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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 40 STAT. · March 28, 1918 · Chapter 28

Chapter 28. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 28.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes. March 28, 1918.[[H. R. 9867](/us/bill/65/hr/9867).][[Public, No. 109](/us/pl/65/109).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums are Deficiencies appropriations for war expenses, etc.*Post*, pp. 594, 821, 1020, 1161.appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes, namely:
ALIEN PROPERTY CUSTODIAN.Alien Property Custodian. For expenses of the Alien Property Custodian authorized by Expenses for services, supplies, etc.*Ante*, p. 415.the Act entitled “An Act to define, regulate, and punish trading with the enemy, and for other purposes,” approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, including personal and other services and rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, printing and binding, and necessary supplies and equipment, $225,000.
The President is authorized to acquire the title to the docks, Docks, etc., on Hudson River.Property of North German Lloyd and Hamburg-American lines to be taken.*Post*, p. 1804.piers, warehouses, wharves, and terminal equipment and facilities on the Hudson River now owned by the North German Lloyd Dock Company and the Hamburg-American Line Terminal and Navigation Company, two corporations of the State of New Jersey, if he shall 460*Provisos*.Immediate possession authorized.deem it necessary for the national security and defense: *Provided*, That if such property can not be procured by purchase, then the President is authorized and empowered to take over for the United Payment for.States the immediate possession and title thereof.
If any such property shall be taken over as aforesaid, the United States shall make just compensation therefor to be determined by the President. Title to vest Immediately.Restriction not applicable.[R. S., sec. 355, p. 60](/us/rs/s355/p60).Upon the taking over of said property by the President, as aforesaid, the title to all such property so taken over shall immediately vest in the United States: *Provided further*, That section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not apply to any expenditures heroin or hereafter authorized in connection with the property acquired.
Property of enemy.*Ante*, p. 423, amended.The fourth paragraph of section twelve of the “Trading with the enemy Act,” approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is amended to read as follows: " Custodian made trustee of all property other than money.“The alien property custodian shall be vested with all of the powers of a common-law trustee in respect of all property, other than money, which has been or shall be, or which has been or shall be required to be, conveyed, transferred, assigned, delivered, or paid over to him in pursuance of the provisions of this Act, and, in addition thereto, acting under the supervision and direction of the Vested with ownership, management, etc.President, and under such rules and regulations as the President shall prescribe, shall have power to manage such property and do any act or things in respect thereof or make any disposition thereof or of any part thereof, by sale or otherwise, and exercise any rights or powers which may be or become appurtenant thereto or to the ownership thereof in like manner as though he were the absolute *Provisos*.Sales limited to citizens, highest bidder, etc.owner thereof: *Provided*, That any property sold under this Act, except when sold to the United States, shall be sold only to American citizens, at public sale to the highest bidder, after public advertisement of time and place of sale which shall be where the property or a major portion thereof is situated, unless the President stating the reasons therefor, in the public interest shall otherwise determine:
Discretion to reject bids. *Provided further*, That when sold at public sale, the alien property custodian upon the order of the President stating the reasons therefor, shall have the right to reject all bids and resell such property at public sale or otherwise as the President may direct. Punishment for forbidden purchases.Any person purchasing property from the alien property custodian for an undisclosed principal, or for resale to a person not a citizen of the United States, or for the benefit of a person not a citizen of the United States, shall be guilty of a misdemeanor, and, upon conviction, shall be subject to a fine of not more than $10,000, or imprisonment for not more than ten years, or both, and the property Stocks, etc., of aliens to be transferred to custodian by corporations issuing.shall be forfeited to the United States.
It shall be the duty of every corporation incorporated within the United States and every unincorporated association, or company, or trustee, or trustees within the United States issuing shares or certificates representing beneficial interests to transfer such shares or certificates upon its, his, or their books into the name of the alien property custodian upon demand, accompanied by the presentation of the certificates Deposit of proceeds.which represent such shares or beneficial interests.
The alien property custodian shall forthwith deposit in the Treasury of the United States, as hereinbefore provided, the proceeds of any such property or rights so sold by him.” " BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY.Bureau of Efficiency. Expenses of investigations. etc., by.Vol. 39, p. 15.To enable the Bureau of Efficiency, authorized by the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved February twenty-eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to establish and maintain a system of efficiency ratings, to investigate administrative needs of the service relating to personnel in the several executive departments and independent es461tablishments, required by the legislative, executive, and judicial Vol 37, pp. 413, 750.appropriation Acts for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and thirteen and nineteen hundred and fourteen, respectively, and to investigate Vol. 38, p. 1008.duplication of statistical and other work and methods of business in the various branches of the Government service; for purchase or exchange of equipment, supplies, stationery, books and periodicals, and printing and binding; in all, $38,000: *Provided*, That no person *Proviso*.Pay restriction.shall be employed hereunder at a compensation exceeding $4,000 per annum.
COUNCIL OF NATIONAL DEFENSE.Council of National Defense. For expenses of experimental work and investigations undertaken Expenses of work by.Director, employees, etc.by the Council of National Defense, by the advisory commission, or subordinate bodies; for the employment of a director, secretary, chief clerk, expert, clerical, and other assistance, equipment and supplies, Supplies, etc.including law books, books of reference, newspapers, and periodicals; subsistence and travel, including the expenses of members of the advisory commission or subordinate bodies going to and attending meetings of the advisory commission or subordinate bodies; rent of offices and grounds; repairs and upkeep of buildings occupied by the council; and printing and binding done at the Government Printing Printing and binding.Office, $250,000.
UNITED STATES EMPLOYEES’ COMPENSATION COMMISSION.Employees Compensation Commission. For salaries of the commissioners, assistants, clerks, and other Salaries and expenses.employees; traveling expenses; expenses of medical examinations; 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; not exceeding $250 for professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, and periodicals; stationery, and other supplies; printing and binding to be done at the Government Printing Office; and other necessary expenses, $37,000.
FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.Vocational education. Not to exceed $3,995 of the appropriation contained in section Rent allowance for Board in District of Columbia.Vol. 39, p. 933.seven of the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the promotion of vocational education, and so forth,” approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, shall be available for the rental of quarters in the District of Columbia for the said board from the date of its organization until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen.
UNITED STATES FOOD AND FUEL ADMINISTRATIONS.Food and Fuel Administrations. For expenses of the United States Food and Fuel Administrations, Expenses of employees, supplies, etc.*Ante*, p. 276.created under authority contained in the Act entitled “An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by encouraging the production, conserving the supply, and controlling the distribution of food products and fuel,” approved August tenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, including personal and other services and rent in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, printing and binding, and necessary supplies and equipment, $1,750,000. 462 LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.Library of Congress.
Legislative reference.Legislative Reference: To enable the Librarian of Congress to employ competent persons to gather, classify, and make available, in translations, indexes, digests, compilations, and bulletins, and otherwise, data for or bearing upon legislation, and to render such data serviceable to Congress and committees and Members thereof, $2,000. NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMITTEE FOR AERONAUTICS.Advisory Committee for Aeronautics. Rent allowance increased.Vol. 39, p. 1170.The limitation upon the amount which may be expended for office rent in the District of Columbia for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, contained in the naval appropriation Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is increased from $1,500 to $2,332.
SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION.Smithsonian Institution. national museum.National Museum. Heating, etc.For heating, lighting, electrical, telegraphic, and telephonic service, $5,674. WAR TRADE BOARD.War Trade Board. Expenses of operations entrusted to, by the President.*Ante*, pp. 217, 411.For the expenses of the War Trade Board, created by the Executive order of October twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, which Executive order was made under authority of the acts of June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, known as the “Espionage Act,” and the Act of October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, known as the “Trading with the enemy Act,” for traveling expenses of officials and employees while traveling on official business, including per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 per day; purchase of periodicals and books of reference; purchase, operation, maintenance, fuel, and repairs of motor-propelled vehicles; payment of ground rent and rent of office buildings in the District of Columbia and elsewhere in the United States where branch offices have heretofore been or may hereafter be established; foreign postage and expense of printing and publication of reports, circulars, journals, and other publicity matter; purchase of such material and equipment and employment of such persons and means in the city of Washington or elsewhere as may be necessary to carry on the operations intrusted to the War Trade Board by the President, $800,000.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. Additional employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For additional employees in the Department of State, $50,000: *Provided*, That not more than four persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. Contingent expenses.For stationery, furniture, fixtures, typewriters, repairs and materia] for repairs, and miscellaneous items, including expenses of the passport office m New York, $20,000. foreign intercourse.Foreign intercourse.
Contingent expenses, missions.Contingent expenses, foreign missions: To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all such stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, flags, and signs as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, repaira, postage, telegrams, furniture, typewriters, including exchange of same, messenger service, compensation of kavasses, guards, dragomans, 463and porters, including compensation of interpreters, and the compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, and for printing in the Department of State, and for loss on bills of exchange to and from embassies and legations, and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $250,000.
Contingent expenses, foreign missions: For contingent expenses, foreign missions, including the same objects specified under this head in the Diplomatic and Consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $27,856.72. The unexpended balance of the appropriation for “transportation Transportation.Use of balance.*Ante*, p. 346.of diplomatic and consular officers, contained in the Diplomatic and Consular appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall be available for expenditure in accordance with the terms of the appropriation for this purpose in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.
Post allowances to consular and diplomatic officers: To enable Post allowances.the President, in his discretion and in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe, to make special allowances by way of additional compensation to consular and diplomatic officers in order to adjust their official income to the ascertained cost of living at the posts to which they may be assigned, $400,000. Relief and protection of American seamen: For relief and protection Relief, etc., of American seamen.of American seamen in foreign countries, and in the Panama Canal Zone, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Terri tory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands, $60,000.
Emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service: Emergencies and, neutrality expenses.To enable the President to meet unforeseen emergencies arising in the Diplomatic and Consular Service and to extend the commercial and other interests of the United States and to meet the necessary expenses attendant upon the execution of the neutrality Act, to be expended pursuant to the requirements of section two hundred [R. S., sec. 291, p. 49](/us/rs/s291/p49).and ninety-one of the Revised Statutes, $50,000.
Contingent expenses, United States consulates: Expenses of providing Contingent expenses, consulates.all such stationery, blanks, record and other books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent (so much as may be necessary), repairs to consular buildings owned by the United States, postage, furniture, including typewriters and exchange of same, statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular assistants, compensation of Chinese writers, loss by exchange, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates and consular agencies in the transaction of their business, and payments in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $35,000.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses. For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $2,000.Freight, etc. For purchase of file holders and file cases, $1,500. For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate Heating, etc.baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $7,000. 464 Miscellaneous supplies.For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings and fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower-garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps and repairs of same, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, toilet paper, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, street car tickets not exceeding $250, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public auction in Washington, District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, $7,000.
Furniture.For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair cane, chair covers, desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $5,000. Labor-saving machines, and supplies.For purchase of labor-saving machines and supplies for same, including the purchase and exchange of registering accountants, numbering machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, and purchase of supplies for photographic copying machines, $3,000.
Stationery.For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, $55,000. bureau of war risk insurance.War Risk Insurance Bureau. Salaries and expenses.For salaries of officers and employees, $1,268,000; furniture, equipment, and supplies, including not exceeding $100 for street car tickets, $121,000; traveling expenses, including not exceeding $4 per diem in lieu of subsistence, $24,000; telegraph and telephone service, $4,800; stationery and miscellaneous expenses, including subscriptions Printing, rent, etc.to periodicals, $20,000; printing and binding, $60,000; rental of quarters, $40,000; in all, $1,537,800. office of auditor for treasury department.Auditor for Treasury Department.
