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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 40 STAT. · June 12, 1917 · Chapter 27

Chapter 27. Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 27.— An Act Making appropriations for sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and for other purposes. June 12, 1917. [[H. R. 11](/us/bill/65/hr/11).] [[Public, No. 21](/us/pl/65/21).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums areSundry civil expenses appropriations. appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appro106priated, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, namely:
Treasury Department.TREASURY DEPARTMENT. Public buildings.public buildings, construction, sites, and rent. Sites, construction, etc.For sites, commencement, continuation, or completion of public buildings within the respective limits of cost authorized by law, rent and removal expenses in cities pending extension and remodeling of buildings, severally, as follows: Aberdeen, Wash.Aberdeen, Washington, post office: For completion, $21,500. Akron, Ohio.Akron, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $220,000.
Aledo, Ill.Aledo, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $40,000. Alexandria, La.Alexandria, Louisiana, post office and courthouse (extension): For completion, $25,000. Rent.Rent of buildings: For additional for rent of temporary quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $3,000. Alliance, Nebr.Alliance, Nebraska, post office: For completion, $15,000. Alton, Ill.Alton, Illinois, post office: For lookouts, $2,000. Altus, Okla.Altus, Oklahoma, post office:
For continuation, $55,000. Amherst, Mass.Amherst, Massachusetts, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Andalusia, Ala.Andalusia, Alabama, post office: For completion, $40,000. Antigo, Wis.Antigo, Wisconsin, post office: For completion $10,000. Apalachicola, Fla.Apalachicola, Florida, post office and customhouse: For continuation, $25,000. Ashland, Ky.Ashland, Kentucky, post office: For completion, $20,000. Ashland, Ohio.Ashland, Ohio, post office: For completion, $40,000. Athens, Tenn.Athens, Tennessee, post office:
For completion, $40,000. Attleboro, Mass.Attleboro, Massachusetts, post office: For completion, $15,000. Bad Axe, Mich.Bad Axe, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $30,000. Bakersfield, Cal.Bakersfield, California, post office: For completion, $27,000. Baltimore, Md., immigrant station.Baltimore, Maryland, immigration station: For completion, $40,000. Barbourville, Ky.Barbourville, Kentucky, post office: For completion, $700. Barnesville, Ga.Barnesville, Georgia, post office:
For completion, $20,000. Bartow, Fla.Bartow, Florida, post office: For completion, $20,000. Basin, Wyo.Basin, Wyoming, post office: For completion, $44,500. Batavia, Ill.Batavia, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Bay City, Tex.Bay City, Texas, post office: For completion, $49,500. Bayonne, N. J.Bayonne, New Jersey, post office: For completion,$40,000. Beaufort, S. C.Beaufort, South Carolina, post office and customhouse: For continuation, $40,000. Beaver Dam, Wis.Beaver Dam, Wisconsin, post office:
For completion, $64,500. Beeville, Tex.Beeville, Texas, post office: For completion, $34,500. Bellefourche, S. Dak.Bellefourche, South Dakota, post office: For continuation, $60,000. Belton, Tex.Belton, Texas, post office: For completion, $10,000. Bemidji, Minn.Bemidji, Minnesota, post office: For completion, $65,500. Berlin, N. H.Berlin, New Hampshire, post office: For completion, $13,000. Berwick, Pa.Berwick, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $68,500. Binghamton, N.
Y.Binghamton, New York, post office and courthouse: For repair of damage resulting from fire, $30,000. Birmingham, Ala.Birmingham, Alabama, post office and courthouse: For completion, $540,000. Bluffton, Ind.Bluffton, Indiana, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Bonne Terre, Mo.Bonne Terre, Missouri, post office: For completion, $45,000. Branford, Conn.Branford, Connecticut, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Buckhannon, W. Va.Buckhannon, West Virginia, post office: For completion, $24,000.
Buena Vista, Va.Buena Vista, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $1,500. 107 Buffalo, Wyoming, post office: For completion, $31,500.Buffalo, Wyo. Burlington, North Carolina, post office: For completion, $20,000.Burlington, N. C Burlington, Wisconsin, post office: For completion, $60,500.Burlington, Wis. Butler, Missouri, post office: For continuation, $45,000.Butler, Mo. Cambridge, Maryland, post office: For continuation, $55,000.Cambridge, Md. Cameron, Texas, post office:
For completion, $48,000.Cameron, Tex. Caribou, Maine, post office: For completion, $20,000.Caribou, Me. Carroll, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $25,000.Carroll, Iowa. Cedar Falls, Iowa, post office: For completion, $84,500.Cedar Falls, Iowa. Central City, Nebraska, post office; For continuation, $15,000.Central City, Nebr. Chadron, Nebraska, post office: For completion, $40,000.Chadron, Nebr. Chamberlain, South Dakota, post office: For continuation, $10,000.Chamberlain, S.
Dak. Chandler, Oklahoma, post office: For continuation, $20,000.Chandler, Okla. Chapel Hill, North Carolina, post office: For continuation, $45,000.Chapel Hill, N. C. Chariton, Iowa, post office: For completion, $59,200.Charlton, Iowa. Charles City, Iowa, post office: For completion, $10,000.Charles City, Iowa. Charleston, Illinois post office: For completion, $65,500.Charleston, Ill. Charles Town, West Virginia, post office: For continuation,Charles Town, W. Va. $25 000. Charlotte, Michigan, post office:
For completion, $25,000.Charlotte, Mich. Charlotte, North Carolina, post office and courthouse; For completion,Charlotte, N. C. $25,000. Chattanooga, Tennessee, post office and courthouse (extension): Chattanooga, Tenn.For completion, $25,000. Cheboygan, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $30,000.Cheboygan, Mich. Cherokee, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $50,000.Cherokee, Iowa. Cherryvale, Kansas, post office: For completion, $51,000.Cherryvale, Kans. Chicago, Illinois, post office, courthouse, and so forth:
For theChicago, Ill., post office, etc. removal of the present roof covering of the dome and the substitution of a new copper-covered roof, $20,000. Clinton, Indiana, post office: For continuation, $20,000.Clinton, Ind. Clinton, South Carolina, post office: For continuation, $10,000.Clinton, S. C. Cody, Wyoming, post office: For completion, $34,500.Cody, Wyo. Cohoes, New York, post office: For continuation, $65,000.Cohoes, N. Y. Columbia, South Carolina, post office: For completion, $154,000.Columbia, S.
C. Columbus, Ohio, post office: For mail-conveying machinery, $3,500.Columbus, Ohio. Comanche, Texas, post office: For continuation, $10,000.Comanche, Tex. Commerce, Texas, post office: For completion, $49,500.Commerce, Tex. Cordova, Alaska, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $35,000.Cordova, Alaska. Coshocton, Ohio, post office: For completion, $94,000.Coshocton, Ohio. Dawson, Georgia, post office: For continuation, $20,000.Dawson, Ga. Decatur, Alabama, post office:
For continuation, $40,000.Decatur, Ala. De Land, Florida, post office: For completion, $24,000.De Land, Fla. Denton, Texas, post office: For completion, $65,500.Denton, Tex. Denver, Colorado, customhouse, and so forth: For remodeling, repairs, and so forth, $15,000.Denver, Colo., customhouse, etc. Des Moines, Iowa, courthouse: For continuation, $50,000.Des Moines, Iowa. Dickinson, North Dakota, post office: For completion, $36,000.Dickinson, N. Dak. Donora, Pennsylvania, post office:
For continuation, $10,000.Donora, Pa. Douglas, Arizona, post office and customhouse: For completion, $20,000.Douglas, Ark. Douglas, Georgia, post office: For continuation, $20,000.Douglas, Ga. Dowagiac, Michigan, post office: For completion, $22,000.Dowagiac, Mich. Dubois, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $35,000.Dubois, Pa. Dubuque, Iowa, post office and customhouse: For lookouts, $3,500.Dubuque, Iowa. Duluth, Minnesota, post office, courthouse, and customhouse: For mail-conveying machinery, $4,000.Duluth, Minn.
Durant, Oklahoma, post office: For continuation, $60,000.Durant, Okla. 108 East Las Vegas. N. Mex.East Las Vegas, New Mexico, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $20,000. East Orange, N. J.East Orange, New Jersey, post office: For completion, $25,000. East Saint Louis, Ill.East Saint Louis, Illinois, post office and courthouse (extension): For completion, $95,000. Eldorado, Kans.Eldorado, Kansas, post office: For continuation, $45,000. Elkins, W. Va.Elkins, West Virginia, post office:
For completion, $25,000. Ellensburg, Wash.Ellensburg, Washington, post office: For completion, $5,000. El Paso, Tex.El Paso, Texas, post office: For completion, $150,000. Elyria, Ohio.Elyria, Ohio, post office: For completion, $10,000. Eureka Springs, Ark.Eureka Springs, Arkansas, post office: For completion, $10,000. Eureka, Utah.Eureka, Utah, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Fairmont, Minn.Fairmont, Minnesota, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Fallon, Nev.Fallon, Nevada, post office:
For continuation, $10,000. Falls City, Nebr.Falls City, Nebraska, post office: For completion, $10,000. Farmville, Va.Farmville, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $25,000. Fayette, Mo.Fayette, Missouri, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Fitzgerald, Ga.Fitzgerald, Georgia, post office: For completion, $60,000. Fordyce, Ark.Fordyce, Arkansas, post office: For completion, $39,500. Fort Fairfield, Mo.Fort Fairfield, Maine, post office and customhouse: For continuation, $45,000.
Fort Morgan, Colo.Fort Morgan, Colorado, post office: For completion, $49,500. Fort Plain, N. Y.Fort Plain, New York, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Franklin, N. H.Franklin, New Hampshire, post office: For continuation. $15,000. Franklin, Pa.Franklin, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $65,000. Franklin, Tenn.Franklin, Tennessee, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Franklin, Va.Franklin, Virginia, post office: For completion, $34,500. Frederick, Md.Frederick, Maryland, post office:
For completion, $18,000. Fremont, Ohio.Fremont, Ohio, post office: For completion, $40,000. Fresno, Cal.Fresno, California, post office: For mail-conveying machinery, $2,000. Front Royal, Va.Front Royal, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $30,000. Gallatin, Tenn.Gallatin, Tennessee, post office: For continuation, $35,000. Gallipolis, Ohio.Gallipolis, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Geneseo, Ill.Geneseo, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Gilmer, Tex.Gilmer, Texas, post office:
For continuation, $35,000. Girard, Kans.Girard, Kansas, post office: For continuation, $50,000. Glasgow, Ky.Glasgow, Kentucky, post office: For continuation, $40,000. Glenwood, Iowa.Glenwood, Iowa, post office: For completion, $44,500. Glenwood Springs, Colo.Glenwood Springs, Colorado, post office: For continuation, $65,000. Globe, Ariz.Globe, Arizona, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $20,000. Grand Junction, Colo.Grand Junction, Colorado, post office: For completion, $30,000.
Grinnell, Iowa.Grinnell, Iowa, post office: For completion, $18,000. Hackensack, N. J.Hackensack, New Jersey, post office: For completion, $14,000. Hammond, La.Hammond, Louisiana, post office: For completion, $44,500. Harrisonville, Mo.Harrisonville, Missouri, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Hastings, Mich.Hastings, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $25,000. Hiawatha, Kans.Hiawatha, Kansas, post office: For completion, $39,500. Hollidaysburg, Pa.Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, post office:
For continuation, $25,000. Holly Springs, Miss.Holly Springs, Mississippi, post office: For completion, $37,500. Honey Grove, Tex.Honey Grove, Texas, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Hoopeston, Ill.Hoopeston, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $45,000. Hoosick Falls, N. Y.Hoosick Falls, New York, post office: For continuation, $25,000. Hornell, N. Y.Hornell, New York, post office: For completion, $10,000. Houghton, Mich.Houghton, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $55,000.
Huntington, Ind.Huntington, Indiana, post office: For completion, $25,000. Huntington, W, Va.Huntington, West Virginia, post office and courthouse (extension): For completion, $125,000. 109 Indiana, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $64,500.Indiana, Pa. Jasper, Alabama, post office: For completion, $40,000.Jasper, Ala. Jerseyville, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $10,000.Jerseyville, Ill. Kalispell, Montana, post office: For completion, $20,000.Kalispell, Mont.
Kendallville, Indiana, post office: For continuation, $45,000.Kendallville, Ind. Kenton, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $50,000.Kenton, Ohio. Laconia, New Hampshire, post office: For completion, $15,000.Laconia, N. H. Lakeland, Florida, post office: For completion, $64,500.Lakeland, Fla. Lancaster, Kentucky, post office: For completion, $49,500.Lancaster, Ky. Lancaster, South Carolina, post office: For completion, $37,000.Lancaster, S. C. Lansing, Michigan, post office:
For mail-conveying machinery, $1,500.Lansing, Mich. Las Cruces, New Mexico, post office and courthouse: For completion,Las Cruces, N. Mex. $119,500. Lawrence, Massachusetts, post office: For mail-conveying machinery,Lawrence, Mass. $1,500. Leesburg, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $20,000.Leesburg, Va. Leominster, Massachusetts, post office: For commencement,Leominster, Mass. $40,500. Lewiston, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $10,000.Lewiston, Pa. Liberty, Missouri, post office:
For continuation, $20,000.Liberty, Mo. Little Falls, Minnesota, post office: For completion, $13,000.Little Falls, Minn. Little Rock, Arkansas, post office and courthouse: For mail-conveyingLittle Rock, Ark. machinery, $3,500. Lock Haven, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $25,000.Lock Haven, Pa. Long Island City, New York, post office: For continuation, $75,000.Long Island City, N. Y. Los Angeles, California, post office and courthouse: For mail-conveyingLos Angeles, Cal. machinery, $5,000.
Louisville, Kentucky, post office: For mail-conveying machinery,Louisville, Ky. $5,000. For new conduit and wiring system and lighting fixtures, $20,000. Lowell, Massachusetts, post office: For mail-conveying machinery,Lowell, Mass. $800. Madison, South Dakota, post office: For completion, $24,000.Madison, S. Dak. Maquoketa, Iowa, post office: For completion, $15,000.Maquoketa, Iowa. Marianna, Arkansas, post office: For continuation, $20,000.Marianna, Ark. Marianna, Florida, post office and courthouse:
For continuation, Marianna, Fla.$50,000. Marion, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $40,000.Marion, Ill. Marion, Kentucky, post office: For continuation, $45,000.Marion, Ky. Marion, South Carolina, post office: For completion, $20,000.Marion, S. C. Martin, Tennessee, post office: For completion, $39,500.Martin, Tenn. Martin’s Ferry, Ohio, post office: For completion, $70,000.Martin’s Ferry, Ohio. Maryville, Tennessee, post office: For completion, $10,000.Maryville, Tenn.
McComb, Mississippi, post office: For completion, $20,000.McComb, Miss. McKees Rocks, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $50,000.McKees Rocks, Pa. Media, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $10,000.Media, Pa. Memphis, Tennessee, sub-post office: For continuation, $40,000.Memphis, Tenn. Mena, Arkansas, post office: For completion, $34,500.Mena, Ark. Metropolis, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $10,000.Metropolis, Ill. Middletown, Connecticut, post office:
For completion, $29,000.Middletown, Conn. Midland, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $40,000.Midland, Mich. Mineral Point, Wisconsin, post office and customhouse: For continuation,Mineral Point, Wis. $20,000. Monessen, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $68,025.Monessen, Pa. Montclair, New Jersey, post office: For continuation, $75,000.Montclair, N. J. Montevideo, Minnesota, post office: For completion, $20,000.Montevideo, Minn. Moultrie, Georgia, post office: For completion, $51,800.Moultrie, Ga.
Mount Carmel, Illinois, post office: For completion, $50,000.Mount Carmel, Ill. 110 Mount Pleasant, Mich.Mount Pleasant, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $50,000. Mount Pleasant, Tex.Mount Pleasant, Texas, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Mystic, Conn.Mystic, Connecticut, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Nashville, Tenn.Nashville, Tennessee, post office and customhouse (extension, and so forth): For completion, $100,000. Neenah, Wis.Neenah, Wisconsin, post office:
For completion, $15,000. Newark, Ohio.Newark, Ohio, post office: For completion, $50,000. Newburyport, Mass.Newburyport, Massachusetts, post office: For completion, $14,000. Newport, R. I.Newport, Rhode Island, post office and customhouse: For completion, $110,000. New York, N. Y., assay office.New York, New York, Assay Office Building: For continuation, $75,000; and the limit of cost fixed by the Act of October twentieth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, is increased by the sum of $200,000.
Post office.New York, New York, post office: For shelter over driveway, $5,000. Nogales, Ariz.Nogales, Arizona, customhouse: For continuation, $25,000. North Topeka, Kans.North Topeka, Kansas, branch post office: For continuation, $45,000. North Vernon, Ind.North Vernon, Indiana, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Oconto, Wis.Oconto, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, $30,000. Oklahoma City,Okla.Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse (extension, and so forth):
For completion, $90,000. Olney, Ill.Olney, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $50,000. Olyphant, Pa.Olyphant, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Orange, Tex.Orange, Texas, post office: For continuation, $40,000. Orlando, Fla.Orlando, Florida, post office: For completion, $24,000. Owego, N. Y.Owego, New York, post office: For continuation, $50,000. Paris, Tex.Paris, Texas, post office: For commencement, $100,000. Paterson, N. J.Paterson, New Jersey, post office:
For repairs to the roof, $8,500. Paxton, Ill.Paxton, Illinois, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Phoenixville, Pa.Phoenixville, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Pittsburgh, Pa., post office, etc.Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, post office and courthouse: For completion, $50,000. Pittsburg, Tex.Pittsburg, Texas, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Pittsfield, Mass., addition to site.Pittsfield, Massachusetts, post office: The unexpended balance, $278.22, of the appropriations heretofore made for the acquisition of a site and the erection of a building is reappropriated and made available, together with the further sum of $1,078.96, for the acquisition by the Secretary of the Treasury, by purchase, condemnation, or otherwise, of the eight-foot strip of land between a portion of said site and the new street (known as Federal Street) lately opened adjacent to the southerly side of said site, at a cost not exceeding $1,357.18.
Pittston, Pa.Pittston, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $15,000. Portland, Me.Portland, Maine, post office and courthouse: For mail-conveying machinery. $1,500. Portland, Oreg.Portland, Oregon, post office and courthouse: For completion, $365,000. Pottstown, Pa.Pottstown, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, $18,000. Pratt, Kans.Pratt, Kansas, post office: For continuation, $40,000. Prescott, Ark.Prescott, Arkansas, post office: For continuation, $35,000. Pulaski, Va.Pulaski, Virginia, post office:
For completion, $20,000. Raton, N. Mex.Raton, New Mexico, post office: For continuation, $50,000. Reading, Mass.Reading, Massachusetts, post office: For completion, $49,500. Red Bluff, Cal.Red Bluff, California, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Redfield, S. Dak.Redfield, South Dakota, post office: For completion, $13,000. Rhinelander, Wis.Rhinelander, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, $30,000. Richfield, Utah.Richfield, Utah, post office: For completion, $39,500.
Richmond, Va.Richmond, Virginia, post office, courthouse, and customhouse. For mail-conveying machinery, $3,000. 111 Rochester, Indiana, post office: For continuation, $10,000.Rochester, Ind. Rock Island, Illinois, post office: For mail-conveying machinery,Rock Island, Ill. $3,000. Rockville, Connecticut, post office: For completion, $22,000.Rockville, Conn. Rogers, Arkansas, post office: For continuation, $50,000.Rogers, Ark. Roseburg, Oregon, post office: For completion, $20,000.Roseburg, Oreg.
Rumford, Maine, post office: For completion, $10,000.Rumford, Me. Russellville, Arkansas, post office: For continuation, $20,000.Russellville, Ark. Saco, Maine, post office: For continuation, $10,000.Saco, Me. Saint Johnsbury, Vermont, post office: For continuation, $30,000.Saint Johnsbury, Vt. Saint Peter, Minnesota, post office: For continuation, $40,000.Saint Peter, Minn. Salem, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $20,000.Salem, Va. Salisbury, Maryland, post office: For continuation, $15,000.Salisbury, Md.
Sandpoint, Idaho, post office: For commencement, $40,000.Sandpoint, Idaho. Sandusky, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $20,000.Sandusky, Ohio. Sanford, Florida, post office: For continuation, $50,000.Sanford, Fla. San Pedro, California, post office and customhouse: For continuation,San Pedro, Cal. $10,000. Santa Fe, New Mexico, post office and courthouse: For continuation,Santa Fe, N. Mex. $10,000. Saranac Lake, New York, post office: For continuation, $25,000.Saranac Lake, N.
Y. Savanna, Illinois, post office: For completion, $20,000.Savanna, Ill. Savannah, Georgia, post office: For mail-conveying machinery, Savannah, Ga.$2,500. Sayre, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $25,000.Sayre, Pa. Scranton, Pennsylvania, post office: For mail-conveying machinery,Scranton, Pa. $5,500. Shawnee, Oklahoma, post office: For continuation, $60,000.Shawnee, Okla. Shelby, North Carolina, post office: For completion, $10,000.Shelby, N. C. Shelbyville, Indiana, post office:
For continuation, $45,000.Shelbyville, Ind. Skowhegan, Maine, post office: For completion, $25,000.Skowhegan, Me. South Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, post office: For completion, South Bethlehem, Pa.$15,000. South Boston, Virginia, post office: For completion, $10,000.South Boston, Va. Southbridge, Massachusetts, post office: For completion, $61,500.Southbridge, Mass. Spanish Fork, Utah, post office: For continuation, $15,000.Spanish Fork, Utah. Stamford, Texas, post office: For completion, $20,000.Stamford, Tex.
State College, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $48,815.State College, Pa. Statesboro, Georgia, post office: For completion, $39,500.Statesboro, Ga. Syracuse, New York, post office: For completion, $190,000.Syracuse, N. Y. Tamaqua, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $10,000.Tamaqua, Pa. Taylorville, Illinois, post office: For completion, $10,000.Taylorville, Ill. Thibodaux, Louisiana, post office: For continuation, $15,000.Thibodaux, La. Thomasville, North Carolina, post office:
For continuation, $10,000.Thomasville, N. C. Tomah, Wisconsin, post office: For continuation, $20,000.Tomah, Wis. Topeka, Kansas, post office and courthouse: For mail-conveying machinery, $2,500.Topeka, Kans. Tullahoma, Tennessee, post office: For continuation, $20,000.Tullahoma, Tenn. Tulsa, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For completion, $45,000.Tulsa, Okla. Twin Falls, Idaho, post office: For completion, $35,000.Twin Falls, Idaho. Tyrone, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $1,000.Tyrone, Pa.
Valparaiso, Indiana, post office, For continuation, $40,000.Valparaiso, Ind. Vancouver, Washington, post office: For completion, $30,000.Vancouver, Wash. Vernal, Utah, post office: For continuation, $20,000.Vernal, Utah. Vernon, Texas, post office: For continuation, $40,000.Vernon, Tex. Vineland, New Jersey, post office: For continuation, $45,000.Vineland, N. J. Vinton, Iowa, post office: For continuation, $10,000.Vinton, Iowa. Wahoo, Nebraska, post office: For completion, $39,500.Wahoo, Nebr.
Walden, New York, post office: For continuation, $40,060.Walden, N. Y. 112 Warrenton, Va.Warrenton, Virginia, post office: For completion, $20,000. Washington, D. C.Washington, District of Columbia: Central heating, etc., plant.Central heating, lighting, and power plant: For completion, $919,104. Supplying additional buildings.The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, in his discretion, to include among the buildings to be supplied with heat, light, and power from the central heating, lighting, and power plant, the Pan American Building, the building occupied by the Civil Service Commission, and the municipal fish market, and the limit of cost of said central heating, lighting, and power plant is hereby increased in the sum of *Proviso*.
Not to delay early construction.$68,000, which amount is hereby appropriated: *Provided*, That the foregoing buildings shall not be included among the buildings to be supplied with heat, light, and power, from the said power plant, if such inclusion shall interfere in any way with the completion of the said plant at the earliest date possible. Butler Building.Butler Building—For remodeling toilets, $2,500. Alterations, Department building.Treasury Building—For new roof and for remodeling a portion of the fourth story to enable it to be used for office purposes, $45,000.
For changes in screen, new furniture, and so forth, in cash room, $10,000. Washington, Ga.Washington, Georgia, post office: For continuation, $40,000. Washington, Ind.Washington, Indiana, post office: For completion, $10,000. Washington, Iowa.Washington, Iowa, post office: For completion, $5,000. Washington, Mo.Washington, Missouri, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Washington Court House, Ohio.Washington Court House, Ohio, post office: For completion, $57,000. Water Valley, Miss.Water Valley, Mississippi, post office:
For continuation, $35,000. Waynesboro, Va.Waynesboro, Virginia, post office: For continuation, $40,000. Waynesburg, Pa.Waynesburg, Pennsylvania, post office: For continuation, $10,000. Waynesville, N. C.Waynesville, North Carolina, post office: For completion, $10,000. Wenatchee, Wash.Wenatchee, Washington, post office: For completion, $40,000. West Point, Ga.West Point, Georgia, post office: For continuation, $30,000. Wilmington, N. C.Wilmington, North Carolina, customhouse and appraisers stores:
For completion, $135,000. Wilmington, Ohio.Wilmington, Ohio, post office: For continuation, $20,000. Winchester, Mass.Winchester, Massachusetts, post office: For continuation, $45,000. Winnemucca, Nev.Winnemucca, Nevada, post office: For continuation, $45,000. Woodbury, N. J.Woodbury, New Jersey, post office: For completion, $20,000. Woodward, Okla.Woodward, Oklahoma, post office and courthouse: For continuation, $35,000. Wyandotte, Mich.Wyandotte, Michigan, post office: For continuation, $20,000.
Yoakum, Tex.Yoakum, Texas, post office: For completion, $25,000. Marine hospitals.marine hospitals. Baltimore, Md.Baltimore, Maryland, marine hospital: For roofed porches and heating system, $5,000. Cincinnati, Ohio.Cincinnati, Ohio, marine hospital: For repairs to the old marine hospital and grounds, now being used as headquarters, central laboratory, and field depot for the investigations of the pollution of navigable waters, including the demolition of the dilapidated structures, and equipment of repaired buildings to make them available for public health purposes, $10,000.
Key West, Fla.Key West, Florida, marine hospital: For three tent houses and refrigerating plant, $5,000. New York, N. Y.New York, New York, marine hospital (Stapleton, Staten Island): For a laundry building and for a pavilion for consumptives, $25,000. Port Townsend, Wash.Port Townsend, Washington, marine hospital: For three tent houses, $1,000. 113 quarantine stations.Quarantine stations. Columbia River (Astoria, Oregon), quarantine station: For wiringColumbia River. and lighting equipment, $2,000.
