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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 41 STAT. · June 30, 1922 · Chapter 124

Chapter 124. Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 124.— An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, and for other purposes. March 3, 1921. [[H. R. 15441](/us/bill/66/hr/15543).] [[Public, No. 364](/us/pl/66/364).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* Legislative, executive, and judicial appropriations. That the following sums are appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, namely:
Legislative.LEGISLATIVE. Senate.senate. Pay of Senators.For compensation of Senators, $720,000. Mileage.For mileage of Senators, $51,000. Officers, clerks, etc.For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: Vice President’s office.Office of the Vice President: Secretary to the Vice President, $4,000; clerk, $1,600; messenger, $1,000; in all, $6,600. Chaplain.Chaplain: For Chaplain, $1,200. Secretary of the Senate, assistant, clerks, etc.Office of Secretary: Secretary of the Senate, including compensation as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators and of contingent of the Senate, $6,500; assistant secretary, Henry M.
Rose, $5,000; reading clerk, $4,000; financial clerk, $4,000; “chief clerk, $3,250; assistant financial clerk, $3,250; minute and Journal clerk, principal clerk, librarian, enrolling clerk, and printing clerk, at $3,000 each; executive clerk, $2,750; file clerk, chief bookkeeper, and assistant Journal clerk, at $2,500 each; first assistant librarian, and keeper of stationery, at $2,400 each; assistant librarian, $1,800; skilled laborer, $1,200; clerks—three at $2,500 each, two at $2,220 each, one $2,100, one $1,750, one $1,440; assistant keeper of stationery, $2,000; assistant in stationery room, $1,200; messenger in the library, $1,000; messenger, $1,440; assistant messenger, $1,200; laborers—three at $840 each, two at $720 each, one in stationery room, $720; in all, $87,800.
Document room.Superintendent, etc.Document room: Superintendent, $3,500; first assistant, $2,500; two clerks, at $1,440 each; skilled laborer, $1,200; in all, $10,080. Clerks and messengers to committees.Clerks and messengers to the following committees: Agriculture and Forestry—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500; Appropriations—clerk $5,000, two assistant clerks at $2,500 each, three assistant clerks at $1,500 each, messenger $900; To Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, assistant clerk $1,500;
Banking and Currency—clerk $3,000, assistant clerk $1,800, two assistant clerks at $1,500 each; Claims—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,000, two assistant clerks at $1,500 each; Commerce—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500; Conference Minority of the Senate—clerk $3,000, assistant clerk $1,800, two assistant clerks at $1,500 each; District of Columbia—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500; Education and Labor— clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500;
Finance— clerk $3,000, assistant clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,600, two assistant clerks at. $1,500 each, two experts (one for the majority and one for the minority) at $2,000 each; Foreign Relations—clerk $3,000, assistant clerk $2,220, assistant clerk $1,500; Immigration—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500; Indian Affairs— clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500; Inter- oceanic Canals—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500;
Interstate Commerce—clerk $2,500, two assistant clerks at $1,800 each, assistant clerk $1,500; Judiciary—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, two assistant clerks at $1,800 each, assistant clerk $1,500: Manufactures—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800. assistant 1253clerk $1,500; Military Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, three assistant clerks at $1,500 each; Naval Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, two assistant clerks at $1,500 each; Pacific Islands, Porto Rico, and the Virgin Islands—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500;
Pensions—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, four assistant clerks at $1,500 each; Philippines—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500; Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $2,220, three assistant clerks at $1,500 each; Printing—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500; Privileges and Elections—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, assistant clerk $1,500; Public Buildings and Grounds— clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, assistant clerk $1,500;
Public Lands—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk, $1,800, two assistant Preparing Senate Manual.clerks at $1,500 each; Rules—clerk $2,720, to include full compensation for the preparation biennially of the Senate Manual under the direction of the Committee on Rules, assistant clerk $1,800; assistant clerk $1,500; in all, $209,260. Clerical assistance to Senators: For clerical assistance Clerical assistance to Senators not chairmen of designated committees.to Senators who are not chairmen of the committees specifically provided for herein:
Seventy-eight clerks at $2,500 each, *Proviso*.Authority.seventy-eight assistant clerks at $1,600 each, seventy-eight assistant clerks at $1,500 each, $436,800: *Provided,* That such clerks and assistant clerks shall be ex officio clerks and assistant clerks of any committee of which their Senator is chairman; Ninety-four additional clerks at $1,200 each, one for eachAdditional clerks to Senators. Senator having no more than one clerk and two assistant clerks for himself or for the committee of which he is chairman, $112,800; in all, $549,600.
For compiling the Navy Yearbook for the calendar year 1920,Navy Yearbook, 1920. under the direction of the chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, $500. Office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper: Sergeant atSergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, assistants, etc. Arms and Doorkeeper, $6,500; Assistant Sergeant at Arms, $2,500; Assistant Doorkeeper, $3,600; Acting Assistant Doorkeeper, $3,600; two floor assistants at $2,500 each; messengers—fiveMessengers, etc. (acting as assistant doorkeepers, including one for minority) at $1,800 each, thirty- seven (including one for minority) at $1,440 each, one $1,000, one at card door $1,600; clerk on Journal work for Congressional Record, to be selected by the official reporters, $2,800; storekeeper, $2,500; stenographer in charge of furniture accounts and records, $1,200; upholsterer and locksmith, $1,440; cabinetmaker, $1,200; three carpenters, at $1,080 each; janitor, $1,200; four skilled laborers, Laborers, etc.at $1,000 each; laborer in charge of private passage, $900; three female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring rooms, at $720 each; three attendants to women’s toilet rooms, Senate Office Building, at $720 each; telephone operators—chief $1,500, four at $900 each, night operator $720; telephone page, $720; press gallery—superintendent $2,500, assistant superintendent $1,600, messenger for service to press correspondents $1,000; laborers—three at $800 each, thirty-four at $720 each; sixteen pages for the Senate Chamber, at the rate of $2.50Pages. per day each during the session, $8,280; in all, $155,680.
For police force for Senate Office Building under the Sergeant atPolice, Senate Office Building. Arms: Sixteen privates, at $1,050 each; special officer, $1,200; in all, $18,000. Post office: Postmaster, $2,500; chief clerk,Postmasters, etc. $1,800; eight mail carriers and one wagon master, at $1,200 each; three riding pages, at $912.50 each; in all, $17,837.50. Folding room: Foreman, $1,600; assistant,Folding room.Foreman, etc. $1,400; clerk, $1,200; folders—seven at $1,000 each, seven at $840 each; in all, $17,080.
Under Architect of the Capitol: Chief engineer, $2,160;Chief engineer, etc. assistant engineer and electrician, $1,800; three assistant engineers, at 1254$1,440 each; ten elevator conductors, at $1,200 each; two machinists and electricians, at $1,400 each; laborers—four at $720 each, one in charge of Senate toilet rooms in old library space, $660; attendant for service in old library portion of the Capitol, $1,500; in all, $28,120. Elevator conductors, Senate Office Building.For the Senate Office Building, under the Architect of the Capitol, subject to the control and supervision of the Senate Committee on Rules:
Fourteen elevator conductors, at $1,200 each; in all, $16,800. Contingent expenses.Stationery.Contingent expenses: For stationery for Senators and the President of the Senate, including $7,500 for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $20,000. Postage stamps.Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $200; office of Sergeant at Arms, $100; in all, $300. Motor vehicles.For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles for carrying the mails, and for official use of the offices of the Secretary and Sergeant at Arms, $10,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Automobile, President. Folding.For driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile for the Vice President, $2,240. For materials for folding, $1,500. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 per thousand, $5,000. Fuel, etc.For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor, $2,000. Furniture.For purchase of furniture, $5,000. For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor, $3,000. For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, $2,000.
Packing boxes.For packing boxes, $970. Document Vice warehouse.For rent oi warehouse for storage of public documents, $1,800. Miscellaneous items.For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $100,000. Inquiries and investigations.For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate, including compensation to stenographers to committees, at such rate as may be fixed by the Committee to Audit and Control the Contingent Expenses of the Senate, but not exceeding $1.25 per printed page, $100,000.
Reporting debates.For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, payable in equal monthly installments, $40,000. Capitol police.capitol police. Pay.For captain, $1,800; three lieutenants, at $1,200 each; two special officers, at $1,200 each; thirty-three privates, at $1,050 each; one- half of said privates to be selected by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and one-half by the Sergeant at Arms of the House; in all $42,450. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses, $200.
Division of disbursements.One-half of the foregoing amounts under “Capitol police” shall be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and one-half by the Clerk of the House. Joint Committee on Printing.joint committee on printing. Clerk, etc.Vol. 28, p. 603.Congressional Directory.For clerk, $4,000; inspector, under section 20 of the Act approved January 12, 1895, $2,250; stenographer, $1,500; for expenses of compiling, preparing, and indexing the Congressional Directory, $1,600; in all, $9,350, one half to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and the other half to be disbursed by the Clerk of the House. 1255 legislative drafting service.Legislative drafting Service.
For salaries and expenses of maintenance of the Legislative DraftingExpenses.Vol. 40, p. 1141. Service, as authorized by section 1303 of the Revenue Act of 1918, $40,000, one-half of such amount to be disbursed by the Secretary of the Senate and one-half by the Clerk of the House of Representatives. house of representatives.House of Representatives. For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives,Pay of Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners. Delegates from Territories, the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, $3,304,500.
For mileage of Representatives and Delegates and expensesMileage. of Resident Commissioners, $175,000. For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others:Officers, clerks, etc. Office of the Speaker: Secretary to Speaker,Speaker’s Office.Digest of Rules. $4,000; clerk to Speakers table, $3,600, and for preparing Digest of the Rules, $1,000 per annum; clerk to Speaker, $1,600; messenger to Speaker, $1,440; messenger to Speaker’s table, $1,200; in all, $12,840. Chaplain:
For Chaplain,Chaplain. $1,200. For compensation of Henry N. Couden, chaplain emeritus of theHenry N. Couden. House of Representatives, in accordance with the resolution adopted January 6, 1921, $1,500. Office of the Clerk: Clerk of the House of Representatives including compensationClerk of the House, clerks, etc. as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, $6,500; Chief Clerk, $4,500; Journal clerk and two reading clerks, at $4,000 each; disbursing clerk, $3,400; tally clerk, $3,300; file clerk, $3,250; enrolling clerk, $3,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent; chief bill clerk, $3,000; assistant to Chief Clerk, and assistant enrolling clerk, at $2,500 each; assistant to disbursing clerk, $2,400; stationery clerk, $2,200; librarian, $2,100; assistant librarian, $2,100; assistant file clerk, $1,900; assistant librarian, messengers, and assistant Journal clerk, at $1,800 each; clerks—one $1,800, three at $1,680 each; bookkeeper, and assistant in disbursing office, at $1,600 each; four assistants to chief bill clerk, at $1,500 each; stenographer to Clerk, $1,400; locksmith, who shall be skilled in his trade, $1,300; messenger and typewriter repairer in Chief Clerk’s office, and assistant in stationery room, at $1,200 each; messenger in file room, messenger in disbursing office, and assistant in House library, at $1,100 each; stenographer to Journal clerk, $1,000; nine telephone operators, at $900 each; three session telephone operators, at $75 per month each from December 1, 1921, to June 30, 1922; substitute telephone operator when required, at $2.50 per day, $500; two laborers in bathroom, at $900 each; six laborers, at $720 each; page in enrolling room, $720; two janitors, at $720 each; allowance to Chief Clerk for stenographic and typewriter services, $1,000; in all, $104,145.
Under Architect of the Capitol: Chief engineer, $2,160; four assistant engineers at $1,440 each; machinist, $1,400;Chief engineer, etc. electrician, $1,400; twenty-four elevator conductors, including fourteen for service in the House Office Building, at $1,200 each, who shall be under the supervision and direction of the Architect of the Capitol; laborer, $800; three charwomen; in all, $41,040. Clerks, messengers, and janitors to the following committees: Accounts—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitorClerks, messengers, and janitors to committees. $1,000;
Agriculture—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $1,000; Appropriations—clerk $4,000 and $1,000 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, assistant clerk $3,000, assistant clerk and stenographer $2,500, assistant clerks—one $1,900, one $1,800, janitor $1,000; Banking and Currency—clerk $2,000, 1256assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Census—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Claims—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Coinage, Weights, and Measures—clerk $2,000, janitor $720;
District of Columbia—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720; Education—clerk $2,000; Election of President, Vice President, and Representatives in Congress—clerk $2,000; Elections Number One— clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000; Elections Number Two—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Elections Number Three—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Enrolled Bills—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Flood Control—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Foreign Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720;
Immigration and Naturalization—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Indian Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $720; Industrial Arts and Expositions—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Insular Affairs—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Interstate and Foreign Commerce—clerk $2,500, additional clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor, $1,000; Irrigation of Arid Lands—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Invalid Pensions—clerk $2,500, stenographer $2,190, assistant clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000;
Judiciary—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, janitor $1,000: Labor—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Library—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Merchant Marino and Fisheries—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Military Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $1,000; Mines and Mining—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Naval Affairs—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $1,000; Patents—clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Pensions—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,600, janitor $720; Post Offices and Post Roads—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,400, janitor $1,000:
Printing—clerk $2,000, janitor $1,000; Public Buildings and Grounds—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Public Lands—clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Reform in the Civil Service—clerk $2,000; Revision of the Laws—clerk $3,000, janitor $720; Rivers and Harbors—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor $1,000; Roads— clerk $2,000, janitor $720; Rules—clerk $2,000, assistant clerk $1,500, janitor $720; Territories—clerk $2,000, janitor $720;
War Claims— clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,200, janitor $720; Ways and Means— clerk $3,000, assistant clerk and stenographer $2,000, assistant clork $1,900, janitors—one $1,000, one $720; in all, $181,570. Clerks subject to Clerk of the House after close of Congress.Appropriations in the foregoing paragraph shall not bo available for the payment of any clerk or assistant clerk to a committee who does not, after the termination of the Congress during which he was appointed, perform his duties *Proviso*.Exception.under the direction of the Clerk of the House: *Provided,* That the foregoing shall not apply to the Committee on Accounts.
Janitors.Appointment, etc.Janitors under the foregoing shall be appointed by the chairman, respectively, of said committees, and shall perform under the direction of the Doorkeeper all of the duties heretofore required of messengers detailed to said committees by the Doorkeeper, and shall be subject to removal by the Doorkeeper at any time after the termination of the Congress during which they were appointed. Sergeant at Arms, deputy, cashier, etc.Office of Sergeant at Arms:
Sergeant at Arms, $6,500; deputy sergeant at arms, $2,500; cashier, $4,000; two bookkeepers, at $2,400 each; deputy sergeant at arms in charge of pairs, $1,800; pair clerk and messenger, $1,800; messenger, $1,400; stenographer and typewriter, $900; skilled laborer, $840; hire of automobile, $600; in all, $25,140. Police, House Office Building.For police force, House Office Building, under the Sergeant at Arms: Lieutenant, $1,200; thirteen privates, at $1,050 each; in all, $14,850.
Doorkeeper, special employee, etc.Office of Doorkeeper: Doorkeeper, $5,000; maintenance and repair of folding room motor truck, $500, or so much thereof as may be necessary; special employee, $1,800; superintendent of reporters’ 1257gallery, $2,000; janitor, $1,500; messengers—sixteen atMessengers, laborers, etc. $1,180 each, fourteen on soldiers’ roll at $1,200 each; laborers—seventeen at $720 each, two known as cloakroom men at $840 each, eight known as cloakroom men, one $600 and $120 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent, and seven at $600 each;
Folding room.Superintendent, etc.two female attendants in ladies’ retiring rooms at $800 each; superintendent of folding room, $2,500; foreman, $2,100; chief clerk to superintendent of folding room, $1,800; three clerks, at $1,600 each; janitor, $720; laborer, $720; thirty-one folders, at $900 each; shipping clerk, $1,200; two drivers, at $840 each; two chief pages, at $1,500 each; two messengers in charge of telephones (one for the minority), at $1,800 each; two assistant Pages, etc.messengers in charge of telephones (one for the minority), at $1,500 each; forty-four pages, during the session, including two riding pages, two telephone pages, press-gallery page, and ten pages for duty at the entrances Document room.Superintendent, etc.to the Hall of the House, at $2.50 per day each, $22,770; superintendent of document room, $2,900; assistant superintendent, $2,100; clerk, $1,700; assistant clerk, $1,600; eight assistants, at $1,280 each; janitor, $920; messenger to press room, $1,000; in all, $163,170.
For the employment of Joel Grayson in the document room,Joel Grayson. $2,500. For compensation of W. Ray Loomis for services as editor andW. Ray Loomis. compiler of the Weekly Compendium and Monthly Compendium and as assistant in the document room, $2,500. For minority employees authorized and named in theMinority employees. resolution of May 19, 1919: Special employee, $1,800; special messenger and assistant pair clerk, $1,800; two special messengers, at $1,800 each; special chief page and pair clerk, $1,800; in all, $9,000.
For assistant department messenger authorized and named inSpecial designated employees. the resolution of December 7, 1897, $2,000. For special messenger authorized and named in the resolution of January 15, 1900, $1,500. To continue employment of the assistant foreman of the folding room, authorized in the resolution of September 30, 1913, at $3.85 per day, $1,405.25. To continue employment of the person named in the resolution of April 28, 1914, as a laborer, $840. To continue employment of the laborer authorized and named in the resolution of December 19, 1901, $840.
Successors to any of the employees provided for in the sevenAppointment of successors. preceding paragraphs may be named by the House of Representatives at any time. Conference minority: Clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,500;Conference minority. janitor, $1,000; in all, $5,000; the same to be appointed by the chairman of the conference minority. To continue the employment of messengers in the majority andCaucus messengers. minority caucus rooms, to be appointed by the majority and minority whips, respectively, at $1,200 each; in all, $2,400.
Office of majority floor leader: Clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk,Majority floor leader. $1,500; janitor, $1,000; in all, $5,000. Office of Postmaster: Postmaster, $4,000; assistant postmaster,Postmaster, assist ant, etc. $2,200; registry and money-order clerk, $1,500; thirty-four messengers (including one to superintend transportation of mails), at $1,200 each; laborer, $720; in all, $49,220. For hire of vehicles for carrying the mails, $4,200, or so muchMail vehicles. thereof as may be necessary.
Official reporters: Six official reporters of the proceedingsOfficial reporters. and official reporters, debates of the House, at $6,000 each; assistant, $3,000; six expert transcribers, at $1,200 each; janitor, $980; in all, $47,180. Stenographers to committees: Four stenographers to committees,Stenographers to committees. at $6,000 each; janitor, $980; in all, $24,980. 1258 “During the session” to mean 207 days.Wherever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the two hundred and seven days from December 5, 1921, to June 30, 1922, both inclusive.
Clerk hire, Members, Delegates, etc.Clerk hire, Members and Delegates: For clerk hire necessarily employed by each Member, Delegate, and Resident Commissioner, in the discharge of his official and representative duties, $3,200 per annum, in *Proviso*.Application of payments.*Ante*, p. 162.monthly installments, $1,408,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided,* That the joint resolution approved July 11, 1919, shall apply to this appropriation in the same manner as it applied to the appropriation for clerk hire for Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners for the fiscal year 1921.
Contingent expenses.Folding materials.Contingent expenses: For wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste, twine, newspaper wrappers, and other necessary materials for folding, for use of Members, the Clerk’s office, and folding room, not including envelopes, writing paper, and other paper and Vol. 28, p. 624.materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitions from the Clerk of the House, under provisions of the Act approved January 12, 1895, $10,000. Furniture.For furniture, and materials for repairs of the same, including not to exceed $12,000 for labor, tools, and machinery for furniture repair shop, $30,000.
Miscellaneous items, etc.For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees, exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, $75,000. Stationery.For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners, including $5,000 for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, $60,000. Postage stamps.For postage stamps: Postmaster, $250; clerk, $450; Sergeant at Arms, $300; doorkeeper, $150; in all, $1,150.
Automobile, Speaker.For driving, maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobile for the Speaker, $2,240. Library of Congress.LIBRARY OF CONGRESS. Librarian, etc.General administration: Librarian, $7,500; chief assistant librarian, $4,500; chief clerk, $2,500; librarian’s secretary, $1,800; clerks—one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; stenographers and typewriters—one $1,200, one $900; messenger, $840; messenger to chief assistant librarian, $600; junior messenger, $420; operator of photographic copying machine, $600; in all, $24,060.
Mail and delivery.Mail and delivery: Assistants—one in charge $1,600, chief $1,200, one $960, one $780, one $600; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,560. Order and accession.Order and accession: Chief of division, $2,500; assistants—one $1,500, one $1,200, three at $960 each, two at $840 each, two at $600 each, one $580; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $12,380. Catalogue, classification, and shelf.Catalogue, classification, and shelf: Chief of division, $3,000; chief classifier, $2,000; assistants—four at $1,800 each, seven at $1,500 each, six at $1,400 each, twelve at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, fourteen at $960 each, four at $920 each, thirteen at $840 each, thirteen at $600 each, four at $540 each; six junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $92,020.
Binding.Binding: Assistants—one in charge $1,500, one $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $2,880. Bibliography.Bibliography: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, two at $960 each, one $840; stenographer and typewriter, $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $8,640. Reading rooms.Reading rooms (including evening service) and special collections: Superintendent, $3,000; assistants—two at $1,800 each, seven at $1,200 each (including one in room for the blind), three at $1,000 each, two at charging desk at $1,080 each, five at $960 each (including 1259one for Toner library and one for Washington library), one in room for the blind $900, thirty at $840 each, six at $600 each; stenographer and typewriter, $960; attendants—Senate reading room $960, Representatives’ reading room—one $960, one $840, two in cloakroom at $780 each, two for gallery and alcoves at $540 each; telephone operator, $720; four junior messengers, at $420 each; two watchmen, at $780 each; in all, $64,980.
Periodical (including evening service): Chief of division,Periodical. $2,000; assistants—chief, $1,500, two at $960 each, five at $840 each; stenographer and typewriter, $960; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $11,420. Documents: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—oneDocuments. $1,500, one $840; two translators, at $1,200 each; stenographer and typewriter, $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $9,120. Manuscript: Chief of division, $.3,000; assistants—chiefManuscript. $1,500, one $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,880.
