Chapter 201. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes
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CHAP. 201.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes. November 4, 1918.[[H. R. 13086](/us/bill/65/hr/13086).][[Public, No. 233](/us/pl/65/233).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and Bouse of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, First Deficiency Ap propriation Act, 1919.Deficiencies appropriations for war expenses, etc.
That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1919, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes, namely: Allen Property Custodian.ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN. *Ante*, p. 418, amended.Subsection
(c)of section seven of the “Trading with the enemy Act,” approved October 6, 1917, is amended to read as follows: " “(c) Money, property rights, etc., of unlicensed enemy to be conveyed to Custodian. It the President shall so require any money or other property including (but not thereby limiting the generality of the above) patents, copyrights, applications therefor, and rights to apply for the same, trade marks, choses in action, and rights and claims of every character and description owing or belonging to or held for, by, on account of, or on behalf of, or for the benefit of, an enemy or ally of enemy not holding a license granted by the President hereunder, which the President after investigation shall determine is so owing or so belongs or is so held, shall be conveyed, transferred, assigned, Seizure authorized.Disposition.delivered, or paid over to the Alien Property Custodian, or the same may be seized by the Alien Property Custodian; and all property thus acquired shall be held, administered and disposed of as elsewhere provided in this Act. Recording of trans fers, etc., of property.“Any requirement made pursuant to this Act, or a duly certified copy thereof, may be filed, registered, or recorded in any office for the filing, registering, or recording of conveyances, transfers, or assignments of any such property or rights as may be covered by such requirement (including the proper office for filing, registering, or recording conveyances, transfers, or assignments of patents, copyrights, trade-marks, or any rights therein or any other rights); Force and effect thereof.and if so filed, registered, or recorded shall impart the same notice and have the same force and effect as a duly executed conveyance, transfer, or assignment to the Alien Property Custodian so filed, registered, or recorded. 1021 “Whenever any such property shall consist of shares of stock or Corporations to cancel enemy-owned stock, etc.other beneficial interest in any corporation, association, or company or trust, it shall be the duty of the corporation, association, or company or trustee or trustees issuing such shares or any certificates or other instruments representing the same or any other beneficial interest to cancel upon its, his, or their books all shares of stock or other beneficial interest standing upon its, his, or their books in the name of any per-son or persons, or held for, on account of, or on behalf of, or for the benefit of any person or persons who shall have been determined by the President, after investigation, to be an enemy or ally of enemy, and which shall have been required to be conveyed, transferred, assigned, or delivered to the Alien Property Custodian or seized by him, and in lieu thereof to issue certificates or other instruments for Issue of certificates to order of Custodian.such shares or other beneficial interest to the Alien Property Custodian or otherwise, as the Alien Property Custodian shall require. “The sole relief and remedy of any person having any claim to any Claims thereto subject to terms of Act.money or other property heretofore or hereafter conveyed, transferred, assigned, delivered, or paid over to the Alien Property Custodian, or required so to be, or seized by him shall be that provided by the terms of this Act, and in the event of sale or other disposition of such property by the Alien Property Custodian, shall be limitedLimited to net proceeds of sales, etc. to and enforced against the net proceeds received therefrom and held by the Alien Property Custodian or by the Treasurer of the United States.” " CAPITAL ISSUES COMMITTEE.Capital Issues Committee. For carrying out the provisions of Title II of the “War Finance All expenses.*Ante*, p. 512.Corporation Act,” approved April 5, 1918, including personal services and rent of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, traveling expenses, furniture, equipment, supplies, printing and binding, law books, books of reference, periodicals, and miscellaneous expenses, $200,000. CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION.Civil Service Commission. For temporary employees for the Civil Service Commission, Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.$150,000: *Provided*, That not more than four persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,400 per annum. For rent of quarters in the District of Columbia, $15,000.Rent. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. salaries.Salaries. The increases in statutory salaries, contained in the District of Increase to date from July 1, 1918.*Post*, p. 1021.Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, shall be allowed and paid from July 1, 1918, if the employees otherwise are entitled to receive them: *Provided*, That this paragraph shall not be applicable *Proviso*.Restriction.to any employee who left the service prior to September 1, 1918. For carrying out the provisions of the “District of Columbia Minimum wage law expenses.*Ante*, p. 960.minimum-wage law,” approved September 19, 1918, $3,750. contingent and miscellaneous expenses.Contingent expenses. For repair of buildings owned and used by the District of Columbia, Fire Injuries, repairs.when injured by fire, $51,000. courts.Police court. Police court: For compensation of jurors, fiscal year 1918, $1,478.Jurors. 1022 Workhouse.workhouse. Fuel, etc.For fuel for maintenance, $12,000; for fuel for manufacturing and construction, dynamite, oils, and repairs to plants, $12,000; in all, $24,000. Militia.militia. Unexpended balances available.Vol. 39, p. 1039.*Ante*, p. 1019.The unexpended balances of appropriations made in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1918 for the Militia of the District of Columbia are made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year 1919. Shipping Board.SHIPPING BOARD. Emergency shipping fund.emergency shipping fund. 1. Powers added.*Ante*, pp. 182, 535.The emergency shipping fund provision of the urgent deficiency appropriation Act of June 15, 1917, as amended by the Act of April 22, 1918 (Public Act No. 138 of the Sixty-fifth Congress), is hereby amended as follows:
(I)Acquiring plants, lands, etc.In subdivision
(d)of paragraph one, to begin said subdivision and to precede the words “ to requisition,” are now inserted the words: “To acquire, construct, establish, or extend any plant, and in pursuance thereof, to purchase, requisition, or otherwise acquire title to or use of land improved or unimproved or interests therein; and”.
(II)Extending, etc., street railroads taken over.*Ante*, p. 535, amended.In subdivision
(f)of said paragraph one, after the words “or assume control of,” are now inserted the words “or to extend, improve, or increase, or cause to be extended, improved, or increased”.
