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Code · STATUTES-AT-LARGE · Vol. 41 STAT. · June 30, 1921 · Chapter 214

Chapter 214. Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes

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CHAP. 214.— An Act Making appropriations for the legislative, executive, and judicial expenses of the Government for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, and for other purposes. May 29, 1920. [[H. R. 14100](/us/bill/66/hr/14100).] [[Public, No. 231](/us/pl/66/231).] *Be it enacted by the Senate and House of Representatives of the United States of America in Congress assembled,* That the following sums areLegislative, executive, and judicial appropriations. appropriated, out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated, in full compensation for the service of the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, namely:
LEGISLATIVE.Legislative. senate.Senate. For compensation of Senators, $720,000.Pay of Senators. For mileage of Senators, $51,000.Mileage. For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others:Officers, clerks, etc. Office of the Vice President: Secretary to the Vice President,Vice President’s office. $4,000; clerk, $1,600; telegraph operator, $1,500; page, $600; in all, $7,700. Chaplain: For Chaplain, $1,200.Chaplain. Office of Secretary: Secretary of the Senate, including compensationSecretary of the Senate, assistant, clerks, etc. as disbursing officer of salaries of Senators and of contingent fund of the Senate, $6,500; assistant secretary, Henry M.
Rose, $5,000; 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; reading clerk, $4,000; financial clerk, $4,000; 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, four at $2,220 each, two at $2,100 each, one $1,800, two at $1,600 each, 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, $97,590.
Document room: Superintendent, George H. Boyd, $3,500; firstDocument room.Superintendent, etc. assistant, John W. Lambert, $2,500; assistants—one $2,250, one $1,440; clerk, $1,440; skilled laborer, $1,200; in all, $12,330. Clerks and messengers to the following committees: AgricultureClerks and messengers to committees. 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—632clerk $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; Interoceanic 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 clerk $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 and Porto Rico—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 clerks at $1,500 each; Preparing Senate Manual.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 not chairmen of committees.Clerical assistance to Senators: For clerical assistance to Senators who are not chairmen of the committees specifically provided for herein:
Seventy-eight clerks at $2,500 each; seventy-eight assistant clerks at $1,600 each; seventy-eight assistant clerks at *Proviso*.Authority.$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. Additional clerks to Senators.Ninety-four additional clerks at $1,200 each, one for each 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, $555,200.
Navy Yearbook, 1919.For compiling the Navy Yearbook for the calendar year 1919, under the direction of the chairman of the Committee on Naval Affairs, $500. Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, assistants, etc.Office of Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper: Sergeant at Arms and Doorkeeper, $6,500; Assistant Sergeant at Arms, $2,500; Assistant Doorkeeper, $3,600; Acting Assistant Doorkeeper, $3,600; Messengers, etc.two floor assistants at $2,500 each; messengers—four (acting as assistant doorkeepers) at $1,800 each, thirty-six (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;
Laborers, etc.janitor, $1,200; skilled laborers—four at $1,000 each; laborer in charge of private passage, $840; three female attendants in charge of ladies’ retiring room, 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; laborers633—three at $800 each, thirty-four at $720 each; sixteen pages for thePages.
Senate Chamber, at the rate of $2.50 per day each during the session, $4,640; in all, $148,740. 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, $1,800; eight mailPostmaster, etc. 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, $1,400; clerk, $1,200;Folding room.Foreman, etc. folders—seven at $1,000 each, seven at $840 each; in all, $17,080.
Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds:Chief engineer, etc. Chief engineer, $2,160; assistant engineer and electrician, $1,800; three assistant engineers, at $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. For the Senate Office Building, under the Superintendent of theElevator conductors, Senate Office Building.
Capitol Building and Grounds, 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: For stationery for Senators and the PresidentContingent expenses.Stationery. of the Senate, including $7,500 for stationery for committees and officers of the Senate, $20,000. Postage stamps: For office of Secretary, $200; office of Sergeant atPostage stamps. Arms, $100; in all, $300. For maintaining, exchanging, and equipping motor vehicles forMotor vehicle. 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.
For driving, maintenance, and operation of an automobile for theAutomobile, Vice President. Vice President, $2,240. For materials for folding, $1,500. For folding speeches and pamphlets, at a rate not exceeding $1 perFolding. thousand, $10,000. For fuel, oil, cotton waste, and advertising, exclusive of labor,Fuel, etc. $2,500. For purchase of furniture, $5,000. For materials for furniture and repairs of same, exclusive of labor,Furniture. $3,000. For services in cleaning, repairing, and varnishing furniture, $2,000.Packing boxes.
For packing boxes, $970. For rent of warehouse for storage of public documents, $1,800.Document warehouse. For miscellaneous items, exclusive of labor, $100,000.Miscellaneous. For expenses of inquiries and investigations ordered by the Senate,Inquiries and investigations. 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, $50,000, of which amount not to exceed $10,000 shall be available immediately.
For reporting the debates and proceedings of the Senate, payableReporting debates. in equal monthly installments, $35,000. capitol police.Capitol police. For captain, $1,800; three lieutenants, at $1,200 each; two specialPay. officers, at $1,200 each; forty-seven privates, at $1,050 each; ten additional privates, at $840 each; one-half of said privates to be selected634by the Sergeant at Arms of the Senate and one-half by the Sergeant at Arms of the House; in all, $65,550. 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.
Legislative drafting Service.legislative drafting service. Vol. 40, p. 1141.For salaries and expenses of maintenance of the legislative drafting 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. Pay of Members, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners.For compensation of Members of the House of Representatives, Delegates from Territories, the Resident Commissioner from Porto Rico, and the Resident Commissioners from the Philippine Islands, $3,304,500.
Mileage.For mileage of Representatives and Delegates and expenses of Resident Commissioners, $175,000. Officers, clerks, etc.For compensation of officers, clerks, messengers, and others: Speaker’s office.Digest of Rules.Office of the Speaker: Secretary to Speaker, $4,000; clerk to Speaker’s 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.Chaplain:
For Chaplain, $1,200, and $600 additional so long as the position is held by the present incumbent. Clerk of the House, clerks, etc.Office of the Clerk: Clerk of the House of Representatives, including compensation as disbursing officer of the contingent fund, $6,500; hire of horse and wagon for use of the Clerk’s office, $1,200, or so much thereof as may be necessary; 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, messenger 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, 1920, to March 31, 1921; 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, $104,670. 635 Under Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds:Chief engineer, etc.
Chief engineer, $2,160; four assistant engineers at $1,440 each; machinist, $1,400; 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 Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds; laborer, $800; three charwomen; in all, $41,040. Clerks, messengers, and janitors to the following committees:Clerks, messengers, and janitors to committees.
Accounts—clerk $2,500, assistant clerk $1,800, janitor, $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, assistant 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 Marine 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 clerk $1,900, janitors—one $1,000, one $720; in all, $181,570. Appropriations in the foregoing paragraph shall not be availableClerks subject to Clerk of the House after close of Congress. 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 under the direction of the Clerk of the House: *Provided*, That the foregoing shall not apply to the Committee*Proviso*.Exception. on Accounts.
Janitors under the foregoing shall be appointed by the chairman,Janitors.Appointment, etc. respectively, of said committees, and shall perform under the direction of the Doorkeeper all of the duties heretofore required of636messengers 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, etc.Office of Sergeant at Arms: Sergeant at Arms, $6,500; deputy sergeant at arms, $2,500; cashier, $4,000; financial clerk, $2,700; bookkeeper, $2,200; 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 horse and wagon, $600; in all, $25,240.
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’ Messengers, etc.gallery, $2,000; janitor, $1,500; messengers—sixteen at $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; two female attendants in ladies’ retiring rooms at $800 each; superintendent Folding room.Superintendent, etc.of folding room, $2,500; foreman, $2,100; three clerks, at $1,600 each; messenger, $1,200; janitor, $720; laborer, $720; thirty-two Pages, etc.folders, at $900 each; 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 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 to the Document room.Superintendent, etc.Hall of the House, at $2.50 per day each, $12,760; superintendent of document room, $2,900; assistant superintendent, $2,100; clerk, $1,700; assistant clerk, $1,600; assistants—seven at $1,280 each, one $1,100; janitor, $920; messenger to press room, $1,000; in all, $152,080.
Joel Grayson.For the employment of Joel Grayson in the document room, $2,500. W. Ray Loomis.For compensation of W. Ray Loomis for services as editor and compiler of the Weekly Compendium and Monthly Compendium and as assistant in the document room, $2,500. Minority employees.For minority employees authorized and named in the 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.
Special designated employees.For assistant department messenger authorized and named in 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.
Appointment of successors.Successors to any of the employees provided for in the seven preceding paragraphs may be named by the House of Representatives at any time. Conference minority.Conference minority: Clerk, $2,500; assistant clerk, $1,500; janitor, $1,000; in all, $5,000; the same to be appointed by the chairman of the conference minority. 637 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, assistant, 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 proceedings andOfficial 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, $720; in all, $24,720. Wherever the words “during the session” occur in the foregoing“During the session” to mean 116 days. paragraphs they shall be construed to mean the one hundred and sixteen days from December 6, 1920, to March 31, 1921, both inclusive.
Clerk hire, Members and Delegates: For clerk hire necessarilyClerk hire, Members and Delegates. employed by each Member, Delegate, and Resident Commissioner, in the discharge of his official and representative duties, $3,200 per annum, in monthly installments, $1,408,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary: *Provided*, That the joint resolution approved*Proviso*.Application of payments.*Ante*, p. 162. 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 1920.
Contingent expenses: For wrapping paper, pasteboard, paste,Contingent expenses.Folding materials. 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 materials to be printed and furnished by the Public Printer, upon requisitionsVol. 28, p. 624. from the Clerk of the House, under provisions of the Act approved January 12, 1895, $10,000. For furniture, and materials for repairs of the same, including notFurniture. to exceed $12,000 for labor, tools, and machinery for furniture repair shop, $30,000.
For packing boxes, $6,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.Packing boxes. For miscellaneous items and expenses of special and select committees,Miscellaneous items, etc. exclusive of salaries and labor, unless specifically ordered by the House of Representatives, $75,000. For stationery for Representatives, Delegates, and Resident Commissioners,Stationery. including $5,000 for stationery for the use of the committees and officers of the House, $60,000. For postage stamps:
Postmaster, $250; clerk, $450; Sergeant atPostage stamps. Arms, $300; doorkeeper, $150; in all, $1,150. For driving, maintenance, repair, and operation of an automobileAutomobile, Speaker. for the Speaker, $2,800. LIBRARY OF CONGRESS.Library of Congress. General administration: Librarian, $7,500; chief assistant librarian,Librarian, etc. $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: Assistants—one in charge $1,600, chief $1,200,Mail and delivery. one $960, one $780, one $600; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,560. 638 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 one 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.Periodical (including evening service): Chief of division, $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.Documents: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, one $840; two translators, at $1,200 each; stenographer and typewriter, $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $9,120. Manuscript.Manuscript: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—chief $1,500, one $960; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,880.
Maps and charts.Maps and charts: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, two at $960 each, one $840; junior messenger, $420; in all, $7,680. Music.Music: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, one $1,000, two at $840 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, $7,600. Prints.Prints: Chief of division, $2,000; assistants—one $1,500, two at $960 each; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,840. Smithsonian deposit.Smithsonian deposit: Custodian, $1,500; assistants—one $1,500, one $840; junior messenger, $420; in all, $4,260.
Congressional Reference Library.Congressional Reference Library: Custodian, $2,000; assistants—one $1,200, one $960, one $840; two junior messengers, at $420 each; in all, $5,840. Law Library.Law Library: Law librarian, $3,000; assistants—two at $1,400 each, one $960, one $600, one $540, one (evening service) $1,500; in all, $9,400. Semitic and Oriental Literature.Semitic and Oriental Literature: Chief of division, $3,000; assistants—one $1,500, one $900; junior messenger, $420; in all, $5,820.
Copyright office.Copyright office: Register, $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.Service designated.Legislative Reference:
To enable the Librarian of Congress to employ competent persons to gather, classify, and make available, in translations, indexes, digests, compilations, and bulletins, and other-639wise, data for 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*Proviso*.Pay restriction. hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $3,000 per annum. Distribution of card indexes:
For service in connection withCard indexes. 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 special and temporary service, includingTemporary services. extra special services of regular employees at the discretion of the Librarian, $2,500, of which $500 shall be immediately available. Carrier service: For service in connection with the Senate andCarrier service. House Office Buildings, $960, or so much thereof as may be necessary. Sunday opening: To enable the Library of Congress to be keptSunday opening. 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.
Increase of Library of Congress: For purchase of books forIncrease of Library.Purchase of hooks, etc. 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 1922, $90,000, together with the unexpended balance of the sum appropriated for this object for the fiscal year 1920;
For purchase of books and for periodicals for the law library, underLaw books. the direction of the Chief Justice, $3,000; For purchase of new books of reference for the Supreme Court,Books for 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; For purchase of miscellaneous periodicals and newspapers, $5,000;Periodicals. In all, $100,000. Contingent expenses: For miscellaneous and contingent expenses,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, $9,000.
Library building and grounds: Superintendent, $3,600; clerks—oneCare of building and grounds.Superintendent, etc. $2,000, one $1,600, one $1,400, one $1,000; property clerk, $900; messenger; assistant messenger; three telephone switchboard operators; 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, $900; foreman of laborers, $900; sixteen laborers; 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; chief engineer, $1,500; assistant engineers—one $1,200, three at $900 each; electrician, $1,500; machinists—one $1,000, one $900;640two wiremen, at $900 each; plumber, $900; three elevator conductors, and ten skilled laborers, at $720 each; in all, $91,545.
