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Chapter 3. Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 3.— An Act Making appropriations to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes. April 17, 1917.[[H. R. 12](/us/bill/65/hr/12)][[Public, No. 2](/us/pl/65/2).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, Deficiencies appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and prior fiscal years, and for other purposes, namely:
Executive.EXECUTIVE. Executive Office.Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, including stationery, record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, automobiles, expenses of garage, including labor, and miscellaneous items, to be expended in the discretion of the President, $2,500. Smithsonian Institution.SMITHSONIAN INSTITUTION. International exchanges.For the system of international exchanges between the United States and foreign countries, under the direction of the Smithsonian Institution, including necessary employees and purchase of necessary books and periodicals, $3,500.
Federal Trade Commission.FEDERAL TRADE COMMISSION. Special attorneys, etc.For compensation, travel expense, and per diem in lieu of subsistence at the rate of $4, of such special attorneys, special experts, special examiners, special agents, clerks, and other employees as may be necessary for the purpose of carrying on the work of said commission; no salary shall be paid hereunder exceeding the rate of $5,000 per annum: $50,000. George Johannes.Credit in accounts.The accounting officers of the Treasury Department are authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of George Johannes, special disbursing agent, Federal Trade Commission, the sum of $94.65, representing amounts paid by him for subscriptions to periodicals and publications of the nature of books of reference disallowed by the accounting officers of the Treasury Department. 3 COMMISSION ON STANDARD WORKDAY OF RAILROAD EMPLOYEES.Railroad Workday Commission.
For additional expenses of the Eight-Hour Commission, created by Additional ex censes. Vol. 39, p. 721.the Act of September third and fifth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to complete the work of the commission and to enable it to make the report called for by the said Act, $35,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY.Efficiency Bureau. To enable the Bureau of Efficiency to make the investigations Investigations.Vol. 39, pp. 1080,1122.required by the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $20,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a compensation *Proviso*.Pay restriction.exceeding $4,000 per annum.
DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. For the relief, protection, and transportation of American citizens, Relief, etc., of American citizens in Europe.in connection with or growing out of the existing political disturbance in Europe, $250,000, to be expended at the discretion of the President and to be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen: *Provided*, That American citizens to whom relief is extended *Proviso*.Reimbursement.or transportation is furnished hereunder shall pay to or reimburse the United States all reasonable expenses so incurred, respectively, on their account, if financially able to do so.
A detailed statement of all expenditures hereunder and of all Statement of expend itures.amounts reimbursed to the United States of such expenditures shall be made to Congress on or before the beginning of its next regular session.Second Pan American Scientific Congress: The amount which may Pan American Scientific Congress.Amount for salaries increased.be expended for salaries from the appropriation of $42,000 for preparation and printing of the reports, proceedings, and papers of the Second Pan American Scientific Congress, contained in the general Vol. 39, p. 802.deficiency appropriation Act approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is increased from $3,300 to $5,000.
TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses. For stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus Stationery.and offices, $30,000. For purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks; Vehicles.purchase, exchange, and maintenance of horses, including shoeing; purchase and repair of wagons, horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and harness, all to be used for official purposes only, $5,000. internal revenue.Internal revenue.
To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money covered Refund of taxes.into the Treasury as internal-revenue collections, under the provisions of the Act approved May twenty-seventh, nineteen hundred Vol. 35, p. 325. and eight, $75,000. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue, subject to regulation Emergency taxes.Redemption of stamps.Vol. 38, p. 745.prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury, may make allowance for or redeem stamps, issued under authority of the Act approved October twenty-second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to increase the internal revenue, and for other purposes,” 4Vol. 39, p. 2.and the joint resolution approved December seventeenth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, entitled “Joint resolution extending the provisions of the Act entitled ‘An Act to increase the internal revenue, and for other purposes,’ approved October twenty-second, nineteen hundred and fourteen, to December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and sixteen,” to denote the payment of internal revenue tax, and Limitation.which have not been used, if presented prior to January first, nine-teen hundred and eighteen.
Income, excess profits, etc., taxes.Assessment and collection expenses.Vol. 39, p. 1000.Income tax, excess-profits tax, and so forth: For expenses of the assessment and collection of the taxes provided by the Act approved March third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to provide increased revenue to defray the expenses of the increased appropriations for the Army and Navy and the extensions Vol. 39, p. 756.of fortifications, and for other purposes,” and by the Act entitled “An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, including the employment of agents, inspectors, attorneys, deputy collectors, experts, clerks, messengers, and janitors, to be appointed by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue with the approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and for supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, telegraph and telephone service, and rent of quarters in the District of Columbia, and the several collection districts, fiscal year nineteen hundred *Provisos*.Services, etc., in District of Columbia.and eighteen, $2,000,000: *Provided*, That not more than $175,000 of this sum may be used for personal services, supplies, equipment, and mechanical devices in the District of Columbia: *Provided further*, Rent.That not to exceed $10,000 (which shall be available immediately) may be used for rent of quarters in the District of Columbia for such bureaus or divisions of the Treasury Department as the Secretary may determine to move out of the Treasury Building to accommodate the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
W. H. Baldwin.Payment to.For payment to W. H. Baldwin for damages done to his automobile while it was being used by officers of the Internal-Revenue Service in raiding illicit distilleries, $500. Miscellaneous.miscellaneous objects. Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury.[R.S., sec. 3653, p. 719](/us/rs/sec3653/p719).Independent Treasury: For contingent expenses under the requirements of section thirty-six hundred and fifty-three of the Revised Statutes, including the same objects specified under this head in the Sundry Civil Appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $75,000.
Recoinage of minor coins.Recoinage of minor coins: To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to continue the recoinage of worn and uncurrent minor coins of the United States now in the Treasury or hereafter received, and to reimburse the Treasurer of the United States for the difference between the nominal or face value of such coin and the amount the same will produce in new coin, $7,500. Distinctive paper for securities.Distinctive paper for United States securities: For distinctive paper for United States securities, twenty-one million nine hundred thousand sheets, including transportation, traveling, mill, and other necessary expenses, salaries of not exceeding one register, two assistant registers, five counters, five watchmen, and one skilled laborer, and expenses of officer detailed from the Treasury, $96,579.
John BrodiePayment to.Vol. 39, p. 1471.For payment to John Brodie, of San Francisco, California, in accordance with private Act Numbered One hundred and sixty-eight, approved February eighth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, on account of personal injuries received by him while loading the United States Army transport Sherman, $1,000. 5 public buildings.Public buildings. Mount Clemens, Michigan, post office: Authority is granted to Mount Clemens, Mich.pay Frank N. Vannater the sum of $4.50 out of any moneys hereto ore appropriated and remaining unexpended on the books of the Treasury Department for the construction of the post-office building at Mount Clemens, Michigan, the same representing an expense incurred by him prior to the abrogation of his contract by the Government.
New Haven, Connecticut, Post Office: For completion under New Haven, Corm.limit of cost established in the Act approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $200,000, or so much thereof, together with the sum of $100,000 appropriated in the Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as may be realized from the sale of the old post office and customhouse building and the site thereof. Tampa Bay, Florida, quarantine station: For removal of old Tampa Bay, Fla., quarantine station.ballast dock at the United States quarantine station, Tampa Bay, Florida, $416: *Provided*, That the work shall be performed under *Proviso*.Supervision.the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury.
Woodstock, Illinois, post office: For continuation (site), $5,000. Woodstock, Ill. Operating supplies: For operating supplies for public buildings, Operating supplies.including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $50,000. coast guard.Coast Guard. For every expenditure requisite for and incident to the authorized Expenditures.work of the Coast Guard, as follows: For pay and allowances prescribed by law for commissioned Pay, etc., officers and enlisted men.officers, warrant officers, petty officers, and other enlisted men, active and retired, temporary and substitute surfmen, not exceeding twenty-one cadets and cadet engineers and one civilian instructor, $94,000;
For rations or commutation thereof for warrant officers, petty Rations.officers, and other enlisted men, $12,000; For outfits, ship chandlery, and engineers’ stores for the same, Outfits, stores, etc.$40,000; For actual traveling expenses or mileage, in the discretion Traveling expenses.of the Secretary of the Treasury, for officers, and actual traveling expenses for other persons traveling on duty under orders from the Treasury Department, $5,000; For compensation for special services, $1,800;
Special services. For contingent expenses, including supplies and provisions for Contingent expenses.houses of refuge and for shipwrecked persons succored by the Coast Guard, wharfage, towage, freight, storage, repairs to station apparatus, advertising, surveys, medals, stationery, labor, newspapers and periodicals for statistical purposes, and all other necessary expenses which are not included under any other heading, $15,000; In all, $167,800. Repairs to cutters. For repairs to Coast Guard cutters, $25,000. engraving and printing.Engraving and printing.