(III)After said subdivision
(f)in said paragraph one, a new subdivision is now inserted as follows: " “(g) Advances, etc.In pursuance of the foregoing powers, or any of them, to make advance payments or loans of such amounts and upon such terms as the President may deem necessary and proper.” "
(IV)Meaning of term “plant” extended.In paragraph eight of said provisions, after the word “ship-yard,” are now inserted the words “dry-dock, marine railway, pier.” In said paragraph the words “or other facilities connected therewith” are stricken out and there are now inserted after the word “ terminal,” the following words: “ and any facilities or improvements connected with any of the foregoing descriptions of property.” 2. Amount authorized for acquiring plants, etc., increased.*Ante*, pp. 182, 345, 651.For the acquisition or establishment of plants suitable for shipbuilding or ship maintenance or repair, or of materials essential thereto, and for the enlargement or extension of such plants as are now or may be hereafter acquired or established, authority is granted to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for not to exceed $34,662,500 in addition to the amounts heretofore *Proviso*.Use of ship construction fund therefor.appropriated: *Provided*, That obligations incurred hereunder may be met from appropriations made or to be made for the construction of ships. 3. Charters for vessels for Army use without payment.*Ante*, p. 915.The United States Shipping Board shall not require payment from the War Department for the charter hire of vessels furnished or to be furnished from July 1, 1918, to June 30, 1919, inclusive, for the use of that department when such vessels are owned by the United States Government. War Industries Board.WAR INDUSTRIES BOARD. Personal services, supplies, etc.For expenses of the War Industries Board, including personal and other services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, rent of offices and grounds, traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, supplies and equipment, law books, books of reference, periodicals, newspapers, repair and upkeep of buildings, and printing and binding, $2,000,000. 1023 WAR TRADE BOARD.War Trade Board. The amounts collected by the War Trade Board from exporters, Cable collections available for use of.importers, and all other sources for cable charges during the fiscal year 1919 shall be credited to the appropriation for the War Trade Board and be available for the purposes thereof during the said fiscal year. DEPARTMENT OF STATE.State Department. salaries. For employees in the Department of State, $200,000: *Provided*, Employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.That not more than six persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. contingent expenses. For miscellaneous expenses, including maintenance and repair of Contingent expenses.motor-propelled passenger vehicle to be used only for official purposes, automobile mail wagon, including exchange of same; purchase, maintenance, and repair of a motorcycle for official messenger service; street car tickets not exceeding $100; and other items not included in the foregoing, $10,000. foreign intercourse.Foreign intercourse. Clerks at embassies and legations: For the employment of necessary Clerks at embassies and legations.clerks at the embassies and legations, who, whenever, hereafter appointed, shall be citizens of the United States, $200,000. Transportation of diplomatic and consular officers: For the transportation Travel expenses.of diplomatic and consular officers in going to and returning from their posts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $20,000. Contingent expenses, foreign missions: For contingent expenses of Contingent expenses, missions.foreign missions, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and nineteen, $100,000; Nineteen hundred and eighteen, $100,000. Clerks at consulates: For allowance for clerk hire at consulates, to Clerks at consulates.be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $175,000. Contingent expenses, United States consulates: For contingent Contingent expenses, consulates.expenses at United States consulates, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1918, $100,000. American citizens and prisoners of war in Germany: For relief of Relief of American prisoners of war, etc., in Germany.American citizens in Germany, or in German-occupied territory, and American prisoners of war who may be taken by German forces, $200,000. International Trade-Mark Registration Bureau: For the annual International Trade Mark Registration BureauExpenses, Habana.Vol. 39, p. 1680.share of the United States for the expenses of the maintenance of the International Trade-Mark Registration Bureau at Habana, including salaries of the director, and counselor, assistant director and counselor, clerks, translators, secretary to the director, stenographers, and typewriters, messenger, watchmen, and laborers, rent of quarters, stationery and supplies, including the purchase of books, postage, traveling expenses, and the cost of printing the bulletin, $56,450. 1024 Treasury Department.TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Chief clerk’s office.office of chief clerk and superintendent. Arlington Building,Employees for care of building.Arlington Building and annex, Vermont Avenue and H Street: For the following employees for the operation of the buildings from November 1, 1918, to June 30, 1919, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Assistant superintendent of building, $1,800; chief engineer, $1,400; two assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; four elevator conductors, at $720 each; two oilers, at $900 each; electrician, $1,400; two wiremen, at $1,200 each; plumber, $1,200; plumber’s helper, $1,000; painter, $1,200; two carpenters, at $1,200 each; janitor, $1,200; assistant janitor, $1,000; eighteen male laborers, at $660 each (four of whom to attend toilets and two to relieve elevator conductors); captain of the watch, $1,400; three lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; twenty-five watchmen, at $720 each; head of char force, $840; three assistant heads of char force, at $720 each; one hundred charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $55,373.33. Furniture, etc.For equipping the buildings with rugs and carpets, awnings, window shades and carriers, window ventilators, and bottle water coolers, $20,000; Operating expenses.For operating expenses of the buildings, including fuel, electric current, ice, ash removal, repairs, and miscellaneous items, $30,000; In all, Arlington Building and annex, $105,373.33. War Risk Insurance Bureau.bureau of war risk insurance. Contingent expenses.For furniture, equipment, and supplies; traveling expenses; telegraph and telephone service; stationery and miscellaneous expenses; printing and binding; and rental of quarters; fiscal year 1918, $100,000. Salaries, supplies, etc.For salaries of officers and employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $6,000,000; stationery and minor office supplies, $300,000; furniture, equipment, and supplies, including existing deficiency of $313,874 for addressograph equipment, file cabinets, typewriters, and so forth, for immediate needs, $750,000; field investigation and branch offices, $500,000; miscellaneous expenses, including telephones, telegrams, freight, express, car tickets in the District of Columbia, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, $30,000 ; in all, $7,580,000. Family allowances.For the payment of military and naval family allowances as authorized by law, $70,000,000. Allotments, etc., of enlisted men missing in action.*Ante*, pp. 402, 610, 613.For the purpose of the payment of allotments made by the enlisted men or the payment of family allowances under Article II of the Act of October 6, 1917, as amended, an enlisted man reported as missing in action shall be considered as occupying a pay status until his actual status has been determined by proper official authority of the *Proviso*.Limitation.department in which the man served or is serving: *Provided*, That payments authorized hereunder shall not continue tor more than one year. Public buildings.public buildings. Chicago, Ill.Chicago, Illinois, post office, courthouse, and so forth: For repairing damage done to the Adams Street entrance, $22,000. Rents, etc.Rent of quarters: For additional for rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, in amounts and at places, respectively, as follows: East Saint Louis, Ill.East Saint Louis, Illinois, $4,000. Evansville, Ind.Evansville, Indiana, $3,000. Harrisburg, Pa.Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, $2,000. Huntington, W. Va.Huntington, West Virginia, $4,000. Newport, R. I.Newport, Rhode Island, $3,000. 