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 postmeridian 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 and $1,000 for pointing exterior stonework, $18,000.
Repairs, etc.For refitting old boiler room and coal vaults, $4,000. For new roof covering over the attic space around the octagon at base of the dome of the Library building, $6,000. Furniture.For furniture, including partitions, screens, shelving, and electrical work pertaining thereto, $12,000. Botanic Garden.BOTANIC GARDEN. Director, assistant, etc.Salaries: For director, $3,000; assistant director, $1,600; clerk, $1,200; greenhouse foreman, $1,250; head gardener, $1,200; gardener in charge of greenhouses, $1,080; four gardeners at $1,000 each; outside foreman, $1,000; two clerks at $1,000 each; two shipping clerks at $900 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, $46,916.
Repairs and improvments.Repairs and improvements: For procuring manure, soil, tools, 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; painting, glazing; repairs to footwalks and roadways; general repairs to packing sheds, storerooms, and stables; repairing and putting comfort stations in sanitary condition; repairs and improvements to director’s residence; all under the direction of the Joint Committee on the Library, $25,571.
Minor purchases.The sum of $25 may be expended at any one time by the Botanic Garden for the purchase of plants, trees, shrubs, and other nursery Vol. 36, p. 531.stock, without reference to section 4 of the Act approved June 17, 1910, concerning purchases for executive departments and other governmental establishments in Washington. Executive.EXECUTIVE. President.For compensation of the President of the United States, $75,000. Vice President.For compensation of the Vice President of the United States, $12,000.
Executive Office.Secretary, executive clerk, etc.Office of the President: Secretary, $7,500; executive clerk, $5,000; chief clerk, $4,000; appointment clerk, $3,500; record clerk, $2,500; expert stenographers—one $3,000, one $2,500; accounting and disbursing clerk, $2,500; 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 laborers at $720 each; in all, *Proviso*.Details of employees.$80,880: *Provided*, That employees of the executive departments641and 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, including stationery,Contingent expenses. record books, telegrams, telephones, books for library, furniture and carpets for offices, automobiles, expenses of garage, including labor, and miscellaneous items, to be expended in the discretion of the President, $30,000. BUREAU OF EFFICIENCY.Bureau of Efficiency. For carrying on the work of the Bureau of Efficiency as authorizedSalaries and penses. 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 $100for law books, books of reference, and periodicals; and not to exceed $100 for street carfare; in all, $125,000: *Provided*, That not*Proviso*.Pay restriction. 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. Three commissioners, at $5,000 each; chief examiner, $3,500; secretary,Commissioners, examiners, clerks, etc. $2,500; 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, twentyeight 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; assistant messenger; skilled laborer, $720; four messenger boys, at $420 each.
Custodian force: Engineer, $840; general mechanic, $840; telephone-switchboard operator; two firemen; two watchmen; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; three laborers; four charwomen; in ah, $305,420. For temporary employees for the Civil Service CommissionTemporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. $100,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. Field force: District secretaries—two at $2,400 each, one $2,200,Field force. 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.
For five field examiners at the rate of $1,500 per annum each, forField examiners. work in connection with members of local boards and other necessary work as directed by the commission, $7,500. No detail of clerks or other employees from the executive departmentsDetails from departments, etc., forbidden. 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 duty in the District of Columbia, shall be made for or during the fiscal year 1921.
The Civil ServiceTransfer of employees. Commission shall, however, have 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: For employment of expert examiners not inExpert examiners. 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. For necessary traveling expenses, including those of examiners actingTraveling expenses. 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 meet-642ings of public officials when specifically directed by the commission, $20,000.
Care of building, etc., transferred to Commission.Vol. 22, p. 405.The duty placed upon the Secretary of the Interior by section 4 of an Act entitled “An Act to regulate and improve the civil service of the United States,” approved January 16, 1883, shall be performed on and after July 1, 1920, by the Civil Service Commission. 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, motorcycles 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.
Rent.For rent of building for the Civil Service Commission, $16,875. Department of State.DEPARTMENT OF STATE. Secretary and Undersecretary.For Secretary of State, $12,000; Undersecretary of State, to be appointed by the President, by and with the advice and consent of Assistants, Director of Consular Service.Officers on drafting work.the Senate, $7,500; Assistant Secretary, $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 of division of far eastern, Latin-American, near eastern, or European affairs, or upon other work in Assistant solicitors.connection with the foreign relations; assistant solicitors of the department, to be appointed by the Secretary—five at $3,000 each, Chief clerk, law clerks, chiefs of bureaus, clerks, etc.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; chiefs of bureaus—two at $2,250 each, five at $2,100 each; two translators, at $2,100 each; additional to chief of Bureau of Accounts as disbursing clerk, $200; 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; chauffeur, $1,080; ten charwomen; in all, $618,840.
Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For temporary employees in the Department of State, $402,500: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $5,000 per annum and not more than eight persons shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: Four at $4,500 each, three at $4,000 each, ten at $3,500 each, and five at $2,500 each. Use of other appropriations for personal services forbidden.No money appropriated by any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year 1921 for employment and payment of personal service in the Department of State in the District of Columbia.
Passport Bureau, New York, N. Y.New York, New York, Passport Bureau: Passport agent, $2,000; clerk—two of class four, three of class three, three of class two,643two of class one; messenger; messenger boy, $480; stationery, furniture, fixtures, and other miscellaneous expenses, $2,500; in all, $20,820. San Francisco, California, Passport Bureau: For salaries andSan Francisco, Calif. expenses of maintenance of the passport bureau, $7,500. Contingent expenses: For stationery, furniture, fixtures, typewriters,Contingent expenses. including exchange of the same, repairs and material for repairs, $30,000.
For books, maps, and periodicals, domestic and foreign, for theLibrary. library, $4,000. For miscellaneous expenses, including maintenance and repair ofMiscellaneous. a motor-propelled passenger vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; automobile mail wagons, including 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, $12,000;Secretary and assistant to.Assistant Secretaries. 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 Secretary, at $1,800 each; Government actuary, under control ofClerks, actuary, etc. 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.
For two additional Assistant Secretaries of the Treasury at theTwo additional Assistant Secretaries, etc.Vol. 40, p. 347. rate of $5,000 each per annum in accordance with the authority contained in the Deficiency Appropriation Act approved October 6, 1917, and for a private secretary to each of the said Assistant Secretaries at the rate of $1,800 each per annum, so much as may be necessary is appropriated to provide for their compensation from July 1, 1920, to a date not later than six months after the termination of the present war.
Office of chief clerk and superintendent: Chief clerk, includingChief clerk, assistant superintendents, etc. $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 operator, $1,200; three telephone switchboard operators; mechanical superintendent, $2,250; chief engineer,Mechanical superintendent, engineers, etc. $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 lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; sixty-five watchmen;Watchmen, laborers, mechanics, etc. foreman of laborers, $1,200; assistant foreman of laborers, $840; eight chauffeurs at $720 each; six automobile truck laborers at $660 each; skilled laborers—two at $840 each, two at $720 each; two electricians, at $1,200 each; wireman, $900; forty-five laborers;644plumber, $1,100; painter, $1,100; plumber’s assistant, $780; attendant for emergency relief room, $660; head of char force, $720; eighty-five charwomen; carpenters—two at $1,000 each, one $720.
Winder Building.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 Cox Building.Auditors’ Building.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.
Buildings for bureaus, etc.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 of charwomen—one $660, one $480; thirty-six charwomen; eleven watchmen; in all, $32,940. Arlington Building and Annex.Operating force.Arlington Building and Annex, Vermont Avenue and H Street:
Assistant superintendent, $2,000; master mechanic, $1,800; engineer, $1,400; two assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; six firemen; seventeen elevator conductors, at $720 each; two oilers at $900 each; electrician, $1,400; two wiremen, at $1,200 each; plumber, $1,200; two plumbers’ helpers, at $1,000 each; painter, $1,200; two carpenters, at $1,200 each; janitor, $1,200; assistant janitor, $1,000; thirty 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 lieutenants 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 ninety charwomen; in all, $135,260.
Treasury Annex, Madison Place.Operating force.Treasury Department Annex (Pennsylvania Avenue and Madison Place): Three assistant engineers, at $1,200 each; plumber, $1,200; three firemen; coal passer, $660; oiler, $900; five elevator conductors, at $720 each; ten watchmen; twelve 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; thirty-four charwomen; in all, $40,640.
Garage.Treasury garage: Automobile mechanic, $1,400; two assistant automobile mechanics, at $1,000 each; two watchmen; in all, $4,840. Annex Fourteenth and B Streets NW.Operating force.Treasury Department Annex (Fourteenth and B Streets northwest): Carpenter, $1,200; plumber, $1,200; plumber’s helper, $1,000; electrician, $1,200; wireman, $900; three mechanics, at $900 each; captain of the watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of the watch, at $900 each; thirty-one watchmen; janitor, $1,200; assistant janitor, $1,000; head of char force, $660; two assistant heads of char force, at $480 each; ninety charwomen; twelve male laborers, at $660 each; four female laborers, at $660 each; in all, $69,700.
General Supply Committee.General Supply Committee: Superintendent of supplies, $2,500; clerks—chief $2,000, two 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, $30,060. Salaries and expenses for transfer of office supplies of departments, etc.For salaries of employees, office equipment, fuel, light, electric current, telephone service, maintenance of motor trucks, and other necessary expenses for carrying into effect the Executive order of645December 3, 1918, regulating the transfer of office material, supplies, and equipment in the District of Columbia falling into disuse because of the cessation of war activities, $100,000: *Provided*, That no person*Provisos*.Pay restriction. 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 at a rate in excess of $1,800 per annum each: *Provided further*,Service continued to June 30, 1921.
That the said Executive order shall continue in effect until June 30, 1921, without modification, except that proceeds from the transfer of appropriations thereunder shall be covered into the Treasury as miscellaneous receipts: *Provided further*, That the headsCooperation of departments, etc., in transfers, etc. 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 the Secretary of War isTransfer of Army motor trucks. authorized and directed to transfer to the Secretary of the Treasury without payment therefor three heavy motor trucks for use of the General Supply Committee: *Provided further*, That typewriters andIssue of typewriters, etc.*Post*, pp. 648, 947. computing machines transferred to the General Supply Committee as surplus may, in the discretion of the Secretary of the Treasury, be issued to other Government departments and establishments at exchange prices quoted in the current general schedule of supplies where such machines have become unfit for further use.
Division of Bookkeeping and Warrants: Chief of division, $4,000;Bookkeeping and Warrants Division. assistant chief of division, $3,000; estimate and digest clerk, $2,500; executive clerk, $2,500; two principal bookkeepers, at $2,100 each; twelve bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; clerks—sixteen of class four, thirteen of class three, ten of class two, four of class one; two messengers; three assistant messengers; messenger boy, $480; in all, $112,920. Division of Customs: Chief of division, $4,500; two assistantCustoms Division. chiefs of division, at $3,000 each; supervising tea examiner, $2,750; 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, $71,250.
Division of Appointments: Chief of division, $3,000; assistantAppointments Division. chief of division, $2,250; executive clerk, $2,000; clerks—two 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, $31,910. Section of Surety Bonds: Chief, $2,250; clerks—one of class three,Surety Bonds Section. one of class two, two of class one, one $1,000; assistant messenger; in all, $9,370. Division of Public Moneys:
Chief of division, $3,000; assistantPublic Moneys Division. chief of division, $2,500; principal bookkeeper, $2,000; clerks—seven of class four, five of class three, seven of class two, two of class one, one $1,000; messenger; assistant messenger; in all, $42,860. Division of Loans and Currency: Chief of division, $3,500; assistantLoans and Currency Division. 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 custodian 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, fifty at $1,000 each, fifty at $900 each; counter clerks—one $1,400, twenty at $1,200 each, thirty at $1,100 each, forty at $1,000 each, forty at $900 each, twenty at $800 each, fifteen at $720 each; computing machine operators—eighteen at $1,000 each, one $900; proof readers—two at $1,200 each, two at $1,100 each; superintendent of addressograph force, $1,800; addres-646sograph operators—one $1,600, three at $1,400 each, eight at $1,200 each, nine at $1,100 each, twenty at $1,000 each, fifty at $900 each; five assorters at $1,000 each; three messengers; five assistant messengers; messenger boys—five at $480 each, four at $420 each; skilled laborers—four at $1,200 each, four at $1,000 each, eight at $900 each; eighteen laborers; in all, $797,630.
Expenses of loans.Balances not available after June 30, 1921.The appropriations “Expenses of Loans, Act of April 24, 1917,” and “Expenses of Loans, Act of September 24, 1917, as amended,” shall not be available for obligation after June 30, 1921, and the unexpended balances of such appropriations which remain upon the books of the Treasury Department on June 30, 1922, shall be covered into the *Proviso*.Estimates to be submitted hereafter.Treasury and carried to the surplus fund: *Provided*, That for the fiscal year 1922 and annually thereafter estimates of appropriations shall be submitted to Congress in the manner prescribed by law for expenses arising in connection with the loans authorized by the various Liberty Bond Acts and the Victory Liberty Loan Act.
