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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 40 STAT. · October 6, 1917 · Chapter 79

Chapter 79. Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 79.— An Act Making appropriations to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes. October 6, 1917.[[H. R. 5949](/us/bill/65/hr/5949).][[Public, No. 64](/us/pl/65/64).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled*, That the following sums areDeficiencies appropriations for war expenses, etc.*Ante*, p. 182.*Post*, pp. 459, 594, 821, 1020, 1161. appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, to supply urgent deficiencies in appropriations for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, and prior fiscal years, on account of war expenses, and for other purposes, namely:
INTERSTATE COMMERCE COMMISSION.Interstate Commerce Commission. For compensation of the two additional commissioners, authorizedPay of additional commissioners.*Ante*, p. 270. by the Act approved August ninth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, from September first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, until June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at the rate of $10,000 per annum each, $16,666.66. EMERGENCY SHIPPING FUND.Emergency Shipping Fund, The cost of purchasing, requisitioning, or otherwise acquiringPurchasing, etc., shipping plants, ships,Limit of cost increased.*Ante*, p. 182. plants, material, charters, or ships now constructed or in the course of construction and the expediting of construction of ships thus under construction, authorized by the urgent deficiency appropriation Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is increased from $250,000,000 to $515,000,000, and there is appropriated for this purpose the sum of $200,000,000.
The cost of construction of ships authorized by the urgent deficiencyBuilding ships.*Ante*, p. 184.*Post*, p. 650. appropriation Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is increased from $500,000,000 to $1,234,000,000, and there is appropriated for this purpose the sum of $250,000,000. For the purchase of ships, other than those heretofore or hereinPurchase of other ships. authorized, $150,000,000. For the acquisition or establishment of plants suitable for shipbuilding,Acquisition, etc., of plants for ship building.*Post*, pp. 651, 1022. or of materials essential thereto, and for the enlargement or extension of such plants as are now, or may be hereafter acquired or established, $35,000,000.
FEDERAL BOARD FOR VOCATIONAL EDUCATION.Vocational Education. The appropriation provided by section seven of the Act creatingExpenses allowed Board.Vol. 39, p. 933. the Federal Board for Vocational Education, approved February twenty-third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is also made available for printing and binding, law books, books of reference and periodicals, and postage on foreign mail. In any State the legislature of which met in nineteen hundred andAcceptance of State board designated by governor if legislature id not act.Vol. 39, p. 932. seventeen and failed for any reason to accept the provisions of the vocational education Act, as provided in section five of said Act, if the governor of that State, so far as he is authorized to do so, shall accept the provisions of said Act and designate or create a State board of not less than three members to act in cooperation with the Federal Board for Vocational Education and shall designate the State treasurer as custodian for all moneys allotted to that State under said Act, the Federal board shall, if such legislature took noConditional recognition. adverse action on the acceptance of said Act in nineteen hundred and seventeen, recognize such State board for the purposes of said Act until the legislature of that State meets in regular session in due course and has been in session sixty days. 346 DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State.
Additional employees.*Proviso*.Pay limitation.For additional employees in the Department of State, $85,000: *Provided*, That not more than two persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. Contingent expenses.For stationery, furniture, fixtures, typewriters, repairs and material for repairs, and miscellaneous items, including expenses of the passport office in New York, $25,000. foreign intercourse.foreign intercourse. Consular prisoners.Limit of cost for feeding, not operative dining fiscal year 1918.Vol. 39, p. 1058.That portion of the Act making appropriations for the Diplomatic and Consular Service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, which provides “ that no more than 50 cents per day for the keeping and feeding of each prisoner while actually confined shall be allowed or paid for any such keeping and feeding,” shall not be operative during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Clerks of embassies and legations.For the employment of necessary clerks at the embassies and legations, who, whenever hereafter appointed, shall be citizens of the United States, $88,000. Clerk hire at consulates.For allowance for clerk hire at consulates, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of State, $325,000. Contingent expenses, missions.To enable the President to provide, at the public expense, all such stationery, blanks, records, and other books, seals, presses, flags, and signs, as he shall think necessary for the several embassies and legations in the transaction of their business, and also for rent, repairs, postage, telegrams, furniture, typewriters, including exchange of same, messenger service, compensation of kavasses, guards, drago-mans, and porters, including compensation of interpreters, and the Dispatch agents.compensation of dispatch agents at London, New York, San Francisco, and New Orleans, and for traveling and miscellaneous expenses of embassies and legations, and for printing in the Department of State, and for loss on bills of exchange to and from Printing in Department.embassies and legations, and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $132,000.
Contingent expenses, Consulates.Expenses of providing all such stationery, blanks, record and other books, seals, presses, flags, signs, rent (so much as may be necessary), repairs to consular buildings owned by the United States, postage, furniture, including typewriters and exchange of same, statistics, newspapers, freight (foreign and domestic), telegrams, advertising, messenger service, traveling expenses of consular officers and consular assistants, compensation of Chinese writers, loss by exchange, and such other miscellaneous expenses as the President may think necessary for the several consulates and consular agencies in the transaction of their business, and payment in advance of subscriptions for newspapers (foreign and domestic) under this appropriation is hereby authorized, $28,000.
Traveling expenses.*Post*, p. 463.To pay the actual and necessary expenses of transportation, under such regulations as the Secretary of State may prescribe, of diplomatic and consular officers and clerks in embassies, legations, and consulates, in going to and returning from their posts or when traveling under orders of the Secretary of State, but not including any expense incurred in connection with leaves of absence, $75,000. Diplomatic and consular officers in China.Allowances of additional compensation forTo enable the President in his discretion and in accordance with such regulations as he may prescribe to make special allowances by way of additional compensation to consular and diplomatic officers in China, including the officers at Hongkong, Saigon, Tsingtau, Dairen, and Vladivostok, in order to adjust their official income to the ascertained cost of living at the posts to which they may be assigned, $100,000. 347 For the relief of American citizens in Germany or German occupiedRelief of American citizens in Germany, etc. territory and American prisoners of war who may be taken by German forces, $80,000.
For relief and protection of American seamen in foreign countries,Relief of American seamen. and in the Panama Canal Zone, and shipwrecked American seamen in the Territory of Alaska, in the Hawaiian Islands, Porto Rico, and the Philippine Islands, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $40,000. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. office of the secretary.secretary’s office. For two additional Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury, to be Two additional Assistant Secretaries.appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, who are authorized at the rate of $5,000 per annum each from the date of this Act to the close of the present war and six months thereafter, $7,500, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
The accounting officers of the Treasury are authorized and directedCharles D. Hamner.Credit in accounts. to credit in the accounts of Charles D. Hamner, disbursing agent of the Joint Committee on Rural Credits, the sum of $353.33 paid on vouchers approved by the chairman of the Joint Committee and suspended by the accounting officers because the services were rendered after the close of the fiscal year for which the appropriations were available. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses.
For purchase of file holders and file cases, $4,000.Files. For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair cane, chair covers,Furniture. desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $7,500. For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings and fixtures,Miscellaneous. window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, 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 eighteen, $3,000. office of comptroller of the treasury.Comptroller’s office.
For additional employees from October first, nineteen hundred andAdditional employees. seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Five law clerks, at $2,000 each; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, one of class one; messenger, $840; in all, $12,930. office of treasurer of the united states.Treasurer’s office. For additional employees from October first, nineteen hundred and Additional employees.seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows:
Clerks—one of class four, three of class three, three of class two, ten of class one, eight at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; expert counters—three at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; in all, $30,000. public buildings.Public buildings. Charlotte, North Carolina, rent of buildings: For additional for rentCharlotte, N. C. of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $1,500. 348 Evansville, Ind.Evansville, Indiana, rent of buildings:
For additional for rent of temporary quarters for Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $3,500. Millersburg, Ohio.Millersburg, Ohio, post office (site): For completion under the present limit of cost, $500. Muskegon, Mich.Muskegon, Michigan, rent of buildings: For additional for rent of temporary quarters for the accommodation of Government officials and moving expenses incident thereto, $3,000. New York, N. Y., customhouse.New York, New York, customhouse:
For changes, remodeling, repairs, and new vaults, $35,000. Treasury buildings.Repairs, etc., to buildings on squares 226 and 228, Washington, D. C., for temporary use.Washington, District of Columbia, Treasury Department Buildings: For repairs, alterations, and extensions of such of the buildings and their equipment belonging to the United States, on squares numbered two hundred and twenty-six and two hundred and twenty-eight in the city of Washington, District of Columbia, as the Secretary of the Treasury may designate, to fit them for temporary use by the Treasury Department, $100,000. internal revenue.Internal revenue.
Expenses, collecting taxes under War Revenue Act.*Ante*, p. 300.For expenses of assessing and collecting the internal-revenue taxes, as provided in an Act entitled “An Act to provide revenue to defray war expenses, and for other purposes,” approved October , nineteen hundred and seventeen, including the employment of necessary officers, attorneys, experts, agents, inspectors, deputy collectors, clerks, janitors, and messengers in the District of Columbia and the several collection districts, to be appointed as provided by law, telegraph and telephone service, rental of quarters, postage, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, printing, stationery, law books and books of reference, and such other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia and the several collection districts, $4,583,000: *Provided*, That not more than *Provisos*.Amount for punishing violations of revenue laws.$375,000 of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended by the Commissioner of Internal Revenue for detecting and bringing to trial persons guilty of violating the internal-revenue laws or conniving at the same, including payments for information and Amount for expenses of Bureau, D.
C.detection of such violations: *Provided further*, That not more than $850,000 of the total amount appropriated herein may be expended in the Bureau of Internal Revenue, m the District of Columbia. Deputy commissioners.Assignment of duties.The Commissioner of Internal Revenue is authorized to assign to deputy commissioners such duties as he may prescribe, and the Secretary of the Treasury may designate any one of them to act as Commissioner of Internal Revenue during the commissioner’s absence.
Agents, gaugers, etc.Vol. 39, p. 1090.The appropriation of $2,200,000 for salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of internal revenue for fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, made in the Act of Mardi third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, for the employment of revenue agents, Deputy collectors and inspectors under Avar revenue act payable from appropriations for.*Ante*, p. 300.storekeepers, storekeeper-gaugers, and gaugers is hereby made available also for the salaries and expenses of deputy collectors and inspectors in assessing and collecting internal-revenue taxes, as provided by the Act entitled “An Act to provide revenue to defray war expenses, and for other purposes,” approved October , nineteen hundred and seventeen. bureau of engraving and printing.Engraving and printing bureau.
Additional work authorized for 1917.*Ante*, p. 5.The limitation in the general deficiency appropriation Act approved April seventeenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, as to the number of delivered sheets of internal-revenue stamps to be executed at the Bureau of Engraving and Printing is increased from eighty-eight million nine hundred and nine thousand one hundred and sixty-six 349to ninety-nine million nine hundred and nine thousand one hundred and sixty-six, and the limitation in the sundry civil appropriationVol. 39, p. 275.
Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, as to the number of delivered sheets of checks, drafts, and miscellaneous work to be executed is increased from two million four hundred and fifty thousand to two million six hundred and fifty thousand. For engravers’ and printers’ materials and other materials exceptMaterials, etc. distinctive paper, miscellaneous expenses, including paper for internal-revenue stamps, and for purchase, maintenance, and driving of necessary motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, when, in writing, ordered by the Secretary of the Treasury, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $125,000, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Treasury.
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, duringFurther use of power presses during present war authorized.Vol. 37, p. 430. the continuance of the war with Germany, to have all bonds, notes, checks, or other printed papers, now or hereafter authorized to be executed by the Bureau of Engraving and Printing of the Treasury Department, printed in such manner and by whatever process and on any style of presses that he may consider suitable for the issue of such securities and other papers in the form that will properly safeguard the interests of the Government, except that such presses as are used in printing from intaglio plates shall be operated by plate printers: *Provided*, That in the execution of such work only such*Proviso*.Limited to retention of plate printers. part of it shall be transferred from the present method of executing it as will permit of the retention in the service of such permanent plate printers as are now engaged in the execution of such work, or such temporary plate printers, similarly employed and who can qualify under civil-service regulations for permanent appointment, and all Acts or parts of Acts heretofore enacted relative to the use ofSuspension of restrictions as to hand and power presses.Vol. 37, p. 430. power and hand presses in the printing of securities of the Government are hereby suspended and declared to be not in effect during the continuance of said war, and at the termination of the war such Acts or parts of Acts shall be in effect and force as heretofore. public health service.Public Health Service.
For additional amount for pay of acting assistant surgeonsActing assistant surgeons. (noncommissioned medical officers), $100,000. Interstate quarantine service: For cooperation with State andInterstate quarantine service. municipal health authorities in the prevention of the spread of contagious and infectious diseases in interstate traffic, $300,000. quarantine service.Quarantine stations. Boston Quarantine Station: For six barracks buildings, two messBoston.New buildings, etc. halls, hospital building, officers’ quarters, attendants’ quarters, heating and plumbing, lighting, sewage, drainage, and water works, $113,000; boarding and disinfecting vessel, $40,000; for miscellaneous furnishing and equipment and disinfecting equipment, $34,800; in all, $187,800.