1025 public wealth service.Public Health Service. Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State and Interstate quarantine service.municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, including the sanitation of areas adjoining military and naval reservations and Government industrial plants, in order properly to safeguard the health of the military forces and Government employees, including not exceeding $25,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $500,000. quarantine stations.Quarantine stations. Cape Charles, Virginia: For remodeling existing buildings and for Cape Charles, Va.Remodeling build ings, etc.necessary additional buildings and their equipment, heating, lighting, plumbing, water and sewage systems, and for miscellaneous furnishings *Ante*, p. 467.and equipment for buildings, $100,000, and the appropriations made in the urgent deficiency Act approved October 6, 1917, for the Cape Charles Quarantine Station are made available for the purposes herein named. Reedy Island, Delaware: For remodeling existing buildings and for Reedy Island, Del.Remodeling build ings, etc.Reappropriations.Vol. 38, p. 18.necessary additional buildings and their equipment, heating, lighting, plumbing, water and sewage systems, and for miscellaneous furnishings and equipment for buildings, $40,000, and the appropriations made in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June 23, 1913, and the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved October 6, 1917, *Ante*, p. 349.for the Reedy Island Quarantine Station are made available for the purposes herein named. Savannah, Georgia: For remodeling existing buildings and for Savannah, Ga.Remodeling build ings, etc.necessary additional buildings and their equipment, heating, lighting, plumbing, water and sewage systems, and for miscellaneous furnishings and equipment for buildings, $26,000, and the appropriations Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 350.made in the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved October 6, 1917, for the Savannah, Georgia, Quarantine Station are made available for the purposes herein named. The foregoing construction work under “Quarantine stations” Supervision of construction.shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the Construction Division of the War Department. credit in accounts. Relief of Major (now Lieutenant Colonel) Charles J. Nelson: The Lieut. Col. Charles 7. Nelson.Credit in accounts.accounting officers of the Treasury are hereby authorized and directed to allow and credit in the accounts of Major (now Lieutenant Colonel) Charles J. Nelson, Quartermaster Corps, United States Army, the sum of $327.04, being a shortage in his accounts caused by embezzlement of Quartermaster funds by Mack A. Steel, civilian clerk (temporary), who was acting as chief clerk in the finance office at Fort Logan H. Roots. WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. contingent expenses. For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, Contingent expenses.including their exchange, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $500,000. national cemeteries.National cemeteries. Disposition of remains, and so forth: For the disposition of remains Interring remains of officers, etc.of officers, soldiers, civilian employees, and so forth, including the 1026same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, fiscal years 1918 and 1919, $710,274.52. Military posts.military posts. Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses.Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses: For construction of temporary barracks and quarters at seacoast posts for the accommodation of officers and enlisted mon of the Coast Artillery, including heating and lighting apparatus, water and sewer systems, plumbing, roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $4,000,000. Miscellaneous.miscellaneous. New York Harbor.Patrol fleet.New York Harbor, prevention of deposits: For pay of crews and maintenance of patrol fleet, six steam tugs and one launch, $70,000. Morgan N. J.Determining damages claims, explosion at T. A. Gillespie Company munition plant.Claims occasioned by explosions and fire at plant of the T. A. Gillespie Company, Morgan, New Jersey: The Secretary of War is directed to consider, ascertain, and determine the amounts due on all claims for damages to and loss of private property occasioned by the recent explosions and fire at the plant of the T. A. Gillespie Company, Report to Congress.*Post*, p. 1165.at Morgan, New Jersey, and report the amounts so ascertained and determined to be due the claimants to Congress within two months from the date of the approval of this Act. Armories and arsenals.armories and arsenals. Picatinny, Dover, N. J.Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, New Jersey: For increase in surveillance magazine capacity, $36,000; For repair of roads, $100,000; For four change houses for employees, $40,000; In all, $176,000. Rock Island, III.Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois: For fire walls around elevators and stairs in shops A, C, and K, $50,000. Springfield, Mass.Springfield Armory, Massachusetts: For altering target house at water shops into a storehouse, and for aerial tramway connecting with shops, $35,000; For concrete roads, $20,000; In all, $55,000. Watervliet, N. Y.Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York: For new upper water tank in water tower, $12,000; For replacing interior pipes for fire protection, $5,000; In all, $17,000. Repairs, etc.Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvement of arsenals, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including $300,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for Machinery for manufacturing.machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $1,000,000. MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. Army.contingencies of the army. Contingent expenses.*Ante*, p. 845.For all contingent expenses of the Army not otherwise provided for and embracing all branches of the military service, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $200,000. Office, Chief of Staff.office of the chief of staff. Contingencies, Military information Section.*Ante*, p. 846.Military Information Section, General Staff Corps: For contingent expenses of the Military Information Section, General Staff Corps, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $500,000. 1027 adjutant general’s department.Adjutant General’s Department. Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Virginia: For incidental Coast Artillery School, Fort Monroe, Va.*Ante*, p. 846.expenses of the school, including chemicals, stationery, printing, and binding, hardware, materials, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $20,000. For purchase of engines, generators, motors, machines, measuring Special apparatus, etc.instruments, special apparatus and materials for the division of enlisted specialists, $30,000. For purchase of special apparatus and materials and for experimental purposes for the department of artillery and land defense, $12,000. For purchase and binding of professional books treating of military Professional books, etc.and scientific subjects for library, for use of school, and for temporary use in coast defenses, $2,500: *Provided*, That section thirty-six hundred *Proviso*.Periodicals.[R. S., sec. 3048, p. 718](/us/rs/s3048/p718).and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, shall not apply to subscriptions for foreign and professional newspapers and periodicals to be paid for from this appropriation. *Provided*, That purchase and exchange of typewriting machines, to Typewriting machines, purchases.be paid for from this appropriation, may be made at the special price allowed to schools teaching stenography and typewriting without obligating typewriter companies to supply these machines to all departments of the Government at the same price. office of the chief signal officer.Signal service. Telegraph and telephone systems: For purchase, equipment, Telegraph and telephone systems.Purchases, operation, etc.*Ante*, p, 847.operation, and repair of military telegraph, telephone, radio, cable, and signaling systems, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $50,000,000: *Provided*, That authority is granted to enter into contracts *Proviso*.Additional contracts.*Post*, p. 1170.or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $45,000,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. division of military aeronautics.Military Aeronautics Division. For aerial appliances, aviation stations, vocational training in Additional expenses.*Ante*, p. 848.