New Orleans, Louisiana, Quarantine Station: For laundry buildingNew Orleans, La. and equipment, $5,000. Savannah, Georgia, Quarantine Station: For toilet accommodationsSavannah, Ga. and sewerage, artesian well, tank, and equipment, $4,000. The foregoing work under “Marine Hospitals” and “QuarantineSupervision of work. Stations” shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury. Columbia River (Astoria, Oregon), quarantine station:
For boarding Columbia River. Boarding vessel.vessel, $25,000. Gulf, Mississippi (Ship Island), quarantine station: For boarding Gulf, Miss. Boarding launch.launch, $8,000. public buildings, repairs, equipment, and general expenses. Repairs and preservation: For repairs and preservation of all completedRepairs, preservation, etc. and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof, under the control of the Treasury Department, and for wire partitions and fly screens therefor, Government wharves and piers under the control of the Treasury Department, together with the necessary dredging adjacent thereto, buildings and wharf at Sitka, Alaska, and the SecretarySitka, Alaska. of the Treasury may, in renting said wharf, require that the lessee shall make all necessary repairs thereto; care of vacant sites under the control of the Treasury Department, such as necessary fences, filling dangerous holes, cutting grass and weeds, but not for any permanent improvements thereon; repairs and preservation of buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department acquired for public buildings or the enlargement of public buildings, the expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed fifteen per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided*, That of the sum herein appropriated*Provisos*.Marine hospitals and quarantine stations. not exceeding $125,000 may be used for marine hospitals and quarantine stations, including wire partitions and fly screens for same, and not exceeding $14,000 for the Treasury, Butler, Winder, andTreasury buildings.
Auditors Buildings at Washington, District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That this sum shall not be available for the payment of personalPersonal services restricted. services except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building, $850,000. Mechanical equipment: For installation and repair of mechanical Mechanical equipment. Heating, lighting, etc.equipment in all completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including heating, hoisting, plumbing, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum cleaning, and refrigerating apparatus, electric-light plants, meters, interior pneumatic-tube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit, wiring, call-bell and signal systems, and for maintenance and repair of tower clocks; for installation and repair of mechanical equipment, for any of the foregoing items, in buildings not reserved by vendors on sites under the control of the Treasury Department, acquired for public buildings or the enlargements of public buildings, the total expenditures on this account for the current fiscal year not to exceed ten per centum of the annual rentals of such buildings: *Provided*, That of the sum*Provisos*.
Marine hospitals and quarantine stations. herein appropriated for mechanical equipment of public buildings, not exceeding $50,000 may be used for marine hospitals and quarantine stations, and not exceeding $10,000 for the Treasury, Butler,Treasury buildings, D. C. Winder, and Auditors Buildings at Washington, District of Columbia, but not including the generating plant and its maintenance in the Auditors Building, and not exceeding $10,000 for the maintenance, 114Pneumatic tube service, New York City.changes in, and repairs of pneumatic-tube system between the appraisers’ warehouse at Greenwich, Christopher, Washington, and Barrow Streets and the new customhouse in Bowling Green, Borough of Manhattan, in the city of New York, including repairs to the Personal services restricted.street pavement and subsurface necessarily incident to or resulting from such maintenance, changes, or repairs: *Provided further*, That this sum shall not be available for the payment of personal services except for work done by contract, or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one budding, $460,000.
Vaults and safes.Vaults and safes: For vaults and lock-box equipments and repairs thereto in all completed and occupied public buddings under the control of the Treasury Department, and for the necessary safe equipments and repairs thereto in all public buddings under the control of the Treasury Department, whether completed and occupied or in course of construction, exclusive of personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $50 at any one building, $110,000.
General expenses. Vol. 35, p. 637.General expenses: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to execute and give effect to the provisions of section six of the Act of May thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight (Thirty-fifth Statutes, page Additional pay, Supervising Architect. Technical services, etc.five hundred and thirty-seven): For additional salary of $1,000 for the Supervising Architect of the Treasury for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen; architectural designer, at $6,000 per annum; foremen draftsmen, architectural draftsmen, and apprentice draftsmen, at rates of pay from $480 to $2,500 per annum; structural engineers and draftsmen, at rates of pay from $840 to $2,200 per annum; mechanical, sanitary, electrical, heating and ventilating, and illuminating engineers and draftsmen, at rates of pay from $1,200 to $2,400 per annum; computers and estimators, at rates of pay from $1,600 to $2,500 per annum, the expenditures under all the foregoing classes for which a minimum and maximum rate of compensation is Superintendents.stated, not to exceed $178,050; supervising superintendents, superintendents, and junior superintendents of construction and inspectors, at rates of pay from $1,600 to $2,900 per annum not to exceed Expenses of maintenance, etc.$278,960; expenses of superintendence, including expenses of all inspectors and other officers and employees, on duty or detailed in connection with work on public buildings and the furnishing and equipment thereof, and the work of the Supervising Architect’s Office, under orders from the Treasury Department; for the transportation of household goods, incident to change of headquarters of supervising superintendents, superintendents, and junior superintendents of construction, and inspectors, not in excess of five thousand pounds at any one time, together with the necessary expense incident to packing and draying the same, not to exceed in any one year a total expenditure of $7,500; office rent and expenses of superintendents, including temporary stenographic and other assistance in the preparation of reports and the care of public property, and so forth; advertising; office supplies, including drafting materials, specially prepared paper, typewriting machines, adding machines, and other mechanical labor-saving devices, and exchange of same; furniture, carpets, electric-light fixtures, and office equipment; telephone service; not to exceed $6,000 for stationery; not to exceed $1,000 for books of reference, law books, technical periodicals and journals; contingencies of every kind and description, traveling expenses of site agents, recording deeds and other evidences of title, photographic instruments, chemicals, plates, and photographic materials, and such other articles and supplies and such minor and incidental expenses not enumerated, connected solely with work on public buildings, the acquisition of sites, and the administrative work connected with the 115annual appropriations under the Supervising Architect’s Office as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary and specially order or approve, but not including heat, light, janitor service, awnings, curtains, or any expenses for the general maintenance of the Treasury Building, or surveys, plaster models, progress photographs, test pit borings, or mill and shop inspections, $580,660.
Architectural competitions: To enable the Secretary of the TreasuryArchitectural competitions. Payment of commissions. Vol. 27, p. 468. to make payment for architectural services under contracts entered into prior to the repeal of the Act entitled “An Act authorizing the Secretary of the Treasury to obtain plans and specifications for public buildings to be erected under the supervision of the Treasury Department, and providing for local supervision of the construction of the same,” approved February twentieth, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, including additional commissions accruing tinder certain of said contracts due to increase in the limits of cost of certain buildings, except as otherwise specifically provided by law, and including payment for the services from July first, nineteen hundred and twelve, of the architect of the Hilo, Hawaii, building, specially selectedHilo, Hawaii.
Vol. 36, p. 1373; Vol. 37, p. 428. under the provisions of the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and eleven, the unexpended balances of the appropriations for architectural competitions, public buildings, for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, or so much thereof as may be necessary, is continued and made available for said purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. public buildings, operating expenses. Operating force:
For such personal services as the Secretary ofOperating force. Personal services. the Treasury may deem necessary in connection with the care, maintenance, and repair of all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department (except as hereinafter provided), together with the grounds thereof and the equipment and furnishings therein, including assistant custodians, janitors, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen; engineers, firemen, elevator conductors, coal passers, electricians, dynamo tenders, lampists, and wiremen; mechanical labor force in connection with said buildings, including carpenters, plumbers, steam fitters, machinists, and painters, but in no case shall the rates of compensation for such mechanical labor force be in excess of the rates current at the time and in the place where such services are employed, $3,250,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriation*Proviso*.
Buildings for which available. shall be available for use in connection with all public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including the customhouse at Washington, District of Columbia, but not including any other public building within the District of Columbia, and exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices. Furniture and repairs of furniture: For furniture, carpets, andFurniture, etc. repairs of same, for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for gas and electric lighting fixtures and repairs of same for completed and occupied public buildings under the control of the Treasury Department, including marine hospitals and quarantine stations, but exclusive of mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and for furniture and carpets for public buildings and extensions of public buildings in course of construction which are to remain under the custody and control of the Treasury Department, exclusive of marine hospitals, quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and buildings constructed for other executive departments or estab116*Provisos*.
Personal services restricted.lishments of the Government, $775,000: *Provided*, That the foregoing appropriations shall not be used for personal services except for work done under contract or for temporary job labor under exigency, and not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one Use of present furniture.building: *Provided further*, That all furniture now owned by the United States in other public buildings or in buildings rented by the United States shall be used, so far as practicable, whether it corresponds with the present regulation plan for furniture or not.
Operating supplies. Fuel, lights, water, etc.Operating supplies: For fuel, steam, gas for lighting and heating purposes, water, ice, lighting supplies, electric current for lighting and power purposes, telephone service for custodian forces; removal of ashes and rubbish, snow, and ice; cutting grass and weeds, washing towels, and miscellaneous items for the use of the custodian forces in the care and maintenance of completed and occupied public buildings and the grounds thereof under the control of the Treasury Department, and in the care and maintenance of the equipment and furnishing in such buildings; miscellaneous supplies, tools, and appliances required in the operation (not embracing repairs) of the mechanical equipment, including heating, plumbing, hoisting, gas piping, ventilating, vacuum cleaning and refrigerating apparatus, electriclight plants, meters, interior pneumaticube and intercommunicating telephone systems, conduit wiring, call-bell and signal systems in such buildings (including the customhouse at Washington, District Buildings excluded.of Columbia, but excluding any other public building under the control of the Treasury Department within the District of Columbia, and excluding also marine hospitals and quarantine stations, mints, branch mints, and assay offices, and personal services, except for work done by contract or for temporary job labor under exigency not exceeding at one time the sum of $100 at any one building), Gas governors.$1,800,000.
The appropriation made herein for gas shall include the rental and use of gas governors, when ordered by the Secretary of the *Proviso*. Rental.Treasury in writing: *Provided*, That rentals shall not be paid for such gas governors greater than thirty-five per centum of the actual value of the gas saved thereby, which saving shall be determined by such tests as the Secretary of the Treasury shall direct. Pneumatic tube service. Furnishing steam for, to Postal Service.During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized, out of the appropriations “Operating supplies for public buildings” and “Operating force for public buildings,” to furnish steam for the operation of pneumatic tubes of the Postal Service, as heretofore, and to pay employees in the production of said steam, as heretofore, the proceeds derived from the sale of said steam to be credited to said appropriations in proportion to to the amounts expended therefrom.
Salamanca, N. Y. Ground rent.Salamanca, New York, ground rent: For annual ground rent of the Federal building site at Salamanca, New York, on account of Indian leases, due and payable on February nineteenth of each year, in advance, to the treasurer of the Senaca Nation of Indians, begin ningFebruary nineteenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and expiring February nineteenth, nineteen hundred and ninety-one, $7.50. Coast Guard.coast guard. Expenses.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Coast Guard, as follows:
Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men.For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned officers, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary and substitute surfmen, not exceeding forty-four cadets and cadet engineers who are hereby authorized, and one civilian instructor, $4,049,286. 117 For rations or commutation thereof at the rate of 45 cents perRations. ration for warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, $520,000.
For twelve clerks to district superintendents, at such rate as theClerks to superintendents. Secretary of the Treasury may determine, not to exceed $900 each, $10,800; For fuel and water for vessels, stations, and houses of refuge, Fuel, etc.$275,000; For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same,Outfits, stores, etc. $340,000. For rebuilding and repairing stations and houses of refuge, temporaryStations, houses of refuge, etc. leases, rent, and improvements of property for Coast Guard purposes, including use of additional land where necessary, $125,000;
For actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion of theTraveling expenses. Secretary of the Treasury, for officers, and actual traveling expenses for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, $35,000; For carrying out the provisions of section eight of the Act approvedDeath allowances. Vol. 22, p. 57; Vol. 35, p. 45. May fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-two, $30,000; For draft animals and their maintenance, $20,000;Draft animals.
For telephone lines and care of the same, $40,000;Telephones. To enable the Coast Guard to bring its present telephone system ofExtending system to all stations, etc. coastal communication to a high state of efficiency, to extend such system to include all Coast Guard stations not now connected, and to include the most important light stations which have at present no means of rapid communication, including personal services and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $300,000;
For compensation for special services, $61,000;Special services. For contingent expenses, including supplies and provisions forContingent expenses. Vol. 39, p. 1089. houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored by the Coast Guard, wharfage, towage, freight, storage, repairs to station apparatus, advertising, surveys, medals, stationery, labor, newspapers and periodicals for statistical purposes, and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading, $50,000.
In all, $5,856,086. For establishing a Coast Guard station on the coast of LouisianaBarataria Bay, La. Vol. 39, p. 239. in the vicinity of Barataria Bay, $25,000. For repairs to Coast Guard cutters, $175,000.Repairs to cutters. engraving and printing.Engraving and printing. For the work of engraving and printing, exclusive of repay work,Work authorized for the fiscal year 1918. during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen of not exceeding one hundred million delivered sheets of United States currency, ten million delivered sheets of national-bank notes and Federal reserve currency, ninety-five million four hundred thousand delivered sheets of internal-revenue stamps, three hundred and thirty-five thousand delivered sheets of customs stamps, one million two hundred and twenty-five thousand delivered sheets of opium orders and special tax stamps, and two million nine hundred and fifty thousand*Post*, pp. 506, 825. delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work, as follows:
For salaries of all necessary employees, other than employees Salaries. Vol 39, p. 1088.required for the administrative work of the bureau of the class provided for and specified in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, and plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, $1,470,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing*Proviso*.
Large notes. United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denomination than 118Vol. 31, p. 45.those that may be canceled or retired, except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act “To define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes,” approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred. Wages.For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, $1,815,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of *Proviso*.
Large notes.the Treasury: *Provided*, That no portion of this sum shall be expended for printing United States notes or Treasury notes of larger denominations than those that may be canceled or retired, Vol. 31, p. 45.except in so far as such printing may be necessary in executing the requirements of the Act to define and fix the standard of value, to maintain the parity of all forms of money issued or coined by the United States, to refund the public debt, and for other purposes, approved March fourteenth, nineteen hundred.
Materials, etc. Vol. 39, p. 1088.For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except distinctive paper, miscellaneous expenses, including paper for internalrevenue stamps, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, $910,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Proceeds from work to be credited to Bureau.During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen all proceeds derived from work performed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, by direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, not covered and embraced in the appropriation for said bureau for the said fiscal year, instead of being covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous Vol. 24, p. 227.receipts, as provided by the Act of August fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-six (Twenty-fourth Statutes, page two hundred and twenty-seven), shall be credited when received to the appropriation for said bureau for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Miscellaneous.miscellaneous objects, treasury department. Napoleon B. Giddings. Payment to legal repesentatives of. Vol. 39, p. 1470.For payment to the legal representatives of Napoleon B. Giddings, deceased, in accordance with private Act Numbered One hundred and sixty-five, Sixty-fourth Congress, approved February eighth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,950. Internal Revenue. Refund of taxes. Vol. 35, p. 325.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money covered into Treasury as internal-revenue collections, under the provisions of the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, $50,000.
Punishing violations of, laws.Punishment for violations of internal-revenue laws: For detecting and bringing to trial and punishment persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and detection of such violations, $175,000. Enforcing laws relating to the Treasury.The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to use for, and in connection with, the enforcement of the laws relating to the Treasury Department and the several branches of the public service under its Details permitted.control, not exceeding at any one time four persons paid from the appropriation for the collection of customs, four persons paid from the appropriation for salaries and expenses of internal-revenue agents or from the appropriation for the foregoing purpose, and four persons paid from the appropriation for suppressing counterfeiting and other Limit.crimes, but not exceeding six persons so detailed shall be employed *Proviso*.
Other details.at any one time hereunder: *Provided*, That nothing herein contained shall be constructed to deprive the Secretary of the Treasury from making any detail now otherwise authorized by existing law. 119 Refunding United States bonds: For expenses of refunding two perRefunding 2 per cent bonds. centum bonds of the United States into one-year three per centum Treasury notes or thirty-year three per centum United States bonds,Vol. 38, p. 269. as authorized by section eighteen of trie Federal reserve Act, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $15,000.
Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury: For contingent expenses Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury. Vol. 39, p. 1088.under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes, collection, safe-keeping, transfer, and disbursement of the public money, transportation of notes, bonds, and other securities of the United States, salaries of special agents, actual expenses of examinera detailed to examine the books, accounts, and money on hand at the several sub treasuries and depositories, including national banks acting as depositories under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and forty-nine of the[R.
S., sec. 3649, p. 718](/us/rs/s3649/p718). Revised Statutes, also including examinations of cash account at mints, $185,000. Recoinage of gold coins: For recomage of lightweight gold coins inRecoinage of gold coins. the Treasury, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, as required by section thirty-five hundred and twelve[R. S., sec. 3512, p. 896](/us/rs/s3512/p896). of the Revised Statutes, $5,000. Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury Recoinage of minor coins.to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coins of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coin and the amount the same will produce in new coin, $10,000.
Money laundry machines: For all miscellaneous expenses in connectionMoney laundry machines. with the installation and maintenance of money laundry machines, including repairs and purchase of supplies, for machines at Washington, District of Columbia, and in the various subtreasury offices, $4,000. Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive Distinctive paper for securities, etc. Quantity authorized.paper for United States currency, national-bank currency, and Federal reserve bank currency, one hundred and fifteen million five hundred thousand sheets, including transportation, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, salaries of not exceeding one register, two assistant registers, five counters, five watchmen, and ono skilled laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury Department, $521,865.
The Secretary of the Treasury is authorized to consolidate the Consolidation of paper stock accounts.stock accounts of distinctive paper for United States currency and for national-bank and Federal Reserve Bank currency, same to be held for issue on the basis of printing authorized by Congress. For custody of dies, rolls, and plates used at the Bureau of EngravingCustody of dies, rolls, and plates. and Printing for printing Government securities: Custodians—two at $2,000 each; distributors of stock—one $1,600, two at $1,400 each; in all, $8,400.
Suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes: For expenses incurredSuppressing counterfeiting, etc. under the authority or with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury in detecting, arresting, and delivering into the custody of the United States marshal having jurisdiction dealers and pretended dealers in counterfeit money and persons engaged in counterfeiting Treasury notes, bonds, national-bank notes, and other securities of the United States and of foreign Governments, as well as the coins of the United States and of foreign Governments, and other felonies committed against the laws of the United States relating to the pay and bounty laws, hire and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary, per diem in lieuPerdiem subsistence.
Vol. 38, p. 680. of subsistence, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hun120dred and fourteen, and for no other purpose whatever, except in the Protecting person of President, etc.protection of the person of the President and the members of his immediate family and of the person chosen to be President of the *Provisos*. Fees, etc.United States, $275,000: *Provided*, That no part of this amount be used in defraying the expenses of any person subpoenaed by the United States courts to attend any trial before United States court or preliminary examination before any United States commissioner, *Post*, p. 157.
Emergency use of employees.which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts”: *Provided further*, That until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, the President is authorized to direct, without reference to existing limitations, the use of the persons employed hereunder if, in his judgment, an emergency exists which requires such action. Payment to persons detailed forbidden. Exception.Appropriations in this Act shall not be used in payment of compensation or expenses of any person detailed or transferred, except to the Department of State, from the Secret Service Division of the Treasury Department, or who may at any time during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen have been employed by or under said Secret Service Division.
Lands, etc.Lands and other property of the United States: For custody, care, protection, and expenses of sales of lands and other property of the [R. S., secs. 3749, 3750, p. 739](/us/rs/s3749/3750/p739).United States, acquired and held under sections thirty-seven hundred and forty-nine and thirty-seven hundred and fifty of the Revised Statutes, the examination of titles, recording of deeds, advertising, and auctioneers’ fees in connection therewith, $300. Customs service.customs service.
Collecting revenue. Vol. 39, p. 1089.For collecting the revenue from customs, including not exceeding $200,000 for the detection and prevention of frauds upon the customs revenue, $9,850,000. Automatic scales. Vol. 39, p. 237.Scales for customs service: The unexpended balances of the appropriations heretofore made for construction and installation of special automatic and recording scales for weighing merchandise, and so forth, in connection with imports at the various ports of entry under direction of the Secretary of the Treasury, are continued and made available for expenditure during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, together with the further sum of $75,000.
Compensation in lieu of moieties.Compensation in lieu of moieties: For compensation in lieu of moieties in certain cases under the customs revenue laws, $30,000. Public Health Service.public health service. Pay, etc., officers.For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissioned medical officers and pharmacists, $745,000; Acting assistant surgeons.For pay of acting assistant surgeons (noncommissioned medical officers), $200,000; Other employees.For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $525,000;
Freight, etc.For freight, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the expenses, except membership fees, of officers when officially detailed to attend meetings of associations for the promotion of public health, $30,000; Fuel, etc.For fuel, light, and water, $75,000; Furniture.For furniture and repairs to same, $8,000; Supplies.For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospital supplies, $45,000; Hygienic Laboratory.For maintaining the Hygienic Laboratory, $20,000;
Marine hospitals. Vol. 39, p. 1088.For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under *Proviso*. Cases for study.special heads, $256,000: *Provided*, That there may be admitted into said hospitals for study persons with infectious or other diseases 121affecting the public health, and not to exceed ten cases in any one hospital at one time; For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment of allOutside treatment, etc. other persons entitled to relief, and miscellaneous expenses other than marine hospitals, which are not included under special heads, $170,000;
For journals and scientific books, $500;Books. In all, $2,074,500, which shall include the amount necessary for theInspecting aliens. Vol. 39, p. 885. medical inspection of aliens, as required by section seventeen of the Act approved February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven. Quarantine service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses,Quarantine service. Vol. 39, p. 1088. exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of quarantine stations at Eastport and Portland, Maine; Boston, Massachusetts;
Providence, Rhode Island; Perth Amboy, New Jersey; Delaware Breakwater; Reedy Island, and the Delaware Bay and River; Alexandria, Virginia; Cape Charles and supplemental station thereto; Cape Fear, Newbern, and Washington, North Carolina; Georgetown, Charleston, Beaufort, and Port Royal, South Carolina; Savannah; South Atlantic; Darien; Brunswick; Cumberland Sound; Saint Johns River; Biscayne Bay; Key West; Boca Grande; Tampa Bay; Port Inglis; Cedar Key; Punta Rassa; Saint Georges Sound (East and West Pass);
Saint Joseph; Saint Andrews and Pensacola, Florida; Mobile; New Orleans and supplemen tal stations thereto; Pascagoula; Gulf; Gulfport; Galveston, Laredo, Eagle Pass, and El Paso, Texas; San Diego, San Pedro and adjoining ports, Santa Barbara, San Francisco, Monterey, and Port Harford, California; Fort Bragg, Eureka, Columbia River, Florence, Newport, Coos Bay, and Gardner, Oregon; Port Townsend and supplemental stations thereto; quarantine systems of Alaska, the Hawaiian Islands including the leprosy hospital, and Porto Rico; and including and not exceeding $500 for printing on account of the quarantine service at times when the exigencies of that service require immediate action, $170,000.
Key West, Florida, quarantine station: For detention hulk, repairs,Key West, Fla., station. and equipment, $7,000. Prevention of epidemics: To enable the President, in case only ofPrevention of epidemics. Vol. 39, p. 1088. threatened or actual epidemic of cholera, typhus fever, yellow fever, smallpox, bubonic plague, Chinese plague or black death, trachoma, or infantile paralysis, to aid State and local boards, or otherwise, in his discretion, in preventing and suppressing the spread of the same, and in such emergency in the execution of any quarantine laws which may be then in force, $400,000: *Provided*, That a detailed report of*Proviso*.
Report of expenditures. the expenditures hereunder shall annually hereafter be submitted to Congress. Field investigations: For investigations of diseases of man andField investigations. conditions influencing the propagation and spread thereof, including sanitation and sewage, and the pollution of navigable streams and lakes of the United States, including personal service, $200,000. Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State andInterstate quarantine service. municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $15,000.
Rural sanitation: For special studies of, and demonstration work in,Rural sanitation. rural sanitation, including personal service, $150,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*. Cooperation required. That no part of this appropriation shall be available for demonstration work in rural sanitation in any community unless the State, county, or municipality in which the community is located agrees to pay one half the expense of such demonstration work. Pellagra: For rental, equipment, and maintenance of a temporary Pellagra studios.field hospital and laboratory, including pay of personnel, for special studies of pellagra, $40,000. 122 Viruses, serums, etc.
Regulating sales, etc.Biologic products: To regulate the propagation and sale of viruses, serums, toxins, and analogous products, including personal service, $20,000. District of Columbia.DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA. Columbia Hospital. Repairs, heat, light, etc.Columbia Hospital and Lying-in Asylum: For general repairs and for additional construction, including labor and material for each and every item connected therewith, $2,600; for expenses of heat, light, and power required in and about the operation of the hospital, $12,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary; in all, $15,100, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol, Half from District revenues.and paid, one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, and one-half out of the Treasury of the United States.
Smithsonian Institution.SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. International exchanges.International exchanges: For the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $35,000. American ethnology.American ethnology: For continuing ethnological researches among the American Indians and the natives of Hawaii, including the excavation and preservation of archæologic remains, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $42,000.
International Catalogue of Scientific Literature.International Catalogue of Scientific Literature: For the cooperation of the United States in the work of the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, including the preparation of a classified index catalogue of American scientific publications for incorporation in the International Catalogue, clerk hire, purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and other necessary incidental expenses, $7,500. Astrophysical Observatory.Astrophysical Observatory:
For maintenance of Astrophysical Observatory, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including assistants, purchase of necessary books and periodicals, apparatus, making necessary observations in high altitudes, repairs and alterations of buildings, and miscellaneous expenses, $13,000. Eclipse of the sun, 1918. Expenses of observing.For observation of the total eclipse of the sun of June eighth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, including purchase of necessary apparatus and supplies, transportation of equipment to and from observing station, hire of temporary assistance, transportation and subsistence of observers, and miscellaneous expenses, $2,000.