Maps and charts: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—oneMaps and charts. $1,500, two at $960 each, one $840; junior messenger, $420; in all, $7,680. Music: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—oneMusic. $1,500, one $1,000, two at $840 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, $7,600. Prints: Chief of division, $2,000; assistants—onePrints. $1,500, two at $960 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,840. Smithsonian deposit: Custodian, $1,500; assistants—oneSmithsonian deposit. $1,500, one $840; junior messenger, $420; in all, $4,260.
Congressional Reference Library: Custodian, $2,000; assistantCongressional Reference Library.s— one $1,200, one $960, one $840; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $5,840. Law Library: Law librarian, $3,000; assistants—two atLaw Library. $1,400 each, one $960, one $600, one $540, one (evening service) $1,500; in all, $9,400. Semitic and Oriental Literature: Chief of division, $3,000;Semitic and Oriental Literature. assistants —one $1,500, one $900; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,820.
Copyright office: Register,Copyright office. $4,000; assistant register, $3,000; clerks—four at $2,000 each, four at $1,800 each, seven at $1,600 each, one $1,500, eight at $1,400 each, ten at $1,200 each, ten at $1,000 each, eighteen at $960 each, two at $860 each, ten at $780 each, four at $600 each, two at $480 each; four junior messengers, at $420 each. Arrears, special service: Three clerks, at $1,200 each; porter, $780; junior messenger, $420; in all, $104,740. Legislative Reference:
To enable the Librarian of Congress toLegislative Reference.Service designated. employ competent persons to gather, classify, and make available, in translations, indexes, digests, compilations, and bulletins, and otherwise, data for *Proviso*.Pay restriction.or bearing upon legislation, and to render such data serviceable to Congress and committees and Members thereof, $25,000: *Provided,* That not to exceed one person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $3,000 per annum.
Distribution of card indexes: For serviceCard indexes. in connection with distribution of card indexes and other publications of the Library: Chief of division, $3,000; chief assistant, $1,800; assistants—two at $1,600 each, three at $1,500 each, three at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, four at $1,100 each, four at $1,000 each; for services of assistants at salaries less than $1,000 per annum and for piecework and work by the hour, $21,000, including not exceeding $500 for freight charges, expressage, traveling expenses connected with such distribution, and expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $50,900.
Temporary services: For specialTemporary services. and temporary service, including extra special services of regular employees at the discretion of the Librarian, $2,500. 1260 Carrier service.Carrier service: For service in connection with the Senate and House Office Buildings, $960, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Sunday opening.Sunday opening: To enable the Library of Congress to be kept open for reference use from two until ten o’clock postmeridian on Sundays and legal holidays, within the discretion of the Librarian, including the extra services of employees and the services of additional employees under the Librarian, $10,000, of which $625 shall be immediately available, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Purchase of books, etc.Increase of Library of Congress: For purchase of books for the Library, including payment in advance for subscription books, and society publications, and for freight, commissions, and traveling expenses, and all other expenses incidental to the acquisition of books by purchase, gift, bequest, or exchange, to continue available during the fiscal year 1923, $90,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this object for the fiscal year 1921;
Law books.For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $3,000; Books for Supreme Court.For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court, to be a part of the Library of Congress, and purchased by the marshal of the Supreme Court, under the direction of the Chief Justice, $2,000; Periodicals.For purchase of miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, $5,000; In all, $100,000. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses:
For miscellaneous and contingent expenses, stationery, supplies, stock, and materials directly purchased, miscellaneous traveling expenses, postage, transportation, incidental expenses connected with the administration of the Library and the Copyright Office, including not exceeding $500 for expenses of attendance at meetings when incurred on the written authority and direction of the Librarian, $8,000. Care of building and grounds.Superintendent, etc.Library building and grounds:
Superintendent, $3,600; clerks— one $2,000, one $1,600, one $1,400, one $1,000; property clerk, $900; messenger; assistant messenger; three telephone switchboard operators, at $720 each; captain of watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of the watch, at $1,000 each; twenty-two watchmen, at $900 each; two carpenters, at $900 each; decorator, $1,400; painter, S900; foreman of laborers, S900; sixteen laborers, at $660 each; book cleaner, $720; laundress, $660; two attendants in ladies’ room, at $480 each; four check boys, at $360 each; mistress of charwomen, $425; assistant mistress of charwomen, $300; fifty-eight charwomen, at $240 each; chief engineer, $1,500; assistant engineers—one $1,200, three at $900 each; electrician, $1,500; machinists—one $1,000, one $900; two wiremen, at $900 each; plumber, $900; three elevator conductors, and ten skilled laborers, at $720 each; in all, $92,265.
Sunday opening.For extra services of employees and additional employees under the superintendent to provide for the opening of the Library Building from two until ten o’clock post-meridian on Sundays and legal holidays, $3,000. General expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous supplies, electric and steam apparatus, city directory, stationery, mail and delivery service, and all incidental expenses in connection with the custody, care, and maintenance of said building and grounds, including $1,000 for repairs to roof, *Proviso*.Delivery of Army truck.$16,000: *Provided,* That within thirty days after the approval of this Act the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to deliver to the Library of Congress, without payment therefor, one one-ton truck.
Furniture, etc.For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical work pertaining thereto, S12,000. For extension of the steel stack for storage of catalogue cards in the card division, $5,000. 1261 BOTANIC GARDEN.Botanic Garden. Salaries: For director, $3,000; assistant director,Director, assistant, etc. $1,800; clerk, $1,600; greenhouse foreman, 31,250; head gardener, $1,200; gardener in charge of greenhouses, $1,180; four gardeners at $1,100 each; outside foreman, $1,000; two clerks at $1,150 each; two shipping clerks at $1,000 each; carpenters—one $1,404, one $1,170; nine skilled laborers at $864 each; painter, $936; skilled laborers and laborers at rates to be fixed by the director, $17,500; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $48,516.
Repairs and improvements: For procuring manure, soil, tools,Repairs and improvements. fuel; purchasing trees, shrubs, plants, and seeds; materials and miscellaneous supplies; traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence of the director and his assistants not to exceed $300; street car fares not exceeding $25; office equipment and contingent expenses in connection with repairs and improvements to Botanic Gardens; exchange, care, and maintenance of motor-propelled delivery vehicles; purchase of botanical books and periodicals not to exceed $100; general repairs to buildings, heating apparatus, packing sheds, storerooms, and stables: painting, glaring; repairs to footwalks and roadways; repairing and putting comfort stations in sanitary condition; repairs and improvements to director’s residence; construction of two fumigating *Proviso*.Delivery of Army trucks.plants; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $28,000: *Provided*, That within thirty days after the approval of this Act the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to deliver to the Botanic Garden, without payment therefor, one three-ton and one one-ton truck.
The sum of $25 may be expended at any one time by theMinor purchases. Botanic Garden for the purchase of plants, trees, shrubs, and other nursery stock, without reference to section 4 ofVol. 36, p. 531. the Act approved June 17, 1910, concerning purchases for executive departments and other governmental establishments in Washington. EXECUTIVE.Executive. For compensation of the President of the United States, $75,000.President. For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, $12,000.Vice President.
Office of the President: Secretary, $7,500; executive clerk,Executive Office.Secretary, executive clerk, etc. $5,000; chief clerk, $4,000; appointment clerk, S3,500; record clerk, $2,500; expert stenographers—one $3,000, one $2,500; accounting and disbursing clerk, 32,500; two correspondents, at $2,500 each; clerks— two at $2,500 each, four at $2,000 each, seven of class four, two of class three, four of class two, three of class one; messengers—three at $900 each, three at $840 each; three *Proviso*.Details of employees.laborers, at $720 each; in all, $80,880: *Provided*, That employees of the executive departments and other establishments of the executive branch of the Government may be detailed from time to time to the office of the President of the United States for such temporary assistance as may be necessary.
For contingent expenses of the Executive Office, includingContingent expenses. stationery, record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, automobiles, expenses of garage, including labor, special services and miscellaneous items, to be expended in the discretion of the President, $36,000. BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY.Bureau of Efficiency. For carrying on the work of the Bureau of Efficiency as authorizedSalaries and expenses. by law, including salaries and contingent expenses; supplies; stationery; purchase and exchange of equipment; printing and binding: traveling expenses; per diem in lieu of subsistence; not to exceed 1262$100 for law books, books of reference, and periodicals; and not *Proviso*.Pay restriction.to exceed $100 for street car fare in all, $125,000: *Provided,* That not more than fifteen persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $3,000 per annum.
Civil Service Commission.CIVIL SERVICE COMMISSION. Commissioners, examiner, etc.*Proviso*.Status of secretary.Three commissioners, at $5,000 each; chief examiner, $3,500; secretary, $2,500: *Provided,* That the secretary of the Civil Service Commission shall be deemed an employee for the purposes of this Act; assistant chief examiner, $2,400; chiefs of divisions—one $2,400 (who shall act as assistant secretary), two at $2,000 each; certification clerk, $2,000; examiners—seven at $2,400 each, three at $2,000 each, six at $1,800 each; clerks—six of class four, twenty-eight of class three, thirty-nine of class two, fifty-two of class one, thirty-four at $1,000 each, twenty-two at $900 each; messenger, $840; assistant messenger, $720; skilled laborer, $720; four messenger boys, at $420 each.
Custodian force: Engineer, $840; general mechanic, $840; telephone-switchboard operator; two firemen, at $720 each; two watchmen, at $720 each; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; three laborers at $660 each; four charwomen; in all, $305,420. Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For temporary employees for the Civil Service Commission, $50,000: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, except one at $3,000.
Field force.Field force: District secretaries—two at $2,400 each, one $2,200, four at $2,000 each, five at $1,800 each; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class one, seven at $1,000 each, six at $900 each, five at $840 each; messenger boy, $480; in all, $45,680. Details from departments, etc., forbidden.No detail of clerks or other employees from the executive departments or other Government establishments in the District of Columbia, to the Civil Service Commission or its field force, excepting the fourth district, for the performance of Transfer of employees.duty in the District of Columbia, shall be made for or during the fiscal year 1922.
The Civil Service Commission shall, however, nave power in case of emergency to transfer or detail any of its employees herein provided for to or from its office force, field force, or rural carrier examining board. Expert examiners.Expert examiners: For employment of expert examiners not in the Federal service to prepare questions and rate papers in examinations on special subjects for which examiners within the service are not available, $2,000. Expenses under retirement Act.*Ante*, p. 619.To carry out the provisions of section 13 of the Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes,” approved May 22, 1920, *Proviso*.Pay restriction.including personal services in the District of Columbia, stationery, printing, purchase of books, office equipment, and other supplies, $40,000: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,740 per annum except one at $2,000 and four at $1,800 each.
Traveling expenses.For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners acting under the direction of the commission, and for expenses of examinations and investigations held elsewhere than at Washington, and including not exceeding $1,000 for expenses of attendance at meetings of public officials when specifically directed by the commission, $20,000. Contingent expenses.For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the Civil Service Commission, including furniture and other equipment and repairs thereto; supplies; telegraph and telephone service; freight and express charges; fuel, heat, light, and power; window washing; street car fares not to exceed $100; stationery; law books, books of reference, directories, newspapers, and periodicals, not to exceed $350; charts; purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks, motor 1263cycles and bicycles; maintenance and repair of electric conduit; postage stamps to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries; and special-delivery stamps; in all, $50,000.
For rent of building for the Civil Service Commission, $16,875,Rent. if space can not be assigned by the Public Buildings Commission in other buddings under the control of that commission. DEPARTMENT OF STATE.Department of State. For Secretary of State, $12,000; Undersecretary of State, to beSecretary, Undersecretary.Assistants, Director of Consular Service. appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of the Senate, $7,500; Assistant Secretary, Officers on drafting work.$5,000;
Second and Third Assistant Secretaries, at $4,500 each; Director of the Consular Service, $4,500; officers to aid in important drafting work—eight at $4,500 each, five at $4,000 each, fifteen at $3,500 each, fifteen at $3,000 each, seventeen at $2,500 each, to be appointed by the Secretary, any one of whom may be employed as chief or assistant chief of division or as chief of bureau, or upon other work in connection with the foreign relations; assistant solicitors of the department, to Assistant solicitors.Chief clerk, law clerks, clerks, etc.be appointed by the Secretary—five at $3,000 each, two at $2,500 each; chief clerk, who shall sign such official papers and documents as the Secretary may direct, $3,000; law clerks—one $2,500, two at $2,250 each, three at $2,000 each; law clerk and assistant, to be selected by the Secretary to edit the laws of Congress and perform such other duties as may be required of them, at $2,500 and $1,500, respectively; two translators, at $2,100 each; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; private secretary to the Undersecretary, $2,000; clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; clerks—twenty-seven of class four, thirty of class three, forty of class two, sixty-three of class one (three of whom shall be telegraph operators), forty at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each; lithographer, $1,400; chief messenger, $1,000; eight messengers; twenty-seven assistant messengers; four messenger boys at $420 each; packer, $720; seven laborers; four telephone switchboard operators at $720 each; chauffeur, $1,080; ten charwomen; in all, $603,640.
For temporary employees in the Department of State,Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. $275,000: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $4,500 per annum and not more than eight persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. No money appropriated by any other Act shall be used duringUse of other appropriations for personal services forbidden. the fiscal year 1922 for employment and payment of personal service in the Department of State in the District of Columbia.
Contingent expenses: For stationery, furniture,Contingent expenses. fixtures, typewriters, including exchange of the same, repairs and material for repairs, $30,000. For books, maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, for theLibrary. library, $5,000. For miscellaneous expenses, including maintenance and repairMiscellaneous. of a motor-propelled passenger vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; automobile mail wagons, including repair and exchange of same; street car fare not exceeding $150, and other items not included in the foregoing, $15,000.
For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for storage andRent. garage, $1,500. TREASURY DEPARTMENT.Treasury Department. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of the Treasury,Secretary, assistant to, Assistant Secretaries, etc. $12,000; assistant to the Secretary, $5,000; three Assistant Secretaries, at $5,000 each; clerk to the Secretary, $3,000; executive clerk, $2,400; stenographer, $1,800; three private secretaries, one to each Assistant 1264Clerks, actuary, etc.Secretary, at $1,800 each;
Government actuary, under control of the Treasury, $4,000; clerks—one of class four, four of class three, two of class two; chief messenger, $1,100; two assistant chief messengers, at $1,000 each; messengers—three at $900 each, five at $840 each: in all, $69,600. Additional employees.For additional employees for the fiscal year 1922, formerly paid from the appropriation “Expenses of loans”: Clerks—three of class four, three of class three, one of class one; messenger; messenger boy, $600; in all, $12,840.
Chief clerk, assistant, etc.Office of chief clerk and superintendent: Chief clerk, including $300 as superintendent of Treasury Building, who shall be the chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary of the Treasury to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries of the department, $4,000; assistant chief clerk, $3,000; assistant superintendent of Treasury Building, $2,500; administrative clerk, $2,000; clerks—one $2,000, four of class four, one of class three, four of class two, five of class one, one $1,000, one $900; operator of photographic copying machine, $800; two messengers; three assistant messengers: mimeograph operator, $720; messenger boy, $420; storekeeper, $1,200; telegraphers—one $1,400, one $1,200; telephone and telegraph Mechanical superintendent, engineers, etc.operator, $1,200; three telephone switchboard operators; mechanical superintendent, $2,250; chief engineer, $1,400; four assistant engineers, at $1,000 each (including one for outside buildings); eight elevator conductors, at $720 each, and the use of laborers as relief elevator conductors during rush hours is authorized; eight firemen; coal passer, $600; chief electrician, $1,600; locksmith and electrician, $1,400; captain of the watch, $1,400; three Watchmen, laborers, mechanics, etc.lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; sixty-five watchmen foreman of laborers, $1,200; assistant foreman of laborers, $840; eight chauffeurs, at $720 each; six automobile truck laborers, at $660 each; skilled laborer—two at $840 each, two at $720 each; two electricians at $1,200 each; wireman, $900; forty-five laborers; plumber, $1,100; painter, $1,100; plumber’s assistant, $780; attendant for emergency relief room, $660; head of char force, $720;
Winder Building. Cox Building. Auditors’ Building.eighty-five charwomen; carpenters—two at $1,000 each, one $720. Winder Building and annex: Engineer, $1,000; three firemen; elevator conductor, $720; six watchmen; four laborers (one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor); forewoman of char force, $480; twelve charwomen; female laborer for ladies’ toilets, $660. Cox Building, seventeen hundred and nine New York Avenue: Two watchmen; laborer. Auditors’ Building:
Forewoman of char force, $480; twenty-five charwomen; elevator conductor, $720; seven laborers (one of whom when necessary shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor); two female laborers, at $480 each; skilled laborer, $840; in all, $228,350. Employees payable from other appropriations.*Post*, pp. 1266, 1267, 1274.The following sums shall be deducted from the following appropriations in this Act, respectively, and shall be credited to the appropriation for the “Office of Chief Clerk and Superintendent, Treasury Department,” and be available for the employment of personnel in such office:
“Expenses of loans,” $50,000; “Salaries, Bureau of War Risk Insurance,” $30,000; “Collecting the War Revenue” and “Enforcement of Narcotic and National Prohibition Acts,” *Proviso*.Pay restriction.850,000; in all, $130,000: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. Buildings for bureaus.Care, etc.For employees for the care and protection of buildings for the accommodation of such bureaus of the department as may be assigned thereto, as follows:
Three elevator conductors, at $720 each; nine firemen; three female laborers, at $660 each; seven laborers (including three to assist elevator conductors when required); forewomen or 1265charwomen—one $660. one $480; thirty-six charwomen; eight watchmen; in all, $30,780. Arlington Building, Vermont Avenue and H Street: AssistantArlington Building.Operating force. superintendent, $2,000; master mechanic, $1,800; engineer, $1,400; two assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; six firemen; fifteen elevator conductors, at $720 each; oiler, $900; electrician, $1,400; wireman, $1,200; skilled laborer, $900; plumber, $1,200; plumber’s helper, $1,000; painter, $1,200; carpenter, $1,200; janitor, $1,200; twenty male laborers, at $660 each (four to attend toilets and two to relieve elevator conductors when required); eight female laborers, at $660 each; captain of the watch, $1,400; three lieu tenants of the watch, at $900 each; twenty-six watchmen; head of char force, $840; three assistant heads of char force, at $720 each; one hundred and fifty charwomen; in all, $113,220.
Treasury Department Annex, Pennsylvania Avenue andTreasury Madison Place.Annex, Operating force. Madison Place: Two assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; plumber, $1,200; three firemen; coal passer, $660; oiler, $900; four elevator conductors, at $720 each; five watchmen, at $720 each; eight male laborers, at $660 each (three of whom to attend toilets and relieve elevator conductors); two female laborers, at $660 each; janitor, $1,000; wireman, $1,000; carpenter, $1,200; head of char force, $720; twenty-five charwomen; in all, $30,320.
Treasury garage: Automobile mechanic, $1,400; two assistantGarage. automobile mechanics, at $1,000 each; two watchmen; in all, $4,840. Treasury Department Annex, Fourteenth and B StreetsAnnex, Fourteenth and B Streets NW.Operating force. northwest: Carpenter, $1,200; plumber, $1,200; electrician, $1,200; two mechanics, at $900 each; captain of the watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; twenty-one watchmen; janitor, $1,200; head of char force, $660; two assistant heads of char force, at $480 each; seventy charwomen; eight male laborers, at $660 each; four female laborers, at $660 each; in all, $51,260.
General Supply Committee: Superintendent of supplies, $2,500;General Supply Committee. clerks—chief $2,000, three of class four, three of class three, one $1,500, three of class two, five of class one; twelve temporary clerks for four months, at $75 each per month; assistant messenger; laborer; messenger boy, $480; in all, $31,860. For salaries of employees, office equipment, fuel, light, electricSalaries and expenses, transferring office supplies for departments, etc. current, telephone service, maintenance of motor trucks, and other necessary expenses for carrying into effect the Executive order of December 3, 1918, regulating the transfer of office material, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling *Provisos*.Pay restriction.into disuse because of the cessation of war activities, $120,000: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $2,500 per annum, and not more than three persons shall be employed Service continued to June 30, 1922.at a rate in excess of $1,800 per annum each: *Provided further,*That the said Executive order shall continue in effect until June 30, 1922, without modification, except that proceeds from the transfer of appropriations thereunder shall be covered into the Treasury as Cooperation of departments, etc., in transfers, etc.miscellaneous receipts: *Provided further,* That the heads of the executive departments and independent establishments and the Commissioners of the District of Columbia shall cooperate with the Secretary of the Treasury in connection with the storage and delivery of material, supplies, and equipment transferred under the foregoing order: *Provided further,* That within thirty days after the approval of this Act the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to transfer to the Secretary of the Treasury Transfer of Army motor trucks.without payment therefor two light motor trucks for use of the General Supply Committee: *Provided further,* That typewriters and computing machinesUse of unfit type writers, etc., for ex change. transferred to the General Supply Committee as surplus, where such machines have become unfit for further use, may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be issued to other Government departments and 1266establishments at exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies or sold commercially provided the price obtained is in excess of the exchange prices.
Repairs by General Supply Committee.Repairs to typewriting machines (except bookkeeping and billing machines) in the Government service in the District of Columbia may be Payment.made at cost by the General Supply Committee, payment therefor to be effected by transfer and counter warrant, charging the proper appropriation and crediting the appropriation “General Supply Committee, Transfer of Office Material, Supplies, and Equipment.” Bookkeeping and Warrants Division.Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants:
Chief of division, $4,000; assistant chief of division, $3,000; estimate and digest clerk, $2,500; executive clerk, $2,500; two principal bookkeepers, at $2,100 each; thirteen bookkeepers, at $2,000 each (including one transferred from Division of Public Moneys); clerks—twenty of class four (including four transferred from Division of Public Moneys), sixteen of class three (including three transferred from Division of Public Moneys), fifteen of class two (including five transferred from Division of Public Moneys), four of class one; two messengers; three assistant messengers; messenger boy, $480; in all, $133,920.