Printing and Stationery Division.Division of Printing and Stationery: Chief of division, $2,500; assistant chief of division, $2,000; clerks—five of class four, four of class three, three of class two, three 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. Mail and Files Division.Division of Mail and Files: Chief of division, $2,500; registry 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, $360; in all, $13,300.
Disbursing clerk’s office.Office of disbursing clerk: Disbursing clerk, $3,000; deputy 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. War Risk Insurance Bureau.Director, assistants, etc., in the District.Bureau of War Risk Insurance: For expenses of the Bureau of 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 tne Secretary of the Treasury Office supplies, etc.may deem necessary, $8,500,000; stationery and minor office supplies, $500,000; miscellaneous expenses, including telephones, telegrams, freight, express, foreign postage, not exceeding $300 for street car fares in the District of Columbia, and not exceeding $1,000 Printing.Furniture, equipment, etc.Field expenses, etc.for law books, books of reference, and periodicals, $50,000; printing and binding, $559,000; furniture, equipment, and supplies, $200,000; traveling expenses, exclusive of field investigations, $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 passenger *Proviso*.Work restricted.vehicle, $400; in all, $10,324,400: *Provided*, That all employees appropriated for by this paragraph shall be engaged exclusively on tne work of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance during the fiscal year 1921.
Federal Farm Loan Bureau.Members of board, secretary, etc.Federal Farm Loan Bureau: Four members of the board, at $10,000 each; secretary, $4,500; 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 examiner, $5,000; chief, bond division, $3,600; supervising appraiser, $3,600; two land bank examiners at $3,000 each; accountant, $1,800; twelve clerks and stenographers for registrars, at $1,200 each; engineer (irrigation and drainage), $4,800; clerks—three of class three, five of class two, eight of class one, nine at $1,000 each; stenographers—three at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; five *Proviso*.Organization ex penses covered in.Vol. 39, p. 384.messengers; in all, $203,500: *Provided*, That the unexpended balance on June 30, 1920, of the appropriation of $100,000 contained in section 33 of the Federal Farm Loan Act approved July 17, 1916, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States; 647 For traveling expenses of the members of the board and its officersContingent expenses. 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, $25,000;
For rent, vault rent, and expenses of the twelve registrars’ offices atRegistrars’ offices. $600 each, $7,200; For the examination of national farm loan associations, includingExaminations.*Provisos*.Pay restriction. personal services and traveling expenses, $67,500: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $2,500 per annum: *Provided further*, That $7,500 of this sum may be expended for clerk hire in the District of Columbia;Clerks, D.
C. In all, $303,200. Office of Supervising Architect: Supervising Architect, $5,000;Supervising Architect’s Office.Supervising Architect, superintendents, etc.*Post*, p. 876. 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 galley, $1,800; two duplicating paper chemists, at $1,200 each; foreman, vault, safe, and lock shop, $1,200; five messengers; two assistant 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, $221,020.
Office of Comptroller of the Treasury: Comptroller, $6,000;Comptroller’s Office. assistant comptroller, $4,500; attorneys—three at $4,000 each, three 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.
For temporary employees in the office of the Comptroller of theTemporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. Treasury, $40,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $4,000 per annum. The Comptroller of the Treasury is authorized to designate suchCountersigning warrants. person or persons in his office as may be required from time to time to countersign in his name such classes of warrants as he may direct. Office of Auditor for Treasury Department:
Auditor,Office of Auditor for Treasury Department. $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. For compensation to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury,Temporary employees, etc. of such temporary employees (nonapportioned) as may be necessary to audit the accounts and vouchers of the bureaus and offices of the Treasury Department, $50,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be*Proviso*.Pay restriction. employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,200 per annum. 648 Office of Auditor for War Department.Office of Auditor for War Department:
Auditor, $4,000; 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—sixty-five of class four, one hundred of class three, one hundred and forty of class two, two hundred and sixty of class one, one hundred and two, at $1,000 each, forty-six, at $900 each; foreman of messengers and laborers, $1,000; carpenter, $1,200; six messengers; twelve assistant messengers; eighteen laborers; four messenger boys, at $480 each; in all, $987,330.
Temporary employees.For compensation of such temporary employees as may be necessary to audit the accounts and vouchers of the bureaus and offices of *Proviso*.Pay restriction.the War Department, $300,000: *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 DepartmentOffice of Auditor for Navy Department:
Auditor, $4,000; 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. Temporary employees.For compensation of such temporary employees as may be necessary to audit the accounts and vouchers of the bureaus and offices of *Proviso*.Pay restriction.the Navy Department and the Marine Corps, $100,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum.
Office of Auditor for Interior Department.Office of Auditor For Interior Department: Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; chief of division, $2,000; clerks—fifteen of class tour, 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, etc.
Departments.Office of Auditor for State and Other Departments: Auditor, $4,000; chief clerk and chief of division, $2,250; law clerk, $2,000; two chiefs of division, 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.Office of Auditor for Post Office Department:
Auditor, $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; in all, $184,520.
Employees on mechanical devices.For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of the Treasury, of such number of employees as may be necessary to audit the accounts and vouchers of the Postal Service, $560,200. Postal Savings System.Postal Savings System: Clerks—eleven at $1,000 each; seven skilled laborers, at $900 each; in all, $17,300. Treasurer’s Office.Office of the Treasurer: 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 each; vault clerk, $2,500; principal bookkeeper, $2,500; two649tellers, 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, $2,000; vault clerk, bond division, $2,000; clerk for Treasurer, $1,800; coin clerk, $1,400; clerks—twenty-five of class four, twentyeight of class three, eight at $1,500 each; thirty-two of class two, eight at $1,300 each, one hundred and fifteen of class one, eighty-five at $1,000 each, forty-five 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, twelve at $800 each, twenty-six at $720 each; two compositors and pressmen, at $1,600 each; addressograph operator, $1,400; two skilled laborers, at $1,200 each; silver piler, $1,000 and $200 additional while the office is held by the present incumbent; fourteen messengers; eight assistant messengers; twenty-three laborers; messenger boys—eight at $600 each, fourteen at $480 each, eight at $360 each; in all, $778,170.
Not to exceed $200,000 of the appropriations for “Expenses ofTemporary employees, paid from “Expenses of loans.”*Proviso*.Pay restriction. loans” shall be used during the fiscal year 1921 for temporary employees in the Office of the Treasurer of the United States: *Provided*- That no person shall be employed under the said sum of $200,000 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.
For the force employed in redeeming the Federal reserve andRedemption of national currency, etc. 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.
For compensation of temporary employees in the Office of theTemporary employees. Treasurer of the United States in redeeming Federal reserve and national currency, $280,620, to be reimbursed by the Federal reserve and national banks: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed*Proviso*.Pay restriction. 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:
Accountant, $2,000; clerks—three of classPostal Savings System. two, two of class one, three at $1,000 each; expert counter, $900; in all, $12,500. For repairs to canceling and cutting machines in the Office of theCutting machines, repairs. Treasurer of the United States, $200. Office of Register of the Treasury: Register, $4,000; assistantRegister’s Office. 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.
Not to exceed $1,200,000 of the appropriations “Expenses of Loans”Temporary employees, paid from “Expenses of loans.”*Proviso*.Pay restriction. shall be used during the fiscal year 1921 for temporary employees in the Office of the Register of the Treasury: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed under the said sum of $1,200,000 at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: four at $3,000 each, six at $2,500 each, two at $2,250 each, two at $2,000 each.
Office of Comptroller of the Currency: Comptroller, $5,000;Office of Comptroller of the Currency. deputy comptrollers—one $3,500, one $3,000; chief clerk, $2,500; chiefs of division—one $2,500, two at $2,200 each; general bookkeeper, $2,000; assistant bookkeeper, $2,000; vault clerk, $2,000;650clerks—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; messengers; five assistant messengers; three laborers; messenger *Proviso*.Chief of examining division.boys—one $480, one $420; in all, $168,560: *Provided*, That the comptroller may designate a national-bank examiner to act as chief of the examining division in his office.
Federal reserve and national currency expenses.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 messenger; fireman; messenger boy, $420; two charwomen; in all, $71,420.
Special examinations, etc.For special examinations of national banks and bank plates, of 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.Office of Commissioner of Internal Revenue: Commissioner, $10,000; assistant to the commissioner, $5,000; five deputy commissioners, at $5,000 each; chemists—chief $3,000, 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.
Stamp agent.For one stamp agent, $1,600, to be reimbursed by the stamp manufacturers. Coast Guard Office.Office of the Coast Guard: Two chiefs 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 *Proviso*.Details of enlisted men forbidden.messengers; laborer; in all, $120,130: *Provided*, That hereafter enlisted personnel of the Coast Guard shall not be detailed for duty in the Office of the Coast Guard in the District of Columbia.
Technical services.The services of skilled draftsmen, and such other technical 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 *Proviso*.Limit, etc.the appropriation “Repairs to Coast Guard cutters”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1921 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.
Engraving and Printing Bureau.Bureau of Engraving and Printing: Director, $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; medical and sanitary officer, $2,250; 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, three at $780651each; nine attendants, at $600 each; helpers—one at $900, two at $720 each, two at $600 each; three messengers; seven assistant messengers; captain of watch, $1,400; two lieutenants of watch, at $900 each; eighty watchmen; two forewomen of charwomen, at $540 each; thirty-five day charwomen, at $400 each; ninety-four morning and evening charwomen, at $300 each; foreman of laborers, $900; four laborers; eighty-five laborers, at $540 each; in all, $297,710; and no other fund appropriated by this or any other ActLimit on paying for services. 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; assistant chief, who shallSecret Service Division. discharge the duties of chief clerk, $3,500; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, two of class two, three of class one; messenger; in all, $20,440. Office of Direct or of the Mint: Director, $5,000; examiner,Office of Director of the Mint. $3,000; computer and adjustor of accounts, $2,200; assayer, $2,200; clerks—two of class four, one of class three, one of class one; private secretary, $1,400; assistant in laboratory, $1,200; messenger; assistant messenger; skilled laborer, $720; in all, $23,680.
For freight on bullion and coin, by registered mail or otherwise,Freight. between mints and assay offices, $15,000. For contingent expenses of the Bureau of the Mint, to be expendedContingent expenses. 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, $1,600. For examination of mints, expense in visiting mints for the purposeExaminations, etc. of 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,Precious metals statistics. $4,800.
Office of Surgeon General of Public Health Service: ChiefPublic Health Service.Office salaries. 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: For stationery, including tags, labels,Contingent expenses. and index cards printed in course of manufacture, for the Treasury Department and its several bureaus and offices, $214,400, and inStationery.Additional deducted from bureaus, etc. addition thereto sums amounting to $261,850 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1921, as follows: Contingent expenses, Independent Treasury, $3,750; 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, $11,000; 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, $100,000; 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, with652the exception of field officers located in foreign countries, for the fiscal year 1921.
Postage.For postage required to prepay matter addressed to Postal Union countries, and for postage tor 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, $15,000.
Rent.*Proviso*.Restriction.For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Treasury Department, $100,271: Provided, That this appropriation shall not be available, except for the building at 1734 New York Avenue, if space can be assigned by the Public Buildings Commission in other buildings under the control of that commission. Operating expenses, rented buildings.Operating expenses, rented buildings: For the necessary help, fuel, electric light, removal of ashes, ice and miscellaneous items, $4,500.
Vehicles, etc.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 vehicles, and harness, all to be used for official purposes only, $5,000: *Proviso*.Transfer of Army motor trucks.*Provided*, That the Secretary of War shall transfer without payment therefor to the Secretary of the Treasury for use of the Treasury Department, two two-ton motor trucks.
Files.For purchase of file holders and file cases, $12,000. Fuel, etc.For purchase of coal, wood, engine oils and grease, grates, grate baskets and fixtures, blowers, coal hods, coal shovels, pokers, and tongs, $22,000. Lighting.For purchase of gas, electric current for lighting and power 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. Miscellaneous.For washing and hemming towels, purchase of awnings and fixtures, window shades and fixtures, alcohol, benzine, turpentine, varnish, baskets, belting, bellows, bowls, brooms, buckets, brushes, canvas, crash, cloth, chamois skins, cotton waste, door and window fasteners, dusters; flower-garden, street, and engine hose; lace leather, lye, nails, oils, plants, picks, pitchers, powders, stencil plates, hand stamps and repairs of same, spittoons, soap, matches, match safes, sponges, tacks, traps, thermometers, toilet paper, tools, towels, towel racks, tumblers, wire, zinc, and for blacksmithing, repairs of machinery, removal of rubbish, sharpening tools, street car tickets not exceeding $250, advertising for proposals, and for sales at public auction in the District of Columbia, of condemned property belonging to the Treasury Department, payment of auctioneer fees, and purchase of other absolutely necessary articles, $20,000.
Labor-saving machines, etc.For purchase of labor-saving machines and supplies for same, including the purchase and exchange of registering accountants, numbering machines, and other machines of a similar character, including time stamps for stamping date of receipt of official mail and telegrams, and repairs thereto, and purchase of supplies for photographic copying machines, $10,000. Carpets, etc.For purchase of carpets, carpet border and lining, linoleum, mats, rugs, matting, and repairs, and for cleaning, cutting, making, laying, and relaying of the same, by contract, $3,000.
Furniture, etc.For purchase of boxes, book rests, chairs, chair cane, chair covers, desks, bookcases, clocks, cloth for covering desks, cushions, leather for covering chairs and sofas, locks, lumber, screens, tables, type653writers, including the exchange of same, wardrobe cabinets, washstands, water coolers and stands, and for replacing other worn and unserviceable articles, $15,000. For maintenance of the automatic fire-alarm systems in the TreasuryFire alarm. and Winder Buildings, $1,980.36.