National Museum. Salaries, fixtures, etc.National Museum: For cases, furniture, fixtures, and appliances required for the exhibition and safe-keeping of collections, including necessary employees, $25,000; Heating, lighting,etc.For heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service, $46,000; Preserving collections, etc.For continuing preservation, exhibition, and increase of collections from the surveying and exploring expeditions of the Government, and from other sources, including necessary employees, all other necessary expenses, and not exceeding $5,500 for drawings and illustrations for publications, $300,000;
Repairs.For repairs of buildings, shops, and sheds, including all necessary labor and material, $10,000; Books, etc.For purchase of books, pamphlets, and periodicals for reference, $2,000; Postage.For postage stamps and foreign postal cards, $500; In all, National Museum, $383,500. National Zoological Park, D. C. Expenses.National Zoological Park: For roads, walks, bridges, water supply, sewerage, and drainage; grading, planting, and otherwise improving the grounds; erecting and repairing buildings and inclosures; care, 123subsistence, purchase, and transportation of animals; necessary-employees; incidental expenses not otherwise provided for, including purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles required or official purposes, not exceeding $100 for the purchase of necessary books and periodicals, and exclusive of architect’s fees or compensation, $100,000; one-half of which sum shall be paid from the revenuesHalf from District revenues. of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
George Washington Memorial Building: The amount which shallGeorge Washington Memorial Building, D. C. Initial subscription limit diminished. Vol. 37, p. 881. *Post*, pp. 368, 1270. have been subscribed and paid into the treasury of the George Washington Memorial Association before the actual construction of said building shall be undertaken prescribed in the Act entitled “An Act to increase the limit of cost of certain public buildings,” and so forth, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Thirty-seventh Statutes, page eight hundred and eighty-one), is hereby fixed at $500,000, and the limit for beginning the erection of said buildingTime for commencement extended. is hereby extended to March fourth, nineteen hundred and nineteen.
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission. For seven commissioners at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; in all,Salaries. *Post*, p. 270. $75,000. For all other authorized expenditures necessary in the execution ofExpenses. Perdiem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680. laws to regulate commerce, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $1,100,000, of which sum there may be expended not exceeding $50,000 in the employment of counsel, not exceeding $3,000 forAmount for counsel, etc. necessary books, reports, and periodicals, not exceeding $1,500 for printing other than that done at the Government Printing Office, not exceeding $100 in the open market for the purchase of office furniture similar in class or kind to that listed in the general supply schedule, and not exceeding $70,000 rent of buildings in the DistrictRent. of Columbia.
To further enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to enforceEnforcing accounting by railroads. Vol. 34. p. 593; Vol. 36, p. 556. compliance with section twenty of the Act to regulate commerce as amended by the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, including the employment of necessary special agents or examiners, $300,000. To enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to keep informedRailway safety appliances. Vol. 27, p. 531; Vol. 29, p. 85; Vol. 32. p. 943;
Vol. 36 p. 298. Accidents. Vol. 31, p. 446; Vol. 36, p. 350. Block signals, etc. Vol. 34, p. 838; Vol. 35, p. 324. regarding and to enforce compliance with Acts to promote the safety of employees and travelers upon railroads; the Act requiring common carriers to make reports of accidents and authorizing investigations thereof; and to enable the Interstate Commerce Commission to investigate and test block-signal and train-control systems and appliances intended to promote the safety of railway operation, as authorized by the joint resolution approved June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and six, and the provision of the sundry civil Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred and eight, including the employment of inspectors, and per diem in lieu of subsistencePer diem subsistence.
Vol. 38, p. 680. when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $250,000. Valuation of property of carriers: To enable the Interstate CommercePhysical valuation of railroads. Vol. 37, p. 701. Commission to carry out the objects of the Act entitled “An Act to amend an Act entitled ‘An Act to regulate commerce,’ approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, and all Acts amendatory thereof by providing for a valuation of the several classes of property of carriers subject thereto and securing informationIssues of stocks, etc. concerning their stocks, bonds, and other securities, approved 124Perdiem subsistence.
Vol. 38, p. 680.March first, nineteen hundred and thirteen, including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the Rent.sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and including not exceeding $15,000 for rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $3,500,000. Safe locomotive boilers, etc. Vol. 36, p. 913.For all authorized expenditures under the provisions of the Act of 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,” Vol. 38, p. 1192.and amendment of March fourth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, extending “ the same powers and duties with respect to all parts and appurtenances of the locomotive and tender,” including such stenographic and clerical help to the chief inspector and his two assistants as the Interstate Commerce Commission may deem necessary, and Perdiem subsistence.
Vol. 38, p. 680.for per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $225,000. Board of Mediation and Conciliation.UNITED STATES BOARD OF MEDIATION AND CONCILIATION. Salaries and expenses. Vol. 38, p. 108.For commissioner, $7,500; assistant commissioner, $5,000; necessary and proper expenses incurred in connection with any arbitration or with the carrying on of the work of mediation and conciliation, including traveling and other necessary expenses of members or employees of boards of arbitration, furniture, office fixtures and supplies, books of reference and periodicals, salaries, traveling expenses, and other necessary expenses of members or employees of Rent.the Board of Mediation and Conciliation, to be approved by the chairman of said board, $34,680; rent in the District of Columbia, $2,820; in all, $50,000.
Authority for expenses.Authority for incurring expenses, including subsistence, by boards of arbitration shall first be obtained from the Board of Mediation and Conciliation. Federal Trade Commission.FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. Salaries. Vol. 38, p. 717.For five commissioners, at $10,000 each; secretary, $5,000; five clerks to commissioners, at $1,500 each; chief clerk, $2,000; disbursing clerk, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, five of class three, ten of class two, seventeen of class one, twenty-one at $1,000 each, twenty-one at $900 each; messenger; four assistant messengers; nine messenger boys, at $480 each; general mechanic, $840; three watchmen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; three laborers, at $660 each; telephone operator, $720; forewoman, $300; six charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $172,920.
Foodstuffs. Investigation of antitrust violations of production, distribution, etc., of.For all expenses necessary to carry out the order of the President of the United States to investigate within the scope of its powers and to report the facts relating to any alleged violations of the antitrust Acts by any corporation in the production, ownership, manufacture, storage, and distribution of foodstuffs and the products or byproducts arising from or in connection with their preparation and manufacture, $250,000.
Special attorneys, etc.For compensation, travel expense, and per diem in lieu of subsistence at the rate of $4, of such special attorneys, special experts, special examiners, special agents, clerks, and other employees as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying on the work of said Salary limit.commission; no salary shall be paid hereunder exceeding the rate of $5,000 per annum, $300,000. 125 For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including the purchaseContingent expenses. of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, pamphlets, maps, stationery, furniture and repairs to same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, filing cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, lighting and heating, freight and express charges, street car tickets, postage to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters and calculating machines, including their exchange, and for all other necessary miscellaneous supplies not otherwise provided, $20,000.
For rental of building or quarters, $15,000.Rent. For witness fees, and mileage, as provided in section nine of theWitness fees, etc. Vol. 38, p. 722. Federal Trade Commission Act, $15,000. UNITED STATES TARIFF COMMISSION.Tariff Commission. For salaries and expenses of the United States Tariff Commission,Salaries and expenses. including the purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference and periodicals as may be necessary, as authorized under Title VII of the Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue,Vol. 39, p. 795. and for other purposes,” approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $300,000.
UNITED STATES SHIPPING BOARD.Shipping Board. For five commissioners at $7,500 each; secretary, $5,000; in all,Salaries. $42,500. For all other expenditures authorized by the Act approved SeptemberExpenses. Vol. 39, p. 728. seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, including the compensation of attorneys, officers, naval architects, special experts, examiners, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; and for all other expenses of the board, including rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, law books, books of reference, and periodicals, printing and binding, and actual and necessary expenses of members of the board, its special experts, and other employees while upon official business outside of the District of Columbia, $300,000.
For the investigation of foreign discrimination against vessels Investigating discrim inations against American vessels, etc.and shippers of the United States, $175,000, of which sum $100,000 shall be available immediately. UNITED STATES EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION.Employees’ Compensation Commission. For expenses under an Act entitled “An Act to provide compensationExpenses. Vol. 39, p. 742.for employees of the United States suffering injuries while in the performance of their duties, and for other purposes,” approved September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, namely: miscellaneous expenses:
For salaries of the commissioners,Salaries, etc. Vol. 39, p. 747. and for assistants, clerks, and other employees, traveling expenses, expenses of medical examinations, and for reasonable traveling and other expenses and loss of wages payable to employees under section twenty-one, rent in the District of Columbia and equipment of offices, books, stationery, and other supplies, printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office, and other necessary expenses, $50,000.
Employees’ compensationCompensation fund. Allowances under. Vol. 39, pp. 743, 745. fund: For the payment of compensation provided by said Act, including medical, surgical, and hospital services, and supplies provided by section nine, and the transportation and burial expenses provided by sections nine and eleven, $500,000, to be available until expended; and the appropriation of $500,000 for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen is continued and made available until expended. 126 Rock Crook and Potomac Parkway Commission.ROCK CREEK AND POTOMAC PARKWAY COMMISSION.
Acquiring connecting lands. Vol. 37, p. 885.To enable the commission created by section twenty-two of the public buildings Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen (Thirty-seventh Statutes at Large, page eight hundred and eighty-five), to continue proceedings toward the acquisition of lands required for a connecting parkway between Potomac Park, the Zoological Park, and Rock Creek Park, $100,000, together with the unexpended balance of the appropriation for this purpose for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, to be available until expended and to be payable one-half out of the Treasury of the United Half from District revenues. *Provisos*.States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia: *Provided*, That the total area of lands finally to be acquired for said Area limited.parkway shall not exceed the area and parcels described and demented in the map numbered two, contained in House Document Numbered Eleven hundred and fourteen of the Sixty-fourth Congress, Conditions imposed.
Vol. 39, p. 282.first session: *Provided further*, That the expenditure of the funds appropriated herein shall be subject to all the conditions imposed by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen. Mississippi Centennial Exposition.MISSISSIPPI CENTENNIAL EXPOSITION. Expenses, transferring Government exhibit at Panama-California Exposition to. Vol. 39, p. 854.For the transfer at the close of the Panama-California International Exposition of the Government exhibit, or such portions thereof as may be determined by the President as advisable, and for its installation and maintenance during the continuance of said Mississippi Centennial Exposition until not later than June tenth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and its return to Washington, $75,000, to be expended in accordance with the provisions of the Act approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and to be immediately available.
Ericsson memorial.ERICSSON MEMORIAL COMMISSION. Erection in Washington D. C. Vol. 39, p. 671.For the erection in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, of a suitable memorial to John Ericsson, in accordance with the provisions of the Act entitled “An Act for erecting a suitable memorial to John Ericsson,” approved August thirty-first, nineteen hundred Acceptance of donations for.and sixteen, $35,000; and in addition to the foregoing amount, the commission is authorized to accept and to expend such ums as may be donated for the memorial.
War DepartmentWAR DEPARTMENT. Military publications.military publications. Printing and binding instruction manuals, etc.In addition to any other appropriation available for this purpose, there is hereby appropriated $150,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be immediately available, to be expended in printing and binding pubheations and manuals necessary for the organization and instruction of the land forces of the United States or such other necessary printing as the Secretary of War may *Proviso*.
Private contracts permitted.prescribe: *Provided*, That the printing and binding herein authorized may be executed under contract with private concerns if in the judgment of the Secretary of War the public interest requires, notwithstanding the provisions of law requiring such printing and binding to be done in the Government Planting Office. 127 armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenals. Augusta Arsenal, Augusta, Georgia: For increasing facilities forAugusta, Ga. fire protection, $5,000.
Benicia Arsenal, Benicia, California:Benicia, Cal. For an elevator in main storehouse, $1,700; For a fence around the lumber yard, including a shed roof for the protection of lumber, $2,000; For one oil storehouse, $2,000; In all, $5,700. Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:Frankford, Pa. Any unexpended balance after completing the work prescribed byUse of balance. Vol. 30, p. 283. the following appropriation contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, “For five magazine buildings, including necessary barriers and fences about the buildings, railroad connections, sewer lines, lighting mains, and so forth, $90,900,” shall be available for the construction of two primer dry houses.
For a small-arms ammunition storehouse, $72,000; For a primer shop and planning room, $165,000; For two sets of double quarters for officers, $30,000; For a combination wall and picket fence along the north-side and a picket fence along the east and south sides of the arsenal reservation, $20,000; For construction and repair of roads, including railroad sidings, $10,000; For extension of high-explosive loading shop, $10,000; For a paint shop, $30,000; For an artillery firing range, including an explosion chamber, $75,000;
For a small-arms firing range, including a proof house and target, $25,000; For a general storehouse, $135,000; For the construction of tunnels and the installation of appropriate heating and lighting mains for transferring heat and light to the western part of the arsenal, $40,000; For extension of instrument department building, $5,000; For extension of artillery case shop building, $25,000; For an artillery ammunition storehouse, $90,000; In all, $732,000. Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, New Jersey:Picatinny, N.
J. For increasing and improving the water supply, $5,000; For a magazine, $3,000; For increasing transportation facilities, including the purchase of cars and a track scale, $10,000; For repairs to bridges and roads, $10,000; For a plant for drying powder by the water-drying process, $15,000; For increasing storage facilities for old powder, $2,500; For a powder magazine, $15,000; For modification and improvement of existing magazines, $8,000; In all, $68,500. Proving ground facilities:
For increasing the facilities for theProviding ground facilities, buildings, land, etc. *Post*, p. 352. proof and test of field artillery and its ammunition, including necessary buildings and the purchase of land, $1,500,000. Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois:Rock’ Island, Ill. For additional amount for bath and toilet room addition to barracks building, $10,000; For increasing the facilities for the manufacture of field artillery,Field artillery manufacture, etc. matériel, including the necessary buildings and equipment, and for providing additional storage space and other storage facilities, either 128by building and equipping new storehouses or by building and equipping shops for manufacturing purposes and equipping as storehouses shops thereby vacated and made available, $2,965,000.
For laying a new floor on Moline Bridge, $14,000; For replacing roof and gutters of post stables, $2,600; Field artillery ammunition.For completing facilities for manufacturing field artillery ammunition at a total cost not exceeding $2,000,000, including necessary buildings, and so forth, $1,500,000; For increasing facilities for storage of sodium nitrate, including necessary buildings, and so forth, $135,000; For a central steam heating plant, $165,000; For a garage for motor trucks, $15,000;
For a plant for the manufacture of rifle and hand grenades, including necessary buildings, and so forth, $125,000; For an additional amount for ice-making plant, $7,000; Storage facilities. Reappropriations. Vol. 39, p. 810.The appropriations of $250,000 for increasing storage facilities at the Rock Island Arsenal and of $225,000 for providing facilities for a reserve supply of sodium nitrate, contained in the general deficiency appropriation act, approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, are made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen;
For maintenance and operation of power plant, $12,500; Bridges expenses.For operating, care, and preservation of Rock Island bridges and viaduct; and maintenance and repair of the arsenal street connecting the bridges, $20,000; In all, $4,971,100. Sandy Hook, N. J., proving ground.Sandy Hook, New Jersey, Proving Ground: For enlarging magazine at proof battery, $6,000; For extension of barracks building, $25,000; For one crane, $78,000; For increasing railroad transportation facilities, $12,500;
For two coal bins, $3,500; In all, $125,000. San Antonio, Tex.San Antonio Arsenal, San Antonio, Texas: For increasing facilities for the repair of ordnance matériel, including necessary buildings, and so forth, $50,000; For a magazine, $30,000; For adding two stories to storehouse, $45,000; For a budding for storing artillery vehicles and machine-gun trucks, $3,000; In all, $128,000. Springfield, Mass.Springfield Arsenal, Springfield, Massachusetts: Balance available.The appropriation of $5,500 for extension of wing of milling shop Vol. 39, p. 284.for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen is made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, together with the further sum of $4,500;
For a new power plant for the hill shops, $90,000; For replacing worn-out and obsolete machine tools, $100,000; In all, $194,500. Watertown, Mass.Watertown Arsenal, Watertown, Massachusetts: For a locomotive crane, $14,500; For one storehouse and its equipment, $90,000; For a fire engine, $4,000; For construction and repair of roads, sidewalks, and so forth, $10,000; For an oil-storage equipment for the manufacturing plant, $12,000; Reappropriation. Vol. 39, p. 284.The appropriation of $5,000 made in the Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for a building for housing electric engine and locomotive crane is reappropriated and made available for the construction of a building for housing automobile trucks and electric engine, together with the further sum of $1,000; 129 For a power tunnel between power plant and shops, $20,000;*Post*, p. 654.
For improving and modernizing smith shop, $35,000; For a building to contain the planning room and inspector’s office, $16,000; For a fire-alarm system, $10,000; For replacing roof of building containing hardening plant, $8,600; For a foundry and its equipment, $800,000;Foundry. In all, $1,021,100. Watertown Arsenal, testing machines: For necessary professionalTesting machines. and skilled labor, purchase of materials, tools, and appliances for operating the testing machines, for investigative test and tests of material in connection with the manufacturing work of the Ordnance Department, and for instruments and materials for operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, $15,000.
Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York:Watervliet, N. Y. For additional amount for improvement of large gun shop, $156,000; The appropriation of $37,000 for machine-tool equipment for fieldReappropriation. Vol. 39. p. 284. and siege gun shop for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, is made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen; For increasing storage capacity for fuel oil, $2,100; For improving electric locomotive and the railroad track, $4,000;
For repainting lower shops and storehouses, $5,000; For rebuilding dock and retaining wall on Hudson River front, and filling in low ground in rear thereof, $11,000; In all, $178,100. Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvement at arsenals, andRepairs, etc. to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including $160,000, or soMachinery. much thereof as may be necessary, for machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $400,000.
For storage facilities at armories and arsenals, $1,000,000.Storage facilities. quartermaster corps.Quartermaster Corps. The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to report to CongressQuartering troops. Report to be made on best method for, etc. on or before January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, as to the most desirable method for quartering officers and enlisted men of the Army, and to submit detailed plans and estimates of cost for the carrying out of any proposed scheme or schemes, together with locations desired and m particular what existing posts shall be retained, enlarged, or discontinued.
Military post, Schofield Barracks, Hawaii: For completion of theSchofield Barracks, Hawaii. construction, at a total cost not exceeding $2,077,000, of the necessary buildings, water and sewer systems, roads, walks, and so forth, required to complete permanent accommodations not already provided for two regiments of Infantry, one regiment of Cavalry, and one regiment of Field Artillery, $1,077,000. Fort Monroe, Virginia, wharf, roads, and sewer: For repair andFort Monroe, Va. Wharf. maintenance of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, fuel for waiting rooms, and water, brooms, and shovels. $2,430; repairs to apron of wharf, including all necessary labor and material therefor, $3,930; wharfinger, $900; four laborers, $1,920; in all, $9,180; for one-third of said suin, to be supplied by the United States, $3,060.
For rakes, shovels, and brooms; repairs to roadway, pavements, Repairs to roads, etc.macadam and asphalt block; repairs to street crossings; repairs to street drains, $2,170; six laborers cleaning roads, at $480 each; in all, $5,050; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $3,366.66. 130 Sewer.For waste, oil, boiler repairs, sewer pipe, cement, brick, and supplies, $1,400; two engineers, at $1,000 each; two laborers, at $500 each; in all, $4,400; for two-thirds of said sum, to be supplied by the United States, $2,933.33.
Seacoast defenses, Hawaii, etc.For continuing construction of the necessary accommodations for the Seacoast Artillery in the Hawaiian Islands, and for temporary cantonments for over-sea garrisons, $93,000. National cemeteries. Maintenance.National cemeteries: For maintaining and improving national cemeteries, including fuel for superintendents, pay of laborers and other employees, purchase of tools and materials, $120,000. Superintendents.For pay of seventy-six superintendents of national cemeteries, $63,120.
Headstones for soldiers’ graves.For continuing the work of furnishing headstones of durable stone or other durable material for unmarked graves of Union and Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national, post, city, town, and village cemeteries, naval cemeteries at navy yards and stations of the Vol. 17, p. 545; Vol. 20, p. 281; Vol. 34, p. 56.United States, and other burial places, under the Acts of March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-three, February third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, and March ninth, nineteen hundred and Civilians.
Vol. 33, p. 386; Vol. 34, p. 741.six; continuing the work of furnishing headstones for unmarked graves of civilians interred in post cemeteries under the Acts of April twenty-eight, nineteen hundred and four, and June thirtieth, nineteen Confederates.hundred and six; and furnishing headstones for the unmarked graves of Confederate soldiers, sailors, and marines in national cemeteries, $50,000. Repairs to roadways. *Proviso*. Encroachments by railroads forbidden.For repairs to roadways to national cemeteries which have been constructed by special authority of Congress, $12,000: *Provided*, That no railroads shall be permitted upon the right of way which may have been acquired Restriction.by the United States to a national cemetery, or to encroach upon any roads or walks constructed thereon and maintained by the United States: *Provided further*, That no part of this sum shall be used for repairing any roadway not owned by the United States within the corporate limits of any city, town, or village.
Limited to one approach.No part of any appropriation for national cemeteries or the repair of roadways thereto shall be expended in the maintenance of more than a single approach to any national cemetery. Burial of indigent soldiers, etc., D. C.For expenses of burying in the Arlington National Cemetery, or in the cemeteries of the District of Columbia, indigent ex-Union soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die in the District of Columbia, to be disbursed by the Secretary of War, at a cost not exceeding $45 for such burial expenses in each case, Half from District revenues.exclusive of cost of grave, $2,000, one-half of which sura shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Antietam battle field, Md. Preservation, etc.Antietam battle field: For repair and preservation of monuments, tablets, observation tower, roads, and fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States upon public lands within the limits of the Antietam battle field, near Sharpsburg, Maryland, $3,000. Superintendent.For pay of superintendent of Antietam battle field, said superintendent to perform his duties under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps and to be selected and appointed by the Secretary of War, at his discretion, the person selected and appointed to this position to be an honorably discharged Union soldier, $1,500.
Interment of remains of officers, soldiers, etc.Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, civilian employees, and so forth: For interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes or to such national cemeteries as may be designated by proper authority, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, of the remains of officers, including acting assistant surgeons and enlisted men of the Army active list; interment, or of preparation and transportation to their homes, of the remains of civil employees of the Army in the em131ploy of the War Department who die abroad, in Alaska, in the Canal Zone, or on Army transports, or who die while on duty in the field or at military posts within the limits of the United States; interment of military prisoners who die at military posts; removal of remains fromRemoving remains from abandoned posts, etc. abandoned posts to permanent military posts or national cemeteries, including the remains of Federal soldiers, sailors, or marines, interred in fields or abandoned private and city cemeteries; and in any caseReimbursements to individuals. where the expenses of burial or shipment of the remains of officers or enlisted men of the Army who die on the active list are borne by individuals, where such expenses would have been lawful claims against the Government, reimbursement to such individuals may be made of the amount allowed by the Government for such services out of this sum, but no reimbursement shall be made of such expenses incurred prior to July first, nineteen hundred and ten, $60,000.
Confederate Mound, Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago: For care, protection,Confederate Mound, Chicago, Ill. and maintenance of the plat of ground known as “Confederate Mound” in Oakwood Cemetery, Chicago, $500. For care, protection, and maintenance of Confederate Stockade Confederate Stockade, Ohio.Cemetery, Johnstons Island in Sandusky Bay, Ohio, $250. Confederate burial plats: For care, protection, and maintenance ofConfederate burial plats, care, etc. Confederate burial plats, owned by the United States, located and known by the following designations:
Confederate cemetery, North Alton, Illinois; Confederate cemetery, Camp Chase, Columbus, Ohio; Confederate section, Greenlawn Cemetery, Indianapolis, Indiana; Confederate cemetery, Point Lookout, Maryland; and Confederate cemetery, Rock Island, Illinois, $1,250. Monuments or tablets in Cuba or China: For repairs and preservationMonuments in Cuba and China. of monuments, tablets, roads, fences, and so forth, made and constructed by the United States in Cuba and China to mark the places where American soldiers fell, $1,000.
Burial of deceased indigent patients: For burying in the LittleLittle Rock, Ark. Burial of soldiers dying at Hot Springs Hospital. Rock (Arkansas) National Cemetery, including transportation thereto, indigent ex-soldiers, ex-sailors, or ex-marines of the United States service, either Regular or Volunteer, who have been honorably discharged or retired and who die while patients at the Army and Navy General Hospital, Hot Springs, Arkansas, to be disbursed at a cost not exceeding $35 for such burial expenses in each case, exclusive of cost of grave, $200. national military parks.Military parks.
Chickamauga and Chattanooga National Park: For continuing the Chickamauga and Chattanooga.establishment of the park; compensation and expenses of civilian commissioners, maps, surveys, clerical and other assistance, including $ for necessary clerical labor under direction of the chairman of the commission; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled and one horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicle; office and all other necessary expenses; foundations for State monuments; mowing; historical tablets, iron and bronze; iron gun carriages; roads and their maintenance; purchase of small tracts of lands heretofore authorized by law, $55,260.
Shiloh National Military Park: For continuing the establishmentShiloh. of the park; compensation of civilian commissioners; secretary and superintendent; clerical and other services; labor; historical tablets; maps and surveys; roads; purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; foundations to monuments; purchase of land; building a superintendent’s residence; office and other necessary expenses, including maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, $29,550. 132 Gettysburg.Gettysburg National Park:
For continuing the establishment of the park; acquisition of lands, surveys, and maps; constructing, improving, and maintaining avenues, roads, and bridges thereon; fences and gates; marking the lines of battle with tablets and guns, each tablet Dearing a brief legend giving historic facts and compiled without censure and without praise; preserving the features of the battle field and the monuments thereon; compensation of civilian commissioners, clerical and other services, expenses, and labor; purchase and preparation of tablets and gun carriages and placing them in position; and all other expenses incidental to the foregoing, $42,500.
Vicksburg.Vicksburg National Military Park: For continuing the establishment of the park; compensation of civilian commissioners; engineer and clerk, labor, iron gun carriages, mounting of siege guns, memorials, monuments, markers, and historical tablets giving historical facts, compiled without praise and without censure; maps, surveys, roads, bridges, restoration of earthworks, purchase of lands, purchase and transportation of supplies and materials; and other necessary expenses, $33,000.
Engineer Department.engineer department. Flood control of the Mississippi, etc. Vol. 36, p. 948.For prosecuting work of flood control in accordance with the provisions of the flood-control Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $6,000,000. Yellowstone Park. Improvements.Yellowstone National Park: For maintenance and repair of improvements $147,500, including not to exceed $5,000 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the east boundary, and not to exceed $7,500 for maintenance of the road in the forest reserve leading out of the park from the south boundary, and including not exceeding $3,000 for purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair of motor-driven and horse-drawn, passenger-carrying vehicles to be used for inspection of roads and road work, to be expended by and under the direction of the Secretary *Proviso*.
Snow restriction.of War: *Provided*, That no portion of this appropriation shall be expended for the removal of snow from any of the roads for the purpose of opening them in advance of the time when they will be cleared by seasonal changes. Resurfacing belt line.For resurfacing and for finishing the belt line with oil macadam, $20,000. Crater Lake Park. Roads, etc.Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For continuation of a wagon road and the necessary bridges through the park, together with a system of tanks and water-supply pipes for sprinkling, in accordance with the recommendations in House Document Numbered Three hundred and twenty-eight, Sixty-second Congress, second session, and for maintenance, repair, and operation of two horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $50,000.