Additional employees.For additional employees from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Accounting clerks—three (experts) at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each; six check assortons at $1,200 each; four comptometer operators at $1,200 each; messenger, $840; in all, $9,080. office of auditor for navy department.Auditor for Navy Department. Additional employees.For additional clerks from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows:
Clerks—twenty of class one and ten at $1,000 each: in all, $11,333.33. office of auditor for state and other departments.Auditor for State, etc., Departments. Additional employees.For additional clerks from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Clerks—one of class four, three of class three, four of class two, and two of class one; in all, $4,866.67. 465 treasurer’s Office.Treasurer’s office. For additional employees from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen Additional employees.hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows:
Clerks—three of class four, seven of class three, four at $1,500 each, fifteen of class two, five at $1,300 each, thirty-four of class one, twenty-four at $1,000 each, six at $ each; expert counters—eighteen at $1,200 each, four at $1,100 each, twenty-eight at $1,000 each, twenty-four at $900 each; six messengers at $840 each; four laborers at $660 each; messenger boys—four at $600 each, five at $480 each, two at $360 each, in all, $69,700. For purchase of furniture, labor-saving and filing devices, including Furniture, etc.exchange, repairs, and miscellaneous expenses of installation, for use in the office of the Treasurer of the United States, $20,000. secret service division.Secret Service Division.
For additional clerks from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen Additional clerks.hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at rates of compensation, as follows: Clerks—one of class four and one of class one; in all, $1,000. office of the surgeon general, public health service.Public Health Service. For additional employees from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen Additional office employees.hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Five clerks of class one; messenger, $840; in all, $2,280. office of director of mint.Director of the Mint.
For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expendedContingent exponses. under the direction of the director: For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, pamphlets, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, $200. mints and assay offices.Mints and assay offices. Denver, Colorado, Mint: For wages of workmen and other employees,Denver, Colo. $48,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in melting and refining department and coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $55,000.
New Orleans, Louisiana, Mint: For wages of workmen and otherNew Orleans, La. employees, $400. Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Mint: For wages of workmen andPhiladelphia, Pa. other employees, $340,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, expenses of the annual assay commission, wastage in melting and refining and in coming departments, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, and not exceeding $1,000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint, $185,000.
San Francisco, California, Mint: For wages of workmen and otherSan Francisco, Cal. employees, $82,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department and in the coming department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $60,000. 466 New York, N. Y.New York assay office: For wages of workmen and other employees, $60,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion, $70,000. public buildings, construction, sites, extensions, and rent.Public buildings.
Engraving and Printing Bureau.Repairs to laundry.Vol. 39, p. 803.Bureau of Engraving and Printing: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $20,000 “For miscellaneous repairs to laundry, new roof, and so forth, damaged by fire,” contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. Caruthersville, Mo.Caruthersville, Missouri, post office (site):
For completion under the present limit of cost, $500. Fort Stanton, N. Mex.Sanatorium boundary fence.Vol. 38, p. 611.Fort Stanton, New Mexico, sanatorium: The appropriation of $800 for the construction of a wire fence along the southeastern boundary fine of the reservation, contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, is made available for the construction of a wire fence at any point on the said reservation. Harrisburg, Pa.Enlargement, etc.Harrisburg, Pennsylvania, post office and courthouse:
For additional for completion of the enlargement, extension, and remodeling, $11,000; and the limit of cost of such enlargement, extension, and remodeling is increased by the foregoing sum. Rent.For additional for rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $4,000. Moultrie, Ga.Moultrie, Georgia, post office: For additional for completion, $3,700; and the limit of cost of said building is increased by the foregoing sum.
Nogales, Ariz.Bridge on customhouse land.Vol. 39, p. 278.Nogales, Arizona, bridge: The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $7,500 “For the construction of a permanent wagon and foot bridge across the creek at International Avenue, at Nogales, Arizona, on land reserved by the United States for customs purposes,” contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, is reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Paris, Tex.Rent.Paris, Texas: For rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $5,000. Treasury Annex.Construction.Washington, District of Columbia, Treasury Building Annex: For commencement, within the limit of cost heretofore authorized, *Proviso*.Restriction.$500,000: *Provided*, That no part of this sum shall be expended on this building until after the acceptance of such plans, specifications, and bids as will complete the building within the authorized limit of cost.
Squares 226, 227, 228, District of Columbia.Use extended of sum for repairs to buildings on.*Ante*, p. 348.The unexpended balance of the appropriation of $100,000 contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, for repairs, alterations, and extensions of certain buildings and their equipment belonging to the United States on squares numbered two hundred and twenty-six and two hundred and twenty-eight in the city of Washington, is made available for the repair, alteration, and extension of such buildings and their equipment belonging to the United States on square numbered two hundred and twenty-seven, in the city of Washington, as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, to fit them for temporary use by the Treasury Department. 467 quarantine stations.Quarantine stations.
Cape Charles Quarantine Station: The appropriation of $143,500 Cape Charles.Remodeling buildings.*Ante*, p. 349.for improvements, contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is made available for the remodeling of existing buildings. marine hospitals.Marine hospitals. Boston, Massachusetts: For remodeling main building and Boston, Mass.Additional buildings, etc.erection of medical officers’ quarters, junior officers’ double quarters, pharmacists’ double quarters; female nurses’ quarters, attendants’ quarters, and a tuberculosis pavilion, approach work, for mechanical equipment, telephone and bedside call bell systems, $155,700; rent of temporary quarters, $3,000; for miscellaneous furniture and equipment, $21,600; in all, $180,300.
Baltimore, Maryland: Remodeling and extending mess hall and Baltimore, Md.Additional buildings, etc.kitchen building, two temporary hospital units, isolation ward building, officers’ quarters, pharmacists’ quarters, female nurses’ quarters, attendants’ quarters, remodeling administration building; approach work; for mechanical equipment, including refrigerating plant, telephone and bedside call systems, $189,000; for miscellaneous furniture and equipment, $18,000; in all, $207,000.
Detroit, Michigan: Attendants’ quarters building, $31,500.Detroit, Mich. New York (Stapleton): Remodehng old white house for attendants’ Stapelton, N. Y.Additional buildings, etc.quarters, psychiatric units, female nurses’ quarters, ambulance house, junior medical officers’ quarters (temporary), temporary hospital ward unit, and approach work; mechanical equipment, including refrigerating plant, telephone and bedside call systems, $256,500; miscellaneous furniture and equipment, $45,000; in all, $301,500.
New Orleans, Louisiana: Two hospital ward units, remodeling New Orleans, La.Additional buildings, etc.and extending kitchen and mess hall building, female nurses’ quarters, attendants’ quarters, isolation ward, approach work; mechanical equipment, including refrigerating plant, telephone and bedside call systems, $162,000; miscellaneous furniture and equipment, $18,000; in all, $180,000. San Francisco, California: Three hospital ward units, kitchen and San Francisco, Cal.Additional buddings, etc.two mess halls; remodeling present building, officers’ quarters, attendants’ quarters; remodeling present outbuildings and approach work; mechanical equipment, including refrigerating plant, telephone and bedside call systems, $216,000; miscellaneous furniture and equipment, $22,500; in all, $238,500.
Savannah, Georgia: One additional hospital ward building, remodeling Savannah, Ga.Additional buildings, etc.present building, and approach work; mechanical equipment, including refrigerating plant, telephone and bedside call bell systems, $126,000; miscellaneous furniture and equipment, $9,000; in all, $135,000. In carrying the foregoing appropriations for marine hospitals Construction by contracts or direct employment.into effect the Secretary of the Treasury may enter into contracts or purchase materials in open market, or otherwise, and employ laborera and mechanics for executing the work as in his judgment may best meet the public exigencies, within the limits of the respective appropriations made herein. public buildings, operating expenses and equipment.
Operating supplies: For operating supplies for public buildings, Operating supplies.including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Acts for the fiscal years that follow: Nineteen hundred and eighteen, $250,000. 468 Nineteen hundred and seventeen, $19,944.44. Vaults and safes.Vaults and safes: For vaults and safes for public buildings, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $60,000. customs service.Customs service.
Salaries and expenses enforcing Espionage and Trading with the Enemy Acts.*Ante*, pp. 217, 411.Enforcement of the Espionage Act and the Trading with the Enemy Act: For salaries and expenses for the enforcement of the provisions of the Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, known as the “Espionage Act,” and the Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, known as the “Trading with the Enemy Act,” $300,000. engraving and printing.Engraving and Printing Bureau.
Materials, etc.For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except distinctive paper, miscellaneous expenses, including paper for internal-revenue stamps, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, $400,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. public health service.Public Health Service.Pay, etc., officers.
For pay, allowance, and commutation of quarters for commissioned medical officers and pharmacists, $6,490. Other employees.For pay of all other employees (attendants, and so forth), $15,000. Fuel, etc.For fuel, light, and water, $20,000. Marine hospitals.For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included *Proviso*.Cases for study.under special heads, $100,000: *Provided*, That there may be admitted into said hospitals for study persons with infectious or other diseases affecting the public health, and not to exceed ten cases in any one hospital at one time.
Supplies.For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospital supplies, $25,000. Outside treatment, etc.For medical examinations, care of seamen, care and treatment of all other persons entitled to relief, and miscellaneous expenses other than marine hospitals, which are not included under special heads, $44,000. Communicable diseases.Control of, in areas adjacent to camps, etc.For the control of malaria, cerebrospinal meningitis, and other communicable diseases in the areas adjoining military and naval reservations, and including not to exceed $25,000 to be expended on or adjoining other Government reservations or works for the protection of the civil population, and for the control of venereal infections, in order property to safeguard the health of the military forces, including personal services, $500,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Quarantine stations.Maintenance.Quarantine Service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, exclusive of pay of officers and employees, of quarantine stations, and including not exceeding $500 for printing, $25,000. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. District Building.District Building: For fuel, light, power, repairs, laundry, mechanics, and labor not to exceed $3,500 and miscellaneous supplies, $10,000. Free Public Library.Free Public Library, including Takoma Park Branch:
For maintenance, repairs, fuel, lighting, fitting up buildings, lunch-room equipment; purchase, exchange, and maintenance of bicycles and motor delivery vehicles; and other contingent expenses, $2,500. 469 contingent and miscellaneous expenses. For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, Contingent expanses.stationery, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $3,000.
For postage for strictly official mail matter, $6,000.Postage.Printing reports to Congress. For printing all annual and special reports of the government of the District of Columbia for submission to Congress for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $5,000. For general advertising, authorized and required by law, and for Advertising.tax and school notices and notices of changes in regulations, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $98.81. imrpovements and repairs.
Repairs to suburban roads: For current work of repairs to Suburban roads.Repairs.suburban roads and suburban streets, including maintenance of motor vehicles, $20,000. Highway Bridge across Potomac River: For replacing the fenders Highway Bridge.of the bridge, $50,000. Paving Park Road: The appropriation of $17,500 for paving Park Road.Reappropriation tor paving.Vol. 39, p. 687.Park Road, New Hampshire Avenue to Fourteenth Street northwest, contained in the Act making appropriations to provide for the expenses of the District of Columbia, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, approved September first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is reappropriated and continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. sewers.Sewers.