The limitation in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal Additional work authorized. Vol. 39, p. 275, amended. *Post*, p. 348.year nineteen hundred and seventeen as to the number of delivered sheets of United States currency to be executed is increased from ninety million to ninety-eight million and of internal-revenue stamps from eighty-four million nine hundred and nine thousand one hundred and sixty-six to eighty-eight million nine hundred and nine thousand one hundred and sixty-six. 6 Salaries.For salaries of all necessary employees other than plate printers and plate printers’ assistants, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $60,500.
Wages.For wages of plate printers, at piece rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, not to exceed the rates usually paid for such work, including the wages of printers’ assistants, when employed, $183,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury. Materials, etc.For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials except distinctive paper, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $208,000.
Public Health Service.public health service. Fuel, etc.For fuel, light, and water, $5,000. Supplies.For purveying depot, purchase of medical, surgical, and hospital supplies, $6,000. Marine hospitals.For maintenance of marine hospitals, including subsistence, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses which are not included under special heads, $20,000. 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, $15,000.
Quarantine service.Quarantine Service: For maintenance and ordinary expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $15,000. Fumigation, etc., Charges.Hereafter the cost of fumigation and disinfection shall be charged vessels from foreign ports at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury. Mints and assay offices.minst and assay offices. New Orleans. La.New Orleans, Louisiana, Mint:
For incidental and contingent expenses, $500. New York assay office.New York Assay Office:For wages of workmen and other employees, $12,000. 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, $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, $6,000.
Assistant assessors.Assessor’s office: Assistant assessors, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $250. Deputy coroner.Coroner’s office: To pay the deputy coroner during the absence of the coroner, $110. Public Utilities Commission.Public Utilities Commission: For incidental and all other general necessary expenses authorized by law, including the employment of expert services where necessary, $10,000. Public Library.Public Library: 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, $1,430.
Contingent expenses.Contingent and miscellaneous expenses: For printing, checks, books, law books, books of reference, and so forth, including the same 7 objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $750. For an additional amount for maintenance, care, and repair of Motor vehicles.Maintenance, etc.automobiles, motor cycles, and motor trucks, acquired for the District of Columbia, that are not otherwise provided for in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, including such personal services in connection therewith not otherwise authorized in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen as the commissioners shall in writing specially order, $2,645.
For purchase of enamel metal or other metal identification number Vehicle tags.tags for horse-drawn vehicles used for business purposes and motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, $775. For the employment of field party and incidental expenses Vault surveys.in making survey and computation relative to vault privileges, $2,000. Benning Road and viaduct: For an additional amount for the Benning Road via duct.objects set forth in the appropriation contained in the District of Vol. 38, p. 1141.Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, for constructing a suitable viaduct and bridge to carry Benning Road over the tracks of the Philadelphia, Baltimore and Washington *Post*, p. 350.Railroad Company, $35,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
The appropriation for Benning Road viaduct and bridge, contained Reappropriation.in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, is continued available until the end of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. Bridges: The sum of $11,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, M Street Bridge.of the appropriation for the replacement of two trusses and floor of the M Street Bridge across Rock Creek, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, is made available for repairs to the east abutment, the placing of new handrails, and the renewal of the wood flooring of said bridge.
Electrical Department: For an additional amount for the purchaseFire-alarm boxes,etc. and installation of ten fire-alarm boxes, and purchase and erection of necessary poles, cross arms, insulators, pins, braces, wire, cable, conduit connections, posts, extra labor, and other necessary items, $500. Public schools: For allowance to principals, including the same Public schools.Principals.objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,000.
For longevity pay, including the same objects specified under this Longevity.head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $115.28. For fuel, gas, and electric light and power, $64,608.50. Fuel, etc. For additional amount for the construction of an eight-room addition, Petworth School.including assembly hall, to the Petworth School, $15,000. For additional amount for the construction and equipment of a Me Kinley Manual Training School.foundry at the McKinley Manual Training School, $5,000.
Columbia Institution for the Deaf: For expenses attending the Deaf and dumb instruction.instruction of deaf and dumb persons admitted to the Columbia Institution for the Deaf from the District of Columbia, under section forty-eight hundred and sixty-four of the Revised Statutes, and as [R. S., sec. 4864, p. 942](/us/rs/sec4864/p942).provided for in the Act approved March first, nineteen hundred and Vol. 31, p. 844.one, and under a contract to be entered into with the said institution by the commissioners, $2,175, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Metropolitan Police, Harbor Patrol: For fuel, construction, maintenance, Harbor patrol.repairs, and incidentals, $550. Fire department: For fuel, $4,625. Fire department. Health department: The limitation on the amount to be expended Health department.for personal services from the appropriation for preventing the spread 8of contagious diseases for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen is increased from $12,000 to $17,000. Motor vehicle.For additional amount for maintenance of one motor vehicle for the sanitary and food inspection service, $150.
Police court.Police court: For miscellaneous expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $715. Municipal court.Municipal court: For expenses of moving from present quarters and for complete equipment of new quarters, including furniture and fixtures, and for such other expenses as may be authorized by the judges of the court and approved by the commissioners, $4,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Refund to Treasury from District credits.Supreme court fines.Court fines: The sum of $24,300.76, representing fines in United States cases collected on judgments of the criminal division of the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia, during the period from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to September thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eight, inclusive, and deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia, shall be transferred from the credit of the District of Columbia to the United States.
Police court fines.The sum of $211,450.12, representing fines in United States cases collected on judgments of the police court of the District of Columbia, during the period from July first, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight, to January first, nineteen hundred and two, inclusive, and deposited in the Treasury of the United States to the credit of the District of Columbia, shall be transferred from the credit of the District of Columbia to the United States. Support of prisoners.Support of convicts:
For support of convicts, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $35,000. Asylum and jail.Washington Asylum and Jail: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness, 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, $5,500. Jail prisoners.For maintenance of jail prisoners of the District of Columbia at the Washington Asylum and Jail, including pay of guards and all other necessary personal services, and for support of prisoners therein, $3,250.50.
Home for Aged and Infirm.Home for Aged and Infirm: For provisions, fuel, forage, harness 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, $2,000. National Training School for Girls.National Training School for Girls: For groceries, provisions, light, fuel, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,500.
Garfield Hospital.Garfield Hospital: For isolating ward for minor contagious diseases at Garfield Hospital, maintenance, $15,000. Columbia Hospital for Women.Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum: For care and treatment of indigent patients, under a contract to be made with Columbia Hospital for Women and Lying-in Asylum by the Board of Charities, fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $684.40. Emergency Hospital.Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital: For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or agreement to be made with Central Dispensary and Emergency Hospital by the Board of Charities, $6,000.
Eastern Dispensary.Eastern Dispensary: For emergency care and treatment of, and free dispensary service to, indigent patients under a contract or 9or agreement to be made with Eastern Dispensary by the Board of Charities, $1,500. 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, $2,000.
Board of Children’s Guardians: For maintenance of feeble-minded Feeble-minded children.children (white and colored), $4,300. For board and care of all children committed to the guardianship Care, 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, $23,000. Authority is granted to pay, in addition to the sum of $1,500, Increase to sectarian institutions.heretofore authorized, a further sum not to exceed $3,600 to institutions adjudged to be under sectarian control, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen.
Industrial Home School for Colored Children: For maintenance,Industrial School for Colored Children. including purchase and care of horses, wagons, and harness, $1,500. Industrial Home School: For maintenance, including purchase and Industrial Home School.care of horse, wagon, and harness, $3,080. Hospital for the Insane: For support of indigent insane of the District Indigent insane.of Columbia in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, as provided by law, $40,000. Writs of lunacy: For writs of lunacy, including the same objects Lunacy writs.specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,500.
Workhouse: For maintenance, including superintendence, custody, Workhouse.clothing, guarding, care, and support of prisoners, 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 seventeen, $8,600. Small parks: For the condemnation of small park areas at the Small parks.intersection of streets outside the limits of the original city of Washington, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen, $8.60.
Temporary services: The limitation on the amount to be expended Temporary services.Allowance increased.Vol. 39, p. 714.for personal services authorized by section two of the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen is increased from $74,000 to $78,500. Reformatory: For construction of roads, grading of sites, and other Reformatory.development work, fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $20.75. Judgments: For payment of judgments, including costs, against Judgments.the District of Columbia, set forth in House Document Numbered Two thousand and twenty-nine of the Sixty-fourth Congress, second Exception.session, except the judgments with interest and costs in favor of Samuel T.
Kalbfus and Edward S. Wood, $6,877.95, together with a further sum to pay the interest at not exceeding four per centum on said judgments, as provided by law, from the date the same became due until the date of payment. One-half of the foregoing amounts to meet deficiencies in the appropriations Half from District revenues.on account of the District of Columbia shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia and one-half from any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated.