Cape Charles Quarantine Station: For seven barracks buildings,Cape Charles.New buildings, etc.*Post*, p. 1025. three mess halls, officer’s quarters, remodeling building for attendants, heating plant and plumbing, lighting plant and equipment, disinfection building and equipment, laundry building and equipment, sewage, drainage, and approach work, hospital building and equipment, $143,500; disinfecting and boarding vessel, $40,000; miscellaneous furnishing and equipment, $42,326; in all, $225,826.
Reedy Island Quarantine Station: For attendants’ quarters,Reedy Island.Quarters, etc.Post, p. 1025. officers’ quarters, and laundry and equipment, $25,000; miscellaneous furnishing and equipment, $7,000; in all, $32,000. 350 Savannah.New buildings, etc.*Post*, p. 1025.Savannah Quarantine Station: For four barracks buildings, two mess halls, hospital building, attendants’ quarters, heating and plumbing, fighting, sewage and water, laundry and equipment, $79,000; for miscellaneous furnishing and equipment, $19,644; in all, $98,644.
Supervision of construction.The foregoing construction work under “Quarantine stations” shall be performed under the supervision and direction of the Supervising Architect of the Treasury Department. mints and assay offices.Mints and assay offices. New Orleans, La.New Orleans, Louisiana, Mint: For wages of workmen and other employees, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $630. DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA.District of Columbia. 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, fiscal year nineteen hundred and sixteen, $352.03. Contingent expenses.Vehicle tags.Contingent and miscellaneous expenses: For purchase of enamel metal or other metal identification number tags for horse-drawn vehicles used for business purposes and motor vehicles in the District of Columbia, $5,500. Central garage.For tools and equipment, lighting fixtures, conduits, heating apparatus, and paving driveway for the central garage, $3,000.
Coroner’s expenses.For purchase and maintenance, hire or livery, of means of transportation for the coroner’s office and the morgue, jurors’ fees, witness fees, removal of deceased persons, making autopsies, ice, disinfectants, telephone service, and other necessary supplies for the morgue, and the necessary expenses of holding inquests, including stenographic services in taking testimony, and photographing unidentified bodies, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $715.
Advertising.For general advertising, authorized and required by law, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,000. Car tickets.Allowance for tubercular pupils.Vol. 39, p. 1026.The limitation upon the amount that may be expended for car tickets during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen is increased by such sum as it may he necessary to expend for that purpose from the appropriation for “transportation for pupils attending schools for tubercular children.,” Calvert Street Bridge.Balance available.Vol. 39, p. 689.Bridges:
The appropriation for preparation of plans for construction of a bridge to take the place of the existing Calvert Street Bridge crossing Rock Creek, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, is continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen. Benning Road Viaduct.Vol. 38, p. 1141.*Ante*, p. 7.Benning Road Viaduct and Bridge: For an additional amount for the objects set forth in the appropriation contained in the District of 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 Railroad Company, $50,000.
Highway Bridge.Highway Bridge across Potomac River: For lighting, power, and miscellaneous supplies, and expenses of every kind necessarily incident to the operation and maintenance of the bridge and approaches, $4,000. Playgrounds.New swimming pools.Vol. 39, p. 691.Playgrounds: For the construction of two swimming pools, shower baths, appurtenances, and equipment, on sites to be selected by the commissioners, the appropriation contained in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen is continued available during the fecal year nineteen hundred and eighteen with the additional sum of $5,000. 351 Public Schools;
For additional amount for installing heatingChevy Chase School. and ventilating plant in the Elizabeth V. Brown (Chevy Chase) School, $15,000. Health department: The appropriation of $4,000 for repairsHealth department.Use of appropriation for laboratory.Vol. 39, p. 1031. and alterations to the building formerly occupied as an emergency hospital is made available for repairs and alterations to such public building as the commissioners may be able to secure for use as a laboratory.
Municipal court: For contingent expenses including books, lawMunicipal court. books, books of reference, fuel, fight, telephone, blanks, dockets, and all other necessary miscellaneous items and supplies, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $150. Washington Asylum and Jail: For payments to destitute womenAbandoned families. and children, including the same objects specified under this head in the District of Columbia appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $375.50.
Refunding taxes: Authority is granted to pay out of the appropriation,Auto Livery Company and Federal Taxicab Company.Refund to. “Refunding Taxes, District of Columbia,” the sum of $69.58 to the Auto Livery Company and the sum of $44.64 to the Federal Taxicab Company for overpaid personal taxes.Judgments. Judgments: For payment of judgments, including costs, against the District of Columbia, set forth in House Documents Numbered One hundred and sixty-two and Three hundred and forty-two of this session, $18,097.45, 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 Half from District revenues.appropriations 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 allWashington Aqueduct.Maintenance, etc.From water revenues. necessary employees, maintenance, and repair of Washington Aqueduct and its accessories, McMillan Park Reservoir, Washington Aqueduct tunnel, the Filtration Plant, the plant for the preliminary treatment of the water supply, authorized water meters on Federal services, vehicles, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, $64,000, to be paid out of the revenues of the water department.
WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. temporary employees. For the temporary employment of such additional force of clerksAdditional temporary clerks,etc. and other employees as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War to such bureaus and offices as the exigencies of the existing situation may demand, $4,261,232: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War shall submit to Congress on the*Provisos*.Detailed statement to be submitted. first day of its next regular session a statement showing by bureaus or offices the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual rate of compensation paid to each: *ProvidedLimitation on higher compensations. further*, That not more than thirty persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $1,800 per annum each and not exceeding $2,400 per annum each. contingent expenses.
For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books,Contingent expenses. including their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriters and adding ma352chines; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel, gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department Building) occupied by Adjutant General’s Office and other offices of the War Department and its bureaus located in the Lemon Building and other buildings; purchase, exchange, care, and subsistence of horses, and the purchase, maintenance, repair, and exchange of wagons, motor trucks, and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, and harness, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; street car tickets, not exceeding $300; and other absolutely necessary expenses, including a per diem allowance not to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, $400,000.
Stationery.For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices, $300,000. armories and arsenals.Armories and arsenals. Benicia, Cal.*Post*, pp. 474, 653.Benicia Arsenal, California: For an addition to the main issuing and receiving storehouse, $16,000; For two storehouses, $60,000; For a garage for motor trucks and automobile messenger wagon, $5,000; For an additional amount for an oil storehouse, $1,500; In all, $82,500. Frankford, Pa.Frankford Arsenal, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania:
For additional amount for a primer shop and planning room, $35,000; For additional amount for a combination wall and picket fence along the north side and a picket fence along the east and south sides for the arsenal reservation, $12,000; For additional amount for the construction and repair of roads, including railroad siding, $20,000; For additional amount for extension of high-explosive loading shop, $4,000; For additional amount for paint shop, $10,000; For additional amount for artillery firing range, including an explosion chamber, $25,000;
For additional amount for small-arms firing range, including a proof house and target, $35,000; Fire protection facilities.Reappropriation.Vol. 39, p. 283.*Post*, p. 653.The appropriation of $24,000 for increasing facilities for fire protection, contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, is continued available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen; For a sea wall along the Delaware River, $36,000; For enlargement of instrument department building and construction of a shrapnel shop, $292,000;
For a general storehouse, $260,000; For additional dry houses, $65,000; For three magazines, $60,000; For increasing facilities for assembling artillery ammunition, $150,000; For increasing facilities for the manufacture of small-arms ammunition, $205,000; For a target range, $15,000; For an addition to the fuse-shop building, $30,000; In all, $1,254,000. Picatinny, N. J.Picatinny Arsenal, Dover, New Jersey: For buildings for assembling powder charges, including an igniter building, a storehouse for completed cartridge bags, an office building, covered passageway connecting the same, heating plant, and toilets, $40,000.
Proving ground.Buildings, equipment, land, etc.Proving ground: For increasing facilities for the proof and test of ordnance material, including necessary buildings, construction, equipment, land, and damages and losses to persons, firms, and cor353porations, resulting from the procurement of the land for this purpose, and also the salaries and expenses of any agents appointed to assist in the procurement of said land or damages resulting from its taking, $7,000,000: *Provided*, That if the land and appurtenances and improvements*Provisos*.Condemnation of land authorized.*Post*, pp. 1707, 1737. attached thereto, as contemplated under the foregoing appropriation, can not be procured by purchase, then the President is hereby authorized and empowered to take over for the United States the immediate possession and title, including all easements, rights of way, riparian and other rights appurtenant thereto, or any land selected by him to be used for the carrying out of the purpose named in the aforesaid appropriation.
That if said land and appurtenancesCompensation. and improvements shall be taken over as aforesaid the United States shall make just compensation therefor, to be determined by the President, and if the amount thereof, so determined by the President, is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same,Suit, etc., if amount unsatisfactory. such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum, as, added to the said seventy-five per centum, will make up such amount as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, paragraphVol. 36, pp. 1093, 1136. twenty, and section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code.
Upon the taking over of said property by the President asTitle to vest immediately. aforesaid the title to all such property so taken over shall immediately vest in the United States: *Provided further*, That section three hundredRestriction not applicable.[R. S., sec. 355, p. 60](/us/rs/s355/p60). and fifty-five of the Revised Statutes of the United States shall not apply to the expenditures authorized hereunder. Rock Island Arsenal, Illinois: For additional amount forRock Island, Ill. increasing facilities for the manufacture of field artillery matériel, including the necessary buildings and equipment, $1,295,200;
For improving the water power plant, $175,000; For enlargement of office building, $150,000; For additional amount for a plant for the manufacture of rifle and hand grenades, including necessary buildings, $75,000; For a synchronous motor for the armory shop, $15,000; For lighting facilities for shops, $30,000; For increasing facilities for woodworking and for manufacturing equipments, $300,000; For a building for storing lumber, $25,000; For a railroad crane, $5,000; For increasing railroad transportation facilities, $90,000;
For enlargement and repair of the filtration plant, $20,000; In all, $2,180,200. San Antonio Arsenal, Texas: For increasing railroad transportationSan Antonio, Tex. facilities, $9,000; For increasing facilities for fire protection, $21,000; In all, $30,000. Springfield Arsenal, Massachusetts: For the installation of aSpringfield, Mass. plant for the generation and distribution of electric power at the water shops, $90,000; For the installation of a modern lighting system in shops, $25,000;*Post*, p. 654.
For a physical and chemical laboratory, including buildings, $30,000; In all, $145,000. Terminal facilities: For terminal storage and shipping buildingsTerminal facilities.*Post*, p. 427. and other facilities, including rentals and purchase of land, $10,000,000: *Provided*, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is*Proviso*.Additional contracts authorized. authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $5,000,000 in addition to the appropriation herein made. 354 Watertown, Mass.Watertown Arsenal, Massachusetts:
For replacing roof and floors of machine shop, $160,000; For additional amount for increasing capacity for the manufacture of gun carriages, $360,000; For a building for storing patterns, including its equipment, $100,000; For an extension of the office building, $20,000; For additional amount for increasing facilities for the production of armor-piercing projectiles, $26,000; For additional amount for one locomotive crane, $16,000; In all, $682,000. Testing machines.Watertown Arsenal, testing machines:
For additional amount for necessary professional and skilled labor, purchase of materials, tools, and appliances for operating the testing machines, for investigative test and tests of material in connection with the manufacturing work of the Ordnance Department, and for instruments and materials for operating the chemical laboratory in connection therewith, and for maintenance of the establishment, $10,000. Watervliet, N. Y.Watervliet Arsenal, West Troy, New York: For alteration and improvement of office building, $15,000;
For a garage and oil storehouse, $9,000; For additional amount for increasing facilities for fire protection, $8,000; For increasing facilities for the manufacture of mobile artillery cannon, including the necessary buildings, $750,000; For alteration and improvement of steam-heating system in large gun shop, $7,500; For rebuilding main roads inside the arsenal grounds, $15,000; In all, $804,500. Repairs, etc.Repairs of arsenals: For repairs and improvements at arsenals, and to meet such unforeseen expenditures as accidents or other contingencies during the year may render necessary, including $200,000, Machinery for manufacturing.or so much thereof as may be necessary, for machinery for manufacturing purposes in the arsenals, $500,000. military posts.Military posts.
Saint Louis, Mo.Quartermaster’s depot.Saint Louis, Missouri, Quartermaster’s Depot: For the construction of buildings for additional storage, including the necessary mechanical equipment and handling devices, $300,000. Fort Riley, Kans.Bridge across Republican River.Vol. 39, p. 644.Balance available.Bridge across the Republican River near Fort Riley, Kansas: For the completion of the bridge across the Republican River near Fort Riley, Kansas, according to the terms and upon the conditions of the Act making appropriations for the support of the Army for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $15,000, and the $30,000 heretofore appropriated for said purpose is continued and made available for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Barracks and Quarters at seacoast defenses.Barracks and quarters, seacoast defenses: For construction of temporary barracks and quarters at seacoast posts for the accommodation of officers and enlisted men of the Coast Artillery, $3,462,000. Repairing hurricane damages at Gulf forts.Repairs to buildings, and so forth, at Gulf forts: For repairs to buildings, wharves, roads, and so forth, at Forts Barrancas, McRee, and Pickens, Florida, and Forts Morgan and Gaines, Alabama, damaged by the hurricanes of October seventeenth and eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $89,962.60.