For operation and maintenance of the sewage pumping service, including Pumping station, etc.repairs to boilers, machinery, and pumping stations, and employment of mechanics, laborers, and two watchmen, purchase of coal, oils, waste, and other supplies, and for maintenance of motor trucks, $15,596. streets.Streets. Dust prevention, cleaning, and snow removal: For dust prevention, Cleaning, etc.sweeping and cleaning streets, avenues, alleys, and suburban streets, under the immediate direction of the commissioners, and for cleaning snow and ice from streets, sidewalks, crosswalks, and gutters in the discretion of the commissioners, including services and purchase and maintenance of equipment, rent of storage rooms; maintenance and repairs of stables; hire, purchase, and maintenance of horses; hire, purchase, maintenance, and repair of wagons, harness, and other equipment; allowance to inspectors and foremen for maintenance of horses and vehicles or motor vehicles used in the performance of official duties, not to exceed for each inspector or foreman $20 per month for a horse-drawn vehicle, $25 per month for an automobile, and $12 per month for a motorcycle; purchase, maintenance, and repair of motor-propelled vehicles necessary in cleaning streets; purchase, maintenance, and repair of bicycles; and necessary incidental expenses, $18,540.
Public convenience stations: For maintenance of public convenience Public convenience stations.stations, including compensation of necessary employees, $2,300. For additional amount required for the construction of a new New station.public convenience station, numbered five, to be located under roadway or partly under roadway and partly under sidewalks, in Eighth Street northwest, south of F Street, $5,000. 470 public schools.Public schools. Night schools.Night schools: For teachers and janitors of night schools, including teachers of industrial, commercial, and trade instruction, and teachers and janitors of night schools may also be teachers and janitors of day schools, $25,000.
Admission of soldiers and sailors for special instruction.Soldiers and sailors of the United States not residents of the District of Columbia who are on duty at stations adjacent to the District of Columbia shall be admitted tor special instruction to the day schools and night schools of the District of Columbia without payment of tuition. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses, including furniture and repairs of same, stationery, printing, ice, purchase and repair of equipment for high-school cadets, and other necessary items not otherwise provided for, $10,000.
Manual training.Manual training: For purchase and repair of furniture, tools, machinery, material, and books, and apparatus to be used in connection with instruction in manual training, and incidental expenses connected therewith, $3,500. Fuel and light.Fuel and light: For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $30,000. Supplies to pupils.Textbooks: For textbooks and school supplies for use of pupils of the first eight grades, who at the time are not supplied with the same, to be distributed by the superintendent of public schools under regulations to be made by the board of education, and for the necessary expenses of purchase, distribution, and preservation of said textbooks and supplies, $5,000.
Community forums and civic centers.Expenses for, at buildings.Community forums and civic centers; For necessary expenses connected with the organization and conducting of community forums and civic centers in school buildings, including fixtures and supplies for lighting and equipping the buildings, janitor service, secretaries, teachers, and organizers, and employees of day schools may also be employees of the community forums and civic centers, $10,000. Repairs to buildings, etc.Buildings:
For repairs and improvements to school buildings and grounds and for repairing and renewing heating, plumbing, and ventilating apparatus, and installation of sanitary drinking fountains in buildings not supplied with same, $20,000. metropolitan police.Police. Miscellaneous.Miscellaneous: For fuel, $1,300. For maintenance of motor vehicles, $3,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. House of detention.House of detention: For miscellaneous expenses, including rent, forage, fuel, gas, horseshoeing, ice, laundry, meals, horses, wagons and harness and repairs to same, and other necessary expenses, $1,300.
Harbor patrol.Harbor patrol: For fuel, construction, maintenance, repairs, and incidentals, $1,100. fire department.Fire department. Fuel.For fuel, $10,693. Forage.For forage, $12,700. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, horseshoeing, furniture, fixtures, oil, medical and stable supplies, harness, blacksmithing, gas and electric lighting, flags and halyards, and other necessary items, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $470.14 Fire boat.For repairs to and improvements of the fire boat, $5,000. health department.Health department.
Drainage of lots.Vol. 29, p. 125.For enforcement of the provisions of an Act to provide for the drainage of lots in the District of Columbia, approved May nineteenth, eighteen hundred and ninety-six, and an Act to provide for the 471abatement of nuisances in the District of Columbia by the commissioners, Abating nuisances.Vol. 34, p. 114.and for other purposes, approved April fourteenth, nineteen hundred and six, $1,000. For maintenance of disinfecting service, including salaries Disinfecting service.or compensation for personal services when ordered in writing by the commissioners and necessary for maintenance of said service, and for purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $1,500.
For maintaining and keeping in good order the chemical laboratory Laboratory.and for the purchase of reference books and scientific periodicals, $200. For the maintenance of one motor vehicle for use in the pound Pound.service, $200. For maintenance, including personal services, of the public Crematory.crematory, $500. reformatories and correctional institutions.Reformatories. Washington Asylum and Jail: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness Asylum and jail.Contingent expenses.and vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, $17,000.
For maintenance of jail prisoners of the District of Columbia at Support of jail prisoners.the Washington Asylum and Jail, including pay guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, $20,000. For conveying prisoners to Washington Asylum and Jail, including Transporting prisoners to jail.salary of driver, not to exceed $840, and purchase and maintenance of necessary horses, wagons, and harness, $1,000. Home for Aged and Infirm: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness Home for Aged and Infirm.and vehicles and repairs to same, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, including maintenance of motor truck, $18,000. medical charities.Medical charities.
Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital: For the purchase Emergency Hospital.and installation of a new elevator in the Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital, $12,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Tuberculosis Hospital: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, and Tuberculosis Hospital.vehicles and repairs to same, gas, ice, shoes, clothing, dry goods, tailoring, drugs and medical supplies, furniture and bedding, kitchen utensils, and other necessary items, $6,200. child-caring institutions.Child-caring Institutions.
Board of Children’s Guardians: For maintenance of feeble-minded Feeble-minded children.children (white and colored), $4,100. For board and care of all children committed to the guardianshipBoard, etc., of children. of said board by the courts of the District, and for temporary care of children pending investigation or while being transferred from place to place, $50,000. Authority is granted to pay, in addition to the sum of $1,500 Additional to sectarian institutions.heretofore authorized, a further sum not to exceed $4,100 to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control, fiscal year nine-teen hundred and eighteen.
Industrial Home School for Colored Children: For maintenance, Industrial Home School for Colored Children.Industrial Home School.including purchase and care of horses, wagons, and harness, $6,000. Industrial Home School: For maintenance, including purchase and care of horse, wagon, and harness, $6,000. 472 temporary homes. Support of indigent.Hospital for the Insane: For support of indigent insane of the District of Columbia in Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital, as provided by law, $100,000.
Workhouse.Maintenance.Workhouse: For maintenance, including superintendence, custody, clothing, guarding, care, and support of prisoners; rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, live stock, tools, equipment, and miscellaneous items; transportation; maintenance and operation of means of transportation, and means of transportation: supplies and personal services, and all other necessary items, $40,000.
Reformarory.Maintenance.Reformatory: For maintenance, including superintendence, custody, clothing, guarding, care and support of inmates; rewards for fugitives; provisions, subsistence, medicine and hospital instruments, furniture, and quarters for guards and other employees and inmates; purchase of tools and equipment; purchase and maintenance of farm implements, live stock, tools, equipment; transportation and means of transportation; maintenance and operation of means of transportation; supplies and personal services, and all other necessary items, $20,000. water service.Water service.
Extending mains to new buildings west of Seventeenth street.For constructing twenty-four-inch water mains in Twenty-first Street, from L Street to Virginia Avenue; in Virginia Avenue to Now York Avenue; in New York Avenue between Virginia Avenue and Nineteenth and E Streets; in E Street between Seventeenth and Nineteenth Streets; and in Seventeenth Street between E Street and New York Avenue, $70,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Additional extensions.For constructing twenty-four-inch water main in Twenty-first Street from Virginia Avenue to B Street, and in B Street between Seventeenth and Twenty-first Streets, $39,600; and for constructing sixteen-inch water main in B Street between Twenty-first and To Seaton Park buildings.Twenty-sixth Streets and in Twenty-sixth Street between B and D Streets, $18,700; and for constructing a twenty-inch water main in Missouri Avenue between Four-and-a-half and Sixth Streets In the Mall.Northwest, $6,000; and for constructing twelve-inch water main in the Mall between Seventh and Ninth Streets and B Street north and B Street south, $2,400; in all, $66,700, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Service expenses.For continuing the extension of and maintaining the highserv Water meters, etc.ice system of water distribution, laying necessary service and trunk mains for low service, and purchasing, installing, and maintaining water meters on services, to such private residences and to such business places as may not be required to install meters under existing regulations as may be directed by the commissioners said meters at all times to remain the property of the District of Columbia, to include all necessary land, machinery, buildings, mains, and appurtenances, and labor, and purchase and maintenance of horses, wagons, carts, and harness necessary for the proper From water revenues.execution of this work, $35,000, to be paid out of the revenues of the water department. judgements.Judgments.
Payment of.For payment of the judgment, including costs, against the District of Columbia, set forth in House Document Numbered six 473hundred and ninety-eight of the present session, $640.45, together with a further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding four per centum on said judgment, as provided by law, from the date it became due until the date of payment. One-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the Half from District revenues.appropriations on account of the District of Columbia, except as otherwise provided, shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. additional employees. For the temporary employment of such additional force of clerks Additional tem porary clerks, etc.and other employees as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of the existing situation may demand: *Provided*, *Provisos*.Detailed statement to Congress.That the Secretary of War shall submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a statement showing by bureaus or offices the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensation paid to each: *Provided further*, Limitation on higher compensation.That no more than thirty persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $1,800 per annum each and not exceeding $2,400 per annum each, $3,000,000. office of chief of ordnance.Ordnance Office.
The Chief of Ordnance is authorized to appoint one of the Army Disbursing officer to pay civilian employees.officers serving in his office as disbursing officer to pay the civilian employees in the Ordnance Office authorized in this Act, the urgent *Ante*, p. 367.deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the legislative, executive, and judicial Vol. 39, p. 1096.appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. contingent expenses.
For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, Contingent expenses.including their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriters and adding machines; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department Building) occupied by the War Department and its bureaus; purchase, exchange, care, and subsistence of horses, and the purchase, maintenance, repair, and exchange of wagons, motor trucks and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and harness, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; street car tickets, not exceeding $300; and other absolutely necessary expenses, including a per diem allowance not to exceed $4 in lieu of Perdiemsubsistence.subsistence, $600,000.
For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required Postage.under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, $250. For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of Rent in District of Columbia.the War Department and its bureaus and offices, $289,899.95. Authority is given the Secretary of War to erect a telephone Telephone switchboard building.switchboard building on lots numbered five and six, block one hundred and sixty-nine, situated between Seventeenth and Eighteenth and F and G Streets northwest, Washington, District of Columbia. 474 armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenals.
Benicia, Cal.Benicia Arsenal, California: For additional for an addition to the main issuing and receiving storehouse, $10,000. Frankford, Pa.Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For a small-arms ammunition storehouse and cart house, $175,000; For an artillery case shop, 8490,000; For an experimental shop building, $275,000; For a storehouse for special ammunition, $70,000; In all, $1,010,000. Rock Island, Ill.Rock Island Arsenal, Rock Island, Illinois: For additional amount for completing facilities for manufacturing field artillery ammunition, $220,300.
For additional for improving water-power plant, Rock Island Arsenal, $95,000. Repairs, etc.Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvement of arsenals, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including Machinery tor manufacturing.$100,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, for machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $,000. military posts.Military posts. Barracks and quarters for seacoast defenses.Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses:
For construction of temporary barracks and quarters at seacoast posts for the accommodation of officers and enlisted men of the Coast Artillery, including heating and lighting apparatus, water and sewer systems, plumbing, roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $3,565,000. Fort Monroe, Va.Fort Monroe, Virginia: For additional for pay of twelve laborers, from August nineteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, $1,363.49; and authority is granted to reimburse nonmilitary residents at Fort Monroe their pro rata share of the amount which should be borne by the Government. miscellaneous.Public buildings and grounds.