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 Annex (PennsylvaniaTreasury Annex. Avenue and Madison Place), including fuel, electric current, ice, ash removal, and miscellaneous items, $15,000. Treasury Department Annex (Fourteenth and B Streets northwest):Annex, Fourteenth and B Streets NW.
For heating, electric current, electrical equipment, ice, removal of trash, and miscellaneous expenses, $44,000. Darby Building: For heating, electric current, electrical equipment,Darby Building. ice, and miscellaneous items, $6,000. Contingent and miscellaneous expenses, Office of AuditorAuditor for Post Office Department.Contingent expenses. for the Post Office Department: For miscellaneous items, including purchase, repair, and exchange of typewriters and adding machines, of which not exceeding $500 may be used for furniture and repairs, not exceeding $475 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 Department 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.
For purchase of cards and tabulating equipment for use in auditingTabulating equipment. accounts and vouchers of the Postal Service, including exchange and repairs, $219,000, to be expended under the direction of the Auditor for the Post Office Department under rules and regulations to be prescribed by the Secretary of the Treasury: *Provided*, That*Proviso*.Rental allowance. not exceeding $39,400 may be expended for the rental of tabulating and card-sorting machines. internal revenue.
For salaries and expenses of collectors of internal revenue, deputyCollecting internal revenue.Collectors, gaugers, etc. 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 of seizure and sale, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses in collecting internal-revenue taxes, $4,288,000: *Provided*, That no*Proviso*.Witness fees. 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 before any United States commissioner, which expenses shall be paid from the appropriation for “Fees of witnesses, United*Post*, p. 924.
States courts.” For expenses of assessing and collecting the internal-revenue taxes,Assessing, collecting, etc., taxes of Revenue Act, 1918.Vol. 40, pp. 1057, 1140. 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 collections districts, to be appointed as provided by law, telegraph and telephone service, rental of quarters outside the District of Columbia, postage, freight,*Ante*, p. 651. express, and other necessary miscellaneous expenses, and the purchase of such supplies, equipment, furniture, mechanical devices, printing,654stationery, law books and books of reference, and such other articles as may be necessary for use in the District of Columbia and the several *Proviso*.Punishing violators of revenue laws.collection districts $21,000,000: *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](/us/rs/s3220/3689/p618/725).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; and not to exceed $1,000,000 of said amount may be used in payment of certified claims over three years old without special appropriation by Congress in each individual *Proviso*.Report of disbursements.Vol. 40, p. 1145.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.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, Vol. 38, p. 785; Vol. 40, p. 1130.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 December 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 Columbia and several field offices, and for rental of *Provisos*.Rent, District of Columbia.necessary quarters, $4,500,000: *Provided*, That not to exceed $49,500 of the foregoing sum shall be expended for rental of quarters in the Amount for narcotic enforcement.Vol. 38, p. 785;
Vol. 40, p. 1130.District of Columbia: *Provided further*, That not to exceed $750,000 of the foregoing sum shall be expended for enforcement of the provisions of the said Act of December 17, 1914. Annual statement of expenses, etc.The Commissioner of Internal Revenue shall submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a detailed statement showing 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.
Independent Treasury.INDEPENDENT TREASURY. Offices of assistant treasurers abolished from July 1, 1921.[R. S., sec. 3595, p. 710, repealed](/us/rs/s3595/p710).Section 3595 of the Revised Statutes of the United States, as amended, providing for the appointment of an Assistant Treasurer of the United States at Boston, New York, Philadelphia, Baltimore, New Orleans, Saint Louis, San Francisco, Cincinnati, and Chicago, and all laws or parts of laws so far as they authorize the establishment Subtreasuries to be discontinued.or maintenance of offices of such Assistant Treasurers or of Subtreasuries of the United States are hereby repealed from and after July 1, 1921; and the Secretary of the Treasury is authorized and directed to discontinue from and after such date or at such earlier date or dates as he may deem advisable, such subtreasuries and the Termination of services of employees.exercise of all duties and functions by such assistant treasurers or their offices.
The office of each assistant treasurer specified above and the services of any officers or other employees assigned to duty655at his office shall terminate upon the discontinuance of the functions of that office by the Secretary of the Treasury. The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized, in his discretion,Transfer of duties. to transfer any or all of the duties and functions performed or authorized to be performed by the assistant treasurers above enumerated, or their offices, to the Treasurer of the United States or the mints or assay offices of the United States, under such rules and regulations as he may prescribe, or to utilize any of the FederalUtilization of Federal reserve banks authorized.Vol. 38, p. 265. reserve banks acting as depositaries or fiscal agents of the United States, for the purpose of performing any or all of such duties and functions, notwithstanding the limitations of section 15 of the Federal reserve Act, as amended, or any other provisions of law: *Provided*,*Provisos*.Joint custody of trust funds.
That if any moneys or bullion, constituting part of the trust funds or other special funds heretofore required by law to be kept in Treasury offices, shall be deposited with any Federal reserve bank, then such moneys or bullion shall by such bank be kept separate and distinct from the assets, funds, and securities of the Federal reserve bank and be held in the joint custody of the Federal reserve agent and the Federal reserve bank: *Provided further*, That nothing in thisUse of member banks as depositaries not affected. section shall be construed to deny the right of the Secretary of the Treasury to use member banks as depositaries as heretofore authorized by law.
The Secretary of the Treasury is hereby authorized to assign anyUse of subtreasury buildings, equipment, etc. or all the rooms, vaults, equipment, and safes or space in the buildings used by the subtreasuries to any Federal reserve bank acting as fiscal agent of the United States. All employees in the subtreasuries in the classified civil serviceTransfer of eligible civil service employees. of the United States, who may so desire, shall be eligible for transfer to classified civil service positions under the control of the Treasury Department, or if their services are not required in such department they may be transferred to fill vacancies in any other executive department with the consent of such department.
To the extentPreferences. that such employees possess required qualifications, they shall be given preference over new appointments in the classified civil service under the control of the Treasury Department in the cities in which they are now employed. Baltimore, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer,Assistant treasurers’ offices.Baltimore. $4,500; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,900; exchange teller, $1,800; vault clerk, $1,800; clerks—two at $1,600 each, three at $1,400 each, three at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; messenger, $840; three watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $31,500.
Boston, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer,Boston. $5,000; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,500; vault clerk, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,000; redemption teller, $1,800; clerks—one $2,200, five at $1,600 each, one $1,500, one $1,400, two at $1,200 each, three at $1,100 each, four at $1,000 each; chief guard, $1,100; three watchmen, at $850 each; laborer and guard, $720; four money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $46,570.
Chicago, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer,Chicago. $5,000; cashier, $3,000; assistant cashier, $2,000; vault clerk, $2,250; paying teller, $2,500; assorting teller $2,000; redemption teller, $2,000; change teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,000; two bookkeepers, at $1,500 each; clerks—one $1,750, one $1,600, nine at $1,500 each, thirteen at $1,200 each; attendant for money laundry machines, $1,200; hall man, $1,100; messenger, $840; three watchmen, at $720 each; janitor, $720; eight money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $71,420.
Cincinnati, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer,Cincinnati. $4,500; cashier, $2,250; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,800;656vault clerk, $1,600; clerks—two at $1,300 each, four at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; clerk and stenographer, $1,000; chief watchman, $840; two watchmen, at $720 each; in all, $24,830. New Orleans.New Orleans, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, $4,500; cashier, $2,250; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $2,000; vault clerk, $1,800; assorting teller, $1,200; clerks—one $1,500, five at $1,200 each, one $1,000; typewriter and stenographer, $1,000; day watchman, $720; night watchman, $720; messenger, $600; four guards, at $720 each; in all, $28,170.
New York.New York, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, $8,000; cashier, $4,200; assistant cashier, $3,600; chief clerk, $3,000; check pay division—chief $3,000, assistant chief $2,000, bond clerk and assistant vault clerk, $2,800, paying teller, $3,000, assistant paying teller, $2,250, receiving teller $2,800; redemption division—chief $2,700, assistant chief $2,250, vault and authorities clerk $2,500; coin division—chief $2,700, assistant chief $2,000, paying teller $2,100; bookkeepers—chief $2,400, two at $2,000 each; clerks—one $2,300, two at $2,000 each, one $1,900, one $1,800, one $1,700, four at $1,600 each, seven at $1,500 each, nine at $1,400 each, five at $1,300 each, eight at $1,200 each, one $1,000; messengers—two at $1,200 each, five at $900 each, two at $800 each; guards—chief $1,500, one $1,200, four at $1,000 each; superintendent of building, $1,800; engineers—chief $1,200, two at $1,050 each; eight watchmen, at $720 each; twelve money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $150,460.
Philadelphia.Philadelphia, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, $5,000; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,250; coin teller, $2,000; vault clerk, $1,900; bookkeeper, $1,800; assorting teller, $1,800; receiving teller, $1,700; redemption teller, $1,600; clerks—one $1,600, two at $1,500 each, two at $1,400 each, one $1,300, five at $1,200 each, one $1,000; chief guard, $1,100; five counters, at $900 each; six watchmen, at $720 each; four money counters and handlers for money laundry machines, at $900 each; in all, $49,770.
Saint Louis.Saint Louis, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, $4,500; cashier, $2,500; paying teller, $2,000; receiving teller, $1,800; change teller, $1,600; coin teller, $1,200; clerks—two at $1,500 each, five at $1,200 each, two at $1,100 each, three at $1,000 each, three at $900 each; two watchmen, at $720 each; two janitors, at $600 each; guard, $720; in all, $33,860. San Francisco.San Francisco, office of assistant treasurer: Assistant treasurer, $4,500; cashier, who also acts as vault clerk, $2,800; bookkeeper, $2,000; paying teller, $2,400; receiving teller, $2,000; clerks—one $2,000, two at $1,800 each, one $1,500; stenographer and typewriter, $1,200; messenger, $840; four watchmen, at $720 each; two guards, at $720 each; in all, $27,160.
Mints and assay offices.MINTS AND ASSAY OFFICES. Carson City, Nev.Carson, Nevada, Mint: Assayer in charge, who shall also perform the duties of melter, $1,800; assistant assayer, $1,200; chief clerk, $1,200; in all, $4,200. For wages of workmen and other employees, $2,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, $1,500. Denver, Colo,Denver, Colorado, 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; deposit weigh 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, one $1,200; private secretary, $1,200; in all, $46,000. 657 For wages of workmen and other employees, $110,000.
For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery*Ante*, p. 651. 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: Assayer in charge, who shall alsoNew Orleans, La. 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: Superintendent, $4,500; engraver, $4,000; assayer,Philadelphia, Pa. $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, $440,000. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery*Ante*. p. 651. 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 $1,000 in value of specimen coins and ores for the cabinet of the mint, $177,000.
San Francisco, California, Mint: Superintendent, $4,500; assayer,San Francisco, Calif. $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. For incidental and contingent expenses, including new machinery*Ante*, p. 651. and repairs, wastage in the melting and refining department and in the coming department, and loss on sale of sweeps arising from the treatment of bullion and the manufacture of coin, $75,000. Boise, Idaho, assay office: Assayer in charge, who shall also performBoise, Idaho. 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, South Dakota, assay office: Assayer in charge,Deadwood, S. Dak. 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, Montana, assay office: Assayer in charge, who shallHelena, Mont 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 assay office: Superintendent, $5,000; assayer, $3,000;New York, N. Y. 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 $1,600,658one $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, $170,000. *Ante*, p. 651.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, $150,000. 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 workmen 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. War Department.WAR DEPARTMENT. Secretary, Assistant, assistant and chief clerk, etc.*Post*, pp. 764, 1025.Office of the Secretary:
Secretary of War, $12,000; 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, Chiefs of divisions, clerks, etc.$2,400; assistant chief clerk, $2,400; disbursing 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.
Temporary employees.Temporary employees: For the temporary employment of such additional force of clerks and other employees as in the judgment of the Secretary of War may be proper and necessary, to the prompt, efficient, and accurate dispatch of official business in the War Department and its bureaus, to be allotted by the Secretary of War *Provisos*.Detailed statement of employees, etc., to be submitted.except as otherwise provided herein, $3,000,000: *Provided*, That the Secretary of War shall submit to Congress on the first day of its next regular session a statement showing by bureaus or offices the number and designation of the persons employed hereunder and the annual Allotment to Adjutant General’s Office.rate of compensation paid to each: *Provided further*, That $1,850,000 of the foregoing sum shall be allotted to the Office of The Adjutant General and such portion thereof as may not be needed in that office shall not be allotted to any other office but shall lapse and be covered Use of other appropriations for civilian personnel restricted.*Post*, p. 893, 896.into the Treasury: *Provided further*, That appropriations contained in any other Act for the fiscal year 1921 shall not be used for the payment of civilian personnel in the bureaus or offices of the War Department in the District of Columbia except such as may be authorized by this Act or as may be appropriated for the Army War College and Office of the Chief of Staff in the Army Appropriation Act and the Board of Ordnance and Fortification in the Fortification Pay restriction.Appropriation Act: *Provided further*, That no person shall be paid from said sum of $3,000,000 at a rate of compensation exceeding Office distribution.$1,800 per annum except the following:
Office of Secretary of War—one at $3,500 (audit of Red Cross accounts), one at $3,000 (audit of Red Cross accounts), four at $2,750 each (audit of Red Cross accounts), two at $2,500 each, two at $2,200 each, one at $2,000;659Office of The Adjutant General—six at $2,400 each, two at $2,000 each; Office of Inspector General—one at $2,000; Office of Director of Finance—one at $5,000, one at $2,000; Motor Transport Corps—one at $2,400. The American National Red Cross annually shall reimburse theAmerican Red Cross.Reimbursement by, for auditing accounts.