*Post*, p. 1170.aviation, and so forth, including the objects specified for these pur poses in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919 which ave been assigned by the President to the Division of Military Aeronautics, $60,000,000. office of the provost marshal general.Provost Marshal General’s Office. For all expenses necessary in the registration of persons available Draft registrad on expenses.*Ante*, p. 851.*Post*, p. 1170.*Proviso*.Perdiem subsistence.for military service and in the selection of certain such persons and their draft into the military service, $20,000,000: *Provided*, That per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 may be paid to those employees authorized to travel, and to members of the boards when in attendance upon board meetings at too great a distance from their homes to enable them to live there. QUARTERMASTER CORPS.Quartermaster Corps. pay of the army.Pay of the Army. For pay of officers and enlisted men of the line and of the staff Officers, enlisted men, etc.*Ante*, pp. 851–855.*Post*, p. 1170.departments, nurses, and enlisted men of the Philippine Scouts, as authorized by law, $696,327,159. 1028 Commutation of quarters, etc.For commutation of quarters and of heat and light to commissioned officers, members of the Nurse Corps, and enlisted men on duty at places where no public quarters are available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserves and retired enlisted men Allowances to families of officers abroad, etc.*Ante*, p. 530.when ordered to active duty, and for every commissioned officer of the Army of the United States on duty in the field or on active duty without the territorial jurisdiction of the United States who maintains a place of abode for a wife, child, or dependent parent, for whom no public quarters are available, $75,861,520. Clerks at headquarters, etc.Additional clerks at headquarters of the several territorial departments, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, and service schools are authorized to be employed and paid from “Pay of the Army” during the fiscal year 1919 at annual rates of compensation Rates of pay.as follows: Fifteen at $2,000 each, seventy-five at $1,800 each, one hundred and eighty at $1,600 each, one hundred and eighty at $1,400 each, one thousand and fifty at $1,200 each. Army field clerks.Minimum pay corrected.*Ante*, p. 853, amended.The appropriation for “Pay of the Army” for the fiscal year 1919 shall be available to pay one thousand two hundred and eighty-nine field clerks at the rate of $1,200 per annum, the minimum or entrance rate fixed by the Army appropriation Act approved July 9, 1918, instead of at $1,000 per annum, the rate appropriated in the said Act. Commutation of quarters, etc.For pay of commutation of quarters, and of heat and light for Army field clerks, $551,826. Mileage to officers.*Ante*, p. 854.For mileage to commissioned officers, members of the 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, $7,000,000. Pay accounts specified.All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army and miscellaneous, except the appropriation for mileage to commissioned officers, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers of the Quartermaster Corps as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. General appropriations, Quartermaster Corps.*Post*, p. 1170.Subsistence.*Ante*, p. 855.general appropriations, quartermaster corps. Subsistence of the Army: For subsistence of the Army, including the same objects and under the same limitations specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, *Provisos*.Developing agricultural activities on Army lands.$155,302,087: *Provided*, That not to exceed $250,000 of this sum is made available for the purposes of developing agricultural activities on lands owned, purchased, or leased for the Army, and such development, together with the sale of any produce or material arising therefrom, shall be made pursuant to such regulations as may be prescribed Proceeds of sales.by the Secretary of War: *Provided*, That all moneys received by the United States as the proceeds of such sales shall be deposited in the Post gardens restrictions suspended.Vol. 27, p. 178.Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt: *Provided further*, That so much of the Act of July 16, 1892, as provides that no money appropriated for the support of the Army shall be expended for post gardens is suspended during the fiscal year 1919. Receipts from ice, etc., to be covered into the Treasury.*Ante*, p. 857.All funds hereafter derived from the sale of ice or as receipts from the sale of electric current or laundry work under the appropriations of the Quartermaster Corps shall be deposited in the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. Incidental expenses.*Ante*, p. 857.Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps: For incidental expenses of the Quartermaster Corps, including the same objects specified under tins head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $65,070,770. 1029 Appropriations contained herein for the Quartermaster Corps shall Technical training of drafted men.*Ante*, p. 957.be available for the expenses of carrying out the provisions of section seven of the Act approved August 31, 1918, entitled “An Act amending the Act entitled ‘An Act to authorize the President to increase temporarily the Military Establishment of the United States, approved May 18, 1917.’ ” Transportation of the Army and its supplies: For transportation Transportation.*Ante*, p. 858.of the Army and its supplies, including the same objects and under the same limitations specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $441,946,317. Clothing and camp and garrison equipage: For clothing and camp Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage.and garrison equipage, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $59,138,433, and in addition thereto the sum of $108,376,182 of the Transfer from regular supplies.*Ante*, pp. 856, 860.amount appropriated for “Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps” in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, is made available for the foregoing purposes. Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth: For horses Horses.Purchase, etc.*Ante*, p. 860.for Cavalry, Artillery, Engineers, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $20,616,331. Water and sewers at military posts: For water and sewers at military Water, sewers, etc, at posts.*Ante*, p. 860.posts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $1,613,017. Military post exchanges: For military post exchanges, including Post exchanges.*Ante*, p. 862.the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $1,880,712. Construction and repair of hospitals: For construction and repair Hospitals.Construction, repairs, etc.*Ante*, p. 864.of hospitals, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $86,469,930: *Provided*, That authority is granted to enter into contracts or otherwise *Proviso*.Additional contracts.*Post*, p. 1170.to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned for not to exceed $15,750,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. The President is authorized, through the Secretary of War, during Hospital facilities.Requisition of lands, buildings, etc., for.the existing emergency, from time to time, to requisition or otherwise take over for the United States any lands, including the buildings thereon and their equipment, or any temporary use thereof, required Compensation.for hospital facilities. He shall ascertain and pay, from the proper Suit if amount unsatisfactory.appropriation, a just compensation therefor. If the compensation so ascertained be not satisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined, and shall be entitled to sue the United States in the United States district court for the judicial district where the property is situated to recover such further sum as, added to the seventy-five per centum, will make up such amount as will be just compensation: *Provided*, That hospital facilities shall be so situated *Provisos*.Location near home of patients, etc.as to provide for the care of patients as near the place from which they entered the Army or Navy as practicable, and that the facilities shall be in every case in keeping with the number of men in the service Cost limit.from the different States: *Provided further*, That property shall not be taken over under the foregoing power at an aggregate cost in excess of $15,000,000. All the money hereinbefore designated under the titles “Subsistence General appropriations, Quartermaster Corps.Consolidation of specified appropriations into fund so designated.of the Army,” “Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps,” “Incidental expenses. Quartermaster Corps,” “Transportation of the Army and its supplies,” “Water and sewers at military posts,” “Clothing and camp and garrison equipage,” “Horses for Cavalry, Artillery Engineers, and so forth, “Military post exchanges,” “Barracks and quarters, Philippine Islands,” “Construction and repair of hospitals,” “Shooting galleries and ranges” shall be disbursed and accounted for 1030by officers and agents of the Quartermaster Corps as “General appropriations, Quartermaster Corps,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Fort Leavenworth, Kans.Additions to Disciplinary Barracks at.For new permanent buildings and for additions at the United States Disciplinary Barracks, Fort Leavenworth, Kansas, including heating, lighting, plumbing, and other necessary facilities, $300,000. Medical Department.medical department. Supplies, etc.