Washington Aqueduct: For operation, including salaries of all Washington Aqueduct.From water revenues.necessary employees, maintenance, and repair of the Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $10,000, to be paid out of the revenues of the Water Department. 10 War Department.WAR DEPARTMENT. contingent expenses. Contingent expenses.For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $10,000.
Stationery.For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices, $7,500. National parks.national military parks. Gettysburg, Pa.Gettysburg National Park: For building and properly preparing a roadway or avenue from the Confederate Avenue around the Virginia Memorial within the limits of the Gettysburg National Park, $927. Chief of Engineers.office of chief of engineers. Muskingum River, Ohio.Refund of rentals.Vol. 38, p. 637.For refund of rentals to certain lessees of land and water power on the Muskingum River, Ohio, in accordance with the provisions of the sundry civil appropriation Act, approved August first, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $653.72.
Squares 612,613,D.C.Clearing titles.For extinguishing adverse private claims of title in and to squares six hundred and twelve and six hundred and thirteen, so called, in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, $6,060, one half to be paid *Provisos*.Limitation.out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and one half out of the United States Treasury: *Provided*, That the amount paid for any one lot shall not exceed the proportion of the whole amount that the area of said lot bears to the whole area of said squares:
Added to park system.*Provided further*, That the lands acquired hereunder shall become a part of the park system of the District of Columbia and be under the control of the Chief of Engineers of the United States Army, River and harbor work.river and harbor work. Damage claims.Vol. 36, p. 676.To pay the claims adjusted and settled under section four of the river and harbor appropriation Act approved June twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and ten, and certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Two thousand and forty of the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, $363.70.
Army.MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT. Quartermaster Corps.quartersmaster corps. Pay.For pay of the Army, including the same objects, except mileage, specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $647,833.33. Mileage.For mileage to commissioned officers, including officers of the National Guard, contract surgeons, and expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, when authorized by law, $150,000. Subsistence.Subsistence:
For subsistence of the Army, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,735,500. Regular supplies.Regular supplies: For regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $3,061,149.68. Incidental expenses.Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps: For incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $739,520.96. 11 Transportation:
For transportation of the Army and its supplies, Transportation.including the same objects specified under tills head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $11,415,770.75. Clothing, and camp Clothing, and camp and garrison equipage.and garrison equipage: For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army Appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $13,057,972.
Barracks and quarters: For barracks and quarters, including the Barracks and quarters.same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,295,000. Water and sewers Water and sewers.at military posts: For water and sewers at military posts, including the same objects specified under this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $107,000. *Provided*, That all the money hereinbefore appropriated under the Accounting, etc.titles “Subsistence of the Army,” “Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps,” “Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps,” “Transportation of the Army and its supplies,” “Water and sewers 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.
For the support of dependent families of enlisted men, including the Support of families of enlisted men, etc.Vol. 39, pp. 649, 801.same objects and under the same limitations specified in the appropriations for this purpose in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen as amended by section nine hundred and one of the Act, entitled “ An Act to increase the revenue, and for other purposes,” approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $2,000,000: *Provided*, That the provision in the *Proviso*.Applications to be made not later than June 30, 1917.Act of August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended by section nine hundred and one of the Act of September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for the Federal support of families of enlisted men shall, with respect to enlisted men belonging to organizations of the Organized Militia or National Guard which entered the service of the United States under the calls of the President of May ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and June eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and enlisted men of the Regular Army who by the provisions of Acts above cited are beneficiaries thereof only during the time the Organized Militia or National Guard continue in the service of the United States under said calls, apply only to applications stated in the form prescribed by the Secretary of War which are received in the office of the Depot Quartermaster, Washington, District of Columbia, on or before June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen. ordnance department.Ordnance Department.
Ordnance service: For the current expenses of the Ordnance Current expenses.Department, including the same objects specified wider this head in the Army appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $28,000. Ordnance stores and supplies: For overhauling, cleaning, repairing, Preserving, etc., ordnance.and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for purchase and manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requisitions of troops; for Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery equipment, including horse equipment for Cavalry and Artillery, $1,000,000. 12 national guard.National Guard.
Care, etc., of horses.To provide for the procurement of forage, bedding, shoeing, veterinary service, and supplies for horses and mules that may be owned by or issued to organizations of the National Guard, $455,000. Pay of enlisted men for care, etc.To provide for the compensation of competent help for the care of matériel, animals, and equipment thereof, under such regulations as *Proviso*. Details, etc.the Secretary of War may prescribe: *Provided*, That the men to be compensated, not to exceed five for each battery, troop, or company, shall be duly enlisted therein and shall be detailed by the battery, troop, or company commander under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, and shall be paid by the United States disbursing officer in each State, Territory, and the District of Columbia, $306,790.
Arms, military supplies, etc.For providing arms, ordnance stores, quartermaster stores, camp equipage, and all other military supplies for issue to the National Guard; for the promotion of rifle practice, including the acquisition, construction, maintenance, and equipment of shooting galleries and suitable target ranges; for the hire of horses and draft animals for the use of mounted troops, batteries, and wagons; for forage for the same; and for such other incidental expenses in connection with lawfully authorized encampments, maneuvers, and field instruction as the Secretary of War may deem necessary; and for such other expenses pertaining to the National Guard as are now or may hereafter be authorized by law, $1,000,000.
Travel of Federal officers, for Inspection,Vol. 39, p. 206.For travel of Federal officers in carrying out the provisions of section ninety-three of the Act of June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $20,000. Sergeant inspectors.For travel of inspector instructors and sergeant instructors, joining at State stations for duty and returning to duty with regiments, $10,000. Armory instruction.For travel of inspector instructors in making visits of instruction to *Proviso*.Limit.armories, $20,000: *Provided*, That said inspector instructors traveling shall not receive more than their actual expenses out of these appropriations.
Transporting supplies.For transportation of supplies (including transportation of animals bought for the use of Cavalry, Field Artillery, Signal companies, Engineer companies, ambulance companies, and other mounted units) of the National Guard, $50,000. Expenses, sergeant instructors.For expenses of sergeant instructors on duty with the National Guard, including quarters, fuel, light, medicines, and medical attendance, *Proviso*.Offices.$30,000: *Provided*, That whenever practicable inspector instructors shall use the State armories for offices.
Accounting, etc.All the money hereinbefore appropriated for arming, equipping, and training the National Guard shall be disbursed and accounted for as such and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Arms, etc., for field service.Arms, uniforms, equipment, and so forth, National Guard: To procure by purchase or manufacture and issue from time to time to the National Guard upon requisition of the governors of the several States and Territories, or the commanding general, National Guard of the District of Columbia, such number of United States service arms with all accessories, Field Artillery and Coast Artillery material, engineer, signal, and sanitary material, accouterments, field uniforms, clothing, equipage, publications, and military stores of all kinds, including public animals, as are necessary to arm, uniform, and equip for field service the National Guard in the several States, Territories, and the District of Columbia, $1,000,000. 13 NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.Volunteer Soldiers’ Home.
Central Branch, Dayton, Ohio: For subsistence, including Dayton, Ohio.the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $40,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,000; For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $4,000;
Northwestern Branch, Milwaukee, Wisconsin: For subsistence, Milwaukee, Wis.including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $8,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $4,000; Southern Branch, Hampton, Virginia: For subsistence, including Hampton, Va.the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $35,000;
Western Branch, Leavenworth, Kansas: For subsistence, including Leavenworth, Vansthe same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $22,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $8,000; Santa Monica, Cal. Pacific Branch, Santa Monica, California:
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $35,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $17,000; Marlon, Ind. Marion Branch, Marion, Indiana: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $15,000;
Danville, Ill. Danville Branch, Danville, Illinois: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $5,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $4,000; Johnson City, Tenn. Mountain Branch, Johnson City, Tennessee:
For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $4,000; For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $4,000; Hot Springs, S. Dak Battle Mountain Sanitarium, Hot Springs, South Dakota: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $4,000; 14 For household, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1 ,000;
For hospital, including the same objects specified under this head for the Central Branch in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,500; Clothing.Clothing for all branches: For clothing for all branches, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $35,000; In all, National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, $248,500. Navy Department.NAVY DEPARTMENT.
Hydrographic Office.hydrographic office. Payment of equipment for storage of charts.Vol. 39, pp. 95,1099.The appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Hydrographic Office, for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and sixteen, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and nineteen hundred and eighteen are made available for the purchase of equipment for the storage of plates used in making charts and for the storage of Hydro graphic Office charts and publications, and the appropriations for the seal year nineteen hundred and sixteen is made available for the payment of whatever outstanding contracts there may be for such equipment.
Bureau of Yards and Docks.bureau of yards and docks. Allowance for technical services increased.Vol. 39, pp. 97, 1101.The limitations specified in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Acts for the fiscal years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen on expenditures for skilled draftsmen and other technical services from appropriations and allotments under the Bureau of Yards and Docks are increased by the sums of $70,000 and $75,000, respectively.