Executive Mansion.Fuel.Executive Mansion: For fuel for the Executive Mansion and greenhouses, $2,000. Heating offices, etc.Heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and so forth: For heating offices, watchmen’s lodges, and greenhouses at the propagating gardens, $1,500. Washington Monument.Elevator.Washington Monument: For purchase and installation of new cables for the elevator, $5,000. Expenses.For fuel, lights, oil, waste, packing, tools, matches, paints, brushes, brooms, lanterns, rope, nails, screws, lead, electric lights, heating apparatus, oil stoves for elevator car and upper and lower floors, repairs to engines, boilers, dynamos, elevator, and repairs of all kinds connected with the Monument and machinery; and purchase of all necessary articles for keeping the Monument, machinery, elevator, and electric plant in good order, $2,000.
New York Harbor.Harbor of New York: For prevention of obstructive and injurious deposits within the harbor and adjacent waters of New York City: Patrol fleet.For pay of crews and maintenance of patrol fleet, six steam tugs and one launch, $10,000. “ Lamont.”Repairs.For additional for the purchase and installation of a new dynamo, electrical fittings, new deck, and new boiler on patrol vessel Lamont, $8,500 MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Army. provost marshal general’s office.Provost Marshal Generaln’s office.
Draft registration expenses.For additional amount for all expenses necessary in the registration of persons available for military service and in the selection 475of certain such persons and their draft into the military service, $8,476,490. quartermaster corps.Quartermaster Corps. Mileage: For mileage to commissioned officers, members of the Mileage to officers, etc.Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, $5,000,000.
Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps: Regular supplies of the Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps.Quartermaster Corps, including their care and protection; construction and repair of military reservation fences; stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States disciplinary barracks; also ranges, stoves, coffee roasters, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts, in the field, and when traveling, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; and the necessary power for the operation of moving-picture machines; authorized issues of candles and matches; for furnishing heat and Heat,light,etc.light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to activo duty, and enlisted men, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty; contract surgeons when stationed at and occupying public quarters at military posts; for officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, storehouses, offices, the buildings erected at private cost, in the operation Recreation buildings.Vol. 32, p. 282.of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two, and buildings for similar purposes on military reservations authorized by War Department regulation; for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries, including bake ovens and apparatus pertaming thereto, and the repair thereof; for ice machines Ice machines, laundries, etc.and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men and offices at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; for the construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions; for the authorized issues of laundry materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and for applicants for enlistment while held under observation: authorized issues of soap; for hire of employees; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipment School supplies, etc.for the post schools and libraries; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of officers’ schools at the several military posts; for purchase of relief maps for issue to organizations, commercial newspapers, market reports, and so forth; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; of forage, salt, and vinegar for the horses, mules, oxen, Forage, etc., for animals.and other draft and riding animals of the Quartermaster Corps at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of Cavalry, and batteries of Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted; for remounts and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; for seeds and implements required for the raising of forage at remount depots and on military reservations in the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands and for labor and expenses incident thereto, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, the cost of irrigation; for straw for soldiers’ bed476Stationery, printing, etc.ding, stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Quartermaster Corps, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department orders and reports, $26,358,176. *Proviso*.Printing restriction. *Provided*, That no part of the appropriations for the Quartermaster Corps shall be expended on printing unless the same shall be done at the Government Printing Office, or by contract after duo notice and competition, except in such cases as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice of competition, and in cases where it is impracticable to have the necessary printing done by contract the same may be done, with the approval of the Secretary of War, by the purchase of material and hire of the necessary labor for the purpose.
Henry C. Chappell.Payment to.Henry C. Chappell: The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to pay to Henry C. Chappell, of New London, Connecticut, from proper appropriations of the Quartermaster Corps the sum of $58.50 paid by him for advertisements published in newspapers soliciting enlistments in the Quartermaster Reserve Corps of the Army for service in a motor-truck company of the Quartermaster Corps. Transportation.Transportation of the Army and its supplies:
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, including transportation of the troops when moving either by land or water, and of their baggage, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, including the cost of packing and crating; for transportation of recruits and recruiting parties; of applicants for enlistment between recruiting stations and recruiting depots; for travel allowance to officers and enlisted men on discharge; for payment of travel allowance as provided in section one hundred and twenty-six of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to Travel allowances, etc.,on discharge.Vol. 39, p. 217.enlisted men of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, and to members of the National Guard who have been mustered into the service of the United States and discharged on account National Guard officers on discharge.Vol. 31, p. 903.of physical disability; for payment of travel pay to officers of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, as prescribed in the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and one; for travel allowance to persons on their discharge from the United States disciplinary barracks or from any place in which they have been held under a sentence of dishonorable discharge and confinement for more than six months, or from the Government Hospital for the Insane after transfer thereto from such barracks or place, to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment; of the necessary agents and other employees, including per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 for those authorized to receive the Per diem subsistence.per diem allowance; of clothing and equipage and other quartermaster stores from Army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and Army depots and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipment; of ordnance and ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army depots; for payment of wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for transportation of funds Payment to land grant roads.of the Army; for the hire of employees; for the payment of Army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such land-grant Acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of *Provisos*.Basis of compensation.full amount of service be paid: *Provided*, That such compensation shall be computed upon the basis of the. tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large and shall 477be accepted as in full for all demands for such service:Fifty percent to roads not bond aided. *Provided further*, That in expending the money appropriated by this Act a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and military road, subject to the use of the United States Or postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *And provided further*, Full pay to excepted roads.That nothing in the preceding provisos shall be construed to prevent the accounting officers of the Government from making full payment to land-grant railroads for transportation of property or persons where the courts of the United States have held that such property or persons do not come within the scope of the deductions provided for in the land-grant Acts; for the purchase and hire Draft and pack animals.of draft and pack animals in such numbers as are actually required for the service, including reasonable provision for replacing unserviceable animals; for the purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, Vehicles.and repair of such harness, wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies, and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several depots; for the hire of teamsters and other employees; for Ships, boats, etc.the purchase and repair of ships, boats, and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for expenses of sailing public transports and Transports.other vessels on the various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, $125,000,000: *Provided further*, That Employees on harbor boats.$75,000 of the appropriation hereby made shall be available for additional pay of employees on harbor boats, quartermaster service, in lieu of subsistence.
All the money herein appropriated under the titles Subsistence of Supplies, services, and transportation.Combination fund constituted of amounts for.*Post*, p. 865.the Army; Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps; Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps; Transportation of the Army and its supplies; Water and sewer at military posts; and Clothing and camp and garrison equipage shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers and agents of the Quartermaster Corps as “Supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps,’ and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.
Storage and shipping facilities: For inland and port storage, Storage and shipping facilities.Buildings, docks, land, etc.including all necessary buildings, docks, tracks, handling, and other facilities for Government supplies, including rentals and not to exceed $20,000,000 for the purchase of land, $100,000,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized to *Provisos*.Additional contracts.enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $50,000,000 in addition to the appropriations heretofore and herein made: *Provided further*, Title, etc., restriction waived.[R.
S., sec. 355, p. 60](/us/rs/s355/p60).That the foregoing sums may be expended without reference to section three hundred and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes. 478 War Port Board, New York.War Port Board: For necessary expenses of the War Port Board, port of New York, $4,500. Barracks and quarters.Barracks and quarters: For barracks, quarters, stables, storehouses, magazines, administration and office buildings, sheds, shops, and other buildings necessary for the shelter of troops, public animals, and stores, and for administration purposes, except those pertaining to the Coast Artillery; for constructing and repairing public buildings at military posts; for hire of employees; for rental of the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, on duty with the troops at posts and stations where no public quarters are available; of barracks or authorized allowance of quarters for noncommissioned officers and enlisted men on duty where public quarters are not available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve, retired enlisted men, and members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty; of grounds for cantonments, camp sites, and other military purposes, and of buildings or portions of buildings for occupation by troops, for use as stables, storehouses, and offices, and for other military purposes; for the hire of recruiting stations and lodgings for recruits; for such furniture for the public rooms of officers’ messes and for officers’ quarters at military posts as may be approved by the Secretary of War; for wall lockers in permanent barracks and refrigerators in barracks and quarters; for screen doors, window screens, storm doors and sash, and window shades for barracks, offices, and quarters, and for flooring and framing for tents, and For National Guard in service.for the National Guard when called or drafted into the service of the United States, $61,252,744. *Provisos*.Commutation restriction.Civilian employees. *Provided*, That no part of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel or quarters to officers or enlisted men: *Provided further*, That the number of and total sum paid for civilian employees in the Quartermaster Corps shall be limited to the actual requirements of the service, and that no employee therein shall receive a salary of more than $150 per month, except upon the approval of the Secretary of War.
Water, sewers, etc.Water and sewers at military posts: For procuring and introducing water to buildings and premises at such military posts and stations as from their situations require it to be brought from a distance; for the installation and extension of plumbing within buildings where the same is not specifically provided for in other appropriations; for the purchase and repair of fire apparatus, including fire-alarm systems; for the disposal of sewage, and expenses incident thereto, including the authorized issue of toilet paper; for repairs to water and sewer systems and plumbing within buildings; for hire of employees, $18,681,820.
Roads, walks, wharves, etc.Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage: For the construction and repair by the Quartermaster Corps of roads, walks, and wharves; pay of employees; disposal of drainage; dredging channels; and care and improvement of grounds at military posts and stations, $9,194,100. Hospitals.Construction, repairs, etc.Construction and repair of hospitals: For construction and repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same; construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident thereto; additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, temporary hospitals in standing camps and cantonments;
Alterations of permanent buildings, etc.and, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, for the alteration of permanent buildings at posts for use as hospitals, construction and repair of temporary hospital buildings at permanent posts, construction and repair of temporary general ospitals, rental of grounds and rental and alteration of buildings 479for use for hospital purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including necessary temporary quarters for hospital personnel, outbuildings, heating and laundry apparatus, plumbing, water and sewers, electric work, cooking apparatus, and roads ana walks for the same, $19,654,300.
Shooting galleries and ranges: For shelter, shooting galleries, Shooting galleries and ranges.ranges for small-arms target practice, machine-gun practice, field-artillery practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, including flour or paste for marking targets, hire of employees, such ranges and galleries to be open as far as practicable to the National Guard and organized rifle clubs under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, $984,000. Military post exchanges:
For continuing the construction, equipment, Post exchanges.and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school, library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, including repairs to buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the ActRecreation buildings.Vol. 32, p. 282. approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two, for the rental of films, purchase of slides, supplies for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits, and for similar and other recreational purposes at training and mobilization camps now established or which may be established hereafter, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War, $550,000: *Provided*, That not more than $25,000 of this appropriation may be *Proviso*.Personal services restriction.expended for personal services and no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $ 1,800 per annum.
The appropriations made herein for “Regular supplies, Quartermaster Specified appropriations continued until December 31, 1918.Corps,” “Barracks and quarters,” “Water and sewers at military posts,” “Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage,” “Construction and repair of hospitals, ” “ Shooting galleries and ranges, ” “ Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses, ” and “ Military post exchanges” shall continue available until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighteen. Claims of officers and enlisted men for lose of private property Loss of private property in service.Claims allowed to officers and enlisted men for.*Post.* p. 880.destroyed in the military service:
Property belonging to officers, enlisted men, and members of the Nurse Corps (female) of the Army, which they are required by law or regulations to own and use in field service in the performance of their duties, which since the fifth day of April, nineteen hundred and seventeen, has been, or shall hereafter be, lost, damaged, or destroyed in the military service, shall be replaced, or the damage thereto, or its value, recouped to the owner as hereinafter provided, when such loss, damage, or Conditions.destruction has occurred or shall hereafter occur without fault or negligence on the part of the owner in any of the following circumstances:
First. When such private property so lost or destroyed was Shipments on un seaworthy vessels, destroyed by enemy, etc.shipped on board an unseaworthy vessel by order of an officer authorized to give such order or direct such shipment, or destroyed by the enemy or by shipwreck. Second. When it appears that such private property was so If owner was saving public property, etc.lost or destroyed in consequence of its owner having given his attention to the saving of property belonging to the United States which was in danger at the same time and in similar circumstances.