Buildings and grounds, I. C. Improvement and care.Buildings and grounds in and around Washington: For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, as follows: For improvement and maintenance of grounds south of Executive Mansion, $4,000. For ordinary care of greenhouses and nursery, $2,000. For repair and reconstruction of the greenhouses at the nursery, $3,000. For ordinary care of Lafayette Park, $2,000. For ordinary care of Franklin Park, $1,500. For improvement and ordinary care of Lincoln Park, $2,000.
Monument Grounds.For care and improvement of Monument Grounds and annex, $7,000. 133 For improvement, care, and maintenance of Garfield Park, $2,500. For construction and repair of post-and-chain fences, repair of General repairs, etc.high iron fences, constructing stone coping about reservations, painting watchmen’s lodges, iron fences, vases, lamps, and lamp-posts; repairing and extending water pipes, and purchase of apparatus for cleaning them; hose, manure, and hauling the same; removing snow and ice; purchase and repair of seats and tools; trees, tree and plant stakes, labels, lime, whitewashing, stock for nursery, flowerpots, twine, baskets, wire, splints, and moss, to be purchased by contract or otherwise, as the Secretary of War may determine; care, construction, and repair of fountains; abating nuisances; cleaning statues and repairing pedestals, $18,550.
For improvement, care, and maintenance of various reservations, Improvements, etc.including maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of one horse-drawn and two motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes, $30,000. For improvement, care, and maintenance of Smithsonian grounds $3,000. For improvement and maintenance of Judiciary Park, $2,500. For laying cement and other walks in various reservations, $2,000. For broken-stone road covering for parks, $3,500.
For curbing, coping, and flagging for park roads and walks, $2,000. For care and maintenance of Potomac Park, $15,000.Potomac Park. For grading, soiling, seeding, and planting that portion of Potomac Park west of the railroad embankment, and constructing paths, $25,000. For oiling or otherwise treating macadam roads, $4,000. For care and improvement of the portion of Potomac Park east of the railroad embankment, $50,000. For continuing the improvement of Montrose Park, and for its care and maintenance, $5,000.
For placing and maintaining special portions of the parks in conditionOutdoor sports. for outdoor sports, $10,000. To continue construction of necessary retaining walls in MeridianMeridian Hill Park. Hill Park, and grading incident thereto, $50,000. For care and maintenance of Willow Tree Park, $1,500. For improving the site of the old high-service reservoir, at the southeast corner of Wisconsin Avenue and R Street northwest, $5,000. For continuing moving out the sea wall on the river side of westSea wall, Potomac Park.
Potomac Park, $22,500. For care of the center parking on Maryland Avenue northeast, $1,000. For continuing a field house in East Potomac Park, east of the Field house, Potomac Park.railroad embankment, $50,000. For operation, care, repair, and maintenance of the pumps which operate the three fountains in the Union Station Plaza, $4,000. For constructing and erecting a wagon shed at the propagating gardens, $7,000. To provide for an increase of fifteen per centum in the pay of parkIncreased pay to laborers. laborers, $15,000.
For new road pavements, curbs, gutters, and sidewalks on the EJudiciary Park. and F Street roadways through Judiciary Park, $15,000. For improving small triangles, $2,500. For planting the center parking in Pennsylvania Avenue between Second and Seventeenth Streets southeast, $5,000. For new public comfort station in Willow Tree Park, $3,500. Tidal Basin bathing beach: The Chief of Engineers of theTidal Basin, Potomac Park. Public bathing beach to be established on. United States Army is authorized and directed to establish and maintain at a suitable place upon the shore of the Tidal Basin, in Potomac Park, a public bathhouse, with the necessary equipment, 134with a sloping sandy beach in the Tidal Basin, and to install a proper equipment to purify the water entering the basin so that it will not Control, etc.endanger the health of those bathing in it.
The direction and control of said public bathing facilities shall be vested in the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, who shall prescribe such regulations for their use as may be necessary to insure the greatest benefit *Proviso*. Restriction on fees, etc.to the public: *Provided*, That no charge shall be made for the use of the bathhouse or beach, except that uniform fees may be collected for the hire of bathing suits, soap, towels, and such other conveniences as may be provided upon the request of persons desiring to use them.
Construction.To enable the Chief of Engineers to begin construction of the bathhouse, beach, and purification plant herein provided for, $35,000, to be immediately available; and the limit of cost of such construction shall not exceed that amount. Half from District revenues.One half of the foregoing sums under “Buildings and grounds in and around Washington” shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
Limit for asphalt pavements.Under appropriations contained in this Act no contract shall be made for making or relaying sheet asphalt or asphalt block pavement at a higher price than $1.80 per square yard for a quality equal to the best laid in the District of Columbia during the years nineteen hundred and fourteen to nineteen hundred and seventeen, inclusive, Proviso. Heavy traffic allowance.and with same depth of base: *Provided*, That these conditions as to price and depth of base shall not apply to those streets on which, in the judgment of the Chief of Engineers, by reason of heavy traffic, poor foundation, or other causes, a pavement of more than ordinary strength is required, in which case the limit of price may be increased to $2 per square yard.
Grounds of executive departments, etc.For improvement, care, and maintenance of grounds of executive departments, $1,000. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Library of Congress as may be requested by the superintendent of the Library Buildings, $1,000. For such trees, shrubs, plants, fertilizers, and skilled labor for the grounds of the Capitol and the Senate and House Office Buildings as may be requested by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building, $4,000.
Executive Mansion grounds.For improvement and maintenance of Executive Mansion grounds (within iron fence), $5,000. nursery, Engineer.For the employment of an engineer by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, $2,400. For purchase and repair of machinery and tools for shops at nursery, and for the repair of shops and storehouses, $1,000. Executive Mansion. Care, etc.Executive Mansion: For ordinary care, repair, and refurnishing of Executive Mansion, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of horses and vehicles for official purposes, to be expended by contract or otherwise, as the President may determine, $35,000.
Extraordinary repairs, etc.For extraordinary repairs and refurnishing of Executive Mansion, $60,000. Fuel.For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, $6,000. Greenhouses.For care and maintenance of greenhouses, Executive Mansion $9,000. For repair to greenhouses, Executive Mansion, $3,000. Traveling expenses of the President.For traveling expenses of the President of the United States, to be expended in his discretion and accounted for on his certificate solely, $25,000.
Lighting.For lighting the Executive Mansion, grounds, and greenhouses, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $8,600. 135 Lighting the public grounds: For lighting the public grounds, Lighting and heating public grounds.watchmen’s lodges, offices, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, including all necessary expenses of installation, maintenance, and repair, $22,300; For heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $3,820;
In all, $26,120, or so much thereof as may be necessary, one-halfHalf from District revenues. of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. Telegraph to connect the Capitol with the departments and GovernmentGovernment telegraph. Printing Office: For care and repair of existing lines, $500. Washington Monument: For custodian, $1,200; steam engineer,Washington Monument. Maintenance salaries. $960; assistant steam engineer, $840; fireman, $660; assistant fireman, $660; conductor of elevator car, $900; attendants—one on floor $720, one on top floor $720; three night and day watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $8,820.
For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes,Expenses. brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floora; repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery; and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric plant in good order, $3,000. For extra services of employees and for additional supplies and Sunday opening.materials, to provide for opening the Monument to the public on Sundays and legal holidays, $2,000.
Building where Abraham Lincoln died: For painting and miscellaneousBuilding where Abraham Lincoln died. repairs, $200. Birthplace of George Washington, Wakefield, Virginia: For repairsWakefield, Va. to fences and cleaning up and maintaining grounds about the monument, $100. Commission of Fine Arts: For expenses made necessary by the ActCommission of Fine Arts. Expenses. Vol. 36, p. 371. approved May seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act establishing a Commission of Fine Arts,” including the purchase of periodicals, maps, and books of reference, to be disbursed, on vouchers approved by the commission, by the officer in charge of public buildings and grounds, who shall be the secretary and shall act as the executive officer of said commission, $8,000.
The appropriation of $5,000 made in the sundry civil Act approved Grant Memorial. Reappropriation. Vol. 39, p. 291.August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, for unveiling and dedicating the memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including erecting and taking down viewing stands and putting the grounds in sightly condition, is made available for said purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. Lincoln Memorial Commission:
For completing the erection of theLincoln Memorial. Completing construction. Lincoln Memorial in accordance with the plans and design and on the location approved by Congress, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, to be immediately available, $331,000. Aqueduct Bridge: For continuing the construction of the bridgeAqueduct Bridge, D. C. Construction. Vol. 39, p. 163. authorized in section one of an Act entitled “An Act to provide for the removal of what is now known as the Aqueduct Bridge, across the Potomac River, and for the building of a bridge in place thereof,” approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $400,000,Half from District revenues. one half to be payable out of the Treasury of the United States and the other half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Harbors and rivers, contract work: Toward the construction of Rivers and harbors. Contract work.works on harbors and rivers, under contract and otherwise, and within the limits authorized by law, including horse-drawn and motor136propelled passenger-carrying vehicles required and to be used only for official business, namely: Vol. 39, pp. 392, 393, 394, 401, 405.For works authorized by the river and harbor Act of nineteen hundred and sixteen, as follows: Delaware River. Philadelphia to the sea.Delaware River, Pennsylvania and New Jersey:
For continuing improvement from Allegheny Avenue, Philadelphia, to the sea, $150,000. Duluth superior Harbor.Duluth, Minnesota, and Superior, Wisconsin, Harbor: For completing improvement, $180,000. East River, N. Y.East River, New York: For continuing improvement, $200,000. Hudson River, N. Y.Hudson River, New York: For continuing improvement, $375,000. Kahului, Hawaii.Kahului, Hawaii, Harbor: For continuing improvement, $100,000. Maps.Maps, War Department: For publication of engineer maps for use of the War Department, inclusive of war maps, $10,000.
Survey of northern and northwestern lakes.Survey of northern and northwestern lakes: For survey of northern and northwestern lakes, Lake of the Woods, and other boundary and connecting waters between said lake and Lake Superior, Lake Champlain, and the natural navigable waters embraced in the navigation system of the New York canals, including all necessary expenses for paring, correcting, extending, printing, binding, and issuing charts bulletins, and of investigating lake levels with a view to their regulation, $125,000.
California Débris Commission. Vol. 27, p. 507.California Débris Commission: For defraying the expenses of the commission in carrying on the work authorized by the Act of Congress approved March first, eighteen hundred and ninety-three, $15,000. New York Harbor. Preventing injurious deposits.Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent water of New York City: For pay of inspectors, deputy inspectors, and office force, and expenses of office, $10,260;
For pay of crews and maintenance of patrol fleet, six steam tugs and one launch, $75,000; For purchase and installation of a new dynamo, electrical fittings, new deck, and new boiler on patrol vessel Lamont, $11,500; In all, $96,760. Medical Department.medical department. Artificial limbs.Artificial limbs: For furnishing artificial limbs and apparatus, or commutation therefor, and necessary transportation, $210,000. Surgical appliances.Appliances for disabled soldiers: For furnishing surgical appliances to persons disabled in the military or naval service of the United States, and not entitled to artificial limbs or trusses for the same disabilities, $1,000.
Trusses.Trusses for disabled soldiers: For trusses for persons entitled thereto [R. S., sec. 1176, p. 211](/us/rs/s1176/p211). Vol. 20, p. 353.under section eleven hundred and seventy-six, Revised Statutes of the United States, and the Act of Congress amendatory thereof approved March third, eighteen hundred and seventy-nine, $2,000. Providence Hospital, D. C. Destitute patients.Providence Hospital: For the support and medical treatment of medical and surgical patients who are destitute, in the city of Washington, under a contract to be made with the Providence Hospital Half from District revenues.by the Surgeon General of the Army, $19,000, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States.
Garfield Hospital, D. C. Destitute patients.Garfield Memorial Hospital: For maintenance, to enable it to provide medical and surgical treatment to persons unable to pay therefor, under a contract to be made with the Board of Charities of the Half from District revenues.District of Columbia, $19,000, one half of which sum shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and the other half from the Treasury of the United States. 137 national home for disabled volunteer soldiers.National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers.
For support of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, as follows: Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: Current expenses: For pay ofDayton, Ohio. Current expenses. officers and noncommissioned officers of the home, with such exceptions as are hereinafter noted, and their clerks, weighmasters, and orderlies; chaplains, religious instruction, and entertainment for the members of the home, printers, bookbinders, librarians, musicians, telegraph and telephone operators, guards, janitors, watchmen, fire company, and property and materials purchased for their use, including repairs not done by the home; articles of amusement, library books, magazines, papers, pictures, and musical instruments, and repaire not done by the home; stationery, advertising, legal advice, payments due heirs of deceased members: *Provided*, That all receipts*Proviso*.
Effects of deceased members. on account of the effects of deceased members during the fiscal year shall also be available for such payments; and for such other expenditures as can not properly be included under other heads of expenditures, $60,000; Subsistence: For pay of commissary sergeants, commissary clerks,Subsistence. porters, laborers, bakers, cooks, dishwashers, waiters, and others employed in the subsistence department; food supplies, except articles of special diet for the sick, purchased for the subsistence of the members of the home and civilian employees regularly employed and residing at the branch, their freight, preparation, and serving; aprons, caps, and jackets for kitchen and dining-room employees; tobacco; dining-room and kitchen furniture and utensils, bakers’ and butchers tools and appliances, and their repair not done by the home, $250,000;
Household: For furniture for officers’ quarters; bedsteads,Household. bedding, bedding material, and all other articles required in the quarters of the members, and of civilian employees permanently employed and residing at the branch, and their repair, if not repaired by the home; fuel, including fuel for cooking, heat, and light; engineers and firemen, bathhouse keepers, janitors, laundry employees, and for all labor, materials, and appliances required for household use, and repairs, if not repaired by the home, $103,000;
Hospital: For pay of assistant surgeons, matrons, druggists, hospitalHospital. clerks and stewards, ward masters, nurses, cooks, waiters, readers, drivers, funeral escort, janitors, and for such other services as may be necessary for the care of the sick; burial of the dead; surgical instruments and appliances, medical books, medicine, liquors, fruits, and other necessaries for the sick not purchased under subsistence: bedsteads, bedding, and bedding materials, and all other special articles necessary for the wards; hospital furniture, including special articles and appliances for hospital kitchen and dining room; carriage, hearse, stretchers, coffins; and for all repairs to hospital furniture and appliances not done by the home, $76,000;
Transportation: For transportation of members of the home,Transportation. $1,200. Repairs: For pay of chief engineer, builders, blacksmiths, carpenters,Repairs. painters, gas fitters, electrical workers, plumbers, tinsmiths, steam fitters, stone and brick masons, and laborers, and for all appliances and materials used under this head; and repairs of roads and other improvements of a permanent character, $60,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*. Restriction on new buildings That no part of the appropriation for repairs for any of the branch homes shall be used for the construction of any new building;
Farm: For pay of farmer, chief gardener, harness makers, farm Farm.hands, gardeners, horseshoers, stablemen, teamsters, dairymen, herders, and laborers; tools, appliances, and materials required for farm, garden, and dairy work; grain, and grain products, hay, straw, fertilizers, seed, carriages, wagons, carts, and other conveyances; 138animals purchased for stock or work (including animals in the park); gasoline; materials, tools, and labor for flower garden, lawn, park, and cemetery; and construction of roads and walks, and repairs not done by the home, $23,000;
In all, $573,200. Milwaukee, Wis. Current expenses.Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $140,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $62,000, of which sum $4,000 shall be immediately available;
Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $44,000; Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $600; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $30,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $8,000; In all, $329,600. Togus, Me. Current expenses.Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $43,000;
Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $112,500; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $68,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $38,000; Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $800; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $30,000;
Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $16,000; In all, $308,300. Hampton, Va. Current expenses.Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $45,000; Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $170,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $65,000;
Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $43,000; Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $1,200; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $40,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $9,000: In all, $373,200. Leavenworth, Kans. Current expenses.Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $48,000;
Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $190,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $90,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $52,000; 139 For transportation of members of the home, $1,000;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headRepairs. for the Central Branch, $50,000;
For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, $17,000; In all, $448,000. Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For current expenses, Santa Monica, Cal. Current expanses.including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $46,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, $215,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, $61,000;
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, $53,000; For transportation of members of the home, $2,500;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headRepairs. for the Central Branch, $42,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, $12,000; For enlargement of sewage disposal plant, $10,000;Sewage disposal plant. In all, $441,500. Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana:
For current expenses, includingMarlon, Ind. Current expenses. the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $42,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, $126,000; For household, including the same objects specified under thisHousehold. head for the Central Branch, $47,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, $40,000; For transportation of members of the home, $600;Transportation.
For repairs, including the same objects specified under this headRepairs. for the Central Branch, $38,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this headFarm. for the Central Branch, $12,000; In all, $305,600. Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For current expenses, includingDanville, Ill. Current expenses. the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $46,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under thisSubsistence. head for the Central Branch, $178,000;
For household, including the same objects specified under this headHousehold. for the Central Branch, $68,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this headHospital. for the Central Branch, $42,000; For transportation of members of the home, $1,000;Transportation. For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head Repairs.for the Central Branch, $31,000; For farm, including the same objects specified under this head forFarm. the Central Branch, $10,000;
In all, $376,000. Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: For current expenses,Johnson City, Tenn. Current expenses. including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $39,000; For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this Subsistence.head for the Central Branch, $115,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this Household.head for the Central Branch, $42,000; 140 Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $35,000;
Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $1,500; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $28,000; Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $16,000; In all, $276,500. Hot Springs, S. Dak. Current expenses.Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For current expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $23,000;
Subsistence.For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch. $45,000; Household.For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $41,000; Hospital.For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $35,000; Transportation.For transportation of members of the home, $5,000; Repairs.For repairs, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $14,000;
Farm.For farm, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch, $5,000; In all, $168,000. Clothing for all branches.Clothing for all branches: For clothing, underclothing, hats, caps, boots, shoes, socks, and overalls; labor, materials, machines, tools, and appliances employed, and for use in the tailor shops, knitting shops, and shoe shops, or other home shops in which any kind of clothing is made or repaired, $250,000. Board of managers. Salaries, etc.Board of managers:
President, $4,000; secretary, $500; general treasurer, who shall not be a member of the board of managers, $4,500; inspector general and chief surgeon, $4,000; assistant general treasurer and assistant inspector general, $3,000; assistant inspector general, $3,000; clerical services for the offices of the president, general treasurer, and inspector general and chief surgeon, $14,500; clerical services for managers, $2,700; traveling expenses of the board of managers, their officers, and employees, including officers of branch homes when detailed on inspection work, $10,000; outside relief, $100; legal services, medical examinations, stationery, telegrams, and other incidental expenses, $2,700; in all, $49,000.
Report on discontinuing unnecessary homes.The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to report to Congress, not later than January first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, what branch or branches of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, if any, can be discontinued without prejudice to the care of the persons entitled to admission to the home. In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $3,898,900: *Proviso*. Intoxicants.*Provided*, That no part of the foregoing appropriations shall be .expended for any purpose at any branch of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers that maintains or permits to be maintained on its premises a bar, canteen, or other place where beer, wine, or other intoxicating liquors are sold.
State or Territorial homes. Vol. 25, p. 450.State or Territorial homes for disabled soldiers and sailors: For continuing aid to State or Territorial homes for the support of disabled volunteer soldiers, in conformity with the Act approved August twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-eight, including all classes of soldiers admissible to the National Home for Disabled *Provisos*. Intoxicants.Volunteer Soldiers, $1,030,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be apportioned to any State or Territorial home that maintains a bar or canteen where intoxicating liquors are sold:
Collections from inmates.*Provided further*, That for any sum or sums collected in any manner from inmates of such State or Territorial homes to be used for the 141support of said homes a like amount shall be deducted from the aid herein provided for, but this proviso shall not apply to any State or Territorial home into which the wives or widows of soldiers are admitted and maintained. back pay and bounty.Back pay and bounty. For arrears of pay of two and three year volunteers, for bounty toPayment of Civil War.
Vol. 14, p. 322. volunteers and their widows and legal heirs, for bounty under the Act of July twenty-eighth, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, and forCommutation of rations. amounts for commutation of rations to prisoners of war in States of the so-called Confederacy, and to soldiers on furlough, that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $25,000. For arrears of pay and allowances on account of service of officersWar with Spain, etc. and men of the Army during the War with Spain and in the Philippine Islands that may be certified to be due by the accounting officers of the Treasury during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen and that are chargeable to the appropriations that have been carried to the surplus fund, $1,000.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. public buildings.Public buildings. Repairs of buildings: For repairs of Interior Department andRepairs to Department buildings. Pension Buildings, and of the General Land Office Building, occupied by the Interior Department, including preservation and repair of steam-heating and electric-lighting plants and elevators, $30,000 of which sum not exceeding $7,500 may be expended for day labor except for work done by contract. Capitol Buildings:
For work at the Capitol and for general repairs Capitol. Repairs, etc. Vol. 39, p. 1107.thereof, including flags for the east and west fronts of the center of the Capitol and for Senate and House Office Buildings; flagstaffs, halyards, and tackle: wages of mechanics and laborers; purchase, maintenance, and driving of motor-propelled, passenger-carrying office vehicle; and not exceeding $100 for the purchase of technical and necessary reference books and city directory, $30,000.
For painting and extraordinary repairs of the Capitol Building,Painting, etc. including each and every item connected therewith, $38,674.07, to be available immediately. For continuing the work of cleaning and repairing works of art inWorks of art. the Capitol, including repairs to frames, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $1,500. Capitol Grounds: For care and improvement of grounds surrounding Improving grounds.the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, pay of one clerk, mechanics, gardeners, fertilizers, repairs to pavements, walks, and roadways, $30,000.
For reconstruction of the walls, sidewalks, tunnel, and portions ofReconstructing walls, etc., cast side of grounds. the roadways on the east side of the Capitol Grounds, including each and every item connected therewith, $30,287.50, to be available immediately. For repairs and improvements to steam fire-engine house, Senate Repairs to stables, etc.and House stables, and repairs to and paving of floors and courtyards of same, including personal services, $1,500; this and the five foregoingPurchases.
Vol. 36, p. 531. sums may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be expended for purchases of articles without reference to section four of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, concerning purchases for executive departments. 142 Enlarging Capitol Grounds. Reappropriation for removing buildings, etc. Vol. 39, p. 298.The unexpended balances of the appropriations heretofore made for expenses of removal of the buildings or other structures upon the land acquired for the enlargement of the Capitol Grounds, for grading, seeding, and soiling, and preparation of plans for permanently improving the same, are reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Public lands.public lands service. Registers and receivers.Registers and receivers: For salaries and commissions of registers of district land offices and receivers of public moneys at district land offices, at not exceeding $3,000 per annum each, $500,000. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and other incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the exchange Per diem subsistence.of typewriters; per diem, in lieu of subsistence, of clerks detailed to examine the books and management of district land offices and to assist in the operation of said offices, and in the opening of new land offices and reservations, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen Vol. 38, p. 680.of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for actual necessary traveling expenses *Proviso*.
Expenditures restricted.of said clerks, including necessary sleeping-car fares: *Provided*, That no expenses chargeable to the Government shall be incurred by registers and receivers in the conduct of local land offices except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, $400,000. Depositing moneys.Depositing public moneys: For expenses of depositing money received from the disposal of public lands, by registered mail, bank exchange, or otherwise, as may be directed by the Secretary of the Interior, and under rules to be approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, $1,000.
Timber depredations, protecting, and swamp and claims. Vol. 39, p. 1107.Depreciations on public timber, protecting public lands, and settlement of claims for swamp land and swamp-land indemnity: For protecting timber on the public lands, and for the more efficient execution of the law and rules relating to the cutting thereof; of protecting public lands from illegal and fraudulent entry or appropriation, and of adjusting claims for swamp lands, and indemnity or swamp lands, including not exceeding $15,000 for clerical services in bringing up and making current the work of the General Land Office, $475,000, including not exceeding $5,000 for the purchase of motorcycles and a motor boat for the use of agents and others employed in the field service and for operation, maintenance, and *Provisos*.
Service pay established.exchange of same: *Provided*, That the compensation of the chief of field service employed hereunder shall not exceed $3,500 per annum and the compensation of all others employed hereunder shall not exceed $2,700 per annum each, except in Alaska where a compensation not to exceed $3,000 per annum may be allowed: Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38, p. 680.*Provided further*, That agents and others employed under this appropriation may be allowed per diem in lieu of subsistence, pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, at a rate not exceeding $3 each and actual necessary expenses for transportation, including necessary sleeping-car Alaska service.fares, except when agents are employed in Alaska they may be allowed not exceeding $5 per day each in lieu of subsistence.
Oregon and California railroad lands. Protection, etc. Vol. 39, p. 218.For the protection of lands involved in Oregon and California Railroad forfeiture suit: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, with the cooperation of the Secretary of Agriculture or otherwise, as in his judgment may be most advisable, to establish and maintain a patrol to prevent trespass and to guard against and check fires upon the lands involved in the case of the United States versus Oregon and California Railroad Company and others, suit numbered thirty-three 143hundred and forty, in the district court for the district of Oregon, now pending on appeal in the Supreme Court of the United States, $25,000.
Hearings in land entries: For hearings or other proceedings heldHearings in land entries. by order of the Commissioner of the General Land Office to determine the character of lands; whether alleged fraudulent entries are of that character or have been made in compliance with law; and of hearings in disbarment proceedings, $35,000: *Provided*, That where depositions*Proviso*. Fees for depositions. are taken for use in such hearings the fees of the officer taking them shall be 20 cents per folio for taking and certifying same and 10 cents per folio for each copy furnished to a party on request.
Reproducing plats of surveys: To enable the Commissioner of theReproducing plats of surveys. General Land Office to continue to reproduce worn and defaced official plats of surveys on file, and other plats constituting a part of the records of said office, to furnish local land offices with the same, and for reproducing by photolithography original plats of surveys prepared in the offices of surveyors general, $5,000. Restoration of lands in forest reserves: To enable the Secretary ofNational forests.
Advertising restoration of lands in. the Interior to advertise the restoration to the public domain of lands in forest reserves or of lands temporarily withdrawn for forest reserve purposes, $15,000. Opening Indian reservations (reimbursable): For expenses pertainingOpening Indian reservations to entry. to the opening to entry and settlement of such Indian reservation lands as may be opened during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen: *Provided*, That the expenses pertaining to the opening of*Proviso*.
Reimbursement. each of said reservations and paid for out of this appropriation shall be reimbursed to the United States from the money received from the sale of the lands embraced in said reservations, respectively, $15,000. surveying the public lands. Surveying.For surveys and resurveys of public lands, under the supervision Expenses. Vol. 39, p. 1107.of the Commissioner of the General Land Office and direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $700,000: *Provided*, That in expending this*Provisos*.