Navy collision claims.claims for damages. Payment.Vol. 36, p. 607.For the payment of the claim adjusted and settled in accordance with naval appropriation Act, approved June twenty-fourth, nineteen hundred and ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page six hundred and seven), and certified to Congress during the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session in House Document Numbered Two thousand one hundred and four, $128.18. Navy.NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT. pay, miscellaneous. Pay, miscellaneous.For pay, miscellaneous, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $124,180.73.
Bureau of Navigation.bureau of navigation. Naval Home.Naval Home, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania: For maintenance, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $5,000, which sum shall be paid out of the income from the naval pension fund. 15 bureau of ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance. For ordnance and ordnance stores, including the same objects Ordnance and ordnance stores.specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $315,000; and the limitation Allowance for chemists, etc., increased.Vol. 39, p. 563.specified in said Act on expenditures from the appropriation “Ordnance and ordnance stores” for pay of chemists, clerical, drafting, inspection, watchmen, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and naval magazines is increased by the sum of $25,000. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks.
Maintenance: For general maintenance of yards and docks, including Maintenance.the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $432,000. Repairs and preservation at navy yards and stations: For repairs Repairs, etc.and preservation at navy yards and stations, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $314,000. bureau of medicine and surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.
Medical Department: For surgeons’ necessaries for vessels in commission, Surgeons’ necessaries, etc.navy yards, naval stations, Marine Corps, and for the civil establishment at the several naval hospitals, navy yards, naval medical supply depots, Naval Medical School, Washington, and Naval Academy, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $7,011.91. Transportation of remains: For transportation of remains, including Transporting remains.the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $686.28.
Contingent, Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: For contingent, Contingent.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $35,000. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Pay of the Navy: For pay of the Navy, including the same objects Pay.specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,621,475.04.
Provisions, Navy: For provisions and commuted rations, including Provisions.the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $624,861.25. Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: The limitation Allowance for chemists, etc., increased.Vol. 39, p. 604.specified in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, on expenditures from the appropriation “Maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,” for pay of chemists and clerical, inspection, storeman, store laborer, and messenger service in the general storehouses, paymasters’ offices, and accounting offices of the navy yards and naval stations and disbursing offices, is increased by the sum of $50,000.
Freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: For freight, including Freight.the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $264,908.37. Fuel and transportation: For fuel and transportation, including Fuel, etc.the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $934,059.40. 16 General account of advances.general account of advances.
Reimbursement. Vol. 20, p. 167.To reimburse “General account of advances” created by the Act of June nineteenth, eighteen hundred and seventy-eight (Twentieth Statutes at Large, page one hundred and sixty-seven), for amounts advanced therefrom and expended on account of the several approfiliations named hereunder m excess of the sums appropriated there-or for the fiscal year given, found to be due the “General account” on adjustment by the accounting officers, the accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to credit by transfer from unexpended balances of appropriations for the Naval Establishment for the fiscal years nineteen Hundred and fifteen and nineteen hundred and sixteen amounts as follows:
Pay, miscellaneous.Pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $1,871.99; Training station, R.I.Naval training station, Rhode Island, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $81.31; Bureau of Yards and Docks.Maintenance, Bureau of Yards and Docks, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $28.46; Medical Department.Medical Department, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $420.70; Pay.Pay of the Navy, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $103,303.88; Provisions.Provisions, Navy, nineteen hundred and fourteen to nineteen hundred and fifteen, $6,862.45;
Coal, etc.Coal and transportation, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $4,327.38; In all, general account of advances, $116,896.17. Bureau of Construction and Repair.bureau of construction and repair. Construction and repair.Construction and repair of vessels: For construction and repair of vessels, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,715,000. Bureau of Steam Engineering.bureau of steam engineering.
Engineering.Vol. 38, p. 605.Engineering: For engineering, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year Clerical, etc., allowance increased.nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,668,840; and the limitation specified in said Act on expenditures from the appropriation “Engineering” for pay of clerical, drafting, inspection, and messenger service in navy yards, naval stations, and offices of United States inspectors of machinery and engineering material, is increased by the sum of $56,210. naval academy.naval academy.
Current, etc., expenses.Current and miscellaneous expenses: For current and miscellaneous expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $5,200. Marine Corps.marine corps. Pay.For pay, Marine Corps, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $70,000. Clothing.For clothing, Marine Corps, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $676,318.
Contingent.Contingent: For contingent expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $100,000. 17 DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. public buildings.Public buildings. Capitol Building: For work at the Capitol and for general repairs Capitol.Repairs, etc.thereof, including the same objects specified under tms head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,800.
For overhauling the elevator machinery in the Senate wing of the Senate elevators.Capitol and installation of new control boards, fiscal years nineteen hundred and seventeen and nineteen hundred and eighteen, $4,360, and the $3,000 appropriated for said purposes for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen is hereby made available for the fiscal year Reappropriation. Vol. 39, p. 817.nineteen hundred and eighteen. For labor and material for the protection of the Capitol Building Protection, etc., of buildings and grounds.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, $23,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Interior Department Building (new): Assistant superintendent, New Department office building. Salaries.$2,000 ; foreman of laborers, $1,000 ; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $900 each; laborers—twenty-seven at $660 each, seventeen at $600 each, fourteen at $540 each, one $480; six female laborers at $400 each; two assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; seven firemen, at $720 each; general machinist, $1,500; two wiremen, at $1,000 each; two electricians’ helpers, at $720 each; painter, $1,000; plumber, $1,400; two assistant plumbers, at $1,000 each; two plumbers’ helpers, at $840 each; thirteen elevator conductors, at $720 each; eighteen watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $83,640 for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Contingent expenses. For electrical power, electric light, gas, window washing, and telephone service, fuel, telephones, window shades, awnings, and other materials and supplies as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior may be required for general maintenance and operation of the building, $152,545.75; Equipment, furniture, etc. For labor, equipment, and materials required for the laboratories of the Geological Survey and the Bureau of Mines ; for steel and wood filing furniture, including bookcase sections, transfer storage boxes, and card index sections; for special steel and wood furniture, including map cases, specimen cases, and drafting tables; for office furniture, including desks, chairs, tables, wardrobes, rugs, mirrors, and clocks; and for such other furniture and furnishings as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior may be required for the use and accommodation of the several bureaus and offices in the building, $100,000;
For every expenditure, including personal services of mechanics and Expenses of removal from old locations, etc. laborers, requisite for and incident to the removal of the furniture, equipment, effects, the taking down, removal, and fixing in place of printing, lithographic, and other presses, photographic and laboratory equipment, and other machinery of all kinds, of the various bureaus and offices of the Interior Department, Washington, District of Columbia, from their present locations to the new Interior Department offices, including readjustment of files and records of the Patent Office, Pension Office, and Bureau of Education, $40,500;
In all, $293,045.75, to continue available during the fiscal year Continued available, 1918.nineteen hundred and eighteen. Authority is granted the Secretary of the Interior to expend such Additional furniture, etc., from present appropriations.additional sums, not exceeding $50,000, as in his judgment may be necessary for the purchase of furniture and laboratory equipment that may be required by the Geological Survey, Bureau of Mines, General Land Office, Office of Indian Affairs, and the National Park Service, in the new Interior Department Building in Washington, District of 18Columbia, the cost of these purchases to be paid from appropriations for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, as follows;
Designation of funds.Geological Survey: For topographic surveys, for geologic surveys, for investigation of mineral resources of Alaska, for chemical and physical researches, for preparation of illustrations, for preparation of report on mineral resources, for gauging streams, for purchase of necessary books for the library, for engraving and printing geologic maps, and for topographic surveys of national forests. Bureau of Mines; General expenses, for investigating mine accidents, for testing fuel, for mineral mining investigations, for investigations of petroleum and natural gas, for purchase, equipment, and operating of mine rescue cars, for expenses mining experiment stations.
Office of Indian Affairs: Surveying and allotting Indian reservations, and for irrigation, Indian reservations. General Land Office: Surveying the public lands, for depredations on public timber, protecting public lands, and so forth, for contingent expenses of land offices. Land Office Building.Shelving for patents.General Land Office Building: For dismantling and rebuilding wooden shelving for the storage of patents, including necessary labor and material, $5,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Courthouse, D.C.Temporary quarters.Courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia: For an additional amount to provide temporary quarters by rental or otherwise for the courts, judges, and officials connected therewith, and for other offices, officials, and employees of the courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia, pending the reconstruction of the said courthouse, fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $6,000, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, one-Half from District revenues.half to be paid out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Court of Claims Building.Repairs, etc.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, $15,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. Contingent expenses.contingent expenses. Stationery.For stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General for the department and its several bureaus and offices, including offices in the field service under the General Land Office and the Office of Indian Affairs, $40,150.