War Department for auditing the accounts of the American National Red Cross, as required by the Act approved February 27, 1917, and the sum so paid shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States as a miscellaneous receipt. Adjutant General’s Office: Chief clerk, $2,750; ten chiefs ofAdjutant General’s Office. 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; 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 1921.
Office of Inspector General: Clerks—one of class four, two ofInspector General’s Office. class three, three of class two, four of class one, two at $1,000 each; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger, $600; in all, $18,160. Office of Judge Advocate General: Chief clerk and solicitor,Judge Advocate General’s Office. $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.
Signal Office: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—four of class four,Signal Office. 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. 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 Signal Office: *Provided*,*Proviso*.Limit, etc.
That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1921 shall not exceed $53,280, 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 Quartermaster General: Chief clerk, $2,750; principalQuartermaster General’s Office. 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.
Office of Surgeon General: Chief clerk, $2,250; principalSurgeon General’s Office. assistant librarian, $2,250; principal clerk, $2,000; chemist, $2,100; assistant chemist, $1,600; 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; eleven assistant messengers; three firemen; three watchmen; superintendent660of building (Army Medical Museum and Library), $200; six laborers; four charwomen; in all, $185,740.
Ordnance Office.Office of Chief of Ordnance: Chief clerk, $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; two messengers; assistant messenger; messengers—two at $780 each, two at $720 each; laborer; in all, $126,460. Skilled draftsmen, etc.The services of skilled draftsmen and such other services as the 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 equipping of the National Guard, to be paid from such appropriations, in addition to the amount specifically appropriated for draftsmen *Proviso*.Limit, etc.in the Army Ordnance Bureau: *Provided*, That the entire expenditures for this purpose for the fiscal year 1921 shall not exceed $400,000, 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.
Engineer Office.Office of Chief of Engineers: Chief 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. Skilled draftsmen, etc.The services of skilled draftsmen, civil engineers, and such 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, fortifications, and surveys and preparation for and the consideration of river and harbor estimates and bills, to be paid from such appropriations: *Proviso*.Limit, etc.*Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1921 shall not exceed $50,400; 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.
Insular Affairs Bureau.Bureau of Insular Affairs: Chief clerk, $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.Militia Bureau: Chief 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.
Coast Artillery Office.Office of Chief of Coast Artillery: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—one of class four, two of class three, three of class two, five of class one, three at $1,000 each; three messengers, at $720 each; in all, $22,360. 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 passenger-carrying vehicle, to be used only for official purposes; freight and express charges; street car fares, not exceeding $750;
Per diem subsistence.and other absolutely necessary expenses, including a per diem allowance not to exceed $4 in lieu of subsistence, $250,000. Stationery.For stationery for the department and its bureaus and offices, $100,000. 661 For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as requiredPostage stamps. under the Postal Union, to prepay postage on matters addressed to Postal Union countries, $500. For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of theRent.
War Department, $23,700. PUBLIC BUILDINGS AND GROUNDS.Public buildings and grounds. Office of public buildings and grounds: Superintendent,Superintendent, assistant and chief clerk, etc. $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. For foremen, gardeners, mechanics, and laborers employed in theForemen, etc. public grounds, $31,200.
Park police: Lieutenant, $1,900; first sergeant, $1,700; two sergeants,Park police. at $1,580 each; fifty-three privates, at $1,360 each; in all, $78,840. For watchman for the care of the monument and dock at Wakefield,Wakefield, Va. Virginia, the birthplace of Washington, $300. For contingent and incidental expenses including purchase of professionalContingent expenses. 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, $1,400. For purchasing and supplying uniforms to park police, and Monument and bridge watchmen, $5,120. Of the foregoing amounts appropriated under public buildingsPart from district revenues. and grounds, the sum of $68,400 shall be paid out oi the revenues of the District of Columbia.
STATE, WAR, AND NAVY DEPARTMENT BUILDINGS.State, War, and Navy Department buildings. Office of the Superintendent: For an assistant to the SuperintendentAssistant to Superintendent. of the State, War, and Navy Department Buildings in the administration of the force under the superintendent, $3,600. State, War, and Navy Department Building: Assistant superintendent,Main building.Assistant superintendent, clerks, engineers, etc. $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; forty-two 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; eight skilled laborers or general mechanics, at $840 each; bricklayer, $1,200; messenger; foreman of laborers, $840; sixteen firemen; twenty elevator conductors, at $720 each; two foremen or forewomen, at $780 each; fifty-five laborers; two second-class firemen, at $660 each; gardener, $720; three attendants at $480 each; in all, $133,680.
For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, and cityOperating expenses. directories, $54,000. For the replacing of two boiler feed pumps, $1,200.Repairs, etc. For the replacing of commutator on number one generator, $1,200.New electric generator. For the installation of a steam turbine-driven electric generator of three hundred kilowatt capacity, $21,000. Walker-Johnson Building, 1734 New York Avenue: Engineer,Walker-Johnson Building.Operating force $1,200; four firemen; four elevator conductors, at 720 each; seven watchmen; general mechanic or skilled laborer, $840; seven laborers; attendant, $480; in all, $17,940. 662 Contingent expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, and miscellaneous items, $8,000.
Potomac Park buildings.Operating force.Potomac Park Office Buildings: 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, four of class one, four at $1,000 each; four messengers, at $720 each; chief engineer, $1,800; assistant engineers—one $1,600, six at $1,400 each; storekeeper, $1,200; chief electrician, $1,600; electricians—four at $1,400 each, four at $1,200 each; foreman carpenter, $1,600; carpenters—three at $1,400 each, seven at $1,200 each; painters—three at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; plumbers—one $1,400, four 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; six general mechanics, at $1,000 each; guards—captain $1,600, three lieutenants at $1,080 each, three sergeants at $930 each, thirty at $780 each, thirty at $720 each; fire marshal, $1,080; foreman of laborers, $1,400; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $960 each; seven foremen or forewomen, at $780 each; one hundred and forty laborers; laborers and charwomen, $130,000; twenty-two female laborers, at $480 each; in all, $385,330.
Operating expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, miscellaneous items, printing, and city directories, $196,000. Mall office buildings.Operating force.Mall office buildings: For the following employees for the maintenance and protection of the temporary office buildings in the Mall (Units A, B, 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, five of class one, four at $1,000 each; four messengers at $720 each; chief engineer, $1,800; assistant to chief engineer, $1,600; four assistant engineers at $1,200 each, storekeeper, $1,200; foreman carpenter, $1,600; carpenters—four at $1,400 each, six at $1,200 each, two at $1,000 each; chief electrician, $1,600; electricians—two at $1,400 each, six at $1,200 each, three at $1,000 each; three switchboard operators at $1,000 each; foreman plumber, $1,400; four plumbers at $1,200 each; steam fitters—two at $1,200 each, one $1,080; machinist, $1,200; four painters at $1,200 each; fourteen general mechanics at $1,000 each; firemen—seven at $840 each, eleven 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—six at $930 each, three at $840 each; guards—ninety at $780 each, thirty at $720 each; foremen of laborers, one $1,400; two assistant foremen of laborers at $960 each; twelve foremen or forewomen at $780 each; one hundred and sixty laborers; laborers and charwomen, $80,000; sixteen female laborers at $480 each; in all, $419,740.
Operating expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, motor cycle and truck repairs, supplies, and exchange of same, miscellaneous items, printing, and city directories, $200,000. Building, Virginia Avenue and Eighteenth Street NW.Operating force.Temporary office 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; painter, $1,000; general mechanic, $1,000; guards—three sergeants at $930 each, eighteen privates at $780 each; foreman of laborers, $840; foreman or forewoman, $780; twelve laborers; laborers and charwomen, $6,000; three female laborers at $480 each; in all, $49,730.
Operating expenses.For fuel, lights, repairs, ground rent, miscellaneous items, printing, and city directory, $27,500. 663 Temporary office buildings: For employees for the maintenanceDesignated temporary office buildings. and protection of the temporary office buildings known as War Trade Building, between B and C Streets and Twentieth and Twenty-first Streets northwest; Food Administration Building Number 1, between Eighteenth and Nineteenth Streets and C and D Streets northwest;
Food Administration Building Number 2, between New York Avenue and D Street and Nineteenth and Twentieth Streets northwest; Council of National Defense Building, on Eighteenth Street between C and D Streets northwest; Fuel Administration Buildings Numbers 1 and 2, bounded by Virginia Avenue, Eighteenth and C Streets northwest; Fuel Administration Building Number 3, on D Street, between Twentieth and Twenty-first Streets northwest; H. L. Pettus Building, on Nineteenth Street, between Virginia Avenue and D Street northwest;
Archie Butt Building, seventeen hundred and twenty-five New York Avenue northwest; and Corcoran Courts Building, on New York Avenue, between Seventeenth and Eighteenth Streets northwest: Assistant superintendent, $2,000; principal clerk,Operating force. $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, four at $1,200 each; foreman carpenter, $1,600; carpenters—one $1,400, five at $1,200 each; plumbers—one $1,400, three at $1,200 each; steam fitter, $1,400; painters—three at $1,200 each, one $1,000; eight general mechanics at $1,000 each; assistant engineers—one $1,400, three at $1,200 each; eighteen firemen at $840 each; eleven coal passers at $720 each; guards—captain $1,600, three lieutenants at $1,080 each, twelve sergeants at $900 each, one hundred and twenty privates, at $780 each; fire marshal, $1,200; foreman of laborers, $1,000; two assistant foremen of laborers, at $840 each; seven foremen or forewomen, at $720 each; sixty laborers; six female laborers, at $480 each; laborers and charwomen, $60,000; in all, $296,760.
For fuel, lights, repairs, ground rent, miscellaneous items, cityOperating expenses. directories, and printing, $150,000. Where any of the buildings named herein have been erected onBuildings on leased grounds.Removal if renewal refused. private land and the consent of the owners can not be obtained to a continuance of the leases thereon or the occupancy thereof by the United States, the commission in charge of the State, War, and Navy Department buildings is authorized to remove such buildings, upon approval of the President, either by sale or otherwise, as may be to the best interests of the United States.
NAVY DEPARTMENT.Navy Department. Office of the Secretary: Secretary of the Navy, $12,000;Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc. 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; disbursing clerk, $2,250; appointment clerk, $2,250; printing clerk, $2,000; stenographers-—one $1,800, one $1,200; clerks—one of class four, three of class three, five of class two, five of class one, one $1,100, six at $1,000 each, one $900; carpenter, $1,000; four messengers; four assistant messengers; three laborers; messenger boys—four at $600 each, two at $480 each; in all, $78,830.
For temporary employees in the office of the Secretary of theTemporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.*Post*, p. 1028. Navy, $56,600: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation in excess of $1,800 per annum except the following: One at $4,000, one at $3,000, two at $2,400 each, and two at $2,000 each. Office of Solicitor: Solicitor, $4,000-; law clerks—one $2,500,Solicitor’s Office. one $2,400, one $2,250, two at $2,000 each; clerks—one of class664four, two of class three, one of class two, one $840; messenger, $600; in all, $22,990.
Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For temporary employees in the Office of the Solicitor for the Navy Department, $25,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: One $3,000, two at $2,400 each, one at $2,250. Naval Records and Library.Office of Naval Records and Library: Chief clerk, $2,000; clerks—two of class four, one to be selected from officers of the Confederate Navy (agent for collection of Confederate records), four of class two, four of class one, two at $1,000 each; copyist; copyist, $720; assistant messenger; laborer; in all, $21,000.
Naval records of World War.Collecting, classifying, etc.Toward the collection or copying and classification, with a view 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 necessary incidental expenses, *Proviso*.Pay restriction.$20,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum.
Judge Advocate General’s Office.Office of Judge Advocate General: 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. Temporary employees.For temporary employees in the office of the Judge Advocate General as follows: Two at $3,000; $6,000. Chief of Naval Operations.Office of 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. Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For temporary employees in the Office of the Chief of Naval Operations, $56,700: *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.
Director of Naval Communications.Office of Director of Naval Communications: For employees in the office of the Director of Naval Communications, $160,000: *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 $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.
Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For temporary employees in the Bureau of Navigation, $404,140: *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. 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; messenger boy, $600; in all, $17,100.
Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For temporary employees in the Office of Naval Intelligence, $35,480: *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. 665 Hydrographic Office: Hydrographic engineer, $3,000; assistants—oneHydrographic Office.Salaries. $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 draftsmen, 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; electro typer 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.
For temporary employees in the Hydrographic Office, $100,000:Temporary employees.*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 $2,750, one at $2,400, three at $2,200 each, eight at $2,000 each, and one at $1,900. For purchase and printing of nautical books, charts, and sailingMaterials, printing, etc. directions; copperplates, steel plates, chart paper, packing boxes, chart portfolios, electro typing 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; telegrams on public business; preparation of pilot charts and theirPilot charts, etc. supplements, and printing and mailing same; purchase of data for charts and sailing directions and other nautical publications; books of reference and works and periodicals relating to hydrography, marine meteorology, navigation, surveying, oceanography, and terrestrial magnetism, and to other professional and technical subjects connected with the work of the Hydrographic Office, $50,000.