Preferences. appropriation preference shall be given, first, in favor of surveying townships occupied in whole or in part by actual settlers and of landsVol. 25, p. 616. granted to the States by the Act approved February twenty-second,Vol. 26, pp. 215, 222. eighteen hundred and eighty-nine, and the Acts approved July third and July tenth, eighteen hundred and ninety, and to survey under such other Acts as provide for land grants to the several States and Territories, and such indemnity lands as the several States and Territories may be entitled to in lieu of lands granted them for educational and other purposes which may have been sold or included in some reservation or otherwise disposed of, except railroad land grants, and other surveys shall include lands adapted to agriculture and lands deemed advisable to survey on account of availability for irrigation or dry farming, fines of reservations, and lands within boundaries of forest reservations.
The surveys and resurveys providedPay of surveyors. for in this appropriation to be made by such competent surveyors as the Secretary of the Interior may select, at such compensation, not exceeding $200 per month each, as he may prescribe, except that the Secretary of the Interior may appoint not to exceed two supervisorsSupervisors of surveys. of surveys, whose compensation shall not exceed $250 per month each, except in the District of Alaska, where a compensation not exceeding $10 per day may be allowed such surveyors and such per diem in lieuPer diem subsistence.
Vol. 38, p. 680. of subsistence, not exceeding $3, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and actual necessary expenses for transportation including necessary sleeping-car fares, said per diem and traveling expenses to be allowed to all surveyors employed here 144under and to such clerks who are competent surveyors who may be Resurveys, etc.detailed to make surveys, resurveys, or examinations of surveys heretofore made and reported to be defective or fraudulent, and inspecting mineral deposits, coal fields, and timber districts, and for making, by such competent surveyors, fragmentary surveys, and such other surveys or examinations as may be required for identification of lands for purposes of evidence in any suit or proceeding in behalf of Amount for section corners.the United States: *Provided further*, That the sum of not exceeding ten per centum of the amount hereby appropriated may be expended by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, for the purchase of metal or other equally durable monuments to be used for public-land survey corners Bringing up arrears of office work.wherever practicable: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $25,000 of the above amount may be used to bring up the arrears of office work in surveyors generals offices upon returns of surveys filed therein prior to the passage of this Act.
Abandoned reservations.Abandoned reservations: For necessary expenses of survey, Vol. 23, p. 103.appraisal, and sale of abandoned military reservations transferred to the control of the Secretary of the Interior under the provisions of an Act of Congress approved July fifth, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, and any law prior thereto, including a custodian of the ruin of Casa Grande.Casa Grande, $5,000. Geological Survey.united states geological survey. Salaries, Director, etc.Office of Director:
Director, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chief disbursing clerk, $2,500; librarian, $2,000; photographer, $2,000; assistant photographers—one $900, one $720; clerks—one of class two, three of class one, one $1,000, four at $900 each; four copyists, at $720 each; watchmen—one $840, four at $720 each; janitor, $600; four messenger boys, at $480 each; in all, $35,340; Scientific assistants.Scientific assistants: Geologists—two at $4,000 each, one $3,000, one $2,700; two paleontologists, at $2,000 each; chemist, $3,000; geographers—one $2,700, one $2,500; two topographers, at $2,000 each; in all, $29,900;
General expenses. Vol. 39, p. 1107.General expenses: For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized work of the Geological Survey, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, including the purchase, hire, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for field use only by geologists, topographers, and engineers, to be expended under the regulations from time to time proscribed by the Secretary of the *Proviso*.
Minor purchases of supplies.Interior, and under the following heads: *Provided*, That hereafter the purchase of supplies or the procurement of services outside the District of Columbia may be made in open market in the manner common among businessmen when the aggregate amount of the purchase does not exceed $50; Skilled laborers, etc.For pay of skilled laborers and various temporary employees, $20,000; Topographic surveys.For topographic surveys in various portions of the United States, *Proviso*.
Preference for Army areas.$350,000: *Provided*, That in expending this sum preference shall be given special topographic surveys of areas selected by the War Department and in securing such extra topographic data as are requested by the War Department in these or other areas; Geologic surveys.For geologic surveys in the various portions of the United States, $350,000; Alaska mineral resources.For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, $100,000, to be immediately available;
Chemical and physical researches.For chemical and physical researches relating to the geology of the United States, including researches with a view of determining 145geological conditions favorable to the presence of deposits of potashPotash salts. salts, $40,000; For preparation of the illustrations of the Geological Survey,Illustrations. $18,280; For preparation of the report of the mineral resources of the UnitedMineral resources report. States, $75,000; For gauging streams and determining the water supply of theWater supply.
United States, the investigation of underground currents and artesian wells, and the preparation of reports upon the best methods of utilizing the water resources, $175,000, of which $25,000 may be used to testBoring wells. the existence of artesian and other underground water supplies suitable for irrigation in the arid and semiarid regions by boring Wells; For purchase of necessary books for the library, including directoriesLibrary. and professional and scientific periodicals needed for statistical purposes, $2,000;
For discovering, developing, protecting, and rendering more Water holes, etc., on arid lands. Vol. 30, p. 865.accessible springs, streams, and water holes on arid public lands of the United States; for erecting and maintaining suitable and durable monuments and signboards; and for providing convenient and ready means, apparatus, and appliances by which water may be brought to the earth’s surface, $10,000; For engraving and printing geologic maps, $120,000;Maps. For continuation of topographic surveys of the public lands thatNational forests surveys. have been or may hereafter be designated as national forests, $75,000;
For the examination and classification of lands requisite to theClassifying lands for enlarged homesteads, etc. determination of their suitability for enlarged homesteads, stock-raising homesteads, public watering places, and stock driveways, as required by the public land laws, to be immediately available, $150,000; In all, United States Geological Survey, $1,550,520. bureau of mines.Bureau of Mines. For general expenses, including pay of the director and necessaryGeneral expenses.
Salaries, etc. Vol. 30, p. 1107. assistants, clerks, and other employees, in the office at Washington, District of Columbia, and in the field, and every other expense requisite for and incident to the general work of the bureau in Washington, District of Columbia, and in the field, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $73,300; For investigation as to the causes of mine explosions, methods of Investigating mine explosions, etc.mining, especially in relation to the safety of miners, the appliances best adapted to prevent accidents, the possible improvement of conditions under which mining operations are carried on, the use of explosives and electricity, the prevention of accidents, and other inquiries and technologic investigations pertinent to the miffing industry, and including all equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $353,800;
For investigation of mineral fuels and unfinished mineral productsTesting mineral fuels, etc. belonging to or for the use of the United States, with a view to their most efficient mining, preparation, treatment, and use, and to recommendEconomic use in departments. to various departments such changes in selection and use of fuel as may result in greater economy, and including all equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel and subsistence, $135,000; For inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerningInquiries of economic conditions of mining, etc. the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances, with a view to improving health conditions and increasing safety, efficiency, economic development, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the miffing, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries; and including 146*Proviso*.
Private work forbidden.all equipment, supplies, expenses of travel, and subsistence: *Provided*, That no part thereof may be used for investigation in behalf of any private party, $100,000; Petroleum and natural gas investigations.For inquiries and investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of petroleum and natural gas, with a view to economic development and conserving resources through the prevention of waste; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting the industry, including equipment, supplies, and expenses of travel, and subsistence, $100,000;
Personal services in District of Columbia. Allowances for.Not exceeding twenty per centum of the preceding sums for investigation as to the causes of mine explosions; for inquiries and scientific and technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization for ores and other mineral substances; for inquiries and investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of petroleum and natural gas; and not exceeding thirty per centum of the preceding sum for investigation of mineral fuels and unfinished mineral products belonging to or for the use of the United States, may be used during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen for personal service in the District of Columbia.
Details from Public Health Service authorized.The Secretary of the Treasury may detail medical officers of the Public Health Service for cooperative health, safety, or sanitation work with the Bureau of Mines, and the compensation and expenses of officers so detailed may be paid from the applicable appropriations made herein for the Bureau of Mines. Mining experiment Stations. Vol. 38, p. 959.For the employment of personal services and all other expenses in connection with the establishment, maintenance, and operation of mining experiment stations, authorized by the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $150,000;
Pittsburgh experiment station. Balances available.The unexpended balances of the appropriations of $57,300 and $42,700 made in the sundry civil appropriation Acts for the fiscal Vol. 38, p. 858; Vol. 39, p. 302.years nineteen hundred and sixteen and nineteen hundred and seventeen toward dismantling and removal of the plant of the Pittsburgh Mining Experiment Station and installation in the new buildings in Pittsburgh constructed under the authority contained in section Vol. 37, p. 888.twenty-six of the public buildings Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, including the employment of necessary labor; machinery, appliances, materials and supplies, furniture and office equipment, cases for apparatus, shades, awnings, and all other articles made necessary by such removal to fully equip and furnish these new buildings for laboratory and office purposes, are made available for expenditure for these purposes during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen;
Improving grounds, etc., new site.For the filling, grading, and general improvement of the grounds at Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, on which the new Bureau of Mines Experimental mine, Bruceton, Pa.buildings are located, and for removal to and installation on grounds of the experimental mine at Bruceton, Pennsylvania, of the machinery, apparatus, and so forth, used in the physical testing of explosives, $35,000, to be immediately available; Additional services.For such additional personal services as may be necessary for the care and maintenance of the new buildings at Pittsburgh, $17,220;
Additional rescue cars.For purchase of three additional mine rescue cars, $81,750; For equipment for three new mine rescue cars, $13,500; Operation of rescue cars. Vol. 38, p. 959.For operation of mine rescue cars, including personal services, traveling expenses and subsistence, materials and supplies, authorized by the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and fifteen; to be available for expenditure on any preliminary work that may be found necessary in connection with such of the cars as are to be purchased prior to the time of their actual delivery, $98,000; 147 For one mine inspector for duty in Alaska, $3,000;Mine inspector, Alaska.
For clerk to mine inspector of Alaska, $1,500; For per diem, subject to such rules and regulations as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, in lieu of subsistence at a rate not exceeding $4 when absent on official business from his designated headquarters, and for actual necessary traveling and contingent expenses of said inspector, $2,500; For technical and scientific books and publications and book of Library.reference, $1,500; For purchase or lease of necessary land, where and under suchHeadquarters for rescue cars, etc. conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may direct, for the headquarters of mine rescue cars and construction of necessary railway sidings and housing for the same, or as the site of an experimental mine and a plant for studying explosives, $1,000: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.
Acceptance of lands, etc. Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept any suitable land or lands, buildings, or improvements, that may be donated for said purpose and to enter into leases for periods not exceeding ten years, subject to annual appropriations by Congress; Persons employed during the fiscal year nineteen hundred andTemporary details of field employees. eighteen in field work, outside of the District of Columbia, under the Bureau of Mines, may be detailed temporarily for service in Washington, District of Columbia, for purposes of preparing results of their field work; all persons so detailed shall be paid in addition to their regular compensation only their actual traveling expenses or per diem in lieu of subsistence in going to and returning therefrom: *Provided*, That nothing herein shall prevent the payment to employees*Proviso*.
Payment of necessary expenses, etc. of the Bureau of Mines their necessary expenses or per dicm, in lieu of subsistence while on temporary detail in Washington, District of Columbia, for purposes only of consultation or investigations on behalf of the United States. All details made hereunder, and the purposes of each, during the preceding fiscal year, shall be reported in the annual estimates of appropriations to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof; In all, Bureau of Mines, $1,167,070. reclamation service.Reclamation Service.
The following sums are appropriated out of the special fund inPayments from reclamation fund. Vol. 32, p. 388. the Treasury of the United States created by the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, and therein designated “the reclamation fund”: For all expenditures authorized by the Act of June seventeenth, All expenditures. Vol. 33, p. 690.nineteen hundred and two (Thirty-second Statutes, page three hundred and eighty-eight), and Acts amendatory thereof and supplementary thereto, known as the reclamation law, and all other Acts under which expenditures from said fund are authorized, includingObjects designated. salaries in the city of Washington and elsewhere; rent of office quarters in the city of Washington, $8,040, and for rent elsewhere; examination of estimates for appropriations in the field; printing and binding; law books, books of reference, periodicals, engineering and statistical publications, not exceeding $1,500; purchase, maintenance, and operation of horse-drawn or motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles; payment of damages caused to the owners of lands or private property of any kind by reason of the operations of the United States, its officers or employees, in the survey, construction, operation, or maintenance of irrigation works, and which may be compromised by agreement between the claimant and the Secretary of the Interior, namely:
Salt River project, Arizona: For maintenance, operation, continuationSalt River, Ariz. of construction, and incidental operations, $458,000; 148 Yuma, Ariz.-Cal.Yuma project, Arizona-California: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $500,000; Orland, Cal.Orland project, California: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $43,000; Grand Valley, Colo.Grand Valley project, Colorado: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $192,000;
Uncompahgre, Colo.Uncompahgre project, Colorado: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $398,000; Boise, Idaho.Boise project, Idaho: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $396,000; King Hill, Idaho.King Hill project, Idaho: For beginning construction, maintenance, *Proviso*. Determination of project before using.operation, and incidental operations, $200,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended until the Secretary of the Interior shall have determined that the said King Hill project is Vol. 32, p. 389.practicable, as provided by section four of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and two, known as the reclamation Act, and shall have adopted the said project under and subject to the provisions and conditions of the said reclamation Act;
Minidoka, Idaho.Minidoka project, Idaho: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $222,000; Garden City, Kans.Garden City project, Kansas: For maintenance, operation, and *Proviso*. Sale of machinery, etc.incidental operations, $1,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to sell the machinery and equipment at the Garden City, Kansas, project at not less than its appraised value and cover the proceeds of such sale into the reclamation fund;
Huntley, Mont.Huntley project, Montana: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $171,000; Milk River, Mont.Milk River project, Montana: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $330,000; Sun River, Mont.Sun River project, Montana: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $128,000; Lower Yellowstone, Mont.-N. Dak.Lower Yellowstone project, Montana-North Dakota:
For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $38,000; North Platte, Nebr.-Wyo.North Platte project, Nebraska-Wyoming: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $1,-170,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen; Truckee-Carson,Nev.Truckee-Carson project, Nevada: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $795,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen;
Carlsbad, N.Mex.Carlsbad project, New Mexico: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $64,000; Rio Grande, N. Max., Tex.Rio Grande project, New Mexico-Texas: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $648,-000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen: *Proviso*. Use tor drainage restricted. *Post*, p. 426.*Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for drainage except in irrigation districts formed under State laws and upon the execution of agreements for the repayment to the United States of all project investments;
North Dakota pumping.North Dakota pumping project, North Dakota: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $54,000; Lawton, Okla.Lawton project, Oklahoma: For maintenance, operation, continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $101,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen. 149 Umatilla project, Oregon: For maintenance, operation, continuationUmatilla, Oreg. of construction, and incidental operations, $157,000;
Klamath project, Oregon-California: For maintenance, operation,Klamath, Oreg.-Cal. continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $239,000; Belle Fourche project, South Dakota: For maintenance, operation,Belle Fourche, S. Dak. continuation of construction, and incidental operations, $274,000; Strawberry Valley project, Utah: For maintenance, operation, continuationStrawberry Valley, Utah. of construction, and incidental operations, $170,000; Okanogan project, Washington:
For maintenance, operation, continuationOkanogan, Wash. of construction, and incidental operations, $32,000; Yakima project, Washington: For maintenance, operation, continuationYakima, Wash. of construction, and incidental operations, $1,144,000; Shoshone project, Wyoming: For maintenance, operation, continuationShoshone, Wyo. of construction, and incidental operations, $252,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this project for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen;
For cooperative and other miscellaneous investigations (secondarySecondary projects. projects), $50,000; Under the provisions of this Act no greater sum shall be expended,Expenditures restricted to allotments, etc. nor shall the United States be obligated to expend, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, on any reclamation project appropriated for herein an amount in excess of the sum herein appropriated therefor, nor shall the whole expenditures or obligations incurred for all of such projects for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen exceed the whole amount in the “reclamation fund” for that fiscal year;
Ten per centum of the foregoing amounts shall be available interchangeablyInterchangeable amounts. for expenditure on the reclamation projects named; but not more than ten per centum shall be added to the amount appropriated for any one of said projects; The Act of June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixthAnnual reimbursement to Treasury extended, etc. Vol. 36, p. 835, amended. Statutes, page eight hundred and thirty-five), is amended to provide that reimbursement of the moneys advanced under the provisions of that Act shall be made by transferring annually the sum of $1,000,000 from the reclamation fund to the general funds in the Treasury, beginning July first, nineteen hundred and twenty, and continuing until full reimbursement has been made;
All moneys heretofore or hereafter refunded or received in connectionMoneys refunded to be credited to projects. with operations under the reclamation law, except repayments of construction and operation and maintenance charges, shall be a credit to the appropriation for the project or operation from or on account of which the collection is made and shall be available for expenditure in like manner as if said sum had been specifically appropriated for said project or operation.
In all, for the Reclamation Service, $8,227,000. For reimbursement to the reclamation fund the proportionateYakima Indian Reservation, Wash. Reimbursement to fund for furnishing water to lands in. expense of operation and maintenance of the reservoirs for furnishing stored water to the lands in Yakima Indian Reservation, Washington, in accordance with the provisions of section twenty-two of the Act of August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen (Thirty-eighthVol. 38, p. 604. Statutes, page six hundred and four), there is appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, for the fiscal years that follow:
Nineteen hundred and fifteen to nineteen hundred and seventeen, inclusive, $13,100; Nineteen hundred and eighteen, $8,110; In all, $21,210. 150 Miscellaneous.testimony in disbarment proceedings. Disbarment proceedings.To enable the Secretary of the Interior to take testimony, and prepare the same, in connection with disbarment proceedings instituted against persons charged with improper practices before the department, its bureaus and offices, $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Alaska expenses.alaska, expenses in. Alaska Engineering Commission. Construction of railroads. Vol. 38, p. 305.Alaska Engineering Commission: For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March twelfth, nineteen hundred and fourteen (Thirty-eighth Statutes, page three hundred and five), entitled “An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other Hearings, etc.purposes,” including expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations in Alaska, and including not to exceed $6,588.92 for claims for premiums on insurance incurred prior to October thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to continue available until expended, $7,500,000.
Sale of supplies.Authority is granted to purchase during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, from the appropriation made for the construction and operation of railroads in Alaska, articles and supplies for sale to employees and contractors, the appropriation to be reimbursed by the proceeds of such sales. Receipts from sales, etc., credited to construction account.During the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, there shall be covered into the appropriation established from time to time under the Act approved March twelfth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,” the proceeds of the sale of material utilized for temporary work and structures in connection with the operations under said Act, as well as the sales of all other condemned property which has been purchased or constructed under the provisions thereof, also any moneys refunded in connection with the construction and operations under said Act, and a report hereunder shall be made to Congress at the beginning of its next session.
Care of insane.Insane of Alaska: For care and custody of persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, $70,000. Education.Education in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in his discretion and under his direction, to provide for the education and support of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; erection, repair, and rental of school buildings; textbooks and industrial apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of superintendents, teachers, physicians, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, $200,000; not exceeding $25,000 of which Supplies, etc.sum for the purchase of supplies and payment of freight on same, and for payment of labor and material for building and freight on *Provisos*.
Limit of pay.same, shall be immediately available: *Provided*, That no person employed hereunder as special agent or inspector, or to perform any special or unusual duty in connection herewith, shall receive as compensation exceeding $200 per month, in addition to actual traveling expenses and per diem not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence, when absent on duty from his designated and actual post of Services in District of Columbia.duty: *Provided further*, That of said sum not exceeding $7,000 may be expended for personal services in the District of Columbia.
Supervision of school expenditures.All expenditures of money appropriated herein for school purposes in Alaska for schools other than those for the education of white children under the jurisdiction of the governor thereof shall be under 151the supervision and direction of the Commissioner of Education and in conformity with such conditions, rules, and regulations as to conduct and methods of instruction and expenditure of money as may from time to time be recommended by him and approved by the Secretary of the Interior.
Medical relief in Alaska: To enable the Secretary of the Interior,Medical and sanitary relief of natives. in his discretion and under his direction, with the advice and cooperation of the Public Health Service, to provide for the medical and sanitary relief of the Eskimos, Aleuts, Indians, and other natives of Alaska; erection, purchase, repair, rental, and equipment of hospital buildings; hooks and surgical apparatus; pay and necessary traveling expenses of physicians, nurses, and other employees, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under the above special heads, $62,500.
Patients who are not indigent may be admitted to the hospitalsAdmission of pay patients. for care and treatment on the payment of such reasonable charges therefor as the Secretary of the Interior shall prescribe. Reindeer for Alaska: For support of reindeer stations in Alaska andReindeer. instruction of Alaskan natives in the care and management of reindeer, $5,000. Protection of game in Alaska: For carrying out tire Act approvedProtection of game. Vol. 35, p. 102. May eleventh, nineteen hundred and eight, entitled “Au Act for the protection of game in Alaska, and for other purposes,” including salaries, traveling expenses of game wardens, and all other necessary expenses, $20,000, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska.
Traffic in intoxicating liquors: For suppression of the traffic inSuppressing liquor traffic. Vol. 39, p. 903. intoxicating liquors among the natives of Alaska, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $15,000. national parks.National parks. National Park Service: Director, $4,500; assistant director, $2,500;Director of National Park Service, etc. chief clerk, $2,000; draftsman, $1,800; clerks—one of class three, two of class two, two at $900 each; messenger, $600; in all, for park service in the District of Columbia, $17,600.
Yellowstone National Park: For administration and protection, Yellowstone.including not exceeding $600 for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use of the superintendent in making inspections of the park, $5,500: *Provided*,*Proviso*. No pay for details of troops. Vol. 22, p. 626. That no part of this appropriation or the revenues of the Yellowstone National Park shall be used for payment of salaries for the protection of the park, authorized by the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eight-three, to be performed by the detail of troops.
For procuring feed tor buffalo, salaries of buffalo keepers, seedingCare of buffalo. and fencing new meadowlands, irrigation, and so forth, $5,000, to be available immediately. Glacier National Park, Montana: For administration and improvement,Glacier. construction of roads, trails, bridges, and telephone lines and the repair thereof, including necessary repairs to the roads from Glacier Park Station through the Blackfeet Indian Reservation to various points in the boundary line of the Glacier National Park, including $1,970 for the purchase and the maintenance of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for the use of the supervisor and employees in connection with general park work, $115,000.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized, in his discretion, toAcceptance of donations. accept buildings, moneys, or other property winch may be useful in the betterment of the administration and affairs of the Glacier National Park under his supervision, and which may be donated for park purposes. 152 Yosemite.Yosemite National Park, California: For protection and improvement, construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads other than toll roads; including not exceeding $800 for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles for use of the supervisor and employees in connection with general park work, not exceeding $8,000 for a bridge at the old Sentinel Bridge site, and not exceeding $75,000 El Portal-Yosemite Road.
Power plant.for grading in width not exceeding twenty feet El Portal-Yosemite Road; also not exceeding $60,000 tor the completion of the installation of the hydroelectric power plant authorized by the sundry civil Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen; in all, *Proviso*. Balance available. Vol. 39, p.308.$235,-000: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance of the appropriation of $150,000 for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen for the hydroelectric power plant is made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Sequoia.Sequoia National Park, California: For protection and improvement, construction and repair of bridges, fences, and trails, improvement of roads other than toll roads, $25,000. General Grant.General Grant National Park, California: For protection and improvement, construction of fences and trails, and repairing and extension of roads, $2,000. Mount Rainier.Mount Rainier National Park, Washington: For protection and improvement, construction of roads, bridges, fences, and trails, and improvement of roads, including not exceeding $1,250 for the purchase of a motor-driven vehicle and the maintenance and repair thereof, $75,000.
Acceptance of donated lands, etc.Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept patented lands or rights of way over patented lands in the Mount Ranier National Park that may be donated for park purposes. Mesa Verde.Mesa Verde National Park, Colorado: For protection and improvement, including not exceeding $433 for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for use of the superintendent and employees, $10,000. Acceptance of donated lands, etc.Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept patented lands or rights of way over patented lands in the Mesa Verde National Park that may be donated for park purposes.
Grandfather Mountain, N. C. Acceptance of donated lands, etc.Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept for park purposes any lands and rights of way, including the Grandfather Mountain, near or adjacent to the Government forest reserve in western North Carolina. Rocky Mountain.Rocky Mountain National Park, Colorado: For protection and improvement, $10,000. Acceptance of donated lands, etc.Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept patented lands or rights of way over patented lands in the Rocky Mountain National Park that may be donated for park purposes.
Crater Lake.Crater Lake National Park, Oregon: For protection and improvement, and repairing and extension of roads, $15,000. Acceptance of donated lands, etc.Hereafter the Secretary of the Interior is authorized to accept Eatented lands or rights of way over patented lands in the Crater Lake National Park that may be donated for park purposes. Wind Cave.Wind Cave National Park, South Dakota: For improvement and protection, $2,500. Platt.Platt National Park, Oklahoma: For improvement and protection, $7,180.
National monuments. Protection, etc.Protection of national monuments: For the preservation, development, administration, and protection of the national monuments, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $5,000. 153 From and after July first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, all Revenues from parks to be covered Into the Treasury.revenues of the national parks, except Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas, shall be covered into the Treasury to the credit of miscellaneous receipts; and the Secretary of the Interior is directed toEstimates required hereafter. submit, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen and annually thereafter, estimates of the amounts required for the care, maintenance, and development of the said parks.
Hot Springs Reservation, Arkansas: For the employment of aHot Springs, Ark. Plans for improving, to be prepared. landscape engineer and such other expenses as may be required for the preparation of a practical and comprehensive plan, together with an accurate estimate of the cost thereof, for improving the Hot Springs Reservation, there is authorized to be expended from the revenues received from the said reservation the sum of $10,000. saint elizabeths hospital.Saint Elizabeths Hospital.
For support, clothing, and treatment in Saint Elizabeths HospitalMaintenance, etc. of the insane from the Army, Navy, Marine Corps, Coast Guard, inmates of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, persons charged with or convicted of crimes against the United States who are insane, all persons who have become insane since their entry into the military and naval service of the United States who have been admitted to the hospital and who are indigent, including purchase, exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, for the use of the superintendent, purchasing agent, and general hospital business, not exceeding $1,750; and not exceeding $8,200 for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of sixteen horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles for the general hospital business and official use of the superintendent, $300,000; and not exceeding $1,500 of this sum may be expended in the removal of patients to their friends, not exceeding $1,000 in the purchase of such books, periodicals, and papers as may be required for the purposes of the hospital and for the medical library, and not exceeding $1,500 for actual and necessary expenses incurred in the apprehension and return to the hospital of escaped patients.