Schofield Barracks, Hawaii.Additional land.Schofield Barracks, Hawaii: To enable the Secretary of War to acquire, by purchase or condemnation, a tract of land known as the Kalena tract, which is embraced within the boundary of the Schofield Barracks, Hawaiian Territory, Military Reservation, $10,300. 355 national cemeteries.National cemeteries. Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees:Interment of remains of officers, soldiers, etc. For disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civil employees, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $500,000. national military parks.Military parks.
Guilford Courthouse National Military Park: For the establishmentGuilford Courthouse.Establishing.Vol. 39, p. 996. of a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse, in accordance with the Act entitled “An Act to establish a national military park at the battle field of Guilford Courthouse,” approved March second, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $8,100. PANAMA CANAL.Panama Canal. fortifications.Fortifications. For extraordinary expenses heretofore and hereafter incurred byProtecting Canal, etc.Under governor. the governor of the Panama Canal in protecting the canal and canal structures, $300,000.
For extraordinary expenses for military purposes heretofore andArmy expenses. hereafter incurred in protecting the Panama Canal and canal structures, $150,000. Ordnance Depot: For additional amount for a building for storingOrdnance depot. artillery vehicles, $5,500; For a set of quarters, single family cottage for armament machinist at Fort Grant, $2,700. Submarine base (Coco Solo Point): For dredging inner basinSubmarine base. and channel to same, concrete dock, containing walls, finger docks, tracks, dry fill, municipal works, electrical work, officers quarters, barracks, shops, storehouses, stationary crane, magazines and torpedo storage, shop and power tools, furniture, and plant equipment, $902,625: *Provided*, That the construction work hereunder shall be*Proviso*.Construction work. performed under the direction of the governor of the Panama Canal.
MILITARY ESTABLISHMENT.Army. Registration and selection: For additional amount for all expensesRegistration for draft. necessary in the registration of persons available for military service and in the selection of certain such persons and their draft*Ante*, pp. 79. 185.*Post*, pp. 474, 851, 1027, 1170. into the military service, $4,000,000. office of the chief of staff.chief of staff. Military Information Section: For contingent expenses of theMilitary information section, office of. military information section, General Staff Corps, including the purchase of law books, professional books of reference; periodicals and newspapers; drafting and messenger service; and of the military attachés at the United States embassies and legations abroad; and of the branch office of the military information section at Manila; the cost of special instruction at home and abroad and in maintenance of students and attachés; and for such other purposes as the Secretary of War may deem proper; to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of War, $489,000. office of the chief signal officer.Signal service.
Signal Service of the Army: For expenses of the Signal ServiceExpenses. of the Army, as follows: Purchase, equipment, and repair of field 356electric telegraph, radio installations, signal equipments and stores, binocular glasses, telescopes, heliostats, and other necessary instruments, including necessary meteorological instruments for use on target ranges; motorcycles and motor-driven vehicles used for technical and official purposes; professional and scientific books of reference, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, and maps, for use in War balloons, airships, etc.the office of the Chief Signal Officer; war balloons and airships and accessories, including their maintenance and repair; telephone apparatus (including exchange service at mobile Army posts) and Electric plants, etc.maintenance of the same; electrical installations and maintenance at military posts; fire-control and direction apparatus and material for Field Artillery; maintenance and repair of military lines and cables, including salaries of civilian employees, supplies, general repairs, reserved supplies, and other expenses connected with the duty of collecting and transmitting information for the Army by telegraph or otherwise, $40,000,000.
Sales of airplane materials, during the war, to foreign governments, etc., aiding the United States.The President, during the present emergency, is authorized, through the head of any department of the Government, to sell any war materials used in the construction of airplanes which may have been or may hereafter be acquired by the United States for the purpose of the Army or Navy, or for the prosecution of war, to any person, firm, or corporation, or to any foreign state or government engaged with the United States Government in the prosecution of war against a common enemy or its allies, in such manner and upon such terms, *Proviso*.Reuse of moneys received.at not less than cost, as he in his discretion may deem best: *Provided*, That any moneys received by the United States hereunder shall become available as part of the appropriation by which said property was purchased by the United States.
Telephone service for Coast Artillery.Commercial telephone service at Coast Artillery posts: For providing commercial telephone service for official purposes at Coast Artillery posts, $5,000. quartermaster corps.Quartermaster corps. pay of the army.Pay of the army. Line officers.Officers of the line: For pay of officers of the line, including staff corps of the National Guard, $10,000,000. Enlisted men.Line.Enlisted men of the line: For pay of enlisted men of all grades, including recruits, $250,000,000.
Ordnance Department.Ordnance Department: For pay of enlisted men, $6,000,000. Quartermaster Corps.Quartermaster Corps: For pay of enlisted men, $12,000,000. Medical Department.Medical Department: For pay of enlisted men, $25,000,000. Headquarters of departments, etc.Additional clerks.Headquarters of the several territorial departments, territorial districts, tactical divisions and brigades, and service schools: For additional clerks, from October first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows:
Fifteen at $2,000 each, thirty-two at $1,800 each, one hundred and twenty at $1,600 each, three hundred and eighteen at $1,400 each, eight hundred and ninety-five at $1,200 each, three hundred and seventy at $1,000 each; in all, $1,626,600. *Proviso*.Duty in Department forbidden.*Provided*, That no clerk, messenger, or laborer at headquarters of tactical divisions, military departments, brigades, service schools, and office of the Chief of Staff shall be assigned to duty hi any bureau in the War Department.
Staff officers.Corps of Engineers.Corps of Engineers: For pay of officers of the Corps of Engineers, $6,500,000. Ordnance Department.Ordnance Department: For pay of officers of the Ordnance Department, $10,000,000. 357 Quartermaster Corps: For pay of officers of the QuartermasterQuartermaster Corps. Corps, $5,000,000. Signal Corps: For pay of officers of the Signal Corps, $15,870,833.Signal Corps. Medical Department: For pay of officers of the Medical Department,Medical Department. $23,000,000.
For nurses (female), $6,369,298.Nurses. Retired Officers: For increased pay to retired officers on activeRetired officers and enlisted men on active duty. duty, $400,000. Retired Enlisted Men: For pay and allowances of retired enlisted men on active duty, $50,000. For pay and allowances of Regular Army reservists on activeReservists. duty, $17,000. Miscellaneous: For commutation of quarters and of heatCommutation of quarters, etc. and light to commissioned officers, members of the Nurse Corps, and enlisted men on duty at places where no public quarters are available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, $500,000.
For mileage to commissioned officers, members of the Officers’Mileage to officers, etc. Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, $750,000. For additional ten per centum increase of pay of officers on foreignAdditional pay, foreign service.Officers. service, $4,500,000. For additional twenty per centum increase of pay of enlisted menEnlisted men. on foreign service, $18,000,000.
For payment of exchange by acting quartermasters serving in foreignLoss by exchange. countries and when specially authorized by the Secretary of War by officers disbursing funds pertaining to the Quartermaster Corps when serving in Alaska, and all foreign money received shall be charged to and paid out by disbursing officers of the Quartermaster Corps at the legal valuation fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, $74,400. For six months’ pay to beneficiaries of officers and enlisted men whoDeaths by wounds, etc. die while on active service from wounds or disease not the result of their own misconduct, $10,000,000.
For one year’s pay to beneficiaries of officers and enlisted menAviation accident deaths. who die as the result of aviation accidents, $495,000. All the money hereinbefore appropriated for pay of the Army andPay accounts specified. miscellaneous, except the appropriation for mileage to commissioned officers, contract surgeons, expert accountant, Inspector General’s Department, Army field clerks, and field clerks of the Quartermaster Corps, when authorized by law, shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers of the Quartermaster Corps, as pay of the Army, and for that purpose shall constitute one fund.
The appropriations of the Quartermaster Corps shall be availableTroop A, North Carolina Cavalry.Pay, etc., for one day. for the pay of one captain, one first lieutenant, and forty-three enlisted men of Troop A, North Carolina Cavalry, for one day in April, nineteen hundred and seventeen, and the subsistence of the enlisted men at 40 cents each for one day. Subsistence of the Army: Purchase of subsistence supplies: ForSubsistence.Purchases for issue. issue as rations to troops, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, civil employees when entitled thereto, hospital matrons, nurses, applicants for enlistment while held under observation, general prisoners of war (including Indians held by the Army as prisoners, but for whose subsistence appropriation is not otherwise made), Indians employed with the Army as guides and scouts, and general prisoners at posts; for the subsistence of the masters, officers, crews, and employees of the vessels of the Army transport service; hot coffee for 358troops traveling when supplied with cooked or travel rations; meals for recruiting parties and applicants for enlistment while under observation;Sales. for sales to officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, while on active duty, and enlisted men of the Army.
Payments.Commutation of rations.For payments: Of commutation of rations to the cadets of the United States Military Academy in lieu of the regular established ration, at the rate of 40 cents per ration; of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations to enlisted men on furlough, enlisted men, and male and female nurses, when stationed at places where rations in kind can not be economically issued, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, and when traveling on detached duty where it is impracticable to carry rations of any kind, enlisted men, selected to contest for places or prizes in departments and Army rifle competitions while traveling to and from places of contest, male and female nurses on leaves of absence, applicants for enlistment, and general prisoners while traveling under orders; for payment of the regulation allowances of commutation in lieu of rations for members of the Nurse Corps (female) while on duty in hospital, and for enlisted men, Civilian employees.applicants for enlistment while held under observation, civilian employees who are entitled to subsistence at public expense and general prisoners sick therein, to be paid to the surgeon in charge; advertising;
Prizes for bakers and cooks.for providing prizes to be established by the Secretary of War for enlisted men of the Army who graduate from the Army schools for bakers and cooks, the total amount of such prizes at the various Preservation, accounting, etc.schools not to exceed $900 per annum; for other necessary expenses incident to the purchase, testing, care, preservation, issue, sale, and accounting for subsistence supplies for the Army, $250,000,000. Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps.Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps:
Regular supplies of the Quartermaster Corps, including their care and protection; construction and repair of military reservation fences; stoves and heating apparatus required for heating offices, hospitals, barracks and quarters, and recruiting stations, and United States disciplinary barracks; also ranges, stoves, coffee roasters, and appliances for cooking and serving food at posts, in the field, and when traveling, and repair and maintenance of such heating and cooking appliances; and the Heat, light, etc.necessary power for the operation of moving-picture machines; authorized issues of candles and matches; for furnishing heat and light for the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, and enlisted men, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty; contract surgeons when stationed at and occupying public quarters at military posts; for officers of the National Guard attending service and garrison schools, and for recruits, guards, hospitals, Recreation buildings.Vol.32, p. 282.storehouses, offices, the buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two; for sale to officers, and including also fuel and engine supplies required in the operation of modern batteries at established posts; for post bakeries, including bake ovens and apparatus pertaining thereto, and the repair thereof; for ice machines and their maintenance where required for the health and comfort of the troops and for cold storage; ice for issue to organizations of enlisted men and officers at such places as the Secretary of War may determine, and for preservation of stores; for the construction, operation, and maintenance of laundries at military posts in the United States and its island possessions; for the authorized issues of laundry materials for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances, and for applicants for enlistment while held under observation; authorized issues of soap; for hire of em359ployees; for the necessary furniture, textbooks, paper, and equipmentSchool supplies, etc. for the post schools and libraries and for textbooks for noncommissioned officers’ schools, including subscriptions for newspapers, periodicals, and magazines for use of enlisted men, as may be authorized by the Secretary of War; for the purchase and issue of instruments, office furniture, stationery, and other authorized articles for the use of officers’ schools at the several military posts; for purchase of relief maps for issue to organizations, commercial newspapers, market reports, and so forth; for the tableware and mess furniture for kitchens and mess halls, each and all for the enlisted men, including recruits; for forage, salt, and vinegar for the horses, mules,Forage, etc., for animals, oxen, and other draft and riding animals of the Quartermaster Corps at the several posts and stations and with the armies in the field, and for the horses of the several regiments of Cavalry, and batteries of Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted; for remounts and for the authorized number of officers’ horses, including bedding for the animals; for seeds and implements required for the raising of forage at remount depots and on military reservations in the Hawaiian and Philippine Islands and for labor and expenses incident thereto, including, when specifically authorized by the Secretary of War, the cost of irrigation; for straw for soldiers’ bedding, stationery, typewriters and exchange of same, including blank books and blank forms for the Quartermaster Corps, certificates for discharged soldiers, and for printing department orders and Printing.*Proviso*.Restriction.reports, $125,000,000: *Provided*, That no part of the appropriations for the Quartermaster Corps shall be expended on printing unless the same shall be done at the Government Printing Office, or by contract after due notice and competition, except in such cases as the emergency will not admit of the giving notice of competition, and in cases where it is impracticable to have the necessary printing done by contract the same may be done, with the approval of the Secretary of War, by the purchase of material and hire of the necessary labor for the purpose.
Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps: Postage; cost ofIncidental expenses. telegrams on official business received and sent by officers of the Army, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, when ordered to active duty; extra pay to soldiers employed on extra duty,Extra duty pay, etc. under the direction of the Quartermaster Corps, in the erection of barracks, quarters, and storehouses, in the construction of roads, and other constant labor for periods of not less than ten days; as additional school-teachers during the school term at post schools, and as clerks for post quartermasters at military posts, and for overseers of general prisoners at posts designated by the War Department for the confinement of general prisoners, and for the United States disciplinary barracks guard; of extra-duty pay at rates to be fixed by the Secretary of War for mess stewards and cooks at recruit depots, who are graduates of the schools for bakers and cooks, and instructor cooks at the schools for bakers and cooks; for expenses of expresses to and from frontier posts and armies in the field; of escorts to officers or agents of the Quartermaster Corps to trains where military escorts cannot be furnished; authorized office furniture, authorized issues of towels; hire of laborers in the Quartermaster Corps, including the care of officers’ mounts when the same are furnished by the Government, and the hire of interpreters, spies, or guides for the Army; compensation of clerks and other employees to the officers of the Quartermaster Corps, and clerks, foremen, watchmen, and organist tor the United States disciplinary barracks, and incidental expenses of recruiting; for the apprehension, securing, and delivering of deserters, including escaped military prisoners, and the expenses incident to their pursuit, and no greater sum than $50 360for each deserter or escaped military prisoner shall, in the discretion of the Secretary of War, be paid to any civil officer or citizen for such services and expenses; tor a donation of $5 to each dishonorably discharged prisoner upon his release from confinement under court Horse expenditures.martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for the following expenditures required for the several regiments of Cavalry, the batteries of Field Artillery, and such companies of Infantry and Scouts as may be mounted, the authorized number of officers’ horses, and for the trains, to wit, purchase of picket ropes, blacksmith’s tools and materials, horseshoes and blacksmith’s tools for the Cavalry service, and for the shoeing of horses and mules; chests and issue outfits; and such additional expenditures as are necessary and authorized by law in the movements and operations of the Army, and at military posts, and not expressly assigned to any other department, $9,000,000.
Transportation.Transportation of the Army and its supplies: For transportation of the Army and its supplies, including transportation of the troops when moving either by land or water, and of their baggage, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps, enlisted men of the Enlisted Reserve Corps, and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, including the cost of packing and crating; for transportation of recruits and recruiting parties; of applicants for enlistment Travel allowances, etc., on discharge.Vol. 39, p. 217.between recruiting stations and recruiting depots; for travel allowance to officers and enlisted men on discharge; for payment of travel allowance as provided in section one hundred and twenty-six of the Act approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, to enlisted men of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the National Guard officers on discharge.Vol. 31, p. 903.United States, and to members of the National Guard who have been mustered into the service of the United States and discharged on account of physical disability; for payment of travel pay to officers of the National Guard on their discharge from the service of the United States, as prescribed in the Act approved March second, nineteen hundred and one; for travel allowance to persons on their discharge from the United States disciplinary barracks or from any place in which they have been held under a sentence of dishonorable discharge and confinement for more than six months, or from Saint Elizabeth’s Hospital after transfer thereto from such barracks or place, to their homes (or elsewhere as they may elect), provided the cost in each case shall not be greater than to the place of last enlistment; of the necessary agents and other employees, including Per diem subsistence.per diem allowances in lieu of subsistence not exceeding $4 for those authorized to receive the per diem allowance; of clothing and equipage and other quartermaster stores from Army depots or places of purchase or delivery to the several posts and Army depots and from those depots to the troops in the field; of horse equipment; of ordnance and ordnance stores, and small arms from the foundries and armories to the arsenals, fortifications, frontier posts, and Army depots; for payment of wharfage, tolls, and ferriages; for transportation of funds Payment to landgrant roads.of the Army; for the hire of employees; for the payment of Army transportation lawfully due such land-grant railroads as have not received aid in Government bonds (to be adjusted in accordance with the decisions of the Supreme Court in cases decided under such landgrant Acts), but in no case shall more than fifty per centum of full *Provisos*.Basis of computation.amount of service be paid: *Provided*, That such compensation shall be. computed upon the basis of the tariff or lower special rates for like transportation performed for the public at large and shall be accepted Fifty per cent to roads not bond aided.as in full for all demands for such service: *Provided further*, That in expending the money appropriated by this Act a railroad company which has not received aid in bonds of the United States, and which obtained a grant of public land to aid in the construction of its railroad on condition that such railroad should be a post route and mili361tary road, subject to the use of the United States for postal, military, naval, and other Government services, and also subject to such regulations as Congress may impose restricting the charge for such Government transportation, having claims against the United States for transportation of troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property over such aided railroads, shall be paid out of the moneys appropriated by the foregoing provision only on the basis of such rate for the transportation of such troops and munitions of war and military supplies and property as the Secretary of War shall deem just and reasonable under the foregoing provision, such rate not to exceed fifty per centum of the compensation for such Government transportation as shall at that time be charged to and paid by private parties to any such company for like and similar transportation; and the amount so fixed to be paid shall be accepted as in full for all demands for such service: *And provided further*, That nothingFull pay to excepted roads. in the preceding provisos shall be construed to prevent the accounting officers of the Government from making full payment to land-grant railroads for transportation of property or persons where the courts of the United States have held that such property or persons do not come within the scope of the deductions provided for in the land-grant Acts; for the purchase and hire of draft and pack animals inDraft and pack animals. such numbers as are actually required for the service, including reasonable provision for replacing unserviceable animals; for theVehicles. purchase, hire, operation, maintenance, and repair of such harness, wagons, carts, drays, other vehicles, and motor-propelled and horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, as are required for the transportation of troops and supplies, and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for drayage and cartage at the several depots; for the hire of teamsters and other employees; for the purchase and repair ofShips, boats, etc. ships, boats, and other vessels required for the transportation of troops and supplies and for official, military, and garrison purposes; for expenses of sailing public transports and other vessels on theTransports. various rivers, the Gulf of Mexico, and the Atlantic and Pacific Oceans, $375,000,000.
The Secretary of War is hereby authorized, under such regulationsTravel expenses of foreign officers and enlisted men attached to the Army allowed herefrom. and in such manner as he may prescribe, to employ such portion of the appropriations made for transportation of the Army and its supplies as in his judgment may be necessary to defray the expenses of travel incurred by officers and enlisted men of foreign armies attached to the Army of the United States during the present emergency, and that those officers and enlisted men, who may have been performing duties in this connection, be reimbursed from this appropriation for the expenditures they have already been obliged to make.
Land-grant railroads organized under the Act of July twenty-eighth,Pay to certain land grant railroads.Vol. 14, p. 338. eighteen hundred and sixty-six, chapter three hundred, shall receive the same compensation for transportation during the existing war emergency of property and troops of the United States as may be paid to land-grant railroads, organized under the land-grant ActVol. 12, p. 772.Vol. 14, p. 292. of March third, eighteen hundred and sixty-three, and the Act of July twenty-seventh, eighteen hundred and sixty-six, chapter two hundred and seventy-eight, for such transportation during said emergency: *Provided*, That this paragraph shall not he construed as*Proviso*.Restriction. changing in any other way or for any other period of time the rights and duties of the land-grant railroads first above mentioned.
Water and sewers at military posts: For procuring and introducingWater, sewers, etc. water to buildings and premises at such military posts and stations as from their situations require it to be brought from a distance; for the installation and extension of plumbing within buildings where the same is not specifically provided for in other appropriations: for the purchase and repair of fire apparatus, includ362ing fire-alarm systems; for the disposal of sewage, and expenses incident thereto, including the authorized issue of toilet paper; for repairs to water and sewer systems and plumbing within buildings; for hire of employees, $23,886,500.
Clothing and camp and garrison equipage.Clothing and camp and garrison equipage: For cloth, woolens, materials, and for the purchase and manufacture of clothing for the Army, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve and retired enlisted men when ordered to active duty, for issue and for sale at cost price according to the Army Regulations; for payment for clothing not drawn due to enlisted men on discharge; for altering and fitting clothing and washing and cleaning when necessary; for equipage, including authorized issues of toilet articles, barbers’ and tailors’ materials, for use of general prisoners confined at military posts without pay or allowances and applicants for enlistment while held under observation; issue of toilet kits to recruits upon their first enlistment, and issue of housewives to the Army; for expenses of packing and handling, and similar necessaries; for a suit of citizen’s outer clothing, to cost not exceeding $10, to be issued upon release from confinement to each prisoner who has been confined under a Indemnity for destroyed clothing, etc.court-martial sentence involving dishonorable discharge; for indemnity to officers and men of the Army for clothing and bedding, and so forth, destroyed since April twenty-second, eighteen hundred and ninety-eight, by order of medical officers of the Army for sanitary reasons, $350,000,000. *Proviso*.Supplies, services, and transportation.Combination fund Constituted of.*Provided*, That all the money hereinbefore appropriated under the titles Subsistence of the Army;
Regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps: Incidental expenses, Quartermaster Corps; Transportation of the Army and its supplies; Water and sewer at military posts; and Clothing and camp and garrison equipage shall be disbursed and accounted for by officers and agents of the Quartermaster Corps as “Supplies, services, and transportation, Quartermaster Corps,” and for that purpose shall constitute one fund. Horses.Purchases of, etc.Horses for Cavalry, Artillery, and Engineers: For the purchase of horses of ages, sex, and size as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War for remounts, for officers entitled to public mounts for the Cavalry, Artillery, Signal Corps, and Engineers, the United States Military Academy, service schools, and staff colleges, and for the Indian scouts, and for such Infantry and members of the Medical Department in field campaigns as may be required to be mounted, and the expenses incident thereto, and for the hire of employees: *Provisos*.Limitations.*Provided*, That the number of horses purchased under this appropriation, added to the number now on hand, shall be limited to the actual needs of the mounted service, including reasonable provisions for remounts, and, unless otherwise ordered by the Secretary of War, no part of this appropriation shall be paid out for horses not purchased by contract after competition duly invited by the Quartermaster Corps and an inspection under the direction and authority Open market purchases.of the Secretary of War.
When practicable, horses shall be purchased in open market at all military posts or stations, when needed, at not exceeding a maximum price to be fixed by the Secretary of War: Standard required.*Provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for the purchase of any horse below the standard set by Army Regulations for Cavalry and Artillery horses, except when purchased as remounts or for instruction of cadets at the United Polo ponies.States Military Academy: *And provided further*, That no part of this appropriation shall be expended for polo ponies except for West Point Military Academy, and such ponies shall not be used at any other place, $40,000,000.
Barracks and quarters.Barracks and quarters: For barracks, quarters, stables, storehouses, magazines, administration and office buildings, sheds, shops, 363and other buildings necessary for the shelter of troops, public animals, and stores, and for administration purposes, except those pertaining to the Coast Artillery; for constructing and repairing public buildings at military posts; for hire of employees; for rental of the authorized allowance of quarters for officers, including members of the Officers’ Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty, on duty with the troops at posts and stations where no public quarters are available; for barracks or authorized allowance of quarters for noncommissioned officers and enlisted men on duty where public quarters are not available, including enlisted men of the Regular Army Reserve, retired enlisted men, and members of the Enlisted Reserve Corps when ordered to active duty; for grounds for cantonments, camp sites, and other military purposes, and for buildings or portions of buildings for occupation by troops, for use as stables, storehouses, and offices, and for other military purposes; for the hire of recruiting stations and lodgings for recruits; for such furniture for the public rooms of officers messes and for officers’ quarters at military posts as may be approved by the Secretary of War; for wall lockers in permanent barracks and refrigerators in barracks and quarters; for screen doors, window screens, storm doors and sash, and window shades for barracks, offices, and quarters, and for flooring and framing for tents, and for the National Guard when called or drafted into the service of the United States, $49,155,000: *Provided*, That no part*Provisos*.Commutation restrictions. of the moneys so appropriated shall be paid for commutation of fuel or quarters to officers or enlisted men: *And provided further*, That theCivilian employees. number of and total sum paid for civilian employees in the Quartermaster Corps shall be limited to the actual requirements of the service, and that no employee therein shall receive a salary of more than $150 per month, except upon the approval of the Secretary of War.