*Ante*, p. 865.Medical and Hospital Department: For the manufacture and purchase of medical and hospital supplies, and so forth, including the same objects and under the same limitations specified under this Gas masks excepted.*Proviso*.Additional contracts.*Post*, p. 1170.head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, except the manufacture and purchase of gas masks, $30,000,000: *Provided*, That authority is granted to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the above purposes for not to exceed $65,000,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. Engineer Department.engineer department. Field operations.*Post*, p. 1171.Engineer operations in the field: For expenses incident to military engineer operations in the field, and so forth, including the same objects and under the same limitations specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $126,250,000: *Proviso*.Additional contracts.*Ante*, p. 868.*Post*, p. 1171.*Provided*, That authority is granted to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the above purposes for not to exceed $200,000,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. Ordnance Department.ordnance department. Additional contracts authorized.Ammunition for small arms, etc.Ordnance stores, ammunition: The Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the manufacture and purchase of ammunition for small arms and for hand use for reserve supply, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army Limit.*Ante*, p. 869.*Post*, p. 1172.appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, for not to exceed $410,802,430 in addition to the appropriations and authorizations heretofore granted for this purpose. Small arms target practice, ammunition, etc.Small-arms target practice: The Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the manufacture and purchase of ammunition, targets, and other accessories for small arms, hand, and machine target practice and instruction, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal Limit.*Ante*, p. 809.year 1919, for not to exceed $59,787,568 in addition to the appropriations and authorizations heretofore granted for this purpose. Manufacture of arms: The Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, Manufacturing, etc., arms.Limit.*Ante*, p. 870.*Post*, p. 1172.is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for manufacturing, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms, for not to exceed $85,156,875 in addition to the appropriations and Preserving, etc., ordnance.authorizations heretofore granted for this purpose. Ordnance stores and supplies; The Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for overhauling, cleaning, repairing, and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for Limit.*Ante*, p. 870.the fiscal year 1919, for not to exceed $97,000,000 in addition to the appropriations and authorizations heretofore granted for this purpose. Automatic machine rifles.*Post*, p. 1172.Automatic machine rifles: The Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purchase, manufacture, test, repair, and mainte1031nance of automatic machine rifles, or other automatic or semiautomatic guns, including their mounts, sights, and equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, for not to exceed Limit.*Ante*, p. 873.$104,062,000 in addition to the appropriations and authorizations heretofore granted for this purpose. Armored motor cars: The Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, Armored motor cars.*Post*, p. 1172.is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purchase, manufacture, test, repair, and maintenance of armored motor cars, for not to exceed $134,217,500 in addition to the Limit.*Ante*, p. 873.*Post*, p. 1172.appropriations and authorizations heretofore granted for this purpose. chemical warfare service.Chemical Warfare Service. For the purchase, manufacture, and test of chemical warfare gases Purchase, manufacture, etc., of gas masks, machinery, buildings, etc.*Post*, p. 1172.or other toxic substances, gas masks, or other offensive and defensive materials or appliances required for gas warfare purposes, including all necessary investigation, experimentation, and operations connected therewith, construction and repair of buildings and equipment Training troops, etc.and the machinery therefor; expenses incidental to the organization, training, and equipment of gas troops not otherwise provided for, $100,000,000: *Provided*, That authority is granted to enter into contracts *Provisos*.Additional contracts.*Post*, p. 1172.or otherwise to incur obligations for the above purposes for not to exceed $150,000,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and Additional to previous allotments from Medical and Ordnance Departments.heretofore made: *Provided further*, That the appropriations and authorizations above made shall be in addition to all allotments received for these purposes from the Medical Department of the Army arid the Ordnance Department of the Army for the fiscal year 1919: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $2,000,000 of all amounts available Amount for land.for the Chemical Warfare Service for the fiscal year 1919 shall be available for the acquisition of land. FORTIFICATIONS.Fortifications. The Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter Additional contracts authorized.Mountain, field, and siege cannon.*Post*, p. 1171.into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, for not to exceed $1,086,782,897 in Limit.*Ante*, p. 817.addition to the appropriations and authorizations heretofore granted for this purpose. The Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter Ammunition for field, etc., cannon.*Post*, p. 1172.into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for mountain, field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, the machinery necessary for its manufacture, and necessary storage facilities, for not to exceed $1,325,776,685 in addition to the appropriations Limit.*Ante*, p. 817.and authorizations heretofore granted for this purpose. The Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter Ammunition for field, etc., artillery practice.*Post*, p. 1173.into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber guns, and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture, for not to exceed Limit.*Ante*, p. 817.$65,175,061 in addition to the appropriations and authorizations heretofore granted for this purpose. For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast Ammunition for seacoast cannon.Appropriation.cannon, and for modernizing projectiles on hand, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $5,000,000. 1032 Ammunition for field, etc., cannon.Payment of incurred obligations.*Ante*, p. 817.*Post*, p. 1171.Toward the payment of obligations authorized to be incurred by the fortification appropriations Act approved July 8, 1918, “for purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for mountain, field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, the machinery necessary for its manufacture, and necessary storage facilities, $280,000,000.” Panama Canal.panama canal. Ammunition for seacoast, etc., cannon.