All sums received from the sale of maps, charts, and other publicationsReceipts to be covered in. issued by the Hydrographic Office after June 30, 1921, shall be covered into the Treasury of the United States as miscellaneous receipts. Contingent expenses of branch offices at Boston, New York, Philadelphia,Branch offices.Centingent expenses. 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.
For services of necessary employees at branch offices, $25,000.Employees. No expenditure shall be incurred or authorized for personal servicesPersonal services, etc., in Washington restricted. or otherwise under the Hydrographic Office in the District of Colum-666bia, during the fiscal year 1921, except as herein authorized by appropriations under the Navy Department or under appropriations that may be made for printing and binding. Naval Observatory.Salaries.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.
Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For temporary employees at the Naval Observatory, $5,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,200 per annum. Computations.For miscellaneous computations, $5,000. Library.For professional and scientific books, books of reference, periodicals, engravings, photographs, and fixtures for the library, $1,000. Apparatus, etc.For apparatus and instruments, and for repairs of the same, $2,500.
Contingent expenses.For repairs to buildings, fixtures, and fences; furniture, gas, 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. Miscellaneous items.For fuel, oil, grease, pipe, wire, and other materials needed for the maintenance and repair of boilers, engines, heating apparatus, electric lighting and power plant, and water-supply system; purchase and maintenance of teams; maintenance, repair, exchange, or operation of motor truck and of horse-drawn passenger-carrying vehicles; material for boxing nautical instruments for transportation; paints, telegraph and telephone service, and incidental labor, $12,000.
Grounds and roads.For cleaning, repair, and upkeep of grounds and roads, $6,500. New boiler.For purchase and installation of new boiler in heating plant, $10,000. 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. Computers.For pay of computers on piecework in preparing for publication the American Ephemeris and Nautical Almanac and in improving the tables of the planets, moon, and stars, $1,500.
Bureau of Steam Engineering.*Post*, p. 828.Bureau of Steam 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; two expert radio aids, at $3,130 each; four assistant messengers; laborer; messenger boy, $600; in all, $45,650. Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For temporary employees in the Bureau of Steam Engineering, $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. 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 Steam Engineering and at rates of compensation not exceeding those paid hereunder prior to January 1, 1918, to carry into effect the various appropriations for “Increase of the Navy” and “Engineering,” to be paid from the appropriation *Proviso*.Limit.“Engineering”: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1921 shall not exceed $184,000.
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. 667 Bureau of Construction and Repair: Chief clerk, $2,250;Bureau of Construction and Repair. clerks—three of class four, four of class three, four of class two, four at $1,300 each, four of class one, eleven at $1,100 each, fourteen at $1,000 each; two copyists; two assistant messengers; laborer; messenger boys—ten at $600 each, one $480; in all, $66,130.
For temporary employees in the Bureau of Construction andTemporary services.*Proviso*.Pay restriction. Repair, $85,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: One at $2,250 and two at $2,000 each. The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as theTechnical services. 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, 1918, to carry into 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*Proviso*.Limit, etc. on this account for the fiscal year 1921 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: Chief clerk, $2,250; draftsman, $1,400;Bureau of Ordnance. clerks—two of class four, two of class three, three of class two, one $1,300, four of class one, one $1,100, five at $1,000 each; three copyists; two copyists, at $840 each; assistant messenger; messenger boys—two at $600 each, two at $400 each; laborer; in all, $34,610.
For temporary employees in the Bureau of Ordnance, $50,000:Temporary employees.*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 $2,200, one at $2,000. The services of draftsmen and such other technical services as theTechnical services. 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, 1918, to carry into effect the 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*Proviso*.Limit, etc. on this account for the fiscal year 1921 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: Civilian assistant, $2,500;Bureau of Supplies and Accounts. chief accountant, $2,250; two chief bookkeepers, at $2,000 each; statistician, $1,800; clerks—six 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, one $480, one $400; in all, $102,310.
For temporary employees in the Bureau of Supplies and Accounts,Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.*Post*, p. 1028. $350,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum except the following: Two at $3,000 each, one at $2,500, and six at $2,000 each. Bureau of Medicine and Surgery: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—twoBureau of Medicine and Surgery. 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.
For temporary employees in the Bureau of Medicine and Surgery,Temporary 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 two persons at $2,000 each. Bureau of Yards and Docks: Chief clerk, $2,250; clerks—twoBureau of Yards and Docks. of class four, one $1,700, one of class three, two of class two, four of668class one, one $1,100, two at $1,000 each; assistant messenger; three messenger boys at $600 each; two laborers; in all, $23,690.
Temporary employees.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For temporary employees in the Bureau of Yards and Docks, $75,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $1,800 per annum. Technical services.The services of skilled draftsmen and such other technical 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 allotments thereunder and be paid *Proviso*.Limit, etc.from such appropriations and allotments: *Provided*, That the expenditures on this account for the fiscal year 1921 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.Contingent expenses: For 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. Stationery, etc.For stationery, furniture, newspapers, plans, drawings, and drawing materials; purchase and exchange of motor trucks or motor delivery wagons; maintenance, repair, and operation of motor trucks or motor delivery wagons, and one motor-propelled passenger-carrying 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 Department and its various bureaus and Restriction on use of naval appropriations.offices, $100,000; 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.
Naval appropriations not to be used for Department purposes.No part of any appropriations made for the naval service shall be 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. Interior Department.DEPARTMENT OF THE INTERIOR. Secretary, Assistants, chief clerk.Office of the Secretary: 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, clerks, 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; expert accountant, $2,000; clerks—four at $2,000 each, twelve of class four, two at $1,740 each; one $1,620, sixteen 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 designated 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; chauf-669feurs—one $1,080, ten at $720 each; ten messengers; seven assistantMessengers, etc. 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 packers, at $660 each; two elevator conductors, at $720 each; eight female laborers, at $400 each; captains of the watch—one $1,200,Watchmen, etc. 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 toClerk to sign tribal deeds. 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, $319,430.
General Land Office Building: Engineer and electrician, $1,600;General Land Office Building.Operating force. 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. Building for Interior Department offices, care and maintenance:Department Office, Building.Operating force. 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 charwomen; 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.
Office of Solicitor: Three members of a board of appeals, toSolicitor’s office. 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 typewriter), three of class two, one of class one; copyist; messenger; three assistant messengers; in all, $90,950.
For per diem in lieu of subsistence of two special inspectors, whileSpecial inspectors Subsistence, etc. traveling on duty, at not exceeding $4, and for actual necessary expenses of transportation (including temporary employment of stenographers, typewriters, and other assistance outside of 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. For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence to sixInspectors.Subsistence, etc. 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: Commissioner, $5,000; assistant commissioner,General Land Office. $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 district 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; assistant chief of division, $2,000; law examiners—fourteen at670$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 and twenty at $1,000 each; twenty-three copyists; 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 commissioner 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, $672,470.
Per diem, etc., investigations.For per diem in lieu of subsistence, at not exceeding $4, of examiners and of 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, $6,000.
Law books.For law books for the law library, $400. Maps.*Proviso*.Distribution.For connected and separate United States and other maps, prepared in the General Land Office, $20,000: *Provided*, That of the United States maps procured hereunder 7,200 copies shall be delivered to the Senate and 14,400 copies shall be delivered to the House of Representatives, 500 copies shall be delivered to the Commissioner of the General Land Office, and the residue shall be delivered to the Secretary of the Interior for distribution.
All maps delivered to the Senate and House of Representatives hereunder shall be mounted with rollers ready for use. State and Territorial maps.Enlarged-homestead areas.For separate State and Territorial maps of public-land States, including maps showing areas designated by the Secretary of the Interior under the enlarged-homestead Acts, prepared in the General Land Office, $3,000. Tiles.For appliances in connection with filing system, $3,000. For steel storage boxes for folded files, $7,000.
Indian Office.Indian Office: Commissioner, $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-eight of class two, sixty-eight of class one (including one stenographer), thirty-two at $1,000 each (including one stenographer), thirty-four at $900 each, two at $720 each; messenger; four assistant messengers; four messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $320,790.
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, $4,000; 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, three hundred of class one, forty-eight at $1,000 each; fourteen copyists; twenty-three messengers; six assistant messengers; skilled laborer, $660; two messenger boys, at $420 each; in all, $1,210,340. 671 For per diem at not exceeding $4 in lieu of subsistence for personsPer diem, etc. investigations. 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.
For purchase, repair, and exchange of adding machines, addressingLabor-saving devices, etc. machines, typewriters, check-signing machines, and other laborsaving devices, furniture, filing cabinets, and postage on foreign mail, $6,000. Patent Office: Commissioner, $5,000; first assistant commissioner,Patent Office. $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; draftsmen—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.
For furniture and filing cases, $10,000.Furniture, etc. For purchase of law, professional, and other reference books andBooks, etc. publications and scientific books and directories, $3,000. For producing copies of weekly issue of parents, designs, and trademarks;Copies of weekly issues of patents, etc. production of copies of drawings and specifications of exhausted patents and other papers; and for expense of transporting publications of patents issued by the Patent Office to foreign governments, $170,000.
For investigating the question of public use or sale of inventionsInvestigating use 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 may 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 theInternational Bureau, Berne.
International Bureau at Berne, Switzerland, $750. Bureau of Education: Commissioner, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,000;Bureau of Education. 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 copists; two skilled laborers, at $840 each; messenger; assistant messenger; messenger boy, $420; in all, $82,860.
For investigation of rural education, industrial education, physicalRural, industrial, etc., education. education and school hygiene, including personal services in the Dis-672trict of Columbia and elsewhere, and no salary shall be paid hereunder in excess of $3,500 per annum, $50,000. Traveling expenses.For necessary traveling expenses of the commissioner and employees acting under his direction, including attendance at meetings of educational associations, societies, and other organizations, $7,500.
Library.For books for library, current educational periodicals, other current publications, and completing valuable sets of periodicals, $500. Special reports, etc.For collecting statistics for special reports and circulars of information, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $3,600. Distributing documents, etc.For purchase, distribution, and exchange of educational 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.
Elementary, etc., education investigations.For investigation of elementary and secondary education, including evening schools and the wider use of the schoolhouse in cities and towns, including personal services in the District of Columbia and *Proviso*.Pay restriction.elsewhere, $9,000: *Provided*, That no person shall be employed hereunder at a rate of compensation exceeding $3,500 per annum. Kindergarten education.*Proviso*.Pay restriction.For investigation of kindergarten education, including personal 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.
Superintendent of Capitol Building and Grounds.Office of Superintendent of the Capitol Building and Grounds: Superintendent, $6,000; chief clerk, $2,000; 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; person in charge of the heating of the Supreme Court and central portion of the Capitol, $1,000; laborer in charge of water-closets in central portion oi 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 of Representatives and in the terrace, at $720 each; forewoman of charwomen, $480; sixteen charwomen; bookkeeper and accountant, $2,400; in all, $30,030.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses, Department of the Interior: 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 $250, and expressage; purchase and exchange of 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; constructing 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 bureaus673and offices, $85,000; and, in addition thereto, sums amounting to $54,650 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for theAdditional deducted from specified appropriations. fiscal year 1921, 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; Geological 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 1921.
For professional and scientific books, law books, and books toBooks, periodicals, etc. complete broken sets, periodicals, directories, and other books of reference relating to the business of the department, $750. For rent of quarters for department trucks, and for the storage ofRent. Patent Office models and exposition exhibits, $2,400. For postage stamps for the department and its bureaus, as requiredPostage stamps. 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. For salaries of surveyors general, clerks in their offices, and contingentSalaries and office expenses. 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: Surveyor general and ex officio secretary of the Territory,Alaska. $4,000; clerks, $11,220; contingent expenses, $3,600; in all, $18,820.
Arizona: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $18,400; contingent expenses,Arizona. $600; in all, $22,000. California: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $14,100; contingentCalifornia. expenses, $650; in all, $17,750. Colorado: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $18,650; contingentColorado. expenses, $750; in all, $22,400. Idaho: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $12,600; contingent expenses,Idaho. $750; in all, $16,350. Montana: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $16,980; contingentMontana. expenses, $600; in all, $20,580.
Nevada: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $12,060; contingent expenses,Nevada. $500; in all, $15,560. New Mexico: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $18,900; contingentNew Mexico. expenses, $900; in all, $22,800. Oregon: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $9,510; contingent expenses,Oregon. $600; in all, $13,110. South Dakota: Surveyor general, $2,000; clerks, $3,100; contingentSouth Dakota. expenses, $200; in all, $5,300. Utah: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $14,020; contingent expenses,Utah. $725; in all, $17,745.
Washington: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $11,260; contingentWashington. expenses, $750; in all, $15,010. Wyoming: Surveyor general, $3,000; clerks, $10,540; contingentWyoming. expenses, $500; in all, $14,040. Expenses chargeable to the foregoing appropriations for clerk hireRestriction on clerk 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 necessary674traveling 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.
Office work, surveys in railroad land grants.Vol. 28, p. 937.*Proviso*.Limit.The use of the fund created by the Act of March 2, 1895 (Twenty-eighth Statutes, page 937), for office work in the surveyors general’s offices is extended for one year from June 30, 1920: *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. Alaska.Territory of 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 offices 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. For the repainting of the executive mansion at Juneau, including interior repainting, kalsomining, and decorating, $1,400.