Public lands.general land office. Surveying.Bringing up arrears of work.Of the unexpended balance of the current appropriation of $700,000 for surveying the public lands there is made available to and including June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, not to exceed the sum of $12,500 for the hire of clerks to bring up the arrears of office work in surveyors general’s offices upon returns of surveys filed therein, and not to exceed the further sum of $10,000 for the salaries of employees of the field surveying service temporarily detailed to the General Land Office.
Northern Pacific grant.Reappropriation for classifying lands, etc.Vol. 39, p. 817.The unexpended balance on June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, remaining to the credit of the appropriation of $2,055.67, authorized in the deficiency appropriation Act approved September eighth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, for the completion during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen of the examination and classification of lands within the limits of the Northern Pacific grant Vol. 13, p. 367.Vol. 28, p. 683.under the Act of July second, eighteen hundred and sixty-four (Thirteenth Statutes, page three hundred and sixty-five), is made 19available until expended, to meet the expenses pertaining to such examination and classification as may be incurred after June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen.
For compensation of George Watkin Evans for services as surveyor George Watkin Evans. Payment to.for the inspection of mineral deposits in Alaska, from July fifteenth to twenty-first, nineteen hundred and fifteen, and September twenty-first to twenty-fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, at $8.50 per day, $102; and from September twenty-sixth to thirtieth, nineteen hundred and fifteen, at the rate of $175 per month, $29.17; in all, $131.17. To enable the Secretary of the Interior, in cooperation with the Oregon and California railroad lands.Classifying, etc.Vol. 39, p. 218.Secretary of Agriculture, or otherwise, to continue the classification of lands involved in the Oregon and California railroad forfeiture suit, as authorized and directed by the Act of June ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $90,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Contingent expenses of land offices: For clerk hire, rent, and Contingent expenses.other incidental expenses of the district land offices, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $25,000. For an amount supplemental and additional to the amount heretofore Corbett tunnel.Paying certified claimsappropriated to pay the certified claims on account of labor, supplies, material furnished and used in the construction of the Corbett tunnel and spillway, $3,556.96. territory of alaska.Alaska.
That until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, not to Receipts from townsite sales.Use Cor public utilities. etc.Vol. 38, p. 307.exceed fifty per centum of the moneys received from the sale of lots or tracts within any town site or town sites heretofore or hereafter sold pursuant to the provisions of the Act of March twelfth, nineteen hundred and fourteen, entitled “An Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,” may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, be set apart and expended within the respective town sites in which such lots or tracts are sold, for the purpose of preparing the land for occupancy, the construction, installation, and maintenance of public utilities and improvements, and the construction of public school buildings, under such terms and conditions as the Secretary of the Interior may prescribe, and the moneys so set apart and designated are appropriated for the purpose of carrying these provisions into effect: *Provided*, That such *Provisos*.Reimbursement of former payments.moneys as may have been heretofore or may hereafter be expended for such purposes under and by authority of the Alaskan Engineering Commission from the funds at its disposal shall be reimbursed from the amount designated for the purposes herein provided: *Provided further*,That a report of the expenditures hereunder shall be made Report.to Congress at the beginning of each regular session. saint elizabeth’s hospital.
Saint Elizabeth s Hospital. Rental for a system of telephones connecting the superintendent’s, Telephone rental.physicians’, and employees’ quarters at the hospital with other locations on the hospital grounds may be paid hereafter from the appropriations for the support of the hospital; and the accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directed to credit in the accounts of the disbursing agent the amounts of payments made by him for this purpose during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen. 20 National Park Service.national park service.
Pay of employees.For employees from April fifteenth to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Director, $4,500; assistant director, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,000; draftsman, $1,800; clerks—one of class three, two of class two, two at $900 each; messenger, $600; in all, for park service in the District of Columbia, $3,666.67, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be in lieu of salaries, during such period, of the Superintendent of National Parks and four other persons authorized to be employed in the District of Columbia during the fiscal year nineteen Vol. 39, pp. 309, 535.hundred and seventeen by the sundry civil appropriation Act approved July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen.
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, *Provisos*.Navy from Navy funds.$5,000,000: *Provided*, That the appropriation aforesaid for Navy pensions shall be paid from the income of the Navy pension fund, so far as the same shall be sufficient for that purpose:*Provided Separate accounts.further*, That the amount expended under each of the above items shall be accounted for separately.
Department of Justice.DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. contingent expenses. Furniture, etc.For furniture and repairs, including carpets, file holders, and cases, $3,000. Library stacks.For purchase of library stacks, $7,000. Opinions of Attorney General.Preparing Volume 30.[R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/sec1765/p314).Vol. 18, p. 109.Vol. 39, p. 120.Opinions of the Attorneys General: To enable the Attorney General to employ, at his discretion and irrespective of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and sixty-five, Revised Statutes, and the provisions of section six of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act of May tenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, such competent person or persons as will in his judgment best perform the service, to edit and prepare for publication and superintend the printing of volume thirty of the Opinions of the Attorney General, the printing of said volume to be done in accordance with the provisions [R.
S., sec. 383, p. 63](/us/rs/sec383/p63).of section three hundred and eighty-three, Revised Statutes, $500. Detection, etc., of crimes.Detection and prosecution of crimes: For the detection and prosecution of crimes against the United States, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, and including not to exceed $6,000 additional for necessary employees at the seat of government, $150,000.
Robert S. Judge.Services.Authority is granted for the payment of $660 from the appropriation “Detection and prosecution of crimes,” fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, to Robert S. Judge, special agent of the Department . of Justice, for services rendered while on leave from the military service of the United States. Travel, etc.Advances.Traveling and miscellaneous expenses: For traveling and other miscellaneous and emergency expenses, including advances made by the disbursing clerk, authorized and approved by the Attorney General, to be expended at his discretion, the provisions of the first [R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/sec3648/p718).paragraph of section thirty-six hundred and forty-eight, Revised Statutes, to the contrary notwithstanding, to remain available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $35,000. 21 JUDICIAL.Judicial. united states courts.United States courts. For salary of the additional United States district judge in the District Judge.Texas western district.Vol. 39, p. 938.State of Texas, to be appointed under the Act of February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, from April first to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,500.
For salary of the United States district judge for the district of Porto Rico district.Judge.Vol. 39, p. 965.Porto Rico from March second, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, at the rate of $5,000 per annum, $1,652.78. For salary of the clerk of the United States district court for the Clerk.district of Porto Rico from March second, nineteen hundred, and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, at the rate of $3,000 per annum, $991.67.
For salaries, fees, and expenses of United States marshals and their Marshals.deputies, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $255,000. For such miscellaneous expenses as may be authorized by the Miscellaneous.Attorney General, for the United States courts and their officers, including so much as may be necessary in the discretion of the Attorney General for such expenses in the District of Alaska, $50,000.
For supplies, including exchange of typewriting and adding machines Supplies.for the United States courts and judicial officers, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General, $7,500. For support of United States prisoners, including necessary clothing Support of prisoners.and medical aid, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $50,000. Leavenworth, Kansas, Penitentiary:
For subsistence, including Penitentiaries.Leavenworth, Kans.the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $30,000. For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $15,000. For hospital supplies, medicines, medical and surgical supplies, and all other articles for the care and treatment of sick prisoners; and for expenses of interment of deceased prisoners on the penitentiary reservation, $1,500.
The use for maintenance and repair of horse-drawn passenger-Vehicles.Vol. 39, p. 315.carrying vehicles of not exceeding $125 of the amount appropriated for this institution under the head “Miscellaneous expenditures” in the sundry civil appropriation Act of July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, is authorized. The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized to give Thomas W. Morgan.Credit in accounts.credit to Thomas W. Morgan, warden and special disbursing officer, United States Penitentiary, Leavenworth, Kansas, under the appropriation “Clothing and transportation” for said institution for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen in the amount of $228.38, covering expenses attempting to transport prisoner Frederick McGuire from Leavenworth, Kansas, to Portland, Oregon, in pursuance of a warrant of removal issued by the United States District Court for the District of Oregon.
Atlanta, Georgia, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including theAtlanta, Ga. same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $10,000. 22 For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the game objects specified under this head for the Penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $10,000.
For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $10,000. McNeil Island, Wash.McNeil Island, Washington, Penitentiary: For subsistence, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, and for supplies for guards, $2,000.
For clothing, transportation, and traveling expenses, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,500. For miscellaneous expenditures, including the same objects specified under this head for the penitentiary at Leavenworth, Kansas, in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $6,000. Post Office Department.POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT.