Additional employees.For additional employees for the fiscal year 1922 formerly paid from the appropriation “Expenses of Loans”: Clerks—one of class two, two of class one; in all, $3,800. Customs Division.Division of Customs: Chief of Division, $4,500; two assistant chiefs of division, at $3,000 each; law clerks—four at $2,500 each, three at $2,000 each; clerks—five of class four, four of class three, six of class two, nine of class one, five at $1,000 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; in all, $68,500.
Appointments Division.Division of Appointments (including section of surety bonds): Chief of division, $3,000; assistant chief of division, $2,250; executive clerk, $2,000; clerks—three of class four, three of class three, five of class two, four of class one, two at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger; assistant messenger; in all, $33,710. Additional employees.For additional employees for the fiscal year 1922 formerly paid from the appropriation “Expenses of loans”: Clerks—two of class three, two of class two, two of class one; in all, $8,400.
Surety Bonds Section.Section of Surety Bonds: Clerks—one of class three, one of class two, two of class one, one $1,000; assistant messenger; in all, $7,120. Loans and Currency Division.Division of Loans and Currency: Chief of division, $3,500; assistant chiefs of divisions—four at $2,700 each, one $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; accountant, $3,000; custodian of paper, $2,250; custodian of vaults, $2,000; two assistant custodians of vaults, at $1,800 each; six section chiefs, at $2,000 each; bond and interest clerk, $2,000; clerks, bookkeepers, and accountants—twelve at $2,000 each, twenty-two of class four, twenty-five of class three, two at $1,500 each, eighty of class two, one hundred of class one, twenty-one at $1,000 each, twelve at $900 each; counter clerks—one $1,400, twenty at $1,200 each, thirty at $1,100 each, thirty-eight at $1,000 each, thirty-two at $900 each, two at $800 each, five at $720 each; computing machine operator, one $1,000; proof readers—two at $1,200 each, two at $1,100 each; superintendent of addressograph force, $1,800; addressograph operators—one $1,600, three at $1,400 each, eight at $1,200 each, nine at $1,100 each, twenty at $1,000 each, one $900; five assorters at $1,000 each; three messengers; five assistant messengers; messenger boys— five at $480 each, three at $420 each; skilled laborers—four at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each, eight at $900 each; twelve laborers; in all, $637,250.
Expenses of loans.All expenses.*Ante*, p. 1264.Expenses of loans: For all necessary expenses, including rent, connected with any operations under the First Liberty Bond Act, the Second Liberty Bond Act (except section 12), the Third Liberty Bond Act, the Fourth Liberty Bond Act, the supplement to Second 1267Liberty Bond Act, and the Victory Loan Act, or connected with any operations in connection with other public debt issues or United States paper currency issues, with which the Secretary is charged, to be expended as the Secretary of the Treasury may direct, $3,750,000: *Provided,* That this appropriation shall not be*Provisos*.Use for personal services limited. available for the payment of personal services in the District of Columbia, except in the offices of the Secretary, the Register of the Treasury, the Division of Loans and Currency, and the Division of Public Debt Accounts and Audit: *Provided further,* That no person shall be employed hereunderPay restrictions. at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following:
One at not exceeding $3,500, seven at not exceeding $3,000 each, twelve at not exceeding $2,500 each, one at not exceeding $2,400, two at not exceeding $2,250 each, fourteen at not exceeding $2,200 each, twenty-four at not exceeding $2,000 each. Division of Printing and Stationery: Chief of division, $2,500;Printing and Stationery Division. assistant chief of division, $2,000; clerks—five of class four, four of class three, three of class two, throe of class one, one $1,000, one $900; bookbinder, $1,400; three messengers; assistant messenger; six laborers; two messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $39,040.
Division of Mail and Files: Chief of division, $2,500; registryMail and Files Division. clerk, $1,800; distributing clerk, $1,400; clerks—one of class two, one of class one, two at $1,000 each; mail messenger, $1,200; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $600; in all, $13,540. Office of disbursing clerk: Disbursing clerk, $3,000; deputyDisbursing clerks. disbursing clerk, $2,750; clerks—four of class four, three of class three, five of class two, two of class one; messenger; in all, $27,990.
Bureau of War Risk Insurance: For expenses of the Bureau ofWar Risk Insurance Bureau.Director, assistants, etc., in the District.*Ante*, p. 1264. War Risk Insurance, as authorized by law: For salaries of the director, and of such assistants, accountants, experts, clerks, and other employees in the District of Columbia as the Secretary of the Treasury Office supplies, etc.may deem necessary, $6,000,000; stationery and minor office supplies, $250,000; miscellaneous expenses, including telephones, telegrams, freight, express, foreign postage, not exceeding $300 for street car fares in the District of Columbia, and not exceeding $500 for law books, books of reference, and Printing.Pierce accounting machine.*Provisos*.Condition.periodicals, $30,000; printing and binding, $250,000; furniture, equipment, and supplies, $100,000;
Pierce accounting machine, $255,000: *Provided,* That no part of this sum shall be expended for the installation of machines until the Director of the War Risk Bureau certifies to the Secretary of the Treasury that said machines are working satisfactorily: traveling expenses, exclusive of field investigations, Field investigations, etc.$15,000; salaries and expenses of employees engaged in field investigations and expenses of not more than eight temporary branch offices, $500,000; maintenance, repair, and operation of a motor-propelled Exclusive employment.passenger vehicle, $400; in all, $7,400,400: *Provided,* That all employees appropriated for by this paragraph shall be engaged exclusively on the work of the Bureau of War Pay restriction.Risk Insurance during the fiscal year 1922: *Provided further,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following:
Three at not exceeding $7,500 each, five at not exceeding $5,000 each, sixteen at not exceeding $4,500 each, twenty at not exceeding $4,000 each, sixteen at not exceeding $3,500 each, twenty-six at not exceeding $3,000 each, thirty at not exceeding $2,500 each, and one hundred and fifty at not Soliciting reinstatement of insurance for bidden.exceeding $2,000 each: *Provided further,* That no part of this sum shall be expended for salaries or expenses in soliciting the reinstatement of lapsed insurance.
Federal Farm Loan Bureau: Four members of the board,Federal Farm Loan Bureau.Members of board, secretary, etc. at $10,000 each; assistant secretary, $3,000; four private secretaries, at $2,000 each; custodian of securities, $2,500: examiners of securities (not to exceed six in number) at not more than $3,000 per annum each, $14,700; twelve registrars, at $4,000 each; chief land bank 1268examiner, $5,000; supervising appraiser. $3,600; throe land bank examiners, at $3,000 each; accountant, $1,800; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, five of class two, five of class one, four at $1,000 each; stenographers—three at $1,400 each; three messengers; in all, $162,720;
Contingent expenses.For traveling expenses of the members of the board and its officers and employees; per diem in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $4; and contingent and miscellaneous expenses, including books of reference and maps, and exclusive of stationery and printing and binding, $15,000; Examinations.*Provisos*.Pay restriction.For the examination of national farm loan associations, including personal services and traveling expenses, $67,500: *Provided,*That no person shall Clerks, District of Columbia.be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $2,500 per annum: *Provided further,* That $2,500 of this sum may be expended for clerk hire in the District of Columbia;
In all, $245,220. Supervising Architect’s Office.Supervising Architect, superintendents, etc.*Post*, p. 1370.Office of Supervising Architect: Supervising Architect, $5,000; executive officer, $3,250; technical officer, $3,000: drafting division—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent, $2,750; mechanical engineering division—superintendent $2,750, assistant superintendent $2,400; structural division—superintendent $2,750, assistant superintendent $2,400; superintendents—computing division $2,750, repairs division $2,400, accounts division $2,500, maintenance division $2,500; files and records division—chief $2,500, assistant chief $2,250; head draftsman, $2,500; eight administrative clerks, at $2,000 each: four technical clerks, at $1,800 each; clerks—nine of class four, additional to one of class four as bookkeeper $100, four at $1,700 each, fourteen of class three, six at $1,500 each, thirteen of class two, eight at $1,300 each, twenty-one of class one, four at $1,100 each, seven at $1,000 each, three at $900 each, two at $840 each; photographer, $2,000; foreman, duplicating gallery, $1,800; two duplicating paper chemists, at $1,200 each; foreman, vault, safe, and lock shop, $1,200; five messengers; messenger boys—one $600, two at $480 each, two at $360 each; skilled laborers—four at $1,000 each, seven at $960 each, one $900, one $840; laborers—one $660, one $600; in all, $219,580.
Comptroller’s Office.Office of Comptroller of the Treasury: Comptroller, $6,000; assistant comptroller. $4,500; attorneys—three at $4,000 each, throe at $3,000 each; chief clerk, $2,500; chief law clerk, $2,500; law clerks—four at $2,400 each, three at $2,200 each, thirteen at $2,000 each; five expert accountants, at $2,100 each; private secretary, $1,800; clerks—fifteen of class four, ten of class three, seven of class two, six of class one, one $1,000; three messengers; three assistant messengers; laborer; in all, $157,340.
Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For temporary employees in the office of the Comptroller of the Treasury, $20,000: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $4,000 per annum. Office of Auditor for Treasury Department.Office of Auditor for Treasury Department: Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chief of division, $2,250; three chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; four assistant chiefs of division, at $1,920 each; clerks—thirty-eight of class four, forty-one of class three, forty-six of class two, thirty-two of class one, twenty-four at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; messenger; three assistant messengers; three laborers; in all, $295,360.
Temporary employees.For compensation to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, of such temporary employees (nonapportioned) as may be necessary to audit the accounts and vouchers of *Proviso*.Pay restriction.the bureaus and offices of the Treasury Department, $50,000: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,200 per annum. 1269 Office of Auditor for War Department: Auditor, $4,000;Office of Auditor for War Department. assistant and chief clerk, $2,500; chiefs of division—one $2,500, three at $2,250 each; law clerk, $2,000; five assistant chiefs of division, at $1,900 each; chief transportation clerk, $2,000; clerks— thirty of class four, fifty of class three, sixty of class two, one hundred of class one, fifty-two at $1,000 each, twenty-one at $900 each; foreman of messengers and laborers, $1,000; carpenter, $1,200; six messengers; ten assistant messengers; fifteen laborers; four messenger boys, at $480 each; in all, $464, 410.
For compensation of such temporary employees as may beTemporary employees. necessary to audit the accounts and vouchers of the bureaus and offices of the War Department, $250,000:*Proviso*.Pay restriction. *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, except the following: One at $3,000, three at $2,500 each, five at $2,250 each, and nine at $2,000 each. Office of Auditor for Navy Department: Auditor, $4,000;Office of Auditor for Navy Department. chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; two chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; two assistant chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty-seven of class four, forty-five of class three, forty-five of class two, sixty-five of class one, thirty-five at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each; helper, $900; messenger; two assistant messengers; three laborers; messenger boy, $480; in all, $324,790.
For compensation of such temporary employees as may beTemporary employees. necessary to audit the accounts and vouchers of the bureaus and offices of the Navy Department and the Marine *Proviso*.Pay restriction.Corps, $30,000: *Provided,*That no person snail be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. Office of Auditor for Interior Department: Auditor, $4,000;Office of Auditor for Interior Department. chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chief of division, $2,000; clerks—fifteen of class four, eighteen of class three, seventeen of class two, twenty of class one, four at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; four check assorters (unapportioned), at $1,000 each; two messengers; two assistant messengers; laborer; in all. $129,230.
Office of Auditor for State and Other Departments: Auditor, $4,000;Office of Auditor for State, etc., Departments. chief clerk, and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; two chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty-three of class four, one of class four (special examiner), twenty-six of class three, twenty-two of class two, twenty-eight of class one, ten at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; messenger; three assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, $178,470.
Office of Auditor for Post Office Department: Auditor,Office of Auditor for Post Office Department. $5,000; assistant and chief clerk, $3,000; law clerk, $3,000; expert accountant, $3,000; four chiefs of division, at $2,250 each; four assistant chiefs of division, at $2,000 each; three principal bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—twenty-five of class four, eleven of class three, sixteen of class two, twenty of class one, six at $900 each; skilled laborers—sixteen at $840 each; eleven at $720 each; messenger boys—five at $540 each, four at $480 each, five at $420 each; forewoman, $480; nineteen charwomen, at $240 each; in all, $184,520.
For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury,Employees on mechanical devises. of such number of employees as may be necessary to audit the accounts and vouchers of the Postal Service, $635,200. Postal Savings System: Clerks—eleven at $1,000 each;Postal Savings System. seven skilled laborers at $900 each; in all, $17,300. Office of the Treasurer: Treasurer’s Office. Treasurer, $8,000; Assistant Treasurer, $3,600; Deputy Assistant Treasurer, $3,200; cashier, $3,600; assistant cashier, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chiefs of divisions—two at $3,000 each, three at $2,500 each; three assistant chiefs of division, at $2,250 1270each; vault clerk, $2,500; principal bookkeeper, $2,500; two tellers, at $2,500 each; assistant tellers—two at $2,250 each, three at $2,000 each; five section chiefs at $2,000 each; assistant bookkeepers—two at $2,100 each, two at $2,000 each; interest teller, S2,000; vault clerk, bond division, $2,000; clerk for Treasurer, $1,800; coin clerk, $1,400; clerks—twenty-five of class four, twenty-eight of class three, eight at $1,500 each, thirty-two of class two, eignt at $1,300 each, one hundred and fifteen of class one, eighty-five at $1,000 each, twenty at $900 each; expert counters—forty at $1,200 each, ten at $1,100 each, forty-four at $1,000 each, ninety at $900 each, ten at $800 each; addressograph operator, $1,400; two skilled laborers, at $1,200 each; silver piler, $1,000; fourteen messengers at $840 each; eight assistant messengers; twenty-three laborers; messenger boys—eight at $600 each, fourteen at $480 each; eight at $360 each; in all, $731,950.
Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For temporary employees in the office of the Treasurer of the United States, $150,000: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: Three at $2,250 each, three at $2,100 each, and six at $2,000 each. Redemption of Federal reserve and national currency.For the force employed in redeeming the Federal reserve and national currency (to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks):
Superintendent, $3,500; teller, $2,500: bookkeeper, $2,400; assistant tellers—one $2,250; one $2,000; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; clerks—five of class four, seven of class three, nine of class two; expert counters—thirty five at $1,200 each, fifty-six at $1,000 each, fifty-two at $900 each, thirty-five at $800 each; two messengers; four assistant messengers; four charwomen; in all. $225,770. Temporary employees.For compensation of temporary employees in the Office of the Treasurer of the United States in redeeming Federal reserve and national currency, $280,620, to be *Proviso*.Pay restriction.reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, except the following:
One at $3,000, two at $2,750 each, one at $2,200, and one at $2,000. Postal Savings System.Postal Savings System: Accountant, $2,000; clerks—three of class two, two of class one, three at $1,000 each; expert counter, $900; in all, $12,500. Cutting machines.For repairs to canceling and cutting machines in the Office of the Treasurer of the United States, $200. Register’s Office.Office of Register of the Treasury: Register, $4,000; assistant register, $2,500; four chiefs of division at $2,000 each; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, ten of class two, thirteen of class one, one hundred and ten at $1,000 each, one $900; messengers—two at $840 each, one $720; five laborers; in all, $167,500.
Office of Comptroller of the Currency.Office of Comptroller of the Currency:Comptroller, $5,000; deputy comptrollers—one $3,500, one $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chiefs of divisions—one $2,500, two at $2,200 each; general bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; vault clerk, $2,000; clerks—eleven of class four, additional to bond clerk $200, seventeen of class three, nineteen of class two, twenty-seven of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each; stenographer, $1,600; multigraph operators—one $1,200, one $1,000; six counters, at $840 each; messenger; five assistant messengers; three laborers; messenger boys—one S480, one $420; in all, $168,560.
Federal reserve and national currency.For expenses of Federal reserve and national currency (to be reimbursed by the Federal Reserve and National Banks): Superintendent, $2,500; principal clerk, $2,000; teller, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, four of class two, five of class one, four at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; engineer, $1,000; counters— twenty-eight at $1,000 each, twelve at $840 each; assistant messen-1271ger; fireman, $720; messenger boy, $420; two charwomen: in all, $71,420.
For special examinations of national banks and bank plates,Special examinations, etc. keeping macerator in Treasury Building in repair, and for other incidental expenses attending the working of the macerator, and for procuring information relative to banks other than national, $5,000. Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue: Commissioner,Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue. $10,000; assistant to the commissioner, 35,000; five deputy commissioners, at 35,000 each; chemists—chief 33,000, one $2,500; assistant chemists—two at $1,800 each, one $1,600, one $1,400; heads of divisions—one $3,500, five at $2,500 each, five at $2,250 each; three assistant heads of divisions, at $2,000 each; attorney, $3,600; law clerk, $2,000; insurance expert, $2,000; railroad expert, $2,000; superintendent of stamp vault, $2,000; private secretary, $1,800; clerks— four at $2,000 each, fifty-two of class four, sixty of class three, ninety-eight of class two, eighty-three of class one, seventy-six at $1,000 each; fifty mail messengers at $900 each; forty-eight messengers; twenty-one assistant messengers; in all, $709,590.
For one stamp agent, $1,600, to be reimbursed by theStamp agent. stamp manufacturers. Office of the Coast Guard: Two chiefsCoast Guard Office. of divisions, at $3,000 each; two assistant chiefs of divisions, at $2,200 each; title and contract clerk, $2,000; law and contract clerk, $1,800; civil engineer, $2,250; topographer and hydrographer, $1,800; topographical draftsman, $1,500; draftsman, $1,500; chief accountant, $2,000; private secretary for captain commandant, $1,400; clerks—eight of class four, fourteen of class three, sixteen of class two, fifteen of class one, ten at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; two messengers; two assistant messengers; laborer; in all, $120,130.
The services of skilled draftsmen, and such other technicalTechnical services. services as the Secretary of the Treasury may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Coast Guard in connection with the construction and repair of Coast Guard cutters, to be paid from the *Proviso*.Limit.appropriation “Repairs to Coast Guard cutters”: *Provided,* That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1922 shall not exceed $8,000. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates.
Bureau of Engraving and Printing: Director,Engraving and Printing Bureau. $6,000; assistant director, $3,500; chief of division of assignments and reviews, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; disbursing agent, $2,400; cost accountant, $2,000; stenographer, $1,800; storekeeper, $1,600; assistant storekeeper, $1,000; clerk in charge of purchases and supplies, $2,000; clerks— four of class four, eight of class three, sixteen of class two, fourteen of class one, twelve at $1,000 each, fifteen at $900 each, fifteen at $840 each; nine attendants, at $600 each; three messengers; five assistant messengers; captain of watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of watch, at $900 each; eighty watchmen; two forewomen of charwomen, at $540 each; twenty-five day charwomen, at $400 each; seventy-seven morning and evening charwomen, Limit on paying for services.at $300 each; four laborers; eighty-five laborers, at $540 each; in all, $275,140; and no other fund appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used for services in the Bureau of Engraving and Printing, of the character specified in this paragraph, except in cases of emergency arising after the passage of this Act, and then only on the written approval of the Secretary of the Treasury, and in every such case of emergency a detailed statement of the expenditures on account thereof shall be reported to Congress at the beginning of each regular session.
Secret Service Division: Chief, $4,500; Secret Service Division.assistant chief, who shall discharge the duties of chief clerk, $3,500; clerks—two of class four, 1272one of class three, two of class two, three of class one; messenger, $840; in all, $20,440. Office of Director of the Mint.Office of Director of the Mint: Director, $5,000; examiner, $3,000; computer and adjuster of accounts, $2,200; assayer, S2,200; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, one of class one; private secretary, $1,400; assistant in laboratory, $1,200; messenger, $840; assistant messenger, $720; skilled laborer, $720; in all, $23,680.
Freight.For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise, between mints and assay offices, $15,000. Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expended under the direction of the director: For assay laboratory chemicals, fuel, materials, balances, weights, and other necessaries, including books, periodicals, specimens of coins, ores, and incidentals, $1,000. Examinations.For examinations of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purpose of Precious metals statistics.superintending the annual settlements, and for special examinations, and for the collection of statistics relative to the annual production and consumption of the precious metals in the United States, $6,000.
Public Health Service.Office salaries.Office of Surgeon General of Public Health Service: Chief clerk, $2,250: private secretary to the Surgeon General, $2,000; principal bookkeeper, $2,000; statistician, $2,000; technical assistant, $2,000; assistant editor, $1,800; librarian, $1,600; clerks—five of class four, six of class three, fifteen of class two (one of whom shall be translator), nineteen of class one, six at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; elevator conductor, $840; three messengers; three assistant messengers; telephone operator, $720; three laborers; in all, $92,970.
Contingent expenses.StationeryContingent expenses: For stationery, including tags, labels, and index cards printed in course of manufacture, for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, Additional, deducted from bureaus, etc.$214,400, and in addition thereto sums amounting to $232,100 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1922, as follows: Contingent expenses, mint at Philadelphia, $700; contingent expenses, mint at San Francisco, $300; contingent expenses, mint at Denver, $300; contingent expenses, assay office at New York, $700; materials and miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Engraving and Printing, $10,000; suppressing counterfeiting and other crimes, $1,100;
Public Health Service, $8,000; expenses of Coast Guard, $5,000; general expenses of public buildings, $6,000; collecting the revenue from customs, $75,000; collecting war revenue, $125,000; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $214,400, the total appropriation for stationery for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, with the exception of field officers located in foreign countries, for the fiscal year 1922.
Postage.For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union countries, and for postage for the Treasury Department, $1,500. Binding.For materials for the use of the bookbinder located in the Treasury Department, $250. Reference books, etc.For newspaper clippings, financial journals, law books, city directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $1,000. Freight, etc.For freight, expressage, telegraph and telephone service, $18,000.
Rent, D. C.For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Treasury *Proviso*.Restriction.Department, $57,050: *Provided,* That this appropriation shall not be available, except for the building at seventeen hundred and thirty-four New York Avenue, if space can be assigned by the Public Buildings Commission in other buildings under the control of that commission. Vehicles.For purchase, exchange, maintenance, and repair of motor trucks; purchase, exchange, and maintenance of horses including shoeing; purchase and repair of wagons, horse-drawn passenger-carrying 1273vehicles, and *Proviso*.Three Army motor trucks transferred.harness, all to be used for official purposes only, $5,000: *Provided,* That within thirty days after the approval of this Act the Secretary of War shall transfer without payment therefor to the Secretary of the Treasury for use of the Treasury Department three light motor trucks.