*Ante*, p. 819.For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for seacoast and land defense cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its manufacture, $350,000. Submarine mines, etc.For purchase of submarine mines and nets and the necessary appliances to operate them for closing the channels leading to the Panama Canal, $2,000, to be available for the fiscal years 1918 and 1919. Supplies for submarine mines.For alteration, maintenance, and repair of submarine-mine material, $6,866, to be available for the fiscal years 1918 and 1919. Military Academy.MILITARY ACADEMY. Cadets graduating before completing course to have full per sonal equipment allowance.The United States Military Academy Cadets of the classes of 1920 and 1921 who have been ordered by military authority to graduate November 1, 1918, and to provide themselves with the full personal equipment required for immediate active service overseas, shall be credited with so much of their respective full course personal equipment allowances as may remain unpaid at the said date of their graduation. Cadet store, etc., working fund.That $150,000 are hereby appropriated for use of the treasurer, United States Military Academy, as a working fund to enable him to keep stock in cadet store, cadet mess, and cadet laundry during the continuance of the present system of cadet instruction at the United *Proviso*.Time available.States Military Academy: *Provided further*, That in cfase a four-year course is restablished that this amount shall remain available for use of treasurer of the United States Military Academy until such time as the equipment fund of caders shall have reached the same amount. State, War,and Navy Department Building.STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDING. Fire protection.For the installation of a sprinkler system, rewiring of the subbasement and attic floors, installation of fire doors, purchase of fire extinguishers, and other expenses incident to the further fireproofing of the building, $33,000. Smokestack.For installing a smokestack over the boiler house in the south courtyard of the building, $14,000. Temporary office buildings.TEMPORARY OFFICE BUILDINGS. Completing construction of, in Potomac Park.*Ante*, p. 483.For the completion of the two temporary office buildings authorized by the deficiency appropriation Act, approved March 28, 1918, to be erected in Potomac Park for the use of the War Department and Navy Department, $1,490,000. Navy Department.NAVY DEPARTMENT. temporary employees. Additional temporary employees.For the employment of such temporary force of clerks, messengers, laborers, and other assistants as in the judgment of the Secretary of 1033the 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, $10,025.60; Office of Naval Intelligence, $1,324.99; Hydrographic Office, $11,642.34; Naval Observatory, $429.98; Bureau of Steam Engineering, $81,629.47; Bureau of Construction and Repair, $99,559.01; Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $ 11,296.56; Bureau of Yards and Docks, $79,291.30; Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $260,903.48; In all, $556,102.73: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy shall *Proviso*.Detailed statement to Congress.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. contingent expenses. For stationery, furniture, newspapers, and so forth, including the Contingent expenses.same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $300,000. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Navy. miscellaneous.Miscellaneous. To pay the claims adjusted and determined by the Navy Department, Collision damages claims.Vol. 36, p. 607.under the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1911, on account of damages occasioned to private 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 seventy-eight of this session, $537.55. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation. Recreation for enlisted men: For the recreation, amusement, Recreation for enlisted men.comfort, and contentment of enlisted men of the Navy afloat and under training ashore, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he may prescribe: *Proviso*.Pay restriction.*Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, $400,000. Outfits on first enlistment: For outfits for all enlisted men and Outfits on first enlistments, etc.apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $15,000,000. Gunnery and engineering exercises: For prizes, trophies, and Gunnery and engineering exercises.badges for excellence in gunnery, target practice, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $200,000. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance. Ordnance and ordnance stores: For ordnance and ordnance stores, Ordnance and ordnance stores.Allowance for technical, etc., services increased.*Ante*, p. 721.including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $11,185,301; and the limitation specified in said Act on expenditures from the appropriation “Ordnance and ordnance stores” for pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and naval ammunition depots is increased by the sum of $2,000,000. 1034 New batteries tor ships.New batteries for ships of the Navy: For batteries and outfits for naval vessels, auxiliaries, patrols, aircraft, naval stations, and merchantmen, $26,529,464. Ammunition for vessels.Ammunition for vessels: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ammunition for vessels, $9,230,000. Reserve supplies.Reserve ordnance supplies: For reserve and miscellaneous ordnance supplies, $1,000,000. Bureeu of Yards and Docks, public works.public works, bureau of yards and docks. Boston, Mass.Navy yard, Boston, Massachusetts: For water-front improvements, $170,000. Hampton Roads, Va., base.Naval Operating Base, Hampton Roads, Virginia: For station development, $1, 174,556.68. Norfolk, Va., dry dock.Navy yard, Norfolk, Virginia: For completion of dry dock and for accessories, $856,508.69. Mare Island, Cal.Navy Yard, Mare Island, California: For structural shop and auxiliary improvements, $1,500,000. California training Station.Ordnance stations.Naval Training Station, California: For water supply, $55,000. Ordnance Stations: For improvements at stations under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Ordnance, $1,727,000. Training camps.Training Camps: For construction and equipment of training camps, including the rental of land, $28,560,807.61. Fuel depots.Depots for fuel: For fuel-oil storage, $322,500. Medical supply depots.Hospital Construction: For the establishment of naval medical supply depots at Brooklyn, New York, and Mare Island, California, Temporary hospitals.$200,000; for such additional temporary hospital construction and repairs as may be necessary, $5,000,000; in all, $5,200,000. Hospital construction.Use of balances*Ante*, p. 723.The Secretary of the Navy is authorized to expend at any of the places named in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, under the head of “Hospital construction,” any sum appropriated by said Act under such head and not required for expenditure at any other of said places. Temporary storage.Temporary storage: For temporary storage, $3,200,000. Naval Academy.naval academy. Maintenance and repairs.Maintenance and repairs: For general maintenance and repairs at the Naval Academy, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $50,000. Interior Department.DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Public buildings.public buildings. Senate Office Building.Brennan Construction Company.To pay the Brennan Construction Company in full settlement of its claim for balance due for furnishing labor and appliances for executing brickwork in the construction of the United States Senate Office Building, under contract dated December 2, 1905, which payment is authorized and directed, $12,990.09. Department of Justice.DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. miscellaneous. Detection and prosecution of crimes.Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $1,000,000. 1035 UNITED STATES COURTS.United States courts. The appropriation for “fees of clerks, United States courts,” Payment to clerk District of Columbia Supreme Court.*Ante*, p. 683.contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, shall be available for the payment of fees to the clerk of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia in United States cases from July 1, 1918, notwithstanding the prohibition on the payment of such fees from that fund by the said Act. For fees of clerks, fiscal year 1918, $25,000.Clerks’ fees. For fees of jurors, fiscal year 1918, $30,000.Jurors’ fees. penitentiaries.Penitentiaries. Atlanta, Georgia: For enlarging the dining room and chapel, Atlanta, Ga.Construction, machinery, lands, etc.$37,000; purchase of machinery and other equipment, $650,000; working capital, $150,000; purchase, equipment, improvement, and operation of additional farm land, $200,000; in all, $1,037,000: *Provided*, That *Proviso*.Use of revolving fund.*Ante*, p. 897.the said working capital fund and the receipts credited thereto may be used as a revolving fund during the fiscal year 1919. McNeil Island, Washington: For guards, $3,000: *Provided*, That McNeil Island, Wash.