Third. When such private property is destroyed or captured by If destroyed by enemy, etc.the enemy, or is destroyed to prevent its falling into the hands of the enemy, or is abandoned by reason of military emergency requiring its abandonment. The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to examine into, Determination of value, etc.ascertain, and determine the value of such property lost, destroyed, captured, or abandoned as specified in the foregoing paragraphs, 480Payment authorized.or the amount of the damage thereto, as the case may be; and the amount of such value or damage so ascertained and determinedReplacement in kind. shall be paid from appropriations made therefor, or such property lost, destroyed, captured, or abandoned, or so damaged as to be unfit for service, may be replaced in kind from Government property on hand by the supply officer or quartermaster of the organization to which the person entitled thereto belongs or with which he is serving upon the order of the commanding officer thereof.
Finality of action by Secretary of War.Tender of replacement or the determination made by the Secretary of War upon a claim presented as provided for in the foregoing paragraphs shall constitute a final determination of any claim cognizable under this Act, and such claim shall not thereafter be reopened or considered by any accounting officer or court of the United States. Time limit for presenting claims.No claim arising under this Act shall be considered unless made within one year from the time that it accrued, or presented within six months after peace is established.
Appropriation for awards.For the payment of any awards hereunder there is appropriated the sum of $200,000. medical department.Medical Department. Canal Zone.Care, etc., of troops at hospitals of.Hospital care, Canal Zone garrisons: For paying the Panama Canal such reasonable charges, exclusive of subsistence, as may be approved by the Secretary of War for caring in its hospitals for officers, enlisted men, military prisoners, and civilian employees of the Army admitted thereto upon the request of proper military *Proviso*.Subsistence payments.authority: *Provided*, That the subsistence of the said patients, except commissioned officers, shall be paid to said hospitals out of the appropriation for subsistence of the Army at the rates provided therein for commutation of rations for enlisted patients in general hospitals, $20,000.
Medical Museum.Army Medical Museum: For Army Medical Museum, preservation of specimens, and the preparation and purchase of new specimens, $2,500. Gas masks.Manufacturing expenses included in appropriations for.*Ante*, pp. 196, 364.The provision made in the appropriations for the Medical and Hospital Department for the purchase of gas masks shall be deemed and construed, until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, to include the manufacture of said masks and all expenses involved in their factory production except the procurement of factory sites and the pay and allowances of commissioned and enlisted personnel engaged therein. engineer department.Engineer Depart ment.
Field operation expenses.Engineer operations in the field: For expenses incident to military engineer operations in the field, including the purchase of material and a reserve of material for such operations, the construction or rental of storehouses within and outside the District of Columbia, the purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and such expenses as are ordinarily provided for under appropriations for “Engineer depots,” “Civilian assistants to engineer officers,” and “Maps, War *Proviso*.Additional contracts.Department,” $70,000,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized to enter into contracts and otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $70,000,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. ordance department.Ordnance Departmeat.
Ammunition for small arms.Ordnance stores, ammunition: For manufacture and purchase of ammunition for small arms and for hand use for reserve supply, 481$107,732,000: *Provided*, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States *Proviso*.Additional contracts.Army, is authorized to enter into contracts and otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $150,000,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. Small-arms target practice:
For manufacture and purchase of Small arms target practice.ammunition, targets, and other accessories for small-arms, hand, and machine-gun target practice and instructions; marksmen’s medals, prize arms, and insignia for all arms of the service; and At educational institutions, etc.ammunition, targets, target materials, and other accessories which may be issued for small-arms target practice and instruction at the educational institutions and State soldiers’ and sailors’ orphans’ homes to which issues of small arms are lawfully made, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, $900,000.
Ordnance stores and supplies: For overhauling, cleaning, repairing, Preservation, etc., of ordnance.and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for purchase and manufacture Purchases, etc.of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops; for Infantry, Equipments.Cavalry, and Artillery equipments, including horse equipments for Cavalry and Artillery, $19,826,585. Manufacture of arms: For manufacturing, repairing, procuring, Manufacturing, etc., arms.and issuing arms, $27,996,100.
Terminal storage and shipping buildings: For terminal storage and Terminal storage buildings, etc.shipping buildings and other facilities, including rentals and purchases of lands, $5,000,000. FORTIFICATIONS.Fortifications. continental united states. For maintenance and repair of searchlights and electric light and Searchlights, etc., seacoast fortifications.power equipment for seacoast fortifications, and for tools, electrical and other supplies, and appliances to be used in their operation, including the purchase of reserve lights, $60,000. insulart possessions.Insular possessions.
For the construction of seacoast batteries in the Philippine Islands, Seacoast batteries, Philippine Islands.$75,000. For construction of mining casemates, cable galleries, torpedo Torpedo structures, etc., Hawaiian Islands.storehouses, cable tanks, and other structures necessary for the operation, preservation, and care of submarine mines and their accessories and for providing channels for access to torpedo wharves at the defenses of the Hawaiian Islands, $40,000. For construction of fire-control stations and accessories, including Fire control stations.purchase of lands and rights of way, purchase and installations of necessary lines and means of electrical communication, including telephones, dial and other telegraphs, wiring and all special instruments, apparatus and materials, coast signal apparatus, and salaries of electrical experts, engineers, and other necessary employees connected with the use of coast artillery; purchase, manufacture, and Range finders.test of range finders and other instruments for fire control at the fortifications, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, $2,000. filed artillery.
For purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siege Mountain, field, and siege cannon.cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $676,000. The Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter Ammunition.Additional contracts for field, etc., cannon.into contracts and otherwise to incur obligations for the purchase, 482manufacture, and test of ammunition for mountain, field, and siege cannon, including the necessary experiments in connection therewith and the machinery necessary for its manufacture for not to exceed $80,725,000 in addition to the appropriations heretofore made for this purpose.
Ammunition, etc., for practice.Additional contracts authorized.The Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts and otherwise to incur obligations for purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition, subcaliber guns, and other accessories for mountain, field, and siege artillery practice, including the machinery necessary for their manufacture at the arsenals, for not to exceed $33,100,000 in addition to the appropriations heretofore made for this purpose.
PANAMA CANAL.Panama Canal. construction. Dock at Cristobal.For continuing the construction and equipment of the Panama Canal, to be expended under the direction of the governor: For completing Limit of cost increased.Vol. 39, p. 333.dock numbered six at Cristobal, $593,190, to continue available until expended; and the limit of cost fixed by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is increased from $1,500,000 to $2,093,190. fortifications, panama canal.
Preservation, repair, etc., of fortifications.For protection, preservation, and repair of fortifications, for which there may be no special appropriation available, and for maintaining channels for access to torpedo wharves, $9,400. STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS.State, War, and Navy Department Buildings. Contingent expenses.State, War, and Navy Department Building: For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, and city directories, $25,000. Ice plant.For the installation of additional brine tank in the ice plant, $4,000.
Henry Park.Employees for temporary Army and Navy Buildings in.*Ante*, p. 365.War and Navy Department Buildings (Henry Park Reservation): For the following employees from March first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; clerks—one of class three, one of class two, two of class one, one at $1,000; three messengers, at $720 each; electricians—chief $1,400, two at $1,200 each; three at $1,000 each; two plumbers, at $1,200 each; machinist, $1,200; foreman, $1,500; two painters, at $1,200 each; four carpenters, at $1,200 each; two carpenters, at $1,000 each; three switchboard operators, at $1,000 each; ten general mechanics, at $1,000 each; chief engineer, $1,400; assistant engineers, four at $1,200 each; steamfitter, $1,080; firemen—seven at $840 each, eleven at $720 each; laborers—foreman $1,000, fifty at $660 each; nine female laborers, at 4480 each; guards—captain $1,600, three lieutenants at $1,000 each, six sergeants at $840 each, one hundred and fifty-five at $720 each; charwomen—four forewomen at $300 each, eighty at $240 each; in all, $81,900.
Superintendence.The superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings shall serve in a similar capacity in connection with these buildings. Contingent expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, furniture and office equipment, motorcycle and supplies, miscellaneous items, printing, and city directories, $65,000. Completing construction.For completing construction of the temporary office buildings for the War and Navy Departments in Henry Park, as authorized m the urgent deficiency Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $100,000. 483 TEMPORARY OFFICE BUILDINGS.Temporary office buildings.
For two three-story temporary office buildings of reinforced Potomac Park.Two buildings for Navy and War Departments in.concrete with wings sixty feet wide, one for the Navy Department to contain approximately nine hundred and forty thousand square feet and one for the War Department to contain approximately eight hundred and thirty-five thousand square feet, to be erected under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy in Potomac Park west of Location.Seventeenth Street and south of B Street, beginning with the Navy Department Building at a point not less than two hundred and thirty-five feet west of the westerly curb line of Seventeenth Street and fifty feet south from the southerly curb line of B Street and extending southerly not more than six hundred and twenty feet from the said B street curb line and westerly to a point not beyond the easterly building line of Twenty-first Street, including electrical equipment and a temporary heating plant for both buildings, to be located south of D Street and west of Twenty-fifth Street, with necessary connecting mains, $5,775,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of *Proviso*.Heating contract.the Navy is authorized to contract for the heating of the buildings authorized in this paragraph in lieu of the erection and operation of a heating plant authorized therefor, if in his discretion the contracting for said heating is more economical and to the best interests of the Government.
For two three-story temporary office buildings of the type erected Additional buildings for War Department.Seaton Park (north).in Henry Park, one to be located in Seaton Park (north) between Four-and-a-half and Sixth Streets and south of Missouri Avenue and to contain approximately three hundred and seventy thousand Mall.square feet and one to be located on the Mall between Seventh and Ninth Streets and B Street north and B Street south and to contain approximately three hundred thousand square feet, and for a three-story Seaton Park (south).temporary office building of reinforced concrete to be located in Seaton Park (south) between Four-and-a-half and Sixth Streets and north of Maine Avenue and to contain approximately two hundred and seventy thousand square feet, including heating and lighting and the necessary connections, to be erected under the direction of the Secretary of War for the use of the War Department, $2,377,500.
The maintenance and protection of all of the foregoing temporary Supervision of the new buildings.buildings when completed shall be under the supervision and direction of the superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.Public buildings and grounds. For purchasing and supplying uniforms to park, monument, and Uniforms for park, etc., watchmen.Half from District revenues.bridge watchmen, $1,800, one-half to be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half out of the Treasury of the United States.
NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.Volunteer Soldiers’ Home. For additional for support of the National Home for DisabledAdditional for support of. Volunteer Soldiers, including the same objects specified in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen under the following respective heads: Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: For subsistence, $68,000;Dayton, Ohio. For household, $57,000; For hospital, $7,000; For farm, $2,000; In all, $134,000.484 Milwaukee, Wis.Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin:
For subsistence, $31,000; For household, $45,000; For repairs, $2,000; In all, $78,000. Togus, Me.Eastern Branch, Togus, Maine: For subsistence, $5,000; For household, $30,000; For farm, $1,000; In all, $36,000. Hampton, Va.Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For subsistence, $50,000. For household, $20,000; In all, $70,000. Leavenworth, Kans.Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For subsistence, $40,000; For household, $25,000; For hospital, $2,500; For repairs, $8,500; In all, $76,000.