For purchase of file holders and file cases, $12,000.Files. For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils, and grease, grates,Fuel, etc. grate baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $25,000. For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and powerLighting. purposes, gas and electric light fixtures, electric light wiring and material, candles, candlesticks, droplights and tubing, gas burners, gas torches, globes, lanterns, and wicks, $24,000. For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings andMiscellaneous. fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower-garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps and repairs of same, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, toilet paper, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, street car fares nor exceeding $500, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public auction in the District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioner fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, $20,000.
For purchase of labor-saving machines and supplies for same,Labor saving ma chines, etc. including the purchase and exchange of registering accountants, numbering machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, and purchase of supplies for photographic copying machines, $10,000. For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum,Carpets, etc. mats, rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, $3,000.
For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair cane, chairFurniture, etc. covers, desks, Bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, typewriters, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $15,000. For operating expenses of the Arlington Building and annex,Operating expenses.Arlington Building. including fuel, electric current, ice, ash removal, and miscellaneous items, $60,000.
For operating expenses of the Treasury Department AnnexMadison Place Annex. Numbered 1 (Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place), including fuel, electric current, ice, ash removal, and miscellaneous items, $16,000. Treasury Department Annex Numbered 2 (Fourteenth and BAnnex, Fourteenth and B Streets NW. Streets northwest): For heating, electric current, electrical equipment, ice, removal of. trash, and miscellaneous expenses, $44,000. Darby Building: For heating, electric current, electricalDarby Building. equipment, ice, and miscellaneous items, $6,000.
Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Office of Auditor for the Post Office Department: For miscellaneous items,Auditor for Post Office Department.Contingent expenses. including purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters and adding machines, of which not exceeding $500 may be used for furniture and repairs, not exceeding $600 may be used for rental of telephones, and not exceeding $200 may be used for the purchase of law books, books of reference, and city directories, $9,000, to be expended under the direction of the Auditor for the Post Office 1274Department under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury and to operate as a specific exception of the said office from the appropriation for contingent expenses, Treasury Department, unless otherwise provided by law.
Tabulating equipment.For purchase of cards and tabulating equipment for use in auditing accounts and vouchers of the Postal Service, including exchange and repairs, $275,000, to be expended under the direction of the Auditor for the Post Office Department under rules and *Proviso*.Rent limitation.regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided,* That not exceeding $44,000 may be expended for the rental of tabulating and card-sorting machines. Collecting internal revenue.internal revenue.
Collectors, gaugers, etc.For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, deputy collectors, gaugers, storekeepers, and storekeeper gaugers, clerks, messengers, and janitors in internal-revenue offices, rent of offices outside of the District of Columbia, telephone service, injuries to horses not exceeding $250 for any horse crippled or killed, expenses in of seizure and *Proviso*.Witness fees.sale, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses in collecting internal-revenue taxes, $4,288,000: *Provided,* That no part of this amount shall be used in defraying the expenses of any officer, designated above, subpoenaed by the United States court to attend any trial before a United States court or preliminary examination *Post*, p. 1413.before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United States courts.
” Assessing, collecting, etc., taxes under Revenue Act, 1918.Vol. 40, pp. 1057, 1140.For expenses of assessing and collecting the internal-revenue taxes, as provided by the Revenue Act of 1918, including the employment of the necessary officers, attorneys, experts, agents, accountants, 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 outside the District of Columbia, postage, freight, express, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, furniture, mechanical devices, printing, stationery, law books and books of reference, *Proviso*.Punishing violations of revenue laws.and such other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia and the several collection districts, $29,600,000: *Provided,* That not more than $500,000 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 detection of such violation.
Refunding collections.Vol. 35, p. 325.To enable the Secretary of the Treasury to refund money covered into the Treasury as internal-revenue collections, under the provisions of the Act approved May 27, 1908, $250,000. Refunding illegally collected taxes.R.S., secs. 3220, 3689, pp. 618, 725.Vol. 40, p. 1145.For refunding taxes illegally collected under the provisions of sections 3220 and 3689, Revised Statutes, as amended by the Act of February 24, 1919, $12,000,000, of which not to exceed $8,000,000 may be used for the payment of such claims accruing prior to July 1, 1920, without special authorization and *Proviso*.Report of disbursements.appropriation by Congress in each individual case: *Provided,* That a report shall be made to Congress of the disbursements hereunder as required by the Act of February 24, 1919.
Enforcing National Prohibition and Narcotic Acts.*Ante*, p. 305.Vol. 38, p. 785; Vol. 40, p. 1130.For expenses to enforce the provisions of the “National Prohibition Act” and the Act entitled “An Act to provide for the registration of, with collectors of internal revenue, and to impose a special tax upon, all persons who produce, import, manufacture, compound, deal in, dispense, sell, distribute, or give away opium or cocoa leaves, their salts, derivatives, or preparations, and for other purposes,” approved 1275December 17, 1914, as amended by the “Revenue Act of 1918,” including the employment of executive officers, agents, inspectors, chemists, assistant chemists, supervisors, clerks, and messengers in the field and in the bureau of internal revenue in the District of Columbia, to be appointed as authorized by law; the securing of evidence of violations of the Acts, and for the purchase of such supplies, equipment, mechanical devices, laboratory supplies, books, necessary printing and binding and such other expenditures as may be necessary in the District of *Provisos*.Rent in the District.Columbia and several field offices, and for rental of necessary quarters, $7,500,000: *Provided,* That not to exceed $49,500 of the foregoing sum shall be expended for rental of quarters in the District of Columbia if space can not be assigned by the Public Buildings Commission in other buildings under the control of that Narcotic enforcement.commission: *Provided further,* That not to exceed $750,000 of the foregoing sum Advances by disbursing agents.shall be expended for enforcement of the provisions of the said Act of December 17, 1914: *Provided further,*That not to exceed $25,000 of the total amount appropriated shall be available for advances to be made by special disbursing agents when authorized by the [R.
S., sec. 3648, p. 718](/us/rs/s3648/p718).Commissioner of Internal Revenue and approved by the Secretary of the Treasury, the provisions of section 3648 of the Revised Statutes to the contrary notwithstanding. The Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall submit toAnnual statement of expenses in the District, etc. Congress on the first day of its next regular session a detailed statement snowing the number, designation, and annual rate of compensation of the persons employed and the amounts expended for rent and other authorized purposes in the District of Columbia from the foregoing appropriations for internal revenue.
MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICES.Mints and assay offices. Denver, Colorado, Mint: Denver, Colo.Superintendent, $4,500; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coming department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $2,500; deposit weight clerk, $2,000; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant assayer, $2,200; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; assistant cashier, $1,800; clerks—two at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, one $1,400; private secretary, $1,200; in all, $44,800.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $110,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new*Ante*, p. 1272. machinery and repairs, wastage in melting and refining department and coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $90,000. New Orleans, Louisiana, Mint: New Orleans, La.Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $2,500; assistant assayer, $1,500; chief clerk, who shall perform the duties of cashier, $1,500; in all, $5,500.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $6,250. For incidental and contingent expenses, $2,000. Philadelphia Mint: Philadelphia, Pa.Superintendent, $4,500; engraver, $4,000; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; assistant assayer, $2,200; cashier, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,500; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; assistant cashier, $1,800; curator, $1,800; clerks—one $2,000, one $1,700; eight at $1,600 each, one $1,500, six at $1,400 each; one $1,300, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; in all, $68,600.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $350,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new*Ante*, p. 1272. machinery and repairs, cases and enameling for medals manufactured, expenses of the annual assay commission, wastage in melting and refining and in coining departments, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coins, and not exceeding 1276$1.000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint, $140,000.
San Francisco, Calif.San Francisco, California, Mint: Superintendent, $4,500; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,000; superintendent, coining department, $2,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, $2,500; bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant assayer, $2,200; assistant cashier, $1,800; assistant bookkeeper, $1,800; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; deposit weigh clerk, $2,000; clerks— one $2,000, three at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, one $1,400, two at $1,000 each; private secretary, $1,400; in all, $48,400.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $200,000. *Ante*, p. 1272.For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department and in the coining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $75,000. Boise, Idaho.Boise, Idaho, assay office: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of cashier, $1,200; in all, $4,200.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,300. Deadwood, S. Dak.Deadwood, South Dakota, assay office: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; clerk, $1,000; in all, $4,000. For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,200. Helena, Mont.Helena, Montana, assay office: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of cashier, $1,400; assistant assayer, $1,200; in all, $4,400.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,500. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,600. New York, N. Y.New York assay office: Superintendent, $5,000; assayer, $3,000; superintendent, melting and refining department, $3,500; chief clerk, $2,500; cashier, deposit weigh clerk, and assistant assayer, at $2,500 each; assayer’s assistant, $2,000; bookkeeper, $2,350; assistant cashier, $1,800; clerks—two at $2,000 each, five at $1,800 each, one $1,600, one $1,500, one $1,250, seven at $1,000 each; private secretary, $1,400; in all. $53,400.
For wages of workmen and other employees, $145,200. *Ante*, p. 1272.For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion, $115,500. Salt Lake City, Utah.Salt Lake City, Utah, assay office: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, chief clerk, and cashier, $1,800; for services of workman and other employees, $1,500; for incidental and contingent expenses, $600; in all, $3,900.
Seattle, Wash.Seattle, Washington, assay office: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $2,750; assistant assayer, $2,000; chief clerk, who shall also perform the duties of cashier, $2,000; clerks—one $1,700, one $1,600, one $1,400; in all, $11,450. For wages of workmen and other employees, $15,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including rent of building, $5,700. Carson City, Nev.Carson City, Nevada, Mint: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, chief clerk, and cashier, $1,800.
For services of workman and other employees, $1.500. For incidental and contingent expenses, $600. 1277 WAR DEPARTMENT.War Department. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of War, $12,000;Secretary, Assistant, assistant and chief clerk, etc. Assistant Secretary, $5,000; assistant and chief clerk, who shall sign such official papers and documents as the Secretary may direct, $4,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary, $2,000; stenographer to the Secretary, $2,000; clerk to the Assistant Secretary, $2,400; assistant chief clerk, $2,400; disbursing Chiefs of divisions, etc.clerk, $2,750; appointment clerk, $2,250; four chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; superintendent of buildings outside of State, War, and Navy Department Building, in addition to compensation as chief of division, $500; chief telegrapher, $1,800; clerks—six of class four, seven of class three, fifteen of class two, twenty of class one, five at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; foreman, $1,200; carpenters—one $1,200, one $1,080; chief messenger, $1,000; skilled laborer, $1,080; six messengers; nine assistant messengers; two telephone switchboard operators; eight laborers; two chauffeurs, at $840 each; in all, $146,880.
For additional employees in the Office of the Secretary of War,Additional employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. $75,000: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, except the following: Two at $2,500 each, two at $2,200 each, and one at $2,000. Adjutant General’s Office:Adjutant General’s Office. Chief clerk, $2,750; ten chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; clerks—fifty-eight of class four, seventy-four of class three, one hundred and sixteen of class two, two hundred and thirty-one of class one, ninety-three at $1,000 each; engineer, $1,400; assistant engineer, $900; two firemen at $720 each; skilled mechanic, $1,000; eleven messengers; sixty-one assistant messengers; four watchmen; twenty-one laborers; in all, $852,790; all employees provided for by this paragraph for The Adjutant General’s Office of the War Department shall be exclusively engaged on the work of this office for the fiscal year 1922.
For additional employees in the Office of The Adjutant General,Additional employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. $797,210: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: Six at $2,400 each, two at $2,000 each. Office of Inspector General: Chief clerk,Inspector General’s Office. $2,000; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, five of class one, one $1,000; messenger; assistant messenger; in all, $21,560.
Office of Judge Advocate General: Judge Advocate General’s Office.Chief clerk and solicitor, $2,500; law clerks—one $2,400, one $2,000; clerks—two of class four, three of class three, four of class two, eight of class one, two at $1,000 each; three messengers; assistant messenger; in all, $35,740. For additional employees in the Office of the Judge AdvocateAdditional employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. General, $25,000: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum.
Signal Office: Chief clerk,Signal Office. $2,000; clerks—tour of class four, three of class three, five of class two, eight of class one, nine at $1,000 each; five messengers; three assistant messengers; in all, $45,960. For additional employees in the Signal Office, $20,000:Additional employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. *Provided,*That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as theSkilled draftsmen, etc.
Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the Signal Office to carry into effect the various appropriations for fortifications and other works of defense, and for the Signal Service of the Army, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated for in the*Proviso*.Limit, etc. Signal Office: *Provided,*That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1922 shall not exceed $40,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year 1278in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Air Service Office.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.Office of Chief of Air Service: For employees in the office of the Chief of the Air Service, $350,000: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: Three at $2,400 each, three at $2,250 each, and three at $2,000 each. TTechnical services, etc.he services of aeronautical engineers, skilled draftsmen, and such other technical services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Air Service to carry into effect the various appropriations for aeronautical purposes, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the foregoing employees appropriated *Proviso*.Limit, etc.for in the office of the Chief of Air Service: *Provided,* That the entire expenditure for this purpose for the fiscal year 1922 shall not exceed $65,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Quartermaster General’s Office.Office of Quartermaster General: Chief clerk, $2,750; principal clerks—five at $2,250 each, three at $2,000 each; clerks— fifteen of class four, twenty-nine of class three, fifty of class two, ninety-three of class one, thirty-nine at $1,000 each, ten at $900 each; draftsmen—three at $1,800 each, seven at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each; hydraulic and. sanitary engineer, $2,000; civil engineer, $1,800; electrical engineer, $2,000; electrical and mechanical engineer, $2,250; marine engineer, $3,500; sanitary and heating engineer, $1,800; six messengers; fourteen assistant messengers; twelve laborers; laborer, $600; in all, $383,590.
Additional employ ees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For additional employees in the office of the Quartermaster General, $543,140: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed here under at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except one at $4,000, two at $3,000 each, two at $2,400 each, one at $2,250, and five at $2,000 each. Cemeterial Division.Compiling data, etc., bringing remains from abroad.*Post*, p. 1386.The sum of $180,000 of appropriations available during the fiscal year 1922 for the “Disposition of remains of officers, soldiers, and civilian employees, War Department,” may be expended for personal services in the Cemeterial Division, office of the Quartermaster General, for compiling, *Proviso*.Pay restriction.recording, preparing and transmitting data incident to bringing home and disposition of remains from abroad: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed under this allotment at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except one person at $2,000.
Finance Office.Office of Chief of Finance: For employees in the office of the Chief of Finance, *Proviso*.Pay restrictions, etc.$325,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: One at $5,000, one at $3,000, two at $2,750 each, one at $2,400, one at $2,250, four at $2,000 each; auditors for Red Cross accounts—one $3,500, one $3,000, four at $2,750 each. Surgeon General’s Office.Office of Surgeon General:
Chief clerk, $2,250; principal assistant librarian, $2,250; principal clerk, $2,000; pathologist, $1,800; microscopist, $1,800; assistant librarian, $1,800; anatomist, $1,600; entomologist, $1,600; photographer, $1,500; two translators, at $1,800 each; clerks—fourteen of class four, thirteen of class three, twenty-six of class two, thirty-six of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; engineer, $1,400; skilled mechanic, $1,000; two messengers; seven assistant messengers; three firemen; three watchmen; superintendent of building (Army Medical Museum «and Library), $200; six laborers; four charwomen; in all, S179,160.
Additional employees.*Proviso.*Pay restriction.For additional employees in the office of the Surgeon General, $60,000: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. 1279 Office of Chief of Ordnance: Chief clerk,Ordnance Office. $2,500; chief of division, $2,000; principal clerk, $2,000; clerks—eight of class four, ten of class three, seventeen of class two, thirty-six of class one, twelve at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; messengers—two at $840 each, two at S780 each, two at $720 each; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $126,460.
For additional employees in the office of the Chief of Ordnance,Additional employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. $60,000: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as theSkilled draftsmen, etc. Secretary of War may deem necessary may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Ordnance to carry into effect the various appropriations for the armament of fortifications and for the arming and *Proviso*.Limit, etc.equipping of the National Guard, to be paid from such appropriations: *Provided,* That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1922 shall not exceed $300,000, and the Secretary of War shall each year in the annual estimates report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Office of Chief of Engineers: ChiefEngineer Office. clerk, $2,250; two chiefs of divisions at $2,000 each; clerks—eight of class four, twelve of class three, fifteen of class two, twenty of class one, fourteen at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; six messengers; three assistant messengers; laborer; messenger boy, $400; in all, $112,510. For additional employees in the office of the Chief of Engineers,Additional employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. $10,000: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum.
The services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and suchSkilled draftsmen, etc. other services as the Secretary of War may deem necessary, may be employed only in the office of the Chief of Engineers, to carry into effect the various appropriations for rivers and harbors, surveys, preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and bills, fortifications, *Proviso*.Limit, etc.engineer equipment of troops, engineer operations in the field, and other military purposes, to be paid from such appropriations: *Provided,* That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1922 shall not exceed $150,000; the Secretary of War shall each year, in the annual estimates, report to Congress the number of persons so employed, their duties, and the amount paid to each.
Bureau of Insular Affairs: Chief clerk,Insular Affairs Bureau. $2,250; clerks—ten of class four, seven of class three, eleven of class two, fourteen of class one, ten at $1,000 each; three messengers; two assistant messengers; four laborers; two charwomen; in all, $80,730. Militia Bureau: ChiefMilitia Bureau. clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, three of class three, seven of class two, fifteen of class one, eight at $1,000 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, $49,800.
Office of Chief of Coast Artillery:Coast Artillery Office. Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, five of *Proviso*.Details from Army permitted.class one, three at $1,000 each; three messengers, at $720 each; in all, $22,360: *Provided,* That nothing contained in this Act or any other Act shall be construed as precluding the detail upon duties of a technical or military nature of not to exceed eight warrant officers, or enlisted men of the Coast Artillery Corps, in the Office of the Chief of Coast Artillery.
Office of Chief of Chemical Warfare Service: For employees inChemical Warfare Office.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. the office of the Chief of the Chemical Warfare Service, $24,000: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except one at $3,000 and one at $2,000. 1280 Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses, War Department: For purchase of professional and scientific books, law books, including their exchange; books of reference, blank books, pamphlets, periodicals, newspapers, maps; typewriters and adding machines; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, fuel gas, and heating apparatus for and repairs to buildings (outside of the State, War, and Navy Department Building) occupied by the War Department and its bureaus; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks and motor cycles, and one motor-propelled Per diem subsistence.passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; street car fares, not exceeding $750; and other absolutely necessary expenses, including a per diem allowance not to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, $150,000.
Stationery.For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices, $100,000. Postage stamps.For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, $500. Rent, D. C.For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the War Department, $23,700. Public buildings and grounds.PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS. Superintendent, assistant and chief clerk, etc.Office of public buildings and grounds:
Superintendent, $3,600; assistant and chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class two, two of class one; messenger; landscape architect, $2,400; junior engineer, $1,500; in all, $17,940. Foremen, etc.For foremen, gardeners, mechanics, and laborers employed in the public grounds, $31,200. Park police.Park police: Lieutenant, $1,900; first sergeant, $1,700; two sergeants, at $1,580 each; fifty-three privates, at $1,360 each; in all, $78,840. Wakefield, Va.For watchmen for the care of the monument and dock at Wake field, Virginia, the birthplace of Washington, $300.
Contingent expenses.For contingent and incidental expenses, including purchase of professional and scientific books and technical periodicals, books of reference, blank books, photographs, and maps, $800. For purchase, repair, and exchange of bicycles and revolvers for park police and for purchase of ammunition, $1,500. For purchase, maintenance, repair, operation, and exchange of motor cycles for park police, $1,200. Uniforms.For purchasing and supplying uniforms to park police, and Monument and bridge watchmen, $5,120.
Part from District revenues.Of the foregoing amounts appropriated under public buildings and grounds, the sum of $81,960 shall be paid out of the revenues of the District of Columbia and $54,640 shall be paid from the Treasury of the United States. State, War, and Navy Department Buildings.STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS. Assistant to superintendent.Office of the Superintendent: For an assistant to the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings in the administration of the force under the superintendent, $3,600.
Main building.Operating force.State, War, and Navy Department Building: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; clerks—two of class one, one $1,000; chief engineer, $1,800; five assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; electrical machinist, $1,200; captain of the watch, $1,200; two lieutenants of the watch, at $840 each; thirty-eight watchmen; carpenter, $1,000; chief electrician, $1,400; electrician, $1,200; machinist, $1,000; painter, $1,000; plumber, $1,000; three dynamo tenders, at $900 each; seven skilled laborers or general mechanics, at $840 each; bricklayer, $1,200; 1281messenger; foremen of laborers, $840; chauffeur, $1,000; sixteen firemen; sixteen elevator conductors, at $720 each; two foremen or forewomen, at $780 each; fifty laborers; gardener, $720; three attendants, at $480 each; in all, $123,460.
For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, and cityPainting, etc. directories, $55,000. For painting exterior metal work, including window sash,Painting, etc. $15,000. For reboring cylinder of elevator numbered five, $2,500. For replacing canvas awning covers, $1,500. Walker-Johnson Building, 1734 New York Avenue: Engineer,Walker-Johnson Building.Operating expenses. $1,200; four firemen; three elevator conductors at $720 each; five watchmen; general mechanic or skilled laborer, $840; seven laborers; attendant, $480; in all, $15,780.
For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items, $9,000. For replacing canvas covers, $300. Potomac Park Office Buildings: Potomac Park buildings.Operating force.For the following employees for the maintenance and protection of the buildings: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, two of class two, two of class one, two at $1,000 each; three messengers, at $720 each; chief engineer, $1,800; assistant engineers—one $1,600, four at $1,400 each; storekeeper, $1,200; chief electrician, $1,600; electricians—two at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; foreman carpenter, $1,600; carpenters—three at $1,400 each, five at $1,200 each; foreman painter, $1,400; painters—two at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; plumbers—one $1,400, three at $1,200 each; steam fitters—two at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; machinist, $1,400; four switchboard operators, at $1,200 each; four general mechanics, at $1,000 each; guards—captain, $1,600, three lieutenants at $1,080 each, three sergeants at $930 each, twenty- three at $780 each, twenty-three at $720 each; fire marshal, $1,080; foreman of laborers, $1,400; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $960 each; six foremen or forewomen, at $780 each; one hundred and forty laborers; laborers and charwomen, $120,000; twenty-two female laborers, at $480 each; in all, $345,530.