Shooting galleries and ranges: For shelter, shooting galleries,Shooting galleries and ranges. ranges for small-arms target practice, machine-gun practice, field artillery practice, repairs, and expenses incident thereto, including flour or paste for marking targets, hire of employees, such ranges and galleries to be open as far as practicable to the National Guard and organized rifle clubs under regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of War, $6,014,540. Military post exchanges:
For continuing the construction,Post exchanges. equipment, and maintenance of suitable buildings at military posts and stations for the conduct of the post exchange, school library, reading, lunch, amusement rooms, and gymnasium, including repairsRecreation buildings.Vol. 32, p. 282. to buildings erected at private cost, in the operation of the Act approved May thirty-first, nineteen hundred and two, for the rental of films, purchase of slides, supplies for and making repairs to moving-picture outfits, and for similar and other recreational purposes at training and mobilization camps now established, or which may be hereafter established, to be expended in the discretion and under the direction of the Secretary of War, $250,000: *Provided*, That not*Proviso*.Personal services restrictions. more than $125,000 of this appropriation may be expended for personal services and no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum.
Roads, walks, wharves, and drainage: For the constructionRoads, wharves, drainage, etc. and repair by the Quartermaster Corps of roads, walks, and wharves; for the pay of employees; for the disposal of drainage; for dredging channels; and for care and improvement of grounds at military posts and stations, $12,000,000. Construction and repair of hospitals: For construction andHospitals.Construction, repairs, etc. repair of hospitals at military posts already established and occupied, including the extra-duty pay of enlisted men employed on the same; construction and repair of general hospitals and expenses incident 364thereto; additions needed to meet the requirements of increased garrisons, temporary hospitals in standing camps and cantonments; and, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, for the alteration of permanent buildings at posts for use as hospitals, construction and repair of temporary hospital buildings at permanent posts, construction and repair of temporary general hospitals, rental of grounds and rental and alteration of buildings for use for hospital purposes in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, including necessary temporary quarters for hospital personnel, outbuildings, heating and laundry apparatus, plumbing, water and sewers, and roads and walks for the same, $35,000,000.
Rent of buildings, D. C., 1918.Rent of buildings: For additional for rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for military purposes, during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, as follows: Office of attending surgeon, $1,125; Recruiting station, $750; Storehouse for field medical supply depot, from October first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, $36,000; In all, $37,875. Target practice damage claims.*Ante*, p. 59.Claims for damages to and loss of private property:
For payment of claims for damages to and loss of private property incident to the training, practice, and operations of the Army that have *Proviso*.Settlement by Auditor.accrued, or may hereafter accrue, from time to time, $15,000: *Provided*, That settlement of such claims shall be made by the Auditor for the War Department, upon the approval and recommendation of the Secretary of War, where the amount of damages has been ascertained by the War Department, and payment thereof will be accepted by the owners of the property in full satisfaction of such damages. civilian military training.Civilian military training.
Expenses of instruction camps, etc.For the expense of maintaining, upon military reservations or elsewhere, camps for the military instruction and training of such citizens physically capable of bearing arms as may be selected under such terms of enlistment and under such regulations as may be prescribed by the Secretary of War, and for furnishing said citizens, at the expense of the United States, uniforms, subsistence, transportation by the most usual and direct route within said limits as to territory as may be prescribed; for such expenditures as may be deemed necessary for water, fuel, light, temporary structures, not including quarters for officers nor barracks for men, screening, and damages resulting from field exercises, and other expenses incidental to maintaining said camps and the theoretical winter instruction in connection Equipments, transportation, etc.therewith, including textbooks and stationery; for furnishing such equipments, tentage, field equipage, and transportation belonging to the United States as may be deemed necessary as authorizedVol. 39, p. 194, by section fifty-four of the Act of Congress approved June third, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,240,000. medical department.Medical department.
Supplies, gas masks, etc.*Post*, p. 480.Medical and Hospital Department: For the purchase of medical and hospital supplies; gas masks; motor ambulances, and motorcycles for medical service, their maintenance, repair, and operation: *Provisos*.Motor ambulances.*Provided*, That the Secretary of War may in his discretion select types and makes of motor ambulances for the Army and authorize their purchase without regard to the laws prescribing advertisement for proposals for supplies and material for the Army; disinfectants; typewriting machines for military posts, camps, hospitals, hospital 365ships, and transports; supplies required for mosquito destructionMosquito destruction. in and about the military posts in the Canal Zone; veterinary supplies and hire of veterinary surgeons; expenses of medical supply depots; medical care and treatment not otherwise provided for, including care and subsistence in private hospitals of officers, enlisted men, and civilian employees of the Army, of applicants for enlistment, and of prisoners of war and other persons in military custody or confinement when entitled thereto by law, regulation, or contract: *Provided*, That this shall not apply to officers and enlisted men whoPrivate treatment. are treated in private hospitals or by civilian physicians while on furlough; for the proper care and treatment of epidemic and contagiousContagious diseases expenses. diseases in the Army or at military posts or stations, including measures to prevent the spread thereof, and the payment of reasonable damages not otherwise provided for, for bedding and clothing injured or destroyed in such prevention; pay of male and female nurses, not including the Nurse Corps (female), and of cooks and other civilians employed for the proper care of sick officers and soldiers, under such regulations fixing their number, qualifications, assignment, pay, and allowances as shall have been or shall be prescribed by the Secretary of War; pay of civilian physicians employed to examine physically applicants for enlistment and enlisted men, and to render other professional services from time to time under proper authority; pay of other employees of the Medical Department; payment of express companies and local transfers employed directly by the Medical Department for the transportation of medical and hospital supplies, including bidders’ samples and water for analysis; supplies for use in teaching the art of cooking to the enlistedHot Springs Hospital, Ark. force of the Medical Department; for the supply of the Army and Navy hospital at Hot Springs, Arkansas; for advertising, printing, binding, laundry, and all other necessary miscellaneous expenses of the Medical Department, $100,000,000. engineer department.Engineer department.
Military surveys and maps: For the execution of topographicMilitary surveys and maps. or other surveys, the securing of such extra topographic data as may be required, and the preparation and printing of maps required for military purposes, $500,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is*Proviso*.Other Government officials to assist. authorized to secure the assistance, wherever practicable, of the United States Geological Survey, the Coast and Geodetic Survey, or other mapping agencies of the Government in this work, and to allot funds therefor to them from this appropriation.
Engineer equipment of troops: For pontoon material, tools,Equipment of troops. instruments, supplies, and appliances required for use in the engineer equipment of troops, for military surveys, and for engineer operations in the field, including the purchase, maintenance, operation, and repair of the necessary motorcycles; the purchase and preparation of engineer manuals and procurement of special paper for same, and for a reserve supply of above equipment, $12,100,000. Engineer operations in the field:
For expensesField operations expenses. incident toField operations expenses. military engineer operations in the field, including the purchase of material and a reserve of material for such operations, the construction or rental of storehouses within and outside the District of Columbia, the purchase, operation, maintenance, and repair of horse-drawn and motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicles, and such expenses as are ordinarily provided for under appropriations for “Engineer depots,” “Civilian assistants to engineer officers,” and “Maps, War Department,” $186,000,000 . 366 ordnance department.Ordnance department.
Current expenses.Ordnance Service: For the current expenses of the Ordnance Department in connection with purchasing, receiving, storing, and issuing ordnance and ordnance stores, comprising police and office duties, rents, tolls, fuel, light, water, advertising, stationery, typewriters, adding machines, office furniture, tools, and instruments of service; incidental expenses of the Ordnance Service and those attending practical trials and tests of ordnance, small arms, and other ordnance stores; publications for libraries of the Ordnance Department, including the Ordnance Office; subscriptions to periodicals; mechanical labor in the office of the Chief of Ordnance; and for purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of motor-propelled or horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles, $11,825,000.
Ammunition for smell arms.Ordnance stores, ammunition: For manufacture and purchase of ammunition for small arms and for hand use for reserve supply, $69,750,000. Small-arms target practice.Ammunition, targets, etc.Small-arms target practice: For manufacture and purchase of ammunition, targets, and other accessories for small-arms, hand, and machine-gun target practice and instructions; marksmen’s medals, At educational institutions, etc.prize arms, and insignia for all arms of the service; and ammunition, targets, target materials, and other accessories which may be issued for small-arms target practice and instruction at the educational institutions and State soldiers’ and sailors’ orphans’ homes to which issues of small arms are lawfully made, under such regulations as the Secretary of War may prescribe, $89,676,000.
Manufacturing, etc., arms.*Proviso*.Additional contracts.Manufacture of arms: For manufacturing, repairing, procuring, and issuing arms, $16,690,000: *Provided*, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $16,000,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. Preserving, etc., ordnance.Ordnance stores and supplies: For overhauling, cleaning, repairing, and preserving ordnance and ordnance stores in the hands Purchase, etc.of troops and at the arsenals, posts, and depots; for purchase and Equipments.manufacture of ordnance stores to fill requirements of troops; for Infantry, Cavalry, and Artillery equipments, including horse equipments for Cavalry and Artillery, $113,520,000.
Automatic machine rifles.Automatic machine rifles: For the purchase, manufacture, test, repair and maintenance of automatic machine rifles, including their mounts, sights, and equipments, and the machinery necessary for *Proviso*.Additional contracts.their manufacture, $220,277,000: *Provided*, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $118,020,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.
Armored motor cars.Armored motor cars: For the purchase, manufacture, test, repair, *Proviso*.Additional contracts.and maintenance of armored motor cars, $36,750,000: *Provided*, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $75,550,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. Additional obligations for ordnance authorized.The Secretary of War is authorized, during the present emergency and in addition to the appropriations and obligations specifically authorized by law, to incur obligations for ordnance and ordnance *Proviso*.Amount limited.supplies and materials: *Provided*, That the aggregate amount of such obligations outstanding at any one time shall not exceed the sum of $100,009,000. 367 The Chief of Ordnance of the United States Army is authorized toOrdnance Office.Technical, etc., services in, authorized. employ in the District of Columbia, out of the appropriations made in this Act for designing, procuring, caring for, and supplying ordnance and ordnance stores to the Army, such services, other than clerical, as are necessary for carrying out these purposes.
Not to exceed $11,000 of the appropriations herein or heretoforeRent allowance. made for the Ordnance Department may be expended for rent of space in the District of Columbia for the use of the Office of the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army. All material purchased under the appropriations in this Act for theMaterial to be of American manufacture.Exception. Ordnance Department of the United States Army shall be of American manufacture, except in cases when, in the judgment of the Secretary of War, it is to the manifest interest of the United States to make purchases abroad, which material shall be admitted free of duty.
Machinery for rifles: For the purchase or manufacture of machineryMachinery for rifle manufacture. and other facilities for the manufacture of rifles, including the necessary buildings, range, and other expenses incident thereto, $9,500,000. During the present emergency, under such regulations as may beOrdnance officers may designate agents for disbursements, etc. prescribed by the Secretary of War, officers of the Ordnance Department accountable for public moneys may intrust moneys to other officers for the purpose of having them make disbursements as their agents, and the officers to whom the money is intrusted, as well as the officers who intrust it to them, shall be held pecuniarily responsible therefor to the United States.
FORTIFICATIONS.Fortifications. For purchase, manufacture, and test of mountain, field, and siegeMountain, field, and siege cannon. cannon, including their carriages, sights, implements, equipments, and the machinery necessary for their manufacture, $695,100,000: *Provided*, That the Chief of Ordnance, United States Army, is authorized*Proviso*.Additional contracts. to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $225,000,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.
For purchase, manufacture, and test of ammunition for mountain,Ammunition for. field, and siege cannon, including experiments in connection therewith, machinery for its manufacture, and the necessary storage facilities, $663,000,000: *Provided*, That the Chief of Ordnance, United*Proviso*.Additional contracts. States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $777,182,750 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.
For alteration and maintenance of the mobile artillery, includingAltering, etc., mobile artillery. the purchase and manufacture of machinery, tools, and materials necessary for the work and the expenses of the mechanics engaged thereon, $158,334,000: *Provided*, That the Chief of Ordnance, United*Proviso*.Additional contracts. States Army, is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $50,000,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.
For purchase of submarine mines and nets and necessary appliancesSubmarine mines, nets for closing channels, etc. to operate them for closing the channels leading to our principal seaports, and for continuing torpedo experiments, $700,000. MILITARY ACADEMY.Military Academy. For coal, wood, charcoal,stoves, grates, heaters, furnaces, rangesFuel, etc. and fixtures, fire bricks, clay, sand, and for repairs of steam-heating and coal-conveying apparatus, grates, stoves, heaters, ranges, furnaces, and mica, and repair, improvement, and maintenance of power plant, $15,000. 368 Lighting.
For gas coal, oil, candles, lanterns, matches, chimneys, and wicking, and electric lamps and supplies, and for operating the gas plant, $3,500. Cadet hospital.For removing, replacing, and resetting white tile in the cadet hospital, $3,150. Mess accommodations, etc.For temporary mess accommodations, $6,500. For alterations and additions to organ in cadet chapel, $1,600. NATIONAL HOME FOR DISABLED VOLUNTEER SOLDIERS.Volunteer Soldiers’ Home. Admissions.Vol. 38, p. 853, amended.So much of the Act making appropriations for the sundry civil expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, and for other purposes, so far as it designates the classes of persons entitled to the benefits of the National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, is amended so as to read as Benefits extended to Organized Militia and National Guard called into service.[R.