Contingent expenses.contingent expenses. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous items, including purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriters, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $6,500. New equipment shops.Equipment, removal from location, etc.For the purchase of window shades, shelving, and racks, lumber, automatic platform scales, ulterior telephones, clocks, and the miscellaneous equipment necessary to equip and furnish the new Post Office Department equipment shops, Fifth and W Streets northeast, Washington, District of Columbia, including the construction of a railroad siding, and for the expense of removal thereto of offices, equipment, machinery, material, and other property of the Post Office Department from the leased buildings at First and K Streets northeast, Washington, District of Columbia, $15,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Postal service.POSTAL SERVICE. Out of the Postal Revenues. Postmaster General.office of the postmaster general. Rewards, etc.For payment of rewards for the detection, arrest, and conviction of post-office burglars, robbers, and highway mail robbers, fiscal year nineteen hundred and fifteen, $5,175.12. First Assistant Post-master General.office of first assistant postmaster general. Temporary clerk hire, etc.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, $150,000.
Messenger service.For mail messenger service, $60,000. 23 office of second assistant postmaster general.Second Assistant Postmaster General. For inland transportation by star routes in Alaska, $16,000.Alaska star routes. For inland transportation by railroad routes, $2,500,000.Railroad routes. office of third assistant postmaster general.Third Assistant Post-master General. For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery Stamps.stamps, books of stamps, and for coiling of stamps, $120,000.
For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers,Stamped envelopes,$350,000. For manufacture of postal cards, $80,000. Postal cards. For payment of limited indemnity for the loss of pieces of domestic Indemnity, lost mail matter.registered matter, insured, and collect-on-delivery mail, fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $16,000. office of fourth assistant postmaster general.Fourth Assistant Postmaster General. For stationery for the Postal Service, including blanks, books, Stationery.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, $65,000.
For facing slips, plain and printed, card slide labels, intaglio seals, Facing slips, etc.tags, linen labels,. blanks, and books of an urgent nature, $35,000. For wrapping paper, $8,000. Wrapping paper. 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, $20,000. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE. Department of Commerce. lighthouse service.Lighthouse Service.
Claims for damages: To pay the claims for damages which have Collision damage claims.been considered, adjusted, and determined to be due to the claimants by the Commissioner of Lighthouses, under authority of the provisions of section four of the Act of June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and Collision damage claims. ten (Thirty-sixth Statutes, page five hundred and thirty-seven), on account of damages occasioned by collision for which vessels of the Lighthouse Service have been found responsible, certified to the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session in House Document Numbered Seventeen hundred and seventy, $56.88. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey.
Office expenses: For office expenses, including the same objects Office expenses.specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $6,097. Charts: For materials, supplies, and equipment for printing charts, Charts.Night printing force, etc.including the employment in the District of Columbia of such personal services, other than clerical, as may be needed for the additional work required and to operate the printing plant on one night shift, $35,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Vessels: For repairs and maintenance of the complement of vessels, Vessels.Repairs, etc.including traveling expenses of persons inspecting the repairs, and exclusive of engineer’s supplies and other ship chandlery, $3,000. For furniture and other equipment in the outfitting of the steamer “Surveyor,” steamer.Surveyor, $7,356. 24 Fisheries Bureau.bureau of fisheries. “Albatross,” repairs.For necessary and urgent repairs to the steamer Albatross, $10,000. Steamboat-Inspection Service.steamboat-inspection service.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For contingent expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $19,400. Department of Labor.DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. contingent expenses. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including the same objects specified under this head in the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $4,400.
Rent.For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Department of Labor, $4,000. Immigration Bureau.bureau of immigration. Enforcing laws regulating admission of aliens.Vol. 39, p. 874.For additional expenses for the enforcement of the laws regulating immigration of aliens into the United States made necessary by the Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States,” $400,000, to continue available during *Proviso*.Government maintenance of station privileges forbidden.the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen: *Provided further*, That no part of the sum hereby appropriated shall be expended for the maintenance at any United States immigrant station of any of Vol. 39, p. 894.the privileges now disposed of after public competition as provided by the Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, entitled “An Act to regulate the immigration of aliens to, and the residence of aliens in, the United States.
Ellis Island station.Repairs.Ellis Island, New York, Immigration Station: For completion of repairs to the immigration station at Ellis Island, rendered necessary by explosions on July thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $246,995. Children’s Bureau.children’s bureau. Child Labor Division.Expenses of establishing.Vol.39, p.675.Child Labor Division: To enable the Secretary of Labor to carry into effect the provisions of the Act of September first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “An Act to prevent interstate commerce in the products of child labor, and for other purposes,” in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including a preliminary survey, for which purpose the sum of $50,000 shall be made immediately available, traveling expenses, per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4, telegraph and telephone service, express and freight charges, contingent and miscellaneous expenses, and personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, fiscal year nineteen *Proviso*.Pay limit.hundred and eighteen, $150,000: *Provided*, That no salary shall be paid hereunder at a rate exceeding $3,000 per annum.
Legislative.LEGISLATIVE. Senate Office Building.Maintenance.Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous items and supplies, and for all necessary personal and other services for the care and operation of the Senate Office Building, under the direction and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules, $6,500. 25 Joint Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce: To carry Joint Committee on Commerce.Expenses.Vol. 39, p. 387.out the provisions of Public Resolution Numbered Twenty-five, Sixty-fourth Congress, creating a joint subcommittee from the membership of the Senate Committee on Interstate Commerce and the House Committee on Interstate and Foreign Commerce to investigate the conditions relating to interstate and foreign commerce, and the necessity of further legislation relating thereto, and defining the Sowers and duties of such subcommittee, as extended by Public Resolution Numbered Forty-four, Sixty-fourth Congress, to be available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $20,000.
House Office Building. House Office Building: For maintenance, including miscellaneous items, and for all necessary services, $3,000. Maintenance. Statement of appropriations: The statement of appropriations, Statement of appropriations, 2d sess., 64th Congress. Acts of present session to be included in.and so forth, for the last session of the Sixty-fourth Congress shall include the Army, general deficiency, Military Academy, river and harbor, and sundry civil appropriation Acts as passed at the extraordinary session of the Sixty-fifth Congress; and all other appropriations made at the latter session shall be compiled and published with the statement to be prepared of the appropriation Acts for the second session of the Sixty-fifth Congress.
Capitol power plant: For lighting the Capitol, Senate and House Capitol power plant.Maintenance.Office Buildings, and Congressional Library Building, and the grounds about the same, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $8,000. For fuel, oil, and cotton waste, and advertising for the power plant Fuel, oil, etc.which furnishes heat and light for the Capitol and congressional buildings, $24,900.
This and the two foregoing appropriations shall Purchases not restricted to supply committee.be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds under the supervision and direction of the commission in control of the House Office Building, appointed under the Act approved Vol. 34, p. 1365. Vol. 36, p. 531.March fourth, nineteen hundred and seven, and without reference to section four of the Act approved June seventeenth, nineteen hundred and ten, concerning purchases for executive departments.
The unexpended balance of the appropriation for the Capitol Balance available.power plant for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen is reappropriated and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen. senate.Senate. To pay Sallie M. Clarke, widow of Honorable James P. Clarke, late James P. Clarke.Pay to widow.a Senator from the State of Arkansas, $7,500. To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debates Official reporters. Reimbursement.of the Senate for expenses incurred from July first, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $3,300.
To pay Dennis M. Kerr for extra and expert services rendered to Dennis M. Kerr.Services.the Committee on Pensions during the second session of the Sixty-fourth Congress as assistant clerk to said committee by detail from the Bureau of Pensions, $1,200. For driving, maintenance, and care of automobile for the Vice Automobile for Vice President.President, for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $300. Pages. For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others in the service of the Senate, namely:
Sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of $2.50 per day each during the session, from April second to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $3,600, or so much thereof as may be necessary. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year nineteen Miscellaneous items.hundred and sixteen, $1,000. 26 Assistance to Senators.To enable the Secretary of the Senate to pay from the appropriation for nineteen hundred and seventeen for compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others, the following clerks, assistant clerks, and messengers to Senators not chairmen of committees, to-wit:
Sam E. Conner.Sam E. Conner, clerk to Senator Fernald from September twelfth, John F. Hayes.nineteen hundred and sixteen, to December fourth, nineteen hundred and sixteen; John F. Haves clerk to Senator Watson from November eighth, Grady Hays.nineteen hundred and sixteen, to December Charles W. Hall, jr.fourth, nineteen hundred and sixteen; Grady Hays, clerk to Senator Kirby from November fifteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to December fourth, nineteen hundred and sixteen;
Charles W. Hall, junior, clerk to Senator Calder from March fourth to thirteenth, nineteen Wilson C. Hefner.hundred and seventeen; Wilson C. Hefner, clerk to Senator-Sutherland from March fourth to thirteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Samuel Russell.Samuel Russell, clerk to Senator King from March fourth to James A. Norton.twelfth, nineteen hundred and James L. Wolcott.seventeen; James A. Norton, clerk to Senator Hale from March Amos W. W. Woodcook.fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen;
James L. Wolcott, clerk to Senator Wolcott from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Amos W. W. Woodcock, clerk to Senator France from March fourth to twelfth. Edward Albright.nineteen hundred and seventeen; Edward Albright, clerk to Senator McKellar from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Joseph C. O’Mahoney. Frederick E. Schortemeier.Joseph C. O’Mahoney, clerk to Senator Kendrick from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen;
Frederick E. Schortemeier, clerk to Senator New from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; at the rate of $2,000 per annum John H. Ericksen. C. B. Smith.Lorenzo Richards.each; John H. Ericksen, assistant clerk to Senator Calder from March fourth to thirteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; C. B. Smith, assistant clerk to Senator Sutherland from March fourth to sixteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Lorenzo Richards, assistant clerk to Senator King from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and Edw.