For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, and cityOperating expenses. directory, including maintenance, repair, exchange, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying *Proviso*.Delivery of Army automobile.vehicle to be used for official purposes only, $220,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War is authorized and directed to transfer without cost to the Superintendent of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings one Mall passenger-carrying automobile.
Mall office buildings: ForMall office buildings.Operating force. the following employees for the maintenance and protection of the temporary office buildings in the Mall (Units C, D, E, and F, located in Henry Park, Seaton Park, and the Smithsonian Grounds): Assistant superintendent, $2,000; chief clerk, $1,800; clerks—one of class three, two of class two, three of class one, two at $1,000 each; two messengers at $720 each; chief engineer, $1,800; assistant to chief engineer, $1,600; three assistant engineers at $1,200 each; storekeeper, $1,200; foreman carpenter, $1,600; carpenters—four at $1,400 each, six at $1,200 each; chief electrician, $1,600; electricians—two at $1,400 each, six at $1,200 each; foreman plumber, $1,400; three plumbers at $1,200 each; steam fitters—two at $1,200 each; machinist, $1,200; foreman painter, $1,400: two painters, at $1,200 each; eight general mechanics at $1,000 each; firemen—six at $840 each, seven at $720 each; captain of the guard, $1,600; lieutenants of the guard—three at $1,080 each; fire marshal, $1,080; sergeants of the guard—three at $930 each, one $840; guards—eighty at $780 each; foremen of laborers, $1,400; two assistant foremen of laborers at $960 each; nine foremen or fore women at $780 each; fifty-eight laborers; laborers and charwomen, $70,000; ten female laborers, at $480 each; in all, $275,290. 1282 Removal of designated buildings.The commission in charge of the State, War, and Navy Department buildings is authorized to remove, by sale or otherwise as may be to the best interests of the United States, units A and B of the Mall group of temporary office buildings and the Council of National Defense Building, located on D Street between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Streets northwest, and the Corcoran Court Building, located on New York Avenue between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Streets northwest.
Operating expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, motor cycle and truck repairs, supplies, and exchange of same, miscellaneous items, printing, and city directories, $160,000. Building, Eighteenth Street and Virginia Avenue NW.Operating force.Temporary off ice building (1800 Virginia Avenue Northwest):For the following employees for the maintenance and protection of the building: Clerk of class one; chief engineer, $1,400; assistant engineer, $1,000; six firemen, at $840 each; four coal passers, at $720 each; electrician, $1,200; carpenter, $1,200; general mechanic, $1,000; guards—three sergeants, at $930 each, twelve privates, at $780 each; foreman of laborers, $840; foreman or forewoman, $780; ten laborers; laborers and charwomen, $6,000; three female laborers, at $480 each; in all, $42,730.
Operating expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, ground rent, miscellaneous items, printing, and city directory, $27,500. Designated temporary office buildings.Temporary office buildings: For employees for the maintenance and protection of the temporary office buildings known as follows: War Trade Building, between B and C Streets and Twentieth and Twenty-first Streets northwest; Food Administration Building Numbered One, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets and C and D Streets northwest;
Food Administration Building Numbered Two, between New York Avenue and D Street and Nineteenth and Twentieth Streets northwest; Fuel Administration Buildings Numbered One and Two, bounded by Virginia Avenue, Eighteenth and C Streets northwest; Fuel Administration Building Numbered Three, on D Street, between Twentieth and Twenty-first Streets northwest; H. L. Pettus Building, on Nineteenth Street, between Virginia Avenue and D Street northwest; and Archie Butt Building, seventeen hundred and twenty-five New York Avenue Operating force.northwest:
Assistant superintendent, $2,000; principal clerk, $2,000; clerks—one of class three, one of class two, three of class one; two messengers at $840 each; chief electrician, $1,600; electricians—one $1,400, three at $1,200 each; foreman carpenter, $1,600; carpenters—one $1,400, four at $1,200 each; plumbers—one $1,400, two at $1,200 each; steam fitter, $1,400; painters—three at $1,200 each; six general mechanics at $1,000 each; assistant engineers—one $1,400, three at $1,200 each; thirteen firemen at $840 each; eleven coal passers at $720 each; guards—captain $1,600, three lieutenants at $1,080 each, eight sergeants at $900 each, eighty privates at $780 each; fire marshal, $1,200; foreman of laborers, $1,000; two assistant foremen of laborers at $840 each; six foremen or forewomen, at $720 each; twenty-six laborers; five female laborers at $480 each; laborers and charwomen, $50,000; in all, $217,520.
Operating expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, ground rent, miscellaneous items, city directories, and printing, $140,000. Navy Department.NAVY DEPARTMENT. Office of the Secretary: Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.Secretary of the Navy, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, $5,000; chief clerk, $3,000; private secretary to Secretary, $2,500; clerk to Secretary, $2,250; private secretary to Assistant Secretary, $2,400; clerk to Assistant Secretary, $2,000; appointment clerk, $2,250; printing clerk, $2,000; stenographers—one $1,800, one $1,200; clerks—one of class four, three of class three, 1283five of class two, five of class one, one $1,100, six at $1,000 each; carpenter, $1,000; four messengers; four assistant messengers; laborer; messenger boys—three at $600 each; in all, $72,800.
For temporary employees in the office of the Secretary of theTemporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. Navy, $45,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed here under at a rate of compensation in excess of $1,800 per annum except the following: One at $3,000, four at $2,400 each, and two at $2,000 each. Office of Solicitor:Solicitor’s Office. Solicitor, $4,000; law clerks—one $2,500, one $2,400, one $2,250, two at $2,000 each; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, one of class two, one $840; messenger, $600; in all, $22,990.
For temporary employees in the Office of the Solicitor for theTemporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. Navy Department, $20,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: Two at $2,400 each, one at $2,250. Office of Naval Records and Library: Naval Records and Library.Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, four of class two, four of class one, two at $1,000 each; copyist; copyist, $720; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $21,000.
Toward the collection or copying and classification, with a viewNaval records of World War. to publication, of the naval records of the war with the Central Powers of Europe, including the purchase of books, periodicals, photographs, maps, and other publications, documents, and pictorial records of the Navy in said war, clerical services in the District of Columbia or elsewhere, and other *Proviso*.Pay restriction.necessary incidental expenses, $20,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum.
Office of Judge Advocate General: Judge Advocate General’s Office.Two attorneys, at $2,500 each; chief law clerk, $2,250; law clerks—one $2,200, one $2,000, one $1,600; clerks—one of class four, one $1,300, six of class one, three at $1,000 each, one $900; messenger; assistant messenger; in all, $28,810. For temporary employees in the office of the Judge AdvocateTemporary employees. General, as follows: Two at $3,000 each, $6,000. Office of Chief of Naval Operations: Chief of Naval Operations.Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, four of class one, three at $1,000 each, one $900; two draftsmen, at $1,200 each; two assistant messengers; messenger boys—one $600, one $400; laborer; in all, $25,650.
For temporary employees in the Office of the Chief of NavalTemporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. Operations, $40,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except four persons at $2,000 each. Office of Director of Naval Communications: For employees inDirector of Naval Communications. the office of the Director of Naval Communications, $150,000: *Provided*, That no *Proviso*.Pay restriction.person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following:
One at $4,000, two at $3,000 each, one at $2,500, and three at $1,900 each. Bureau of Navigation: Bureau of Navigation.Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—one $2,200, two at $2,000 each, six of class four, five of class three, ten of class two, fourteen of class one, four at $1,100 each, twenty-one at $1,000 each, five at $900 each; four copyists; two copyists, at $840 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; two messenger boys, at $600 each; five laborers, in all, $100,010. For temporary employees in the Bureau of Navigation,Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. $250,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except four persons at $2,000 each. 1284 Naval Intelligence Office.Office of Naval Intelligence:
Clerks—one of class four, one of class three, one of class two, one $1,300, five at $1,000 each; three translators, at $1,400 each; draftsman, $1,200; in all, $16,500. Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For temporary employees in the Office of Naval Intelligence, $15,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except two persons at $2,000 each. Hydrographic Office.Salaries.Hydrographic Office: Hydrographic engineer, $3,000; assist ants—one $2,200, one $2,000; chief clerk, $1,800; nautical experts— one $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,400, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; clerks—one of class two, one of class one; custodian of archives, $1,200; three copyists at $900 each; compiler, $1,400; editor of Notice to Mariners, $1,800; computer, $1,400; draftsmen— four at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, four at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each, ten at $1,000 each, one $900; three apprentice drafts men, at $700 each; engravers—chief $2,000, two at $1,800 each, three at $1,600 each, one $1,400, six at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each, one $720; apprentice engravers—one $800, one $700; plate printers—chief $1,400, one $1,200, one $1,000, two at $900 each, one $800; apprentice plate printers—one $700, one $600; lithographers— chief $1,800, two at $1,000 each, apprentice $700; process photographer, $1,600; lithographic transferer, $1,400; lithographic pressman, $1,400; photographic printer, $1,200; two negative cutters, at $1,000 each; electrotyper and chart plate maker, $1,400; assistant messenger; six laborers; helpers—two at $720 each, two at $660 each, one $600; in all, $120,760.
Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For temporary employees in Hydrographic Office, $110,000: *Provided,* That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: One at $2,750, one at $2,400, three at $2,200 each, eight at $2,000 each, and one at $1,900. Materials, printing, etc.For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailing directions, copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electrotyping copperplates, cleaning copperplates: tools, instruments, power, and materials for drawing, engraving, and printing; materials for and mounting charts; reduction of charts by photography; photolithographing charts for immediate use; transfer of photolithographic and other charts to copper; purchase of equipment for the storage of plates used in making charts and for the storage of Hydrographic Office charts and publications; care and repairs to printing presses, furniture, instruments, and tools; extra drawing and engraving; translating from foreign languages;
Pilot charts.telegrams on public business; preparation of pilot charts and their supplements, and printing and mailing same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference ana works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $112,000. Branch offices.Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, Norfolk, Savannah, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland (Oregon), Portland (Maine), Chicago, Cleveland, Buffalo, Duluth, Sault Sainte Marie, Seattle, Panama, and Galveston, including furniture, fuel, lights, works, and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, stationery, miscellaneous articles, rent, and care of offices, care of time balls, car fare and ferriage in visiting merchant vessels, freight and express charges, telegrams, and other necessary expenses incurred in collecting the latest information for pilot charts, and for other purposes for which the offices were established, $15,000. 1285 For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $25,000.Employees.Personal services in Washington restricted.
No expenditure shall be incurred or authorized for personal services or otherwise under the Hydrographic Office in the District of Columbia, during the fiscal year 1922, except as herein authorized by appropriations under the Navy Department or under appropriations that may be made for printing and binding. Naval Observatory: Naval Observatory.Astronomers—one $3,200, one $2,800; assistant astronomers—one $2,400, one $2,000, one $1,800; assistants in department of nautical instruments—one $1,600; clerks—chief $2,000, one of class four, one of class three, two of class two, two of class one; instrument maker, $1,500; electrician, $1,500; librarian, $1,800; assistants—three at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each; stenographer and typewriter, $900; foreman and captain of the watch, $1,000; carpenter, $1,000; engineer, $1,200; four firemen; seven watchmen; mechanic, $900; eight laborers; in all, $56,400.
For miscellaneous computations, $5,000.Computations. For professional and scientific books, books of reference,Library. periodicals, engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library, $1,000. For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same,Apparatus, etc. $2,500. For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences; furniture, gas,Contingent expenses. chemicals, and stationery; freight (including transmission of public documents through the Smithsonian exchange), foreign postage, and expressage; plants, fertilizers, and all contingent expenses, $3,500.
For fuel, oil, grease, pipe, wire, and other materials needed forMiscellaneous items. the maintenance and repair oi boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power plant, and water-supply system; purchase and maintenance of teams; maintenance, repair, exchange, or operation of motor truck and of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; mate rial for boxing nautical instruments for transportation; paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, $12,000.
For cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads, $6,500.Grounds and roads. For repairs to copper roof of main building, $1,000.Roof repairs. Nautical Almanac Office: Nautical Almanac Office.For assistants in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac—one $2,500, one $2,000, two at $1,800 each, two at $1,600 each, two at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each; assistant messenger; in all, $18,420. For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publicationComputers. the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, $1,500.
Bureau of Engineering: Bureau of Engineering.Chief clerk, $2,250; bookkeeper and accountant, $1,800; clerks—one of class four, five of class three, six of class two, two at $1,300 each, seven of class one, two at $1,000 each; four assistant messengers; laborer; messenger boy, $600; in all, $39,390. For temporary employees in the Bureau of Engineering,Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. $100,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following:
Two at $2,100 each and two at $2,000 each. The services of draftsmen and such other technical services asTechnical services. the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Engineering and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January 1, 1920, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy” and “Engineering,*Proviso*.Limit, etc.” to be paid from the appropriation “Engineering”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1922 shall not exceed $190,000.
A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Bureau of Construction and Repair: Bureau of Construction and Repair.Chief clerk, $2,250; chief of section, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, four of class three, five 1286of class two, five at $1,300 each, six of class one, eight at $1,100 each, six at $1,000 each; nine assistant messengers; in all, $59,830. Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For temporary employees in the Bureau of Construction and Repair, $80,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at, a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the fol lowing:
One at $2,250 and two at $2,000 each. Technical services.The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Construction and Repair and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January 1, 1920, to carry into Proviso.Limit, etc.effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy,” and “Construction and Repair,” to be paid from the appropriation “Construction and Repair”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1922 shall not exceed $275,000.
A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Bureau of Ordnance.Bureau of Ordnance: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, four of class two, one $1,300, four of class one, one $1,100, seven at $1,000 each; assistant messenger; messenger boys—two at $600 each, one $400; laborer; in all, $31,830. Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For temporary employees in the Bureau of Ordnance, $40,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum, except the following:
One at $2,200, one at $2,000. Technical services.The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Ordnance, and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January 1, 1920, to carry into effect the *Proviso*.Limit, etc.various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy,” and “Ordnance and ordnance stores,” to be paid from the appropriation “Ordnance and ordnance stores”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1922 shall not exceed $70,000.
A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties and the compensation paid to each, shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates. Bureau of Supplies and Accounts.Bureau of Supplies and Accounts: Civilian assistant, $2,500; principal clerk, $2,250; two chief bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—seven of class four, eight of class three, nine of class two, eighteen of class one, eight at $1,100 each, nineteen at $1,000 each; four assistant messengers; messenger boys—four at $600 each; in all, $101,430.
Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For temporary employees in the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts, $250,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at- a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: One at $4,000, two at $3,000 each, one at $2,500, and six at $2,000 each. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery.Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks— two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, two of class one, two at $1,100 each, three at $1,000 each; messenger; assistant messenger; laborer; naval dispensary—driver $600, laborer $480; in all, $24,150.
Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For temporary employees in the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery, $40,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except two per sons at $2,000 each. Bureau of Yards and Docks.Bureau of Yards and Docks: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—two of class four, one $1,700, one of class three, two of class two, four of class one, one $1,100, two at $1,000 each; assistant messenger; three messenger boys at $600 each; two laborers; in all, $23,690. 1287 For temporary employees in the Bureau of Yards and Docks,Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. $50,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum.
The services of skilled draftsmen and such other technicalTechnical services. services as the Secretary of the Navy may deem necessary may be employed only in the Bureau of Yards and Docks to carry into effect the various appropriations and allotment thereunder and be paid from such *Proviso*.Limit, etc.appropriations and allotments: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1922 shall not exceed $200,000. A statement of the persons employed hereunder, their duties, and the compensation paid to each shall be made to Congress each year in the annual estimates.
Contingent expenses: ForContingent expenses. professional and technical books and periodicals, law books, and necessary reference books, including city directories, railway guides, freight, passenger, and express tariff books, for department library, $2,000. For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, andStationery, etc. drawing materials; purchase and exchange of motor trucks or motor delivery wagons; maintenance, repair, and operation of motortrucks or motor delivery wagons, and one motor-propelled passenger-carry ing vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; garage rent; street car fares not exceeding $500; freight, expressage, postage, typewriters and computing machines; necessary traveling expenses for collection of records not exceeding $100; and other absolutely necessary expenses of the Navy Restriction on use of naval appropriations.Department and its various bureaus and offices, $75,000; it shall not be lawful to expend, for any of the offices or bureaus of the Navy Department in the District of Columbia, any sum out of appropriations made for the Naval Establishment for any of the purposes mentioned or authorized in this paragraph.
To enable the Secretary of the Navy to install certain fittingsNew Navy Building.Accommodation for Shipping Board in. and make such necessary changes, alterations, and moves in the new Navy Building, Seventeenth and B Streets northwest, as will provide sufficient office space for the accommodation of the United States Shipping Board, $75,000, or so much thereof as many be necessary, to be available immediately. No part of any appropriation made for the naval service shall beNaval appropriations not to be used for Department purposes. expended for any of the purposes (including freight and expressage) herein provided for on account of the Navy Department in the District of Columbia, except for personal services in certain bureaus, as herein expressly authorized.
DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR.Interior Department. Office of the Secretary: Secretary, Assistants, chief clerk, etc.Secretary of the Interior, $12,000; First Assistant Secretary, $5,000; Assistant Secretary, $4,500; chief clerk, including $500 as superintendent of buildings, who shall be chief executive officer of the department and who may be designated by the Secretary to sign official papers and documents during the temporary absence of the Secretary and the Assistant Secretaries, Assistant, inspectors, etc.$4,000; assistant to the Secretary, $2,750; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; assistant attorney, $2,500; two special inspectors (whose employment shall be limited to the inspection of offices and the work in the several offices under the control of the department), at $2,500 each; six inspectors, at $2,500 each; chief disbursing clerk, $2,500; chiefs of divisions—one of supplies, $2,250, one of appointments, mails, and files, $2,250, and one of publications, $2,250; ex pert accountant, $2,000; clerks—four at $2,000 each, twelve of class four, two at $1,740 each, one $1,620, fifteen of class three, one $1,500, nineteen of class two, one $1,320, twenty-four of class one, four at $1,000 each, one $840; returns office clerk, $1,600; female clerk, to be 1288designated by the President, to sign land patents, $1,200; seven copyists; classified laborer, $1,140; skilled laborer, $840; multigraph operator, $900; assistant multigraph operator, $720; typewriter repairer, $900; two telephone switchboard operators;
Messengers, etc.chauffeurs— one $1,080, ten at $720 each; ten messengers; seven assistant messengers; twenty-two laborers; skilled mechanics—one $900, one $720; two carpenters, at $900 each; plumber, $900; electrician, $1,000; gardener, $600; messenger boys—one $540, one $420; five Watchmen, etc.packers, at $660 each; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; eight female laborers, at $400 each; captains of the Clerk to sign tribal deeds, etc.watch—one $1,200, one $840; lieutenants of the watch—one $1,020, five at $840 each; three sergeants of the watch at $750 each; sixty-six watchmen; engineer, $1,200; assistant engineer, $1,000; seven firemen; clerk to sign, under the direction of the Secretary, in his name and for him his approval of all tribal deeds to allottees and deeds for town lots made and executed according to law for any of the Five Civilized Tribes of Indians in the Indian Territory, $1,200; in all, $317,830.
Land Office Building.Operating force.General Land Office Building: Engineer and electrician, $1,600; two assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; four firemen; three lieutenants of the watch, at $840 each; twenty watchmen; elevator conductor, $720; fourteen laborers; three skilled mechanics (painter, carpenter, and plumber), at $900 each; in all, $36,060. Department office building.Operating force.Building for Interior Department offices, care and maintenance: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; clerk of class two; foreman of laborers, $1,000; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $900 each; laborers—sixty-five at $660 each, forty-five at $600 each, sixteen at $540 each; seventeen female laborers at $400 each; sixteen char women; engineer, $1,200; two assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; nine firemen; general machinist, $1,500; automobile mechanic, $1,400; electrician, $1,400; substation operators—three at $1,200 each, three assistants at $900 each; two wiremen, at $1,000 each; two electricians’ helpers, at $720 each; painters—one $1,000, one $900; carpenters—chief $1,320, two at $900 each; cabinetmaker, $900; plumber, $1,400; two assistant plumbers, at $1,000 each; two plumbers’ helpers, at $840 each; thirteen elevator conductors, at $720 each; janitor, $600; eighteen watchmen; copyist; four messengers; two assistant messengers; three messenger boys at $420 each; in all, $159,980.
Solicitor’s Office.Office of Solicitor: Three members of a board of appeals, to be appointed by the Secretary of the Interior, at $4,000 each; assistant attorneys—one $3,000, two at $2,750 each, four at $2,500 each, seven at $2,250 each, eleven at $2,000 each; medical expert, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, six of class three (one of whom shall act as stenographer and one of whom shall be a stenographer and type writer), three of class two, one of class one; copyist; messenger; three assistant messengers; in all, $90,950.
Special inspectors.Subsistence, etc.For per diem in lieu of subsistence of two special inspectors, while traveling on duty, at not exceeding $4, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation (including temporary employment of stenographers, typewriters, and other assistance outside oi the District of Columbia, and for incidental expenditures necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations), to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of the Interior, $4,500. Inspectors.Subsistence, etc.For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence to six inspectors and while remaining at the seat of government under orders of the Secretary not to exceed twenty days, transportation and sleeping-car fare, incidental expenses of negotiation, inspection, and investigation, including telegraphing, $12,800.