Santa Monies, Cal.Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California: For subsistence, $75,000; For household, $40,000; For hospital, $6,000; In all, $121,000. Marion, Ind.Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For subsistence, $30,000; For household, $30,000; For farm, $5,000; In all, $65,000. Danville, Ill.Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For subsistence, $25,000; For household, $36,000; For repairs, $2,500; In all, $63,500. Johnson City, Tenn.Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee: For subsistence, $25,000;
For household, $30,000; For farm, $3,600; In all, $58,600. Hot Springs, S. Dak.Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For subsistence, $20;000; For household, $12,000; For hospital, $6,500; In all, $38,500. Reimbursing post fund.Miscellaneous: To reimburse the post fund of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers for sums expended to meet deficiencies during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, namely: Clothing for all branches, $3,564.41; coal for the Northwestern Branch, $2,558.58; in all, $6,122.99.
In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $746,722.99. NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. temporary employees. Additional temporary clerks, etc.For the employment of such additional temporary force of clerks, messengers, laborers, and other assistants as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy may be necessary to the transaction of official business in the Navy Department and its bureaus and offices on account of the existing emergency, as follows: Distribution.Bureau of Steam Engineering, $15,000;
Bureau of Yards and Docks, $11,250; Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $37.500; *Proviso*.Detailed statement to Congress.In all, $63,750: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy shall submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a statement showing, by bureaus or offices, the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensation paid to each. 485 contingent expenses. For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, drawing Contingent expenses.materials, horses and wagons to be used only for official purposes, including rental of stable; purchase, maintenance, repair, operation, or exchange of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, automobile mail wagon, including exchange of same, street car tickets not exceeding $250, freight, expressage, postage, typewriters and computing machines, and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Department and its various bureaus and offices, $140,000; it shall not be lawful to expend, for any of the offices or Restriction on use of naval appropriations.bureaus of the Navy Department at Washington, any sum out of appropriations made for the Naval Establishment for any of the purposes mentioned or authorized in this paragraph. hydrographic office.Hydrographic Office.
For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing Materials, etc.directions; copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning copperplates; tools, instruments, power, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; purchase of equipment for the storage of plates used in making charts and for the storage of Hydrographic Office charts and publications; care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools, including the purchase of such additional printing presses as may be necessary; extra drawing and engraving; trans ating from foreign languages; telegrams on public business; preparation Pilot charte, etc.of pilot charts and their supplements, and printing and mailing same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and teclmical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $50,000. naval observatory.Naval Observatory.
For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, $250.Apparatus, etc. For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences; furniture, gas, Contingent expenses.chemicals, and stationery; freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange); foreign postage, and expressage; plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses, $750. For fuel, oil, grease, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power plant, and water-supply system; purchase and maintenance of teams; maintenance, repair, exchange, or operation of motor truck and of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; material for boxing nautical instruments for transportation; paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, $2,000.
For cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads, $1,000.Grounds and roads. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Navy. contingent, navy.Contingent. For all emergencies and extraordinary expenses, exclusive of Emergencies and exp traordinary expenses.personal services in the Navy Department, or any of its subordinate bureaus or offices at Washington, District of Columbia, 486arising at home or abroad, but impossible to be anticipated or classified, to be expended on the approval and authority of the Secretary of the Navy, and for such purposes as he may deem proper, *Proviso*.Special allowance to officers abroad.$50,000: *Provided*, That not exceeding $25,000 of this appropriation shall be available for special allowances for maintenance to officers of the Navy serving under unusual conditions outside the United States and its insular possessions.
Advertising.The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized to approve payment of vouchers aggregating $14.52 for advertising for the Navy Department for sealed proposals, published without written [R. S., sec. 3828, p. 749](/us/rs/s3828/p749).authority from the head of that department, as required by section thirty-eight hundred and twenty-eight of the Revised Statutes. bureau of navigation.Bureau of Navigation. Transportation.Transportation: For travel allowance of enlisted men discharged on account of expiration of enlistment; transportation of enlisted men and apprentice seamen and applicants for enlistment at home and abroad, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation to their homes, if residents of the United States, of enlisted men and apprentice seamen discharged on medical survey, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of sick or insane enlisted men and apprentice seamen to hospitals, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; transportation of enrolled men of the Naval Reserve Force to and from duty, with subsistence and transfers en route, or cash in lieu thereof; apprehension and delivery of deserters and stragglers, and for railway guides and other expenses incident to transportation, $2,000,000.
Outfits on first enlistments, etc.Outfits on first enlistment: Outfits for all enlisted men and apprentice seamen of the Navy on first enlistment, at not to exceed $60 each; for the clothing gratuity of officers and men of the Naval Reserve Force, $50 each for officers and $30 each for men in time of peace and $150 each for officers and $60 each for men in time of war when called to active duty, $1,000,000. Naval Reserve Force.Organization, etc., expenses.Naval Reserve Force:
For expenses of organizing, administering, and recruiting the Naval Reserve Force, including clerical and messenger hire, office rent, furniture, stationery, and postage; printing, advertising, and other necessary expenses, $100,000. Naval Home.Maintenance.Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For water rent, heating, and lighting; cemetery, burial expenses and headstones; general care and improvements of grounds, buildings, walls, and fences; repairs to power-plant equipment, implements, tools, and furniture, and purchase of the same; music in chapel and entertainments for beneficiaries; stationery, books, and periodicals; transportation of indigent and destitute beneficiaries to the Naval Home, and of sick and insane beneficiaries, their attendants and necessary subsistence for both, to and from other Government hospitals; employment of such beneficiaries in and about the Naval Home as may be authorized by the Secretary of the Navy, on the recommendation of the governor; support of beneficiaries, and all other contingent expenses, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of three horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes, Payable from naval pension fund.$25,000, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance.
Ordnance and ordnance stores.Ordnance and ordnance stores: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work of 487the Ordnance Department; for furniture at naval magazines, torpedo stations, and proving grounds; for maintenance of the proving ground and powder factory and for target practice; for the maintenance, Passenger vehicles.repair, or operation of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes at naval magazines, the naval proving ground, Indianhead, Maryland, and naval torpedo stations, and for pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and naval magazines: *Provided*, That *Provisos*.Improving grounds, etc.this appropriation shall be available for making necessary improvements at the naval proving ground, naval torpedo stations, Naval Gun Factory, and naval ammunition depots: *Provided further*, That Chemical, etc., services.the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and naval magazines for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall not exceed $500,000; in all, $10,000,000.
Naval Gun Factory, Washington, District of Columbia: For tools Naval Gun Factory.and machinery plant, $5,499,737. Batteries and outfits for vessels: The Secretary of the Navy is Batteries, etc., for ships.Additional contracts.authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for batteries and outfits for naval vessels, auxiliaries, patrols, aircraft, naval stations, and merchantmen, not to exceed $13,200,000 in addition to appropriations heretofore made. Ammunition for vessels:
The Secretary of the Navy is authorized Ammunition for ships.Additional contracts.to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ammunition for vessels not to exceed $8,064,000 in addition to appropriations heretofore made. Reserve ordnance supplies: The Secretary of the Navy is authorized Reserve ordnance supplies.Additional contracts.to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for reserve and miscellaneous ordnance supplies not to exceed $13,000,000 in addition to appropriations heretofore made. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Maintenance, Bureau Yards and Docks: For general maintenance Maintenance.of yards and docks, namely: For books, maps, models, and drawings; purchase and repair of fire engines; fire apparatus and plants; machinery, operation or repair; purchase; maintenance of horses and driving teams; carts, timber wheels, and all vehicles, including motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles to be used only for official purposes, and including motor-propelled vehicles for freight-carrying purposes only for use in the navy yards; tools and repair of the same; stationery; furniture for Government houses and offices in navy yards and naval stations; coal and other fuel; candles, oil, and gas; attendance on light and power plants; cleaning and clearing up yards and care of buildings; attendance on fires, lights, fire engines, and fire apparatus and plants: incidental labor at navy yards; water tax, tolls, and ferriage; pay of watchmen in navy yards; awnings and packing boxes; and for pay of employees on leave, $2,500,000: *Provided*, That the sum to be paid out of this *Provisos*.Clerical, etc., services.appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for clerical, inspection, drafting, messenger, and other classified work in the navy yards and naval stations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, shall not exceed $500,000: *Provided further*, That not exceeding $100,000 of this amount may Draftsmen, etc., in the Department.be expended for the services of draftsmen, and such other technical assistants as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary, in the Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Contingent, Bureau Yards and Docks: For contingent expenses Contingent.and minor extensions and minor improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $2,000,000. 488 public works, bureau of yards and docks.Public works. Temporary hospitals and supply depots.Hospital construction: For temporary hospital construction and repairs, as may be necessary, at points not provided with suitable hospital facilities, and for buildings for naval medical supplies, $2,750,000. Training camps.Training camps:
For construction and equipment of training camps, including the rental of land, $12,000,000. Central power plants.Power plants: For improvements to central power plants and distributing systems, navy yards and stations, $3,500,000. Ordnance stations.Ordnance stations: For improvements at stations under jurisdiction of the Bureau of Ordnance, $2,500,000. Temporary storage.Temporary storage: For temporary storage, $500,000. Improvement and equipment of yards.Improvement and equipment of navy yards:
To enable the Secretary of the Navy to add to the equipment of navy yards suitable and necessary machinery, implements, building ways, and other facilities for the construction of ships, $1,570,000. Hampton Roads, Va.Payment for property taken.*Ante*, p. 207.Hampton Roads, Virginia, naval operating base: For additional for payment of compensation for property taken over under the authority contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $55,072.25, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Naval prison.Naval prison: For a temporary prison, including all necessary equipment, auxiliary structures and facilities, $200,000. South Brooklyn, N.Y.Land for terminal warehouses.Purchase of land for warehouses, South Brooklyn, New York: For the purchase of land for terminal warehouses between Twenty-eighth and Thirty-second Streets and Second and Third Avenues, South Brooklyn, New York, $560,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Repairs and preservation.Repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations:
For repairs and preservation at navy yards, fuel depots, fuel plants, and stations, $1,000,000. coast guard cutters.Coast Guard cutters. Limit of cost increased.Vol. 39, p. 1185.The total limit of cost of the five Coast Guard cruising cutters, fixed at $2,250,000 by the naval appropriation Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is increased to $3,500,000: *Proviso*.Contracts for rapid construction. *Provided*, That if in the judgment of the Secretary of the Navy the most rapid and economical construction of the foregoing vessels can be obtained thereby, he may contract, within the limit of cost herein named, for the construction of said vessels upon the basis of actual cost plus a reasonable profit to be determined by him. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.
Additional allowance for clerks, etc.Vol. 39, p. 1183.Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: The limitation specified in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, on expenditures from the appropriation, “Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,” for pay of clerical, inspection, storemen, store laborers, and messenger service, is further increased by the sum of $150,000. naval academy.Naval Academy. Dairy.Additional purchases, etc.Dairy (reimbursable):
For the purchase of the necessary additional cattle and work animals, machinery and implements, erection of additional buildings, and for all other purposes necessary to increase the stock and equipment of the Naval Academy dairy and farm, located at *Provisos*.Reimbursement.Gambrills, Maryland, $55,000: *Provided*, That the amount appropriated for this purpose shall be treated as an advance to the midshipmen’s store fund at the Naval Academy, to be ultimately 489returned to the United States: *Provided further*, That expenditures Report of expenditures.hereunder shall be reported by the Chief of the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts to the Secretary of the Navy in the same manner as now prescribed by law for the midshipmen’s store fund.