S., sec. 4832, p. 937](/us/rs/s4832/p937), amended.follows: The following persons only shall hereafter be entitled to the benefits of the National Horne for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, and may be admitted thereto upon the order of a member of the board of managers, namely: All honorably discharged officers, soldiers, and sailors who served in the regular, volunteer, or other forces of the United States in any war in which the country has been or is engaged, including the Spanish American War, the provisional Vol. 30, p. 977.Army (authorized by Act of Congress approved March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-nine), in any of the campaigns against hostile Indians, or who have served in the Philippines, in China, or in Alaska, or in the Organized Militia or National Guard when called into the Federal service to enforce the laws, suppress insurrection, or repel invasion, who are disabled by disease, wounds, or otherwise and have no adequate means of support, and who are not otherwise provided for by law, and by reason of such disability are incapable of earning their living.
PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.Public buildings and grounds, D. C. Additional park watchmen, etc.Park watchmen: For additional park watchmen from October first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation, as follows: Second sergeant of park watchmen, $900; eighteen park watchmen for duty at the Highway Bridge, District of Columbia, at $840 each; in all, $12,015. For purchase and repair of bicycles and revolvers for park watchmen and for purchase of ammunition, $316.
For purchasing and supplying uniforms to park, monument, and bridge watchmen, $950. Half from District revenues.Of the foregoing amounts appropriated under public buildings and grounds, the sum of $6,640.50 shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. Henry Park.Temporary buildings for War and Navy Departments in.For temporary office buildings, including heating and lighting, for the use of the War and Navy Departments, to contain approximately one million and fifty-five thousand square feet, to be erected under the direction of the Secretary of War in Henry Park, reservation numbered four, Sixth and B Streets, $2,000,000.
Space in said building shall be allotted by the officer in charge of Public Buildings and Grounds upon the joint order of the Secretary of War and the Secretary*Proviso*.George Washington Memorial Hall. of the Navy: *Provided*, That within two years after the conclusion of the existing war, the land above referred to shall again be reserved for the erection of the George Washington Memorial Hall. 369 STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDING.State, etc., Department Building. For the installation of an additional boiler in the State, War, andAdditional boiler.
Navy Department Building for heating and lighting the Mills Building, $15,000. NAVAL ESTABLISHMENT.Navy. aviation.Aviation. For aviation, to be expended under the direction of the SecretaryGeneral expenses. of the Navy for procuring, producing, constructing, operating, preserving, storing, and handling aircraft; maintenance of aircraft stations;Aircraft stations. including not to exceed $315,000 for the acquisition of land by purchase or condemnation; and for experimental work in the development of aviation for naval purposes, $45,000,000: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Technical, etc., services. the sum to be paid out of this appropriation under the direction of the Secretary of the Navy for drafting, clerical, inspection, and messenger service for aircraft stations shall not exceed $175,000.
National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics: Such portion of theAdvisory Committee for Aeronautics.Completion of laboratory.Vol. 39, p. 1170. appropriation “National Advisory Committee for Aeronautics” earned in the Act making appropriations for the naval service for the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, approved March fourth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, as may be necessary, not to exceed $40,000, is made available for the completion of the committee’s research laboratory now under construction, and for the construction of additional buildings necessary in connection therewith. naval emergency fund.Naval emergency fund.
To enable the President to secure the more economical and expeditiousAt discretion of the President.Vol. 39, p. 1192. delivery of materials, equipment, and munitions, and secure the more expeditious construction of ships authorized, and for the purchase or construction of such additional torpedo boat destroyers, submarine chasers, and such other naval small craft, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, as the President may direct, to be expended at the direction and in the discretion of the President, $100,000,000. civilian naval consulting board.Civilian consulting board.
For actual expenses incurred by and in connection with the civilianExpenses. Naval Consulting Board, $75,000. bureau of navigation.Bureau of navigation. Recreation for enlisted men: For the recreation, amusement, comfort,Recreation for enlisted men. and contentment of enlisted men of the Navy afloat and under training ashore, to be expended in the discretion of the Secretary of the Navy, under such regulations as he may prescribe, $150,000: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Pay limitation.
That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. Transportation: For transportation, Bureau of Navigation, includingTransportation. the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $700,000. bureau of ordnance.Bureau of ordnance. Ordnance and ordnance stores: For procuring, producing,Ordnance and ordnance stores. preserving, and handling ordnance material; for the armament of ships; for fuel, material, and labor to be used in the general work 370of the Ordnance Department; for necessary improvements at the naval proving ground, naval torpedo stations, Naval Gun Factory, and naval ammunition depots, $12,446,480.
Ammunition for ships.*Proviso*.Additional contracts.Ammunition for vessels: For procuring, producing, preserving, and handling ammunition for vessels, $40,146,120: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $15,146,120 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. Batteries and outfits.Batteries and outfits for vessels: For batteries and outfits for naval vessels, auxiliaries, patrols, aircraft, naval stations, and merchantmen,*Proviso*.Additional contracts. $50,059,523.50: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $28,059,523.50 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made.
Reserve supplies.Reserve ordnance supplies: For reserve and miscellaneous ordnance *Proviso*.Additional contracts.supplies, $47,500,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of the Navy is authorized to enter into contracts or otherwise to incur obligations for the purposes above mentioned not to exceed $17,500,000 in addition to the appropriations herein and heretofore made. Naval Gun Factory, D.C.Washington, District of Columbia, Naval Gun Factory: For tools and machinery plant, $2,500,000.
Armor and projectile plant, W. Va.Option for fuel lands.Fuel lands for armor and projectile plants: For the investigation and acquisition of options to mineral rights on about twenty-six thousand acres of gas and oil lands in the State of West Virginia, located within reasonable distance of the Government armor plant, $25,000. bureau of yards and docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks. Maintenance.Maintenance: For general maintenance of yards and docks, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $1,500,000.
Contingent.Contingent: For contingent expenses and minor extensions and improvements of public works at navy yards and stations, $1,000,000. public works, bureau of yards and docks.Public works. Temporary hospitals, etc.Hospital construction: For temporary hospital construction and repairs, as may be necessary, at points not provided with suitable hospital facilities, and for buildings for naval medical supplies, $2,000,000. New London submarine base.Additional lands for.New London, Connecticut, submarine base:
For the acquisition, by purchase or condemnation, of the tract of land, comprising approximately twenty-six and eighty-eight one-hundredths acres, owned by the C. M. Shay Fertilizer Company, in the immediate vicinity of the property now owned and occupied by the United States as a submarine base at New London, Connecticut, including all easements, rights of way, riparian and other rights appurtenant thereto, $90,000. Washington, D. C.Yard improvements.Washington, District of Columbia, Navy Yard:
For yard improvements, $5,000,000. Heavy cranes.Handling appliances: For three fifty-ton cranes for use at navy yards, $450,000. Training camps.Training camps: For construction and equipment of training camps, including the rental of land, $6,000,000. Marine railways.Marine railways: For marine railways at navy yards and stations, $375,000. Ordnance stations.Ordnance stations: For improvements at stations under the jurisdiction of the Bureau of Ordnance, $2,250,000. 371 The appropriation of $10,000 for expenses of a commissionCommission on yards, etc.Reappropriation.Vol. 39, p. 571. of naval officers to investigate the question of navy yards and naval stations, contained in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, is continued and made available during the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen.
Naval Operating Base, Hampton Roads, Virginia: For coldHampton Roads, Va. storage, $300,000. Temporary storage: For temporary storage, $1,000,000.Temporary storage. bureau of supplies and accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. Maintenance: For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,Maintenance. including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $4,500,000. bureau of steam engineering.Bureau of Steam Engineering.
Engineering: For repairs, preservation, and renewal of machinery,Engineering repairs, machinery, etc. and so forth, including the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, and the deficiency appropriation Act approved June fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $10,000,000. For additional amount for the establishment of a high-power radioPorto Rico radio station. station on the island of Porto Rico, $200,000. naval academy.Naval Academy.
For pay of professors and instructors, including one professorProfessors, etc. as librarian, $18,900. marine corps.Marine Corps. quartermaster’s department.Quartermaster’s Department. Clothing: For noncommissioned officers, musicians, and privates,Clothing. authorized by law. $2,650,000. Repairs of barracks: For repairs of barracks, Marine Corps, includingRepairs of barracks. the same objects specified under this head in the naval appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $500,000. increase of the navy.Increase of the navy.
For acquiring and providing facilities for the expeditious constructionTorpedo-boat destroyers.Facilities for expeditious construction of additional. of additional torpedo-boat destroyers, and for each and every purpose connected therewith, and toward their construction, to cost in all not more than $350,000,000, $225,000,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary, to be expended at the direction and in the discretion of the President. The President is hereby authorized and empowered, withinAcquisition of lands etc., tor construction. the amount hereinbefore authorized, to acquire or provide facilities additional to those now in existence for the construction of torpedo-boatVol. 39, p. 1193. destroyers, their hulls, machinery, and appurtenances, including the immediate taking over for the United States of the possession of and title to land, its appurtenances and improvements, which he may find necessary in this connection.
That if said lands and appurtenances and improvements shall beCompensation. taken over as aforesaid, the United States shall make just compensation therefor, to be determined by the President, and if the amountSuit, etc., if amount unsatisfactory. thereof, so determined by the President, is unsatisfactory to the person entitled to receive the same, such person shall be paid seventy-five per centum of the amount so determined by the President and 372shall be entitled to sue the United States to recover such further sum as added to said seventy-five per centum will make up such amount Procedure.Vol. 36, pp. 1093, 1136.as will be just compensation therefor, in the manner provided for by section twenty-four, paragraph twenty, section one hundred and forty-five of the Judicial Code.
Title to vest immediately.Upon the taking over of said property by the President as aforesaid the title to all property so taken over shall immediately vest in the United States. DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. contingent expenses.Contingent expenses. Rent.For rent of quarters for department trucks, and for the accommodation of the Patent Office models now stored on reservation thirteen in the District of Columbia and for necessary expenses, including labor of removal of the models and their storage, $2,300. public buildings.Public buildings.
New Department Building.Additional employees, 1918.Interior Department Building (New): For additional employees from October first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: For three substation operators at $1,200 each and three assistant substation operators at $900 each, $4,725. Courthouse, D. C.Repairs to temporary quarters.Courthouse, Washington, District of Columbia: For general repairs to the temporary quarters (known as the Emery Building) occupied by the Supreme Court of the District of Columbia during the reconstruction of the courthouse, $2,000, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds and Half from District revenues.to be payable one-half out of the Treasury of the United States and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia. general land office.General Land Office.
Filing cases.For the purchase or construction, including necessary labor, of filing cases tor photolithographic copies of township plats, $10,600. public land service.Public lands. Oregon and California railroad land suits.Protection of Coos Bay Road lands.The appropriation of $25,000 for the protection of lands involved in the Oregon and California forfeiture suit, contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is also made available for the protection of the lands known as the Coos Bay Wagon Road lands involved in the case of Southern Oregon Company versus United States, together with the additional sum of $10,000. patent office.Patent office.
Additional employees, 1918.For additional employees from October first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at annual rates of compensation as follows: Examiner of interferences, $2,700; examiners—two principals at $2,700 each, four first assistants at $2,400 each, four second assistants at $2,100 each, four third assistants at $1,800 each, four fourth assistants at $1,500 each, five clerks of class one; two laborers at $600 each; in all, $34,875. territory of alaska.Alaska.
Alaska Engineering Commission.Alaska Engineering Commission: For carrying out the provisions of the Act approved March twelfth, nineteen hundred and fourteen 373(Thirty-eighth Statutes, page three hundred and five) entitled “AnConstructing railroads, etc.Vol. 38, p. 305. Act to authorize the President of the United States to locate, construct, and operate railroads in the Territory of Alaska, and for other purposes,” $4,000,000, to continue available until expended. Authority is granted to expend from the appropriations for theMotor vehicle. construction and operation of railroads in Alaska, not exceeding $750, for the purchase, maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled, passenger-carrying vehicle for official use of the Alaskan Engineering Commission at Seattle, Washington.
Care and custody of insane, Alaska: For care and custody ofCare of insane. persons legally adjudged insane in Alaska, including transportation and other expenses, $29,000. saint elizabeths hospital.Saint Elizabeths Hospital, D. C. For the construction, equipment, and furnishing of such semi-permanentAdditional buildings. buildings at Saint Elizabeths Hospital as may be required to provide additional accommodations for patients, $200,000. The Secretary of War is authorized, during the existing emergency,Transfers to other hospitals. to transfer to the various public hospitals for the care of the insane, patients of every class entitled to treatment in Saint Elizabeths Hospital and that are admitted on order of the Secretary of War.
