, Payment.reported to Congress during the present session in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty-two and Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and fifty, namely:
Under the Treasury Department, $21,297.79;Classification. Under the War Department, $59,804.54; Under the Navy Department, $53,196.12; Under the Post Office Department, $2,409.11; Under the Interior Department, $17,820.09; Under the Department of Justice, $1,691.75; Under the Department of Commerce, $3,378.66; In all, $159,598.06. For payment of the judgment in favor of the State of Massachusetts, Massachusetts. Vol. 39, p. 355.certified to Congress m House Document Numbered Two hundred and ninety-eight, Sixty-fifth Congress, first session, $886,389.68.
JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.Judgments, Indian depredation claims. For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Payment.Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and seventy-eight of the present session, $4,395; said judgments to be paid after the deductions required to Deductions.Vol. 29, p. 853. be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United Reimbursement.States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: *Provided*, That no one of said judgments provided in this paragraph *Proviso*.Appeals.shall be paid until the Attorney General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exist no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.
None of the judgments contained in this Act shall be paid until the Right to appeal.right of appeal shall have expired. AUDITED CLAIMS.Audited claims. Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified Claims certified by accounting officers.to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of Vol. 18, p. 110.the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and 838 under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen and other years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress Vol. 33, p. 254.under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and eighty-six, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.For collecting the revenue from customs, $39.42. For paper money laundering machines, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $369,79. For maintenance, Hygienic Laboratory, Public Health Service, $240.67. For interstate quarantine service, $33.25. For field investigations for public health, $241.99. For salaries, office Commissioner of Internal Revenue, $44.44. For salaries and expenses, collectors of internal revenue, $39.90. For miscellaneous expenses, Internal-Revenue Service, $1.08.
For punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws, $367.89. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $366,091.70. For redemption of stamps, $6,143.94. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $261,727.89. For allowance or drawback, $1,974.41. For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, $17.35. For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving Service, $961.48. For Life-Saving Service, $1,269.05. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, $1.95.
For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $93.98. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $17.40. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $70.08. For general expenses of public buildings, $11.81. For post office, Paris, Texas, $8.90. For Providence, Rhode Island, quarantine station, $120.17. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $11,106.49. For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks at Army division and department headquarters, $4,927.30.
For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $95.98. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $121,120.31. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $31,109.12. For regular supplies, Quartermaster’s Department, $3,366.63. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $2,725.50. For barracks and quarters, $89.16. For barracks and quarters, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $153,111.56. For barracks and quarters, nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen, Act June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $160,000.
For transportation of officers and their baggage, $16.80. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $6,160.70. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $220,579.89. 839 For water and sewers at military posts, $297.83. For clothing, camp and garrison equipage, $97.52. For subsistence of the Army, $40.50. For medical and hospital department, $17. For Signal Service of the Army, $2. For civilian military training camps, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $265,062.95.
For contingencies, Military Information Section, General Staff Corps, $396.13. For purchase of stoves, $51.75. For keeping, transporting, and supplying prisoners of war, $42.25. For Shiloh National Military Park, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $80.99. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $13,328.20. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $68.98. For headstones for graves of soldiers, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $412.09.
For pay, and so forth, of the Army, War with Spain, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $466.48. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, $192.49. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, clothing, $170.07. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. For pay, miscellaneous, $15.Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department. For pay, Marine Corps, $567.57. For contingent, Manne Corps, $1.40. For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, $440.
For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $122.38. For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $30. For maintenance of naval auxiliaries, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $83.69. For ocean and lake surveys, Bureau of Navigation, $76.85. For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, $60. For recruiting, Bureau of Navigation, $344.70. For recruiting, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $49.60. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $2,780.52.
For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, $1,151.44. For contingent, medicine and surgery, $70. For pay of the Navy, $3,866.94. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $79.50. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $35.84. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $8,755.11. For engineering, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $20.62. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, $17.87. For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act March second, Vol. 26, p. 962.eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $455.57. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.
For contingent expenses, Department of the Interior, 60 cents.Claims allowed by Auditor tor Interior Department. For education of natives of Alaska, $80. For reindeer for Alaska, $65.33. For contingent expenses, offices of surveyors general, $4.73. For protecting public lands, timber, and so forth, $130. For surveying the public lands, $513.63. 840 For Geological Survey, $392.23. For equipment of mine rescue cars, Bureau of Mines, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $76.49. For investigating mine accidents, $4.11, For Capitol Building and repairs, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $12.29.
For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,219.95. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $792.82. For Indian school and agency buildings, $159.37. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $109,453.05. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $626.71. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $312.03. For telegraphing, transportation, etc., Indian supplies, $2.74.
For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, $2.35. For fulfilling treaties with Navajoes, schools, Arizona, $436.74. For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, $1,400. For school facilities, Papago Indians, Arizona, $63.90. For Ganado irrigation project, Navajo Reservation, Arizona, $182.74. For maintenance and operation, Ganado irrigation project, Navajo Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), $4.55. For Indian school, Greenville, California, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $40.35.