*Proviso*.Pay of guards.the salaries of the guards of this institution shall be $90 per month each, beginning November 1, 1918. POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post Office Department. office of the postmaster general.Postmaster General For the following employees from November 1, 1918, to June 30, Employees.1919, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Six clerks of class four, at $1,800 each; twenty clerks of class three, at $1,600 each; twenty-one clerks of class two, at $1,400 each; twenty-four clerks of class one, at $1,200 each; ten clerks, at $1,000 each; and one messenger, $840; in all, $74,560. The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to advance War savings stamps, etc.Advances for expenses of sale, etc.to the Postmaster General from the appropriation for expenses of preparation and issuance of war savings stamps such sums as may be necessary to meet the expenses of the Post Office Department for clerical service and other necessary expenditures in connection with the distribution, sale, and keeping of accounts of war savings and thrift stamps. POSTAL SERVICE.Postal service. out of the postal revenues. office of the first assistant postmaster general.First Assistant Postmaster General. For compensation to postmasters, fiscal year 1917, $4,912.31.Postmasters. For special-delivery fees, for the fiscal years that follow:Special delivery fees. Nineteen hundred and seventeen, $22.72; Nineteen hundred and eighteen, $196,022.32. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Department of Commerce. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses. The Secretary of Commerce is authorized to pay from the appropriation Water cooling plant rental.*Ante*, p. 803.for contingent expenses of the department for the rental for the fiscal year 1919 of a water-cooling plant in the Commerce Building now leased for the use of the Department of Commerce. 1036 Lighthouses Bureau.lighthouse service. Keepers.*Ante*, p. 609.Keepers of lighthouses: For additional for salaries of not exceeding one thousand eight hundred lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights, exclusive of post lights, $254,432. Retired pay.*Ante*, p. 608.Retired pay: For retired pay of officers and employees engaged in the field service or on vessels of the Lighthouse Service, except persons *Proviso*.Restriction.continuously employed in district offices and shops, $30,000: *Provided*, That the retirement provisions and pay shall not apply to persons in the field service of the Lighthouse Service whose duties do not require substantially all their time. Aids to navigation.lighthouses, beacons, fog signals, light vessels, and other works under the lighthouse service. Atlantic coast.Repairing damages, etc.For rebuilding, repairing, and reestablishing aids to navigation and structures connected therewith on the Atlantic coast of the United States which have been damaged or destroyed by ice or storm, $300,000. Fifth district.Fifth lighthouse district: For purchase of additional gas buoys for the improvement of aids to navigation, $60,000. Saint Marys River.Saint Marys River, Michigan, and vicinity: For improving, repairing, establishing, and moving aids to navigation, $80,000. Steamboat Inspection Service.steamboat-inspection service. Officers and em ployees.For amount necessary to increase the compensation of officers and employees of the Steamboat-Inspection Service from November 1, 1918, to June 30, 1919, inclusive, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act to amend sections forty-four hundred and two, forty-four hundred and four, and forty-four hundred and fourteen of the Revised Statutes of the United States,” approved July 2, Increased compensation.*Ante*, pp. 739–741.1918, as follows: Supervising inspector general from $4,000 to $5,000, deputy supervising inspector general from $2,000 to $3,000, eleven supervising inspectors from $3,000 to $3,450 each, two local inspectors from $2,500 to $2,950 each, fourteen local inspectors from $2,250 to $2,700 each, twenty-eight local inspectors Distribution.from $2,000 to $2,500 each, twelve local inspectors from $1,800 to $2,350 each, forty local inspectors from $1,500 to $2,100 each, thirty-six assistant inspectors from $2,000 to $2,500 each, forty-eight assistant inspectors from $1,800 to $2,350 each, fifty-eight assistant inspectors from $1,600 to $2,100 each, two traveling inspectors from $2,500 to $3,000 each; in all, $88,766.67. Additional traveling Inspector.For an additional traveling inspector at the rate of $3,000 per annum from November 1, 1918, to June 30, 1919, inclusive, $2,000. Additional assistant inspectors.For additional assistant inspectors from November 1, 1918, to June 30, 1919, inclusive, at ports and at annual rates of compensation as follows: San Francisco, three, at $2,350 each; Seattle, three, at $2,100 each; Portland, Oregon, three, at $2,100 each; Los Angeles, two, at $2,100 each; Philadelphia, three, at $2,350 each; New Haven, one, at $2,100; New York, three, at $2,500 each; Norfolk, one, at $2,100; Baltimore, one, at $2,350; Jacksonville, one, at $2,100; Chicago, one, at $2,100; Toledo, one, at $2,100; in all, $34,166.67. Clerk hire.Clerk hire, service at large: For compensation, not exceeding $ 1,500 a year to each person, of clerks to boards of steamboat inspectors, to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce in accordance with the provisions of law, from November 1, 1918, to June 30, 1919, inclusive, $9,000. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For fees to witnesses; traveling and other expenses when on official business of the Supervising Inspector General, supervising inspectors, traveling inspectors, local and assistant 1037inspectors, and clerks; instruments, furniture, stationery, janitor service, and every other tiling necessary to carry into effect the provisions [R. S., Title LII, pp. 852–859](/us/rs/pp852–859).of Title fifty-two, Revised Statutes, $10,000. bureau of standards.Standards Bureau. Military research: To enable the Bureau of Standards to cooperate Standardizing military supplies.Cooperative assistance to Army and Navy in.with the War and Navy Departments by providing the scientific assistance necessary in the development of instruments, devices, and materials, and the standardization and testing of supplies, including personal services and rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the erection of temporary structures; books of reference and periodicals ; and all other necessary items not included in the foregoing, $100,000. Testing of large scales: For investigation and testing of railroad-track Testing large scales.scales, elevator scales, and other scales used in weighing commodities for interstate shipments and to secure equipment and assistance for testing the scales used by the Government m its transactions with the public, such as post office, navy yard, and customhouse scales, and for the purpose of cooperating with the States in securing uniformity in the weights and measures laws and in the methods of inspection, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, fiscal year 1917, $4,750. bureau of fisheries.Fisheries Bureau. Maintenance of vessels: For the payment of outstanding liabilities North Pacific Sea Products Company.for fuel oil furnished the Fisheries steamer Roosevelt by the North Pacific Sea Products Company, of Seattle, Washington, during May and June, 1918, used in the rescue of ships and men caught in the ice in Bristol Bay, Alaska, $10,332. LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. To pay Katharine C. Norton and Alice Gallinger Espe, daughter Jacob H. Gallinger.Pay to daughter and granddaughter.and granddaughter, respectively, of Honorable Jacob H. Gallinger, late a Senator from the State of New Hampshire, $7,500. To pay Sallie Tillman, widow of Honorable Benjamin R. Tillman, Benjamin R. Tillman.Pay to widow.Ollie R. James.Pay to widow.late a Senator from the State of South Carolina, $7,500. To pay Ruth James, widow of Honorable Ollie M. James, late a Senator from the State of Kentucky, $7,500. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per Folding.thousand, $5,000. house of representatives.House of Representatives. To pay the widow of James H. Davidson, late a Representative James H. Davidson.Pay to widow.from the State of Wisconsin, $7,500. The appropriation of $7,500 “to pay the widow of Ebenezer J. Hill, Ebenezer J. Hill.Pay to legal representative of widow.*Ante*, p. 497.late a Representative from the State of Connecticut,” contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved March 28, 1918, is authorized and directed to be paid to the legal representative of the said widow.Miscellaneous items. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, fiscal year 1918, $25,000. For packing boxes, $1,500.Packing boxes. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per Folding.thousand, $3,000. 1038 Government Printing Office.GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE. Leaves of absence.Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the Provisions of law granting leave to employees of the Government Printing Office, fiscal year 1918, $2,694.50. Printing and binding.public printing and binding. Aggregate amount.For public printing, public binding, and for paper for public printing and binding, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1919, $350,000. Navy Department.Allotment increased.*Ante*, p. 700.The allotment of the Navy Department for printing and binding for the fiscal year 1919, contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act, is increased from $300,000 to $400,000. Judgments, Court of Claims.JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS. Payment.For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, reported to Congress during the present session in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and thirty-two, namely: Classification.Under the War Department, $68,003.50; Under the Navy Department, $72,619.45; Under the Interior Department, $343,440.34; Under the Department of Justice, $4,544.80; Under the Post Office Department, $12,954.47 ; In all, $501,562.56. Appeals.None of the judgments contained in this Act shall be paid until the right of appeal shall have expired. Sec. 2. Title of this Act.That this Act hereafter may be referred to as the “First Deficiency Appropriation Act, 1919.” 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 Vol. 18, p. 110.or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the Act of June 20, 1874, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year 1916 and prior years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified Vol. 23, p. 254.to Congress under section two of the Act of July 7, 1884, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Thirteen hundred and thrity three, 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, $2.07. For paper money laundering machines, 1917, $109.96. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, $284.52. For miscellaneous expenses, Internal-Revenue Service, $12. For refunding internal-revenue collections, $20. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $451,496.72. For redemption of stamps, $5,997.97. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $80,803.30. For allowance or drawback, $516.50. For Coast Guard, $429.77. For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving Service, $375.50. 1039 For operating supplies for public buildings, $9.37. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $436.40. For general expenses of public buildings, $22.05. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $1,984.72.Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department, For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks at Army division and department headquarters, $860. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $1,607.67. For supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps, $5,022.23. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $26.60. For barracks and quarters, $4,108.69. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $1,079.32. For roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $39.58. For Medical and Hospital Department, $11.65. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $7.79. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Pacific Branch, $336.73. For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, clothing, $828.62. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Naval Observatory, Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.$13.75. For pay, miscellaneous, $159.68. For pay, Marine Coins, $313.97. For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $57.88. For outfits on first enlistments, Bureau of Navigation, $26.87. For contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $7. For pay of the Navy, $882.01. For engineering, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $40. For frieght, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $2,261.30. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. For contingent expenses. Department of the Interior, $6.35.Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. For Capitol Building and repairs, 1917, $1. For surveying the public lands, $375. For inspecting mines in Alaska, $6.40. For investigating mine accidents, $4.90. For testing fuel, Bureau of Mines, 36 cents. For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, 1917, $72.75. For suppressing liquor traffic among Indians, 20 cents. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $10. For Indian schools, support, $195.95. For Indian school and agency buildings, $220.38. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, 1917, $1,466.59. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $153.67. For telegraphing and telephoning, Indian Service, 55 cents. For pay of Indian police, 67 cents. For Ganado irrigation project, Navajo Reservation, Arizona (reimbursable), 95 cents. For support of Indians in California, $30. For Indian school, Greenville, California, 1917, $4.19. For oil and gas inspectors, Five Civilized Tribes, Oklahoma, 1917, $116.57. For Indian school, Tomah, Wisconsin, $1.84. For Army pensions, $18. 1040 claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments.For relief, protection, and transportation of American citizens in Europe, $52,537.32. For salaries of secretaries, Diplomatic Service, $166.67. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, 1917, $430.85. For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $137.75. For salaries, Consular Service, $636.86. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, 1918, $37,480.23. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $676. For representation of interests of foreign governments growing out of hostilities in Europe, $34.28. For preservation of collections, National Museum, $24. For books, National Museum, $8.44. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $2.07. For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $754.20. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $372.60. For general expenses, Forest Service, $31.59. For marketing and distributing farm products, 54 cents. For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, $1.21. For investigation of optical glass, Bureau of Standards, 1918, $121. For testing railroad scales, and so forth, Bureau of Standards, $6. For military research, Bureau of Standards, 1917 and 1918, $1,916.70. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $2,549.25. For contingent expenses, Department of Labor, $11.61. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, $1.80. For expenses of regulating immigration, $41,25. For general expenses, Children’s Bureau, $101. For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, transportation, 1918, $58.30, For detection and prosecution of crimes, 1918, $1,486.01, For inspection of prisons and prisoners, 1918, $534.45. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $154.98. For salaries and expenses of district attorneys, United States courts, $1.25. For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, $542.55. For fees of clerks, United States courts, 1918, $17,183.85. For fees of clerks, United States courts, 1917, $68.50. For fees of clerks. United States courts, $1,605.05. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, 1917, $119.60. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, 1918, $44.95. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, 1917, $16.20. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $140.50. For pay of bailiffs, United States courts, $15. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $114.50. For supplies for United States courts, 1918, $895.31. For supplies for United States courts, 1917, $79.02. For support of prisoners, United States courts, $1.50. For United States penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, 1918, $4.19. For United States penitentiary, McNeil Island, Washington, 1918, 35 cents. For United States penitentiary, Atlanta, Georgia, 1918, $20.91. 1041 claims allowed by the auditor fob the post office department. For indemnities, international registered mail, $256.63.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department. For indemnities, lost insured mail, $10. For shipment of supplies, $28.72. For star route service, special mail carriers, $40.47. For railroad transportation, $502.32. For Railway Mail Service, miscellaneous expenses, $3.15. For Railway Mail Service, injured, $2,000. For foreign mail transportation, $352.89. For compensation of postmasters, $103.99. For rent, light, and fuel, $43.33. For City Delivery Service, horse hire, $161.99. For Rural Delivery Service, $116.27. Approved, November 4, 1918.