C. Wrede.seventeen; Edw. C. Wrede, assistant clerk to Senator Wolcott from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Wallace Williams.Wallace Williams, assistant clerk to Senator France from March James Coates.fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; James Coates, assistant clerk to Senator McKellar from March fourth to twelfth, Robert L, Stancill.nineteen hundred and seventeen; Robert L. Stancill, assistant clerk to Senator New from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hunched Gertrude O’Connell.and seventeen; at the rate of $1,200 per annum each;
Gertrude O’Connell, messenger to Senator Calder from March fourth to thirteenth, Walter P. Scott.nineteen hundred and seventeen ; Walter P. Scott, messenger to Senator Sutherland from March fourth to thirteenth, nineteen Agnes E. Locke.hundred and seventeen; Agnes E. Locke, messenger to Senator Hale from March fourth to thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; Margaret B. Buchanan.Robert J. Twyman.Margaret B. Buchanan, messenger to Senator Kendrick from March tenth to thirteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen;
Robert J. Twyman, messenger to Senator New from March fourth to twelfth, nineteen hundred and seventeen; at the rate of $1,200 per annum each. house of representatives.House of Representatives. Michael F. Conry.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Michael F. Conry, late a Representative from the State of New York, $7,500. David E. Finley.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of David E. Finley, late a Representative from the State of South Carolina, $7,500. Cyrus Adams Sulloway.Pay to daughter.To pay H.
Belle Sulloway, a daughter of Cyrus Adams Sulloway, late a Representative from the State of New Hampshire, $7,500. Samuel J. Tribble.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Samuel J. Tribble, late a Representative from the State of Georgia, $7,500. Luis Munoz Rivera.Pay to widow.To pay the widow of Luis Munoz Rivera, late a Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, $7,500. 27 For allowance to the following contestants and contestees for Contested-election expenses.expenses incurred by them in contested-election cases, audited and recommended by the Committees on Elections Numbered One, Two, and Three:
C. William Beales, $1,055.07;C. William Beales. Lathrop Brown, $2,000;Lathrop Brown. Jacob A. Cantor, $2,000;Jacob A. Cantor. Frederick C. Hicks, $2,000;Frederick C. Hicks. Isaac Siegel, $2,000;Isaac Siegel. E. J. Hill, $2,000;E. J. Hill. Jeremiah Donovan, $2,000;Jeremiah Donovan. Richard S. Whaley, $536;Richard S. Whaley. Aaron P. Prioleau, $100;Aaron P. Priolean. William R. Gaylord, $2,000;William R. Gaylord. In all, $15,691.07. For procurement of an oil portrait of Joseph G.
Cannon, former Portrait of former Speaker Joseph G. Cannon.Speaker of the House of Representatives, to be paid on the approval of James L. Slayden, chairman of the Committee on the Library in the Sixty-fourth Congress, $2,000. To pay South Trimble, Clerk of the House of Representatives, the South Trimble.Compiling contested election cases documents.amount due for services in compiling, arranging for the printer, reading proof, indexing of testimony, stenography and typewriting, supervising the work, and expenses incurred in the contested-election cases of the Sixty-fourth Congress (eight in number), as authorized by an Act entitled “An Act relating to contested elections,” approved Vol. 24, p. 445.March second, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, the sum of $1,723.12; and an additional sum of $1,120 to such poisons as were actually engaged in the work designated by the said South Trimble and in such proportions as he may doom just for assistance rendered in the work; in all, $2,843.12.
Contingent expenses: For miscellaneous items and expenses of Miscellaneous items, etc.special and select committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, $75,000. For wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste, twine, newspaper wrappers, Folding materials.and other necessary materials for folding, for uso of Members, the Clerk’s office, and folding room, not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk of the House, under provisions of the Act approved January twelfth, eighteenVol. 28, p. 624. hundred and ninety-five, $1,000.
For an additional amount for driving, maintenance, and operation Automobile for Speaker.of automobile for the Speaker, $300. For additional compensation to the enrolling clerk of the House of Enrolling clerk.Additional pay.Representatives, in accordance with House Resolution Numbered Five hundred and one of the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, from March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, $1,325. To continue the employment of nine messengers, at $100 per month Post office messengers.each, in the post office of the House of Representatives, from April first to November thirtieth, inclusive, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $7,200.
That after the passage of this Act the members of the Committee Committee on District of Columbia.Investigation expenses.on the District of Columbia, or a subcommittee thereof appointed by the present chairman of said committee, be, and are hereby, authorized to continue the investigation directed by House Resolution Numbered Two hundred and twenty-nine of the Sixty-fourth Congress and to expend for the purpose and as provided in House Resolution Numbered Two hundred and fifty-six of the Sixty-fourth Congress, out of the contingent fund of the House, a sum not exceeding $7,500, in addition to the unexpended balance of the amount heretofore authorized. 28 Folding.For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $3,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Motor truck for folding room.For the purchase, maintenance, and repair of a motor truck for the use of the folding room, $2,000, to continue available during the fiscal Doorkeeper.Horses, etc., hire repealed.Vol. 39, p. 71.year nineteen hundred and eighteen; and the appropriation of $1,200 for hire of horses and wagons and repairs of same for the office of the Doorkeeper for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is repealed. Official reporters and stenographers.Reimbursement.To reimburse the Official Reporters of Debates $350 each, and the Official Stenographers to Committees $400 each, for moneys actually and necessarily expended by them to March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $3,700.
Government Printing Office.government printing office. 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, $40,267.93. Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes.To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes, messengers on night duty during the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, for extra services, $700 each; in all, $2,100.
Printing and binding.printing and binding. For Congress.For public printing, public binding, and for paper for public printing and binding, and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $520,937.05. War Department.For printing and binding for the War Department, $150,000. Navy Department.For printing and binding for the Navy Department, $30,000. Interior Department.For printing and binding for the Interior Department, $15,000.
Patent Office.Patent Office: For printing the weekly issue of patents, designs, trade-marks, and labels, exclusive of illustrations; and for printing, engraving illustrations, and binding the Official Gazette, including weekly, monthly, bimonthly, and annual indices, $40,000. Indian Service. New accounting system.Indian Service: For printing and binding, including loose-leaf binders, necessary to test and install a new system of bookkeeping and accounting for the Indian Service prepared by the Bureau of Vol. 39, p. 159.Efficiency in accordance with section twenty-eight of the Indian appropriation Act, approved May eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $10,000, to continue available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.Department of Labor.For printing and binding for the Department of Labor, $15,978.
Panama Canal.panama canal. Fortifications.Fire control.For the fortification of the Panama Canal as follows: For the operation and maintenance of fire-control installations at seacoast defenses, Panama Canal, under the Chief Signal Officer of the Army, $5,000. National defense.national defense. At discretion of the President.*Post*, p. 429.For the national security and defense, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, to be expended at the discretion of the President, and to be immediately available and to remain available until December thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $100,000,000. 29 JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.Judgments, United States courts.
For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs Payment.of suits, winch have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act Vol. 24, p. 505.to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, by the Attorney General in Senate Document Numbered Seven hundred and thirty-one, and which have not been appealed, namely:
Under the Treasury Department, $1,879.68. Treasury Department. Under the War Department, $8,005.15. War Department. In all, $9,884.83, together with such additional sum as may be necessary Interest.to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.Judgments, Court of Claims. For the payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, Payment.reported to the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session in House Document Numbered Two thousand and thirty-one and Senate Document Numbered Seven hundred and thirty-two, namely:
Classification. Under the War Department, $92,106.27; Under the Navy Department, $52,165.91; Under the Post Office Department, $12,036.88; Under the Department of Justice, $5,881.41; In all, $162,190.47. JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.Judgments, Indian depredation claims. For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Payment.Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Two thousand and thirty and Senate Document Numbered Seven hundred and thirty during the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, $46,927.50; said judgments to be paid after the deductions Deductions.Vol. 20, p. 863.required to be made under the provisions of section six of the Act approved March third, eighteen hundred and ninety-one, entitled “An Act to provide for the adjustment and payment of claims arising from Indian depredations,” shall have been ascertained and duly certified by the Secretary of the Interior to the Secretary of the Treasury, which certification shall be made as soon as practicable after the passage of this Act, and such deductions shall be made according to the discretion of the Secretary of the Interior, having due regard to the educational and other necessary requirements of the tribe or tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United Reimbursement.States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: *Provided*, That no one of said judgments provided in this paragraph *Proviso*.Appeal.shall be paid until the Attorney General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there exists no grounds sufficient, in his opinion, to support a motion for a new trial or an appeal of said cause.