Authority is granted hereafter to exchange laundry machineryExchange of equipment, etc. and other equipment in purchasing new equipment of the same or like character. For the buildings and grounds, as follows:Buildings and grounds. For general repairs and improvements, $55,000. For roadways, grading, and walks, $5,000. The appropriation of $14,000 for the fiscal year nineteen hundred Fence. Reappropriation. Vol. 39, p. 309.and seventeen for a new fence is made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. columbia institution for the deaf.Columbia Institution for the Deaf.
For support of the institution, including salaries and incidental Support, etc.expenses, books and illustrative apparatus, and general repairs and improvements, $71,500. For repairs to buildings of the institution, including plumbing andRepairs, etc. steam fitting, and for repairs to pavements within the grounds, $6,000. For the purchase and installation of typesetting and type-castingPrinting office installation. machinery, cylinder press, job press, stitching machine, type metal, and other necessary office fixtures and machinery for the complete equipment of a modern printing office to be used for the instruction of students and pupils of the institution, $7,000. 154 Howard University.howard university.
Maintenance, etc.For maintenance, to be used in payment of part of the salaries of the officers, professors, teachers, and other regular employees of the university, ice and stationery, the balance of which shall be paid from donations and other sources, of which sum not less than $1,500 shall be used for normal instruction, $65,000; For tools, materials, fuel, wages of instructors, and other necessary expenses of the department of manual arts, $12,000; For books, shelving, furniture, and fixtures for the libraries, $1,500;
For improvement of grounds and repaire of buildings, $10,000; Medical department.Medical department: For part cost of needed equipment, laboratory supplies, apparatus, and repair of laboratories and buildings, $7,000; For material and apparatus for chemical, physical, biological, and natural-history studies and use in laboratories of the science hall, including cases and shelving, $2,000; Fuel and light.Fuel and light: For part payment for fuel and light, Freedmen’s Hospital and Howard University, including necessary labor to care for and operate the same, $3,500;
In all, $101,000. Freedmen’s Hospital.freedmen’s hospital. Salaries, etc.For salaries and compensation of the surgeon in chief, not to exceed $3,000, and for all other professional and other services that may be required and expressly approved by the Secretary of the Interior, $32,640. A detailed statement of the expenditure of this sum shall be submitted to Congress; Contingent expenses.For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine, medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, motor-propelled ambulance, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $30,000;
In all, $62,640. Department of Justice.DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. public buildings. Penitentiaries. Leavenworth, Kans.Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For continuing construction, $100,000, to remain available until expended, all of which sum shall he so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary. Shop buildings.For the erection of shop buildings or factories and their appurtenances, $82,500. Atlanta, Ga.Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary:
For continuing construction, $130,000, to remain available until expended, all of which sum shall be so expended as to give the maximum amount of employment to the inmates of said penitentiary. Shop buildings.For the erection of shop buildings or factories and their appurtenances, $129,500. National Training School for Boys, D. C.National Training School for Boys: For a quarantine annex to the hospital building, $5,000. Use tor now buildings forbidden.Appropriations in this Act under the Department of Justice shall not be used for beginning the construction of any new or additional building, other than those specifically provided for herein, at any Federal penitentiary. 155 miscellaneous objects, department of justice.Miscellaneous.
Conduct of customs cases: Assistant Attorney General, $8,000; Conduct of customs cases. Assistant Attorney General, attorneys, etc. Vol. 36, p. 108.assistant attorney, $3,000; special attorneys and counselors at law in the conduct of customs cases, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General, as authorized by section thirty of the Act of August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine, $36,000; necessary clerical assistance and other employees at the seat of government and elsewhere, to be employed and their compensation fixed by the Attorney General; supplies, printing, traveling, and other miscellaneousSupplies, etc. and incidental expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $26,000; in all, $73,000.
For traveling expenses, fees, and mileage allowance of witnessesWitnesses, Board of General Appraisers. before the Board of United States General Appraisers, $3,000. Defending suits in claims against the United States: For necessaryDefending suits in claims. expenses incurred in the examination of witnesses and procuring of evidence in the matter of claims against the United States and such other expenses as may be necessary in defending suits in the Court of Claims, including not exceeding $500 for law books which shall be available to keep current existing sets of United States Supreme Court reports, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $17,000.
Defense in Indian depredation claims: For salaries and expenses inDefense, Indian depredation claims. defense of the Indian depredation claims, including not exceeding $6,000 for salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $13,000. Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecutionDetection and prosecution of crimes. of crimes against the United States; the investigation of the official acts, records, and accounts of marshals, attorneys, clerks, referees, and trustees of the United States courts and the Territorial courts, and United States commissioners, for which purpose all the official papers, records, and dockets of said officers, without exception, shall be examined by the agents of the Attorney General at any time; for the protection of the person of the President of the United States;
Protection of the President.for such other investigations regarding official matters under the control of the Department of Justice or the Department of State as may be directed by the Attorney General, hire of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles when necessary, per diem in lieuPer diem subsistence. of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundryVol. 38, p. 680. civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and including not to exceed $25,000 for necessary employees at the seat of government, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $600,000.
Inspection of prisons and prisoners: For the inspection of UnitedInspection of prisons, etc. States prisons and prisoners, and for the collection, classification, and preservation of criminal identification records and their exchange with the officials of State and other institutions, including salary of the assistant superintendent of prisons, $2,500; in all, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $10,000. Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and otherTraveling, etc., expenses.
Advances allowed. miscellaneous and emergency expenses, including advances made by the disbursing clerk, authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of the first paragraph of section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes,[R. S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718). to the contrary notwithstanding, $7,500. Enforcement of antitrust laws: For the enforcement of antitrustEnforcing antitrust laws. Vol. 38, p. 730. *Provisos*.
Use for prosecuting labor, etc., organizations forbidden. laws, including not exceeding $ 15,000 for salaries of necessary employ ees at the seat of government, $200,000: *Provided, however*, That no part of this money shall be spent in the prosecution of any organization or individual for entering into any combination or agreement 156having in view the increasing of wages, shortening of hours or bettering the conditions of labor, or for any act done in furtherance thereof, Associations of farmers, etc.not in itself unlawful: *Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the prosecution of producers of farm products and associations of fanners who cooperate and organize in an effort to and for the purpose to obtain and maintain a fair and reasonable price for their products.
Withdrawn oil lands. Expenses of suits affecting.Suits affecting withdrawn oil lands: To enable the Attorney General to represent and protect the interests of the United States in matters and suits affecting withdrawn oil lands and for expenses in connection therewith, including salaries of necessary employees in Washington, District of Columbia, $65,000. Conveyances, Five Civilized Tribes. Suits to set aside.Suits to set aside conveyances of allotted lands for removal of restrictions, allotted lands, Five Civilized Tribes:
For necessary expenses incident to any suits brought at the request of the Secretary of the Interior in the eastern judicial district of Oklahoma, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $30,000. Enforcing interstate commerce laws. Vol. 34, p. 379; Vol. 36, p. 539; Vol. 37, p. 701; Vol. 38, p. 219.Enforcement of Acts to regulate commerce: For expenses of representing the Government in all matters arising under the Act entitled “An Act to regulate commerce,” approved February fourth, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, as amended, including traveling expenses, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, including salaries of employees at Washington, $10,000.
Seminole allotments. Expenses of suits affecting.Suits affecting title to Seminole allotted lands in Oklahoma: For necessary expenses incident to any suits brought, including the salaries of attorneys specially employed to set aside illegal conveyances of Seminole allotments, to protect the possession of Seminole allottees in their allotted lands, or in the prosecution of any criminal proceedings based on frauds perpetrated upon Seminole allottees with respect to their allotted lands, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $4,500.
Federal Court Reports and Digests.Federal Court Reports and Digests: For one hundred and seventy-nine copies of continuations of the Federal Reporter, as issued, estimated at ten volumes per year, to continue sets now furnished various officials, at $2 per volume, $3,580. Lawyers’ Cooperative Edition. Volume 61.For fifteen copies of volume sixty-one of the Lawyers’ Cooperative Edition of the United States Reports, to continue sets now in the hands of certain officers, at $6 per volume, $90.
United States Reports. Purchase of Volumes 245–248.For two hundred and seventy copies of each of four volumes— namely, two hundred and forty-five to two hundred and forty-eight— of the United States Reports, to continue sets now in the hands of certain officials, at $1.75 per volume, $1,890. Pacific railroads suits. Expenses.Protecting interests of the United States in suits affecting Pacific railroads: To enable the Attorney General to represent and protect the interests of the United States in matters and suits affecting the Pacific railroads, and for expenses in connection therewith, $50,000.
Judicial.JUDICIAL. United States courts.united states courts. Additional judge, Texas western district. Vol. 39, p. 938.For the salary of the additional judge in the State of Texas, to be appointed under the Act of February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $6,000. District judge, Porto Rico. Vol. 39, p. 965.For the salary of the United States district judge for the district of Porto Rico, $5,000. Clerk, Porto Rico district court. Vol. 39, p. 965.For the salary of the clerk of the United States district court for the district of Porto Rico, $3,000.
Marshals. Salaries and expenses.For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their deputies, including the office expenses of United States marshals in 157the District of Alaska, services rendered in behalf of the United States or otherwise, services in Alaska and Oklahoma in collecting evidence for the United States when so specially directed by the Attorney General, and maintenance, repair, and operation of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles used in connection with the transaction of the official business of the office of the United States marshal for the District of Columbia, $1,580,000.
Advances toAdvances. United States marshals, in accordance with existing law, may be made from the proper appropriations, as herein provided, immediately upon the passage of this Act; but no disbursements shall be madeRestriction. prior to July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, by said disbursing officers from the funds thus advanced, and no disbursements shall be made therefrom to liquidate expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, or prior years. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses ofDistrict attorneys.
Salaries and expenses. United States district attorneys and their régular assistants, including the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and for salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States districtServices during vacancies. attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney, $620,000. For fees of United States district attorney for the District of District of Columbia. Fees, district attorney.Columbia, $33,500.
The United States district attorney for the District of Columbia Allowance for salaries, etc.shall hereafter pay to his deputies or assistants not exceeding in all $15,000 per annum; also his clerical and messenger hire not exceeding $10,000; office rent, fuel, stationery, printing, and other incidental expenses not exceeding $2,500, out of the fees of his office: *Provided*,*Proviso*. Restriction. That no expenses other than those above specified shall be allowed. For regular assistants to United States district attorneys who areRegular assistants. appointed by the Attorney General at a fixed annual compensation, $350,000.
For assistants to the Attorney General and to United States districtAssistants in special cases. attorneys employed by the Attorney General to aid in special cases, and for payment of foreign counsel employed by the Attorney GeneralForeign counsel. Oath. [R. S., sec. 366, p. 62](/us/rs/s366/p62). 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), $150,000. For fees of clerks, $215,000: *Provided*, That courts of the UnitedClerks’ fees. *Provisos*.
Suits by seamen. States shall be open to seamen, without furnishing bonds or prepayment of or making deposit to secure fees or costs, for the purpose of entering and prosecuting suit or suits in their own name and for their own benefit for wages or salvage and to enforce laws made for their health and safety: *Provided further*, That for the calendar yearMaximum pay to clerks. nineteen hundred and seventeen, and thereafter, the maximum personal compensation of clerks of United States district courts shall in no case exceed $3,500 per annum, and that single fees only shall beLimit on fees. charged by United States marshals and clerks of United States district courts against the United States and against private litigants in every judicial district.
For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peaceCommissioners’, etc., [R. S., sec. 1014, p. 189](/us/rs/s1014/p189). acting under section one thousand and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, $150,000. For fees of jurors, $1,150,000.Jurors’ fees. Fees of witnesses: For fees of witnesses and for payment of theWitness fees, etc. [R. S., sec. 850, p. 160](/us/rs/s850/p160). actual expenses of witnesses, as provided by section eight hundred and fifty, Revised Statutes of the United States, $1,200,000.
For rent of rooms for the United States courts and judicial officers,Rent of court rooms. $58,000. For bailiffs and criers, not exceeding three bailiffs and one crier inBailiffs, etc. each court, except in the southern district of New York and the 158*Provisos*. Actual attendance. [R. S., sec. 715, p. 136](/us/rs/s715/p136).northern district of Illinois: *Provided*, That all persons employed under section seven hundred and fifteen of the Revised Statutes shall be deemed to be in actual attendance when they attend upon the Travel, etc., expenses of judges.order of the courts: *Provided further*, That no such persons shall be employed during vacation; expenses of circuit and district judges of the United States and the judges of the district courts of the United Vol. 36, p. 1161.States in Alaska, Porto Rico, and Hawaii, as provided by section two hundred and fifty-nine of the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and eleven, entitled “An Act to codify, revise, and Jury expenses.amend the laws relating to the judiciary”; meals and lodging for jurors in United States cases, and of bailiffs in attendance upon the In Alaska.
Vol. 31, p. 363.same when ordered by the court, and meals and lodging for jurors in Alaska, as provided by section one hundred and ninety-three, Title II, of the Act of June sixth, nineteen hundred; and Jury commissioners.compensation for jury commissioners, $5 per day, not exceeding three days for any one term of court, $250,000. Miscellaneous expenses.For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, including so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney General for such expenses in the District of Alaska, $450,000.
Supplies.For supplies, including exchange of typewriting and adding machines for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $37,500. Support of prisoners.For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing and medical aid, discharge gratuities provided by law and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States or such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; support of prisoners becoming insane during imprisonment, and who continue insane after expiration of sentence who have no friends to whom they can be sent; shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their friends or relatives in the United States and interment of deceased prisoners whose remains are unclaimed; expenses incurred in identifying and pursuing escaped prisoners and for rewards for their recapture; and not exceeding $2,500 or repairs, betterments, and improvements of United States jails, including sidewalks, $725,000.
Penitentiaries. Leavenworth, Kas. Subsistence.Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including supplies from the prison stores for warden, deputy warden, and physician, tobacco for prisoners, kitchen and dining-room furniture and utensils, seeds and implements, and for purchase of ice if necessary, $110,000; Clothing, transportation, etc.For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including materials for making clothing at the penitentiary; gratuities for prisoners at release, provided such gratuities shall be furnished to prisoners sentenced for terms of imprisonment of not less than six months, and transportation to place of conviction or place of bona fide residence in the United States, or to such other place within the United States as may be authorized by the Attorney General; expenses of shipping remains of deceased prisoners to their homes in the United States; expenses of penitentiary officials while traveling on official duty; expenses incurred in pursuing and identifying escaped prisoners, and for rewards for their recapture, $50,000;
Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures in the discretion of the Attorney General, fuel, forage, hay, light, water, stationery, fuel for generating steam, heating apparatus, burning bricks and lime; forage for issue to public animals, and hay and straw for bedding; blank books, blank forms, typewriting supplies, pencils and memorandum books for guards, books for use in chapel, paper, envelopes, and postage stamps for issue to prisoners; labor and materials for repairing steamheating plant, electric plant and water circulation, and drainage; 159 labor and materials for construction and repair of buildings; general supplies, machinery, and tools for use on farm and in shops, brick-yard, quarry, limekiln, laundry, bathrooms, printing office, photo-graph gallery, stables, policing buildings and grounds; purchase of cows, horses, mules, wagons, harness, veterinary supplies, lubricating oils, office furniture, stoves, blankets, bedding, iron bunks, paints and oils, library books, newspapers and periodicals, and electrical supplies; payment of water supply, telegrams, telephone service, notarial and veterinary services; advertising in newspapers; fees to consulting physicians called to determine mental conditions of supposed insane prisoners, and for other services in cases of emergency; pay of extra guards or employees when deemed necessary by the Attorney General, $80,000;
For hospital supplies, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, andHospital. all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners on the penitentiary reservation, $6,000; For salaries: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains—Salaries. one $1,500, one $600; physician, $1,600; pharmacist and physician’s assistant, $1,000; chief clerk, $1,800; stenographer, $900; six clerks, at $900 each; head cook, $1,000; steward and storekeeper, $1,200; superintendent of farm and transportation, $900; three captains of watch, at $1,000 each; guards, at $70 per month each, $64,680; two teamsters, at $600 each; engineer and electrician, $1,500; two assistants, at $1,200 each; in all, $94,680;
For foremen, laundrymen, tailor, printer, and shoemaker, when necessary, $4,300; In all, Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary, $344,980. Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the sameAtlanta, Ga. Subsistence. objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $80,000; For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including theClothing, transportation, etc. same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $35,000;
For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specifiedMiscellaneous. under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and not exceeding $25 for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $50,000; For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified underHospital. this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $4,000; For salaries: Warden, $4,000; deputy warden, $2,000; chaplains—Salaries. one $1,500, one $1,200; chief clerk, $1,800; physician, $1,600; pharmacist and physician’s assistant, $1,000; bookkeeper and record clerk, $1,200; stenographer, $900; six clerks, at $900 each; engineer and electrician, $1,500; two assistants, at $1,200 each; steward and storekeeper, $1,200; superintendent of farm and transportation, $1,200; two teamsters, at $600 each; head cook, $1,000; three captains of watch, at $1,000 each; guards, at $70 per month each, $45,360; in all, $77,460;
For foremen, tailor, shoemaker, laundryman, and carpenter, when necessary, $4,000; In all, Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary, $250,460. McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For subsistence, includingMcNeil Island, Wash. Subsistence. the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, and for supplies for guards, $13,000; For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including theClothing, transportation, etc. same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leav enworth, Kansas, $7,000;
For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specifiedMiscellaneous. under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $11,000; 160 Hospital.For hospital supplies, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, $600; Salaries.For salaries: For warden, $2,000; deputy warden, $1,200; physician, $1,200; steward and cook, $1,000; chief clerk, $1,200; engineer and electrician, $1,200; superintendent of boats, $1,200; guards, at $70 per month each, $11,500; in all, $20,500;
In all, McNeil Island (Washington) Penitentiary, $52,100. National Training School for Boys, D. C. Salaries.National Training School for Boys: Superintendent, $2,500; assistant superintendent, $1,500; teachers, and assistant teachers, $9,120; chief clerk, $1,000; storekeeper and steward, matron of school, farmer, baker, tailor, and nurse, at $600 each; parole officer, $900; office clerk, $720; assistant office clerk, $480; seven matrons of families, at $240 each; foremen of, and skilled helpers in, industries, $3,800; assistant fanner and assistant engineer, at $420 each; teamster and laundress, at $360 each; florist, engineer, and shoemaker, at $540 each; cook, $480; dining-room attendants—boys $300, officers $240; housemaid, $216; seamstress, $240; assistant cook, $300; watchmen, not to exceed nine in number, $3,780; secretary and treasurer, $900; janitor, $420; in all, $35,356;
Maintenance, etc.For support of inmates, including groceries, flour, feed, meats, dry goods, leather, shoes, gas, fuel, hardware, furniture, tableware, farm implements, seeds, harness and repairs to same, fertilizers, books and periodicals, stationery, printing, entertainments, plumbing, painting, glazing, medicines and medical attendance, stock, maintenance, repair, and operation of passenger-carrying vehicles, fencing, roads, all repairs to buildings, and other necessary items, including compensation, not exceeding $1,500, for additional labor or services, for identifying and pursuing escaped inmates, for rewards for their recapture, and not exceeding $500 for transportation and other necessary expenses incident to securing suitable homes for discharged boys, $10,500;
In all, National Training School for Boys, $45,856. Department of Agriculture.DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE. Cass Lake Indian Reservation, Minn. Forest Service contribution to bridge on. Vol. 39, p. 978.For contribution to the Forest Service for construction of a bridge across the Narrows over the waters between Cass Lake and Pike Bay, in the Minnesota National Forest, Minnesota, upon condition that the local authorities, State or county, contribute $10,000 toward the building of the same, $10,000.
Department of Commerce.DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. Lighthouses Bureau. Aids to Navigation.lighthouses, beacons, fog signals, light vessels, and other works under the lighthouse service. Tender, third district. Vol. 39, p. 537.Tender for third lighthouse district: For constructing, or purchasing, and equipping a lighthouse tender to replace tenders worn out in service in the third lighthouse district, or in the Lighthouse Service generally, $150,000. Light vessels. Cape Charles, Va.Cape Charles Light Vessel, Virginia:
For constructing and equipping a light vessel for station off Cape Charles, Virginia, or for general service, $130,000. Great Lakes.Light vessels for general Lake service: For constructing and equipping light vessels for general service on the Great Lakes, or for general service, $150,000. Pearl Harbor, Hawaii.Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, aids to navigation: For establishing aids to navigation in Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, $80,000. General depot, Staten Island, N. Y.Staten Island Lighthouse Depot, New York:
For improvements of the offices and laboratory at the general lighthouse depot, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, $21,000. 161 Huron, Ohio, aids to navigation: For establishing aids to navigationHuron, Ohio. at Huron Harbor, Ohio, $4,500. Point Borinquen, Porto Rico, Light Station: For the removal andPort Borinquen, P. R. New station. rebuilding on another site of the light station and dwelling at or near Point Borinquen, Porto Rico, $85,000. Chicago Harbor Light Station, Illinois:
For completing the removingChicago, Ill. New’ station, etc. and rebuilding Chicago Harbor Light Station, Illinois, and establishing lights on the new breakwater in Chicago Harbor, $88,000. Fairport, Ohio, aids to navigation: For improving the aids to navigationFairport, Ohio. at Fairport Harbor, Ohio, $42,000. Sand Hills, Michigan, Light Station: For establishing a light stationSand Hills, Mich. New station. and fog signal at or near Sand Hills, Michigan, $70,000. Manitowoc Breakwater, Wisconsin, Light Station:
For improvingManitowoc, Wis. Station on north breakwater. the light and fog-signal station at Manitowoc North Breakwater, Wisconsin, $21,000. East River, Now York, aids to navigation: For improving the aids East River, N. Y.to navigation on the East River, New York, $16,000. Keweenaw waterway, Michigan, aids to navigation: For establishing Keweenaw waterway, Mich.and improving aids to navigation at or near the entrance to Keweenaw waterway harbor of refuge, Portage River, Michigan, $105,000.
Cape Charles City, Virginia, aids to navigation: For improvingCape Charles, Va. lights and fog signals leading to Capo Charles City, Virginia, $12,800. Chesapeake Bay, Maryland and Virginia, aids to navigation: For Chesapeake Bay, Md. and Va. eastern shore.establishing and improving aids to navigation on the eastern shore of Chesapeake Bay and tributaries, Maryland and Virginia, $29,000. Alaska, aids to navigation: For establishing aids to navigation andAlaska. improving existing aids in Alaska, $60,000.
Indiana Harbor, Indiana, aids to navigation: For establishing andIndiana Harbor, Ind. improving aids to navigation at Indiana Harbor, Indiana, $100,000. Great Salt Pond Light Station, Rhode Island: For improving the Great Salt Pond, R.I. Improving station etc.light station, moving the fog signal, and constructing a keeper’s dwelling at Great Salt Pond Light Station, Rhode Island, $20,000. Radio installations on lighthouse tenders: For furnishing all sea goingTenders. Installing radio equipment on seagoing. lighthouse tenders in the Lighthouse Service with radio equipment and auxiliary power for the operation thereof, $60,000.
Washington and Oregon, aids to navigation: For the establishment Washington and Oregon.of aids to navigation and improvement of existing aids in Washington and Oregon, seventeenth lighthouse district, $35,000. lighthouse service.Lighthouse service. General expenses: For supplies, repairs, maintenance, and incidentalGeneral expenses. Objects specified. expenses of lighthouses and other lights, beacons, buoyage, fog signals, lighting of rivers heretofore authorized to be lighted, light vessels, other aids to navigation, and lighthouse tenders, including the establishment, repair, and improvement of beacons and day marks and purchase of land for same; establishment of post lights, buoys, submarine signals, and fog signals; establishment of oil orOil or carbide houses. carbide houses, not to exceed $10,000: *Provided*, That any oil or carbide*Proviso*.
Limit of cost of buildings. house erected hereunder shall not exceed $550 in cost; construction of necessary outbuildings at a cost not exceeding $500 at any one light station in any fiscal year; improvement of grounds and buildings connected with light stations and depots; wages of laborers attending post lights; temporary employees and field force while engaged on works of general repair and maintenance, and laborers and mechanics at lighthouse depots; rations and provisions or commutationRations, etc. thereof for Keepers of lighthouses, officers and crews of light vessels and tenders, and officials and other authorized persons of the Lighthouse Service on duty on board of such tenders or vessels, and money accruing from commutation for rations and provisions for the 162above-named persons on board of tenders and light vessels may be paid on proper vouchers to the person having charge of the mess of such vessel; reimbursement under rules prescribed by the Secretary of Commerce of keepers of light stations and masters of light vessels and of lighthouse tenders for rations and provisions and clothing furnished shipwrecked persons who may be temporarily provided for by them, not exceeding in all $5,000 in any fiscal year; fuel and rent Purchase of sites, etc.of quarters whore necessary for keepers of lighthouses; purchase of land sites for fog signals; rent of necessary ground for all such lights and beacons as are for temporary use or to mark changeable channels and which in consequence can not be made permanent; rent of offices, depots, and wharves; traveling expenses; mileage; library books for light stations and vessels, and technical books and periodicals not exceeding $1,000; all other contingent expenses of district offices Contingent expenses.and depots; and not exceeding $10,000 for contingent expenses of the office of the Bureau of Lighthouses in Washington, $2,850,000.
Keepers.Keepers of lighthouses: For salaries of not exceeding one thousand eight hundred lighthouse and fog-signal keepers and laborers attending other lights exclusive of post lights, $940,000. Lighthouse vessels.Lighthouse vessels: For salaries and wages of officers and crews of light vessels and lighthouse tenders, including temporary employment when necessary, $1,104,650. Inspectors, clerks, etc.Inspectors, clerks, and so forth: For salaries of seventeen lighthouse inspectors, and of clerks and other authorized permanent employees in the district offices and depots of the Lighthouse Service, exclusive of those regularly employed in the Bureau of Lighthouses, Washington, District of Columbia, $380,000.
Coast and Geodetic Survey.coast and geodetic survey. Expenses.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the work of the Coast and Geodetic Survey, including maintenance, repair, or operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn vehicles for use in field work, and including compensation, not otherwise appropriated for, of persons employed in the field work, and commutation to officers of the field force while on field duty, at a rate not exceeding $2.50 per day each, to be expended in accordance with the regulations relating to the Coast and Geodetic Survey prescribed by the Secretary of *Proviso*.