The Secretary of War is authorized to transfer from any militaryTransfer of insane patients from military to other public hospitals. hospital to the nearest available public hospital for the care of the insane any insane patient who is in need of treatment, preference being given to the hospital nearest to the place of the patient’s enlistment. The superintendent of such public hospital shall possessAuthority of superintendents. the right to retain the aforementioned class of patients in his hospital in the same manner and to the same extent as now possessed by the Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital.
The Superintendent of Saint Elizabeths Hospital, with the approvalPayment from Congressional appropriations for Saint Elizabeths. of the Secretary of the Interior, shall transfer to the various public hospitals out of the various appropriations made by Congress for the support and treatment of patients in Saint Elizabeths Hospital a sum sufficient to pay for the support and treatment of patients sent to public hospitals as herein provided, based upon the per capita cost of maintenance in Saint Elizabeths Hospital, said payment not to exceed at any time the exact cost of support and treatment of such patients.
The Secretary of War is authorized to grant a revocable permit toPermit to use reclaimed, Anacostia Flats lands. the Saint Elizabeths Hospital for the use of such portions of land as are at present not under lease and such other portions thereof as leases thereof expire, of that portion of land lying along Anacostia Flats which has been reclaimed by the War Department and is valuable for farming purposes. Interned persons and prisoners of war, under the jurisdiction ofAdmission of insane prisoners of war, etc. the War Department, who are or may become insane hereafter shall be entitled to admission for treatment to Saint Elizabeths Hospital. columbia institution for the deaf.Columbia Institution for the Deaf.
For additional amount for the removal of the college women’sNew dormitory, etc. dormitory, and the construction, equipment, and furnishing of a new dormitory, necessary repairs, or replacement of walks and grading of grounds adjacent to said dormitory, including all material, personal and other services, and for each and every purpose in connection therewith, to be expended under the direction of the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, $21,000. 374 POSTAL SERVICE.Postal service.
Out of the Postal Revenues. office of the postmaster general.Postmaster General. Equipment shops.Temporary continuance at rented buildings.The Postmaster General is authorized to continue the rental of the buildings at First and K Streets, northeast, Washington, District of Columbia, known as the Post Office Department Annex, for the use of the Post Office Department, including the mail-bag repair shop and lock repair shop, at the rate of $32,000 per annum, until such time during the fiscal year ending June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, as the new equipment shops building now being constructed is ready for occupancy, and such sum as may be necessary for that purpose is hereby appropriated. office of third assistant postmaster general.Third Assistant Postmaster General.
Postage stamps.For manufacture of adhesive postage stamps, special-delivery stamps, books of stamps, and for coiling of stamps, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $22,000. Stamped envelopes and wrappers.For manufacture of stamped envelopes and newspaper wrappers, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $220,000. Indemnity, lost domestic mail.For payment of limited indemnity for the injury or loss of pieces of domestic registered matter, insured, and collect-on-delivery mail, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $170,000. office of fourth assistant postmaster general.Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.
Shipment of supplies.Additional employees.For defraying expenses incident to the shipment of supplies, including hardware, boxing, packing, cartage, freight, and the pay of one carpenter at $1,200 per annum and nine requisition fillers, at $840 each per annum, for assignment in connection therewith, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $8,000. DEPARTMENT OF AGRICULTURE.Department of Agriculture. contingent expenses. Food conservation.Allowance for rent, D.C.*Ante*, p. 274.The appropriation of $650,000 for miscellaneous items, contained in section eight of the Act entitled “An Act to provide further for the national security and defense by stimulating agriculture and facilitating the distribution of agricultural products,” approved August tenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, is made available for rent in the District of Columbia to the extent of not exceeding $15,000. federal horticultural board.Horticultural Board.
Pink bollworm of cotton.Expenses for extermination, etc.On account of the menace to cotton culture in the United States arising from the existence of the pink bollworm in Mexico, the Secretary of Agriculture, in order to prevent the establishment and spread of such worm in Texas and other parts of the United States, is authorized to make surveys to determine its actual distribution in Mexico; to establish, in cooperation with the States concerned, a zone or zones free from cotton culture on or near the border of any State or States adjacent to Mexico; and to cooperate with the Mexican Government or local Mexican authorities in the exterminationRent, etc. of local infestations near the border of the United States.
For rent outside of the District of Columbia, and for the employment of such persons in the city of Washington and elsewhere, as the Secretary of Agriculture may deem necessary, $250,000. 375 DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Department of Commerce. Office of the Secretary: For an additional stenographer from OctoberSecretary’s Office.Additional stenographer. first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at the rate of $1,200 per annum, $900. bureau of lighthouses.Lighthouses Bureau.
To enable the Commissioner of Lighthouses to pay additional compensationAdditional pay to draftsmen. to draftsmen employed on marine engineering work in the Bureau of Lighthouses, the pay of such draftsmen in no case to exceed the rate of $2,000 per annum, $1,200. Aransas Pass Light Station, Texas: For repairing and rebuildingAransas Pass Station, Tex.Repairs. dwellings, outbuildings, and appurtenant structures damaged or destroyed in the hurricane of August eighteenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $20,000. bureau of fisheries.Fisheries Bureau.
Alaska, general service: For an additional amount for protectingAlaska, general service. the seal fisheries of Alaska, including the same objects specified under this head in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, $35,000. coast and geodetic survey.Coast and Geodetic Survey. For the installation of a complete automatic sprinkler and alarmFire protection of buildings. system for fire prevention in the buildings of the Coast and Geodetic Survey in Washington, District of Columbia, $12,000.
For the purchase of necessary additional surveying instrumentsSurveying instruments. required in order to meet the extraordinary demands for greatly increased fieldwork incident to war conditions and to replenish the stock, $10,000. steam boat inspection service.Steamboat Inspection Service. For two local inspectors, clerk hire, and contingent expenses of theTampa, Fla.Inspectors, etc.Vol. 39, p. 942. local board of steamboat inspectors, Tampa, Florida, authorized by the Act approved February twenty-sixth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $5,925. bureau of standards.Standards Bureau.
Radio laboratory: For additional amount for the construction of aRadio laboratory. fireproof laboratory building to provide space to be used for research and testing in radio communication, and to enable the Bureau of Standards to provide space and facilities for cooperative research and experimental work in radio communication by the War, Navy, Post Office, Treasury, and other departments, and for suitable aerials, $40,000. DEPARTMENT OF LABOR.Department of Labor. Office of the Secretary:
For two additional watchmen fromSecretary’s office.Watchmen. October first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, at the rate of $720 each per annum, $1,080. Commissioners of conciliation: To enable the Secretary of LaborCommissioners of conciliation.Expenses.Vol. 37, p. 738. to exercise the authority vested in him by section eight of the Act creating the Department of Labor, and to appoint commissioners of conciliation, per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4, and traveling expenses, $100,000. 376 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 eighteen, $7,566. naturalization service.Naturalization Bureau. Assistance to clerks of courts.*Ante*, p. 171.For an additional amount for allotment to clerks of courts for clerical assistance in naturalization proceedings in accordance with the provisions of the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year *Provisos*.Reduction of amount forbidden.nineteen hundred and eighteen, $30,000: *Provided*, That the allotment for the foregoing purpose heretofore made from the appropriation of $275,000 for naturalization expenses for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen shall not be reduced during the said fiscal year:
All matter to be sent free of postage.*Provided further*, That all mail matter, of whatever class, relating to naturalization, including duplicate papers required by law or regulation to be sent to the Bureau of Naturalization by clerks of State or Federal courts, addressed to the Department of Labor, or the Bureau of Naturalization, or to any official thereof, and indorsed “Official Business,” shall be transmitted free of postage, and by registered Penalty for misuse.mail if necessary, and so marked: *Provided further*, That if any person shall make use of such indorsement to avoid payment of postage or registry fee on his or her private letter, package, or other matter in the mail, the person so offending shall be guilty of a misdemeanor and subject to a fine of $300, to be prosecuted in any court of competent jurisdiction. standardization of first-aid methods.Standardizing first-aid methods.
Expenses of compilation of.Vol. 39, p. 326.To enable the Secretary of Labor to compile, edit, and prepare for publication, by industries, the material on first aid, in collaboration with the President’s Board for Standardization of First-Aid Methods in the United States, including the necessary temporary clerical assistance in the District of Columbia, to be selected from civil-service registers, and to be paid at the rate of not exceeding $75 per month, $5,000. distribution of labor.Distribution of labor.
Information, etc., to wage earners.To enable the Secretary of Labor, during the present emergency, in addition to existing facilities to furnish such information and to render such assistance in the employment of wage earners throughout the United States as may be deemed necessary in the prosecution of the war, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, and rental of quarters outside of the District of Columbia, $250,000.
LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. Harry Lane.Fay to widow.To pay Lola A. Lane, widow of Honorable Harry Lane, late a Senator from the State of Oregon, $7,500. Russell Wrede.Services.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: Russell Wrede, messenger to the Committee on Expenditures in the Department of Commerce, from March thirteenth to April third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, at the rate of $1,200 per annum.
Miscellaneous items.For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $15,000. 377 Senate Office Building: For maintenance, miscellaneous itemsSenate Office Building.Maintenance. 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, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,000. Authority is hereby given to expend not to exceed $250 of theInaugural ceremonies, 1917.Pay for services.[R.
S. sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314). appropriation of $35,000 to pay the necessary expenses of the inaugural ceremonies made in the Act approved February third, nineteen hundred and seventeen, regardless of the provisions of section seventeen hundred and sixty-five of the Revised Statutes. For the Capitol: For repairs, improvements, and equipment forSenate kitchens, etc. Senate kitchens and restaurants, Capitol Building and Senate Office Building, including personal and other services, to be expended by the Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds, under the supervision of the Committee on Rules, United States Senate, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,500.
To reimburse the official reporters of the proceedings and debatesOfficial reporters.Reimbursement. of the Senate for moneys actually and necessarily expended by them from March fifth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to September fifteenth, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $3,905.82. The joint subcommittee heretofore appointed under Senate jointJoint Committee on Commerce.Time extended for report, etc.Vol. 39, p. 387.*Ante*, p. 25. resolution numbered sixty (public resolution numbered twenty-five, Sixty-fourth Congress), approved July twentieth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, entitled “Joint resolution 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 powers and duties of such subcommittee” be, and the same is, continued and is authorized to make its report to Congress on or before the first Monday in December, nineteen hundred and eighteen. house of representatives.House of Representatives.
To pay the widow of Daniel W. Comstock, late a RepresentativeDaniel W. Comstock.Pay to widow. from the State of Indiana, $7,500. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1Folding. per thousand, $3,000. For the maintenance and repair of a motor truck for the use ofMotor truck. the folding room, $200. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,Miscellaneous items, etc. exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $12,000.
To reimburse the official reporters of debates $500 each and theOfficial reporters and stenographers.Reimbursement. official stenographers to committees $300 each for moneys actually and necessarily expended by them to August thirty-first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $4,200. For the procurement of an oil portrait of Champ Clark, SpeakerPortrait of Speaker Champ Clark.*Post*, p. 1169. of the House of Representatives, $2,000. GOVERNMENT PRINTING OFFICE.Government Printing Office.
To pay Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes,Samuel Robinson, William Madden, and Joseph De Fontes. messengers on night duty during the Sixty-fifth Congress, first session, for extra services, $700 each; in all, $2,100. 378 printing and binding.Printing and binding. Binding German patents.Use for other countries.*Ante*, p. 174.The appropriation of $20,000 for binding one set of German patents now in the Patent Office Library, contained in the sundry civil appropriation Act for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, is also made available for binding in classified order the patents of other foreign countries.