Midshipmen’s store fund (reimbursable): The Secretary of the Navy Midshipmen’s store fund.Advances authorized to.Vol. 35, p. 153.is authorized to advance to the midshipmen’s store fund at the Naval Academy the sum of $50,000 under “General account of advances,” said sum to be used for the purchase of stores and to be accounted for in the same manner as is provided for the midshipmen’s store fund in the Act approved May thirteenth, nineteen hundred and eight, and to be repaid into the Treasury not later than December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and nineteen. marine corps.Marine Corps.
Pay of enlisted men, active and reserve list: Pay and allowances Pay.Enlisted men.of noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates, as prescribed by law, and for the expenses of clerks of the United States Marine Corps traveling under orders, and including additional compensation for enlisted men of the Marine Corps regularly detailed as gun captains, gun pointers, mess sergeants, cooks, messmen, signalmen, or holding good-conduct medals, pins or bars including in terest on deposits by enlisted men, post-exchange debts of deserters, under such rules as the Secretary of the Navy may prescribe, and the authorized travel allowance of discharged enlisted men and for prizes for excellence in gunnery exorcise and target practice and for pay of enlisted men designated as Navy mail clerks and assistant Navy Mail clerks, both afloat and ashore, $6,000,000.
Clothing, Marine Corps: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, Clothing.and privates, authorized by law, $2,750,000. Contingent, Marine Corps: For freight, expressage, tolls, cartage, Contingent.advertising, washing of bed sacks, mattress covers, pillow-cases, towels, and sheets, funeral expenses of officers and enlisted men and retired enlisted men of the Marine Corps, including the transportation of bodies and their arms and wearing apparel from the place of demise to the homes of the deceased in the United States; stationery and other paper, printing and binding; telegraphing, rent of telephones; purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters; apprehension of stragglers and deserters; per diem of enlisted men employed on constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; employment of civilian labor; purchase, repair, and installation and maintenance of gas, electric, sewer, and water pipes and fixtures; office and barracks furniture, camp and garrison equipage and implements; mess utensils for enlisted men; packing boxes, wrapping paper, oilcloth, crash, rope, twine, quarantine fees, camphor and carbolized paper, carpenters’ tools, tools for police purposes, safes, purchase, hire, repair, and maintenance of such harness, wagons, motor wagons, armored automobiles, carts, drays, motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, to be used only for official purposes, and other vehicles as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official military and garrison purposes; purchase of public horses and mules; services of veterinary surgeons, and medicines for public animals, and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase of mounts and horse equipment for all officers below the grade of major required to be mounted; shoeing for public animals and the authorized number of officers’ horses; purchase and repair of hose, fire extinguishers, hand grenades, carts, Wheelbarrows, and lawn mowers; purchase, installation, and repair of cooking and heating stoves and furnaces; purchase of towels, soap, combs, and brushes for offices; postage stamps for foreign and registered postage; books, newspapers, and periodicals; improving parade grounds; repair of 490pumps and wharves, water; straw for bedding, mattresses; mattress covers, pillows, sheets; furniture for Government quarters and repair of same; packing and crating officers’ allowance of baggage on change of station; deodorizers, lubricants, disinfectants; and for all emergencies and extraordinary expenses arising at home and abroad, but impossible to anticipate or classify, $1,180,000.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. Capitol.Protection of building and grounds.Capitol Building and Grounds: For labor and material for the protection of the Capitol Building and Grounds, including the Senate and House Office Buildings and the Capitol Power Plant, and for emergencies, and for each and every item incident thereto, $10,000. Court of Claims.Repairs to building.Court of Claims Building: For labor, materials, furniture, and for general repairs, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, $550. indian service.Indian Department.
Schools.Support, etc.For support of Indian day, boarding, and industrial schools, in addition to the general and specific appropriations made for that purpose in the Indian appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $250,000, or so much thereof as may *Provisos*.Per capita restriction suspended.Vol. 39, p. 741.be necessary: *Provided*, That the operation of the Act of September seventh, nineteen hundred and sixteen (Thirty-fifth Statutes at Large, page seven hundred and forty-one), limiting annual expenditures for support and education of pupils in Indian schools to Restriction.$200 per capita, is hereby suspended during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen: *Prowled further*, That no part of this sum shall be expended upon improvements or used to increase the compensation of employees. territory of alaska.Alaska.
Sanitarium Company.Payment for insane natives at.*Ante*, pp. 151, 373.Insane of Alaska: Authority is granted the Secretary of the Interior to pay from the appropriations for the care and custody of insane, Alaska, in the sundry civil appropriation Act approved June twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to The Sanitarium Company, of Portland, Oregon, the sum of $420 per capita per annum for the care and maintenance of Alaskan insane patients during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen. geological survey.Geological Survey.
Alaska mineral resources.For continuation of the investigation of the mineral resources of Alaska, $75,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. Classifying lands for enlarged homesteads, etc.For the examination and classification of lands requisite to the determination of their suitability for enlarged homesteads, stock-raising homesteads, public watering places, and stock driveways, as required by the public land laws, $200,000. bureau of mines.Mines Bureau.
Printing accounts allowed.*Ante*, p. 389.Authority is granted to pay from the appropriation contained in the Act entitled “An Act to prohibit the manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession in time of war of explosives, providing regulations for the safe manufacture, distribution, storage, use, and possession of the same, and for other purposes, ” approved October 491sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $571.80 for printing done outside of the Government Printing Office.
War materials investigations: For inquiries and scientific and War materials.Investigations, etc., of mineral substances used in.technologic investigations concerning the mining, preparation, treatment, and utilization of ores and other mineral substances which are particularly needed for carrying on the war, in connection with military and manufacturing purposes, and which have heretofore been largely imported, with a view to developing domestic sources of supply and substitutes for such ores and mineral products as are particularly needed, and conserving resources through the prevention of waste in the mining, quarrying, metallurgical, and other mineral industries; to inquire into the economic conditions affecting these industries; and including all equipment, supplies, expenses of travel, and subsistence, and not exceeding $5,340 for personal services in the District of Columbia; to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen, $150,000. national parks.National Parks.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to expend from the Yosemite.Power plant from park revenues.revenues derived from privileges in the Yosemite National Park not to exceed $3,500 in addition to appropriations heretofore made for the completion of the installation of the hydroelectric power plant authorized by the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal Vol. 39, p. 308.year nineteen hundred and seventeen. saint elizabeths hospital.Saint Elizabeths Hospital. The annual compensation of the employees holding the following Compensation of des ignated employees fixed.positions shall be increased during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen as follows:
Head baker, from $780 to $924; assistant baker, from $420 to $660; first assistant baker, from $420 to $660; five special attendants, from $360 to $726 each; foreman of laundry, from $920 to $1,200; six launderers, from $300 to $480 each; three cooks, from $300 to $600 each; eight kitchen helpers, from $168 to $300 each; electrical engineer, from $1,200 to $1,600; and foreman Accounts allowed.of electrical construction, from $1,100 to $1,400, and the accounting officers of the Treasury shall credit the disbursing agent for payments made to employees filling the positions named at the annual compensation above stated. 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, $6,000. For additional for the removal of the college women’s dormitory, New dormitory, etc.and the construction, equipment, and furnishing of a new dormitory, necessary repairs, or replacement of walks and grading of grounds adjacent to said dormitory, including all material, personal and other services, and for each and every purpose in connection therewith, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, $18,500. freedmen’s hospital.Freedmen’s Hospital.
For subsistence, fuel and light, clothing, bedding, forage, medicine, Contingent expenses.medical and surgical supplies, surgical instruments, electric lights, repairs, furniture, motor-propelled ambulance, and other absolutely necessary expenses, $5,448.10. 492 PENSIONS.Pensions. Army and Navy.Army and Navy pensions, as follows: For invalids, widows, minor children, and dependent relatives, Army nurses, and all other pensioners who are now borne on the rolls, or who may hereafter be placed thereon, under the provisions of any and all Acts of Congress, *Proviso*.Navy from naval pension fund.$23,000,000: *Provided*, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension Separate accounts.fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that purpose: *Provided further*, That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately.
POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.Post Office Department. office postmaster general.Postmaster General. Enforcing restrictions on unlawful use of mails, etc.*Ante*, pp. 230, 425.For enforcement of title twelve of the Espionage Act, approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and section nineteen of the Trading with the Enemy Act, approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $20,000. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses. For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, and power plant, including repairs to elevators, purchase and exchange of tools, and electrical supplies, and removal of ashes, $15,000.
POSTAL SERVICE.Postal service. Out of the Postal Revenues office of first assistant postmaster general.First Assistant Postmaster General. Temporary, auxiliary, and substitute clerks.For temporary and auxiliary clerk hire and for substitute clerk hire for clerks and employees absent with pay at first and second class post offices and temporary and auxiliary clerk hire at summer and winter resort post offices, $1,800,000. Unusual conditions.For unusual conditions at post offices, $30,000.
Miscellaneous items.For miscellaneous items necessary and incidental to post offices of the first and second classes, $300,000. Vehicle allowance.For vehicle allowance, the hiring of drivers, the rental of vehicles, and the purchase and exchange and maintenance, including stable and garage facilities, of wagons or automobiles for, and the operation of screenagon and city delivery and collection services, $500,000. Messenger service.For mail messenger service, $300,000. office of second assistant postmaster general.Second Assistant Postmaster General.
Censorship of mails.*Proviso*.Restriction on use for mail from forces abroad.For censorship of the mails, $300,000: *Provided*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended to pay the expense of censoring mail from the military forces connected with the American Expeditionary Force, which mail has been censored in Europe. office of third assistant postmaster general.Third Assistant Postmaster General. Postage stamps.For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery stamps, books of stamps, and for coifing of stamps, $60,000.
Stamped envelopes and wrappers.For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, $700,000. Indemnity for lost, etc., domestic mall.For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of pieces of domestic registered matter, insured, and collect-on-dclivcry mail, $180,000. 493 office of fourth assistant postmaster general.Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. For wrapping twine and tying devices, $60,000.Twine, etc. For stationery for the Postal Service, including blanks, books, Stationery, etc.printed and engraved matter, binding and carbon paper, and other miscellaneous items for the money-order and registry systems; also the preparation, publication, and free distribution by postmasters to the public of pamphlet containing general postal information; and also pay of one envelope inspector at $1,800 per annum, and one assistant at $900 per annum, $160,000.
For postmarking, rating, money-order stamps, and electrotype Postmarking, etc, stamps.plates, and repairs to same, metal, rubber, and combination type, dates and figures, type holders, ink and pads for canceling and stamping purposes, $10,000. For defraying expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, Shipping supplies.including hardware, boxing, packing, cartage, freight, and the pay of one carpenter at $1,200 per annum, and nine requisition fillers, at $900 each per annum, for assignment in connection therewith, $35,000.
For equipment for City Delivery Service, including letter boxes, City delivery equipment.letter-box fasteners, package boxes, posts, furniture, and the erecting and painting of same, also trucks, baskets, satchels, straps, time cards, and time-card frames, and the repairing of such equipment, and for the purchase and repair of presses and dies and manufacture of letter boxes, $40,000. For mail bags and equipment, $125,000.Mail hags, etc. DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE.Department of Justice. contingent expenses.
For official transportation, including purchase and exchange, Contingent expenses.keep and shoeing of animals, and purchase, exchange, and repairs of wagons, carriages, and harness, including those used for carrying passengers, and purchase and repair of bicycles, $750. miscellaneous. Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and Detection and prosecution of crime.prosecution 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 Protection of the President.of the United States; 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 lieu of subsistence when allowed pursuant Per diem subsistence.Vol. 38, p. 680.to section thirteen of the sundry civil appropriation Act approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, and including not to exceed $70,000 for necessary employees at the seat of government, Allowance at Washington.to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $500,000.