Advances.Commerce, and under the following heads: *Provided*, That advances of money under this appropriation may be made to the Coast and Geodetic Survey and by authority of the superintendent thereof to chiefs of parties, who shall give bond under such rules and regulations and in such sum as the Secretary of Commerce may direct, and accounts arising under such advances shall be rendered through and by the disbursing officer of the Coast and Geodetic Survey to the Treasury Department as under advances heretofore made to chiefs of parties:
Field expenses. Atlantic and Gulf coasts.Field expenses: For surveys and necessary resurveys of the Atlantic and Gulf coasts of the United States, including the coasts of outlying islands wider the jurisdiction of the United States: Proviso. Island, etc., restrictions.*Provided*, That not more than $25,000 of this amount shall be expended on the coasts of said outlying islands, and the Atlantic entrance to the Panama Canal, $115,000; Pacific coasts.For surveys and necessary resurveys of coasts on the Pacific Ocean under the jurisdiction of the United States, $250,000;
Physical hydrography.For continuing researches in physical hydrography, relating to harbors and bars, and for tidal and current observations on the coasts of the United States, or other coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, $14,000; Offshore soundings, Coast Pilot, etc.For offshore soundings and examination of reported dangers on the coasts of the United States, and of coasts under the jurisdiction of the United States, compilation of the Coast Pilot, special hydro163graphic examinations, including the employment of such pilots and nautical experts in the field and office as may be necessary for the same, $5,600;
For continuing magnetic observations and to establish meridianMagnetic observations.lines in connection therewith in all parts of the United States; magnetic observations in other regions under the jurisdiction of the United States; purchase of additional magnetic instruments; lease of sites where necessary and erection of temporary magnetic buildings; continuing the line of exact levels between the Atlantic, Pacific, and Gulf coasts; determination of geographical positions, by triangulation or traverse for the control of Federal, State, boundary, and other surveys and engineering works in all parts of the United States and Alaska; determination of field astronomic positions; and for continuing gravity observations, $90,000;
For special surveys that may be required by the Bureau of LighthousesSpecial surveys. or other proper authority, and contingent expenses incident thereto, $10,000; For objects not hereinbefore named that may be deemed urgent, Miscellaneous. including the preparation or purchase of preliminary plans and specifications of vessels; actual necessary expenses of officers of the field force temporarily ordered to the office at Washington for consultation with the superintendent, and not exceeding $550 for the expenses of the attendance of the American delegates at the meetingsInternational Geodetic Association. of the International Geodetic Association, $3,000;
In all, field expenses, $487,600. Vessels: For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels,Vessels. Repairs. including traveling expenses of persons inspecting the repairs, and exclusive of engineer’s supplies and other ship chandlery, $56,000. For all necessary employees to man and equip the vessels, includingOfficers and crews. professional seamen serving as mates on vessels of the survey, to execute the work of the survey herein provided for and authorized by law, $320,000.
Salaries: Superintendent, $6,000; hydrographic and geodetic engineers,Salaries. Superintendent, assistants, etc. junior hydrograpliic and geodetic engineers, and aids, to be employed in the field or office, as the superintendent may direct, one of whom may be designated by the Secretary of Commerce to act as assistant superintendent: *Provided*, That officers now designated*Proviso*. Transfer to war service ranks and grades. *Ante*, p. 88. assistants shall be transferred to the positions of hydrographic and geodetic engineers, or junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers, herein submitted in lieu of assistants: hydrographic and geodetic engineers—two at $4,000 each, one $3,200, five at $3,000 each, one $2,800, five at $2,500 each, twelve at $2,400 each, nine at $2,200 each, twelve at $2,000 each; junior hydrographic and geodetic engineers—sixteen at $1,800 each, eleven at $1,600 each, nine at $1,400 each, twelve at $1,200 each; aids—ten at $1,100 each, nineteen at $1,000 each; in all, $223,500.
Office force: Disbursing agent, $2,500; chief of division of libraryOffice force. Clerks, etc. and archives, $1,800; clerk to superintendent, $1,800; clerks—three at $1,800 each, three at $1,650 each, four at $1,400 each, eight at $1,200 each, five at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each, six at $720 each; Topographic and hydrographic draftsmen: Two at $2,400 each,Draftsmen. three at $2,200 each, three at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, two coypist draftsmen, at $1,000 each;
Astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers: One Computers.$2,500, two at $2,200 each, two at $2,100 each, two at $2,000 each, four at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each, five at $1,200 each; Copperplate engravers: One $2,400, two at $2,200 each, three atEngravers. $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; 164 Engravers and apprentices at not exceeding $1,000 each, $3,600; Instrument makers, etc.Instrument makers;
One $2,750, one $1,600, two at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; Pattern makers, etc.Pattern makers and carpenters: Three at $1,400 each, two carpenters and painters at $900 each; Printing employees.Printers, electrotypers, photographers, lithographers, plate printers and their helpers, engineer, and other skilled laborers: One $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,700, one $1,600, one $1,400, eight at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $900, five at $700 each; Watchmen, etc.Watchmen, firemen, messengers, and. laborers:
Three at $880 each, four at $820 each, three at $720 each, four at $700 each, two at $640 each, three at $630 each, four at $550 each; In all, pay of office force, $220,770. Office expenses. Vol. 39, p. 1117.Office expenses: For purchase of new instruments, including their exchange, materials and supplies required in the instrument shop, carpenter shop, and drawing division, books, scientific and technical books, journals, books of reference, maps, charts, and subscriptions; copper plates, chart paper, printer’s ink, copper, zinc, and chemicals for electrotyping and photographing; engraving, printing, photographing, and electrotyping supplies; photolithographing charts and printing from stone and copper for immediate use; including the employment in the District of Columbia of such personal services, other than clerical, as may be necessary for the prompt preparation of charts, not to exceed $6,000; stationery for office and field parties; transportation of instruments and supplies when not charged to party expenses; office wagon and horses or automobile truck; heating, lighting, and power; telephones, including operation of switchboard; telegrams, ice, and washing; office furniture, repairs, traveling expenses of assistants and others employed in the office sent on special duty in the service of the office; miscellaneous expenses, contingencies of all kinds, and not exceeding $3,400 for extra labor, $67,500.
New machinery.For an offset attachment for a lithographic press, $3,000. For one paper-cutting machine, $1,600. Allowances restricted.Appropriations herein made for the Coast and Geodetic Survey shall not be available for allowance to civilian or other officers for subsistence while on duty at Washington (except as hereinbefore provided for officers of the field force ordered to Washington for short periods for consultation with the superintendent), except as now provided by law.
Fisheries Bureau.bureau of fisheries. Commissioner, deputy, etc.Commissioner’s office: Commissioner, $6,000; deputy commissioner, $3,500; assistants in charge of divisions—fish culture $2,700, inquiry respecting food fishes $2,700, statistics and methods of fisheries $2,500; assistants—one in charge of office $2,500, one $2,500, one $2,400, one $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,600, two at $1,200 each, two at $900 each; fish pathologist (to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce), $2,500; architect and engineer, $2,200; assistant architect, $1,600; draftsman, $1,200; accountant, $2,100; librarian, $1,500; superintendent of car and messenger service, Clerks, etc.$1,600; clerks—three of class four, four of class three, one to commissioner $1,600, four of class two, six of class one, three at $1,000 each, fifteen at $900 each; statistical agents—two at $1,400 each two at $1,000 each; local agents—one at Boston $300, one at Gloucester $600, one at Seattle $600; engineer, $1,080; three firemen, at $720 each; two watchmen, at $720 each; five janitors and messengers, at $720 each; janitress, $480; messenger boy, $360; five charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $106,420. 165 Alaska service:
Pribil of Islands—two agents and caretakers, atAlaska service. Agents, physicians, etc. $2,000 each: two physicians, at $1,500 each; three school-teachers, at $1,200 each: storekeeper, $1,800: agent, $2,500; assistant agents— one $2,000, one $1,800, one $1,500; inspector, $1,800; wardens— one $1,200, six at $900 each; in all, $28,600. Employees at large: Two field station superintendents, at $1,800 Employees at large.each; field assistants—one $1,500, one $1,200; fishculturists—two at $960 each, two at $900 each; six machinists, at $960 each: two coxswains, at $720 each; in all, $17,220.
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(car)employees: Five captains, at $1,200 each; sixDistribution cars. messengers, at $1,000 each; five assistant messengers, at $900 each; five apprentice messengers, at $720 each; five cooks, at $600 each: in all, $23,100. Afognak (Alaska)Station: Superintendent, $1,500;foreman, $1,200; Station employees. Afognak, Alaska.two fishculturists, at $960 eacn: three apprentice fishculturists, at $900 each; cook, $900; in all, $8,220. Alpena (Michigan) Station: Foreman, $1,200; fishculturist, $900;Alpena, Mich. in all, $2,100. Baird (California) and Battle Creek (California) Stations: Superintendent,Baird and Battle Creek, Cal. $1,500; foreman, $1,080; fishculturists, $900; three apprentice fishculturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,280. Baker Lake (Washington) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Baker Lake, Wash. $900; two apprentice fishculturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Beaufort (North Carolina) Biological Station: Superintendent andBeaufort, N. C. director, $1,500; scientific assistant, $1,400; fish-culturist, $900; apprentice fish-culturist, $600; in all, $4,400. Berkshire (Massachusetts) Trout Hatchery: Superintendent, $1,500;Berkshire, Mass. fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Boothbay Harbor (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Boothbay Harbor, Me. $900; engineer, $1,100; apprentice fish-culturists—one $780, two at $600 each; three firemen, at $600 each; custodian of lobster pounds, $720; in all, $8,000. Bozeman (Montana) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Bozeman, Mont. $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Bryans Point (Maryland) Station: Custodian, $360.Bryans Point, Md. Cape Vincent (New York) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fireman, Cape Vincent, N. Y.$720; apprentice fish-culturists—one $720, two at $600 each; in all, $4,140. Clackamas (Oregon) Station: Superintendent, $l,500; fish-culturist,Clackamas, Oreg. $900; apprentice fish-culturists—-three at $720 each, two at $600 each: in all, $5,760. Cold Springs (Georgia) Station: Superintendent, $1,500: fish-culturist,Cold Springs, Ga. $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Craig Brook (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500: fish-culturistCraig Brook, Me., $990; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Duluth (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; two fish-culturists,Duluth, Minn. at $900 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Edenton (North Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Edenton, N. C. $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each: in all, $3,600. Erwin (Tennessee) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Erwin, Tenn. $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Fairport
(Iowa)Biological Station: Director, $1,800; superintendentFairport, Iowa. of fishculture, $1,500; scientific assistants—one $1,400, one $1,200; foreman, $1,200; shell expert, $1,200; clerk, $900; engineer, 166$1,000; two firemen, at $600 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $12,600. Gloucester, Mass.Gloucester (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fishculturist, $900; fireman, $720; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,920. Green Lake, Me.Green Lake (Maine) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; two fish-culturists, at $900 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Homer, Minn.Homer (Minnesota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; scientific assistants—one $1,400, one $1,200; foreman, $1,200; engineer, $1,000; two firemen, at $600 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $8,700. Key West, Fla.Key West (Florida) Biological Station: Superintendent, $1,500; engineer, $1,000; laboratory aid, $900; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,500. Leadville, Colo.eadville (Colorado) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; two fish-culturists, at $900 each; apprentice fish-culturists— one $720, two at $600 each; cook, $480; in all, $6,900. Louisville, Ky.Louisville (Kentucky) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Mammoth Spring, Ark.Mammoth Spring (Arkansas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Manchester, Iowa.Manchester
(Iowa)Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Nashua, N.H.Nashua (New Hampshire) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Neosho, Mo.Neosho (Missouri) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; apprentice fish-culturists, one $720, two at $600 each; in all, $4,320. Northville, Mich.Northville (Michigan) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $960; fish-culturist, $900; four apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,760. Orangeburg, S. C.Orangeburg (South Carolina) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Puget Sound, Wash.Puget Sound (Washington) Stations: Three foremen, at $1,200 each; nine apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $9,000. Put in Bay, Ohio.Put in Bay
(Ohio)Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,000; machinist, $960; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,660. Saint Johnsbury and Holden, Vt.Saint Johnsbury (Vermont) Station and Holden (Vermont) Auxiliary Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; apprentice fish-culturists—one $720, four at $600 each; in all, $6,720. San Marcos, Tex.San Marcos (Texas) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, $1,200; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $5,400. Saratoga, Wyo.Saratoga (Wyoming) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Spearfish, S. Dak.Spearfish (South Dakota) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $3,600. Springville, Utah.Springville
(Utah)Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist, $900 ; apprentice fish-culturist, $600; in all, $3,000. 167 Tupelo (Mississippi) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; fish-culturist,Tupelo, Miss. $900; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Washington (District of Columbia) Central Station and Aquaria:Washington, D. C. Central Station and Aquaria. Superintendent, $1,500; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $720 each; laborer, $600; in all, $3,540. White Sulphur Springs (West Virginia) Station: Superintendent, White Sulphur Springs, W. Va.$1,500; fish-culturist, $900; three apprentice fish-culturists at $600 each; in all, $4,200. Woods Hole (Massachusetts) Station: Superintendent, $1,500; Woods Hole, Mass.machinist, $960; two fish-culturists, at $900 each; three firemen, at $600 each; four apprentice fish-culturists at $600 each; in all, $8,460. Wytheville (Virginia) Station; Superintendent, $1,500; two fish-culturists,Wytheville, Va. at $900 each; two apprentice fish-culturists, at $600 each; in all, $4,500. Yes Bay (Alaska) Hatchery: Superintendent, $1,500; foreman, Yes Bay, Alaska.$1,200; two fish-culturists, at $960 each; three apprentice fish-culturists, at $900 each; cook, $900; in all, $8,220. Vessel service: Steamer Albatross: Naturalist, $1,800; general Vessel Service.assistant, $1,200; fishery expert, $1,200; clerk, $1,000; in all,$5,200. Steamer Fish Hawk: Cabin boy, $480. Steamer Osprey: Master, $1,500; engineer, $1,100; cook, $600; two firemen, at $720 each; seamen, $600; in all, $5,240. Schooner Grampus: Master, $1,500; first mate, $1,080; second mate, $840; engineer, $840; cook, $600; three seamen, at $600 each; cabin boy, $420; in all, $7,080. Steamer Phalarope: Master, $1,200; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; two seamen, at $600 each; cook, $600; in all, $4,820. Steamer Curlew: Pilot, $1,100; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; cook, $600; in all, $3,520. Steamer Gannet: Master, $1,200; engineer, $1,100; fireman, $720; two seamen, at $600 each; in all, $4,220. For officers and crew of vessel for Alaska fisheries service, $16,000.Alaska fisheries service. Expenses of administration: For expenses of the office of the commissioner,Administration expenses. Vol. 39, p. 1117. including stationery, scientific and reference books, periodicals, newspapers, for library, furniture, telegraph and telephone service, repairs to and heating, lighting, and equipment of buildings, compensation of temporary employees, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $10,000. Propagation of food fishes: For maintenance, equipment, andPropagation expenses. operations of fishcultural stations, general propagation of food fishes and their distribution, including movement, maintenance, and repairs of cars, purchase of equipment and apparatus, contingent expenses, temporary labor, propagation and not to exceed $10,000 for distribution of fresh-water mussels and the necessary expenses connected therewith, $375,000. Developing aquatic sources of leather, Bureau of Fisheries: ForAquatic leather. Developing sources of. developing by the Bureau of Fisheries in cooperation with the Bureau of Standards new aquatic sources of supply of leather, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, to be immediately available, $10,000. No part of the appropriations herein for propagation of food fishesRestriction on expenses in States. shall be expended for hatching or planting fish or eggs in any State in which, in the judgment of the Secretary of Commerce, there are not adequate laws for the protection of the fishes, nor in any State in which the United States Commissioner of Fisheries and his duly authorized agents are not accorded full and free right to conduct fishcultural operations, and all fishing and other operations necessary therefor, in such manner and at such times as is considered necessary and proper by the said commissioner or his agents. 168 Maintenance of vessels.Maintenance of vessels: For maintenance of vessels and launches, including purchase and repair of boats, apparatus, machinery, and other facilities required for use with the same, hire of vessels, and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, and money accruing from commutation of rations and provisions on board vessels may be paid on proper vouchers to the persons having charge of the mess of such vessels, $90,000. “Fish Hawk.” Repairs, etc.Repairs to Bureau of Fisheries steamer Fish Hawk: For overhauling and repairing United States Bureau of Fisheries steamer Fish Hawk, provide new propelling machinery, and all other items necessary to place her in a seaworthy condition, including incidental and miscellaneous expenses in connection therewith, $35,000. Food fishes inquiry.Inquiry respecting food fishes: For inquiry into the causes of the decrease of food fishes in the waters of the United States, investigations and experiments in respect to the aquatic animals, plants, and waters, in the interests of fish culture and the fishery industries, including expenses of travel and preparation of reports, $50,000. Statistical inquiry.Statistical inquiry: For collection and compilation of statistics of the fisheries and the study of their methods and relations, including travel and preparation of reports and all other necessary expenses in connection therewith, $7,500. Sponge fisheries. Protection, etc.Sponge fisheries: For protecting the sponge fisheries, including employment of inspectors, watchmen, and temporary assistants, hire of boats, rental of office and storage, care of seized sponges and other property, travel, and all other expenses necessary to carry out the Vol. 38, p. 692.provisions of the Act of August fifteenth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to regulate the sponge fisheries, $3,000. Alaska, general service.Alaska, general service: For protecting the seal fisheries of Alaska, Seal fisheries protection, food to natives, etc.including the furnishing of food, fuel, clothing, and other necessities of life to the natives of the Pribilof Islands of Alaska, transportation of supplies to and from the islands, expenses of travel of agents and other employees and subsistence while on said islands, hire and maintenance of vessels, and for all expenses necessary to carry out the Vol. 36, p. 326.provisions of the Act approved April twenty-first, nineteen hundred and ten, entitled “An Act to protect the seal fisheries of Alaska, and for other purposes,” and for the protection of the fisheries of Alaska, including travel, hire of boats, employment of temporary labor, and all other necessary expenses connected therewith, $75,000. Payments under treaty obligations. Vol. 37, p. 1544.For payments to be made to Great Britain and Japan under the terms of article eleven of the convention for protection and preservation of the fur seal and sea otters in lieu of their share of sealskins for the yearly season of nineteen hundred and seventeen, and in Vol. 37, p. 502.accordance with the Act of August twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and twelve, to give effect to the above-named convention, $20,000. Distribution cars.Distribution cars: The appropriation of $40,000 in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, for the purchase or construction of two steel cars for the distribution of useful food fishes, is continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, together with the further sum of $15,000. Bozeman, Mont. Construction, etc.Bozeman, Montana, fishcultural station: For construction and repair of buildings and ponds, and for improvements to water supply, $7,500. Cape Vincent, N. Y. Land, etc.Cape Vincent, New York, fish hatchery: For purchase of additional land and for improvement to water supply, $5,500. Edenton, N. C. Land, etc.Edenton, North Carolina, fish hatchery: For purchase of additional land, extension of pond system, and for general improvements, $3,500. Orangeburg, S. C. Construction, etc.Orangeburg, South Carolina, fish hatchery: For completion of the station, including the construction of ponds and improvements to grounds, $3,500. 169 San Marcos, Texas, fish hatchery: For purchase of additional land,San Marcos, Tex. Land, etc. construction of buildings and ponds, and purchase and repair of equipment, $7,500. Saratoga, Wyoming, fish hatchery: For completion of the fish-culturalSaratoga, Wyo. Construction, etc. station, including the construction of buildings and ponds, and improvement to water supply, $7,000. Woods Hole, Massachusetts, fish-cultural station: For new motorWoods Hole, Mass. New launch. vessel to replace launch Blue Wing, $3,000. bureau of standards.Bureau of Standards. Testing of large scales: For investigation and testing of railroad Testing large scales, etc.track scales, elevator scales, and other scales used in weighing commodities for interstate shipments and to secure equipment and assistance for testing the scales used by the Government in its transactions with the public, such as post office, navy yard, and customhouse scales, and for the purpose of cooperating with the States in securing uniformity in the weights and measures laws and in the methods of inspection, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $40,000. To enable the Secretary of Commerce to acquire, by condemnationPurchase of addition to Bureau site. or otherwise, about one hundred and fifty-five thousand four hundred square feet of additional land for enlargement, of the present site ofDescription. the Bureau of Standards, $25,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, the land to be acquired hereunder being described as follows: First, starting at the northwest corner of the present site of the Bureau of Standards on Idaho Avenue, and running thence along the easterly fine of said avenue, northeasterly to the northerly line of the Pierce Mill Road; thence with said northerly line westerly to the easterly line of Idaho Avenue, ninety feet wide; thence with said easterly line, northeasterly ninety-five feet, more or less, to the south line of Van Ness Street, sixty feet wide; thence with said south line nine hundred and ten feet, more or less, to intersect the prolongation of the present easterly line of the Bureau of Standards site; thence with said line of prolongation, southerly ninety-seven feet, more or less, to the northeast comer of the Bureau of Standards grounds; thence with the north line of said grounds, west nine hundred and sixty-five feet to the point of beginning, containing ninety-one thousand five hundred square feet; second, starting at the ponit of intersection of the southerly boundary of the present site of the Bureau of Standards with the northerly line of Tilden Street, one hundred and twenty feet wide, as projected on the permanent system of highways plan, and running thence with said southerly boundary, east one thousand one hundred and twenty-five feet, more or less, to the southeast comer of the present bureau site; thence with the prolongation of the easterly line of the present site, southerly one hundred feet, more or less, to the northerly line of the said Tilden Street; thence with said northerly line, and with a curve deflecting to the right, westerly one thousand one hundred and forty feet to the point of beginning, containing one hundred and twenty-four thousand square feet. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. immigration stations.Immigrant stations. Ellis Island, New York; For renewing hot-water pipes in main Ellis Island. Repairs to buildings, etc.building, kitchen, and laundry, and ticket office, $18,000; For renewing hot, cold, and salt water pipes, baggage and dormitory building, $15,000; 170 For new boilers in power house to replace worn-out equipment, $48,000; For boiler feed pump, complete with foundations and connections, $5,000; For underpinning and new piling for ferryhouse, $10,000; For outside lighting system, contagious-disease hospital, $3,000; For high-pressure fire system, contagious-disease hospital, $22,000; Continuation of sea wall.For continuation of granite-faced sea wall, under original limit of cost, $200,000; In all, $321,000. Philadelphia. Electric wiring.Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For installation of underground wiring system to replace overhead wiring, $2,300. Immigration Service.immigration service. Enforcing laws regulating admission of aliens.For enforcement of the laws regulating immigration of aliens into the United States, including the contract-labor laws; cost of reports of decisions of the Federal courts, and digests thereof, for the use of the Commissioner General of Immigration; salaries and expenses of all officers, clerks, and employees appointed to enforce said laws, Per diem subsistence. Vol. 38. p. 680.including per diem in lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved Vol. 34, p. 898; Vol. 39, p. 874.August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen; enforcement of the provisions of the Act of February twentieth, nineteen hundred and seven, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens into the United States,” and Acts amendatory thereof; necessary supplies, including exchange of typewriting machines, alterations, and repairs, and for all other expenses authorized by said Act; preventing Chinese exclusion.the unlawful entry of Chinese into the United States, by the appointment of suitable officers to enforce the laws in relation thereto; expenses of returning to China all Chinese persons found to be unlawfully in the United States, including the cost of imprisonment and actual expenses of conveyance of Chinese persons to the frontier or Refunding head tax.seaboard for deportation; refunding of head tax upon presentation of evidence showing conclusively that collection was made through error of Government officers; all to be expended under the direction *Provisos*. Vehicles outside of District of Columbia.of the Secretary of Labor, $2,450,000: *Provided*, That the purchase, use, maintenance, and operation of horses and motor vehicles required in the enforcement of the immigration and Chinese exclusion laws outside of the District of Columbia may be contracted for and the cost thereof paid from the appropriation for the execution of those laws, under such terms and conditions as the Secretary of Labor may Limit.prescribe: *Provided further*, That not more than $12,000 of the sum appropriated herein may be expended in the purchase and maintenance Government maintenance of station privileges forbidden.of such motor vehicles; *Provided further*, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended for the maintenance at Vol. 39, p. 894.any United States immigrant station of any of the privileges now disposed of after public competition as provided by the Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States.” Holland-America Line. Refund to.For refund to the Holland-America Line of amount erroneously paid for hospital maintenance of Marianna and Rosalia Zuck, American citizens, $39. National Steam Navigation Company. Refund to.For refund to National Steam Navigation Company of Greece for amount erroneously paid for hospital maintenance of Constantino and Eftilna Panagiotopoulou, American citizens, $108.75. United Fruit Company. Refund to.For refund to the United Fruit Company of amount erroneously paid as a penalty for nonmanifesting of two American citizens, $20. 171 For refund to Hartfield, Solari and Company of amounts erroneouslyHartfield, Solari and Company. Refund to. paid for hospital charges on account of American citizens, $103. The Secretary of Labor is authorized to pay not to exceed $3,741Payment for vehicle service. from the unexpended balance in the appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration” for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, for horse and motor vehicle service furnished by officers of the Immigration Service prior to April first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, when such allowances were discontinued. naturalization service.Naturalization Service. For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Labor, of examiners,Special examiners, interpreters, etc. interpreters, clerks, and stenographers, for the purpose of car rying on the work of the Bureau of Naturalization, provided for by the Act approved June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six, as amended by the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundredVol. 34, p. 596. and thirteen (Statutes at Large, volume thirty-seven, page seven hundredVol. 37, p. 736. and thirty-six), and for their actual necessary traveling expenses while absent from their official stations, including street car fare on official business at official stations, together with per diem in lieu ofFor diem subsistence. subsistence, when allowed pursuant to section thirteen of the sundryVol. 38, p. 680. civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for such per diem together with actual necessary traveling expenses of officers and employees of the Bureau of Naturalization in Washington while absent on official duty outside of the District of Columbia; telegrams, verifications of legal papers, telephone service in offices outside of the District of Columbia; not to exceedRent. $5,300 for rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia where suitable quarters can not be obtained in public buildings; carryingAssistance to clerks of courts. Vol. 34, p. 680. into effect section thirteen of the Act of June twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and six (Thirty-fourth Statutes, page six hundred), as amended by the Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundredVol. 30, pp. 765, 830. and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page seven hundred and sixty-five): *Provided*, That the whole amount allowed for a fiscal year*Provisos*. Allowance limited. to the clerk of a court and his assistants from naturalization fees and this appropriation or any similar appropriation made hereafter shall be based upon and not exceed the one-half of the gross receipts of said clerk from naturalization fees during the fiscal year immediately preceding, unless the naturalization business of the clerk of any court during the year shall be in excess of the naturalization business of the preceding year, in which event the amount allowed may be increased to an amount equal to one-half the estimated gross receipts of the said clerk from naturalization fees during the current fiscal year: *Provided further*, That payment is authorized in the sum ofFor services in May, 1916. $272.10 for the services rendered during the month of May, nineteen hundred and sixteen, by clerical assistants originally authorized by the Secretary of Labor where the disbursements for salaries were in excess of the amount lawfully allowable; and for mileage and feesWitness fees, etc. to witnesses subpœnaed on behalf of the United States, the expenditures from this appropriation shall be made in the manner and under such regulations as the Secretary of Labor may prescribe, $275,000. LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. Statement of appropriations: For preparation, under the directionStatement of appropriations. of the Committees on Appropriations of the Senate and House of Representatives, of the statements for the second session of the Sixty-fourth *Ante*, p. 25.Congress, showing appropriations made, new offices created, offices the salaries of which have been omitted, increased, or reduced, 172indefinite appropriations, and contracts authorized, together with a Vol. 25, p. 587.chronological history of the regular appropriation bills, as required by law, $4,000, to be paid to the persons designated by the chairmen of said committees to do said work. M. I. Howell. Services.To pay M. I. Howell for services rendered the special committee appointed under Senate Resolution Numbered Five hundred and forty-three, to secure certain information concerning interned ships in the ports of the United States and elsewhere, and what efforts have been made by certain parties or interests to prevent the passage of Senate Bill Numbered Sixty-eight hundred and fifty-six, commonly known as the ship purchase bill, during the third session of the Sixty-third Congress, from February sixteenth to April eighth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $115. Botanic Garden. Repairs, etc.Botanic Garden: For general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, painting, glazing, repairs to footwalks and roadways, general repairs to packing sheds, storerooms, and stables, including skilled laborers, and laborers at not exceeding $2 per diem, under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $11,000. New boilers.For two new boilers for the Botanic Garden to replace two recently rendered unfit for use, to be immediately available, $1,500. Removal of fence, etc. Reappropriation. Vol. 39, p. 327.The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $2,500 made in the sundry civil Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and twelve and reappropriated for subsequent years, for removing fence and wall around the Botanic Garden and such grading, soiling, seeding, and sodding as may be incident thereto, is reappropriated and made available for the same purposes for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. Senate Office Building. Maintenance.Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and supplies, and for all necessary personal and other services for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building, under the direction and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, $55,000. Furniture, etc.For furniture for the Senate Office Building and for labor and material incident thereto and repairs thereof, window shades, awnings, carpets, glass for windows and bookcases, desk lamps, window ventilators, and so forth, $5,000. Senate kitchens and restaurants.For the Capitol: For repairs, improvements, and equipment for Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, $17,500. House Office Building. Maintenance.House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $51,000. Additional rooms, etc.For the construction of additional rooms at the House Office Building and for each and every purpose connected therewith, including painting in the subway, $3,460, to be immediately available. Capitol power plant. Maintenance.Capitol power plant: For lighting the Capitol, Senate and House Office Buildings, and Congressional Library Building, and the grounds about the same, Botanic Garden, Senate stables and engine house, House stables, Maltby Building, and folding and storage rooms of the Senate; pay of superintendent of meters, at the rate of $1,600 per annum, who shall inspect all gas and electric meters of the Government in the District of Columbia without additional compensation; for necessary personal and other services; and for materials and labor in connection with the maintenance and operation of the heating, lighting, and power plant, and substations connected therewith, $100,000. Fuel, oil, etc.For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the power plant which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and congressional 173buildings, $95,599. This and the three foregoing appropriationsPurchases not restricted to supply committee. shall be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds under the supervision and direction of the commission in control of the House Office Building, appointed under the Act approvedVol. 34, p. 1365. March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, and without reference to section four of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteenVol. 36, p. 531. hundred and ten, concerning purchases for executive departments. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.Government Printing Office. public printing and binding. Office of Public Printer: Public Printer, $5,500; purchasing agent,Public Printer, purchasing agent, etc. $3,600; chief clerk, $2,500; accountant, $2,500; assistant purchasing agent, $2,500; cashier and paymaster, $2,500; clerk in charge of Congressional Record at the Capitol, $2,500; private secretary, $2,500; assistant accountant, $2,250; chief timekeeper, $2,000; paying teller, $2,000; clerks—two at $2,000 each, seven of class four, thirteen of class three, eight of class two, five of class one, ten at $1,000 each, fourteen at $900 each, one $840; paymaster’s guard, $1,000; doorkeepers—chief, $1,200, one $1,200, six assistants, at $1,000 each; two messengers, at $840 each; delivery men—chief $1,200, five at $950 each; telephone switchboard operator, $720; three assistant telephone switchboard operators, at $600 each; six messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $130,460. Office of Deputy Public Printer: Deputy Public Printer, $4,500; Deputy, etc.clerks—-two of class one, one $840; chemist, $1,600; messenger; in all, $10,180. Watch force: Captain, $1,200; two lieutenants, at $900 each; sixty-fourWatch force. watchmen; in all, $49,080. Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisionsHolidays. of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $180,000. Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply withLeaves of absence. the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $380,000. For public printing, public binding, and paper for public printingPublic printing and binding. Aggregate amount. and binding, including the cost of printing the debates and proceedings of Congress in the Congressional Record, and for lithographing, mapping, and engraving, for both Houses of Congress, the Supreme Court of the United States, the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, the Court of Claims, the Library of Congress, the Smithsonian Institution, the Interstate Commerce Commission, the Federal Trade Commission, the International Bureau of American Republics, the Executive Office, and the departments; for salaries, compensation, or wages of all necessary employees additional to those hereinOffice salaries and expenses. specifically appropriated for, including the compensation of the foreman of binding and the foreman of printing; rents, fuel, gas, electric current, gas and electric fixtures; bicycles, electrical vehicles forVehicles etc. the carriage of printing and printing supplies, and the maintenance, repair, and operation of the same, to be used only for official purposes, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles for official use of the officers of the Government Printing Office when in writing ordered by the Public Printer (not exceeding $1,500); freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service; furniture, typewriters, and carpets; traveling expenses, stationery, postage, and advertising; directories, technical 174books, and books of reference, not exceeding $500; adding and numbering machines, time stamps, and other machines of similar Machinery, equipment, etc.character; machinery (not exceeding $100,000); equipment, and for repairs to machinery, implements, and buildings, and for minor alterations to buildings; necessary equipment, maintenance, and supplies for the emergency room for the use of all employees in the Government Printing Office who may be taken suddenly ill or receive Miscellaneous items.injury while on duty; other necessary contingent and miscellaneous items authorized by the Public Printer; and for all the necessary materials and equipment needed in the prosecution and delivery and mailing of the work, $5,275,000. Total.In all, for public printing and binding, including salaries of office force, payments for holidays and leaves of absence, and the last-named sum, $6,024,720; and from the said sum printing and binding shall be done by the Public Printer to the amounts following, respectively, namely: Allotments. Congress.For printing and binding for Congress, including the proceedings and debates, $1,972,520. Printing and binding for Congress charge-able to this appropriation, when recommended to be done by the Committee on Printing of either House, shall be so recommended in a report containing an approximate estimate of the cost thereof, together with a statement from the Public Printer of estimated approximate cost of work previously ordered by Congress within the fiscal year for which this appropriation is made. Departments, etc.For the State Department, $40,000. For the Treasury Department, including printing required by the Federal farm loan Act, $425,000. Army medical bulletins.For the War Department, $275,000: *Provided*, That the sum of $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, may be used for the publication, from timo to time, of bulletins prepared under the direction of the Surgeon General of the Army, for the instruction of medical officers, when approved by the Secretary of War, and not exceeding $50,000 shall be available for printing and binding under the direction of the Chief of Engineers. Vol. 39, p. 330.For the Navy Department, $160,000, including not exceeding $25,000 for the Hydrographic Office, and the sum of $12,000 for special printing and binding for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen is made available for the same purpose during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. For the Interior Department, including not exceeding $55,000 for the Civil Service Commission, and not exceeding $25,000 for the publication of the Annual Report of the Commissioner of Education, $320,000. For the Patent Office: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indices, $585,000. Binding set of German patents. *Post*, p. 378.For binding in classified order one set of German patents now in the Patent Office Library, $20,000. For the United States Geological Survey: For engraving the illustrations necessary for the annual report of the director, and for the monographs, professional papers, bulletins, water-supply papers, and the report on mineral resources, and for printing and binding the same publications, of which sum not more than $45,000 may be used for engraving, $175,000. For the Smithsonian Institution: For printing and binding the Annual Reports of the Board of Regents, with general appendixes, the editions of which shall not exceed ten thousand copies, $10,000; under the Smithsonian Institution: For the Annual Reports of the National Museum, with general appendixes, and for printing labels 175and blanks, and for the Bulletins and Proceedings of the National Museum, the editions of which shall not exceed four thousand copies, and binding, in half morocco or material not more expensive, scientific books and pamphlets presented to or acquired by the National Museum Library, $37,500; for the Annual Reports and Bulletins of the Bureau of American Ethnology, and for miscellaneous printing and binding for the bureau, $21,000; for miscellaneous printing and binding for the International Exchanges, $200; the International Catalogue of Scientific Literature, $100; the National Zoological Park, $200; the Astrophysical Observatory, $200; and for the Annual Report of the American Historical Association, $7,000; in all, $76,200. For the Department of Justice, $35,000. For the United States Court of Customs Appeals, $1,500. For the Post Office Department, exclusive of the money-order office, $290,000. For the Department of Agriculture, including not to exceed $47,000Agricultural Department. for the Weather Bureau, and including the Annual Report of the Secretary of Agriculture, as required by the Act approved JanuaryVol. 28, p. 616. twelfth, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, and in pursuance of the joint resolution numbered thirteen, approved March thirtieth, nineteenVol. 34, p. 825. hundred and six, and also including not to exceed $200,000 for farmers’ bulletins, which shall be adapted to the interests of the people of the different sections of the country, an equal proportion of our-fifths of which shall be delivered to or sent out under the ad-dressed franks furnished by Senators, Representatives, and Delegates in Congress, as they shall direct, $650,000. For the Department of Commerce, including the Coast and Geodetic Survey and the Bureau of the Census, $400,000. For the Department of Labor, $155,000. For the Federal Trade Commission, $30,000. For the Supreme Court of the United States, $15,000; and the printing for the Supreme Court shall be done by the printer it may employ unless it shall otherwise order. For the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, $1,500. For the Court of Claims, $25,000. For the Library of Congress, including the copyright office and the publication of the Catalogue of Title Entries of the copyright office, and binding, rebinding, and repairing of library books, and for building and grounds, $200,000. For the Executive Office, $3,000. For the Interstate Commerce Commission, $150,000, of which sum not exceeding $10,000 shall be available to print and furnish to the States at cost report-form blanks. For the International Union of American Republics, $20,000. No more than an allotment of one-half of the sum hereby appropriatedQuarterly allotment restrictions. for the public printing and for the public binding shall be expended in the first two quarters of the fiscal year, and no more than one-fourth thereof may be expended in either of the last two quarters of the fiscal year, except that, in addition thereto, in either of said last quarters the unexpended balances of allotments for preceding quarters may be expended; and no department or Government establishment shall consume in any such period a greater percentage of its allotment than can be lawfully expended during the same period of the whole appropriation. Money appropriated under the foregoing allotments shall not be Certificates of necessity required.expended for printing or binding for any of the executive departments or other Government establishments, except such as shall be certified in writing to the Public Printer by the respective heads or chiefs thereof to be necessary to conduct the ordinary and routine 176business required by law of such executive departments or Government establishments, and except such reports, monographs, bulletins, or other publications as are authorized by law or specifically provided Congressional authorization.for in appropriations herein; all other printing required or deemed necessary or desirable by heads of executive departments or other Government establishments or offices or bureaus thereof shall be done only as Congress shall from time to time authorize. Restriction on paying detailed employees.No part of any money appropriated in this Act shall be paid to any person employed in the Government Printing Office while detailed for or performing service in any other executive branch of the public service of the United States unless such detail be authorized by law. Apportionment of expenditures to work executed.All expenditures from appropriations made herein under Government Printing Office, except appropriations for salaries and for stores and general expenses in and for the office of superintendent of documents, and expenses incurred on account of heat, light, and power furnished the city post-office building in Washington, District of Columbia, shall be equitably apportioned and charged by the Public Printer to each publication or work executed under any of the foregoing allotments, so that the total charges for work done from the appropriations aforesaid shall not be less than the total amount actually expended from all of said appropriations. Office of Superintendent of Documents.office of superintendent of documents. Superintendent, assistant, etc.Superintendent, $3,500; assistant superintendent, $2,500; clerks— two of class four, three of class three, five of class two, eight of class one, nine at $1,000 each, eight at $900 each, four at $840 each, twenty at $720 each; cataloguera—one in charge $1,800, two at $1,500 each, three at $1,200 each, one $1,100, seven at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; cashier, $1,600; librarian, $1,500; foreman, $1,400; assistant foreman, $1,200; stock keepers—one $1,100, three at $1,000 each, five at $900 each, three at $720 each; helpers—one $870, three at $750 each; five assistant messengers; three mailers, at $840 each; forty-one skilled laborers, at $626 each; ton miskilled laborers, at $626 each; janitress, $626; two folders, at $626 each; eleven laborers, at $626 each; messenger boys—eleven at $500 each, six at $420 each, eleven at $375 each; labor necessary to handle current periodicals, $16,000; in all, $179,595. Contingent expenses.For furniture and fixtures, typewriters, carpets, labor-saving machines and accessories, time stamps, adding and numbering machines, awnings, curtains, books of reference, directories, books, miscellaneous office and desk supplies; paper; twine, glue, envelopes, postage, car tickets, soap, towels, disinfectants, and ice; drayage, express, freight, telephone and telegraph service; repairs to building, elevators, and machinery; preserving sanitary condition of building, light, heat, and power; stationery and office printing, including blanks, price lists, and bibliographies, $33,000; for catalogues and indexes, not exceeding $16,000; for binding reserve remainders, and for supplying books to depository libraries, $80,000; equipment, material, and supplies for distribution of public documents, $17,000; in all, $146,000. Panama Canal.THE PANAMA CANAL. All expenses.For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the construction, maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Objects designated.Panama Canal and Canal Zone, including the following: Compensation of all officials and employees; foreign and domestic newspapers and periodicals; law books not exceeding $500, textbooks and books of reference; printing and binding, including printing of annual report, rents and personal services in the District of Columbia; pur177chase or exchange of typewriting, adding, and other machines; purchase or exchange, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; claims forClaims for damages.Vol. 37, p. 563. damages to vessels passing through the locks of the Panama Canal, as authorized by the Panama Canal Act; claims for losses of or damages to property arising from the conduct of authorized business operations; claims for damages caused to owners of private lands or private property of any kind by reason of the grants contained in the treaty between the United States and the Republic of Panama,Vol. 33, p. 2234. proclaimed February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and four, or by reason of the operations of the United States, its agents or employees, or by reason of the construction, maintenance, operation, sanitation, and protection of the said canal or of the work of sanitation, and protection therein provided for, whether such claims are compromised by agreements between the claimants and the Governor of the Panama Canal or allowed by a joint land commission; acquisitionPayment for land.Vol. 37, p. 561. of land and land under water, as authorized in the Panama Canal Act; expenses incurred in assembling, assorting, storing, repairing,Disposal of unserviceable materials, etc. and selling material, machinery, and equipment heretofore or hereafter purchased or acquired for the construction of the Panama Canal which are unserviceable or no longer needed, to be reimbursed from the proceeds of such sales; expenses incident to conducting hearings and examining estimates for appropriations on the Isthmus; expenses incident to any emergency arising because of calamity by flood, fire, pestilence, or like character not foreseen or otherwise provided for herein; per diem allowance in lieu of subsistence whenPer diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680. prescribed by the Governor of the Panama Canal, to persons engaged in field work or traveling on official business, pursuant to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and for such other expenses not in the United States as the Governor of the Panama Canal may deem necessary to best promote the construction, maintenance and operation, sanitation, and civil government of the Panama Canal, all to be expended under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal and accounted for as follows: For continuing the construction and equipment of the PanamaConstruction, equipment, etc., of Canal. Canal, including $1,000 additional compensation to the Auditor for the War Department for extra services in auditing accounts for the Panama Canal; for the completion of ono dock at Cristobal (numberedDock at Cristobal.Coal barges. six) at a total cost not exceeding $1,500,000; and toward construction by contract or in navy yards complete in every detail of two seagoing coal barges at a total cost not exceeding $800,000 each under a contract or contracts hereby authorized therefor: *Provided*, That the*Proviso*.Authority for two colliers repealed.Vol. 39, p. 333.Balance for barges. authority contained in the Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for the construction of two colliers is repealed and the sum of $1,100,000 appropriated therein toward the construction of the said colliers, or so much thereof as is unexpended, is made available for use in the construction of the coal barges authorized herein, $2,755,000. For maintenance and operation of the Panama Canal, salary of theMaintenance and operation.Governor.*Post*, p. 240.Purchases, etc. governor, $100,000; purchase, inspection, delivery, handling, and storing of material, supplies and equipment for issue to all departments of the Panama Canal, the Panama Railroad, other branches of the United States Government, and for authorized sales, payment inPayment to alien cripples.Vol. 39, p. 742. lump sums of not exceeding the amounts authorized by the injury compensation Act approved September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to alien cripples who are now a charge upon the Panama Canal by reason of injuries sustained while employed in the construction of the Panama Canal, $9,000,000, together with all moneys arisingAdditional from receipts. from the conduct of business operations authorized by the Panama Canal Act; 178 Sanitation, etc.For sanitation, quarantine, hospitals, and medical aid and support of the insane and of lepers, and aid and support of indigent persons legally within the Canal Zone, including expenses of their deportation when practicable, and including additional compensation from May tenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to any officer of the United States Public Health Service detailed with the Panama Canal as chief quarantine officer, $700,000; Civil government expenses.For civil government of the Panama Canal and Canal Zone, salaries of district judge $6,000, district attorney $5,000, marshal $5,000, and for gratuities and necessary clothing for indigent discharged prisoners, $700,000; Available until expended.*Proviso*.Reinbursement from sale of bonds.In all, $13,155,000, to be immediately available and to continue available until expended: *Provided*, That all expenditures from the appropriations heretofore, herein, and hereafter made for the construction of the Panama Canal, including any portion of such appropriations which may be used for the construction of dry docks, repair shops, yards, docks, wharves, warehouses, storehouses, and other necessary facilities and appurtenances, for the purpose of providing coal and other materials, labor, repairs, and supplies, for the construction of office buildings and quarters, and other necessary buildings, Exceptions.exclusive of fortifications, colliers, dock six at Cristobal, coal barges, and repairs, alterations, and reboilering of steamships Ancon and Cristobal, and exclusive of the fair value of the American Legation building in Panama, as approved by the Secretary of War and Secretary of State, and exclusive of the amount used for operating and maintaining the canal, and exclusive of the amount expended for sanitation and civil government after January first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, may be paid from or reimbursed to the Treasury of the United States out of the proceeds of the sale of bonds authorized in Vol. 32, p. 484.Vol. 36, p. 117.section eight of the said Act approved June twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and two, and section thirty-nine of the tariff Act approved August fifth, nineteen hundred and nine. Number of employees limited to estimates.Exceptions.Construction employees.Except in cases of emergency, or conditions arising subsequent to and unforseen at the time of submitting the annual estimates to Congress, and except for those employed in connection with the construction of permanent quarters, offices, and other necessary buildings, dry docks, repair shops, yards, docks, wharves, warehouses, storehouses, and other necessary facilities and appurtenances for the purpose of providing coal and other materials, labor, repairs, and supplies, Permanent organization. Vol. 37, p. 561.and except for the permanent operating organization under which the compensation of the various positions is limited by section four of the Panama Canal Act, there shall not be employed at any time during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen under any of the foregoing appropriations for the Panama Canal, any greater number of persons than are specified in the notes submitted respectively in connection with the estimates for each of said appropriations in the Rate of pay restricted.annual Book of Estimates for said year, nor shall there be paid to any such person during that fiscal year any greater rate of compensation than was authorized to be paid to persons occupying the same or like positions on the first day of July, nineteen hundred and sixteen; and all employments made or compensation increased because of emergencies or conditions so arising shall be specifically set forth, with the reasons therefor, by the governor in his report for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. Moneys from designated sources to be credited to original appropriations.In addition to the foregoing sums there is appropriated, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, for expenditure and reinvestment under the several heads of appropriation aforesaid without being covered into the Treasury of the United States, all moneys received by the Panama Canal from services rendered or materials and supplies furnished to the United States, the Panama Railroad 179Company, the Canal Zone government, or to their employees, respectively, or to the Panama Government, from hotel and hospital supplies and services; from rentals, wharfage, and like services; from labor, materials, and supplies and other services furnished to vessels other than those passing through the canal, and to others unable to obtain the same elsewhere; from the sale of scrap and other byproducts of manufacturing and shop operations; from the sale of obsolete and unserviceable materials, supplies, and equipment purchased or acquired for the operation, maintenance, protection, sanitation, and government of the canal and Canal Zone; and any netNet profits to be covered into the Treasury. profits accruing from such business to the Panama Canal shall annually be covered into the Treasury of the United States. In addition there is appropriated for the operation, maintenance,Operating water works, etc., for Panama and Colon. and extension of waterworks, sewers, and pavements in the cities of Panama and Colon, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, the necessary portions of such sums as shall be paid as water rentals or directly by the Government of Panama for such expenses. In addition to the foregoing amounts there is appropriated, out ofRefund of tolls erroneously received. any money hereafter received as tolls, before such money is covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts, amounts necessary to refund to the parties entitled thereto amounts which heretofore or may hereafter be erroneously received as tolls and covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts. Upon the application of the governor of the Panama Canal the SecretaryInsane Americans may be transferred to Saint Elizabeths Hospital. of the Interior is authorized to transfer to Saint Elizabeths Hospital, in the District of Columbia, for treatment all American citizens legally adjudged insane in the Canal Zone whose legal residence in one of the States and Territories or the District of Columbia it has been impossible to establish. Upon the ascertainment of the legalSubsequent transfer to legal residence. residence of persons so transferred to the hospital, the superintendent of the hospital shall thereupon transfer such persons to their respective places of residence, and the expenses attendant thereon shall be paid from the appropriation for the support of the hospital. fortifications, panama canal.Canal fortifications. For fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, to Available until expended. *Post*, pp. 201, 355.be immediately available and to continue available until expended, namely: For maintenance of clearings and trails, $20,000;Clearings and trails. For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications, includingPreservation, repair, etc. structures erected for torpedo defense, and for maintaining channels for access to torpedo wharves, $10,000; For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and Electric plants, etc.power equipment for fortifications, and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, $7,500; For the construction of seacoast batteries, $332,000;Seacoast batteries. Submarine base (Coco Solo Point): For dredging inner basinSubmarine base. and channel to same, concrete dock, containing walls, finger docks, tracks, dry fill, electrical work, shops, storehouses, stationary crane, magazines and torpedo storage, shop and power tools, and plant equipment, $750,000: *Provided*, That the construction work hereunder shall be*Proviso*. Direction of construction. performed under the direction of the governor of the Panama Canal; For the construction and development of an aeronautic station onAeronautic station. the Canal Zone, $250,000; For alteration, maintenance, and repair of submarine mine matériel,Submarine mine supplies. $2,500; For operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoastFire-control installations. defenses, $10,000; 180 Airships, etc.For the purchase, manufacture, maintenance, operation, and Purchases, buildings, etc.repair of airships and other aerial machines, buildings for equipment, and other accessories necessary in the aviation section for use in connection with the seacoast defenses of the Panama Canal, $500,000: *Proviso*. Direction of construction. Seacoast cannon.*Provided*, That the construction of buildings hereunder shall be performed under the direction of the Governor of the Panama Canal; Ammunition.For the purchase, manufacture, and test of seacoast cannon for coast defense, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $468,000; For the purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for sea-coast and land defense cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith, and the machinery necessary for its *Proviso*. Additional contracts.manufacture at the arsenals, $1,985,000: *Provided*, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $700,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and hereto-fore made; Altering, installing, etc., seacoast artillery.For the alteration, maintenance, and installation of the seacoast artillery, including the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work, and expenses of civilian mechanics, and extra-duty pay of enlisted men engaged thereon, $335,000; Ordnance depot. Buildings, etc.Ordnance Depot: For a building for storing artillery vehicles, $8,500; For necessary equipment, including machinery and its installation, for the ordnance repair shops, $40,000; For two magazines, $34,000; For a building for storing lumber, targets, and so forth, $4,000; Appropriations for dock and dredging repealed. Vol. 39, p. 812, repealed.The appropriations of $160,000 for one dock and $100,000 for necessary dredging for the Ordnance Depot for the Panama Canal, contained in the general deficiency appropriation Act, approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, are repealed; Total.In all, $86,500; In all, specifically for fortifications and armament thereof for the Panama Canal, $4,756,500. No pay to officer using time-measuring device on work of any employee.*Provided*, That no part of the appropriations made in this Act shall be available for the salary or pay of any officer, manager, superintendent, foreman, or other person having charge of the work of any employee of the United States while making or causing to be made with a stop watch, or other time-measuring device, a time study of any job of any such employee between the starting and completion thereof, or of the movements of any such employee while engaged upon such works; nor shall any part of the appropriations made in this Cash rewards, etc., limited.Act be available to pay any premium or bonus or cash reward to any employee in addition to his regular wages, except for suggestions resulting in improvements or economy in the operation of any Government plant. Sec. 2. Increased pay to employees receiving not more than $1,800 a year. That to provide, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, for increased compensation at the rate of ten per centum per annum to employees who receive salaries at a rate per annum less than $1,200, and for increased compensation at the rate of five per centum per annum to employees who receive salaries at a rate not more than $1,800 per annum and not less than $1,200 per annum, so *Provisos*. Applicable to employees under this Act except Panama Canal.much as may be necessary is appropriated: *Provided*, That this section shall only apply to the employees who are appropriated for in this Act specifically and under lump sums or whose employment is authorized herein, but shall not include employees of the Panama Detailed reports to be submitted.Canal on the Canal Zone: *Provided further*, That detailed reports shall be submitted to Congress on the first day of the next session showing 181the number of persons, the grades or character of positions, the original rates of compensation, and the increased rates of compensation provided for herein. That the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed toCharles L. Freer. Income tax canceled of gift to Smithsonian Institution. cancel the assessment of $13,252.21, being income tax on profit on the sale of Charles L. Freer, of Detroit, Michigan, in the year nineteen hundred and fifteen, of twelve thousand and ninety-five shares of Parke, Davis and Company’s stock, $1,000,000 of the proceeds from the sale of said stock having been given to the Smithsonian Institution for the erection of a building to house the art collections presented to the Nation by Mr. Freer under deed of gift dated May fifth, nineteen hundred and six, and the remainder having been paid by Mr. Freer for the purchase of additional objects which have been added to the collections and presented to the Nation by him. Sec. 3. That all sums appropriated by this act for salaries of officersSums for salaries to be in full. and employees of the Government shall be in full for such salaries for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, and all laws or parts of laws to the extent they are in conflict with the provisions of this Act are repealed. Approved, June 12, 1917.
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