For maintenance and operation, Fort Hall irrigation system, Idaho (reimbursable), nineteen hundred and seventeen, $484.27. For Indian school, Lawrence, Kansas, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $63.96. For Indian school, Genoa, Nebraska, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $52.42. For Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, repairs and improvements, $42. For Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $28.67. For Indian school, Salem, Oregon, nineteen hundred and seventeen, 91 cents.
For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $32.08. For surveying and allotting Colville Reservation, Washington (reimbursable), $84.81. For support of Indians of Yakima Agency, Washington, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $7.34. For payment to Indians of Wind River Reservation, Wyoming (reimbursable), $50. For plans, and so forth, for completing irrigation of Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, Wyoming, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $123.29.
For plans, and so forth, for completing irrigation of Shoshone or Wind River Reservation, Wyoming (reimbursable), $11.02. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. Claims allowed by Auditor tor State, etc., Departments.For expenses of special and select committees, Senate, $64.28. For expenses of inquiries and investigations, Senate, $112.34. For salaries, secretaries of embassies and legations, $479.99. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $39,221.85. 841 For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $7,117.10.
For arbitration of outstanding pecuniary claims between the United States and Great Britain, $731.21. For salaries, Consular Service, $1,327.87. For salaries, consular assistants, $28. For allowance for clerks at consulates, $644.71. For expenses, interpreters and guards in Turkish Dominions, and so forth, $175. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $802.04. For American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, $2.70. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $336.45. For library, Department of Agriculture, $52.20.
For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $405.53. For meat inspection, Bureau of Animal Industry, $79.07. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $332.86. For purchase and distribution of valuable seeds, $37.35. For general expenses, Forest Service, $180.09. For general expenses, Bureau of Chemistry, $155.92. For enforcement of the food and drugs Act, $440.27. For general expenses, Bureau of Entomology, $5.68. For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, $1.65.
For general expenses, Bureau of Crop Estimates, 88 cents. For collecting statistics, Bureau of the Census, $16.35. For contingent expenses, Steamboat Inspection Service, 83 cents. For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, $20. For equipment, Bureau of Standards, $55.67. For investigation of public utility standards, Bureau of Standards, $227. For investigation of railway materials, Bureau of Standards, $2. For testing structural materials, Bureau of Standards, $15.82. For testing railroad scales, Bureau of Standards, $125.08.
For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $211.06. For salaries, lighthouse vessels, $19.50. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $10.27. For expenses of buoyage, $4,616.53. For expenses of light vessels, $21,749.53. For protecting seal and salmon fisheries of Alaska, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $95. For protecting seal and salmon fisheries of Alaska, $2.33. For contingent expenses, Department of Labor, $3.20. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, 96 cents.
For expenses of regulating immigration, $80.90. For miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Naturalization, 49 cents. For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, stationery, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $125.10. For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, miscellaneous items, 50 cents. For protecting interests of United States in suits affecting withdrawn oil lands, $25. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $89.14. For fees of clerks, United States courts, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $18,794.49.
For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,343.36. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $623.70. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $6. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $30.78. For pay of bailiffs, United States courts, $30. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $1,450.11. 842 For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, 62 cents. For supplies for United States courts, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $262.95.
For support of prisoners, United States courts, $27.55. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department.For indemnities, international registered mail, $269.70. For parcel-post insurance, $4. For indemnities, insured mail, 75 cents. For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, $108.99. For shipment of supplies, $141.92. For star-route service, $5.80. For star-route service, Alaska, $119.50. For railroad transportation, $4,506.89.
For compensation to postmasters, $693.25. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $147.87. For separating mails, third and fourth class post offices, $578. For clerks, third-class post offices, $40.16. For rent, light, and fuel, $209.06. For mechanical and labor-saving devices, $14,000. For canceling machines, $12. For city delivery carriers, $104.23. For city delivery incidental expenses, $39.50. For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $205.04. For Railway Mail Service, vacation, $14.52.
For Railway Mail Service, miscellaneous expenses, $88.25. For Rural Delivery Service, $1,077.37. Audited claims.AUDITED CLAIMS. Sec. 3. Claims certified by accounting officers. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or Vol. 18, p, 110.carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen and prior gears, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Vol. 23, p.254.Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Two hundred and forty-nine, reported to the Sixty-fifth Congress, second session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department.For refunding taxes illegally collected, $55,929.55. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $7,023.59. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $250. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $43.77. For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army Division and Department Headquarters, $108.50.
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $117.92. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $2.58. 843 For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $441.18. For civilian military training camps, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $229,044.35. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. For construction and repair, Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.Bureau of Construction and Repair, $15,197.67. For engineering, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $15,197.68.
For pay of the Navy, $8.83. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.and seventeen, $807.25. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $175.18. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $19.Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc. Departments. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $133.17.
For representation of interests of foreign governments arising out of hostilities in Europe, and so forth, nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen, $23,114.87. For relief, protection, and transportation of American citizens in Europe, $42,102.65. For fees of clerks, United States courts, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $185.60. For fees of clerks, United States courts, $1,302.20. For supplies for United States courts, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $68.09. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department.
Rural Delivery Service, $149.43.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department. Approved, July 8, 1918.