General Land Office.General Land Office: Commissioner, $5,000; assistant commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk, $3,000; chief law clerk, $2,500; two law clerks, at $2,200 each; three law examiners of surveyors general and 1289district land offices, at $2,000 each.; recorder, $2,000; chiefs of divisions—one of surveys, $2,750, one $2,400, ten at $2,000 each; assist ant chief of division, $2,000; law examiners—fourteen at $2,000 each, ten at $1,800 each, eighteen at $1,600 each; clerks—twenty-seven of class four, fifty-seven of class three, eighty-three of class two, one hundred of class one, one hundred at $1,000 each; twenty-three copyists at $900 each; two messengers; ten assistant messengers; messenger boys—ten at $600 each, six at $480 each; six skilled laborers, who may act as assistant messengers when required, at $660 each; three laborers; packer, $720; depositary acting for the com missioner as receiver of public moneys, $2,000, who may, with the approval of the commissioner, designate a clerk of the General Land Office to act as such depositary in his absence; clerk and librarian, $1,000; in all, $652,470.
For per diem in lieu of subsistence, at not exceeding $4, ofPer diem, etc., investigations. examiners and oi clerks detailed to inspect offices of United States surveyors general and other offices in public land service, to investigate fraudulent land entries, trespasses on the public lands, and cases of official misconduct, actual necessary expenses of transportation, including necessary sleeping-car fares, and for employment of stenographers and other assistants when necessary to the efficient conduct of examinations, and when authorized by the Commissioner of the General Land Office, $8,000.
For law books for the law library, $400.Law books. For connected and separate United States and other maps,Maps.Distribution. prepared in the General Land Office, $20,000, all of which maps shall be delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives, except 10 per centum, which shall be delivered to the Commissioner of the General Land Office for official purposes. All maps delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives hereunder shall be mounted with rollers ready for use.
For separate State and Territorial maps of public-land States,State and Territorial maps.Enlarged home steads. including maps showing areas designated by the Secretary of the Interior under the enlarged-homestead Acts, prepared in the General Land Office, $3,000. For appliances in connection with filing system, $3,000.Files. For steel storage boxes for folded files, $10,000. Indian Office: Commissioner, Indian Office.$5,000; assistant commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk, $2,750; financial clerk, $2,250; chiefs of divisions—one $2,250, one $2,000; law clerk, $2,000; assistant chief of division, $2,000; private secretary, $1,800; examiner of irrigation accounts, $1,800; draftsmen—one $1,400, one $1,200; clerks—twenty of class four, thirty-one of class three, two at $1,500 each, thirty-six of class two, sixty-four of class one (including one stenographer), thirty-one at $1,000 each (including one stenographer), thirty-four at $900 each, one $720; messenger; three assistant messengers; four messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $310,750.
Pension Office:Pension Office. Commissioner, $5,000; deputy commissioner, $3,600; chief clerk, $2,500; assistant chief clerk, $2,000; medical referee, $3,000; assistant medical referee, $2,250; two qualified surgeons, at $2,000 each; eight medical examiners, at $1,800 each; six chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; law clerk, $2,250; chief of board of review, $2,250; thirty-five principal examiners, at $2,000 each; private secretary, $2,000; ten assistant chiefs of divisions, at $1,800 each; three stenographers, at $1,600 each; disbursing clerk for the payment of pensions, $3,000; deputy disbursing clerk, $2,750; three supervising clerks in the disbursing division, at $2,000 each; clerks—eighty-seven of class four, eighty of class three, two hundred and twenty-eight of class two, two hundred and ninety-nine of class one, twenty-six at $1,000 each; two copyists at $900 each; twenty-three 1290messengers; six assistant messengers; skilled laborer, $660; messenger boy, $420; in all, $1,174,920.
Expenses under retirement Act.*Ante*, p. 617.To enable the Bureau of Pensions to perform the duties imposed upon it by the Act entitled “An Act for the retirement of employees in the classified civil service, and for other purposes,” approved May 22, 1920, including personal services, purchase of books, office equipment, stationery, and other supplies, printing, traveling expenses, expenses of medical and other examinations, and including not to exceed $3,000 for compensation of two actuaries, exclusive of the Government actuary, to be fixed by the Commissioner of Pensions with the approval of the Secretary of the Interior, and actual necessary travel and other expenses of three members of the *Proviso*.Pay restriction.Board of Actuaries, $50,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed here under at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,740 per annum except two actuaries and the following:
One at $3,000, one at $2,400, one at $2,000, and two at $1,800 each. Per diem, etc., investigations.For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence for persons employed in the Bureau of Pensions, detailed for the purpose of making special investigations pertaining to said bureau, and for actual and other necessary expenses, including telegrams, $100,000. Labor-saving devices, etc.For purchase, repair, and exchange of adding machines, addressing machines, typewriters, check-signing machines, and other labor- saving devices, furniture, filing cabinets, and postage on foreign mail, $6,000.
Patent Office.Patent Office: Commissioner, $5,000; first assistant commissioner, $4,500; assistant commissioner, $3,500; chief clerk (who shall be qualified to act as principal examiner), $3,000; five law examiners, at $2,750 each; examiner of classification, $3,600; five examiners in chief, at $3,500 each; two examiners of interferences, at $2,700 each; examiners of trade-marks and designs—one $2,700, first assistant $2,400, eight assistants at $1,500 each; examiners—forty-eight principals at $2,700 each, ninety-four first assistants at $2,400 each, ninety-four second assistants at $2,100 each, ninety-four third assistants at $1,800 each, ninety-four fourth assistants at $1,500 each, financial clerk, who shall give bond in such amount as the Secretary of the Interior may determine, $2,250; librarian, who shall be qualified to act as an assistant examiner, $2,000; eight chiefs of divisions, at $2,000 each; eight assistants chiefs of divisions, at $1,800 each; private secretary, to be selected and appointed by the commissioner, $1,800; translator of languages, $1,800; clerks—eleven of class four, seventeen of class three, nineteen of class two, one hundred and thirty-seven of class one, ninety-three at $1,000 each; drafts men—one $1,600, one $1,400, three at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each; ninety-two copyists; thirty copyists, at $720 each; three messengers; thirty-three assistant messengers; thirteen laborers at $600 each; forty-five examiners’ aids (who shall be selected without regard to apportionment), at $600 each; thirty-nine copy pullers (who shall be selected without regard to apportionment), at $480 each; in all, $1,500,200.
Books, etc.For purchase of law, professional, and other reference books and publications and scientific books and directories, $3,000. Weekly issues of patents, etc.For producing copies of weekly issue of drawings of patents and designs; reproduction of copies of drawings and specifications of exhausted patents, designs, trade-marks, and other papers; expense of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments; production of foreign patent drawings; photo prints of pending application drawings; and photostat supplies and dry mounts; $230,000.
Investigating use of inventions.For investigating the question of public use or sale of inventions for two years or more prior to filing applications for patents, and such other questions arising in connection with applications for patents as 1291may be deemed necessary by the Commissioner of Patents; and expense attending defense of suits instituted against the Commissioner of Patents, $500. For the share of the United States in the expense of conducting the International Bureau at Berne, Switzerland, $850.
Bureau or Education: Bureau of Education.Commissioner, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,000; specialist in higher education, $3,000; editor, $2,000; statistician, $1,800; specialist in charge of land-grant college statistics, $1,800; two translators, at $1,800 each; collector and compiler of statistics, $2,400; specialists—one in foreign educational systems and one in educational systems, at $1,800 each; clerks—five of class four, six of class three, seven of class two, nine of class one, thirteen at $1,000 each; two copyists; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger boy, $420; in all, $82,860.
For investigation of rural education, industrial education,Rural, industrial, etc., education. physical education and school hygiene, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, and no salary shall be paid hereunder in excess of $3,500 per annum, $50,000. For necessary traveling expenses of the commissioner andTraveling expenses. employees acting under his direction, including attendance at meetings of educational associations, societies, and other organizations, $7,500.
For books for library, current educational periodicals, otherLibrary. current publications, and completing valuable sets of periodicals, $500. For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars ofSpecial reports. information, including personal services in tne District of Columbia and elsewhere, $3,600. For purchase, distribution, and exchange of educationalDistributing documents, etc. documents, collection, exchange, and cataloguing of educational apparatus and appliances, textbooks and educational reference books, articles of school furniture and models of school buildings illustrative of foreign and domestic systems and methods of education, and repairing the same, including personal services in the District of Columbia for the purpose of bringing the cataloguing up to date, $2,500.
For investigation of elementary and secondary education,Elementary, etc., education investigations. including evening schools and the wider use of the schoolhouse in cities and *Proviso*.Pay restriction.towns, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $9,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed here under at a rate of compensation exceeding $3,500 per annum. For investigation of kindergarten education, including personalKindergarten education.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $6,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $2,500 per annum.
Office of Architect of the Capitol: Architect of the Capitol.Architect of the Capitol, $6,000; chief clerk and accountant, $3,000; chief electrical engineer, $3,750; civil engineer, $2,400; construction draftsman, $2,000; two clerks, at $1,200 each; compensation to disbursing clerk, $1,000; laborer in charge of water-closets in central portion of the Capitol, $660; laborer for cleaning rotunda, corridors, dome, and old library portion of Capitol, $660; two laborers in charge of public closets of the House oi Representatives and in the terrace, at $720 each; forewoman of charwomen, $480; eighteen charwomen; in all, $28,110.
The title of “Superintendent of the Capitol BuildingTitle of Superintendent of Capitol Building, etc., changed. and Grounds” is hereby changed to “Architect of the Capitol,” but this change shall not affect the status of the present incumbent or require his reappointment. Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior: Contingent expenses.For contingent expenses of the office of the Secretary and the bureaus, offices, and buildings of the department; furniture, carpets, ice, lumber, hardware, dry goods, advertising, telegraphing, street car fares not exceeding $350, and expressage; purchase and exchange 1292of motor trucks, motor cycles, and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle and motor trucks, motor cycles, and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; diagrams; awnings; filing and labor-saving devices; con structing model and other cases and furniture; and other absolutely necessary expenses not hereinbefore provided for, including traveling expenses, fuel and lights, typewriting and labor-saving machines, $150,000.
Supplies for Department office building.For electrical power, electric light, gas, window washing, and telephone service, fuel, telephones, window shades, awnings, and other materials and supplies as in the judgment of the Secretary of the Interior may be required for general maintenance and operation of the building for Interior Department offices, $80,000. Stationery, etc.For stationery, including tags, labels, index cards, cloth-lined wrappers, and specimen bags, printed in the course of manufacture, and such printed envelopes as are not supplied under contracts made by the Postmaster General, for the department and its several Additional, deducted from specified appropriations.bureaus and offices, $85,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $54,650 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1922, as follows:
Surveying public lands, $2,500; protecting public lands and timber, $2,000; contingent expenses of offices of surveyors general, $2,000; Capitol Building and repairs, $150; Geo logical Survey, $3,200; Bureau of Mines, $4,000; Indian Service, $40,000; Freedmen’s Hospital, $800; and said sums so deducted shall be credited to and constitute, together with the first-named sum of $85,000, the total appropriation for stationery for the department and its several bureaus and offices for the fiscal year 1922.
Books, periodicals, etc.For professional and scientific books, law books, and books to complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $750. Rent.For rent of quarters for department trucks, and for the storage of Patent Office models and exposition exhibits, $3,600. Postage stamps.For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as required under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matter addressed to Postal Union countries, and for special-delivery stamps for use in the United States when it is necessary to secure immediate delivery of mail, $2,000.
Surveyors General.SURVEYORS GENERAL. Salaries and office expenses.For salaries of surveyors general, clerks in their offices, and contingent *Supra*.expenses, including office rent, pay of messengers, stationery, printing, binding, drafting instruments, typewriters, furniture, fuel, lights, books of reference for office use, post-office box rent, and other incidental expenses, including the exchange of typewriters, as follows: Alaska.Alaska: Surveyor general and ex officio secretary of the Territory, $4,000;
Clerks, $11,100; Contingent expenses, $3,500; in all, $18,600. Arizona.Arizona: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $17,820; Contingent expenses, $600; in all, $21,420. California.California: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $13,500; Contingent expenses, $650; in all, $17,150. Colorado.Colorado: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $18,650; Contingent expenses, $750; in all, $22,400. Idaho.Idaho: Surveyor general, $3,000; Clerks, $12,160; Contingent expenses, $750; in all, $15,910.1293 Montana:
Surveyor general, $3,000;Montana. Clerks, $16,980; Contingent expenses, $600; in all, $20,580. Nevada: Surveyor general, $3,000;Nevada. Clerks, $12,060; Contingent expenses, $400; in all, $15,460. New Mexico: Surveyor general, $3,000;New Mexico. Clerks, $18,000; Contingent expenses, $900; in all, $21,900. Oregon: Surveyor general, $3,000;Oregon. Clerics, $9,510; Contingent expenses, $600; in all, $13,110. South Dakota: Surveyor general,South Dakota. $2,000; clerks, $3,100; contingent expenses, $200; in all, $5,300.
Utah: Surveyor general, $3,000;Utah. Clerks, $14,020; Contingent expenses, $725; in all, $17,745. Washington: Surveyor general, $3,000;Washington. Clerks, $9,740; Contingent expenses, $750; in all, $13,490. Wyoming: Surveyor general, $3,000;Wyoming. Clerks, $9,980; Contingent expenses, $500; in all, $13,480. Expenses chargeable to the foregoing appropriations for clerkRestriction on clerk hire. hire and incidental expenses in the offices of the surveyors general shall not be incurred by the respective surveyors general in the conduct of said offices, except upon previous specific authorization by the Commissioner of the General Land Office.
The Secretary of the Interior is authorized to detail temporarilyTemporary details authorized. clerks from the office of one surveyor general to another as the necessities of the service may require and to pay their actual necessary traveling expenses in going to and returning from such office out of the appropriation for surveying the public lands. A detailed statement of traveling expenses incurred hereunder shall be made to Congress at the beginning of each regular session thereof.
The use of the fund created by the Act of March 2, 1895 (TwentyOffice work, surveys in railroad land grants.Vol. 28, p. 937.*Proviso*.Limit. eighth Statutes, page 937), for office work in the surveyors general’s offices is extended for one year from June 30, 1921: *Provided*, That not to exceed $25,000 of this fund shall be used for the purposes above indicated. GOVERNMENT IN THE TERRITORIES.Government in the Territories. Territory of Alaska: Alaska.Governor, $7,000; four judges, at $7,500 each; four attorneys, at $5,000 each; four marshals, at $4,000 each; four clerks, at $3,500 each; in all, $87,000.
For incidental and contingent expenses, clerk hire, not to exceed $2,500; janitor service for the governor’s office and the executive mansion, not to exceed $1,200; traveling expenses of the governor while absent from the capital on official business; repair and preservation of executive mansion and furniture and for care of grounds; stationery, lights, water, and fuel; in all, $7,500, to be expended under the direction of the governor. Territory of Hawaii: Hawaii.Governor, $7,000; secretary, $4,000; chief justice, $6,000; two associate justices, at $5,500 each; in all, $28,000.
For judges of circuit courts, at $4,000 each, so much as may be necessary, for the fiscal year 1922. For contingent expenses, to be expended by the governor, for stationery, postage, and incidentals, $1,200; private secretary to the governor, $2,250; in all, $3,450. 1294 Post Office Department.POST OFFICE DEPARTMENT. Postmaster General, chief clerk, etc.Office, Postmaster General: Postmaster General, $12,000; chief clerk, including $500 as superintendent of buildings, $4,000; private secretary, $2,500; disbursing clerk, $2,250; appointment clerk, $2,000;
Chief inspector, purchasing agent, etc.assistant to chief clerk, $2,000; confidential clerk to Postmaster General, $2,000; chairman, board of inspection, $2,000; chief in spector, $4,000; chief clerk to chief inspector, Clerks, etc.$2,000; purchasing agent, $4,000; chief clerk to purchasing agent, $2,000; assistant attorneys—one $4,500, one $3,500, two at $2,750 each, one $2,500, one $2,000; bond examiner, $2,500; law clerk, $1,800; clerks—one hundred and sixteen of class four, one hundred and seventy of class three, two hundred and sixty-eight of class two, three hundred and ten of class one, one hundred and thirty-eight at $1,000 each, twenty- six at $900 each; skilled draftsmen—one $2,000, three at $1,800 each, eight at $1,600 each, five at $1,400 each, seven at $1,200 each; map mounter, $1,200; assistant map mounter, $1,000; blue printer, $900; assistant blue printer, $840;
Messengers, watchmen, engineers, etc.telegrapher, $1,400; typewriter repairer, $1,200; three telephone switchboard operators; six messengers in charge of mails, at $900 each; thirty messengers; eighteen assistant messengers; captain of the watch, $1,200; additional to three watch men acting as lieutenants of watchmen, at $120 each; thirty-four watchmen; two engineers, at $1,200 each; nine assistant engineers, at $1,000 each; two blacksmiths or steam fitters, at $1,000 each; three oilers, at $840 each ; sixteen firemen; twenty elevator conductors, at $720 each; chief engineer, $1,600; assistant electricians—two at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; two dynamo tenders, at $900 each;
Carpenters, laborers, etc.carpenters—one $1,600, one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; plasterer and mason, $1,200; awning maker, $1,000; painters—one $1,200, one $1,000; plumbers—one $1,200, one $1,000; laborers—foreman $900, assistant foreman $840, two at $840 each, seventy-eight at $720 each, four at $660 each; female laborers—one $540, three at $500 each, seven at $480 each; fifty-eight charwomen; actual and necessary expenses of the purchasing agent while traveling on business of the department, $500; in all, $1,710,430.
Clerks on railroad transportation.For the following force authorized by the Post Office Appropriation Act for the fiscal year 1917 and heretofore paid from the appropriation for railroad transportation, namely: Clerks—two of class four, two of class three, ten of class two, and forty-six of class one; in all, $76,000. Readjustments of salaries.In making readjustments hereunder, the salary of any clerk in any class may be fixed by the Postmaster General at $100 below the salary fixed by law for such class and the unused portion of such salary shall be used to increase the salary of any clerk in any class entitled Assignments to bureaus.thereto by not less than $100 above the salary fixed by law for such class.
The Postmaster General shall assign to the several bureaus, offices, and divisions of the Post Office Department such number of the employees herein authorized as may be necessary to perform the work required therein; and he shall submit a statement showing such assignments and the number employed at the various salaries in the annual Book of Estimates following the estimates for salaries in the Post Office Department. First Assistant Post master General.Superintendents of divisions, etc.
Office, First Assistant Postmaster General: First Assistant Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of post office service—superintendent $4,000, assistant superintendent $3,000, clerk in charge $2,250, two assistant superintendents at $2,000 each; division of postmasters’ appointments—superintendent $3,000, two assistant superintendents at $2,000 each; superintendent, division of dead letters, $2,500; chief, division of correspondence, $2,000; in all, $32,250. 1295 Office, Second Assistant Postmaster General:
Second Assistant Postmaster General.Superintendents of divisions, etc.Second Assist ant Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of rail way adjustments—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,250; division of foreign mails—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,000; division of railway mail service—general superintendent $4,000, assistant general superintendent $3,500, chief clerk $2,000; in all, $27,250. Office, Third Assistant Postmaster General:
Third Assistant Postmaster General.Superintendents of divisions, etc.Third Assistant Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of postal savings—director $4,800, assistant director $3,000, chief clerk $2,500, clerk in charge of administrative section, and clerk in charge of audit section, at $2,000 each; superintendents of divisions—stamps $2,750, finance (who shall give bond in such amount as the Postmaster General may determine for the faithful discharge of his duties) $2,250, classification $2,750, registered mails $2,500, money orders $2,750; chief clerk, division of money orders, $2,250; in all, $37,050.
Office, Fourth Assistant Postmaster General; Fourth Assistant Postmaster General.Superintendents of divisions, etc.Fourth Assist ant Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of rural mails—superintendent $3,000, chief clerk $2,000; division of equipment and supplies—superintendent $3,000, chief clerk $2,000; topographer, $2,400; in all, $19,900. Total salaries, $1,902,880. Contingent expenses, Post Office Department: Contingent expenses.Stationery.For stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders, and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes, $30,000.
For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, ice, and power plant,Heating plants, etc. including repairs to elevators, purchase and exchange of tools, and electrical supplies, and removal of ashes, $60,000. For telegraphing, $6,500.Telegraphing. For purchase, exchange, hire, and maintenance of horses andVehicles. horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles and repair of vehicles, including motor trucks and*Proviso*.Delivery of Army truck. harness, $3,100: *Provided,*That the Secretary of War shall transfer without payment therefor to the Postmaster General for use of the Post Office Department a one-ton motor truck.
For rent of stables, $500.Rent. For miscellaneous items, including purchase, exchange, andMiscellaneous. repair of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; street car fares not exceeding $540; plumbing; floor coverings; postage stamps for correspondence addressed abroad which is not exempt under article 11 of the Rome convention of the Universal Postal Union, $50,000, of which sum not exceeding $13,000 may be expended for telephone service, and not exceeding $1,800 may be expended for purchase and exchange of law books, book of reference, railway guides, city directories, books necessary to conduct the business of the department; and repairs to department buildings.
For furniture and filing cabinets, $8,500.Furniture, etc. For publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, $125,000.Official Postal Guide. And the Postmaster General may authorize the sale to the public of Official Postal Guides at the total cost thereof, the proceeds of such sale to be covered into the Treasury as a miscellaneous receipt. For reimbursement of the Government Printing Office for theHeat, etc., to City Post Office Building.Reimbursement for cost of furnishing steam for heating and electric current for lighting and power to the Post Office Department Building at Massachusetts Avenue and North Capitol Street, District of Columbia, $45,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Appropriations made for the service of the Post OfficePostal service appropriation not to be used for Department.Vol. 5, p. 80. Department in conformity with the Act of July 2, 1836, shall not be expended for any of the purposes herein provided for on account of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia. 1296 Department of Justice.DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Attorney General, Solicitor General, Assistants, etc.Solicitors for Departments, etc.Office of the Attorney General:
Attorney General, $12,000; Solicitor General, $10,000; assistant to the Attorney General, $9,000; six Assistant Attorneys General, at $7,500 each; Solicitor for the Department of the Interior, $5,000; Attorneys, assistants, etc.Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $5,000; Solicitor of Internal Revenue, $5,000; Solicitor for the Department of State, $5,000; four attorneys at $5,000 each, one of whom shall have charge of all condemnation proceedings in the District of Columbia and supervise the examination of titles and matters arising from such condemnation proceedings in which the United States shall be a party or have an interest, and no special attorney or counsel, or services of persons other than of those pro vided for heroin, shall be employed for such purposes; attorneys— one $4,500, one $3,750, four at $3,500 each, one $3,250, fourteen at $3,000 each, two at $2,500 each; assistant attorneys—one $3,500, two at $3,000 each, two at $2,750 each, five at $2,500 each, one $2,400, two Chief clerk, law clerks, etc.at $2,000 each; assistant examiner of titles, $2,000; chief clerk and administrative assistant and ex officio superintendent of buildings, $3,500; superintendent of buildings, $500; assistant chief clerk, $3,000; private secretary and assistant to the Attorney General, $3,600; clerk to the Attorney Superintendent of prisons.General, $1,800; stenographer to the Solicitor General, $1,600; law clerks—three at $2,000 each, two at $1,800 each; clerk in the office of Solicitor of Internal Revenue, $1,800; attorney in charge of Investigation division.Clerks, messengers, etc.pardons, $3,600; superintendent of prisons, $4,000; disbursing clerk, $2,750; appointment clerk, $2,000; chief of division of investigation, $4,000; librarian, $1,800; clerks— eight of class four, twelve of class three, twelve of class two, twenty seven of class one, sixteen at $1,000 each, fifteen at $900 each; chief messenger, $1,000; packer, $900; messenger, $960; six messengers; thirteen assistant messengers; seven laborers; seven watchmen; engineer, $1,200; two assistant engineers, at $900 each; two telephone Division counts of Accounts.switchboard operators; four firemen; four elevator conductors, at $720 each; head charwoman, $480; twenty-four charwomen.