Legislative expenses.Legislative expenses: For salaries of members, $21,600; mileage of members, $9,250; salaries of employees, $5,160; rent of legislative halls and committee rooms, $2,000; printing, indexing, and binding laws, printing and binding journals, stationery, supplies, printing of bills, reports, and so forth, $9,000; in all, $47,010, to be expended under the direction of the governor of Alaska. Hawaii.Territory of Hawaii: Governor, $7,000; secretary, $4,000; chief justice, $6,000; two associate justice, 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 1921. 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. Legislative expenses.Legislative expenses: For furniture, light, telephone, stationery, record casings and files, printing and binding, including printing, publication, and binding of the session laws and the house and senate journals, indexing records, postage, ice, water, clerk hire, mileage of members, and incidentals, pay of chaplain, clerk, sergeant at arms, *Proviso*.Pay to members restricted.stenographers, typewriters, janitors, and messengers, $30,000: *Provided*, That the members of the Legislature of the Territory of Hawaii shall not draw their compensation of $200 or any mileage tor an extra Vol. 31, p. 150.session, held in compliance with section 54 of an Act to provide a government for the Territory of Hawaii, approved April 30, 1900.
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, assistant to chief clerk, confidential clerk to Postmaster General, and Chief inspector, purchasing agent, etc.chairman, board of inspection, at $2,000 each; chief inspector, $4,000; chief clerk to chief inspector, $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, Clerks, etc.$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-675eight of class two, two hundred and ninety-seven 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; telegrapher, $1,400; typewriter repairer, $1,200; three telephone switchboard operators; six messengers in charge of mails,Messengers, watchmen, engineers, etc. at $900 each; thirty messengers; twenty assistant messengers; captain of the watch, $1,200; additional to three watchmen 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—oneCarpenters, laborers, etc. $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, $1,696,270.
For the following force authorized by the Post Office AppropriationClerks on railroad transportation. 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. In making readjustments hereunder, the salary of any clerk in anyReadjustment of salaries. 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 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,Assignment to Bureaus, etc. 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. Office, First Assistant Postmaster General:
First AssistantFirst Assistant Postmaster General, superintendents of divisions, etc. 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.
Office, Second Assistant Postmaster General: Second AssistantSecond Assistant Postmaster General, superintendents of divisions, etc. Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of railway adjustments—superintendent $3,000, assistant superintendent $2,250; division of foreign mails—superintendent $8,000, 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 AssistantThird Assistant Postmaster General, superintendents of divisions, etc. Postmaster General, $5,000; chief clerk, $2,500; division of postal savings—director $4,800, assistant director $3,000, chief clerk $2,500, clerk m 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 Postmaster676General may determine for the faithful ischarge 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.
Fourth Assistant Postmaster General, superintendents of divisions, etc.Office, Fourth Assistant Postmaster General: Fourth Assistant 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, $1,888,720. Contingent expenses.Stationery, etc.Contingent expenses, Post Office Department: For stationery and blank books, index and guide cards, folders, and binding devices, including purchase of free penalty envelopes, $30,000.
Heating, etc., plant.For fuel and repairs to heating, lighting, ice, and power plant, including repairs to elevators, purchase and exchange of tools, and electrical supplies, and removal of ashes, $60,000. Telegraphing.For telegraphing, $6,000. Vehicles.For purchase, exchange, hire, and maintenance of horses and horse-drawn and motor-driven passenger-carrying vehicles and repair of vehicles, including motor trucks and harness, $4,000. For rent of stables, $500. Miscellaneous.For miscellaneous items, including purchase, exchange, and repair of typewriters, adding machines, and other labor-saving devices; street-car fares not exceeding $450; 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, $40,000, of which sum not exceeding $12,500 may be expended for telephone service, and not exceeding $1,500 may be expended for purchase and exchange of law books, books of reference, railway guides, city directories, books necessary to conduct the business of the department; and repairs to department buildings.
Furniture, etc.For furniture and filing cabinets, $7,000. Official Postal Guide.For publication of copies of the Official Postal Guide, $43,000; and the amounts received during the fiscal year 1921 from sales of the Official Postal Guide to the public may be used as a further appropriation for the publication of copies of such guide. Heat, light, and power, City post office building.Reimbursement for.For reimbursement of the Government Printing Office for the 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, $40,000, or so much thereof as may be necessary.
Postal service appropriations not to be used for Department.Vol. 5, p. 80.Appropriations made for the service of the Post Office Department in conformity with the Act of July 2, 1836, shall not be expended for any of tne purposes herein provided for on account of the Post Office Department in the District of Columbia. Department of Justice.DEPARTMENT OF JUSTICE. Attorney General, Solicitor General, Assistants.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; Solicitor for the Post Office Department, $5,000; Solicitor of Internal Revenue, $5,000; Solicitor Attorneys, assistants, etc.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 provided for herein, shall be employed for such purposes; attorneys—one $4,500, one $3,750, four at $3,500 each, one $3,250, fourteen at $3,000677each, 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 at $2,000 each; assistant examiner of titles, $2,000; chief clerkChief clerk, clerks, etc. and ex officio superintendent of buildings, $3,500; superintendent of buildings, $500; private secretary and assistant to the Attorney General, $3,600; clerk to the Attorney 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 pardons, $3,600; superintendent ofSuperintendent of prisons, etc.Investigation division.Clerks, messengers, watchmen, etc. 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 switchboard operators; four firemen; four elevator conductors, at $720 each; head charwoman, $480; twenty-four charwomen.
Division of Accounts: Chief, $3,000; administrative accountant,Division of Accounts. $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, $484,310. Contingent expenses: For furniture and repairs, including carpets,Contingent expenses. file holders, and cases, $4,000. 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. For stationery for department and its several bureaus, $10,000.Stationery. For miscellaneous expenditures, including telegraphing, fuel, lights,Miscellaneous. 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 $200, and other necessaries, directly ordered by the Attorney General, $35,000.
Hereafter section 3709 of the Revised Statutes of the UnitedMinor purchases.[R. S., sec. 3709, p. 733](/us/rs/s3709/p733). States shall not be construed to apply to any purchase or service rendered for the Department of Justice when the aggregate amount involved does not exceed the sum of $25. For official transportation, including the maintenance, repair, andVehicles, etc. 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.
The Secretary of War is authorized and directed to deliver to theDelivery of Army truck. Attorney General, for the use of the Department of Justice, one surplus one-ton truck. For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District ofRent. Columbia, $36,000. Office of Solicitor of the Treasury: Solicitor, $5,000; AssistantSolicitor of the Treasury. Solicitor, $3,000; 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, $27,230.
For law books, including their exchange, for office of the Solicitor of the Treasury, $500. Office of Solicitor of the Department of Commerce: Solicitor,Solicitor of the Department of Commerce. $5,000; Assistant Solicitor, $3,000; clerks—two of class four, two of678class three, three of class two, one of class one; messenger; in all, $21,040. Solicitor of the Department of Labor.Office of Solicitor of the 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. Secretary, Assistant, clerks, etc.Office of the Secretary: 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 pubheations, $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.
Lighthouses Bureau.Bureau of Lighthouses: Commissioner, $5,000; deputy commissioner, $4,000; chief constructing engineer, $4,000; superintendent of naval construction, $3,000; 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, $67,290.
Census Bureau.Salaries and expenses for Fourteenth Census.Bureau of Census: For 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 work authorized and directed by law, including purchase, rental, construction, and repair of card-punching, card-sorting, and card-tabulating machinery; not to exceed $1,500 for the purchase, 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, and exchange of equipment and mechanical appliances; and including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, Available to June 30, 1922.*Proviso*.Suspension of other Work.$5,000,000, to continue available until June 30, 1922: *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.
Bureau of Foreign and Domestic Commerce.Director, assistants, clerks, 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 of679class 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 attachés: For commercial attachés, to be appointedCommercial attachés. 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 attachés to beClerks, etc. paid a salary not to exceed $2,000 each and for necessary traveling and subsistence expenses of officers, 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*Post*, p. 684. commercial attachés shall serve directly under the Secretary of Commerce and shall report directly to him, $171,000.
For all necessary expenses, including field investigations in thePromotion of commerce, etc.*Post*, p. 684. United States and abroad, purchase of documents, plans, specifications, manuscripts, and all other pubheations for the promotion of the commercial interests of the United States, exchange on 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 Secretary of Commerce: *Provided*, That not more than $75,000 of the foregoing*Proviso*.Branch offices. sum shall be used for the expenses of branch offices in the United States.
To further promote and develop the commerce of the United StatesPromoting commerce with South and Central America.*Post*, p. 684. 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 and 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.
To further promote and develop the commerce of the United StatesCommerce with the Far East.*Post*, p. 684. with the Far East, 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 and 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.
Steamboat-Inspection Service: Supervising Inspector General,Steamboat-Inspection Service. $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. Steamboat inspectors: For eleven supervising inspectors, at $3,450Supervising inspectors. each, $37,950; Inspectors of hulls and inspectors of boilers, as authorized by law,Inspectors. $225,900;
Assistant inspectors, as authorized by law, for the following ports:Assistant inspectors. 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, four at $2,100 each;680Detroit, four 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 $2,100 each; New Haven, two at $2,100 each; Jacksonville, two at $2,100 each; Pittsburgh, one $2,100; Toledo, two at $2,100 each; four traveling inspectors, at $3,000 each; $434,100; In all, for inspectors, Steamboat-Inspection Service, $697,950.
Clerk hire.Clerk hire, service at large: For compensation, not exceeding $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.*Post*, p. 684.Contingent expenses: For fees to witnesses; traveling and other expenses when on official business of the Supervising Inspector General, Deputy Supervising Inspector General, supervising inspectors, traveling inspectors, local and assistant inspectors, and clerks; instruments, furniture, stationery, janitor service, and every other [R.
S., Title LII, pp. 852–899](/us/rs/p852–899).thing necessary to carry into effect the provisions of Title 52, Revised Statutes, $160,000. Navigation Bureau.Bureau of Navigation: Commissioner, $4,000; deputy commissioner, $2,750; 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, $42,530.
Shipping commissioners.Shipping service: For shipping commissioners in amounts not exceeding the fallowing: 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.Clerk hire:
For compensation, to be fixed by the Secretary of Commerce, of not to exceed $1,600 per annum to each person or clerk in *Proviso*.Additional allowance.the offices of shipping commissioners, $70,000: *Provided*, That one clerk may be employed hereunder at a compensation not to exceed $2,200 per annum. Contingent expenses.*Post*, p. 684.Contingent expenses: For rent, stationery, and other requisites 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.
Admeasurement of vessels.*Post*, p. 684.To enable the Commissioner of Navigation to secure 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. Counting passengers.*Post*, p. 684.For purchase and repair of instruments for counting passengers, $250. Motor boats, etc., to enforce navigation laws.*Post*, p. 684.Enforcement of navigation laws:
To enable the Secretary of 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, $75,400. Preventing overcrowding 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, $18,000. 681 Wireless-communication laws:
To enable the Secretary of CommerceWireless communication on steam vesets.Vol. 36, p. 629; Vol. 37, p. 199. 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.
Bureau of Standards: Director, $6,000; physicists—chief $4,800,Standards Bureau. 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; skilled 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.
For apparatus, machinery, tools, and appliances used in connectionApparatus, etc.*Post*, p. 684. 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. For repairs and necessary alterations to buildings, $20,000.Repairs, etc.
For fuel for heat, light, and power; office expenses, stationery,Miscellaneous.*Post*, p. 684. books and periodicals; traveling expenses (including expenses of attendance upon meetings of technical and professional societies when required in 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 American member at the meeting of the International Committee of Weights and Measures; supplies for operation, maintenance, and repair of a passenger automobile and motor trucks for official use, including their exchange; and contingencies of all kinds, $75,000. 682 Care of grounds.For grading, construction of roads and walks, piping 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.
Structural materials investigations.For continuation of the investigation of structural materials, such as stone, clays, cement, and so forth, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $125,000. Testing machines for physical constants.For maintenance and operation of testing machines, including 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.
Fire-resisting building materials.For investigation of fire resisting properties of building 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. Measurement of public utilities.For investigation of the standards of practice and methods of 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.
Railway equipment investigations.For 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, $15,000. Miscellaneous testing, etc.For testing miscellaneous materials, such as varnish materials, 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.
Radio communication standardization.For investigation and standardization of methods and instruments employed in radio communication, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $30,000. Industrial colors standardization, etc.To develop color standards and methods of manufacture and of 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.
Clay products processes.To study methods of measurement and technical processes used in the manufacture of pottery, brick, tile, terra cotta, 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. Aeronautical, etc., engineering investigationsTo develop methods of testing and standardizing machines, motors, tools, measuring instruments, and other apparatus and devices used in mechanical, hydraulic, and aeronautic engineering; for the comparative study of 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, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000. 683 For the investigation of the problems involved in the productionOptical glass production. of optical glass, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $25,000.
To investigate textiles, paper, leather, and rubber in order toTextiles, paper, etc., standardization. develop standards of quality and methods of measurement, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $15,000. For the standardization and design of sugar-testing apparatus;Sugar standardization. the development of technical specifications for the various grades of sugars with particular reference to urgent problems made pressing by war conditions, 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.
To provide by cooperation of the Bureau of Standards, the WarCooperative standardization of gauges, screw threads, etc. 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.
For investigating the conditions and methods of use of scales andCoal weighing, etc. at mines. 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. For metallurgical research, including alloy steels, foundry practice,Metallurgical researches, etc. 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 processes and study of methods of conservation in metallurgical manufacture and products, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $25,000.