None of the judgments contained in this Act shall he paid until Right of appeal. the right of appeal shall have expired. AUDITED CLAIMS.Audited claims. Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified to Claims certified by accounting officers.be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five of the 30Vol. 81, p. 110.Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and other years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress Vol. 23, p. 254.under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Two thousand and twenty-eight, reported to the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
Claims allowed by Auditor tor Treasury Department.For collecting the revenues from customs, $6.81. For contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, $527.66. For freight, transportation, and so forth, Public Health Service, 45 cents. For preventing the spread of epidemic diseases, Public Health Service, $6.30. For refunding internal-revenue collections, $50. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $232,556.16. For redemption of stamps, $137.50. For allowance or drawback, internal revenue, $18.81.
For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $41,265.27. For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving Service, $26.78. For contingent expenses, Mint at New Orleans, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $58.14. For wages of workmen, assay office at New York, $19.44. For operating supplies for public buildings, $18.53. For fuel, lights, and water for public buildings, $2.72. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $106.08. For general expenses of public buildings, $1.18. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $7,632.48. For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army Division and Department Headquarters, $1,886.05. For Signal Service of the Army, $43.43. For encampment and maneuvers, Organized Militia, $140. For subsistence of the Army, $21.37. For regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps, $29.69. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster Department, $3,056.35. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $2,754.18.
For water and sewers at military posts, $22.22. For clothing and camp and garrison equipage, $11.23. For medical and hospital department, $3.58. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $11.67. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, $69.50. For expenses, California Débris Commission, 13 cents. For improvement and care of public grounds, District of Columbia, $10.50. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. Claims allowed by Auditor tor Navy Department.For pay, miscellaneous, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $327.89.
For pay, miscellaneous, $61.20. For pay, Marine Corps, $1,018.68. or transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, $130. For contingent, Marine Corps, $94.46. For pay, Naval Academy, $5. 31 For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, $205.74. For outfits on first enlistment, Bureau of Navigation, $10.72. For maintenance of naval auxiliaries, Bureau of Navigation, $5.75. For ocean and lake surveys, Bureau of Navigation, $19.67. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $549.60.
For equipment of vessels, Bureau of Equipment, $6.50. For bringing home remains of officers, and so forth, Navy Department, nineteen hundred and fifteen to nineteen hundred and sixteen, $46.78. For pay of the Navy, $4,954.99. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $10. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $90,762.39. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $77.66. For coal and transportation, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $991.13.
For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $307.60. For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $349.72. For indemnity for lost property, Naval Service, $2,551.77. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, $37. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. For education of natives of Alaska, $5. Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department. For investigation of school and home gardening, Bureau of Education, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $24.38.
For surveying the public lands, $8.81. For Geological Survey, $900. For investigating mine accidents, $3.95. For fees of examining surgeons, pensions, $15. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $46.94. For Indian schools, support, $1,234.86. For Indian school buildings, $169. For Indian school and agency buildings, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $1,860.02. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $52,398.30.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $525.67. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $552.23. For buildings at agencies and repairs, $39. For pay of Indian police, 60 cents. For pay of judges, Indian courts, $7.18. For general expenses, Indian Service, $2. For support of Indians in Arizona and New Mexico, $726.92. For support of Indians in California, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $14.44. For Indian school, Fort Bidwell, California, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $257.38.
For Indian School, Greenville, California, $9.92. For Indian school, Lawrence, Kansas, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $24.20. For incidentals in Montana, $7. For Indian school, Albuquerque, New Mexico, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $14.11. For support of Indians of Fort Berthold Agency, North Dakota, 18 cents. Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $46.21. 32 For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $3,981.91.
For support of Indians of Colville and Puyallup Agencies and Joseph’s Band of Nez Perces, Washington, 53 cents. For Indian school, Hayward, Wisconsin, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $14.58. Vol. 11, p. 611.For indemnity to certain Chickasaw Indians for losses, treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, $8,660. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments.Vol. 38, p. 806.For salaries of vice consuls (Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen), nineteen hundred and fifteen, $79.59.
For salaries, Consular Service, $116.38. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $1.91. For preservation of collections, National Museum, $13.51. For support of convicts, District of Columbia, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $9,352.93. For pay of bailiffs, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $58.80. For library, Department of Agriculture, $52.28. For general expenses, Weather Bureau, $362.99. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $33.09.
For general expenses, Forest Service, $63.33. For enforcement of the food and drugs Act, $22.44. For preventing spread of moths, Bureau of Entomology, $379.98. For drainage investigations, 25 cents For International Dry-Land Congress at Lethbridge, Canada, nineteen hundred and thirteen, $6.30. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce, 92 cents. For contingent expenses, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $4.50. For general expenses Bureau of Standard, $2.30. For party expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, 45 cents.
For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $220.50. For tender for inspector, Eighth Lighthouse District, $2.16. For Oconto Harbor lights, Wisconsin, $70.01. For contingent expenses, Department of Labor, $9.80. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor. $18.23. For expenses of regulating immigration, $20.45. For naturalization of aliens, 32 cents. For enforcement of the Chinese exclusion Act, $56. For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, books for department library, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $10.
For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, books for department library, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $15. For contingent expenses, Department of Justice, miscellaneous items, $25.82. For defending suits in claims against the United States, $17.40. For detection and prosecution of crimes, $5.45. For salaries, fees, and expenses of marshals, United States courts, $50.50. For pay of special assistant attorneys, United States courts, $1,556.88. For fees of clerks, United States courts, $710.
For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $273.95. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $241.80. For fees of jurors, United States courts, $12.40. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $109.80. 33 For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $14. For supplies for United States courts, 38 cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department. For indemnities, international registered mail, $320.28. Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department.
For parcel-post insurance, $3.40. For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, 65 cents. For shipment of supplies, $66.63. For star-route service, $6.51. For compensation to postmasters, $879.95. For compensation to assistant postmasters, $350. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $188.56. For clerks, third-class post offices, $104.12. For temporary and auxiliary clerks in post offices, $33.34. For separating mails, third and fourth class post offices, $332. For clerks, contract stations, $37.94.
For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $93.33. For Rural Delivery Service, carriers, $14.78. For rent, light, and fuel, $298.74. For office appliances, $3.60. For canceling machines, $29.78. For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, services and purchases, $61.16. AUDITED CLAIMS. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified Additional claims.to be due by the several accounting officers of the Treasury Department under appropriations the balances of which have been exhausted or carried to the surplus fund under the provisions of section five Vol. 18, p. 110.of the Act of June twentieth, eighteen hundred and seventy-four, and under appropriations heretofore treated as permanent, being for the service of the fiscal year nineteen hundred and fourteen and other years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen Vol. 23, p. 254. hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Seven hundred and twenty-nine, reported to the Sixty-fourth Congress, second session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
For refunding taxes illegally collected, $29,187.65. Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For redemption of stamps, $226.44. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers, $159,733,40. For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving Service, $399.68. For operating supplies for public buildings, 95 cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $2,888.23. Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.
For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army division and department headquarters, $30. For contingencies, Military Information Section, General Staff Corps, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $512.35. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $185.85. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $866.92. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $1.56. 34 Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department.
For pay, miscellaneous, $24. For pay, Marine Corps, $252.38. For transportation and recruiting, Marine Corps, $56.70. For pay, Naval Academy, $32. For pay of the Navy, $2,923.56. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $6,076.21. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $45. Vol. 28, p, 962.For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $3,747.24. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, $53.30. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.For surveying the public lands, $31.18. For Geological Survey, 45 cents. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $2,550.59. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $26.20. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $462.05. For Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $129.18. For support of Indians of Klamath Agency, Oregon, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $50.82.
For Indian school, Salem, Oregon, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $135.57. Vol. 11, p. 611.For idemnity to certain Chickasaw Indians for losses, treaty of June twenty-second, eighteen hundred and fifty-five, $2,585. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments.Vol. 38, p. 806.For salaries of vice consuls (Act of February fifth, nineteen hundred and fifteen), nineteen hundred and fifteen, $58.34.
For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, $138.95. For miscellaneous expenses, Supreme Court, District of Columbia, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $350. For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, $40. For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $37.80. For contingent expenses, Department of Labor, $3.70. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, 50 cents. For fees of clerks, United States courts, $72.33. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, nineteen hundred and fifteen, $97.20.
For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $600. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department.For shipment of supplies, 36 cents. For compensation to postmasters, $318.74. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $200. For temporary and auxiliary clerks in post offices, $45.60. For Railway Mail Service, salaries, $10. For Rural Delivery Service, carriers, $36.90. Approved, April 17, 1917.
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