Division of Accounts: Chief, $3,000; administrative accountant, $3,000; chief bookkeeper and record clerk, $2,200; examiners—two at $2,500 each, four at $2,250 each, two at $2,000 each, three at $1,800 each; clerks— three of class four, six of class three, six of class two, five of class one, three at $900 each; in all, $487,310. Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses: For furniture and repairs, including car pets, file holders, and cases, $6,000. For books for law library of the department, including their exchange, $3,000.
For purchase of session laws and statutes of the States and Territories for library of department, including their exchange, $500. For books for office of Solicitor of the Department of Commerce, $300. For books for office of Solicitor of the Department of Labor, $500. Stationery.For stationery for department and its several bureaus, $15,000. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights, foreign postage, labor, repairs of buildings, care of grounds, books of reference, periodicals, typewriters and adding machines and exchange of same, street car fares not exceeding $300, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney General, $40,000.
Vehicles, etc.For official transportation, including the maintenance, repair, and operation of a motor-driven passenger car, delivery truck, and motor cycle, to be used only for official purposes, and purchase and repair of bicycles, $3,000. Rent.For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia, $36,000, if space can not be assigned by the Public Buildings Commission in buildings under the control of that commission. 1297 Office of Solicitor of the Treasury:
Solicitor of the Treasury.Solicitor, $5,000; two assistant solicitors, at $3,000 each; chief clerk, who shall also discharge the duties of chief law clerk, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; two docket clerks, at $2,000 each; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, two of class two; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $30,230. For law books, including their exchange, for office of theLaw books. Solicitor of the Treasury, $500. Office of Solicitor of the Department of Commerce:
Solicitor, Department of Commerce.Solicitor, $5,000; Assistant Solicitor, $3,000; clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, one of class one; messenger; in all, $21,040. Office of Solicitor of the Department of Labor: Solicitor, Department of Labor.Solicitor, $5,000; law clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, two of class one; messenger; in all, $13,840. DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE.Department of Commerce. Office of the Secretary: Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.Secretary of Commerce, $12,000;
Assistant Secretary, $5,000; assistant to the Secretary, $2,750; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; confidential clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; private secretary to Assistant Secretary, $2,100; chief clerk and superintendent, $3,000; disbursing clerk, $3,000; chiefs of divisions—appointments $2,500, publications $2,500, supplies $2,100; assistant chief, division of publications, $2,000; clerks—ten of class four, nine of class three, thirteen of class two, twenty of class one, fourteen at $1,000 each, thirteen at $900 each; two telephone operators, at $720 each; messenger to the Secretary, $1,000; five messengers; five assistant messengers; nine messenger boys, at $480 each; chief engineer and electrician, $1,400; assistant engineer, $1,000; skilled laborers—one $1,000, one $900, two at $840 each, five at $720 each; three elevator conductors, at $720 each; three firemen; sixteen laborers; cabinetmaker, $1,200; carpenter, $900; chief watchman, $900; nine watchmen; twenty-five charwomen; in all, $196,050.
Bureau of Lighthouses: Lighthouses Bureau.Commissioner, $5,000; deputy commissioner, $4,000; chief constructing engineer, $4,000; superintendent of naval construction, $4,000; chief clerk, $2,400; clerks—one $2,000, two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, five of class one, seven at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger boy, $480; assistant engineers—one $3,000, one $2,400, one $2,250, one $2,000; draftsmen—one $2,200, one $2,000, two at $1,800 each, one $1,600; in all, $68,290.
Bureau of Census: For Census Bureau.Salaries and expenses for Fourteenth Census.salaries and necessary expenses for taking, compiling, and publishing the Fourteenth Census of the United States; for rent of office quarters outside the District of Columbia and rent of a garage in the District of Columbia; books of reference; printing; and for carrying on during the decennial census period all other workPrinting, etc. authorized and directed by law, including purchase, rental, construction, and repair of card-punching, card-sorting, and card-tabulating machinery; maintenance, operation, and repair of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; experimental work in developing, improving, and constructing an integrating counter for use in statistical work; repairs to such machinery and other mechanical appliances; technical and mechanical services in connection therewith, and purchase, rental, construction, repair, exchange of equipment and mechanical appliances; and including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $1,000,000:*Proviso*.Suspension of other work. *Provided*, That the Secretary of Commerce is authorized, in his discretion, to suspend during the decennial census period such work of the Census Office, other than the Fourteenth Census, as he may deem advisable. 1298 Foreign and Domestic Commerce Bureau.Director, assistants, etc.Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce:
Director, $6,000; assistant directors—one $3,500, one $3,000; private secretary, $1,800; ten chiefs of divisions, at $2,500 each; assistant chief of division, $2,250; chief clerk, $2,250; expert on commerce and finance, $2,000; commercial economist, $2,750; chiefs of sections—one $2,500, one $2,000; translators—one $2,000, one $1,800, two at $1,400 each; editorial assistant, $2,000; clerks—fourteen of class four, twelve of class three, two at $1,500 each, twenty-two of class two, thirty-five of class one, twenty at $1,000 each, fourteen at $900 each; two messengers; four assistant messengers; laborer; two messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $220,510.
Commercial attaches.Commercial attaches: For commercial attaches, to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce, after examination to be held under his direction to determine their competency, and to be accredited through the State Department, whose duties shall be to investigate and report upon such conditions in the manufacturing industries and trade of foreign countries as may be of interest to the United States; and for one clerk to each of said commercial Clerks, etc.attaches to be paid a salary not to exceed $2,000 each and for necessary traveling and subsistence expenses of officers, *Post*, p. 1303.rent outside of the District of Columbia, purchase of reports, books of reference and periodicals, travel to and from the United States, exchange on official checks, and all other necessary expenses not included in the foregoing; such commercial attaches shall serve directly under the Secretary of Commerce and shall report directly to him, $171,000.
Promotion of commerce, etc.For all necessary expenses, including field investigations in the United States and abroad, purchase of documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, and all other publications for the promotion of the commercial interests of the United States, exchange on *Post*, p. 1303.official checks, and rent outside the District of Columbia, to further promote and develop the foreign and domestic commerce of the United States, $325,000, to be expended under the direction of the *Proviso*.Branch offices.Secretary of Commerce: *Provided,* That not more than $100,000 of the foregoing sum shall be used for the expenses of branch offices in the United States.
Promoting commerce with South and Central America.*Post*, p. 1303.To further promote and develop the commerce of the United States with South and Central America, including the employment of experts and special agents in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of books of reference and periodicals, reports, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers ana employees, exchange on official checks, and all other necessary incidental expenses not included in the foregoing, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, $100,000.
Promoting commerce with the Far East.*Post*, p. 1303.To further promote and develop the commerce of the United States with the Far East, including the employment of experts and special agents in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of nooks of reference and periodicals, reports, traveling and subsistence expenses of officers and employees, exchange on official checks, and all other necessary incidental expenses not includeil in the foregoing, to be expended under the direction of the Secretary of Commerce, $150,000.
Steamboat Inspection Service.Steamboat-Inspection Service: Supervising Inspector General, $5,000; Deputy Supervising Inspector General, $3,000; private secretary, $1,500; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, one of class two, two of class one, two at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; in all, $22,940. Supervising inspectors.Steamboat inspectors: For eleven supervising inspectors, at $3,450 each, $37,950; Inspectors.Inspectors of hulls and inspectors of boilers, as authorized by law, $225,900; 1299 Assistant inspectors, as authorized by law, forAssistant inspectors. the following ports:
New York, forty at $2,500 each; New Orleans, six at $2,350 each; Baltimore, ten at $2,350 each; Providence, four at $2,350 each; Boston, ten at $2,350 each; Philadelphia, sixteen at $2,350 each; San Francisco, sixteen at $2,350 each; Buffalo, eight at $2,100 each; Cleveland, ten at $2,100 each; Milwaukee, four at $2,100 each; Chicago, five at $2,100 each; Grand Haven, two at $2,100 each; Detroit, six at $2,100 each; Norfolk, ten at $2,100 each; Seattle, sixteen at $2,100 each;
Portland (Oregon), six at $2,100 each; Albany (New York), two at $2,100 each; Duluth, two at $2,100 each; Portland (Maine), two at $2,100 each; New London, two at $2,100 each; Los Angeles, two at $2,100each; New Haven, two at $2,100 each; Savannah, two at $2,100 each; Toledo, two at $2,100 each; three traveling inspectors, at $3,000 each; $429,000; In all, for inspectors, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $692,850. Clerk hire, service at large: For compensation, not exceedingClerk hire. $1,500 a year to each person, of clerks to boards of steamboat inspectors, to be appointed by the Secretary of Commerce in accordance with the provisions of law, $115,000.
Contingent expenses: For fees to witnesses; traveling and otherContingent expenses. expenses *Post*, p. 1303.when on official business of the Supervising Inspector General, Deputy Supervising Inspector General, supervising inspectors, traveling inspectors, local and assistant inspectors, and clerks; instruments, [R. S., Title LII, pp. 852–899](/us/rs/p852–899).furniture, stationery, janitor service, and every other thing necessary to carry into effect the provisions of Title 52, Revised Statutes, $160,000.
Bureau of Navigation: Navigation Bureau.Commissioner, $4,000; deputy commissioner, $3,000; chief clerk, $2,000; clerk to commissioner, $1,600; clerks—two of class four, four of class three, three of class two, five of class one, four at $1,000 each, six at $900 each; two stenographers and typewriters to be employed not to exceed six months at the rate of $75 per month each; two messengers; in all, $42,780. Shipping service: For shipping commissioners in amounts notShipping Commissioners. exceeding the following:
Baltimore, $2,000; Boston, $3,000; New Bedford, $1,200; New Orleans, $2,500; Newport News, $1.500; New York, $5,000; Norfolk, $1,800; Philadelphia, $2,400; Bath, Maine, $1,000; Rockland, Maine, $1,200; Portland, Maine, $1,300; Charleston, South Carolina, $1,200; Seattle, $3,500; Providence, $1,800; Galveston, $1,800; San Francisco, $4,000; in all, $35,200. Clerk hire: For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary ofClerk hire. Commerce, of not to exceed to $1,600 per annum to each person or clerk in the offices of shipping commissioners,*Proviso*.Additional allowance. $70,000: *Provided,*That one clerk may be employed hereunder at a compensation not to exceed $2,200 per annum.
Contingent expenses: For rent, stationery, and other requisitesContingent expenses.*Post*, p. 1303. for transaction of the business of shipping commissioners’ offices, and for janitor in the commissioner’s office at New York, $840; in all, $10,000. To enable the Commissioner of Navigation to secureAdmeasurement of vessels.*Post*, p. 1303. uniformity in the admeasurement of vessels, including the employment of an adjuster of admeasurements at not to exceed $2,260, purchase and exchange of admeasuring instruments, traveling and incidental expenses, $3,760.
For purchase and repair of instruments for countingCounting passengers. passengers, $250. Enforcement of navigation laws: To enable the Secretary ofMotor boats, etc., to enforce navigation laws. Commerce to provide and operate such motor boats and employ thereon such persons as may be necessary for the enforcement, under his direction by customs officers, of laws relating to navigation and inspection of vessels, boarding of vessels, and counting of passengers on excursion boats, $60,000. 1300 Preventing crowding of excursion vessels, etc.To enable the Secretary of Commerce to employ, temporarily in addition to those now provided for by law, such other persons as may be necessary, of whom not more than two at any one time may be employed in the District of Columbia, to enforce the laws to prevent overcrowding of passenger and excursion vessels, and all necessary expenses in connection therewith, $15,000.
Wireless comunication on steam vessels, etc.Vol. 36, p. 629; Vol.37, p. 199.*Post*, p. 1303.Wireless-communication laws: To enable the Secretary of Commerce to enforce the Acts of Congress “to require apparatus and operators for radio communication on certain ocean steamers” and “to regulate radio communication” and carry out the international radio-telegraphic convention, and to employ such persons and means as may be necessary, this employment to include salaries of employees in the District of Columbia not exceeding $8,400, traveling and subsistence expenses, purchase and exchange of instruments, technical books, rent, and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the foregoing, $60,000.
Standards Bureau.Bureau of Standards: Director, $6,000; physicists—chief $4,800, one qualified in optics, $3,600; two at $3,600 each, one $3,300, three at $3,000 each; assistant to the director, $3,600; associate physicists—five at $2,700 each; five at $2,500 each, four at $2,200 each, seven at $2,000 each; assistant physicists—twelve at $1,800 each, thirteen at $1,600 each, eighteen at $1,400 each; chemists—chief $4,800, one $3,500, one $3,000; associate chemists—three at $2,700 each, two at $2,500 each, one $2,200, four at $2,000 each; assistant chemists—four at $1,800 each, four at $1,600 each, six at $1,400 each; physical chemist, $1,800; laboratory assistants—twenty-three at $1,200 each, eighteen at $1,000 each; laboratory helpers—two at $840 each, four at $720 each, three at $600 each; aids—fourteen at $900 each, sixteen at $720 each; twenty laboratory apprentices, at $540 each; secretary, $2,200; storekeeper, $1,000; librarian, $1,600; chief clerk, $2,200; clerks—one of class four, three of class three, three of class two, eight of class one, seven at $1,000 each, five at $900 each, two at $720 each; two telephone operators, at $720 each; office apprentices—four at $540 each, two at $480 each, two at $420 each; five elevator boys at $480 each; mechanicians—chief $1,800, one $1,600, one $1,500, two at $1,400 each, five at $1,200 each, six at $1,000 each, one $900; machinist, $1,200; shop apprentices—two at $600 each, two at $540 each, three at $480 each; eight watchmen; skill woodworkers—foreman of woodworking shops $1,500, one $1,200, two at $1,000 each; skilled laborers—two at $840 each, five at $720 each; draftsman, $1,200; photographers—one $1,400, one $1,200; packer, $840; two messengers; assistant messenger; superintendent of mechanical plant, $2,500; assistant engineers—one $1,600, one $1,400, two at $1,200 each, one $1,000, one $900; two pipefitters at $1,000 each; five firemen; glassblowers—one $1,600, one $1,200; glassworker, $1,600; electricians—one $1,400, one $1,200, one $900; foreman of janitors and laborers $900; fourteen laborers; janitors— three at $660 each, one $600; two female laborers, at $360 each; in all, $432,360.
Apparatus, etc.*Post*, p. 1303.For apparatus, machinery, tools, and applicances used in connection with buildings or work of the bureau, laboratory supplies, materials, and supplies used in the construction of apparatus, machinery, or other appliances, including their exchange; piping, wiring, and construction incident to the installation of apparatus, machinery, or appliances; furniture for laboratories and offices, cases for apparatus, $75,000. Repairs, etc.For repairs and necessary alterations to buildings, $20,000.
Miscellaneous*Post*, p. 1303.For fuel for heat, light, and power; office expenses, stationery, books and periodicals which may be exchanged when not needed for permanent use; traveling expenses (including expenses of attendance upon meetings of technical and professional societies when required 1301in connection with, standardization, testing, or other official work of the bureau); street car fares not exceeding $100; expenses of the visiting committee; expenses of attendance of International Committee of Weights and Measures.American member at the meeting of the International Committee of Weights and Measures; supplies for operation, maintenance, and repair of passenger auto mobiles and motor trucks for official use, including their exchange; and contingencies of all kinds, $75,000.
For grading, construction of roads and walks, piping groundsCare of grounds. for water supply, lamps, wiring for lighting purposes, and other expenses incident to the improvement and care of grounds, including laborers in the District of Columbia, $10,000. For continuation of the investigation of structural materials,Structural materials investigations. such as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $125,000.
For maintenance and operation of testing machines, includingTesting machines for physical constants. personal services in connection therewith in the District of Columbia and in the field, for the determination by the Bureau of Standards of the physical constants and the properties of materials as authorized by law, $30,000. For investigation of fire resisting properties of buildingFire resisting building materials. materials and conditions under which they may be most efficiently used, and for the standardization of types of appliances for fire prevention, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $25,000.
For investigation of the standards of practice and methods ofMeasurement of public utilities. measurements of public utilities, such as gas, electric light, electric power, water, telephone, central station heating, and electric railway service, and the solution of the problems which arise in connection with standards in such service, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $85,000, of which sum $15,000 shall be immediately available for electrolysis investigations.
For testing miscellaneous materials, such as varnish materials,Testing miscellaneous materials, etc. soap materials, inks, and chemicals, including supplies for the Government departments and independent establishments, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, as authorized by law, $30,000. For investigation and standardization of methods andRadio communication standardization. instruments employed in radio communication, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $30,000.
To develop color standards and methods of manufacture and ofIndustrial colors standardization. color measurement, with special reference to their industrial use in standardization and specification of colorants such as dyestuffs, inks, and pigments, and other products, paint, paper, and textiles, in which color is a pertinent property, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000. To study methods of measurement and technical processes usedClay products processes. in the manufacture of pottery, brick, tile, terracotta, and other clay products, and the study of the properties of the materials used in that industry, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $25,000.
To develop methods of testing and standardizing machines,Aeronautical, etc., engineering investigations. motors, tools, measuring instruments, and other apparatus and devices used in mechanical, hydraulic, and aeronautic engineering; for the comparative study oi types of apparatus and methods of operation, and for the establishment of standards of performance; for the accurate determination of fundamental physical constants involved in the proper execution of this work; and for the scientific experiments and investigations needed in solving the problems which may arise in connection therewith, especially in response to the requirements of aeronautics and aviation for information of a purely scientific nature, 1302including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000.
Optical glass production.For the investigation of the problems involved in the production of optical glass, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $25,000. Textiles, paper, etc., standards.To investigate textiles, paper, leather, and rubber in order to develop standards of quality and methods of measurement, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000. Sugar standardization.For the standardization and design of sugar-testing apparatus; the development of technical specifications for the various grades of sugars, with particular reference to urgent problems made pressing by conditions following the war, especially involving the standardization and manufacture of sugars; for the study of the technical problems incidental to the collection of the revenue on sugar and to determine the fundamental scientific constants of sugars and other substances; for the standardization and production of rare and unusual types of sugars required for the medical service of the Government departments; and for other technical and scientific purposes, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $30,000.
Gauges and screw threads.Cooperative standardization, etc., of.To provide by cooperation of the Bureau of Standards, the War Department, and the Navy Department, for the standardization and testing of the standard gauges, screw threads, and standards required in manufacturing throughout the United States, and to calibrate and test such standard gauges, screw threads, and standards, including necessary equipment, and personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $40,000.
Coal weighing, etc., at mines.For investigating the conditions and methods of use of scales and mine cars used for weighing and measuring coal dug by miners, for the purpose of determining wages due, and of conditions affecting the accuracy of the weighing or measuring of coal at the mines, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000. Metallurgical researches, etc.For metallurgical research, including alloy steels, foundry practice, and standards for metals and sands; casting, rolling, forging, and the properties of aluminum alloys; prevention of corrosion of metals and alloys; development of metal substitutes, as for platinum; behavior of bearing metals; preparation of metal specifications; investigation of new metallurgical Railway equipment.processes and study of methods of conservation in metallurgical manufacture and products; investigation of materials used in the construction of rails, wheels, axles, and other railway equipment, and the cause of their failure; including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $40,000.
High temperature measurements, etc.For laboratory and field investigations of suitable methods of high temperature measurements and control in various industrial processes and to assist in making available directly to the industries the results of the bureau’s investigations in this field, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $10,000. Acoustic investigations.For the investigation of the principles of sound and their application to military and industrial purposes, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $5,000.
Industrial development investigations.For technical investigations in cooperation with the industries upon fundamental problems involved in industrial development following the war, with a view to assisting in the permanent establishment of the new American industries, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $50,000. Cooperative work with departments, etc., in scientific investigations.During the fiscal year 1922 the head of any department or independent establishment of the Government having funds available for scientific investigations and requiring cooperative work by the Bureau of Standards on scientific investigations within the scope of the functions of that bureau and which it is unable to perform within the limits of its appropriations may, with the approval of the Secretary 1303of Commerce, transfer to the Bureau of Standards such sums asTransfer of funds to credit of Bureau. may be necessary to carry on such investigations.