For laboratory and field investigations of suitable methods of highHigh temperature, measurements, etc. 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. For the investigation of the principles of sound and their applicationAcoustic investigations. to military and industrial purposes, including personal services in the District of Columbia and in the field, $5,000.
For technical investigations in cooperation with the industriesIndustrial development investigations. upon fundamental problems involved in industrial development following the war, with a view to assisting in the permanent establishment of the new American industries developed during the war, including personal services in the District of Columbia and elsewhere, $50,000. During the fiscal year 1921, the head of any department or independentCooperative work with departments, etc., in scientific investigations. establishment of the Government having funds available tor 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 of Commerce, transfer to the Bureau of Standards such sums as may be necessary to carry on such investigations.
The SecretaryTransfer of funds to credit of Bureau.684of 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.Contingent Expenses, Department of Commerce: 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 ducuments belonging to the Bureau of Lighthouses, not to exceed $1,500; street car fares, not exceeding $300; and all other miscellaneous items and necessary Additional to be deducted from bureaus, etc., for purchases through supply committee.expenses not included in the foregoing, $50,000, and in addition thereto sums amounting to $52,250 shall be deducted from other appropriations made for the fiscal year 1921 and added to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of Commerce,” in order to facilitate the purchase through the central purchasing office as Vol. 36, p. 531.provided in the Act of June 17, 1910 (Statutes at Large, volume 36, page 531), of certain supplies for bureaus and offices lor 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 attachés, $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 $1,500, general expenses $2,000; general expenses, Coast and Geodetic Survey, $4,500; miscellaneous expenses, Bureau of Fisheries, $8,500; and the said total sum of $102,250 shall be and constitute the appropriation for contingent expenses, Department of To be expended through Division of Supplies.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.
Rent.For rent of buildings in the District of Columbia, $66,500. For rent of storage space outside the Commerce Building, $2,000. 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, $3,000; 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,685$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: To enable the Secretary ofCommissioners of conciliation.Vol. 37, p. 738. 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. Bureau of Labor Statistics: Commissioner, $5,000; chiefLabor Statistics Bureau. 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.
For per diem in lieu of subsistence of special agents, and employees,Per diem, special agents, etc. 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,Temporary statistical clerks, etc. 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, and for subvention to “International AssociationAssociation for Labor Legislation. for Labor Legislation,” and necessary expenses connected with representation of the United States Government therein, $70,000.
For periodicals, newspapers, documents, and special reports for thePeriodicals, etc. purpose of procuring strike data, price quotations, and court decisions for the Bureau of Labor Statistics, $300. Bureau of Immigration: Commissioner General, $5,000: AssistantImmigration Bureau. 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.
Division of Information: Chief, $3,500; assistant chief, $2,500;Information Division. clerks—two of class four, one of class three, two of class two, three of class one, one $900; messenger; in all, $19,340. Bureau of Naturalization: Commissioner, $4,000; deputy commissioner,Naturalization Bureau $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. 686 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, seventeen of class one, ten at $1,000 each; copyist; messenger; in all, $106,040. Child life, mortality, etc.To investigate and report upon matters pertaining to the welfare of children and child life, and especially to investigate the questions of infant mortality, including personal services in the District of *Proviso*.Pay restriction.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.
Per diem, experts, etc.For traveling expenses and per diem in lieu of subsistence at 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 Materials for publications, etc.and material for 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.
Contingent expenses.Contingent expenses, Department of Labor: 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 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 of a motor-propelled passenger-carrying vehicle 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; repairs to the building occupied by the office of the Secretary of Labor; purchase of law books, books of reference, and periodicals Additional from immigration expenses.not exceeding $2,000; in all, $50,000; and in addition thereto such sum as may be necessary, not in excess of $13,500, to facilitate the purchase, through the central purchasing office as provided in the Vol. 36, p. 531.Act of June 17, 1910 (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 531), of certain supplies for the Immigration Service, shall be deducted from *Post*, p. 935.the appropriation “Expenses of regulating immigration” made for the fiscal year 1921 and added to the appropriation “Contingent expenses, Department of Labor,” for that year; and the total sum thereof shall be and constitute the appropriation for contingent To be expended through Division of Publications and Supplies.expenses for the Department of Labor, to be expended through the central purchasing office (Division of Publications and Supplies), Department of Labor.
Rent.Rent: For rent of buildings and parts of buildings in the District of Columbia for the use of the Department of Labor, $24,000. 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 $3,600687each; 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: Thirty-three circuit judges, atCircuit Courts of Appeals. $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 Courts: Ninety-eight district judges, at $7,500 each,District judges.*Proviso*.Availability. $735,000: *Provided*, That this appropriation shall be available for the salaries of all United States district judges lawfully entitled thereto for the fiscal year 1921.
District Court, Territory of Hawaii: Two judges, at $7,500District Court, Hawaii. each; clerk, $3,000; reporter, $1,200; in all, $19,200. District Court for Porto Rico: District judge, $7,500; clerk,District Court, Porto Rico. $3,000; in all, $10,500. Retired Judges: For salaries of judges retired under section 260Retired judges.Vol. 40, p. 1157. of the Judicial Code (Thirty-sixth Statutes at Large, page 1161), so much as may be necessary for the fiscal year 1921. Court of Appeals, District of Columbia:
Chief justice, $9,000;Court of Appeals, D. C. 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*Proviso*.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 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, one-half of whichHalf from District revenues.*Post*, p. 837. shall be paid from the revenues of the District of Columbia.
Supreme Court, District of Columbia: Chief justice, $8,000;Supreme Court, D. C. five associate justices, at $7,500 each; six stenographers, one for the chief justice and one for each associate justice, at $1,100 each; in all, $52,100, one-half of which shall be paid from the revenues ofHalf from District revenues.*Post*, p. 837. the District of Columbia. National Park Commissioners: For commissioners in the CraterNational Park Commissioners. Lake, Glacier, Mount Rainier, and Yellowstone National Parks, at $1,500 each, $6,000.
The provisions of section 21 of the Legislative,Vol. 29, p. 184. 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: For purchase and rebinding ofBooks for judicial officers. 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 courts of appeals, to be expended under the direction of the Attorney General: *Provided*, That such*Proviso*.Transmittal to successors. 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: Presiding judge and four associateCourt of Customs Appeals. 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. For rent of necessary quarters in the District of Columbia, andMiscellaneous expenses. elsewhere, $7,000; books and periodicals, including their exchange, 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. 688 Court of Claims.Court of Claims:
Chief 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 charwomen; in all, $66,580. Auditors, etc.For auditors, and additional stenographers, when deemed necessary, in the Court of Claims, to be disbursed under the direction of the court, $9,000.
Contingent expenses.For stationery, court library, repairs, including repairs to bicycles, fuel, electric light, electric elevator, and other miscellaneous expenses, $5,000. Reporting decisions.[R S., sec. 1765, p 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314).Vol. 18, p. 109.For reporting the decisions of the court and superintending the printing of the fifty-fifth 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 3 of the Act of June 20, 1874.
Custodian.[R. S., sec. 1765, p. 314](/us/rs/s1765/p314).Vol. 18, p. 109.For custodian of the building occupied by the Court of Claims, $500, to be paid on the order oi the court, notwithstanding section 1765 of the Revised Statutes or section 3 of the Act of June 20, 1874. Sec. 2. Pay of switchboard operators, assistant messengers, laborers, etc., rated. That the pay of telephone switchboard operators, assistant messengers, 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 watchmen, 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. No pay for permanently incapacitated persons. That the appropriations herein made for the officers, 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. Typewriting machines.Restriction on prices to be paid for. That no part of any money appropriated by this or any other Act shall be used during the fiscal year 1921 for the purchase of any typewriting machine at a price in excess of the lowest price paid by the Government of the United States for the same make and substantially the same model of machine during the fiscal year 1919; Exceptions.such price shall include the value of any typewriting machine or machines given in exchange, but shall not apply to special prices granted on typewriting machines used in schools of the District of Columbia or of the Indian Service, the lowest of which special prices paid for typewriting machines shall not be exceeded in future purchases *Proviso*.Determination of character of machines.for such schools: *Provided*, That in construing this section the Commissioner of Patents shall advise the Comptroller of the Treasury as to whether the changes in any typewriter are of such structural character as to constitute a new machine not within the limitations of this section.
Purchases to be made from surplus stock of General Supply Committee.All purchases of typewriting machines during the fiscal year 1921 by the various branches of the Government of the United States for use in the District of Columbia or in the field, except as hereinafter provided, shall be made from the surplus machines in the stock of the Inventory of stock in War Department.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 typewriters 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 requisition689for sale to the various services of the Government.
If the GeneralUnserviceable machines for exchange. Supply Committee is unable to furnish servicable machines to any branch of the Government, it shall furnish unserviceable machines at current exchange prices and such machines shall then be applied by the branch of the Government receiving them as part payment for new machines from commercial sources in accordance with the prices fixed in the preceding paragraph. After the approval of thisWar Department supply disposal only to Supply Committee.
Act and until June 30, 1921, the War Department shall not dispose of any typewriting machines except to the General Supply Committee as authorized herein: *Provided*, That hereafter no typewriter that*Proviso*.Restriction on exchanges, etc. has been used less than three years shall be sold, exchanged, or given as part payment for another typewriter. Sec. 5. That in expending appropriations made in this Act personsDetails for service outside of District of Columbia, restricted. 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 government of the department or other Government establishment from which the detail is made: *Provided*, That nothing in this*Proviso*.Department of Justice investigations excepted. 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. That all civilian employees of the Governments of theAdditional $240 pay to civilian employees, and of District of Columbia, at $2,500 a year, or less. 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 otherwise provided in this section, shall receive, during the fiscal year ending June 30, 1921, 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 $2,500 and less than $2,740 shall receive additional compensation at such a 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 employeeRestriction. shall receive additional compensation under this section at a rate which is more than 60 per centum of the rate of the total annual compensation received by such employee: *Provided further*, That theIncrease of 1920, not computed as salary. increased compensation at the rate of $240 per annum for the fiscal year ending June 30, 1920, shall not be computed as salary in construing this section: *Provided further*, That where an employee in theRestriction if pay increased $200, in years 1920, 1921. service on June 30, 1919, has received during the fiscal year 1920, or shall receive during the fiscal year 1921 an increase of salary at a rate in excess of $200 per annum, or where an employee, whether previouslyEntering service since June 30, 1919. in the service or not, has entered the service since June 30, 1919, 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: *ProvidedEmployees with pay adjusted by wage boards, etc. further*, That the increased compensation provided in this section to employees whose pay is adjusted from time to time through wage boards or similar authority shall be taken into consideration by such wage boards or similar authority in adjusting the pay of such employees.
The provisions of this section shall not apply to the following:Specified employees not entitled. Employees paid from the postal revenues and sums which may be advanced from the Treasury to meet deficiencies in the postal revenues; employees of the Panama Canal on the Canal Zone; employees of the Alaskan Engineering Commission in Alaska; officers and members*Ante*, p. 363.*Post*, p. 874. of the Metropolitan police of the District of Columbia and the United States Park police who receive the compensation fixed by the Act approved December 5, 1919; officers and members of the Fire*Ante*, p. 396.690Department of the District of Columbia who receive the compensation fixed by the Act approved January 24, 1920; employees paid from lump-sum appropriations in bureaus, divisions, commissions, or any other governmental agencies or employments created by law Tariff Commission.War Risk Insurance Bureau.since January 1, 1916, except employees of the United States Tariff Commission who shall be included and except that employees of the Bureau of War Risk Insurance shall receive increased compensation at one-half the rate allowed by this section for other employees: *Proviso*.Allowance for employees.*Provided*, That employees of said bureau who are compensated at rates below $400 per annum shall receive additional compensation only as the rate of 60 per centum of the annual rates of compensation Other exceptions.received by such 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.
Railroad, etc., employees not deemed United States employees.The provisions of this 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. Double pay prohibition not applicable hereto.Vol. 39, p. 582.Section 6 of the Legislative, Executive, and Judicial 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.
Piecework employees Computation to determine pay.Such employees as are engaged on piecework, by the hour, or at 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 hundred and thirteen days in the *Proviso*.Regular per diem employees excepted.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.
Appropriation for increased pay to Federal employees.So much as may be necessary to pay the additional compensation provided in this section to employees of the Government of the United States is appropriated out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated. Appropriation for District of Columbia employees.Half from District revenues.*Post*, p. 837.So much as may be necessary to pay the increased compensation provided in this section to employees of the government of the District of Columbia is appropriated, one-half out of any money in the Treasury not otherwise appropriated and one-half out of the revenues of the District of Columbia, except to employees of the Washington Water department employees from revenues thereof.Aqueduct and the water department, which shall be paid entirely from the revenues of the water department, and to employees of the minimum wage board and the playgrounds department, which shall be paid wholly out of the revenues 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. 691 Reports shall be submitted to Congress on the first day of the nextDetailed report for first four months of fiscal year. 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. That hereafter the statement of buildings rented withinRented buildings, D. C.Cost of care, etc., to be stated.Vol. 27, p. 199; Vol. 38, p. 3. the District of Columbia for the use of the Government, required by the Act of July 16, 1892, shall indicate, in addition to the data required by section 3 of the Act of May 1, 1913, the cost of the care, maintenance, and operation of each building per square foot of floor space of the building or portion of building rented. Approved, May 29, 1920.
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