JUDICIAL.Judicial. united states courts.United States courts. For salaries of United States district attorneys and expenses of District attorneys.United States district attorneys and their regular assistants, including 494the office expenses of United States district attorneys in Alaska, and for salaries of regularly appointed clerks to United States district attorneys for services rendered during vacancy in the office of the United States district attorney, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $12,266.30.
Commissioners’, etc., fees.[R. S., sec. 1014, p. 160](/us/rs/s1014/p160).For fees of United States commissioners and justices of the peace acting under section one thousand and fourteen, Revised Statutes of the United States, $90,000. 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, $7,500. Penitentiaries.Leavenworth, Kans.Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary:
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $655.29. For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $17,455.18. Atlanta, Ga.Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $25,000.
McNeil island, Wash.McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $4,000. For clothing and transportation, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $4,000. For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $6,000.
National Training School for Boys, D. C.Maintenance.National Training School for Boys: For support of inmates, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, *Provisos*.Actual cost to be Charged.$1,500: *Provided*, That the per capita cost of persons committed from the District of Columbia and maintained in the said school hereafter shall not be less than the actual per capita cost of such maintenance:
Payment for 1918. *Provided further*, That the Board of Charities of the District of Columbia is authorized and directed to pay from available appropriations the actual per capita cost of maintenance during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen of boys committed from the District of Columbia. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. Nitrate of soda.Proceeds of sales continued during the war.The proceeds heretofore or hereafter received from the disposition of nitrate of soda under the appropriation of $10,000,000 contained in section twenty-seven of the Act approved August tenth, nineteen *Ante*, pp. 287, 283.hundred and seventeen, shall be credited to the said appropriation of $10,000,000 and be available for the purposes authorized in the said section during the period of the existing war as defined by section twenty-four of the said Act. purchase of seeds.Purchase of seeds.
Procuring, etc., for seeding.*Ante*, p. 274.*Post*, p. 1045.For additional for procuring, storing, and furnishing seeds as authorized by section three of the Act entitled “An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products,” approved August tenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, including 495not to exceed $5,000 for rent and personal services in the District of Use of fund continued.Columbia, $4,000,000, which may he used as a revolving fund until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen. forest service.Forest Service.
For “General expenses, Forest Service,” including the same objects General expenses.specified under this head in the Agricultural appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $775,000. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Department of Commerce. contingent expenses. For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus Contingent expenses.of the department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $6,000. bureau of foreign and domestic commerce.Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau.
Commercial attachés: To enable the Secretary of Commerce, in Commercial attachés.Additional pay.his discretion and in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe, to make special allowances during the balance of the present fiscal year by way of additional compensation to officers and employees of the commercial attaché service, in order to adjust their official income to the ascertained cost of living at the posts to which they may be assigned, $9,000. bureau of standards.Standards Bureau.
Power plant: For repairs and alterations to the present lighting Power plant.and power plant, $12,000. Military research: To enable the Bureau of Standards to cooperate with Standardizing military supplies.Cooperative assistance to Army and Navy in.the War and Navy Departments by providing the scientific assistance necessary in the development of instruments, devices, and materials, and the standardization and testing of supplies, including personal services and rental of quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere; the erection of temporary structures; books of reference and periodicals; and all other necessary items not included in the foregoing, $250,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen.
Structural materials: For continuation of the investigation of Structural materials investigations.structural materials, such as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $50,000. Gauge standardization: To provide by cooperation of the Bureau Standardizing gauges, screw threads, etc., for war service.*Post*, p. 912.of Standards, the War Department, the Navy Department, and the Council of National Defense, for the standardization and testing of the standard gauges, screw threads, and standards required in manufacturing throughout the United States, and to calibrate and test such standard gauges, screw threads, and standards, including necessary equipment, rental in Washington, and elsewhere, erection of temporary structures, office expenses, books of reference and periodicals, personal services in the District of Columbia, and in the field, and all other necessary items not included in the foregoing, $75,000.
Mine scales: For investigating the condition and methods of use of Mine scales, etc., in vestigations.scales and mine cars used for weighing and measuring coal dug by miners, for the purpose of determining wages due, and of conditions 496affecting the accuracy of the weighing or measuring of coal at the mines, including personal services in the District of Columbia, and in the held, $15,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. Public utilities companies.Investigations for improving efficiency, etc.Public utility companies:
To enable the Bureau of Standards to make investigations urgently needed by public utility companies in order to improve their efficiency and adjust their methods of operation to meet the changed ecomomic conditions incident to the war, and to aid State and municipal administrative officers and the management of publicly owned utilities in adjusting standards of service when necessary to meet present conditions, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $50,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. coase and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Additional employees.For additional employees from April first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at not exceeding annual rates of compensation as follows: Six astronomical, geodetic, tidal, and miscellaneous computers, $1,200 each; three topographic and hydrographic draftsmen, $1,200 each; three clerks, $1,200 each; three dynamo tenders, $1,080 each; three laborers, $840; in all, $5,040. Electrical equipment.For additional electrical equipment, $750. lighthouse service.Lighthouses Bureau.
Tompkinsville, N. Y., depot.For repairing the wharves at the general lighthouse depot, Tompkinsville, Staten Island, New York, $60,000. Gulf coast.Hurricane repairs, etc.For rebuilding, repairing, and reestablishing aids to navigation and structures connected therewith on the coast of the Gulf of Mexico which have been damaged or destroyed by hurricane, $100,000. Nantucket, Mass.Fog signal.*Post*, p. 687.Atlantic coast.Repairs to structures, etc.For the installation of an electrically operated fog-signal whistle on the east breakwater, Nantucket Harbor, Massachusetts, $15,000.
For rebuilding, repairing, and reestablishing aids to navigation and structures connected therewith on the Atlantic coast of the United States which have been damaged or destroyed by ice or storm, $150,000. Collision damages claims.To pay the claims for damages which have been considered, adjusted, and determined to be due to the claimants by the Commissioner of Vol. 36, p. 537.Lighthouses, under authority of the provisions of section four of the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, on account of damages occasioned by collision for which vessels of the Lighthouse Service have been found responsible, certified to the Sixty-fifth Congress, second session, in House Document Numbered Five hundred and fifty-nine, $598.58. bureau of fisheries.Fisheries Bureau.
Alaska fisheries vessel.Vessel service: For officers and crew of vessel for Alaska fisheries service, $8,000. Fairport, Iowa.Rebuilding station.Fairport
(Iowa)Biological Station: For rebuilding the laboratory building, including scientific apparatus and supplies, scientific library, furniture, and other necessary equipment, $80,000. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. Employment of labor.Advances to wage earners for transportation.*Post*, p. 696.To enable the Secretary of Labor to advance to wage earners transportation to such places as may be deemed necessary for the purpose of securing employment in connection with the prosecution of the war, $250,000, which may be used as a revolving fund until 497June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen: *Provided*, That advances *Provisos*.Repayment.hereunder shall be so made as to insure the return to the Treasury of sums so advanced: *Provided further*, That an accounting Detailed accounting.shall be kept of the operations under this paragraph which shall include as to each person transported the following: Name, vocation, starting point and destination, shipyard, factory, or other place for which transported, and amount of advance made. LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. To pay Irene M. Brady, widow of Hon. James II. Brady, late a James H. Brady.Pay to widow.Senator from the State of Idaho, $7,500. To pay Margaret Hughes, widow of Hon. William Hughes, late a William Hughes.Pay to widow.Senator from the State of New Jersey, $7,500. To pay Edith McAllister Newlands, widow of Hon. Francis G. Francis G. Newlands.Pay to widow.Newlands, late a Senator from the State of Nevada, $7,500. To pay John P. Husting and Mary Husting, heirs at law of Hon. Paul O. Husting.Pay to heirs.Paul O. Husting, late a Senator from the State of Wisconsin, $7,500. Office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper: For two additional Telephone operators.telephone operators from April first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at the rate of $900 per annum each, $450. Contingent expenses: For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a Folding.rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $5,000. For the Capitol: For repairs, improvements, and equipment for Senate kitchens and restaurants.Repairs, etc.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, $14,000. Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and Senate Office Building.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, $8,500. house of representataives.House of Representatives. To pay the widow of Ellsworth R. Bathrick, late a Representative Ellsworth R. Bathrick.Pay to widow.Ebenezer J. Hill.Pay to widow.*Post*, p. 1037.Charles Martin.Pay to widow.from the State of Ohio, $7,500. To pay the widow of Ebenezer J. Hill, late a Representative from the State of Connecticut, $7,500. To pay the widow of Charles Martin, late a Representative from the State of Illinois, $7,500. For additional for driving, maintenance, and operation of the Speaker’s automobile.automobile for the Speaker, $300. For continuing the investigation authorized by the deficiency Committee on District of Columbia.Investigation expenses.*Ante*, p. 27.appropriation Act approved April seventeenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to be conducted by the Committee on the District of Columbia, or a subcommittee thereof, $5,000, to continue available during the Sixty-fifth Congress. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 Folding.per thousand, $12,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and nineteen. Office of the Clerk: For two additional telephone operators from Telephone operators.April first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at the rate of $900 per annum each, $450. To reimburse the official reportera of debates and the official Official reporters and stenographers.Reimbursement.stenographers to committees for sums actually and necessarily expended by them to January thirty-first, nineteen hundred and eighteen, $300 each, $3,000. 498 GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.Government Printing Office. Public Printer.Additional clerks in office.Office of the Public Printer: For five additional clerks at the rate of $1,000 each per annum from April first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, $1,250. Holidays.Holidays: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting holidays and the Executive order granting half holidays with pay to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $53,856.34. Leaves of absence.Leaves of absence: To enable the Public Printer to comply with the provisions of the law granting thirty days’ annual leave to the employees of the Government Printing Office, $14,226.60. E. M. Moers and Sons.Refund to.To enable the Public Printer to refund to E. M. Moors and Sons, New York City, the amount of excess payment for condemned material received by him and deposited in the Treasury, $43.83. Superintendent of Documents.Additional employees.Office of Superintendent of Documents: For additional employees from April first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Clerks—one at $1,000, one at $900, one at $840; cataloguers—one at $1,200, one at $1,000; for labor necessary to handle current periodicals, $500; in all, $1,735. Contingent expenses.For furniture, fixtures, typewriters, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $4,250. Document distribution.For equipment, material, and supplies for distribution of public documents, $750. printing and binding.Printing and binding. War Department.*Proviso*.Transfer of appropriation for draft expenses.For printing and binding for the War Department and its bureaus and offices, $1,200,000: *Provided*, That the Public Printer is authorized to cause to be transferred from this appropriation to the credit of the appropriation “Registration and selection for military service” *Ante*, pp. 185, 355.$405,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to reimburse the last-named appropriation for printing and binding done at the Government Printing Office and paid for out of that appropriation in connection with the classification of registrants. Navy Department.For printing and binding for the Navy Department, $50,000. Hydrographic Office.For printing and binding for the Navy Department, $25,000, all of which shall be available for the use of the Hydrographic Office. Pan American Union.Reappropriation.*Ante*, p. 378.The appropriation of $3,000 for printing and binding for the International Union of American Republics, contained in the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is continued and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. Sec. 2. District of Columbia.Employees considered as of a Government establishment.*Ante*, p. 383. That all branches of the government of the District of Columbia shall be considered a governmental establishment for the purposes of section seven of the deficiency appropriation Act approved October sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen. Sec. 3. Army and Navy appropriations available for existing emergencies. That the appropriations contained herein under the Military and Naval Establishments shall be available for the payment of obligations on account of the existing emergency incurred prior to the passage of this Act and which are properly chargeable to such appropriations. Approved, March 28, 1918.
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