The Secretary of the Treasury shall transfer on the books of the Treasury Department any sums which may be authorized hereunder and such amounts shall be placed to the credit of the Bureau of Standards for the performance of work for the department or establishment from which the transfer is made. Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce: Contingent expenses.For contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the department, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including professional and scientific books, law books, books of reference, periodicals, blank books, pamphlets, maps, newspapers (not exceeding $2,500); stationery; furniture and repairs to same; carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges; fuel, lighting, and heating; purchase and exchange of motor trucks and bicycles; maintenance, repair, and operation of one motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle and of motor trucks and bicycles, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; postage to foreign countries: telegraph and telephone service: typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices, including their repair and exchange; repairs to building occupied by offices of the Secretary of Commerce; rental of water-cooling plant in Commerce Building, not to exceed $1,400; first-aid outfits for use in the buildings occupied by employees of this department; storage of documents belonging to the Bureau of Lighthouses, not to exceed $1,500; street car fares, not exceeding $300; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary expenses not included in the Additional, to be deducted from bureaus, etc., for purchases through Supply Committee.Vol. 36, p. 531.foregoing, $50,000, and in addition thereto sums amounting to $50,750 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1922 and added to the apropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce,” in order to facilitate the purchase through the central purchasing office as provided in the Act of June 17, 1910 (Statutes at Large, volume 36, page 531), of certain supplies for bureaus and offices for which contingent and miscellaneous appropriations are specifically made as follows:
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce—promoting commerce $4,500, promoting commerce (South and Central America) $3,000, commercial attaches $6,000, promoting commerce in the Far East $4,000; general expenses, Lighthouse Service, $8,500; contingent expenses, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $7,500; contingent expenses, shipping service, $500; instruments for measuring vessels, $500; instruments for counting passengers, $250; enforcement of wireless communication laws, $1,000; Bureau of Standards—equipment $1,000, general expenses $1,000; general expenses, Coast To be expended through Division of Supplies.and Geodetic Survey, $4,500; miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $8,500; and the said total sum of $100,750 shall be and constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses, Department of Commerce, to be expended through the central purchasing office (Division of Supplies), Department of Commerce, and shall also be available for objects and purposes of the several appropriations mentioned under the title “Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce,” in this Act.
Hereafter section 3683 of the Revised Statutes of the UnitedMinor purchases.R.S., sec. 3683, p. 723. States shall not be construed to apply to any purchase made by the Department of Commerce when tne aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $25. For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $66,500.Rent. For rent of storage space outside the Commerce Building, $2,000. 1304 Department of Labor.DEPARTMENT OF LABOR. Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.Office of the Secretary:
Secretary of Labor, $12,000; Assistant Secretary, $5,000; chief clerk, S3,000; disbursing clerk, $3,000; private secretary to the Secretary, $2,500; clerk to the Secretary, $1,800; private secretary to the Assistant Secretary, $2,100; chief of division of publications and supplies, $2,500; appointment clerk, $2,100; deputy disbursing clerk, $2,100; assistant chief, division of publications and supplies, $2,000; librarian, $2,000; clerks—four of class four, eleven of class three, nine of class two, thirteen of class one. nine at $1,000 each, four at $900 each; three telephone switchboard operators; two messengers; five assistant messengers; five messenger boys, at $480 each; carpenter, $1,200; engineer, $1,100; two skilled laborers at $840 each; electrician, $1,000; three firemen; eleven laborers (one of whom, when necessary, shall assist and relieve the elevator conductor); lieutenant of the watch, $840; six watchmen; thirteen charwomen; three elevator conductors, at $720 each; in all, $140,380.
Commissioners of conciliation.Vol. 37, p. 738.Commissioners of conciliation: To enable the Secretary of Labor to exercise the authority vested in him by section 8 of the Act creating the Department of Labor, and to appoint commissioners of conciliation, for per diem in lieu of subsistence at not exceeding $4, traveling expenses, and not to exceed $12,000 for personal services in the District of Columbia, $100,000. Labor Statistics Bureau.Bureau of Labor Statistics: Commissioner, $5,000; chief statistician, who shall also perform the duties of chief clerk, $3,000; statistician, $3,000; six statistical experts, at $2,000 each; employees—two at $2,760 each, one $2,520, five at $2,280 each, one $1,800, six at $1,600 each, seven at $1,400 each, two at $1,200 each; special agents—four at $1,800 each, six at $1,600 each, eight at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; clerks—eight of class four, seven of class three, ten of class two, seventeen of class one, eight at $1,000 each; two copyists; messenger; three assistant messengers; two laborers; in all, $172,960.
Per diem, special agents.Temporary statistical clerks, etc.For per diem in lieu of subsistence, not exceeding $4, of special agents, and employees, and for their transportation; experts and temporary assistance for field service outside of the District of Columbia, to be paid at the rate of not exceeding $8 per day; temporary statistical clerks, stenographers, and typewriters in the District of Columbia, to be selected from civil-service registers and to be paid at the rate of not exceeding $100 per month, the same person to be employed for not more than six consecutive months, the total expenditure for such temporary clerical assistance in the District of Columbia not to exceed $6,000; traveling expenses of officers and employees, purchase of reports and materials for reports and bulletins of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, $69,000.
Periodicals, etc.For periodicals, newspapers, documents, and special reports for the purpose of procuring strike data, price quotations, and court decisions for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, $300. Immigration Bureau.Bureau of Immigration: Commissioner General, $5,000; Assistant Commissioner General, who shall also act as chief clerk and actuary, $3,500; private secretary, $1,800; chief statistician, $2,000; two law examiners, at $2,000 each; clerks—five of class four, five of class three, eight of class two, ten of class one, nine at $1,000 each, seven at $900 each; two messengers; assistant messenger; in all, $74,200.
Naturalization Bureau.Bureau of Naturalization: Commissioner, $4,000; deputy commissioner, $3,250; clerks—eight of class four, twelve of class three, sixteen of class two, sixteen of class one, ten at $1,000 each, two at $900 each; messenger; two assistant messengers; messenger boy, $480: in all, $97,010. 1305 Children’s Bureau: Children’s Bureau.Chief, $5,000; assistant chief, $2,400; experts—one on sanitation $2,800; industrial $2,000, social service $2,000, statistical $2,000; administrative clerk, $2,000; editor, $2,000; special agents—one $1,800, four at $1,600 each, ten at $1,400 each, twelve at $1,200 each; private secretary to chief of bureau, $1,500; clerks—two of class four, four of class three, four of class two, seven teen of class one, ten at $1,000 each; copyist; messenger; in all, $106,040.
To investigate and report upon matters pertaining to theChild life, mortality, etc. welfare of children and child life, and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality, including *Proviso*.Pay restriction.personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $80,000: *Provided*, That not exceeding eight persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation of $2,000 each per annum and above that sum. For traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence atPer diem, experts, etc. not exceeding $4 of officers, special agents, and other employees of the Children’s Bureau; experts and temporary assistants, to be paid at a rate not exceeding $6 a day, and interpreters to be paid at a rate not exceeding $4 a day when actually employed; purchase of reports and material forMaterial for publications. the publications of the Children’s Bureau, newspapers and clippings to enable the Children’s Bureau to secure data regarding the progress of legislation affecting children and the activities of public and private organizations dealing with children, and for reprints from State, city, and private publications for distribution when said reprints can be procured more cheaply than they can be printed by the Government, $85,000.
Women’s Bureau: For carrying out the provisions ofWomen’s Bureau.*Ante*, p. 987. the Act entitled “An Act to establish in the Department of Labor a bureau to be known as the Women’s Bureau,” approved June 5, 1920, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, purchase of material for reports and educational exhibits, and traveling expenses,*Proviso*.Pay restriction. $75,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following:
One at $5,000, one at $3,500, and three at $2,000 each. Contingent expenses, Department of Labor: Contingent expensesFor contingent and miscellaneous expenses of the offices and bureaus of the depart ment, for which appropriations for contingent and miscellaneous expenses are not specifically made, including the purchase of stationery, furniture, and repairs to the same, carpets, matting, oilcloth, file cases, towels, ice, brooms, soap, sponges, laundry, street car fares not exceeding $200; lighting and heating; purchase, exchange, maintenance and repair of motor cycles and motor trucks; maintenance and repair oi a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges, post age to foreign countries, telegraph and telephone service, typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; repairs to the building occupied by the office of the Secretary of Labor; purchase of law books, books of reference, and periodicals not exceeding $2,000; in all, $50,000; and in addition thereto such sum as may beAdditional from immigration expenses.Vol. 36, p. 531.*Post*, p. 1424. necessary, not in excess of $13,500, to facilitate the purchase, through the central purchasing office as provided in the Act of June 17, 1910 (Thirty-Sixth Statutes at Large, page 531), of certain supplies for the Immigration Service, shall be deducted from the appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration” made for the fiscal year 1922 and added to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of Labor,” for that year;Expended through Division of Publications and Supplies. and the total sum thereof shall be and constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses for the Department of Labor, to be expended through the central purchasing office (Division of Publications and Supplies), Department of Labor.
Rent: For rent ofRent. buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Department of Labor, $24,000. 1306 Judicial.JUDICIAL. Supreme Court.Supreme Court: Chief Justice, $15,000; eight associate justices, at $14,500 each; marshal, $4,500; nine law clerks, one for the Chief Justice and one for each associate justice, at not exceeding $3,600 each; nine stenographic clerks, one for the Chief Justice and one for each associate justice, at not exceeding $2,000 each; in all, $185,900.
Circuit courts of appeals.Circuit Courts of Appeals: Thirty-three circuit judges, at $8,500 each; nine clerks of circuit courts of appeals, at $4,500 each; messenger, to act as librarian and crier, circuit court of appeals, eighth circuit, $3,000; in all, $324,000. District judges.*Proviso*.Availability.District courts: Ninety-nine district judges, at $7,500 each, $742,500: *Provided,* That this appropriation snail be available for the salaries of all United States district judges lawfully entitled thereto for the fiscal year 1922.
District court, Hawaii.District court, Territory of Hawaii: Two judges, at $7,500 each; reporter, $1,200; in all, $16,200. District judge, Porto Rico.District court for Porto Rico: District judge, $7,500. Retired judges.Vol. 40, p. 1157.Retired judges: For salaries of judges retired under section 260 of the Judicial Code (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large), page 1161, so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year 1922. Court of appeals, D.C.Court of Appeals, District of Columbia:
Chief justice, $9,000; two associate justices, at $8,500 each; clerk, $4,250, and $250 additional as custodian of the Court of Appeals Building; assistant or deputy clerk, $2,250; reporter, $1,500: *Provided,* That the reports issued by him shall not be sold for more than $5 per volume; crier, who shall also act as stenographer and typewriter in the clerk’s office when not engaged in court room, $1,200; three messengers, at $720 each; three stenographers, one for *Proviso*.Reports.the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at $1,200 each; necessary expenditures in the conduct of the clerk’s office, $1,200; in all, $42,410, sixty per centum of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Supreme court, D.C.Supreme Court, District of Columbia: Chief justice, $8,000; five associate justices, at $7,500 each; six stenographers, one for the chief Sixty per cent from District revenues.justice and one for each associate justice, at $1,100 each; in all, $52,100, sixty per centum of which shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia. National Park Commissioners.Salaries.Vol. 29, p. 184.National Park Commissioners: For commissioners in the Crater Lake, Glacier, Mount Rainier, Yellowstone, Yosemite, and Sequoia and General Grant National Parks, at $1,500 each, $9,000.
The provisions of section 21 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act approved May 28, 1896, shall not be construed as impairing the rights of said commissioners to receive the salaries provided herein. Books for judicial officers.Books for judicial officers : For purchase and rebinding of law books, including the exchange thereof, for United States judges, district attorneys, and other judicial officers, including the nine libraries of the United States circuit *Proviso*.Transmittal to successors.courts of appeals, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General: *Provided,* That such books shall in all cases be transmitted to their successors in office; all books purchased thereunder to be marked plainly, “The property of the United States,” $16,000, of which not to exceed 10 per centum, in the discretion of the Attorney General, may be used for the purchase of United States Reports and the Federal Reporter.
Court of Customs Appeals.Court of Customs Appeals: Presiding judge and four associate judges, at $8,500 each; marshal, $3,000; clerk, $3,500; assistant clerk, $2,000; five stenographic clerks, at $1,600 each; stenographic reporter, $2,500; messenger, $840; in all, $62,340. Miscellaneous penses.For rent of necessary quarters in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $7,000; books and periodicals, including their exchange, 1307stationery, stationery, supplies, traveling expenses, heat, light, and power service, drugs, chemicals, cleansers, furniture, and printing; pay of bailiffs and all other necessary employees not otherwise specifically provided for; and such other miscellaneous expenses as may be approved by the presiding judge, $5,660; in all, $12,660.
Court of Claims: ChiefCourt of Claims. justice, $8,000; four judges, at $7,500 each; chief clerk, $3,500; assistant clerk, $2,500; bailiff, $1,500; clerks—two at $1,600 each (one of whom shall be a stenographer), one $1,400, two at $1,200 each; four stenographers, at $1,200 each; chief messenger, $1,000; two assistant messengers; three firemen; three watchmen; elevator conductor, $720; two laborers; two char women; in all, $66,580. For auditors, and additional stenographers, when deemedAuditors, etc. necessary, in the Court of Claims, to be disbursed under the direction of the court, $12,000.
For stationery, court library, repairs, including repairs toContingent expenses. bicycles, fuel, electric light, electric elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, $5,000. For reporting the decisions of the court and superintending theReporting decisions, etc. printing of the fifty-sixth volume of the reports of the Court of Claims, $1,000, to be paid on the order of the court to the reporter, notwithstanding section 1765 of the Revised Statutes or section 2 of theR.S., sec. 1765, p.314.Vol. 28, p. 205.
Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation Act, approved July 31, 1894, or section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial Appropriation ActVol. 39, p. 120. approved May 10, 1916. For custodian of the building occupied by the Court of Claims,Custodian. $500, to be paid on the order of the court, notwithstanding section 1765 of the Revised Statutes or section 3 of the Act of[R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314).Vol. 18, p.109. June 20, 1874. Sec. 2. That the pay of telephone-switchboard operators, assistant messengers,Switchboard operators, assistant messengers, etc., pay rated. firemen, watchmen, laborers, and charwomen provided for in this Act, except those employed in mints and assay offices, unless otherwise specially stated, shall be as follows:
For telephone switchboard operators, assistant messengers, firemen, and watch men, at the rate of $720 per annum each; for laborers, at the rate of $660 per annum each; assistant telephone-switchboard operators, at the rate of $600 each, and for charwomen, at the rate of $240 per annum each. Sec. 3. That the appropriations herein made for the officers,No pay to permanently incapacitated persons. clerks, and persons employed in the public service shall not be available for the compensation of any persons incapacitated otherwise than temporarily for performing such service.
Sec. 4. That no part of any money appropriated Typewriting machines.by this or any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year 1922 for the purchase of any standard typewriting machine, except bookkeeping and billing machines, at a price in excess of the following, to wit: For correspondencePrices established for standard machines, fiscal year 1922. models with carriages which will accommodate paper ten inches in width, $70; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper twelve inches in width, $75; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper fourteen inches in width, $77.50; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper sixteen inches in width, $82.50; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper eighteen inches in width, $87.50; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper twenty inches in width, $94; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper twenty-two inches in width, $95; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper twenty-four inches in width, $97.50; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper twenty-six inches in width, $103.50; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper twenty-eight inches in width, $104; for models with carriages which will accommodate paper thirty inches in width, $105; for models 1308with carriages which will accommodate paper thirty-two inches in width, $107.50.
Purchases to be made from surplus stock of General Supply Committee.All purchases of typewriting machines during the fiscal year 1922 by executive departments and independent establishments for use in the District of Columbia or in the field, except as hereinafter provided, Immediate inventory of War Department stock.shall be made from the surplus machines in the stock of the General Supply Committee. The War Department shall furnish the General Supply Committee, immediately upon the approval of this Act, a complete inventory of the various makes, models, and classes of type writers in its possession, the condition of such machines, and the point of storage, and shall turn over to the General Supply Committee such typewriting machines in such quantities as the Secretary of the Treasury from time to time may call for by specific requisition for sale to the Unserviceable machines allowed for exchanges.various services of the Government.
If the General Supply Committee is unable to furnish serviceable machines to any such service of the Government, it shall furnish unserviceable machines at current exchange prices and such machines shall then be applied by the service of the Acceptance of unserviceable machines as part payment.Government receiving them as part payment for new machines from commercial sources in accordance with the prices fixed in the preceding paragraph. And in selling typewriting ma chines to the various services the General Supply Committee may accept an equal number of unserviceable machines as part payment thereon at the exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies.
Sec. 5. Details for service outside the District, restricted.That in expending appropriations made in this Act persons in the classified service in the District of Columbia shall not be detailed for service outside of the District of Columbia except for or in connection with work pertaining directly to the service at the seat of *Proviso*.Department of Justice investigations excepted.government of the department or other Government establishment from which the detail is made: *Provided*, That nothing in this section shall be deemed to apply to the investigation of any matter or the preparation, prosecution, or defense of any suit by the Department of Justice.
Sec. 6. Additional $240 pay to civilian employees, and of the District, at $2,500 a year or less.That all civilian employees of the Governments of the United States and the District of Columbia who receive a total of compensation at the rate of $2,500 per annum or less, except as other wise provided in this section, shall receive, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1922, additional compensation at the rate of *Provisos*.Rate between $2,500 and $2,740.$240 per annum: *Provided*, That such employees as receive a total of annual compensation at a rate more than Restriction.$2,500 and less than $2,740 shall receive additional compensation at such rate per annum as may be necessary to make their salaries, plus their additional compensation, at the rate of $2,740 per annum, and no employee shall receive additional compensation under this section at a rate which is more than 60 Increase of 1921 not computed as salary.per centum of the rate of the total annual compensation received by such employee: *Provided further*, That the increased compensation at the rate of $240 per annum for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, shall not be computed as salary in Restriction if pay increased $200 in years 1921, 1922.construing this section: *Provided further*, That where an employee in the service on June 30, 1920, has received during the fiscal year 1921, or shall receive during the fiscal year 1922, an increase of salary at a rate in excess of $200 per annum, or where an employee whether previously in the service or not, has entered the service since June 30, Entering service since June 30, 1920.1920, whether such employee has received an increase in salary or not, such employees shall be granted the increased compensation provided herein only when and upon the certification of the person in the legislative branch or the head of the department or establishment employing such persons of the ability and qualifications personal to such employees as would justify such increased compensation.
Specified employees not entitled.The provisions of this section shall not apply to the following: Employees paid from the postal revenues and sums which may be 1309advanced from the Treasury to meet deficiencies in the postal revenues; employees whose pay is adjustable from time to time through wage boards or similar authority to accord with the commercial rates paid locally for the same class of service; employees of the Panama Canal on the Canal Zone; employees of the Alaskan Engineering Commission in Alaska; employees paid from lump-sum appropriations in bureaus, divisions, commissions, or any other governmental agencies or employments created by law since January 1, 1916, exceptExceptions.Tariff Commission; etc. employees of the United States Tariff Commission and the Bureau of War Risk Insurance, who shall be included, and officers and members of the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia and the United States park police who receive thePolice and firemen.*Ante*, pp. 363,396. compensation fixed by the Act approved December 5, 1919, and officers and members of the fire department of the District of Columbia who receive the compensation fixed by the Act approved January 24, 1920, shall receive increased Other exceptions.compensation at the rate allowed by this section for other employees.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to employees whose duties require only a portion of their time, except charwomen, who shall be included; employees whose services are utilized for brief periods at intervals; persons employed by or through corporations, firms, or individuals acting for or on behalf of or as agents of the United States or any department or independent establishment of the Government of the United States in connection with construction work or the operation of plants; employees who receive a part of their pay from any outside sources under cooperative arrangements with the Government of the United States or the District of Columbia; employees who serve voluntarily or receive only a nominal compensation, and employees who may be provided with special allowances because of their service in foreign countries.
The provisions of thisRailroad, etc., employees not deemed United States employees. section shall not apply to employees of the railroads, express companies, telegraph, telephone, marine cable, or radio system or systems taken over by the United States, and nothing contained herein shall be deemed a recognition of the employees of such railroads, express companies, telegraph, telephone, marine cable, or radio system or systems as employees of the United States. Section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and JudicialDouble pay prohibition not applicable.Vol. 39, p. 582.
Appropriation Act approved May 10, 1916, as amended by the Naval Appropriation Act approved August 29, 1916, shall not operate to prevent anyone from receiving the additional compensation provided in this section who otherwise is entitled to receive the same. Such employees as are engaged on piecework, by the hour, or atPiecework employees.Computation to determine pay. per diem rates, if otherwise entitled to receive the additional compensation, shall receive the same at the rate to which they are entitled in this section when their fixed rate of pay for the regular working hours and on the basis of three *Proviso*.Regular per diem employees excepted.hundred and thirteen days in the said fiscal year would amount to $2,500 or less: *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.
So much as may be necessary to pay the additionalAppropriation for increased pay to Federal employees. compensation provided in this section to employees oi the Government of the United States is appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not other wise appropriated. So much as may be necessary to pay the increasedAppropriation for District of Columbia employees.Sixty per cent from District revenues. compensation provided in this section to employees of the government of the District of Columbia is appropriated, 40 per centum out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and 60 Water department employees from revenues thereof.per centum out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, except to employees of the Washington Aqueduct and the water department, which shall be paid entirely from the revenues of the water department, and to 1310Minimum Wage Board, etc., wholly from District revenues.employees of the Minimum Wage Board, the community center department, and the playgrounds department, which shall be paid wholly out of the revenue of the District of Columbia.
Trust funds employees from the funds.So much as may be necessary to pay the increased compensation provided in this section to persons employed under trust funds who may be construed to be employees of the Government of the United States or of the District of Columbia is authorized to be paid, respectively, from such trust funds. Detailed report for first four months of fiscal year.Reports shall be submitted to Congress on the first day of the next regular session showing for the first four months of the fiscal year the average number of employees in each department, bureau, office, or establishment receiving the increased compensation at the rate of $240 per annum and the average number by grades receiving the same at each other rate.
Sec. 7. Chicago.Sale of lot to, for street purposes.That in consideration of an ordinance passed by the City Council of the city of Chicago on February 4, 1921, giving to the United States the use and maintenance for twenty years from July 1, 1921, of certain premises in the city of Chicago for barge office quarters, upon terms and conditions therein set forth and payment to the United States of the appraised value of the land to be con demned, such value to be not less than $25.50 per square foot, the city of Chicago is hereby authorized to acquire for street purposes by condemnation proceedings all interest of the United States in and to lot ten in block two in Fort Dearborn addition to Chicago, section ten, township thirty-nine north, range fourteen east of the third principal meridian, in the city of Chicago, in the State of Illinois.
Approved, March 3, 1921.
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