Pan American Union.For printing and binding for the International Union of American Republics, fiscal year nineteen hundred and seventeen, $3,000. War Department.For printing and binding for the War Department and its bureaus and offices, $374,500. JUDGMENTS, UNITED STATES COURTS.Judgments, United States courts. Payment.Vol. 24, p. 505.For payment of the final judgments and decrees, including costs of suits, which have been rendered under the provisions of the Act of March third, eighteen hundred and eighty-seven, entitled “An Act to provide for the bringing of suits against the Government of the United States,” certified to Congress at its present session by the Attorney General in House Document Numbered Three hundred, and which have not been appealed, namely:
Classification.Under the War Department, $10,749.30; Under the Navy Department, $2,599.42; Under the Department of Justice, $43.05; In all, $13,391.77, together with such additional sum as may be necessary to pay interest on the respective judgments at the rate of four per centum per annum from the date thereof until the time this appropriation is made. JUDGMENTS, COURT OF CLAIMS.Judgments, Court of Claims. Payment.For payment of the judgments rendered by the Court of Claims, reported to Congress at its present session in Senate Document Numbered Ninety-three and House Document Numbered Two hundred and ninety-eight, except the judgment in favor of the State of Massachusetts and the judgment in favor of the Louisville and Nashville Railroad Company, namely:
Classification.Under the Treasury Department, $1.95; Under the War Department, $50,488.72; Under the Navy Department, $10,772.24; Under the Post Office Department, $161.40; In all, $61,424.31. JUDGMENTS IN INDIAN DEPREDATION CLAIMS.Judgments, Indian depredation claims. Payment.For payment of judgments rendered by the Court of Claims in Indian depredation cases, certified to Congress in House Document Numbered Two hundred and ninety-nine at its present session, Deductions.Vol. 26, p. 853.$13,511; said judgments to be paid after the deductions 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 Reimbursement.tribes affected; and the amounts paid shall be reimbursed to the United States at such times and in such proportions as the Secretary 379of the Interior may decide to be for the interests of the Indian Service: *Provided*, That no one of said judgments provided in this paragraph*Proviso*.Appeals. shall be paid until the Attorney General shall have certified to the Secretary of the Treasury that there 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 be paid untilRight to appeal. the right of appeal shall have expired. AUDITED CLAIMS.Audited claims. Sec. 2. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toClaims 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 ofVol. 18, p. 110. 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 fifteen and other years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress under section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteenVol. 23, p. 254. hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in House Document Numbered Two hundred and ninety-four, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
For Public Health and Marine Hospital Service, $12.04.Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For books, Public Health Service, $11.50. For punishment for violation of internal-revenue laws, $182.45. For refunding taxes illegally collected, $107,010.93. For redemption of stamps, $379.78. For payments of judgments against internal revenue officers, $331,368.88. For expenses of Revenue-Cutter Service, $1.50. For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving Service, $211.17.
For Life-Saving Service, $40. For operating supplies for public buildings, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $602. For operating supplies for public buildings, $31.63. For furniture and repairs of same for public buildings, $214.76. For repairs and preservation of public buildings, $44.01. For mechanical equipment for public buildings, $9. For general expenses of public buildings, $27.78. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department. For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $5,349.05.
For extra-duty pay to enlisted men at Army division and departmentClaims allowed by Auditor tor War Department. headquarters, $2,019.80. For regular supplies, Quartermaster Corps, $632.74. For incidental expenses, Quartermaster’s Department, $831.60. For barracks and quarters, $39.99. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $2,263.99. For roads, walks, wharves, and drainage, $84. For water and sewers at military posts, $17.68. For manufacture of arms, $10.28. For headstones for graves of soldiers, $4.31.
For headstones for graves of soldiers, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $371.24. 380 claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.For pay, miscellaneous, $39. For pay, Marine Corps, $1,053.93. For contingent, Marine Corps, $30.94. For maintenance, Quartermaster Department, Marine Corps, $218.70. For maintenance, naval auxiliaries, Bureau of Navigation, $140.10. For Naval Home, Philadelphia, $30.33. For pay of the Navy, $2,293.40.
For provisions, Navy, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $15. For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $104. For construction and repair, Bureau of Construction and Repair, $5,726.49. For steam machinery, Bureau of Steam Engineering, $2,500. Vol. 28, p. 962.For indemnity for lost property, naval service, Act of March second, eighteen hundred and ninety-five, $6,939.96. For destruction of clothing and bedding for sanitary reasons, $2.50. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for Interior Department.For surveying the public lands, $298.83. For Geological Survey, $3,500. For relieving distress and prevention, and so forth, of diseases among Indians, $100. For Indian schools, support, $170.24. For Indian school and agency buildings, $908. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $4,469.44. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $187.30. For general expenses, Indian Service, $3.18.
For determining heirs of deceased Indian allottees, $182.30. For Indian school, Lawrence, Kansas, $39.60. Forbridge across San Juan River at Shiprock, Navajo Reservation, New Mexico (reimbursable), $880. For Indian school, Fort Totten, North Dakota, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $943.86. For Indian school, Wahpeton, North Dakota, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $66.95. For support of Indians, Klamath Agency, Oregon, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $7.84. For Indian school, Salem, Oregon, repairs and improvements, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $37.25.
For Indian school, Rapid City, South Dakota, nineteen hundred and sixteen, 89 cents. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc.. Departments.For salaries of Members and Delegates, House of Representatives, nineteen hundred and fourteen, $625. For payment for holidays, Government Printing Office, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $4.60. For traveling expenses, Civil Service Commission, $7.50. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, $240.
For boundary line, Alaska and Canada and United States and Canada, 46 cents. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $10.41. For American Ethnology, Smithsonian Institution, $600.25. For Interstate Commerce Commission, $510.63. 381 For general expenses, Bureau of Animal Industry, $5.15. For cooperative experiments in animal feeding and breeding, $96.40. For general expenses, Bureau of Plant Industry, $20.20. For general expenses, Forest Service, $577.35. For enforcement of the food and drug Acts, $2.45.
For general expenses, Bureau of Biological Survey, $6.98. For contingent expenses, Department of Labor, $5,55. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, $6.98. For expenses of regulating immigration, $1. For naturalization of aliens, 8 cents. For fees of clerks, United States courts, $15.05. For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $18.15. For fees of witnesses, United States courts, $1.60. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department.
For shipment of supplies, $44.35. For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, $11.70.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department. For indemnities, international registered mail, $164.43. For parcel-post insurance, $2.83. For railroad transportation, $1,694.33. For star-route service, $2. For inland mail transportation, $312.38. For power-boat service, $350.94. For electric and cable car service, $707.38. For compensation to postmasters, $218.83. For compensation to assistant postmasters, $375, For rent, light, and fuel, $128.66.
For office appliances, $3. For miscellaneous items, first and second class post offices, $3. For separating mails, third and fourth class offices, $87. For clerks, first and second class post offices, $568.17. For temporary and auxiliary clerks in post offices, $11.55. For Railway Mail Service, $112.53. For Rural Delivery Service, $91.66. For City Delivery Service, $3.61. AUDITED CLAIMS.Audited claims. Sec. 3. That for the payment of the following claims, certified toClaims 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 theVol. 18, 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 fifteen and other years, unless otherwise stated, and which have been certified to Congress underVol. 23, p. 254. section two of the Act of July seventh, eighteen hundred and eighty-four, as fully set forth in Senate Document Numbered Eighty-nine, reported to Congress at its present session, there is appropriated as follows: claims allowed by the auditor for the treasury department.
For care of seamen, Public Health Service, $83.Claims allowed by Auditor for Treasury Department. For field investigations of public health, $5. For salaries and expenses of agents and subordinate officers of Internal Revenue, $44. 382 For refunding taxes illegally collected, $146,729.16. For redemption of stamps, $4,886.89. For payment of judgments against internal-revenue officers,. $3,424.94. For pay of crews, miscellaneous expenses, and so forth, Life-Saving Service, $172.20. claims allowed by the auditor for the war department.
Claims allowed by Auditor for War Department.For pay, and so forth, of the Army, $1,613.37. For extra-duty pay to enlisted men as clerks, and so forth, at Army Division and Department Headquarters, $964.80. For mileage to officers and contract surgeons, $77.50. For incidental expenses Quartermaster Department, $23.45. For transportation of the Army and its supplies, $26,530.16. For medical and hospital department, $120.42. For headstones for graves of soldiers, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $5.27.
For National Home for Disabled Volunteer Soldiers, Northwestern Branch, $1. claims allowed by the auditor for the navy department. Claims allowed by Auditor for Navy Department.For pay, Marine Corps, $131.32. For gunnery exercises, Bureau of Navigation, $20. For maintenance of naval auxiliaries, Bureau of Navigation, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $45.88. For ordnance and ordnance stores, Bureau of Ordnance, $5,574.75. For pay of the Navy, $4,484.75. For maintenance, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $95.03.
For freight, Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $95.34. For indemnity for lost clothing, $148.76. For indemnity for lost property, Naval Service, $1,587.57. claims allowed by the auditor for the interior department. Claims allowed by Auditor tor Interior Department.For Geological Survey, $1.75. For General Grant National Park, nineteen hundred and seventeen, 45 cents. For Rocky Mountain National Park, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2.43. For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, nineteen hundred and sixteen, $1,043.40.
For purchase and transportation of Indian supplies, $158.80. For support of Sioux of different tribes, subsistence and civilization, South Dakota, $20.09. claims allowed by the auditor for the state and other departments. Claims allowed by Auditor for State, etc., Departments.For transportation of diplomatic and consular officers, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $1,925.37. For contingent expenses, foreign missions, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $55. For contingent expenses, United States consulates, $46.33.
For relief and protection of American seamen, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $11,055.93. For support of convicts, District of Columbia, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $2,183.90. For general expenses, Forest Service, $19. For general expenses, Bureau of Standards, $87.38. 383 For general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $153.98. For contingent expenses, Department of Commerce and Labor, 10 cents. For inspection of prisons and prisoners, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $144.70. For fees of clerks, United States courts, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $7,399.80.
For fees of commissioners, United States courts, $91.60. For miscellaneous expenses, United States courts, $32.20. For supplies for United States courts, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $99.80. For United States penitentiary at McNeil Island, Washington, nineteen hundred and seventeen, $76.46. claims allowed by the auditor for the post office department. For indemnities, international registered mail, $117.57.Claims allowed by Auditor for Post Office Department, For freight on stamped paper and mail bags, $148.94.
For shipment of supplies, $43.01. For star-route service, $19.91. For compensation to postmasters, $135.41. For railroad transportation, $528.73. For inland-mail transportation, $197.29. For Rural Delivery Service, $1.31.’ For rent, light, and fuel, $184.66. For twine and tying devices, $21.11. For power-boat service, $15. For special-delivery service, fees, $1.04. For reimbursement for amount paid for loss of two boxes of supplies, and covered into the Treasury, $18. Sec. 4.
That the appropriations contained herein under the MilitaryArmy and Navy appropriations available for existing emergencies. and Naval Establishments shall be available for the payment of obligations on account of the existing emergency incurred prior to the passage of this Act and which are properly chargeable to such appropriations. Sec. 5. That the Secretary of War and the Secretary of the NavyArmy and Navy contracts.Advances allowed on, during emergency. are authorized, during the period of the existing emergency, from appropriations available therefor to advance payments to contractors for supplies for their respective departments in amounts not exceeding thirty per centum of the contract price of such supplies: *Provided*, That such advances shall be made upon such terms as the*Proviso*.Conditions.
Secretary of War and the Secretary of the Navy, respectively, shall prescribe and they shall require adequate security for the protection of the Government for the payments so made. Sec. 6. That section five of the Act of June twenty-second, nineteenExecutive department employees.Transfer restrictions extended to independent establishments.Vol. 34, p. 449. hundred and six, prohibiting the transfer of employees from one executive department to another, shall apply with equal force and effect to the transfer of employees from executive departments to independent establishments and vice versa and to the transfer of employees from one independent establishment to another: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Emergency Fleet Corporation included.
That the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall be considered a Government establishment for the purposes of this section. Sec. 7. That no civil employee in any of the executive departmentsIncreased pay under lump sum appropriations forbidden to employees transferred In one year. or other Government establishments, or who has been employed therein within the period of one year next preceding his proposed employment in any other executive department or other Government establishment, shall be employed hereafter and paid from a lump-sum appropriation in any other executive department or other Government establishment at an increased rate of compensation. 384No increase in one year if employed in another department, etc.And no civil employee in any of the executive departments or other Government establishments or who has been employed therein within the period of one year next preceding his proposed employment in any other executive department or other Government establishment and who may be employed in another executive department or other Government establishment shall be granted an increase in compensation within the period of one year following such *Provisos*.Emergency Fleet Corporation included.Transfer restrictions not repealed.Vol. 34, p. 449.reemployment: *Provided*, That the United States Shipping Board Emergency Fleet Corporation shall be considered a Government establishment for the purposes of this section: *Provided further*, That this section shall not be construed to repeal section five of the Act of June twenty-second, nineteen hundred and six, which prohibits the transfer of employees from one department to another.
Sec. 8. Increased pay allowed piecework employees,Computation of allowance. That in determining the right of employees to increased compensation as heretofore authorized by law at rates of five and ten per centum per annum for the fiscal year nineteen hundred and eighteen, such employees as are employed on piecework, by the hour, or at per diem rates, shall be entitled to receive, from July first, nineteen hundred and seventeen, to June thirtieth, nineteen hundred and eighteen, inclusive, the increased compensation at the rate of ten per centum when the fixed rate of compensation for the regular working hours and on the basis of three hundred and twelve days in said year would amount to less than $1,200, and at the rate of five per centum when not less than $1,200 and not more than *Proviso*.Not applicable to annual per diem employees.$1,800: *Provided*, That this method of computation shall not apply to any per diem employees regularly paid a per diem for every day in the year.
Sec. 9. Double salary restriction.District of Columbia night and vacation schools not affected.Vol. 39, pp. 120, 582. That section six of the legislative, executive, and judicial appropriation Act, approved May tenth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, as amended by the naval appropriation Act, approved August twenty-ninth, nineteen hundred and sixteen, shall not apply to teachers in the public schools of the District of Columbia who are also employed as teachers of night schools and vacation schools.
Approved, October 6, 1917.
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